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Ian Welsh has been blogging since 2003. He was the Managing Editor of FireDogLake and the Agonist. His work has also appeared at Huffington Post, Alternet, and Truthout, as well as the now defunct Blogging of the President (BOPNews) He is an editor, writer and social media consultant who currently lives in Toronto.
In this episode we discuss Ian''s review of Jane Jacobs' Dark Age Ahead.
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TPP. Why is the Transpacific Partnership the hill Obama is willing to die for?
Why can't we have nice tihngs l? Why is it so difficult to implement obviously good public policy?
Commentary from David Dayen and RJ Eskow. With Jay Ackroyd. Political Satire from Culture of Truth. Follow @DDayen, @RJEskow, @JayAckroyd @Bobblespeak
The 2015 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Andrew Jerrell Jones, Avedon Carol,Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter,Marcy Wheeler,RJ Eskow, Stuart Zechman. Alternates: Susan Madrak, Sara Robinson, Spocko, Charles Lenchner. -
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Collaboration between powerful private and public interests has become the ruling force in the United States, and the OECD. This collaboration operates in conflict, and in oppostion to, the welfare of the general populace. This conflict and opposition is reflected in recent electoral results, in the formation of populist movements, and in polling data.
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Marcy Wheeler, one of America's premiere investigative journalists focusing on civil liberties, the military/intelligence and other national security issues is the author of the definitive book on the Scooter Libby trial: Anatomy of Deceipt. On EmptyWheel, she routinely breaks news on the intelligence and surveillance topics, and is very influential on these beats in the national press
Patrick Eddington is a former CIA officer, and former intelligence staffer to Rush Holt (D-NJ). His memoir Long Strange Journey covers his time as an intelligence officer.
We'll discuss the intelligence community's nature and effectiveness, with a particular focus on Congressional oversight of the intelligence services. -
While attending the 2014 Netroots Nation conference, Gaius Publius — contributing writer at AmericaBlog and member of the Virtually Speaking Sunday media panel — conducted three interviews under the heading "Five Questions."
In 2014, Gaius spoke with House Democrat Keith Ellison; economist Stephanie Kelton; and Democratic strategist and activist Robert Cruickshank.
In this podcast, Gaius talks with Robert Cruickshank about:
• RC's view of the so-called "budget for burnable carbon" and the looming climate crisis.
• How progressives can win even if Clinton is the 2016 nominee.
• RC's journey from Rush Limbaugh–conservative to committed progressive activist.
Gauis first published this series of conversations at AmericaBlog. Original link: http://americablog.com/2014/09/five-questions-robert-cruickshank.html
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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While attending the 2014 Netroots Nation conference, Gaius Publius — contributing writer at AmericaBlog and member of the Virtually Speaking Sunday media panel — conducted three interviews under the heading "Five Questions."
This year he spoke with House Democrat Keith Ellison; economist Dr. Stephanie Kelton of the MMT school of economics; and Democratic strategist Robert Cruickshank.
In this podcast, Gaius talks with Dr. Kelton about:
· Her view of the so-called "budget for burnable carbon" and the looming climate crisis.
· How to guarantee a minimum wage without a passing minimum-wage law (this answer is striking).
· How seeing the film "Roger and Me" changed Kelton's approach to economics.
Gauis first published this series of conversations at AmericaBlog. He provides a
fast look at how MMT views money, and what that means for progressive politics.Ste
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While attending the 2014 Netroots Nation conference, Gaius Publius — contributing writer at AmericaBlog and member of the Virtually Speaking Sunday media panel — conducted three interviews under the heading "Five Questions."
This year he spoke with House Democrat Keith Ellison, co-leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; economist Dr. Stephanie Kelton of the MMT school of economics; and Democratic strategist and activist Robert Cruickshank.
In this podcast, Gaius talks with Rep. Ellison about —
• Ellisons's view of the so-called "budget for burnable carbon" and the looming climate crisis
• How progressives can "win" if Clinton is the nominee in 2016
• What his Muslim faith means to Ellison, a former Catholic
Gauis first published this series of conversations at AmericaBlog.
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What does it mean for progressive politics that Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu won 35% and 40% of the New York state vote, respectively, in an almost-unfunded campaign against entrenched Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo?
What does it mean for office-holders like NY Mayor Bill DeBlasio to have supported Cuomo and his conservative-leaning running mate Kathy Hochul?
Gaius Publius & RJ Eskow explore the consequences of Democratic party leaders' continued espousal of unpopular positions in a time of progressive change. What does the New York Democratic primary battle tell us? What does it mean for the party in 2016?
Writer and radio host RJ Eskow talks with Americablog Contributing Editor Gaius Publius. Follow @Gaius_Publius @RJEskow
REFERENCED LINK: http://www.salon.com/2014/07/19/the_most_important_money_in_politics_race_this_year_why_lefty_tea_party_may_be_here/ -
Brooklyn College History professor and oral historian Philip Napoli joins us to discuss his book Bringing It All Back Home, an oral history of the war and homecoming experiences of New York City's Vietnam Veterans. Through an extraordinary collection of stories and recollections, Phil paints a mosaic of the war's impact on the lives of a large group of young New Yorkers. In this interview, we discuss the nature of oral history, as well as recount, briefly, some of the stories in the book
An assistant professor of history at Brooklyn College, where he also directs the Veterans Oral History Project, Napoli was one of the chief researchers for Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation and AnAlbum of Memories. He lives in New York City. -
Jennifer Ouellette talks with Caltech physicist Spyridon (Spiros) Michalakis about quantum computing and quantum information.
Read quantumfrontiers.com
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Editor/publisher of the Reno News & Review, D. Brian Burghart has established Fatal Encounters, a comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with law enforcement. Crowdsourced information. CNN coverage Why isn’t there an official database on police killings?
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Historian Rick Perlstein returns to Virtually Speaking to discuss his new book, The Invisible Bridge. Blogger extraordinaire Digby joins us as guest interviewer. RIck has described Digby this way:
My other favorite political writer, Heather Parton, blogs under the name “Digby.” Daily for over 10 years she’s been unleashing a fire hose of brilliance on the fecklessness of the Democrats, the craziness of the Republicans and especially the way that what we now call the “culture wars” has been seared into our national DNA at least since the Civil War. In the acknowledgments to “Nixonland,” I called her the other half of my brain.
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This is a rerun of Jay Ackroyd's interview with Rick Perlstein, about his monumental tour de force, Nixonland. Rick is one of the nation's leading popular historians, and, until now, the capstone of his career. He has actually exceeded himself in his latest book, The Invisible Bridge. He will be discussing that book with Digby as our guest host on August 28.
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Richard (RJ) Eskow has a rich history of engagement with public policy making, in the Eastern Europe transition to market economies, in addition to extensive technical work in health care and finance in the US. He recounts his experience being on the inside of policy discussions. This conversation provides an interesting contrast to Joe Sudbay's talk with Gaius Publius, on tactics conducted for an outside game.
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Australian economist and author Steve Keen considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticizing neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. He and Jay will talk about Keen's book Debunking Economics.
Follow @ProfSteveKeen - Head Economics History & Politics at @KingstonUni, Neoclassical Econ critic, Debunking Economics author, Debtwatch blogger, Developer Minsky modeling program. -
Tom Levenson talks with MIT science historian David Kaiser about the development of physics in the United States during the Cold War and Kaiser's latest book 'How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture and the Quantum Revival.' Follow @TomLevenson
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Tom Levenson hosts Science Historian Naomi Oreskes, author The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
Speculative fiction meets historical perspective. 3 centuries "following the collapse of western culture, the dilemma being addressed is how we – the children of the Enlightenment – failed to act on robust information about climate change and knowledge of the damaging events that were about to unfold."
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David Margolick, senior contributor at Vanity Fair, discusses his book Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song. He takes us back to 1939 when Billie Holiday first performed, and then recorded, one of the most extraordinary songs of the 20th century. The book reflects wide-ranging interviews, from Lena Horne to Pete Seeger, all of which describe how they were affected by the song. The song, of course, is about lynchings in the south; the fruit are the victims.
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Steven Durlauf, is the Kenneth Arrow professor of Economics at the university of Wisconsin. He's an expert on growth theory, co-editor of the prestigious North Holland handbook series volume on economic growth and has a c.v. that weighs twenty pounds when printed out. He recently participated in a panel discussion with Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz:
We talk about the principles that underlie Piketty's argument, and the implications for public policy regarding economic growth. -
The role of intelligence in U.S. domestic and foreign policy, a conversation beween investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler and Jay Ackroyd. One of a series of conversations about surveilllance, national security, NSA, CIA, and Congressional oversight.
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