Episodes
Wednesday Dec 26, 2012
Alternative Visions - The One-Party System in America - 12/26/12
Wednesday Dec 26, 2012
Wednesday Dec 26, 2012
Jack provides his running commentary on the fiscal cliff negotiations and then introduces guest, Art Lipow, to discuss the formation and experience of the British Labor party and its lessons and relevance to forming a true second party in the US. The U.S. One party system with two wings—Democrat and Republican—is contrasted to a real alternative second party. Dr. Rasmus and Art Lipow, previously a long time participant in the British labor party, discuss the possibilities and differences in forming a labor party in the U.S.
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
Alternative Visions - Bringing Banksters to Heel - 12/19/12
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
‘Bringing Banksters to Heel—How to Fundamentally Restructure the US and Global Banks’
“Dr. Jack Rasmus today interviews special guest, Ellen Brown, globally recognized expert on debt and banking abuses. After nearly $20 trillion in bank bailouts by governments in US, Europe, and Japan since 2008, the banksters continue their old practices still today, more than four years later. As the banking crisis deepens today in Europe, threatening to engulf the global financial system again, banksters everywhere continue to oppose and water-down financial reform, engage in their speculative excesses once again, launder money to drug cartels and terrorists, and return to their old practices that gave us the banking crash of 2008. Dr. Rasmus and Ellen Brown discuss alternatives, like Utility Banking, to the corrupt, broken banking system today.
Jack’s guest, Ellen Brown is an attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute. In Web of Debt, her latest of eleven books, she shows how a private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her websites are http://WebofDebt.com, http://EllenBrown.com, and http://PublicBankingInstitute.org. “
Wednesday Dec 12, 2012
Alternative Visions - The Transpacific Partnership—Free Trade on Steroids - 12/12/12
Wednesday Dec 12, 2012
Wednesday Dec 12, 2012
Today Dr. Rasmus will discuss the emerging ‘Transpacific Partnership’ Free Trade agreement that has been quietly been taking shape behind the scenes, largely unreported by the press, that will result in a major negative impact on jobs and wages of American workers. Lost in all the talk about fiscal cliff negotiations, negotiations between governments of the pacific rim, with the direct participation of scores of multinational corporations, are taking place as we talk. Jack will welcome his guest today, Art Stamoulis, on the subject.
Arthur Stamoulis is executive director of Citizens Trade Campaign, a national coalition of labor, environmental, family farm and consumer organizations that works together on questions of international trade policy. Their current focus is stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. Citizens Trade Campaign organized demonstrations outside TPP negotiating rounds in Virginia, California, Texas, and Illinois, and were the first to publish leaked text of several propo9sed TPP chapters.
Wednesday Dec 05, 2012
Alternative Visions - Income Inequality in America - 12/05/12
Wednesday Dec 05, 2012
Wednesday Dec 05, 2012
Dr. Rasmus provides updates to the Fiscal Cliff negotiations in Washington over the past week, since his in depth analysis in last week’s show. He then discusses the important connections between the ‘Cliff’, the distorted US tax system, and the three decades of growing Income Inequality in the U.S.