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Goldman Sachs: What Hath Fraud Wrought?

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - By Michael Winship - Apr. 24 (Opinion) - Goldman Sachs is the Blackwater of finance, the latest in a long line of companies you love to hate, like AIG and the Dallas Cowboys.Or, as Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi infamously characterized it last year, the financial behemoth is "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Honestly, Matt has to cut down on his couch time watching The Discovery Channel.

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The U.S. Banking Oligarchy Explained

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - Apr. 16 (News) - How did Big Finance grow so powerful that its hijinks nearly brought down the global economy – and what hope is there for real reform with Washington politicians on Wall Street's payroll? Bill Moyers talks with authors Simon Johnson and James Kwak, two of the nation's most respected economic experts and authors of the new book 13 BANKERS: THE WALL STREET TAKEOVER AND THE NEXT

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Simon Johnson and James Kwak on Bill Moyers Journal

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - Apr. 16 (Interview) - BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL. With all due respect, we can only wish those tea party activists who gathered this week were not so single-minded about just who's responsible for their troubles, real and imagined. They're up in arms, so to speak, against big government, especially the Obama administration. But if they thought this through, they'd be joining forces with other grassroots Americans who will soon be demonstrating in Washington and elsewhere against high finance, taking on Wall Street and the country's biggest banks. The original Tea Party, remember, wasn't directed just against the British redcoats. Colonial patriots also took aim at the East India Company. That was the joint-stock enterprise originally chartered by the first Queen Elizabeth. Over the years, the government granted them special rights and privileges, which the owners turned into a monopoly over trade, including tea.

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Bill Moyers Journal: Single-payer advocate Marcia Angell

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, Marcia Angell - Mar. 05 (Interview) - Single-payer advocate Marcia Angell on why she thinks the debate over reform needs a fresh look at the economics and delivery of the care promised in the bill.

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Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, Matt Taibbi, Robert Kuttner - Dec. 21 (Interview) - Could a crushing defeat on health reform teach Democrats to stop prioritizing corporate interests?

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Our Free Market Makes Economic Collapse Inevitable

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, James Galbraith - Nov. 02 (Interview) - The headlines are trumpeting recovery — some are even proclaiming an end to the recession in the United States (unofficially, that is). The US economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in a year. But there are some caveats — although jobless claims dipped slightly, many analysts still warn of a "jobless recovery." for a number of years to come. And then there's the small print — will this recovery be permanent or is it a function of the stimulus masking bigger problems? The Wall Street Journal warned: "The recovery thus far has been heavily supported by federal money, casting a question mark over the economy's underlying strength as government support dwindles." That unease is echoed by JOURNAL guest James K. Galbraith

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Interview with James Galbraith

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By BillMoyers - Oct. 30 (Interview) - We need to find another path for economic expansion. We need to set a strategic direction. Our problem now, our big social and environmental problem, is energy. It's climate change. It's the greenhouse gas emission issue. If we built a set of institutions that could deal with that problem effectively, you could employ a large part of the labor force for a generation, dealing with that. And you'd then make that profitable for private enterprise to get into in a serious way.

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A Year after the Great Collapse

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers - Oct. 11 (Special Report) - Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform from Washington, has Wall Street really changed? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) report on the state of the economy.

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Bill Moyers interviews Sam Tanenhaus (Transcript)

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, Sam Tanenhaus - Sep. 18 (Special Report) - BILL MOYERS: Conservatives were out in force in Washington over the weekend. They had come to express their opposition to big government, to taxes and wasteful spending, and health care reform they fear would lead to a nightmare of bureaucracy. Max Blumenthal, author of REPUBLICAN GOMORRAH waded into their midst to sample opinions. MAX BLUMENTHAL: So you're saying if the government eliminates Social Security and Medicare then you'll get out of the program? WOMAN: No, I said if they get out of my life. MAX BLUMENTHAL: Out of your Social Security and- WOMAN: No, out of everything. BILL MOYERS: But they had also come to deplore and denounce President Obama- in their minds a tyrant akin to Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and Saddam Hussein. MAN: I'm afraid he's going to do what Hitler could never do and that's destroy the United States of America. MAX BLUMENTHAL: And what's the Obama revolution, what's going to happen?

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Uncivil Discourse

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Bill Moyers - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - Bill Maher asked me on his show last week if America is still a great nation. I should have said it's the greatest show on earth. Forget what you learned in civics about the Founding Fathers — we're the children of Barnum and Bailey, our founding con men. Their freak show was the forerunner of today's talk radio.

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Bill Moyers Journal . CRITICAL CONDITION

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - Aug. 21 (Review) - THE JOURNAL presents CRITICAL CONDITION, a documentary in which ordinary hard-working Americans tell their stories of battling critical illnesses without health insurance. They discover that being uninsured can cost them their jobs, health, homes, savings, and even their lives. The country spends more than $2 trillion a year — over $6,000 per person — on health care, yet is the only major industrial nation without universal coverage. Between 45 and 47 million Americans live without health insurance, and 80 percent of them are from working families who either cannot afford insurance premiums or lose their insurance exactly when they need it most: when they fall ill and can no longer work. America ranks 24th in life expectancy, 28th in preventing infant mortality and 19th in halting preventable deaths.

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Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - Aug. 01 (Special Report) - From the inside - what is done to keep the uninsured and underinsured in status quo and why the public option or single payor works.

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Reforming American Health Care

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PBS - By Bill Moyers - Jul. 18 (Special Report) - Advocate Donna Smith on how our broken system is hurting ordinary Americans. Then, policy analysts and physicians Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen and David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program join Bill Moyers for a frank discussion about the political and logistical feasibility of a single-payer system amidst the troubled economy and a government dominated by lobbyists.

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Interview: Wendell Potter

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers - Jul. 11 (Interview) - And in the forward, Robert Kennedy said that one of the president's, one of his favorite quotes was a Dante quote that, "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, maintain a neutrality." And when I read that, I said, "Oh, jeez, I-- you know. I'm headed for that hottest place in hell, unless I say something."

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Why Have The Rich Been Getting Richer?

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, Robert Reich - Jun. 19 (Interview) - The former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich lamented the middle class in this country has really not participated in the growth of the economy, and over the long term we’re not gonna have a recovery until the middle class has the purchasing power it needs to buy again.

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Newark Mayor Corey Booker ~ Video

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - May. 31 (Interview) - Great interview from more than a year ago.

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On the Ground in Pakistan

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, Shahan Mufti, Juan Cole - May. 17 (Interview) - As the world follows the violence and unrest in Pakistan, Bill Moyers speaks with historian Juan Cole and journalist Shahan Mufti about how the US's relationship with the troubled nation will impact prospects for peace, human rights, and democracy in the war-torn region.

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An unprecedented abyss of economic and social turmoil

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, Mike Davis - Mar. 23 (Interview) - Once a meat cutter and a long haul truck driver, nowadays, Mike Davis teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. This recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" has written so many books we can barely get them on the screen for you. Two of his histories of Los Angeles and Southern California, 'City of Quartz' and 'Ecology of Fear' were best-sellers. His latest: 'In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire.' Mike Davis, welcome to the JOURNAL. MIKE DAVIS: My pleasure, Bill. BILL MOYERS: Did you ever in your life imagine that America's financial system would become insolvent or that our way of life would be in such a sudden freefall? MIKE DAVIS: No. And I found myself in the position of, say, a Jehovah's Witness, who, of course, believes the end is nigh but then one morning wakes up, looks out the window, and the stars are falling from heaven. It's actually happened. Of course, people a lot like myself are famous for I think the phrase is we predicted eleven out of the last three depressions. So, no. BILL MOYERS: But I do think this time most everyone would agree with what you how you've described what we're going through as the mother of all fiscal crisis. Do you have a sense of the people you know being frightened right now? MIKE DAVIS: Oh, people are terrified, particularly where I teach in Riverside County. People have no idea you know, where to turn. UC Riverside is the largest percentage of working-class students in the UC system. And their families have scrimped and saved. And they've worked hard to get into courses that pointed toward stable careers and jobs. And now those futures are incinerated. What kind of choice do you make? You know, what do you study?

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Too Much Money - Wanna know how big business owns us?

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - Feb. 20 (Interview) - Pitchforks and torches anyone? When are we gonna wake up and realize that the 'free market' strategy isn't the wonder we are being told it will be? Mr. Paul - if we allow them free reign we will be their slaves. Oh and Mr. McCain - looks like you're the recipient of one of the largest contributions from Mr. Stanford. Stones and glass houses?

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Bill Moyers Journal .

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers Interview - Feb. 13 (Interview) - "are you saying the the banking industry trumps the president, the congress and the american government when it comes to this issue so crucial to the survival of american democracy?"

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Glenn Greenwald and Jay Rosen

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers - Feb. 07 (Interview) - Is the old media sustaining the old politics? News and analysis with NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen and political journalist and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald.

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Bill Moyers reflects on Middle East violence

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers - Jan. 09 (Comment) - In a city made noisy by hammers and saws preparing for the inauguration of a new president — a city already reverberating with partisan rancor, and with the constant chattering of the opinionated — it was hard to hear the sound of a single snare drum along Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and Capitol Hill, but there it was: a mere handful of men and women, 70 at most, had come out this rain-swept morning to bear witness to the dead - to the victims of war.

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Making 'Duck Soup' Out of Today

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship - Jan. 02 (Comedy News) - "Duck Soup" is now seen as one of the great antiwar comedies of all time, right up there with Charlie Chaplin’s "The Great Dictator" and Stanley Kubrick’s "Dr. Strangelove" (written with Terry Southern and Peter George). Back in 1933, the world situation was grave and it was hard to hear the laughter over the sounds of civilization collapsing. Our chuckles today compete with the sound of renewed violence in the Middle East, melting glaciers sliding into the sea and champagne glasses shattering on the gold bricks of Wall Street.

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Bush's Blind Eye to Afghan Corruption

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - By Michael Winship - Dec. 22 (News Analysis) - in an op-ed piece in last Sunday’s Washington Post, Sarah Chayes – the former National Public Radio reporter who has lived in Kandahar province since shortly after 9/11 -- argued that America’s and Afghanistan’s biggest problem comes from within – our continuing support of a corrupt and abusive Afghan government that’s driving its people back into the arms of the fundamentalists.

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Sarah Chayes

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

PBS - Dec. 19 (Special Report) - As one of the few westerners living and building a business in Kandahar, the erstwhile Taliban capital in southern Afghanistan, Chayes has unique access to the lives and thoughts of everyday Aghans. Chayes tells Bill Moyers that many of the Afghans she knows still expect the U.S. to deliver the lawful, democratic country it promised, but instead they see unwavering U.S. support for a corrupt central government and for Pakistan, whose continued support of the Taliban makes it an unlikely ally in the U.S. fight against the Taliban.

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