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How is Climate Change Affecting the Recent Heat Waves

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Professors Michael Mann, Jennifer Francis & Noah Diffenbaugh – At the end of July 2018 Climate Signals.org brought together three eminent climate scientists via Skype to exchange ideas on the impacts of global warming as they are now “playing out in real-time”.
Mike Mann is director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, Jennifer Francis is research professor at Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and Noah Diffenbaugh is the Kara J Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University. They discuss  the recent heat waves around the globe, and how they connect with the changing jet stream pattern.
Prof. Michael Mann is lead author of a paper produced in 1999 Mann used advanced statistical [ . . . ]

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Rebecca Gordon on Nicaragua and Central America

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an Interview by Community Radio host Jeffrey Blankfort
Dr. Rebecca Gordon begins with a short history of the Nicaraguan revolution since 1978/79. She describes what the Sandinistas had done for the people of Nicaragua in terms of health, education, and dignity, but is quick to point that neither Pres. Danny Ortega or today’s Sandinista movement bears any political resemblance to the Sandinistas of the 80s who captured the world’s imagination and ire of the United States, which has a long and ugly history of intervening in Nicaragua. In particular via the Honduras based and trained Contra.
She points out how Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo had come back into power after making political alliances with the extreme right; and [ . . . ]

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Coyote is The Government – The Fire Next Time?

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Mr. Willard Rhodes, Itsatawi – Pit River As California burns in the summer of 2018 I remember the words of a Native American Elder. I met him 20 years ago at the gathering of the Pit River Tribes below Mount Shasta, California. Mr Willard Rhodes told me the story of Coyote who seduced the people into violating the laws of Nature and of right living and how Old Man, the Creator, responded.
It reminded me then – and even more so now – of the African American spiritual God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, the fire next time! With one important difference.
In the story told by Willard Rhodes the Creator punishes transgressions by sending first the ice and [ . . . ]

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Kate Raworth: How modern economics has failed the poor –

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and wrecked the earth while making a few people very rich
Renegade Economists – Rebroadcast
Kate Raworth says that economics dominate public policy and our decision-making for the future. It guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. However economic theories as taught today are centuries out of date. That’s why it is time, Raworth says, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century.
From Kate Raworth’ 35 minute talk I chose her fascinating retelling of the history of economics from Adam Smith to Paul Samuelson and her indictment of neoliberalism, market fundamentalism and the universally imposed system of economic growth, expressed in the GPD, the Gross Domestic [ . . . ]

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Kate Raworth: Why it’s time for a new version of human prosperity

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Rebroadcast from the Renegade Economists series of 2017 Kate Raworth came to international attention in 2017 with the publication of her most recent book: Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist. She critiques the Gross Domestic Product system of accounting – including the so-called Green or sustainable growth models.
In Kate Raworth’ doughnut model the goal is to raise the well being of humans trapped inside the doughnut hole, while placing limits on climate change and pollution that are near or have crossed the outer circle of the doughnut.
Kate Raworth is teaching at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, and at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Over the last two decades she has worked as Senior Researcher at [ . . . ]

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Paul Grignon – Money As Debt

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An independent movie on the question “Where does money come from?” already has had a huge two year success with well over 2 million viewers on the internet. Now it is seeing another surge of interest because it also explains some of the underpinnings of the current financial crisis.
Money as Debt by the Canadian Paul Grignon makes the case that only a small part of our money is created by the government mint that prints or coins it. The vast majority of money is created by banks whenever a loan or mortgage is made. Banks, which are private institutions, are given enormous power to make and manage the money supply.
The web site of the film is: http://www.moneyasdebt.net
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Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?

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How Capitalism Fails The two June 2018 programs by TUC radio with the economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis drew such a huge response that we are following up with an extraordinary excerpt from a May 9, 2018, talk at the Cambridge Forum. In that talk Yanis Varoufakis makes the point that democracy and capitalism are incompatible. However capitalism also can’t maintain itself – he says – it is a self devouring system. And he invites us today to resolve the question of who is going to survive, democracy or the global financial system.
In this excerpt of his near two hour talk Varoufakis traces the origins of the current economic crisis from 1929 through the New Deal through [ . . . ]

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Yanis Varoufakis: How Capitalism Works — and How It Fails (TWO of TWO)

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Questions and Answers There are few people with the expertise, life experience and conviction that empower them to challenge the current economic system that is called capitalism. Yanis Varoufakis is one of them and he goes a step further than most by proposing reforms – not just for his home Greece, and the European Economic Union of which Greece is part, but for the banking systems that dominate the world these days.
Yanis Varoufakis was already an internationally known economist and academic when he was elected to the Greek parliament as a member of the Syriza party. At the height of the Greek debt crisis he served as Minister of Finance from January to July 2015.
Varoufakis denounced the troika of lenders [ . . . ]

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Yanis Varoufakis: How Capitalism Works — and How It Fails (ONE of TWO)

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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy Yanis Varoufakis was already an internationally known economist and academic when he was elected to the Greek parliament as a member of the Syriza party. He served as Minister of Finance from January to July 2015. He resigned when Syriza broke its promise to re-negotiate Greece’s debt and significantly curtail the austerity measures which had led to the longest recession in post-war history.
Varoufakis led negotiations with Greece’s creditors during this government-debt crisis. However, he failed to reach an agreement with them. This led to the 2015 Greek bailout referendum. He criticized the troika of Greece’s lenders, the IMF, the ECB, and the European Commission. They insisted on these bailout loans. Varoufakis said that [ . . . ]

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Nomi Prins – Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, Part TWO of TWO

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Nomi Prins in Conversation with Juliet Schor – Prins is a former Wall Street executive turned whistle blower. She worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, and was a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and an analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank.
She is the author of six books. Juliet Schor asks her specific questions about the content:
All the Presidents’ Bankers, a narrative about the relationships between presidents and key bankers over the past century
It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street
In Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, Prins predicts that rising income inequality and an elite class bent on preserving its dominance [ . . . ]

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Nomi Prins – Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, Part ONE of TWO

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Prins was invited by the Santa Fe Lannan Foundation to give one of their prestigious talks. She is a former Wall Street executive turned whistle blower.
Prins is a writer, investigative journalist, and public speaker. The author of six books, she is well-known for the exposé It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street and All the Presidents’ Bankers, a narrative about the relationships between presidents and key bankers over the past century and their impact on domestic and foreign policy.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, The Guardian, The Nation, and other publications, and she is a frequent TV and radio commentator. Governments and policy institutes throughout the world [ . . . ]

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The Union of Democratic Communications presents Sut Jhally

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Sut Jhally is the 2018 recipient of the Dallas Smythe Award At a time of Facebook data sales to advertisers and political campaigns – when manipulated media and advertising play an overwhelming role in the selection for political office, there is a renewed focus on organizations that analyze propaganda and deception in the mass media.
At their 2018 Conference in Chicago the Union of Democratic Communications honored Sut Jhally for his three decades of media activism. Sut Jhally, is professor in the Communication Department at UMass, Amherst. His interests include advertising and consumer culture, and the intersection of ideology, consciousness, and politics.
Jhally is the founder of the Media Education Foundation. MEF produces films that inspire critical reflection on the social, political [ . . . ]

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Abby Martin – Global Conflict and Independent Media

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At the beginning of May 2018 the Union for Democratic Communications held a conference in Chicago on Media, Resistance, and Justice. It was attended by journalists, media producers, policy analysts, academics and activists. They want to stem the tide of misinformation and omission.
The Internet and alternative independent broadcasters have made some extraordinary contributions, but compared to the millions reached by for profit broadcasters they have only small audiences.
Abby Martin bridges both worlds – however the networks she was and is affiliated with, Russia Today – RT and teleSUR, are shunned and denigrated by the current US government and the corporate media.
Born In Oakland in 1984 Abby Martin had already started her own anti-war citizen journalism project in 2009 with the [ . . . ]

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The Life and Times of Utah Phillips (TWO of TWO) Archive – updated

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Honoring Utah Phillips on the tenth anniversary of his passing  From the archives of TUC Radio – this is a celebration of his life and an account, in his own words, of how he became an activist.
In this Part TWO Utah talked about founding the Poor People’s Party, working with the Mormon Church, the Black Panthers and Judi Bari, and how he became involved with the Singer Songwriters movement. He closed with moving, enduring advice on how to work and organize together.
In the early-1960s, Phillips was involved with Fair Play for Cuba and the struggle for open housing laws in Utah. In 1968, he was nominated and campaigned for the U.S. Senate on the Peace and Freedom ticket. The experience [ . . . ]

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The Life and Times of Utah Phillips (ONE of TWO) Archive – updated

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Honoring Utah Phillips on the tenth anniversary of his passing. May is the month for the folk singer, labor organizer, storyteller, activist and poet Utah Phillips. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 15, 1935, he died in Nevada City, CA, on May 23, 2008.
From the archives of TUC Radio – this is a celebration of his life and an account, in his own words, of how he became an activist. “The golden voice of the great American Southwest”, Bruce “U. Utah” Phillips came to the Unitarian Fellowship Hall in Berkeley on May 18, 2004, to talk about his life.
Phillips parents were union organizers in the 1930s. When he left home to join a road crew in Yellowstone Park the older [ . . . ]

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