SchwartzReport: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship on Government as a Protection Racket for the 1%

A democracy cannot long survive when its citizens perceive the government to be against their best interests Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent BILL MOYERS and MICHAEL WINSHIP – Bill Moyers.com EXTRACT PewOur now infamous one percent own more than 35 percent of the nation’s wealth. Meanwhile, the bottom 40 percent of the …

Jean Lievens: BIll Moyers on The Great American Class War – Plutocracy versus Democracy + Bill Moyers @ PBI & Democracy @ PBI

Bill Moyers | The Great American Class War: Plutocracy vs. Democracy By Bill Moyers, TomDispatch | Speech Excerpt Thursday, 12 December 2013 09:14 I met Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1987 when I was creating a series for public television called In Search of the Constitution, celebrating the bicentennial of our founding document.  By …

Yoda: BIll Moyers & Others US Internet Access Slow, Costly, Unfair

Dark, the Force is, in Washington DC. Bill Moyers: Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair >Americans are getting bilked for second class internet access. BILL MOYERS: You’ve heard me before quote one of my mentors who told his students that “news is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity.” …

SchwartzReport: Bill Moyers and Former FCC Commissioner — Big Media Dumbs Down Democracy, Internet at Very Beginning of Its Possibilities

Former FCC Commissioner: Big Media Dumbs Down Democracy By Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company 05 December 12 EXTRACT 1: Moyers: The argument we hear in rebuttal is “Well look, we don’t have to worry about monopoly today, we don’t have to worry about cartels today, because we have the Internet, which is the most democratic …

Worth A Look: BIll Moyers Interviews Neil Barofsky and David Stockman on Crony Capitalism and the Washington Version of Soften Your Stance, Get Gold; Keep Your Integrity, Get a Bullet

Bill Moyers and Neil Barofsky 26 October 2012 Neil Barofsky, Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street (Free Press, 2012) Bill Moyers and David Stockman, 21 January 2012 Charles H. Ferguson, Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America (Crown Business, 2012)

Chuck Spinney: Mike Lofgren and Bill Moyers on US Political Dysfunctionality

Mike Lofgren on Dysfunction in Our Political Parties August 31, 2012 Bill talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties. In Lofgren’s view, Republicans have become overly obsessed with obstructing President Obama, and the Democrats suffer from political complacency. Lofgren’s new book is The …