, out now from Nation Books, and he joins us in the studio to talk about it--and to perform a song from the album.
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After the meltdown, what next? We continue our discussion by featuring David Harvey and Alexander Cockburn on reinventing the neoliberal social order. At CUNY not long ago, these two independent thinkers sat down with Laura to discuss possibilities for real, radical change, and we have a special look at that for you.
Then, most of you know Johnny Cash as the Man in Black, the troubled country singer featured in the film Walk the Line. But did you know that at the height of his fame he recorded an album of protest songs based on the Native American experience--and then had to fight to get DJs to play it and magazines to review it? Antonino D'Ambrosio tells this story in his new book A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, out now from Nation Books, and he joins us in the studio to talk about it--and to perform a song from the album.
, out now from Nation Books, and he joins us in the studio to talk about it--and to perform a song from the album.
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What about the real elephant in the room? That is the multiple telecommunications instruments we have now, and seem to be increasing monthly, with the public able to pick the news they want to hear, or react to. Not responding effectively to anything except biased orchestrated spin,
especially the so-called middle class, can’t see the forest from the trees
anymore. We use to have an independant class of small business people that paid most of the taxes in this country, and had an enormous sway over big business. Way too many so-called (Neoliberal) Baby Boomers drank the Raygunzap Kool-Aid, and became sheeple, instead of joining the fight against America’s corrupt, greedy, and ignorant politicians.
By rjrnab on November 18th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
China is advancing in alternative energy because they are a single party totalitarian state with a “small team” making all the decisions who can muscle anything in they want. They are winning in that race because they are starting from the ground up and have nothing of their own to lose in the process. This is their big gamble, just like 100 years ago ours to give to the world military controlled oil fields, mass produced automobiles, and building roads and infrastructure with Keynesian policy that served the capitalists and their banks.
We have the same kind of “small team” keeping the money in fossil fuels ’cause they got into that biz first 100 yrs ago and have everything tied up in it. Including our whole transportation and land-use paradigm and de-facto “policy” decided long ago by John Rockefeller and Henry Ford. Add in the military, most of which exists only to guarantee the oil flow around the world and squash local trouble with the “natives”. We took over from the British between the World Wars. And here many of us thought we were “good Christian soldiers” for the last 150 years of global neo-colonial conflict.
The “small team” own our US “single party totalitarian corporate-controlled puppet-state” which can never pass a Keynesian policy for alternative energy, or slap punishing tariffs on their outdated fossil fuel businesses that would force capital into the new paradigm, which would happen in a real democracy. We got Keynesian DARPA $$$ for decades to create the Internet precisely because no other corporation was providing any such thing that could have been replaced. They would have blocked that too. In fact, the telcos benefitted tremendously from the new innovation since they are mostly owning broadband now and collecting new fees they did nothing to invent.
That’s because a Keynesian policy would threaten the “property rights” of oil and petrochemicals shareholders, and those property rights trump anybody else’s rights in the Supreme Court’s logic of the last 30+ years, with Buckley vs Valeo as the main point of leverage that changed everything.
I really don’t want anyone on the panel to be advocating for the kind of totalitarian state China has! China has terrible inequality and social ills which will never be solved without revolution. The only reason they are ahead in this particular race, is because they have nothing to lose by creating something new. They have the very same form of govt which can lead to these moribund economies and stalemates blocking innovation paradigms.
We need to throw off the very same Monkey from our backs. The equal opposite. A totalitarian corporate control of all branches of government including the Supreme Court and both parties making them walk in lock-step as if they were one. China has the equal opposite problem. One party, that hand picks and blesses who is going to become a corporate boss and get capital from the state controlled bank.
By AlbyFlugzeug on November 18th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
What a fascinating interview with Antonino D’Ambrosio. His book has awakened me to the heart of Johnny Cash’s art–I just never knew before–and the performance here is so moving.
By maryvanvalkenburg on November 22nd, 2009 at 12:47 pm