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America Vs. Everyone – Jeff Sachs
Jeff Sachs talks with Rob Johnson about the tragedy of modern geopolitics, and how our current race to the bottom could be reversed. This is an interview taken from the Institute of New Economic Thinking. For more of their material, please visit ineteconomics.org.
Time to Buy Out Fossil Fuel Corporations – Gar Alperovitz on Reality Asserts Itself (pt 2/2)
This interview was originally released on April 28, 2017. The Next System Projectâs Gar Alperovitz tells Paul Jay that the Federal Reserve should use quantitive easing, i.e. create money, to take Big Oil companies out of the equation and finance a massive green infrastructure program.
Bidenâs Bill has Significant Funding for Climate but 10% of What’s Needed – Bob Pollin
The so-called âInflation Reduction Actâ will have a positive affect on the climate crisis, but it does not phase out fossil fuel and is far from whatâs needed. Big industrial states like New York and California can and must go much further. Bob Pollin on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay.
The Miners Strike Taught Me to Think Critically – Gabriel Byrne on RAI Pt 2/4
On Reality Asserts Itself, actor Gabriel Byrne says that in the â70s, being Irish in London was like being a Muslim now; PM Thatcherâs campaign to crush the miners union in 1984 helped him understand how the media were anti-working class and anti-union â with host Paul Jay. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced December 24, 2017.
Fracking Success Shut Down US Climate Change Policy – Christopher Williams on RAI (pt 3/5)
This interview was originally published on August 12, 2014. Mr. Williams tells Paul Jay that the fabulous profits made from fracking oil and gas took climate change off Obama agenda, and while coal emissions may be down in the US, coal exports have grown exponentially.
Americans Don’t Need “Unity” in the Abstract
Katrina vanden Heuvel joins Paul Jay to discuss Biden’s attempts at bipartisanship and the need for progressives, inside the Democratic Party and the movement outside, to mount massive pressure for real reform.