Interview with Doug Stanton, author of "Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan"
Book is about the Special Forces soldiers in Afghanistan after 9/11
Originally posted 2009-09-13 08:03:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Bob Woodward of Watergate fame talks about journalism (Video)
Originally posted 2009-04-10 09:06:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
say: "Fast forward to 2007, capitalism is thriving and democracy is sputtering. Why has capitlism become supercapitalism and democracy become enfeebled? Reich explains that it was a combination of things: deregulation, globe spanning computer networks, better transportation, etc. The changes were mainly a result of technological breakthroughs; unlike many leftists, he is not conspiratorial thinker. The winner of this great transformation was the consumer/investor and the loser was the citizen/wage earner. The consumer has more choices than ever before and at reasonable prices. The investor has unprecedented opportunities to make profits. The citzen, however, is not doing well. The average citizen does not have much voice - other than voting - in the body politic. And on the wage earner has been stagnating for many years. The most salient illustration of this trend is Walmart. Walmart delivers the goods at low prices, but the trade-off is low wages for their employees. We justify this dilemma, as Reich nicely puts it, because "The awkward truth is that most of us are of two minds." Originally posted 2009-03-04 14:15:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
