Naomi Klein -US is so damaged, even tiny steps are seen as progress

US bailout greatest heist in monetary history

Cornel West -Obama becoming puppet of Wall St. Oligarchs

The economic rift between rich and poor in the US is deepening, but a new awareness is also taking root among the people. That's the opinion of renowned civil rights activist Dr. Cornel West.

Corporate socialism

Companies are able to extort tax revenue out of state governments in a broken capitalist system based on private profits and public losses, says Reuters columnist David Cay Johnston in this episode of Fast Forward.

CBC Radio -Slavoj Zizek

Zizek discusses atheism and Richard Dawkins, Norway and Breivik, Woody Allen's "Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask", the role of poetry in ethnic cleansing, his crush on Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, and so on and so on.

Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble

Big money and big media have coupled to create a ‘Disney World’ of democracy in which TV shows, televised debates, even news coverage is being dumbed down, resulting in a public less informed than it should be, says Marty Kaplan, director of USC’s Norman Lear Center and an entertainment industry veteran. Bill Moyers talks with Kaplan about how taking news out of the journalism box and placing it in the entertainment box is hurting democracy and allowing special interest groups to manipulate the system.

Later on the show, Bill talks about Florida Rep. Allen West and shocking modern-day McCarthyism. Wasn’t this lesson already learned?

Wittgenstein -La aventura del pensamiento

Ludwig Wittgenstein, filósofo y lingüista austriaco-británico (1889 - 1951)

European, US Austerity Drive is Suicidal: Nobel Economist Stiglitz

Europe is headed down the same path that most Republicans -- and many Democrats -- are suggesting for the US: reductions in the public sector, cuts in benefits, slashing investments in infrastructure and education.

Austerity is suicidal public policy warns US economist Joseph Stiglitz.Nobel Prize-winning U.S. economistJoseph Stiglitz speaking in Vienna, Austria Thursday night said that it's a suicidal path for Europe -- and that such a policy has never worked in any large country.