Truth Jihad Radio Fri. 5/4/12, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. First hour: Clint Richardson’s film The Corporation Nation isn’t your garden-variety leftist rant against mulitinational corporations (not that there’s anything wrong with those…) Instead, it exposes the surprising fact that governments – local, state, and federal – are the majority owners of USA, Inc. Net government assets, Richardson suggests, are over $100 trillion dollars. So why is the government constantly whining that it’s broke and needs to raise taxes and/or borrow more money from the banksters?…
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Walter Block: Privatize everything! Joshua Blakeney: No thanks!
Truth Jihad Radio Fri. 4/27/12, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. First hour: Walter Block, a free market economist and anarcho-capitalist associated with the Austrian School of economics, has replaced Murray Rothbard as “Mr. Libertarian,” according to Lew Rockwell. As today’s leading exponent of hardcore libertarian economics, Block wants to pretty much privatize everything, including roads and highways, and even supports contractual “voluntary slavery.” Though I ran for Congress as a Libertarian, I’m not sure I’d go that far. But I’m willing to listen. Second hour:…
FULL ARTICLEDavid Macaray: “They want to privatize the world!”
Tuesday, April 17th, 11 a.m. to noon Central (9-10 Pacific) on NoLiesRadio.org (archived here a few hours after broadcast). Guest: David Macaray, author of “They Want to Privatize the World.” David is a playwright, labor columnist and author (It’s Never Been Easy: Essays on Modern Labor), whose labor and entertainment articles have appeared in such periodicals as the LA Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, NY Press, Beckett Monthly, Utne Reader, as well CounterPunch and CommonDreams. David’s anti-privatization rant resonates with me. I ran for Congress as a Libertarian, but I don’t agree with the Libertarians who want to privatize everything. To me,…
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