Report: US-Initiated WTO Rules Could Undermine Regulatory Overhaul of Global Finance

DemocracyNow!
September 25, 2009

As the G-20 meets in Pittsburgh, a new report from Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch warns that the World Trade Organization has long advanced extreme financial deregulation under the guise of trade agreements and could undermine the current push for increasing regulation. We speak to Lori Wallach, the director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division...

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After 20 Years of Filmmaking on US Injustices, Michael Moore Goes to the Source in “Capitalism: A Love Story”

DemocracyNow!
September 24, 2009

Beginning with the 1989 classic Roger & Me, the Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore says his films “come back to a central core concern: the economic system we have is unfair, unjust and undemocratic.” With his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore tackles the financial system and the interchanging circles of Washington politicians and corporate managers that run it. Moore says, “I thought I’d cut to the chase and propose we deal with this economic system and restructure it in a way that benefits people and not the wealthiest one percent.”...

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Fossil fuel subsidies dwarf clean energy subsidies; Obama wants to eliminate them

by David Roberts
GRIST Magazine
September 23, 2009

One often hears opponents of clean energy say that renewable sources are too expensive; they can’t get by without subsidies; they can’t compete in a “free market.” One of the many reasons this is a daffy argument is that there is no such thing as a free market, certainly not in energy. Existing energy sources, fossil fuels, have benefited from a century of subsidies and supporting infrastructure—and are still subsidized lavishly relative to their scrappy little competitors...

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In New York City, Poverty Defined In New Terms

by Pam Fessler
Morning Edition
National Public Radio
September 10, 2009

New York City is one of the first places in the country to take into consideration child and health care costs as well as geographic differences when measuring poverty. Backers of New York's method want the federal formula to reflect these real world costs...

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Global Financial Crisis Hits Mongolia's Grasslands

by Louisa Lim
National Public Radio
September 9, 2009

Mongolians at the mercy of Banks and Mining Companies...

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Exposed: The Carlyle Group

Information Clearing House
September 6, 2009

"I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government."

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Low-Wage Workers Get Routinely Cheated, Survey Finds

By Laura Conaway
Planet Money
National Public Radio
September 2, 2009

People getting by on low wages also tend to lose out on overtime they've earned, and they're more likely to get paid less than the minimum wage. Those are the findings in "Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers," a new study by the Ford, Joyce, Haynes and Russell Sage Foundations...

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