“The damage has been horrible, but the next president can change that in 10 minutes,” Carter says, as he tells Tavis Smiley what the next president has to declare and act upon starting in ‘09. Let’s face it, BS from McCain, telling what is righteous won’t solve anything, only telling and doing what is right [...]

“Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic candidate for vice president eight years ago has now endorsed Republican senator John McCain for president and become his alter ego on the Middle East. Wherever McCain goes, Lieberman is sure to show up”, says Moyers, as he explains the relationship between the two hawks, both unpredictable, both untrustworthy, both [...]

Don’t miss Bill Moyers’ show on March 21. He will be interviewing Phil Donahue (whose fate was coincidently shared by fellow MSNBC host Tucker Carlson this week, but most likely for totally different reasons) and co-director Ellen Spiro. Check out the official website of the documentary. Here’s also a preview of the PBS show.

“Between 2001 and 2007, we spent about 600 billion dollars on the entire war on terrorism — Iraq, Afghanistan, everything else. Over that same period, we added 2.3 trillion to the debt,” claims Scott Bittle. It looks like Bush is not the only one responsible for the current national debt. It’s the combination of both [...]

“Capitalism seems quite literally to be consuming itself, leaving democracy in peril and the fate of citizens uncertain,” writes Benjamin R. Barber, an American political theorist and adviser to various politicians, including Howard Dean and Bill Clinton. If you missed the interview with Barber on Bill Moyers Journal, it’s really worth watching it in its [...]

Bill Moyers, one of a few true and authentic American journalists — true because he serves the public, not corporations, and authentic because he works for a public network, not a corporate one — reminds us, especially those who think about voting for Hillary Clinton, that this vote may not bring much change after all.
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