The verdict: Canada’s legalization of cannabis is a success
A British think tank says Canada’s legalization of cannabis has largely been a success story.
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Anti-Encryption Law From Juice Media, and Very Funny
This Juice Media 2018 satire about the growing survielance state is as relevant today. Insightful and very funny.
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Looking Back at Today’s Uprising
In this essay by Ron Ridenour, he tells the story of his decades long experience as an activist, and reflects on the critical issues facing the people's movement, then and now.
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Naomi Klein on Juice Media Podcast
Naomi Klein on the lessons we're learning during this historic period, Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, and why the liberals are going to get us all killed. On the Juice Media podcast.
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Make the Fed Publicly Owned and the Foundation of a Public Banking System – Gerald Epstein
The Federal Reserve has been subsidizing the megabanks, but what's needed is an institution that provides the backstop, the loan guarantees, the subsidies, the lines of credit, et cetera, to support the development of a whole variety of public financial institutions. Gerald Epstein on theanalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.
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Countries Have to Choose Between U.S. and China Says Blackrock
The massive finance firm Blackrock says there will be "de-globalization" and intensifying rivalry between the U.S. and China no matter who wins the November elections. Heiner Flassbeck says Europe cannot agree to take sides, on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.
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A Restart of Nuclear Testing Offers Little Scientific Value
Trump administration considers restarting nuclear weapons tests
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Brazil: Bolsonaro has Covid, Opposition is Fragmented
President Bolsonaro has taken a Trump like stance minimizing the pandemic and his polling numbers are down. The opposition is too fragmented says Lorena Barberia on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay. Produced in cooperation with Other News, Voices Against the Tide
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Trump gets no special protections because he’s president and must release financial records, Supreme Court rules
Investigators are trying to follow the president’s money, and the Supreme Court just gave them ...
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Trump Must be Defeated, but Unions Shouldn’t be Democratic Party Cheerleaders
If Trump wins, he will be convinced that he has a mandate for authoritarianism and further irrationalism; trade unions must become organizations of the class, not just cheerleaders of the Democratic Party. Bill Fletcher joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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Fed. Defends the ‘Creditor’s Paradise’ – Mark Blyth
They are building more and more fragility in the system, and the bailouts are becoming bigger and bigger, to a point where business as a whole is able to run an unsustainable moral hazard extortion game against central banks. Mark Blyth joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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The Quiet Transition to Authoritarian Government – Satire from Juice Media
Juice Media nails it once again with this edgy satire warning of the coming of authoritarian government
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Transform Unions and Organize the Unemployed – Sam Gindin
How to build unions into a transformative force is the critical question of our times; workers still have the power to shut down production but unions must have a class consciousness, including organizing the unemployed . Sam Gindin and Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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How Good is Australia? – Satire from Juice Media
More ripping satire from Juice Media. In this 2019 video, they take apart their homeland.
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Cities Reclaim Privatised Utilities as Public Ownership Proves Itself – Thomas Hannah
All around the world cities are taking back ownership of privatized utilities as public ownership proves to be more effective than private. It's also time for public control of finance. Thomas Hanna joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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More Biting Satire from Juice Media
This savage satire from Juice was produced in 2016 after the Trump election victory
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The Movement is Broadening Its Demands – Margaret Prescod
From demanding radical reforms to policing to broader demands about social and economic equality, the movement is growing, maturing and becoming more inclusive. Margaret Prescod joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
READ MOREWhat if Trump Won’t Go? – Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Larry Wilkerson is part of three working groups that are concerned that there will not be free and fair elections or a peaceful and constitutional transition of power; Wilkerson and Jay have a wide ranging discussion on what might happen if Trump won't go, on theAnalysis.news podcast.
READ MORECanadian Workers Fight to Nationalize GM Plant – Sam Gindin
In Oshawa Ontario, workers organize for a public takeover an unused GM plant to produce electric vehicles or supplied to fight the pandemic. Sam Gindin joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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Does Public Banking Work? – Ellen Brown
With the power of the financial sector overwhelming politics and the economy, are publicly owned banks the answer? Ellen Brown joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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Working Class Solidarity is Growing – Frank Hammer
Marches in Michigan's mostly white suburbs and small towns in support of the protests against police brutality could have a large impact on the struggle of autoworkers, says veteran union leader and activist Frank Hammer on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay.
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Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police
Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman argue that defunding the police could lead to more private police forces protecting private property, with even less accountability to the public. They say Community Control is a transformative demand that changes who has power over policing. On theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.
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Canada vs USA, Public vs Private Healthcare – Mario Seccareccia
The Canadian public healthcare system has not been perfect, but it’s the privately owned facilities ...
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Assange, Sheldon Adelson, and the CIA – Max Blumenthal
With the death of Sheldon Adelson, we replay this interview with Max Blumenthal. The CIA used an Adelson controlled company to spy on Julian Assange. Billionaire Casino owner Sheldon Adelson was a key player in making Trump president; has a history of money laundering; consorting with organized crime families; is a fervent supporter of the Israeli right, and advocates for attacking Iran. Max Blumenthal joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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Canada Lost UN Vote – Some Canadians Cheered
Canada lost to Norway in its bid to win a seat on the UN Security Council. Many Canadians had signed a petition calling for just that - saying Canada did not deserve the seat. Yves Engler joins Paul Jay on theanalysis.news podcast.
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Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look at the English Peasant Revolt of 1381
In this 1470 illustration, the radical priest John Ball galvanizes the rebels. The British Library
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Police unions are one of the biggest obstacles to transforming policing
Protesters in front of Boston Police Headquarters during a United Against Racist Police Terror Rally on June 7, 2020.
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During Floyd protests, media industry reckons with long history of collaboration with law enforcement
Actors Dennis Franz and Jimmy Smits on the set of ‘NYPD Blue.’
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Why stocks are soaring even as coronavirus cases surge, at least 20 million remain unemployed and the US sinks into recession
Throwing cash at the problem seems to help – investors at least. elenabs/Getty Images
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Revolutionary Youth Movement Shakes Iraq
The massive movement of young workers and students in the streets not only demands an end to corruption but for the end of the regime itself, with a new constitution and governing structure. Sabah Alnasseri joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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The Promise of the Moment – Adrienne Dixson
People in the streets and at home are talking about the intersection of race, class, and gender in a more substantive way and how the Democratic Party tries to hijack movements. Adrienne Dixson on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay
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Honest Government Ad | Economic Recovery – Super Satire from Juice Media
From Australia's Juice Media, another bitingly funny take down of . . . well, all our governments' B.S.
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Sacrificing Workers Lives is Back to Work Plan – Paul Jay
In the streets and at the ballot box, we must fight for: No return to work until it's safe and with full economic support; community control of the police; and publicly-owned banking and enterprises that create jobs and put the public interest first. - Paul Jay on the Law and Disorder Radio Show
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Murder of George Floyd Rooted in American Slave System – Gerald Horne
American police culture was built up to see black people as always on the verge of rebelling, and to treat them as criminal suspects in waiting. Gerald Horne on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay
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Cuba, Covid and Sanctions – James Early
Cuba's interferon treatment shows promise in Cuba and China but is mostly ignored in the U.S. - James Early on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay
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“Shit or Shit Lite” – The Man Behind Juice Media Satire
Giordano Nanni joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis podcast to discuss his biting satire and the state of the world. This one is worth watching rather than just listening as we've cut several clips from Juice Media into the video.
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Covid-19, Finance, Uncategorized
Healthy people, a healthy planet and a healthy economy
Richard Kozul-Wright explains why these challenges need to be addressed at once in a transformative agenda. The COVID-19 crisis shows that funding can be made available; the problem is the lack of political will to confront the Wall Street consensus.
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“Shit or Shit Lite” – Very Funny Satire From Juice Media
The Australien Government has made an ad about Preferential Voting and it’s surprisingly honest and informative (and funny).
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Debt Crises Do Not Have To Develop Into Catastrophes
Jürgen Kaiser, debt expert, reminds us of the agreement that helped Germany after WWII to avert a debt trap and calls for a bankruptcy code for sovereign nations on the back of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Brilliant and Much Needed Political Satire – “An Honest Government Ad”
Juice Media from Australia produces sharp and witty satire. They describe the video this way "The Government has made an ad about the global response to the pandemic, and it's surprisingly honest and informative." It's also surprisingly funny and bang on politically. We publish with permission from Juice.
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Covid-19: What Is To Be Done?
According to Prof Jayati Ghosh, this is the greatest crisis experienced by the capitalist system; she lays out the direction of policy responses commensurate to what is needed.
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Uncategorized
The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good.
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