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Jim Hightower - Alternate Models of Business Ownership

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Jim Hightower advocates worker-owned co-ops as alternative models of business ownershipVideo 5min 5sec.  Populist author and activist Jim Hightower advocates worker-owned co-ops as alternative models of business ownership, using two stories as examples.

America's most irascible curmudgeon turns a benevolent eye toward the hardworking souls who have found ways to break free from corporate tentacles and redefine success in business, politics, and life in general.

"We wrote about a bunch of cab drivers in Wisconsin. Back in the 1970's, working for a company that just ran roughshod over them.

Jim Hightower talks about Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow. Hightower is a national radio commentator and the author of Thieves in High Places - Book Passage

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator and the author of Thieves in High Places. He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations, on the web, on Armed Forces Radio, and on Radio for Peace International.

Bank Bailouts Explained..., Really

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Bank BailOuts: Don't Be FooledVideo 6min 50sec.

The story of the bank bailouts, and what we've gotten so far in return.

This one is about the bank bailouts.

It's funny how a little animated video on the web can contain more clear information that so many people on the television yapping about their opinion.

But it's not a funny video by any means 

Don't be fooled by the cartoon nature of this..., because there just might be some real information here.

Some might want to put on their headphones and pause a moment to grok this.

It's a great little video that will give you a pretty good view of one of the ways that they stole everyone's money.

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

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Ha-Joon Chang Speaks About CapitalismRevolutionary discussion on Capitalism, 4 Videos.

Well, they are the supporters of free-market economics, ranging from academics in universities through people in the private sector, government, the journalistic world.

I mean, these are people who basically try to justify the status quo.

I mean, they're telling people, well, whatever you think about what's going on is all how it has to be.

You know. I mean, you don't like income inequality? Tough. I mean, that's the only way to run an efficient economic system.

You don't like environmental destruction?

Tough. I mean, that's how we become rich. You know.

So these are people who have been telling us in the last 30 years that we have to liberalize everything, we have to deregulate everything, we have to make rich people even richer, so that everyone else can become rich, and so on, and engineered all [inaudible] massive policy changes like tax cuts for the rich, business deregulation, the deregulation of the labor market and eroding of labor rights, and so on.

23 Things They Don't Tell you About Capitalism Pt.1
12min 19sec  There is no such thing as a free market

23 Things They Don't Tell you About Capitalism Pt.2
9min 36sec Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Pt.3
10min 42sec Most people in rich countries are paid more than they should be

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Pt.4
12min 12sec  We do not live in a post-industrial age

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Video: No Mortgage Reform? MBA Responsible

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David Kittle

Video (4min 40sec): Mortgage Bankers Celebrate Victory.

You would think this year's Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) annual meeting would be a rather solemn affair -- given the criticism the industry has endured in recent months.

But the American New Project (ANP) reporter attending the meeting found the bankers in a celebratory mood.

The reason? A massive lobbying campaign against bankruptcy reform legislation known as "cram-down" appeared to be working.

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Video: Bernard: Anti-Union Laws = Harder to Organize

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Elaine Bernard

Video: Elaine Bernard: Anti-Union Laws = Harder to Organize.

As the economic crisis deepens, many economists have pointed to low wages, lack of real as one of the root causes of the current economic crisis, consumer debt, the result thereof.

So why are wages so low in the United States?

Clearly, connected partly at least is the lack of unionization.

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