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JOAN WALSH, CORPORATE BULLSH*T

Six lies they use to hold onto power

and hold back progress


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The market – using money in politics to write its own rules - cannot respond effectively to the critical challenges we face. JOAN WALSH, formerly at Salon, CNN, and MSNBC and now national affairs correspondent for The Nation, authored CORPORATE BULLSH*T with NICK HANAUER (Pitchfork Economics; Civic Action) & DONALD COHEN (The Public Interest). Digging into myths and strategies of the Right, they focus on six big lies used over and over again to hold onto power and hold back progress.

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Why Capitalism Is Going Green - ‘Cheaper to save the world than destroy it’

Akshat Rathi argues that around the world economies are switching to clean technology as prices drop

by Ajit Niranjan - Guardian - 01-15-2024 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/15/cheaper-to-save-the-world-than-destroy-it-why-capitalism-is-going-green


Climate & Capital Media Top 10 Stories of 2023: It’s All About Solutions

01-05-2024

https://www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/climate-capital-media-top-10-stories-of-2023-its-all-about-solutions/


Big Oil Launches Propaganda Campaign to Thwart US Energy Transition

Domestic production and global temperatures both set new records in 2023.

by Dharna Noor - MotherJones - 01-12-2024

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/fossil-fuel-oil-gas-api-propaganda-media-campaign-energy-transition/


The Global Risks Report 2024

World Economic Forum - January 2024

https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/


Presidential Hopefuls Spar on Social Security. An Expert Separates Fact from Fiction.

Lynn Parramore w Eric Laursen — Institute for New Economic Thinking - 01-12-2024

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/as-presidential-hopefuls-spar-on-social-security-this-expert-separates-fact-from-fiction


Meet the Plutocrats Buying Up the American Dream

How America’s wealthiest are systematically locking modest-income families out of the housing market.

by Sam Pizzigati - Truthdig.com - 01-08-2024

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/meet-the-plutocrats-buying-up-the-american-dream/


The Rich Now Own a Record Share of Stocks

by Matt Phillips - Axios - 01-11-2024

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/10/wealthy-own-record-share-stock-market


Top 1% Pay Lower Tax Rates than Other Residents in Most States: Study

by Lauren Sforza - TheHill.com - 01-09-202401/09/24

https://thehill.com/business/4398405-top-1-percent-lower-tax-rates-study/


Americans Are Angry — and Think Their Leaders Don't Care

by Justin Green - Axios - 01-14-2024

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/14/political-trust-leaders-government-america


"Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell" Draws Near-limitless Energy from Soil

by Loz Blain - NewAtlas.com - 01-16-2024

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How To Safely Sell Stuff Online

Experts share ways to avoid getting robbed such as meeting at a busy public place.

by Karen Garcia - LATimes - 01-16-2024

https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=05f05ac6-ad6e-48a5-ba78-f10e759c1c4c




Nick Hanauer TED Talk 2019

The Dirty Secret of Capitalism - And a New Way Forward

https://nickhanauer.com







NICK HANAUER is a serial entrepreneur and an outspoken critic of economic policy and income inequality. As an entrepreneur, he has founded or funded more than 30 companies, including the technology company aQuantive, which sold to Microsoft for $6.4B. He was also the first non-family investor in Amazon. Hanauer founded Civic Ventures—an organization devoted to socio-economic change⁠. He’s host of the podcast Pitchfork Economics and co-author of CORPORATE BULLSH*T.


CORPORATE BULLSH*T (Nick Hanauer w Joan Walsh & Donald Cohen)

(Audio & text) - PitchforkEconomics.com - 10-24-2023

https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/corporate-bullsht-with-joan-walsh-and-donald-cohen/


Six Ways Existing Economic Models Are Killing the Economy

The alleged science doesn’t match up to the real world.

by Nick Hanauer - American Prospect - 04-05-2023

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-04-05-six-ways-economic-models-killing-economy/


The Transformation at the Heart of Biden’s Middle-Out Economic Agenda

The economy is not about money it’s about people.

by Nick Hanauer - American Prospect - 02-9-2023

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-02-09-biden-middle-out-agenda/


JOAN WALSH, a national affairs correspondent for The Nation, was previously editor-in-chief of Salon and an on-air political analyst at CNN and MSNBC. She’s a coproducer of THE SIT-IN: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show, and author of WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH WHITE PEOPLE? Finding Our Way in the Next America. Her latest book, co-authored with Nick Hanauer and Donald Cohen, is CORPORATE BULLSH*T: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit Power and Wealth In America.


Corporate Bullsh*t, and How to Fight It

Here’s your handbook to stop corporate lies in their tracks and change the country.

by Joan Walsh, Nick Hanauer, & Donald Cohen - TheNation - 10-31-2023

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/corporate-right-wing-lies/


My Last Conversation With Norman Lear

He invented modern television. And he still found time to nurture his political causes from People for the American Way to The Nation.

by Joan Walsh - TheNation - Obituary

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/norman-lear-obituary/


Welcome to 2024 the Year We Stop Trump’s Rolling Insurrection

January 6, 2021 never ended. We can halt it this year. If we don’t we may never.

by Joan Walsh - TheNation - 01-05-2024

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/2024-presidential-race-trump-biden/


The Contempt for Democracy Driving the Anti-Abortion Movement

As pro-choice advocates plan more statewide initiatives protecting abortion rights opponents say victory lies in stopping citizens from voting on the issue directly.

by Joan Walsh - TheNation - 12-09-2023

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abortion-rights-state-constitutions/

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