Episode

7/23 Robert McChesney: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

July 23, 2013

Professor Robert McChesney, why a majority of the American people are progressive, the tension between democracy and capitalism, how to judge the success of the Internet, why the Internet is a great force for monopoly, why Google and Facebook are killing journalism, Net Neutrality and mobile platforms and the grassroots movements against corporate personhood and for clean elections.

On The Better Half: the “Grand Bargain” again? Republicans propose massive cuts in the EPA and arts funding, more progress on marriage equality, JP Morgan engages in Enron like trading schemes and your IMs.

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