big business

In the world of academia Noam Chomsky is the most cited author alive. He talks to Inside USA about healthcare and politics in the United States and around the world. (22 min, 2 segments)

To give some context to the big 3 U.S. car companies’ plea for a bailout, we are rerunning this 2006 documentary film (92:25 min, 10 segments) that explores the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of GM’s battery electric vehicle.

When we talk about globalization, we should be clear of what the word means. Who better to explain than linguist Noam Chomsky, the most quoted person ever. (10:00 min)

The last episode explains how politicians on the left set out to mould their policies to people’s inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with products. (55 min in 6 segments)

RealNews interviews Howard Zinn: Segment 1 - Taxes and Class War (7:35 min); Segment 2 - Bailout is Tickle-Down Theory Magnified (8:17 min)

In the 1960s, Freudian ideas were challenged which started a political movement to create new beings free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in people’s minds by business and politics. But corporations soon realized the new self was their greatest opportunity. (55 min in 6 segments)

A brilliant documentary series tracing how Sigmund Freud’s ideas on human nature were used to manipulate the masses for big business and government. (56 min in 6 segments)