With Nicholas Shaxson investigative journalist and researcher for the Tax Justice Network. He is author of several books including Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Off-shore Banking and Tax Havens. Then, Nate Aden, Research Fellow with the World Resources Institute. Nate is also affiliated with the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley. … Continued


CounterSpin

CounterSpin – April 15, 2016

CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).


The world’s fifth-largest country is rocketing toward regime change: Brazil’s parliament will this weekend take up the question of impeaching Dilma Roussef. We lay out the tangled confluence of severe recession, corruption scandals, and mass demonstrations that brought Brazil to the brink, and look at what’s next. Then: we’ll go inside the politics, economy, and … Continued


LSB General Manager Report: April 9 2016. By Quincy McCoy. Emergency Antenna Repair.

LSB General Manager Report: April 9 2016 By Quincy McCoy Emergency Antenna Repair Thursday March 18th, we lost our main antenna at the top of the KPFA tower. Our signal radiating elements that provide the station 59,000 watts of power needed immediate repair. We immediately switched to our auxiliary antenna mounted approximately 100 feet below our main antenna on the … Continued


John Nichols is a political blogger and Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine. Robert McChesney is Professor of Communication at the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The two have just come out with a new book, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy. … Continued