EP 392 The Amazon Behemoth Gains Momentum in This Moment of Crisis

EP 392 The Amazon Behemoth Gains Momentum in This Moment of Crisis

https://bezonomics.com/books/ Amazon. How many of us can live without it in this pandemic age? Jeff Bezos and his spinwheel fueled by artificial intelligence(we explain that concept in the podcast) keep accelerating their impact in various sectors of our economy and in our lives. It’s an awe inspiring story, but there are damages in the wake …

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EP 391 Did the Democrats Learn From Their Loss in 2016?

EP 391 Did the Democrats Learn From Their Loss in 2016?

https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Loss-Democrats-Seth-Masket/dp/1108482120 On Election Day 2020, we are posting this podcast, recorded on Friday, October 30, recounting the soul searching and internal debates that went on in the Democratic Party as they tried to understand Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in 2016. Is this a conscious and helpful exercise? If you recall, the Republicans did …

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Special Edition #11 Anti-Populism in the United States

Special Edition #11 Anti-Populism in the United States

https://www.amazon.com/People-No-Populism-Fight-Democracy/dp/1250220114 The word populism has been bandied around a lot lately in our politics.  What does it really mean and what evidence do we have that it is a real force in American politics and not just a word co-opted by charlatans to bring people to their side?  In his book, ‘The People, No’, author …

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EP 389 Big Pharma’s Addiction to Huge Profits

EP 389 Big Pharma’s Addiction to Huge Profits

https://www.amazon.com/Pharma-Greed-Lies-Poisoning-America/dp/1501151894   The nation’s pharmaceutical companies have worked very hard to make themselves indispensable to the world’s most medicated society. They have done it by selling cures and treatments for a range of conditions, accenting the positive and downplaying the side effects which, as in the case of opioids, often are catastrophic.  Further, they have …

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EP 388 America: What Went Wrong Revisited

EP 388 America: What Went Wrong Revisited

https://www.amazon.com/America-What-Wrong-Crisis-Deepens/dp/195065950X In 1992, when Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporters, Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, set out to first determine what had gone wrong with America’s promise for its people economically and socially they found troubling signs of pervasive inequality and the public sector weakened to a point where it was unable to craft …

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EP 387 Can You Believe in the Scientific Breakthroughs You Read About?

EP 387 Can You Believe in the Scientific Breakthroughs You Read About?

Daily we are bombarded with one scientific finding after another. How often have you quoted this or that finding to a friend and suggested that a change of behavior might be in order as a result? Stuart Ritchie, author of ‘Science Fictions’ suggests that you may want to curb your enthusiasm to insure that the …

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EP 386 Health Care in America in the Wake of the Pandemic

EP 386 Health Care in America in the Wake of the Pandemic

https://www.progressivepolicy.org/people/arielle-kane-2/ With well publicized concern that a spike in the coronavirus might result in a possible buckling of our health care system in America, many are imagining the changes to get better systems in place to protect public health and insure access and quality to clinical services for more Americans. As a podcast focused on …

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EP 385 Climate Change Takes a Backseat to Other Crises and a Backhand From the Federal Government

EP 385 Climate Change Takes a Backseat to Other Crises and a Backhand From the Federal Government

https://www.amazon.com/Talk-Your-About-Climate-Change/dp/0865719365 A recent headline in the New York Times indicates that the Trump Administration is reversing nearly one hundred environmental rules on issues relating to air pollution and emissions, drilling and extraction, water pollution, toxic substances and more. And this is after pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords and appointing a former coal industry …

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EP 384 The Empty Throne Grows Dusty as America Sidelines Itself on the International Stage

EP 384 The Empty Throne Grows Dusty as America Sidelines Itself on the International Stage

https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Throne-Americas-Abdication-Leadership/dp/1541773853 The rules-based world order that developed after World War II was not an accident of history. It resulted from America’s vigorous leadership. So for our allies in Europe, Asia and around the globe is was so puzzling that President Donald Trump would walk away from treaties and organizations America designed. While he blustered about …

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