MEDIA ROOTS — Pacifica Radio’s Guns and Butter have faithfully broadcast another potent weekly instalment of compelling discussions from the radical economics summit in Rimini, Italy produced by journalist Paolo Barnard: Summit Modern Money Theory 2012. Media Roots previously transcribed and featured the first, second, third, and fourth consecutive Guns and Butter broadcasts on the MMT Summit. Here we present … Read More
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Insomnia, Sleep, and Unconventional Rhythms
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MEDIA ROOTS — Like many customs handed down to us by ‘experts‘ we often uncritically accept, sleep is yet another custom we may be misinformed about. Daily, millions of people struggle with the simplest of biorhythms—sleep. And we are often led to believe this has always been so. Insomniacs are stigmatised and branded inadequate and defective. But what if everyone … Read More
MR Transcript: Modern Money Theory and Private Banks
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MEDIA ROOTS — Pacifica Radio’s Guns and Butter have faithfully broadcast another potent weekly installment of compelling discussions from last month’s Summit Modern Money Theory 2012 in Rimini, Italy, one of the more salient popular developments and signs of consciousness raising in recent history since Tahrir, Wisconsin, and the Occupy Movement. Join us, as we continue our exploration through the MMT … Read More
Economist Marshall Auerback at Italian MMT Summit 2012
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MEDIA ROOTS — At Media Roots, we’ve been following and featuring the recent radical, or grassroots, economics summit in Rimini, Italy produced by journalist Paolo Barnard, the first annual grassroots Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Summit. Bonnie Faulkner, of Guns and Butter, travelled to Rimini, Italy and documented the event over its course of several days to broadcast the radical discussions … Read More
Andy Roth of Project Censored at SFSU
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March 16, 2012 MEDIA ROOTS — Andy Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored, recently spoke about breaking through the corporate propaganda model at San Francisco State University on for the ‘Media Literacy: Corporate Propaganda & Advocating Independent Journalism’ Project Censored event. *** Andy Roth, Associate Director, Project Censored at SFSU *** Messina