Stories by Bill Moyers

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Bill Moyers: Newt's Strange Obsession with Saul Alinsky

Posted on Feb 5, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

Bill Moyers explains what we need to know about community activist Saul Alinsky, and why Newt Gingrich might be so afraid of him.

Bill Moyers: 6 Movies You Have to See About the Financial Crisis

Posted on Feb 2, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

Here are some important movies and documentaries that try to make sense of the financial collapse.

Inside the Bacchanalian Wall Street Fraternity Party of Billionaire Bankers and Hedge Fund Predators

Posted on Jan 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

It may be bleak on Main Street, but Wall Street's partying like it's 2006.

Obama's Favorite Wall Streeters

Posted on Jan 23, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: “Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.”

How Big Money Bought Our Democracy, Corrupted Both Parties, and Set Us Up for Another Financial Crisis

Posted on Jan 22, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

Bill Moyers talks to President Reagan's former budget director and to Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times about the way Wall Street runs Washington.

America Has Woken Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters

Posted on Jan 17, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

While police have cleared many Occupy encampments, a collective cry, loud and clear, has gone up from countless voices across the country: Enough's enough.

Is This Land Made for You and Me--or The Super-Rich?

Posted on Jan 15, 2012, Source: TruthOut.org

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship ponder the question at the heart of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"--what kind of America do we want?

Bill Moyers: Why I am Returning to the Air

Posted on Jan 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet

I'm coming back because in tumultuous times like these I relish the company of people who try to make sense of the tumult.

Moyers: Why 'We The People' Must Triumph Over Corporate Power

Posted on Dec 11, 2011, Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Bill Moyers reminds us that repairing American democracy begins with reasserting that corporations do not have the same constitutional rights as citizens.

Bill Moyers: Our Politicians Are Money Launderers Not Too Different from Tony Soprano

Posted on Nov 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Americans have learned the hard way that when rich organizations and wealthy individuals shower Washington with millions in campaign contributions, they get what they want.

Moyers and Winship: We Can't Let an Amateur Right-Wing Smear Campaign Destroy NPR

Posted on Mar 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Public media is essential to American life -- without public radio, the reactionaries among us will hold a monopoly on the airwaves.

In Defense of NPR

Posted on Mar 11, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org

Consider an America without public media. Consider a society where the distortions and dissembling would go unchallenged, where fact-based reporting is eliminated.

Bill Moyers: America Can't Deal With Reality -- We Must Be Exposed to the Truth, Even If It Hurts

Posted on Feb 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Many people inhabit a closed belief system on whose door they have hung the "Do Not Disturb" sign.

Bill Moyers: Howard Zinn Taught Us That It's OK If We Face Mission Impossible

Posted on Nov 2, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Moyers: "If you go and do the right thing NOW, and you do it long enough good things will happen -- something's gonna happen."

Bill Moyers TV Farewell with Hightower -- The Fight of Our Lives: The Populist Battle with Corporate Power

Posted on May 2, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

"We need a lot more agitation. [T]hat's the only thing that succeeds from a progressive side in changing politics in America."

Moyers: Six Banks Control 60% of Gross National Product -- Is the U.S. at the Mercy of an Unstoppable Oligarchy?

Posted on Apr 23, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Moyers and economists James Kwak and Simon Johnson wonder whether the financial powers are more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever.

The Tea Party Crowd Needs to Wake Up to Who the Real Villains Are

Posted on Apr 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet

The Wall Street banks are the new American oligarchy -- but the Tea Party crowd can't seem to see it.

Moyers: Obama's Bad Gamble on Afghanistan -- 100,000 Soldiers Used as Chips for a Bet the US Can't Win

Posted on Apr 12, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

We are losing lives for no purpose. The perpetuation of this unnecessary war exacerbates the problems in the Islamic world.

Bill Moyers: The Health Bill Is a Bonanza for the Insurance Industry and Other Monied Interests

Posted on Mar 28, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

So we got health care reform last week -- but it's a far cry from reformation. For all their gnashing of teeth, the insurance companies still make out like bandits.

Bill Moyers and Richard Trumka: Americans Need Jobs -- Does Obama Finally Get It?

Posted on Feb 1, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO and Bill Moyers discuss the drastic steps Obama must take to quell the frustration and anger over joblessness.

Bill Moyers: Haiti's Problems Are Rooted in Its Colonial Legacy

Posted on Jan 27, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Despite what Pat Robertson and David Brooks tell you, Haiti's devastation is the product of Western domination -- not regressive social norms or Satanism.

Bill Moyers & Thomas Frank: How America's Demented Politics Let the GOP Off the Hook for Their Giant Mess

Posted on Jan 19, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank on how our short attention span has allowed conservatives to escape blame for their role in the economic meltdown.

Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?

Posted on Dec 21, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Could a crushing defeat on health reform teach Democrats to stop prioritizing corporate interests?

Howard Zinn and Bill Moyers on Right-Wing Demagogues and Progressive Resistance

Posted on Dec 15, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Zinn: "Democracy doesn't come from the top. It comes from the bottom. Democracy is not what governments do. It's what people do."

Bill Moyers: We Have a Nobel Peace President Who Won't Ban Land Mines

Posted on Dec 11, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

The Nobel Committee said Obama won the prize for his respect of international law and his efforts at disarmament, yet he won't even sign on to end a barbaric weapon.

Bill Moyers & Jane Goodall: What Chimps Reveal About Human Brutality, Violence, Compassion and Hope

Posted on Dec 1, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion with Jane Goodall on what chimps tell us about human beings and what we must do to save these animals from extinction.

Why Is Congress Demonizing an Investigation of Israel's War Crimes in Gaza?

Posted on Nov 20, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it.

Bill Moyers and James Galbraith: Our Free Market Makes Economic Collapse Inevitable

Posted on Nov 2, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Until we realize that our system itself is untenable, we'll be doomed to economic meltdowns.

Bill Moyers: How Can the U.S. Be an Empire and a Democracy at the Same Time?

Posted on Oct 20, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

An interview with Mark Danner, whose new book, Stripping Bare the Body, explores the strange notion of a democratic empire and the wars it wages.

Bill Moyers: Was the Financial Bailout Just a Slick, Friendly Takeover of the Federal Government?

Posted on Oct 12, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Moyers interviews Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a hero of Michael Moore's latest documentary, and former IMF head Simon Johnson on Wall Street's purchase of our democracy.

Bill Moyers: Conservative Radicals and the Politics of Vengeance

Posted on Sep 21, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Intellectual conservatism is dead. And the angriest, most intellectually bankrupt elements have taken over the movement.

Bill Moyers: Mr. President, We Need a Fighter to Take on the Deranged Right-Wing

Posted on Sep 7, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

This health care thing is make or break for your leadership, but for us, it's life and death. No more Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. President.

Bill Moyers: Money-Driven Medicine - The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much

Posted on Sep 1, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Bill Moyers teams up with financial journalist Maggie Mahar and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney to bring you the truth about America's health-care system.

Bill Moyers: Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms

Posted on Jul 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet

As Republicans fire away on health reform, big business is stepping up attacks too, lobbying and advertising guns blazing.

'The Select Few' Are Cashing in: Shocking Corruption at the Washington Post

Posted on Jul 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Insiders in Washington are going to keep dealing themselves winning hands until we decide that it isn't allowed.

After These Deadly Hate Attacks, Why Aren't We Talking About Guns?

Posted on Jun 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet

We talk about violence committed in the name of bigotry or religion. But what about the deadly firepower available to the killers?

Bill Moyers: The Rise of Private Armies -- Mercenaries, Murder and Corruption in Iraq and Afghanistan

Posted on Jun 9, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the "disintegration of the nation state apparatus."

Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?

Posted on May 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The health care industry has spent $134 million on lobbying this year to keep its profits high and public health in the shadows.

Bill Moyers Talks Drugs, Crime, Journalism and Democracy with Creator of 'The Wire'

Posted on Apr 21, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

HBO's critically-acclaimed "The Wire" creator David Simon talks about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism.

Moyers Journal: Madoff Was A Piker -- America's Big Banks Are a Far Larger Fraudulent Ponzi Scheme

Posted on Apr 6, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

One of America's top bank fraud experts explains the financial industry's "liar's loans" and wholesale greed that got us in this mess.

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