Stories by Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers is president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.
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.
Posted on Nov 20, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Until we realize that our system itself is untenable, we'll be doomed to economic meltdowns.
Posted on Nov 2, 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.
Posted on Oct 20, 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.
Posted on Oct 12, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Intellectual conservatism is dead. And the angriest, most intellectually bankrupt elements have taken over the movement.
Posted on Sep 21, 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.
Posted on Sep 7, 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.
Posted on Sep 1, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
As Republicans fire away on health reform, big business is stepping up attacks too, lobbying and advertising guns blazing.
Posted on Jul 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Insiders in Washington are going to keep dealing themselves winning hands until we decide that it isn't allowed.
Posted on Jul 12, 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?
Posted on Jun 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the "disintegration of the nation state apparatus."
Posted on Jun 9, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
The health care industry has spent $134 million on lobbying this year to keep its profits high and public health in the shadows.
Posted on May 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
HBO's critically-acclaimed "The Wire" creator David Simon talks about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism.
Posted on Apr 21, 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.
Posted on Apr 6, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
What needs to be done to protect the American taxpayer from the next round of multi-hundred billion dollar layoffs.
Posted on Mar 4, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Can change happen when the usual suspects are piling up money like sandbags against the public's clamor for a better deal? We'll find out.
Posted on Nov 3, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
The execs who got us into our current mess are still pulling in the lucre.
Posted on Sep 23, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future
Author Bill Greider explains to Moyers that the magic of the "free market" is coming to a close.
Posted on Jul 22, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Follow the money -- it goes from your gas tank to the wine bars and steak houses of DC, where the payoffs from big business to politicians go down.
Posted on Jul 21, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator.
Posted on Jul 5, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
The legendary journalist electrifies packed crowd at National Conference for Media Reform.
Posted on Jun 7, 2008, Source: Free Press
For all of America's shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, "The system works." Now all bets are off.
Posted on May 17, 2008, Source: Doubleday
White preachers are given leeway in politics that Jeremiah Wright wasn't.
Posted on May 3, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Moyers: Journalists' "deeper mission is to uncover the news that powerful people would prefer to keep hidden."
Posted on Apr 10, 2008, Source: The Nation Institute
"When Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit," Moyers says.
Posted on Nov 22, 2007, Source: TheNation.com
When it comes to money and power, Rupert Murdoch is carnivorous: all appetite and no taste. He'll eat anything in his path.
Posted on Jun 30, 2007, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Corporate media are looking to use the "free market" to add the internet to their empire. But we can't let them dominate the 'net and undermine our democracy.
Posted on Oct 18, 2006, Source: TomPaine.com
Unless we choose to renew our commitment to America's deepest values, the day will come when we no longer recognize the country we love.
Posted on Mar 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The Abramoff and DeLay corruption scandals make it clear that now more than ever we need publically financed elections.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Moyers addresses the Bush administration's obsession with secrecy and its bullying and manipulation of PBS.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The notion of spiritual freedom is at risk, and the fourth observance of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 is an appropriate time to think about it.
Posted on Sep 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Washington is a divided city -- not between north and south as in Lincoln's time, but between those who can buy all the government they want and those who can't even afford a seat in the bleachers.
Posted on Jun 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In this highly anticipated speech the veteran public broadcaster takes on the PBS coup and its right-wing engineers who are 'squealing like a stuck pig.'
Posted on May 17, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The environment is in trouble and the religious right doesn't care. It's time to act as if the future depends on us – because it does.
Posted on Dec 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Gorver Norquist, leader of the American conservative movement, shares his vision of the next four years with the GOP in control of Washington.
Posted on Nov 9, 2004, Source: NOW with Bill Moyers
"I believe democracy requires 'a sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works."
Posted on Sep 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Much of the truth about 9/11 is now public, thanks to the Commission's report: Key government officials failed the system, and they failed the American people.
Posted on Sep 10, 2004, Source: NOW with Bill Moyers
Lou Dobbs talks about how American businesses are putting their interests ahead of the national interest with the outsourcing of jobs.
Posted on Aug 21, 2004, Source: NOW with Bill Moyers
Who needs a movie when you have the news?
Posted on Jul 26, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Some things are worth getting mad about. Case in point: the growing, vast equality gap between the richest and the poorest Americans. If this isn't class war, what is?
Posted on Jun 16, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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