Laura Flanders Live on GritTV: The Powerful Forces Keeping Status Quo in Place

Posted by Laura Flanders, GRITtv at 8:39 AM on November 11, 2009.

Americans voted for change and are getting frustrated with the lack of it, but our guests have both written about the powerful forces holding the status quo in place.

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How much control does the President really have, anyway? Americans voted for change and are getting frustrated with the lack of it, but our guests have both written about the powerful forces holding the status quo in place. John Perkins is the author of Hoodwinked and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and has written about how corporations push politicians around and even threaten them with violence. Russ Baker, meanwhile, is the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America and has written extensively about the military-industrial complex.

In the new film Collapse, filmmaker Chris Smith follows Michael Ruppert as he raises the alarm again and again on the financial crisis, energy, the environment, and more. Is he a genius, or just paranoid? And with all this scary information out there, what can citizen activists do?

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Laura Flanders is the host of GRITtv and the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians.

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If the new old trick pony you voted for was any different from the old new trick pony that departed, [Report this comment] Posted by: franklyspanking on Nov 11, 2009 9:06 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...then there would be 'hope and change'. Until the electorate decides they want something different, the charade of democrat versus republican is going to trump any progress on behalf of the citizenry. Specifically, just because his name wasn't George W. Bush never meant that Barack Hussein Obama wouldn't adopt and double down on his predecessors policies. Expansion of war? Expansion of debt? Expansion of payoff to cronies? Check, check, check. You should have used your 'change' on a bannana or nice tulip for your missus. At least you'd have something to show for it. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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