Liberal Bias Media Hour – October 19, 2011
Trade bills inimical to the interests of working people passed; U.S. military spending = 60% of discretionary spending; a Department of Peace; views on the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Join you host Michael Garcher as he presents liberal and left views on Economics and the Environment.
Liberal Bias Media Hour – October 12, 2011
Corporate executives brazenly ask for further tax privileges and trade deals to export U.S. jobs; raising class consciousness; the Sierra Club grades U.S. Reps. on their environmental voting records.
Liberal Bias Media Hour – October 5, 2011
Columbus Day; occupation of Wall St.; long-term unemployment; right wing attacks on EPA regulation and government workers’ livelihoods; National Life Chain; rejecting war and seeking peace; Green Scissors 2011 Report; the greening of Barbie (or at least her packaging).
Liberal Bias Media Hour – September 28, 2011
Help cure America’s leading cause of death; State murder of Troy Davis; giving the long-term unemployed some respect; a Green party organizer’s argument that the Green party should become the home of the Left.
Liberal Bias Media Hour – September 21, 2011
Bill Romer, co-host and originator of WVLP-LP show ‘Get This’ is a guest on this evening’s program. We discussed the death penalty (on what became the night Troy Davis was executed), and discussed our anti-war views. Mr. Romer is “a Constitutionalist”, and we looked at the issues with the Constitution in mind.
Liberal Bias Media Hour – September 14, 2011
Valpo Republicans’ blue-eyed elephant on parade. Attica State 40th anniversary- prisons remain a scandal in our country, and we have the world’s highest incarceration rate. How “green” are jobs in Indiana? Historically, and today, the interests of capitalism are served by maintaining a reserve army of the unemployed. Paul Rand’s outrageous statements that the poor are getting rich and healthy. Pleading for your support to stop the execution of Troy Davis.
Liberal Bias Media Hour – June 15, 2011
Do you prefer peace to politicians and profiteers? This edition is all anti-militarism/war.
Liberal Bias Media Hour – June 8, 2011
Save Blair Mountain from mountaintop removal coal mining; hidden costs of coal; Ron Paul would imprison you for listening to radical speeches; Paul Ryan’s inspiration for his agenda supporting greed- Ayn Rand; nursing shortage maintained by hospital industry to increase profits by under-staffing and speedups harming nurses and patients; transportation as it affects the poor and the environment; Governor Chris Christie reversing effective progressive energy policies; Goshen College will not play “The Star-Spangled Banner” because its war-heavy imagery conflicts with the school’s pacifist values; our government’s support of corporations and the very wealthy in the war on wage earners.
Liberal Bias Media Hour – June 1, 2011
Comments by local peace activist on use of bin Laden as a fall guy. US imperialism decimates Kenya. Toward a “new economy” that is morally-informed, egalitarian, green, and that rejects as a goal unlimited growth. Violence in our Capital Gallery against a woman who verbally protested US support and enabling of Israel’s brutal and unjust treatment of Palestinians. Opportunities for all of us to support peace and justice. US-Colombian trade deal accepts murder of union organizers. President Obama issues GLBT Pride Month proclamation.
Liberal Bias Media Hour – May 25, 2011
A self-proclaimed progressive argues for a Democratic Party that builds and maintains a coalition among groups in the party with even “antithetical” views, after the model of the Republican Party. Your host’s disgust with that author’s call for party strategies based upon expediency, fear, and progressives’ alignment with deeply flawed neoliberal values, as opposed to actually acting decisively on extremely pressing large scale issues of peace and justice. Your host finds such argument as the author’s yet another way in which the Republican Party and the Democratic Party can become even more alike (conservative).
Drone research and manufacture in Indiana, and Purdue University’s role in facilitating it.
