Daily Topics - Monday, June 1st, 2015
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Hour One: Patriot Act...What Are We Fighting For?
Hour Two: Remember When Conservatives Cared About Wealth Inequality Too? Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research
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With the recent U.S. recognition of Cuba, a swarm of transnational corporations will descend on the opportunity to transform the economy into a capitalist's paradise. Prof. Wolff might comment directly on the "cooperative" alternative as Cuba moves away from its state ownership model. Any way to get his material translated into Spanish in a low cost fashion? Many Latin-American countries would be very interested in his views! Mondragon?
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Republicans use fear because it shuts down the higher functions of the brain, which ordinarily allow people to think like liberals--weighing options rather than making hasty decisions, feeling the pain of people on both sides of an issue rather than treating the out-group as subhuman. Drunkenness also has that effect, but fear acts as a zombie disease, where each person infected by it tries to pass it on to others.