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Welcome. Sometimes we can see the universe in a grain of sand, as the old saying goes, but nowadays a graphic chart more vividly reveals the world we live in. Take a look at this statistical snapshot of the media ecology that largely determines what you and i see, read, and hear. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of media in america. In 1990 the number had dropped to 23. In 1997, 10. And today, six. There you have it the fistful of multinational conglomerates that own the majority o...

Net worth for a member of the house, is that number plus 1 million. Almost exactly. Those are the numbers if you round to the nearest thousand, these are the act numbers. And the bottom number there, thats from the center for responsive politics, thats the median net worth for this freshman slash of members of congress. Its weird, right . Its almost uncanny, theres almost exactly a 1 million increment in net worth between the wealth of americans and the wealth of american representatives in cong...

Welcome. Sometimes we can see the universe in a grain of sand, as the old saying goes, but nowadays a graphic chart more vividly reveals the world we live in. Take a look at this statistical snapshot of the media ecology that largely determines what you and i see, read, and hear. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of media in america. In 1990 the number had dropped to 23. In 1997, 10. And today, six. There you have it the fistful of multinational conglomerates that own the majority o...

Welcome. Sometimes we can see the universe in a grain of sand, as the old saying goes, but nowadays a graphic chart more vividly reveals the world we live in. Take a look at this statistical snapshot of the media ecology that largely determines what you and i see, read, and hear. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of media in america. In 1990 the number had dropped to 23. In 1997, 10. And today, six. There you have it the fistful of multinational conglomerates that own the majority o...

In washington is with the political fallout of the Supreme Courts decision on campaign contributions. Jeff, who is this expert . He is a former Clinton Administration member. , he is the kind of guy you bring in when you have a crisis. His twitter feed says that he feels best in a war room. They are kind of in a war room situation and they are putting together an interesting team. Him, steinberg, lucas. People who are respected by others. Trying to get at this crisis, what is this telling the fo...

Wrote for slate, you stated that while supporting the minimum wage absent other policy changes, you would prefer other policies because they tend to be more progressive, paid for disproportionately through taxes on the wealthy, on upperincome individuals rather than through higher prices that might be passed along to consumers. In a piece on the minimum wage for the New York Times this march, former cea chair christina roamer made a similar point stating it might be the case that, quote, busines...

Old. We honour the most recognised playwright in history. Good morning to you. Welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live in new york city. The rhetoric in the ukrainian crisis stepped up a notch with bold declarations made by kiev lawmakers. The ukrainian Prime Minister accused moscow of wanting to start world war iii echoed by the Deputy Foreign minister at the United Nations. Do you fear that the russians are on the verge of an invasion . Yes, we have the information that we are in...

Memorial, israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. The people of israel bow their heads for the departure of ariel sharon, the former Prime Minister. A warrior. I believe he was one of the greatest military leaders we had in modern days. We will get reaction from noam chomsky. Israeli historian avi shlaim, and Rashid Khalidi. Ariel sharon began his career as a military commander with atrocities in 1953 and continued through masterminding the lebanon war in which 50,000 became casualties. He en...

Substantive concerns with this very, very broad and expansive bill. And those concerns and objections have been laid out. They have been laid out by my staff, in meetings with the staff of the senator from vermont. They have been laid out by the republican Ranking Member on the committee, senator burr. I share his general concerns about the bill. So if the distinguished senator from vermont doesnt understand those concerns, quite frankly, hasnt been listening very hard. We have laid them out, an...