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  • Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company

    Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company

    Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few powerful media conglomerates to put profit ahead of the public…

  • The Great Chasm Twixt Rich & Poor

    I highly recommend to all my brothers & sisters of the ether that you pay some heed to this week’s issue of The Economist beginning with this piece… Disparities in wealth are less visible in Americans’ everyday lives today than they were a century ago. Even poor people have televisions, air…