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Scientists to Moyers: Lead poisoning ‘doesn’t kill anymore’ but there are new ‘troubling problems’
Bill Moyers took on the regulatory failures that led to lead poisoning when he interviewed David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz about their new book, Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children. “As long as there are insufficient checks and balances on big business and its…
Newtown victim’s mom tells Moyers: ‘Our hearts are broken, our spirit is not’
The mother of one of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting told Bill Moyers on Friday she and the other parents bereaved in the December 2012 attack were not discouraged by the Senate’s refusal to pass an amendment expanding background checks on gun purchases. “Our hearts are…
Glenn Greenwald tells Moyers: Not much difference between Boston bombings and U.S. drone strikes
In an interview with Bill Moyers, journalist Glenn Greenwald criticized Americans’ “warped perspective” on the U.S. government’s use of unmanned attack ddrones, saying there’s not much differenciating an American military drone strike from the Boston Marathon bombings. “I don’t think there is much difference,” Greenwald said on Moyers & Company.…
Moyers: ‘Narcissistic’ government has created ‘United States of Inequality’
In a dispatch from California’s Silicon Valley, Bill Moyers points out that while the wealthy are busy hiding their money in secret off-shore accounts, the middle class is disappearing and the poor are homeless. “Inequality matters,” Moyers begins. “You’ll hear people say it doesn’t but they’re usually so high up…
Yale scientist tells Bill Moyers we need to end the silence on climate change
In an interview with veteran journalist Bill Moyers on Friday, scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, described the dire need to reinvigorate communities across the globe in the fight against climate change — a subject Leiserowitz says is as much a communications challenge as…
‘Troublemaker of the Year’ tells Moyers science studies needed to ‘ensure the survival of the human race’
The 19-year-old activist who was named “Troublemaker of the Year” by … told Bill Moyers on Friday that teaching children humanity’s origins will help the species survive. Rep. Paul Broun’s (R-GA) infamous speech calling evolution and other scientific theories “lies from the pits of hell,” education advocate Zack Kopplin told…
Economist to Moyers: Minimum wage hike would benefit millions
On this week’s edition of “Moyers and Co.,” host Bill Moyers spoke with economist Richard Wolff about the U.S. minimum wage, and how raising it would not just benefit workers at the bottom end of the economic spectrum, but rather the entire economy. Moyers opened the segment by saying that…
Moyers guest: Public campaign financing pushes voters to ‘have a little skin in the game’
Bill Moyers had Dan Cantor, the executive director of the progressive Working Families Party and Jonathan Soros, a lawyer and senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, on his show to discuss how to stop money from heavily influencing politics — specifically, public campaign financing. Soros said that reforms regarding money…
Moyers: ‘Obama’s cold-blooded use of drones’ shows ‘seeming indifference’ to ‘innocent bystanders’
Bill Moyers criticized the government’s drone program in a video essay as he discussed a new “chilling account” of the “indiscriminate” attacks. On Feb. 5, The New York Times published an article on Obama’s choice to lead the CIA, John Brennan, which began with the story of cleric Salem Ahmed…
Taibbi tells Moyers: You can’t let Wall Street off the hook and jail someone for ‘a joint in his pocket’
President Barack Obama’s administration, journalist Matt Taibbi said in an interview with Bill Moyers, has likely accepted the explanation made by advisors who used to work at the same Wall Street firms that instigated the U.S. economy’s instability in recent years. “People like Bob Rubin and Larry Summers, who are…
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