Economic Update: The Critique of Mass Media (2016.12.01)

1. Dr Wolff once again you do a disservice! You left off the dangers of the alt to corp sponsored media......state sponsored media.
   
   I sub to your channel but your speech while very informative is consistently deliberately skirting the gap in your preferences.
2. CASTRO IS REGARDED AS THE GEORGE WASHINGTON OF HIS COUNTRY
3. UNITED STATES POST OFFICE IS ALMOST A CO-OP ! THAT IS WHY REPUBLICONS WANT TO PRIVITIZE IT !!!
4. TRUMPSTER SITS ON A THRONE OF LIES
5. A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TOOK OUR FACTORIES ! NOW A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TOOK OUR ELECTION !!!
6. If the top 62 richest individuals own more than half the planet, why not just kill them and confiscate their wealth for the sake of humanity???
7. d@w, do you think Trump supporters even care?
8. The only thing I'm disappointed with, is that Dr. Wolff didn't sing "Maggie's Farm" out loud.
9. What about the young turks
10. Barsamian is right. The organized right uses the media and the internet much better than the organized left, mostly because they have more money and their message is ultimately less threatening to the very wealthy.
11. I hope to hear a bit about the possible signals and effects of the recent elections in Austria and Italy.
12. ....there's a video out there of the " history of policing in america" which speaks of the tactics the owner class has been using against the working class since BEFORE this country began.....the pitting of races against each other is the " money shot" for them.....they brought Asians in for the railroads to displace the Irish workers.....
13. .....right...Nobel didn't have just "peace" prizes....his chemistry , physics, and education prizes were for.....?.
14. Speaking of medals making other medals irrelevant and worse, Obama gave Henry Kissinger a medal in order to try to burnish the irrecuperable reputation of a war criminal with more innocent blood on his hands than anyone alive. Obama did this in order to attempt to mask Hillary Clinton's warmongering and put his own imprimatur on it, as Clinton had recently made the astonishing claim that Henry Kissinger, butcher of Southeast Asia, was her foreign policy mentor.
    
    Well done, Mr. Dylan.
15. Thank you for this, Professor Wolff. You're a breath of fresh air.
16. Change the speed of the play to 1.5 it is still very understandable as Wolff's diction while belabored is perfect and clear.
    I take issue with the demand-side effect of ousting undocumented workers. They get free clothes which we have a giant oversupply of. Some charities turn clothes away. So they aren't buying clothes. They cost medical services which the citizens have to subsidize. They increase rents. They do add to the cost of policing.
    They do have some economic benefits but on balance they must be a net negative to working class citizens. I would love to be wrong about this.
    Ethically it is unfair to deny them some relief. HOwever also, ethically, it is taking from the working class who are not at fault for the situation of the undocumented.
17. Great show, as always. Thank you for making me aware of David Barsamian's program.
18. This did happen with President Herbert Hoover where he drove World War 1 Veterans demanding unpaid war bonuses from their camps in Washington D.C. with the US Army. History repeats itself. Don't forget though, after Hoover, we got Franklin D. Roosevelt who passed Social Security, Unemployment Benefits, and a Federal Jobs Program because Americans were fed up. Unfortunately, Americans always want to wait until it affects the middle class before they get off their ass to do something about it, but to be surprised by this repeat of history is either a self-fulfilling prophecy by lack of education or a white privilege middle class who refuse to look at the Capitalist Colonial Empire that they say they love so much.
19. hello, thank you for your great work.  Will someone please tell me why these episodes no longer download as podcasts?  Thanks
20. the illegal immigrant is the new slave; with no legal rights.