As Steve Horn and Carl Gibson remind us, Serbia’s Srdja Popovic is known by many as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere since the late-1990s, and as one of the co-founders of Otpor!, the U.S.-funded Serbian activist group which overthrew Slobodan Milošević in 2000. However, this internationally-known activist has ties that will startle many who consider him an ally. Steve and Carl join us live in-studio to discuss. Click this player to listen now:
Then, “Black Friday”, it is said, is the day when retail establishments finally turn a profit for the year… except that this is simply a falsehood, one of the many lies told us to make us feel sympathy for low-wage employers, and make us think they can’t possibly afford to do business with a higher minimum wage. No, we’ll explore this and show how opening on Thanksgiving did no good and notable harm to the workers, the shoppers and the retailers themselves, and how it represents the war being waged on anything NOT Christmas.
Finally, the threat of the Keystone XL pipeline is looming larger than ever, despite the repeated promises that the re-election of President Obama would allow him the political breathing room needed to nix the “fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet.” All that and more on TMI for Saturday, December 7th, 2013, live at Noon Central in Madison on 91.7 WSUM FM or anywhere at the TMI Listen page at http://tmitmitmi.com/listen – Tune in to get your Cure for the Common Media!