“The renowned investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger has spent the better part of his life documenting American empire and the resistance it has met. Pilger has made over fifty documentaries and is the author, most recently, of “Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire,” which looks at ongoing struggles in Afghanistan, Diego Garcia, India, Palestine, and South Africa. Pilger joins Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! for the hour to play excerpts of his documentaries and speak of the struggles he has covered.”

Just listen Martin Luther King’s speech and think of Afghanistan…

Democracy is for sale! The Supreme Court has overturned a law allowing corporations to spend unlimited funds on political funds. Boy this will get ugly – can’t wait for the next elections.

Private prisons are the biggest business in the prison industry complex. About 18 corporations guard 10,000 prisoners in 27 states. The two largest are Correctional Corporation of America (CCA) and Wackenhut, which together control 75%. Private prisons receive a guaranteed amount of money for each prisoner, independent of what it costs to maintain each one. According to Russell Boraas, a private prison administrator in Virginia, “the secret to low operating costs is having a minimal number of guards for the maximum number of prisoners.”

Read more here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289

Or watch:

A Speech delivered by John Pilger at the Chicago Socialism 2007 Conference on Saturday June 16 2007.

“In this speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents ‘an invisible government’.”

Exerpt: “The ancient Romans had a proverb: “Money is like sea water. The more you drink, the thirstier you become.” That adage finds particular meaning today on Wall Street, which began this New Year riding a tidal wave of bonuses in a surging ocean of greed. “

Follow this link to learn more. Watch Bill Moyers Journal with some real intersting insight about Goldman Sachs, the bailout, Wall Street and the failure of a system.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01082010/watch.html