Kucinich Threatens Monopolies

Dennis Kucinich spoke this morning on 'Talk of the Nation' for a whopping 32 minutes. Topics of conversation include the many issues of his platform: universal healthcare, the militancy of American thought, etc. I very much recommend listening to the entire segment at http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/index.html

However, of particular notewothyness in the interview is Dennis Kucinich's stance on monopolies, at about minute 24 of the interview, in which he explicitly states that he not only would stand up to the Enron's of this country, he said he would break them up, along with the monopolies of the farming industry and the MEDIA!

How do you think AOL/TIME/WARNER feels about that? Do you think (and think about this folks) that the fear that some corporate media executives have of his destroying their grip on thought in this country would lead them to marginalize his campaign? Or would they abide by the ethics that we have come to deeply respect in the America media? Think about it.

Attack the media monopolies..DK....attack them.


PS: Thou it is not "AOL/TIME/WARNER" any more it is just Time-Warner. They still own AOL, but AOL has some image issues.

I don't want to see less hip than I actually am, and I swear I'm hip, I like some Duran Duran.

You know what I think would be an excellent law, that every product be labelled with the names of all of the parent companies that own the subsidiary which produces said product. So, I'm making this up, Campbell's soup could be General Electric's Kraft Campbell's soup: it might promote awareness of the corporate monopolies. Just a thought.

I think total and absolute of disclosure of ownership and "funding" should be the law of the land for corporations and elections. Absolute transparency would be a great thing for us the US citizen, that would get more people voting.

This, Taft-Hartley, NAFTA / WTO...

Can he get any more impressive?

and the media gave him all of the free endorsement they give Dean. Then we'd be GETTIN' somewhere.

Men twice his size say he has the grip of a longshoreman. This is a guy who caddied for two golfers at a time working his way through school.

that she called her brother to tell him that a raving communist was on NPR. I told her that to me, he sounded rather reasonable and cognizent of the trends that are harming the american way of life. Just a small skirmish in the ever more pervasive war of ideas.

not red enough to admit it, and thereby commit political suicide in this country (unfortunately). Tell your coworker to tell her brother that Stalinists aren't socialists, just facists, and that the traditional American view of Socialism (dark, state controlled thought, gulag, etc.) is Stalinism, not true Trotski socialism. And that if she doesn't know about that, then she should read up on it.

I think it's kind of funny when an American (particularly older Americans) see red when they hear someone speaking socialist principles, like the government should really help the people and such. I just can't understand why they think that's a bad thing! I mean, help the people!

Kucinich wants to help us as a poor, working class dominated by a corporate propaganga machine and she complains! (Was she complaining?)

slanted vision towards more of a socialist democratic society..like the UK, France, Canada and many other great nations of Europe.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist...

The fact that Kucinich is perceived as a 'communist' by anyone is a testament to how far to the right we've been dragged by the moneyed classes. :(

I've never heard that before.

Here's a reference and an interesting article about a tragic situation.

"The late Archbishop Dom Helder Camara of Recife, Brazil, once noted that "when I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, I am called a Communist." Lori Berenson dared to ask why the politicians in Peru were getting rich and the poor were going hungry. For that great sin, she has spent the last five years in a dungeon. As a result of her outrage at the despotism in Peru, she will spend another 15 years in a dark prison cell in the Andes Mountains."

Feeding Hungry Leads to Peru Jail
The Atlanta Journal Constitution -- 5 July 2001
by Michael Mears
Michael Mears is the former mayor of Decatur, and director of the Multi-County Public Defender's Office in Atlanta.

Sounds like a job for the Secretary of Peace eh?

"raving communist" Not just ANY communist, a RAVING communist!LMAO

DK is the best of the bunch, no doubt about it.
:D

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and fielded some good questions. He's not afraid to tell it like it is, and stand up to monopolies. I don't see anybody else with his experience doing that in this race.

DK is no communist. He's in favor of the same "borgeous capitalism" that supports small business, healthy competition, and human rights. IMHO, our current system of "government by monopolists" is a far cry from what Adam Smith talked about in "Wealth of Nations" (the seminal "bible" on capitalism, and often misquoted by rightwingers everywhere).

and thanks to NPR too!