CBC Radio 1 The Current      23 min - Skip over first 2.5 minutes
Project Censored
We continue our look at the year's most under-reported stories with Peter Phillips. He is the co-author of this year's Project Censored report and we talk to him to find out where he thinks the media has dropped the ball
Professor Peter Philips

Chris Hedges    Death of the Liberal Class

Inside Job — Trailers & Video Clips (6 videos)
Directed by Charles Ferguson. Starring Matt Damon, William Ackman. Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown

The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
Video 29 min
Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it
"Trickle Down" theory is a political hoax

How Climate Change Became a 'Liberal Hoax'
Noam Chomsky  
Corporations Rule
Video 21.50 minutes
Biography:

David Brooks: The social animal
Video YouTube 20 minutes
Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't hope to understand humans as separate individuals making choices based on their conscious awareness.

Tory Tax policy may worsen disparities by Les Whittington, Toronto Star, May28 2011
"Income gap a serious threat, OECD warns . . . The rich get richer while the poor get poorer . . . The secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warns the member countries that income inequality is becoming a 'serious threat . . . more urgent than ever', and informs that in a study of 30 countries that Canada was among the worst for a widening wealth gap. Whittington quotes from a Toronto research agency, that 3.8 percent of Canadian households controlled 66.6% of all financial wealth, up from 60.6 % in 2005; predicting 70 % in 2018."

Harper's legacy: Dickensian urban poverty.
Recognizing that our nominally democratic political machinery is failing to represent the economic interest of the majority, and has made it clear that it considers that income inequality is controlled by the market and that any attempt to help the less fortunate would lead to economic disaster.
Thus the wealthy elite dominate political life.
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize in economics, in his book The Conscience of a Liberal, states that middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be created through political action.
Canadians witnessed this creational phenomena in the 1950s.
Krugman's suggestion that for the nation's sake: "pursue an unabashedly liberal program of expanding the social safety net and reducing inequality - a new Canadian deal.