This week on Radio Ecoshock – the losing game. One in seven Americans are now officially poor. Millions are losing their homes. The “Recovery” was just a fantasy: if we all believed hard enough – the empty shell economy could stumble on forever. …
News can be a poison sometimes. Newspaper owners learned years ago that people buy frightening headlines. The motto of TV news: if it bleeds, it leads. The most horrific stories get top billing. We all need to turn away from time to time, …
American cities in decay. Refugees not from New Orleans after Katrina. This is a different kind of Hurricane. A trifecta of climate change, high oil prices and the real estate bubble leaves abandoned holes from Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix and beyond. I’m Alex Smith, …
The banks are doing great. The stock market is up 25 percent. Happy Days Are Here Again! Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the White Star Titanic. We are not sinking, there are plenty of lifeboats, please go back to an evening of fine …
Radio Ecoshock moves from Washington and Wall Street all the way to tent city. We’ll hear from the homeless – and from the new breed of independent citizen reporters who will replace the dying newspapers and gutted TV newsrooms. The financial news is …
The economy, says billionaire Warren Buffet, has fallen off a cliff. “The economy, ever since we talked in September, we talked about it being an economic Pearl Harbor, and how, what was happening in the financial world would move over to the real …
Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith. In this program we’ll explore the big black hole where your dreams of prosperity used to be. Like rescue dogs, we’ll sniff around the wreckage for the corpses – and the survivors, the dead-ends and the …
Holy Hanna – the wheels are coming off the gilded wagon of capitalism. Part of me is excited that the zombie system killing the planet has cracked open. My other side is fearful. I like peaceful streets and grocery stores with food in …
The new science is rolling in from England, Australia, and the American Geophysical Union conference. The news isn’t chilling – it’s heating and it’s very scary. To cover it, we interview two top people in the field. We open with David Spratt, co-author …
Finance & Climate Crisis How we go bankrupt; the currency crisis from Max Keiser et al. Features a clip from Unwelcome Guests underground radio show, plus Alex on the developing Depression. Then Jim Laurie interview: how we can save the climate without spending …