"Guns & Butter" investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, "Guns & Butter: The Economics of Politics" reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state.

Produced and hosted by Bonnie Faulkner.

E-mail Bonnie at blfaulkner@yahoo.com

 

Guns and Butter - Obama's Republican Class War Presidency - February 3, 2010 at 1:00pm
With financial economist, Michael Hudson, on Obama's State of the Union Speech and its economic consequences. The reappointment Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke.

Guns and Butter - The International Impact of the Chinese Cultural Revolution - January 27, 2010 at 1:00pm
"The International Impact of the Chinese Cultural Revolution" with authors, Ann Tomkins and Robert Weil. Ann Tomkins talks about her personal experience living and working in Beijing during the first five years of the Cultural Revolution, in which she was first an observer, and then a participant.

Guns and Butter - January 20, 2010 at 1:00pm
"Capitalism and Katrina" with professor and author, Joel Kovel. In this presentation, Joel Kovel explores the underlying ecological, social, political and economic causes that led to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina and its deadly aftermath on the city and people of New Orleans.

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