http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091120_170030bts_suzi.MP3 Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:15:11 GMT 5 http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091120_170030bts_suzi.MP3 http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091120_170030bts_suzi.MP3 Sat, 21 November 2009 01:00:30 GMT Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman Public Affairs http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091113_170030bts_suzi.MP3 http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091113_170030bts_suzi.MP3 Sat, 14 November 2009 01:00:30 GMT Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman Public Affairs http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091106_170030bts_suzi.MP3 http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091106_170030bts_suzi.MP3 Sat, 07 November 2009 01:00:30 GMT Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman Public Affairs Representative Dennis Kucinich on The House Health Insurance Reform Vote: why was the Kucinich amendment (which would allow states to enact state single Payer legislation) not included, and what was behind the decision to pull the Weiner Amendment (a national vote on Single Payer) scheduled today? John Nichols on the official double digit unemployment figures, President Obama’s economic policy and the likely impact of ‘one in ten unemployed’? Steven Greenhouse on how unpaid sick days could be contributing to the spreading flu epidemic. 40% of American workers do not get paid sick days, and many are food handlers. http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091030_170030bts_suzi.MP3 http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091030_170030bts_suzi.MP3 Sat, 31 October 2009 00:00:30 GMT Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman Public Affairs Harold Meyerson on Health Insurance reform: Harold wrote that the proposal to tax the Cadillac Plans is more like a Chevy Tax. He comments on the House Plan, which leaves out the Kucinich amendment that allows states to opt for single payer. Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers -- top-secret government documents that showed a pattern of governmental deceit about the Vietnam War -- in 1971. Today he talks to us about Mathew Hoh, the first US official to resign in protest over the Afghan war. Ellsberg calls Matthew Hoh’s resignation “The highest form of patriotism.” Ellsberg calls the Afhgan war "Vietnamistan".Richard Walker, Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley is among those leading a campaign against the budget cuts that are killing California’s Public University System. A coalition of Faculty, Staff and Students are fighting back, showing the links between cutbacks in higher education and the California Budget Meltdown – and on Tuesday are joining the Latina/o community in using Día de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead, to mourn these losses and to reimagine a transformed university that could emerge from the current crisis. Plus: Jack Rasmus on the so called recovery amidst increasing unemployment, falling consumer spending, the falling dollar, continuing foreclosures and economic decline. http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091023_170030bts_suzi.MP3 http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091023_170030bts_suzi.MP3 Sat, 24 October 2009 00:00:30 GMT Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman Public Affairs http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091019_170030bts_suzi.MP3 http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091019_170030bts_suzi.MP3 Tue, 20 October 2009 00:00:30 GMT Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman Public Affairs http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091012_170030bts_suzi.MP3 http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_091012_170030bts_suzi.MP3 Tue, 13 October 2009 00:00:30 GMT Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman Public Affairs Health insurance reform is moving forward, but Jamie Court says the Baucus bill is a major step backward. Over all it is a gift to the insurance industry, and the public option was smothered in a lobbyist love blanket. But is it dead on arrival? If you pay attention to Wall Street, mainstream economists and investor blogs, the verdict on the economy -- one year after its near collapse -- is that the recession is over and the recovery is about to begin (or is underway). Sure unemployment is at an all time high with little end in sight, but the banks are back and the stock market could hit 10,000 at any minute now. But the dollar is falling and that makes economists rush for the ‘gold standard’ mentality, the one that worsened the depression because it obsesses about inflation in the face of deflation, opposes easy credit when it is desperately needed and is against government creating jobs. Jack Rasmus, decries the falsity of recovery, saying the banks mostly failed the stress test. The banking panic is over but a year after near collapse, the financial system is fragile at best, with moribund credit and lending, commercial property in trouble, a broke FDIC and the real economy in deep trouble, at best a “pause on the way down. ” Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and former war correspondent for the NY Times, joins us to talk about his new book Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.