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 …
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You have just heard rioting hit the central banks of London during the G20 conference, set to Dirty Town from Mother Mother. This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith. The world is quietly burning with discontent as corporate schemes go bad. Industry and …
Some big icons like General Motors go crash, but most of it just goes quietly, with little announcement. I’m talking about all the small shops going dark, the once-famous magazines gone and hardly remembered. Just a couple of years ago, I wished I’d …
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 …
In last week’s Radio Ecoshock Show, we talked with Professor Michael T. Klare, about the looming possibility of social instability or riots, even here in North America. Can’t happen here? There was a riot in downtown Montreal, Canada on March 15th. The march …
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 …
This is the Radio Ecoshock Show. I’m you’re host and tormentor, Alex Smith. Yes I know the economy is crashing around the world. Eastern Europe threatens to bring down the Austrian and Italian banking systems. Britain is in the tank, along with Spain, …
The Australian wildfires – a warning to the world? I interview Dr. Barry Brook a climatologist from Adelaide. Brook was named one of the top 10 bright young scientists in Australia. His blog makes a strong case that the drying of Australia shows …
Whenever politicians and greens talk about alternative energy, the list usually goes wind, solar, and tidal power. But how real is tidal power? Where will it happen and when? This week on Radio Ecoshock you’ll hear Martin Burger, CEO of a tidal power …
[opening Quote from John Kerry on the looming catastrophe in climate change] That is Senator John Kerry, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith, and you are about to get 20 minutes of the latest from …