[NYTr] KOOP Radio: Weisbrot on Venezuelan Economic Social Model Jun 11
 
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:07:53 -0500 (CDT)


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Mark Weisbrot, PhD: 

A Critical Look at the Venezuelan Economic-Social Model 

Don't Believe Everything You Think!

Please Tune In !!

Monday, June 11th, 2007 from 6:00 - 7:00pm CST 
KOOP 91.7 FM, Austin, TX

Streaming Live by going to our website at  PedroGatos.org  or to
koop.org

'Bringing Light Into Darkness: Monday KOOP News & Analysis'

Venezuelan Economic-Social Model: Critically Looking Forward & Backward
from the Living Conditions Perspective of the Average Venezuelan

Special Guest: Mark Weisbrot, PhD

U.S. media coverage of Venezuela. Is it 'Fixing the Facts Around the
Policy' where the policy is to condemn and even demonize the Venezuelan 
political-economic-social model by misrepresenting facts? Where a
policy method is to constantly repeat unsupported allegations that  in
the absence of critical oppositional factual information create  false
perceptions of the Venezuelan reality? Where false perceptions  can
become hardened into false assumptions some of which can become
unconscious ideological tendencies, the basis of false consciousness
and the prerequisite for American citizenry to endorse some ideological
positions & policies that, while profoundly undemocratic, appear to be
'fair and balanced'. Examples include:

1. Hugo Chavez is a dictator

2. The economy as described recently by 'liberal' commentators as well
as Otto Reich and Ralph Noriega on Fox news 'is a mess with poverty
rates as high as 70-80%', suggesting Venezuelan people are suffering
from untenable levels of economic misery.

3. Venezuelan government suppresses free speech

4. Venezuela is undermining democracy and destabilizing Latin America
region

Our special guest Dr. Mark Weisbrot will Bring light into (the)
Darkness that confounds an honest understanding of the relative
functionality of the Venezuelan social model led by its President Hugo
Chavez with particular focus on its economic indicators and social
service delivery system. How is poverty measured when healthcare,
educational and food subsidies are part of the equation?

Mark Weisbrot , a brilliant humanistis economist, co-founded Center for 
Economic & Policy Research (CEPR) in 1999. His areas of research
include economic growth, trade, international financial institutions,
and Latin America. He writes a column on economic and policy issues
that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by McClatchy-Tribune
Information Services. He is co-author of Social Security: The Phony
Crisis (with Dean Baker). He appears frequently on TV and radio news
programs including, BBC World News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and Marketplace
radio. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of
Michigan.

Ideas are more powerful than arms. We must arm ourselves with well
informed ideas in order to better recognize and then confront
injustices skillfully camaflaged as inevitabilities rather than the
preventable man-made products that they often are. Preventable disease,
malnutrition, destruction of the earth, and the 10-15 millions of
preventable deaths that occur each year are riddles we can and we must
strive to solve. We must foster responsibility and accountability in
our government's foreign and domestic policies by arming ourselves with
an educated understanding of the world around us.

That's what this show is about.  Arming and challenging listeners with
fact based information that is generally left out of the informational 
environment, an environment that shapes our pubic opinion. Bringing
Light into that Darkness.

Please tune in.
Thanks and siempre fieles,

Pedro gatos

Don't Be Late !!

"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief.  Do justly,
now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to
complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."

       
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