change

Since last fall's financial collapse, we've heard more honest discussion about capitalism's failings than in years. Yet real change is still hard to find. David Harvey and Alexander Cockburn don't think small when it comes to change, as you'll see here during a discussion with Laura for an event at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture & Politics. Antonino D'Ambrosio, author of "A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears," dispells some myths about the Man in Black and connect him to the folk-protest tradition.

John Perkins and Russ Baker talk about shady global conspiracies, corporate overlords, and the military-industrial complex, and what we can do about it. In the new film "Collapse," filmmaker Chris Smith follows Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer who predicted the economic crisis. But his theories often range into the apocalyptic. Is he a genius, or just paranoid? A video from New America Media takes a look at the struggles of veterans to readjust to civilian life, and asks what more we could be doing to truly honor them.