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 Marketplace; 10/10/03
 Commentary - Bush needs to help Iraq and U.S. Commentator Benjamin Barber says that President
Bush's willingness to do deeds for Iraq that he
doesn't think need to be done for America might hurt
him in the long run. "It's as if we are being asked to
choose: Do what needs doing in Baghdad and Kabul or do
what needs doing in Chicago and L.A. -- but we can't
do both," says Barber. He warns that decisions about
Iraq that may look smart today could eventually put
Bush on the wrong side of voters.
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Marketplace; 05/19/03
Commentary - Rebuilding Iraq: A Problem Of Democracy.
Commentator says some of the lessons of the post-trickle-down days haven't been taken to heart: Commentator Benjamin Barber says the legitimacy of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq hinges on the creation of democracy. "Trouble is," says Barber, "the Bush administration doesn't seem to have a very clear notion of what democracy means -- let alone, what democracy in Islamic Iraq might mean." Barber says that because the U.S. wants to remake Iraq in its image, the decision about whether it should have public or private media, a state run oil industry or one farmed out to foreign energy corporations, should be theirs -- not ours. "If we take it from them, then the last rationale still standing for the invasion of Iraq -- its democratization -- will be as delusional and fraudulent as those still-missing 'weapons of mass destruction,'" says Barber.
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Marketplace; 05/07/03
There are many different costs involved in a war with Iraq. And Commentator Benjamin Barber suggests before the bullets fly in another conflict, it would be wise to know all of the potential costs: economic and otherwise.
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Marketplace; 04/30/03
Commentator Benjamin Barber talks about Bush's tax policy and the federal government's hands-off policy: Negotiations continued in the Senate today over the size of a federal tax cut. But commentator and political scientist Benjamin Barber says the federal tax package is a sleight of hand. Barber says it's not a tax cut for the American people -- it's a shifting of the responsibility to levy taxes from the Feds to the states and municipalities. "What we now have in Washington is a new breed of 'tax but don't spend' conservatives who pass on the real tax burdens to the states, and by extension, to the rest of us," he says.
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Marketplace; 02/13/03
Commentator Benjamin Barber wonders why Bush is treating Iraq so differently from N. Korea
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Marketplace; 10/09/02
Ads & Taxes
Commentator Benjamin Barber thinks he's found a way to completely pay for the war on Iraq. What if we sell ad space on, say, smart bombs? Put a big McDonald's log on an artillery cannon? Hey, it just might mean you would pay less in taxes.
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Marketplace; 09/21/02
Jihad vs. McWorld
Some say his book, "Jihad vs. McWorld," and his advice to President Clinton could have prevented the terrorist attacks. A talk with author Benjamin Barber about his push for global democracy and his days as an informal Clinton advisor.
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Marketplace; 09/10/02
A year after commentator Benjamin Barber first appeared on Marketplace, the author of Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World joins us again near the one-year anniversary of 9/11 to reflect on leadership in a changed world.
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Commonwealth Club
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Scott London interview
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