All You Fascists Bound to Lose

All You Fascists Bound to Lose

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Moore Lappé on Why Wealth Concentration is Bad for Human Nature (Video)

Jeremy Gantz March 17, 2010

Frances Moore Lappé — author of the classic Diet for a Small Planet and other books that explore the roots of and solutions to hunger — appeared on GRITtv yesterday, and offered a minute-long observation about the inherent dangers of concentrated wealth (aka power). It’s worth watching:

Her opening reference is to Barack Obama.

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Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.

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