1) The Warren Commission at 50: Cover-up or Mere Incompetence? 2)The Koch Brothers War on Women: Why?
50 years after the assassination, most Americans still believe JFK was victim of a conspiracy. Guest on part one is Philip Shenon who spent more than 20 years at the NYTimes and wrote an earlier book about the 9/11 commission. His new book is calle…
The Diem Coup After 50 Years
What did the president know and when did he know it? The president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was overthrown in a bloody coup on November 1, 1963. Was it all the Vietnamese generals or how high up did foreknowledge of the coup go? The gu…
Raised by Birch Society Parents, Author Knows the Danger of the Far Right
Claire Conner was raised by two national leaders of the John Birch Society. Her new book is “Wrapped in the Flag,” and she is a dedicated fighter for her country, trying desperately to make Americans realize that the John Birch Society is alive and wel…
Your Rights And the New Supreme Court Docket
In October the US Supreme Court announced cases they will be taking for 2013. Looking at the truly exceptional and disturbing judgements the 9 justices made in 2012, it could be a very bumpy ride for tradtional American rights. From the Alliance for Ju…
Psycho-Political Changes Happening//Defeating the Tea Party-Confederates
The personal is political. On part one, Dr Asoka Banderage delves into changes needed for sustainability at both the psychological and the political level. Her new book is Sustainability and Well-Being: The Middle Path to Environment, Society, and the …
Reclaiming Our Democracy: Don’t Give Up!
In the new 20th anniversary release of Reclaiming Our Democracy, Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweikert is quoted: “We aren’t passengers on spaceship earth, we are the crew. We aren’t residents on this planet, we’re citizens.” In this interview, author…
The Hillary Steamroller: Right Tool for the Job?
While the Republican field for 2016 is loaded with possible candidates, it looks like the Democratic field is only Hillary Clinton. But as columnist and researcher Sean McElwee reminds us, she advocated for the war in Iraq, is cozy with the big banks, …
The White Man’s Last Tantrum?
The Tea Partiers represent an enraged class of white men that feel like they are seeing society change in ways they don’t like. We’ve seen this before, at the end of the Civil War and in the 1950s Jim Crow South. Now investigative reporter Robert Parry…
Architects Of the Shutdown Labeled “Anarchists.” But What is Anarchism, Really?
Harry Reid and Elizabeth Warren have derided those Republicans who caused the shutdown as “The Anarchy Gang.” But this really insults the long tradition of American anarchist thought and practice. On this show author of “Thank You, Anarchy” Nathan Schn…
A New Approach to Education. Something’s Got to Change.
Across America there’s a lot of concern for the state of public education. Dumbing down, unequal funding, increased student depression and anxiety, teaching for tests. Something has got to change. Dr Peter Grey, research professor of psychology at Bost…
Movement Toward Overturning Citizens United
Are you a corporation or a person? Do you think the two deserve the same rights? On this segment, Jonah Minkoff-Zern, coordinator of the Democracy is for People campaign talks about progress in the effort to overturn Citizens United with a constit…
Net Neutrality:Internet Future At Stake/What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Net Neutrality: a good thing or not? One one hand it sounds good to require strictly equal internet access and service, but on the other hand, with no investment incentive for internet developers, everyone who uses the internet could be adverse…
RIP: The Middle Class 1946-2013
For decades, there was a large and robust miuddle class in America. No really, there was. Most Americans could actually expect to be part of it, but no more. Now, for many, the American dream is to simply be out of debt. Author Edward McClelland wrote …
Teaching the Constitution/Occupy: Two Years After
The week of September 17 was Constitution Week and how that cornerstrone of American government is taught is the subject of part one. Guest Bill Bigelow is with the Zinn Education Project and has taught for some thirty years. It matters to our future. …
The Phony Budget Crisis
Republicans in Congress are threatening to shut down the government by September 30 by refusing to lift the debt ceiling. Instead of a normal budgeting process, they lurch from one phony crisis to another. So says Robert Borosage, co-director of the Ca…
Congressman Pete King: Why He’s Running for President/Ten Weirdest Right Wing Christian Conspiracy Theories
On part one, it’s NY Congressman Peter King in the first of many interviews with 2016 Republican presidential wannabes. And on part two, journalist Amanda Marcotte discusses the findings of her research into the weirdest right wing Christian conspiracy…
Syria: The Legal Case, and The View From Syrians in Beirut
The use of chemical weapons is unquestionably a violation of many international laws. But our first guest Marjorie Cohn, law professor and expert on this field of law asserts that a military intervention by the United States in Syria woul…
Prison Reform From One Who’s Been There/Why The White House Can’t Get Beyond the NSA Story
On part one, former long-term inmate, Buddhist teacher Fleet Maull talks about the failure of prisons and the possibilities. And about lessons all of us can learn from his experience; for freedom and authenticity. And on part two, Reid Epstein, Whit…
The Other Speech. The One That Got MLK Killed.
As we commemorate 50 years since the “I Have a Dream” speech, here is the revolutionary speech King gave one year to the day before he was killed. Listen and you will hear him link the struggle of the people of Vietnam, including the so-called enemy, w…
It is a False History that Props Up the Right
The truth is the right’s political stance is, in fact, traditional. But the tradition is that of opposition to, not support for, the Constitution. And like the wealthy elite which manipulated the anti-Federalists in the 1790s, today’s Koch brothers and…
Blood Drenched Egypt/The State of the Police State
The huge crowds in Cairo welcomed the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi in early July. Now it seems a military dictatorship has been re-introduced to Egypt. On the first part of the show, the Institute of Policy Studies’ Middle East expert Ph…
Options for Afghanistan From an Afghani Leader
Nasir Shansab was a successful business leader before he was forced to flee his native Afghanistan with his life in 1975. At the time of the rebellion against the Soviet backed government and the rise of the Taliban, he had breakfast with Osama bin Lad…
Women, Work, And Wages in NH: Still Unequal
Fifty years ago, John Kennedy promoted the Equal Pay Act, yet we’re still far away from that entirely reasonable goal. Today’s guest is organizer Judy Stadtman and the numbers are remarkable, in terms of inequity. Women doing the same jobs, with the sa…
NSA: The Obama Spin is A Lie
The NSA’s program XKeyscore allows searches–with no prior authorization–through vast databases of emails and online chats and browsing histories of millions of Americans, giving analysts real time access to nearly everything a typical user does on th…
Restoring Neighborhoods and A Sense of the Commons
Today most of us in America feel a shrinking sense of community. Despite all our “stuff,” we feel isolated. Some of us are trying to address that sense of isolation and bring back a sense of community. On this show, guest is Jay Walljasper, editor o…
Right And Left vs the NSA: A New Political Dynamic is Born
There’s something happening here. The middle of the road, establishment members of congress of both parties only prevailed by seven votes over an amendment which would have curbed NSA abuses. That bill was supported by members of congress from both lef…
Davids Can Beat Goliaths: This Guy Tells How
Morfe than any other western nation, Americans believe we are powerless to make change. But it is not true. With a little creativity and strategy, well funded politically powerful interests can be taken down. Daniel Hunter is author of the new book: St…
Portrait of Edward Snowden/The New Movie “Copperhead”
This show is about courageous dissenters and the price they pay.
On the first half, artist and author Rob Shetterly talks about what went into his portrait of truth-teller Edward Snowden, and what his book “Americans Who Tell The Truth” is all about.&n…
US Tax Dollars Funding Our Own Enemy in Afghanistan
The idea of economic aid and development is to win the hearts and minds of our enemies more effectively than through dependence on military solutions. It sounds good but the reality in Afghanistan is far different from the ideal. Today’s guest is journ…
The Global Power Oligarchy Knows Better Than You
Are the world’s economic problems the result of an “excess of democracy?” Since the late 19th century, supra-national power elites have joined together to plan the world better than the unsophisticated masses ever could. Of course not everyone agrees w…