What do you know about the Federal Reserve Bank? Most people assume it is a government institution. It is not. What it is is the bankers’ bank, serving the interests of the big banks as it great affects our whole economy. On this show attorney Ellen Br…

The cultural and politicval far right claims there’s a war on Christmas. Of course it’s nonsense. The holiday has been with us for hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus and only morphed into what we see today as Christmas in the last century or s…

The world hoped for a different foreign policy toward Central America under President Obama. After the US quickly recognized a coup in 2009, democratic elections were promised for 2013. Well there was an election, of sorts. Journalist Dawn Paley has co…

Republicans slam it as “socialism,” but the truth is the Affordable Care Act was originally conceived by the Heritage Foundation in 1989 as a “conservative” way to solve what Nixon had called “the healthcare crisis.” Detractors trust say the private…

Talk about bravery. More than 10,000 American women in 1917 left their homes to face violence and inequality on the battlefields of the Great War. On part one, author Jo-Ann Power talks about writing her new book Heroic Measures. And on part two, NoMor…

Freedom of the press was easier to define and protect when quill pens were the mode. Today it’s electronic zeroes and ones, and it’s a lot more complicated. And the Obama Administration has been aggressively prosecuting journalists; more prosecutions t…

Most people seem to think the struggle for civil rights started when Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus. The reality is there was a tremendous amount of heavy lifting well before the 1950s. In her new book, Defining the Struggle: National…

Their mission is to help the developing world but Bruce Rich, author of the new book Foreclosing the Future reveals they may still be profiting but the World Bank is continuing to worsen poverty and the environment. And on part two, Ofer Sharone, autho…

It’s so hard to believe one peasant could kill our beloved king. We prefer a conspiracy. On this 50th anniversary, top prosecutor VInce Bugliosi (of Manson fame) who has been all over network TV on the case, looks at just

 On part one, researcher Kimberly Crisp talks about what she found out about why Portsmouth’s Red Light district was so world renowned. And on part two, Jeff Woodburn talks about a significant issue which affects all taxpayers in NH and a great ma…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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: 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…

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 …

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…