Aug 2, 2016         3 
Charlie Grapski DNC Convention Legal Considerations

Charlie Grapski has been a law instructor. he brings a unique perspective to what happened at the DNC.

Jul 6, 2016
Marcia Pally; individuality, separateness, separability and situatedness

We talk about principles discussed in faith traditions that could be very helpful to help us decide how do we pick a president

Jun 21, 2016         11 
John Perkins- Economic Hit Men come to the US, making it a third world Banana Republic

I asked John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman how things have changed. He replied, Things have changed, gotten much worse-- spread from developing countries where I worked, to the US and Europe. "People are waking up. There's a real consciousness going on. People are waking up that the system is a failed system."

Jun 14, 2016         9 
Deena Stryker, on her conversations with Fidel, Che and more

A new, revised edition of Deena Stryker's classic book, CUBA, A DIARY OF THE REVOLUTION, Inside the Cuban Revolution with Fidel, Raul, Che, and Celia Sanchez has just come out. We talk about her conversations with some of the most interesting people of the 20th century

Jun 7, 2016
Douglas Rushkoff; Throwing rocks at the Google Bus-- Big is bad

Douglas Rushkoff returns. I asked him to describe the most important new memes and ideas in his book. He replied, "the economy is an operating system. It is not a feature of nature. People made it. These rules were designed. If you forget that human beings have the ability to change them If you accept them as facts of nature then you are pretty doomed. They are not facts of nature. and were created not with our best i

May 24, 2016         1 
Greg Palast: How the 2016 Election is being and will be stolen... and New Angles on Fukushima

Greg tells how the primaries have been rigged, how the general election will be rigged and casts new light on Fukushima and the threat to the USA

Apr 19, 2016         1 
Darcia Narvaez on the Neurobiology of Narcissism, Psychopaths, Sociopaths, Empathy, Connection

Child rearing practices may be the key to reducing crime, eliminating psychopaths and sociopaths and raising the morals, empathy and kindness of people. I interview Darcia Narvaez on the neurobiology underlying all these

Apr 12, 2016         4 
Darcia Narvaez; Morality's Evolutional, Neurobiological, Bottom up Underpinnings

I was VERY excited to do this two part 2 hour interview. Darcia Narvaez has written an award winning book that simply blew my mind. It explains so many of our modern day problems, including psychopaths, narcissists, crime, loss of empathy in our culture. We dive deep to discuss how ancestral parenting , the way children were raised for 99% of human history, is a key part of brain moral development.

Mar 29, 2016
The Agricultural Revolution: How Humans Shifted from Foraging to Farming-- the beginnings of Civilization

I interview Graeme Barker Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Professorial Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge University, England. He is the author of the book, The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did foragers become farmers. and has written extensively about humanity's transition from forager/hunter/gatherer to farmer.

Mar 22, 2016         4 
Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman: Nation on the Take; How big money corrupts our Democracy and What we can do about it.

I interview Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman on their new book, Nation on the Take which describes all the way that advocacy for constituents is corrupted by special interests.

Feb 29, 2016         15 
The Brutal Heartlessness of An Elected Billionaire-- Casting Teen Moms and their Children Into The Streets

Interview with Anne Holcomb, supportive services supervisor Unity Parenting and Counseling, which runs nine homeless programs, mostly for youth and children. Some will soon be closed because of billionaire governor Bruce Rauner. Anne also went through a few times in her life when she was homeless,

Jan 31, 2016         2 
Gerald Friedman, Bernie Sanders' Single Payer Healthcare Consultant, Debunks Attackers

I have a conversation with single-payer health care economist Gerry Friedman, discussing the attacks and claims against Bernie Sanders single payer plan.

Jan 18, 2016         14 
CEO of $200 million/Year Biz: Single Payer is Good For Business

I interview CEO Richard Master, who believes in Single Payer so much-- as good for business-- that he's funded and produced a documentary movie Fix It, showing how it would be good for companies, employees and the USA. And Chuck Pennacchio co-guests with deep expertise on single payer.

Jan 18, 2016         3 
Globalization's Dangers to Earth and It's People: Interview with Julian Kunnie Part 2

Julian Kunnie, author of The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the earth and it's people, doesn't think the earth and humans have a future with capitalism. He talks about how the prison industry is an intrinsic part of globalization, about globalization and race, patriarchy, aboriginal peoples, exploitation of women

Jan 17, 2016
Julian Kunnie Part 1-- The Dangers of Globalization-- Time to End Capitalism Or WIll Capitalism End Us?

Julian Kunnie is the author of The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the earth and it's people. He doesn't think the earth and humans have a future with capitalism.

Jan 14, 2016         2 
Katherine Maher-- Wikipedia And Counterrevolution, Dark Spaces, and Ways to Tap and ENable the Power of Wikipedia

I talk with Katherine Maher is the Chief Communications Officer for the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, the largest free knowledge project in human history and one of the world's most popular websites. She is an expert on the intersection of technology, human rights, democracy, and international development.

Jan 3, 2016
Bonnie Burstow-- The Dangers of State Empowered Psychiatry and Psychiatric Drugs and Treatments

Bonnie Burstow has written, Psychiatry and the Business of Madness, a blistering excoriation of psychiatry, documenting, with erudite detail, her accusations that psychiatry is a dangerous, ineffective business, without scientific support.

Dec 2, 2015
Chuck Collins- Wealth Inequality, Billionaires and Psychopaths

Chuck just co-authored a report on wealth inequality that is shocking. We discuss the report, billionaires, the dangers and damages billionaires wreak, solutions and billionaire psychopaths

Nov 25, 2015         3 
Why We Need TransNational and Global Consciousness-- William I Robinson

William I. Robinson is professor of sociology at US Santa Barbara and author of the book, Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity We discuss how global capitalism and the Transnational Capitalist Class force us to change the way we think about change-- about activism, revolution, and system change. He also offers an extraordinary explanation of the connection between murders of blacks and Global Capitalism

Nov 18, 2015         15 
Clinton Foundation Laundering Foreign Money

Ken Silverstein's Harper's magazine article, Shaky Foundations: The Clintons’ so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends, has just been published. He tells me how they do it and throws in the dirt on one of the Clinton's closest advisors, Sidney Blumenthal. Silverstein says the Clintons should be indicted and prosecuted

Nov 11, 2015         14 
Holacracy-- the Non-Hierarchical, Bottom-up alternative to Management-- Discussing it with Creator Brian Robertson

As Brian described, we went deep discussing the aspects and implication of Holocracy, a powerful manifestation of how the organization is transitioning from a top-down patriarchal, parent child model to one with distributed power, empowering ALL the employees. I see it is the leading edge of a movement that could change the way we think about leadership, about how government and organizations work.

Nov 4, 2015
Spreading Kindness: Steffi Black

Steffi Black is the creator of Spread the Kindness interactive workshops and presentations focusing on bringing kindness into schools and the workplace.

Oct 21, 2015         5 
Andrew Schmookler: What We're Up Against; The Destructive Force at work in our world-- and how we can defeat it

I interview Andrew Bard Schmookler about his new book, What We're Up Against. We discuss evil, brokenness and the challenges we must face to deal with the evil he describes

Oct 7, 2015         3 
Interview With Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire: Is the Nobel Peace Prize Nominating Committee Failing to Perform its mission?

There an effort to force the Nobel Peace Prize nominating committee to return consistently to awarding peace prizes to people who meet Alfred Nobel's criteria for the award, as he stipulated it in his will. I interview David Swanson and Mairead Maguire. David Swanson ia a dedicated anti-war, peace activist and author. Mairead Maguire was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and has continued to work for peace for a long time.

Oct 7, 2015
David Swanson: Pushing the Nobel Prize to Do Its Job.

I have David Swanson in this second half of the night's show on pushing the Nobel Peace Prize to return to giving awards to people who do what Alfred Nobel specified in his will.

Sep 23, 2015
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Positive Psychology's Leading Researcher, Author, Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a pioneering Positive Psychologist and a leading researcher. He's calling for the field to start looking at the world from a group or cultural perspective, not just individuals. He gives some fascinating history of his early work and inspirations, and insights on new info on the neurobiology of flow.

Sep 9, 2015
Robert Cribb; Golden Padlock FOIA Horror Stories and Investigative Journalism

Some government organizations are outrageous in their efforts to resist cooperation with FOIA requests. Here are some crazy stories, and some discussion of doing investigative reporting.

Aug 19, 2015
Micah Sifry; The Big Disconnect, Why the Internet Hasn't Transformed Politics (Yet)

Micah L. Sifry is a democracy activist, cofounder and Editorial Director of Personal Democracy Forum, one of my favorite conferences for smart people and cutting edge innovation, and the author of numerous books, including Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency, The Big Disconnect, Why the Internet Hasn't Transformed Politics (Yet) and, most recently, co-editor of A Lever and Place to Stand.

Aug 12, 2015
Stephen Soldz, On The Successful Campaign To Stop Psychologists From Enabling Torture

Psychologist Stephen Soldz has been advocating for the American Psychological Association to change it's ethics policy for psychologists so they could not enable torture. After nine years, SUCCESS. We talk about the issues, how the success happened, in terms of policy changes and activism strategies.

Aug 12, 2015         7 
Kevin Gosztola; Co-founder of ShadowProof-- a New, Progressive Investigative Journalism Site

Kevin Gosztola has co-founded a new website, Shadowproof.com , that, like the Phoenix, has risen from the ashes of Firedoglake.com, where Kevin had written a column, The Dissenter, which he is continuing along with archiving all of the past content from Firedoglake. Kevin was, earlier in his career, a writer and editor at OpEdNews.com.