How Money Corrupts Congress

Jack Abramoff

Are members of the U.S. Congress using inside information to get rich? Mike Pesca talks about dirty politics and big money with a panel including former super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Source: Dirty Politics And Big Money

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig talks to Charlie Rose

Lawrence Lessig of Harvard University is the author of the book "Republic, Lost; How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan To Stop It"
Source: A conversation with Lawrence Lessig







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Music includes David Rovics - The War Is Over, Groucho Marx - Against, Dan Rheault - Antiwar, Conspiracy of Silence - The John Kasper Band, Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir - Life Ev'ry Voice and Sing, Monty Pythons - The Galaxy Song, Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome, Jimmy Carter, Johnny Cash - Ive Been Everywhere, Joan Baez - Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Elvis Presley - America The Beautiful, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Chimes Blues, Vera Lynn - We'll Met Again

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The Great Disruption

Tom Boden

Huge Increase In Global CO2 Emissions

Tom Boden tells Bruce Gellerman that the increase in carbon dioxide is larger than the worst-case scenario suggested by United Nations scientists. Tom Boden is a Scientist and Science Team Leader at the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Source: Huge Increase In Global CO2 Emissions

Paul Gilding

Richard Heinberg

Think economic crisis meets the environmental crisis. Economic growth as we’ve known it is over says Paul Gilding and Richard Heinberg. Paul Gilding is a Professor at Cambridge University Program for Sustainability Leadership. Richard Heinberg is at the Post Carbon Institute and he is journalist and educator.
Source: The Great Disruption

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Music includes Pat Scanlon - War is Not the Answer Never Was Never Will, Bob Marley & The Wailers - War No More Trouble, Gene Autry - When The Mailman Says No Mail Today, The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps, One Love One World, Simon & Garfunkel - Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Rock The Casbah, The Lion King - Hakuna Matata, Tom Lehrer - So Long Mom (A Song For World War III), Jeff Foxworthy- Protect the House, Willie Nelson and Leon Russell - Heartbreak Hotel, Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle

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A look at Iran, Iraq and suicide terrorism

The Other Scott Horton

Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton

The Other Scott Horton is an international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine. They discuss the assassination Iranian nuclear scientists and the justification for the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki's sixteen year old son and unchecked executive power.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton

Adam Lankford

Scott Horton Interviews Robert A. Pape and Adam Lankford

Two professors and authors debate the root cause of suicide terrorism and whether it results from U.S. foreign policies and military occupations or is instead a manifestation of personal mental health issues.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Robert A. Pape and Adam Lankford

Gareth Porter

Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the 20 year U.S. campaign of death and destruction in Iraq. He also talks about how Nouri al-Maliki tricked the Bush administration into negotiating a troop withdrawal deadline and why the gigantic U.S. embassy is destined to become a museum of U.S. atrocities.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter



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Music includes Sherreece - Wings, Country Joe & the Fish - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag, William Clinton - 2nd Inauguration, Big Bill Broonzy - Black Brown And White, Martin Luther King - I have a dream, The Lion King - I Just Can't Wait to Be King, Judy Collins - Amazing Grace, Michael Jackson - Why You Wanna Trip On Me, cisco houston - beans bacon gravy

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Ralph Nader and the Billionaires

Two billionaires, Ted Turner and Peter Lewis talk with Ralph Nader. They discuss the activism, Iraq War, marijuana, hemp, nuclear power and health insurance and more.

Ralph Nader is the founder of the consumers' rights movement. He played a key role in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Freedom of Information Act and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He has harshly criticized the two major political parties for preserving a campaign finance system that makes them both dependent on wealthy contributors.

Ted Turner

Ted Turner founded of the cable news network CNN and the cable channel TBS. He owns 2.1 million acres of land across 12 states and also 100,000 acres in South America. According to Forbes magazine he is worth $2.1 billion. The United Nations Foundation was started with a $1 billion grant from Ted Turner to support the United Nations in executing its programs worldwide.

Peter Lewis

Peter Lewis is the chairman and CEO of Progressive Corporation, the fourth largest U.S. personal auto insurer and he's worth $1.05 billion. He has donated multi-millions to Princeton University, Marijuana Policy Project, American Civil Liberties Union, MoveOn and many more charities and political groups.
Source: RALPH NADER, TED TURNER & PETER LEWIS





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Music includes R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It, John Fogert - Deja Vu (All Over Again), Jimi Hendrix - If 6 Was 9, Gil Scott-Heron - The Liberation Song (Red, Black And Green), Beatles - Rocky Raccoon

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Life and Death in Afghanistan

Gareth Porter

Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the expansion of U.S. drone strikes. Initially the strikes were limited to Al Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban but now they include groups allied with the Pakistani military. He states that U.S. economic conditions will force military budget cuts and curtail the empire of bases and he asks for a citizens’ movement to end war and empire.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter

Anand Gopal

Scott Horton Interviews Anand Gopal

Independent journalist Anand Gopal discusses the American creation of an unsustainable Afghanistan that’s guaranteed to collapse when U.S./NATO money stops flowing. He reminds us of the fact that Afghan corruption gets worse as foreign aid increases.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Anand Gopal

Ray McGovern

Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern, who is a former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses how the U.S. government is once again fixing the facts around the policy. He explains why Petraeus made analysts stop honest assessments of the failing Afghanistan War. He urges us to get out and protest government wrongdoing.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern

Afghanistan

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Music includes Peace on Earth - U2, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger, Hey Ma - James, John Mayer - Waiting World Change, taacc01, Gandhi Advocates Policy of Nonviolence, To Give Us Peace - Jan Seides, Change The Story - Geoff Scott, My Home Town - Tom Lehrer, Steve Earle - Jerusalem

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Views on the War in Libya

Jeremy Scahill

Scott Horton Interviews Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill discusses Yemen, President Saleh, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Al Qaeda, Obama, Bush, Ed Schultz, Libya.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Jeremy Scahill

Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Scott Horton Interviews Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Rep. Dennis Kucinich discusses his attempt to provoke debate in Congress concerning the authority to declare war. He voted to defund the Libyan War.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Glenn Greenwald

Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald talks about Obama and War Powers Act and the Libyan War. He also comments on WikiLeaks Julian Assange and journalism.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald

Nick Turse

Scott Horton Interviews Nick Turse

Nick Turse discusses how JSOC, the Joint Special Operations Command became the president’s own private army. He also comments on why the precision airstrikes in Libya were probably guided by special operations forces on the ground.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Nick Turse







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Music includes Wildman - like a wave MSTR, CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE - The John Kasper Band, House Of The Rising Sun - Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA, Johnny Cash - the night they drove old dixie down, jimi hendrix - castles, Woody Guthrie - Vigilante Man, Jaws - Theme Song, Neil Young - after the garden, U.S.A. for Africa - we are the world, mariachi - adelita, Dean Martin - That's Amore, Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert, Chronology chunk - Omette Coleman, Mexican Shuffle - Herb Alpert

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Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Manage One

They’re arresting the Occupy Movements for trampling grass in public squares. But the finance industry who trampled the U.S. economy in the collapse of Wall Street have yet to be punished says William Black.
Source: Prosecuting Financial Titans

Bill Black talks about the Banksters with Peter B. Collins

Bill Black, former Savings & Loan regulator talks about failure to prosecute fraudsters. Black is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Black was litigation director for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board from 1984 to 1986, deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation in 1987. Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. He takes on Attorney General Holder and the U.S. Attorney in Sacramento for failing to investigate and prosecute financial crimes.
Source: Straight Talk on Banksters from Prof. Bill Black



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Music includes Joan Baez - One Tin Soldier, Jesus of Nazareth-1977, baker street - Gerry Rafferty, Greensleeves - Richard Dyer-Bennett, Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier - Barthelson, Hello Dolly! - Louis Armstrong, Universal Soldier - Donovan, Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust, Willie Nelson Julio Iglesias Blue Spanish Eyes, We'll Meet Again

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