It's not nice to mess with Mother Nature!

Lester Brown

Life Interrupted from Radio Ecoshock, edited


"The Food Bubble" with Lester Brown
You have seen food prices going up at the local grocery store. That could be just the beginning. According to Lester Brown, a leading expert in both the environment and world agriculture, those bulging supermarket shelves are part of a "food bubble", which could crash.

Matthew England

"The Australian super-floods" with Matthew England
We all saw the awful footage from Queensland Australia. People, cars, houses, indeed whole towns, swept away in fast-moving floods. The area impacted was the size of France and Germany combined. Matthew England explains why this is occurring.
Source: LIFE INTERRUPTED Food, Storms & Escape, January 20, 2011

Michael Boldin

Scott Horton Interviews Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center, discusses Thomas Jefferson’s suggested response to government run amok: nullification. Nullification is a legal theory that a U.S. State has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deems unconstitutional. He also comments on the persistence of state medical marijuana laws despite federal government's outrage.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Michael Boldin, January 22, 2011

Susan Solomon

Global Warming Is Irreversible

Susan Solomon is an atmospheric chemist working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Time Magazine has named her one of the Top 100 Scientists of 2008.
"People have imagined that if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide that the climate would go back to normal in 100 years or 200 years. What we're showing here is that's not right. It's essentially an irreversible change that will last for more than a thousand years," Solomon says.
Source: Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says, by Richard Harris, January 26, 2009

Are the poor the cause the economic crisis? Simon Johnson looks into the causes of the economic meltdown.
Source: Did the Poor Cause the Crisis? By Simon Johnson, 2011-01-19

Music includes Earth Anthem, Just Blue, Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child, Star Wars-Theme Song, The Matrix Trailer, unapaloma, Somewhere over the rainbow, We'll Meet Again, Nader remix


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Is this the best democracy money can buy?

Arianna Huffington

David Callahan, David Cay Johnston & Arianna Huffington are interviewed by Francesca Rheannon. They discuss how the economic elites fight for control of the political elites.
Source: David Callahan, David Cay Johnston & Arianna Huffington: Rich liberals, Corporate Politics and Third World America.

Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi is interviewed by Tavis Smiley

The Rolling Stones editor explains the inner workings of Wall Street and criticizes the U.S. bank bail out.
Source: November 11, 2010, Matt Taibbi interviewed by Tavis Smiley

Andrew Bacevich

Timothy McBain talks to Andrew Bacevich about Military-Industrial Complex Cutbacks

Will the proposed defense cuts reduce the total national security budget?
Source: Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Military-Industrial Cutbacks?

Music includes Earth Anthem, I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag, while my guitar gently weeps, its the end of the world as we know it, Greensleeves, pastures of plenty, Titanic-Theme

"A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." -James Madison, Letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04)

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Iraqi Mass Deception and U.S. Moral Panic

Peter B. Collins interviews Scott A. Bonn

The book “Mass Deception” connects propaganda and distortions by the Bush administration to elite deviance and state crimes and violations of international criminal law. Dr. Bonn's book illustrates how those in the highest seats of power deceived and manipulated ordinary, hard-working, trusting Americans. Those Americans then sent their sons and daughters to fight in needlessly wars.
Source: Peter B. Collins on January 10, 2011, Bush’s Rehtoric and Lies Produced “Mass Deception”
 

Capturing Geothermal Energy

What if, right below our feet, we had enough potential clean energy to keep the U.S. supplied for thousands years? That's what the U.S. Department of Energy calculates. But there's a catch: we have to get to all that potential geothermal power. Reporter: Craig Miller. From the California Report.
Source: The California Report, 33x20: Capturing Geothermal Energy

Music includes When the Saints Go Marching In, To Give Us Peace, 2001-A Space Odyssey, Acknowledgment (From A Love Supreme), Brother Can You Spare a Dime 2008, We'll Meet Again, Earth Anthem, Universal Soldier, Wizard Of Oz-The Munchkins

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Robert Reich: Causes of the economic meltdown

Robert Reich shows that inequality causes the booms and busts that United States has been experiencing.
Source: Aftershock with Robert Reich

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address delivered January 17, 1961 where he explains to the nation the "military-industrial complex".
Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address

Timothy McBain interviews William Hartung

William Hartung is director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation and an expert on weapons proliferation and military spending. He updates us on the state of the current military-industrial complex. He comments on how companies like Lockheed Martin have exceeded what Eisenhower envisioned when he coined the phrase.
Source: A Complex Situation

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