Thursday, February 23, 2012

Institutional Corruption in the U.S. Government

Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig joins Bob McChesney to talk about institutional corruption. Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His current work concerns institutional corruption and the economy of influence that weakens the effectiveness of an institution, or weakens public trust.
Source: Lawrence Lessig joins McChesney on Media Matters with Bob McChesney











President Andrew Jackson
Where did the U.S. debt come from? What happened the one time the U.S. paid it all off? Why did the U.S. Congress created the debt ceiling in the first place? A short review of the legend of the national debt. This podcast doesn't explain why people fear what they don't understand.
Source: When The U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt (And Why It Didn't Last)







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Music includes Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son, Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, Pete Seeger - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, George Patton, Charles Mingus - Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me, John Kennedy, Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing, The Beatles - Penny Lane, Kenny Rogers - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town, Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife, Bobby Mcferrin - Blackbird, Vince Gill - Let There Be Peace On Earth

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Inside the Mind of the President

Dr. Justin Frank
Dr. Justin Frank talks about his new book, Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President with Peter B. Collins.  Dr. Frank is a clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University, and previously wrote Bush on the Couch. Frank maintains a private practice in marital and family therapy.  He describes “Obsessive Bipartisan Disorder” and remarks on Obama’s attraction to appeasing the GOP leaders who are committed to his destruction.
Source: Dr. Justin A. Frank Puts ‘Obama on the Couch’





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Music includes Jerusha - Leave The Tarsands In The Ground, Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows, The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again, John Lennon - Imagine, Steven Taylor - Go Down Congress, Cisco Houston - Passing Through, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán - La Negra, Bellamy Brothers - Old Hippie, Flogging Molly - What's Left of the Flag, Monty Python - The Spam Song, Sgt. Barry Sadler - Salute To The Nurses Of Vietnam, Vera Lynn - We'll Met Again

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Juan Cole on the Middle East

Juan Cole
Peter B. Collins












The conversation between Juan Cole and Peter B. Collins concerned Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Israel, Palestine, the CIA and drones.

Juan Cole has testified before the U.S. Senate and knows Arabic and Persian. He blogs at Informed Comment and is a historian of South Asia. He has been a guest on PBS News Hour, ABC Nightly News, Nightline, the Today Show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, the Colbert Report, Democracy Now! and many others. He lived in various parts of the Muslim world for nearly 10 years.
Source: Foreign Policy Roundup: U. Michigan’s Prof. Juan Cole

Cancer Alley Case Gets Surprising Support from EPA Administrator Jackson

Mossville, Louisiana sits in the shadow of 14 petrochemical refineries.  For decades, Mossville residents have complained about their health problems to industry, and to state and federal agencies. They reached past the U.S. regulators to take their case to the highest human rights court in the western hemisphere, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Now a candid comment from the highest U.S. environmental regulator appears to have boosted their petition. Living on Earth and Planet Harmony’s Ike Sriskandarajah reports.
Source: Obama Administration Divided Over Cancer Alley Case

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Music includes Solar Twins - Casbah, Bobby McFerrin - don't worry be happy, Rise Against - Hero Of War, Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us, MLK Mix, Gandhi Tells British Authorities To Leave India, Thomas Pace - Home No More, George Carlin, Living On Earth - Cancer Alley Case Gets Surprising Support, Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues, Billy Kennedy - Down By The Riverside, Beatles - Piggies, Terry Gangstad - Soap Mouthwash, Frank Sinatra - I did it my way

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Thursday, February 2, 2012

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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