End the 21st Century Crusades

Seymour Hersh

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh is interviewed by Steve Scher

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Seymour Hersh is responsible for exposing many of the biggest stories in the 20th century, and he is still hard at work. Hersh alleged that senior officials were waging a crusade overseas, protecting Christianity from the Muslim.
Source: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh

The natural gas business is booming, sometimes with deadly results. Host Bruce Gellerman sniffs out the cracks in the nearly two million miles of pipeline that run under our cities.
Source: Rampant City Gas Leaks

There are more than a third of a million miles of natural gas transmission pipelines in the U.S., and more to come. But sometimes they rupture, devastating homes and lives. Bruce Gellerman speaks with investigative blogger Frank Gallagher, editor of NaturalGasWatch.org, about the hazards of this vast system.
Source: The Explosive Growth of Natural Gas Networks

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Music includes James Blundell - BACK IT UP!, Willie Nelson in Austin Texas, Terry Gangstad - The Espresso, Odetta - Chilly Winds, Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain, Eric Weissberg - Dueling Banjos, All Along the Watch Tower, Larry Verne - Mr. Custer, John Coltrane Quartet - Acknowledgment (From A Love Supreme), Stephen Longfellow Fiske - Earth Anthem, I Ain't Afraid, Steve Earle - Copperhead Road, Martin Luther King April 1968, Vera Lynn - We'll Met Again

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Glenn Greenwald on America's lawless elite

Glenn Greenwald

Tom Ashbrook interviews Glenn Greenwald

From Watergate to Gitmo to Occupy, we will hear from Glenn Greenwald on what he calls the rise of an American's lawless elite.
Source: Glenn Greenwald On “America’s Lawless Elite”

Glenn Greenwald talks to Bob McChesney

Greenwald was named by The Atlantic as one of the 25 most influential political commentators in the nation. He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and is the winner of the 2010 Online Journalism Association Award for his investigative work on the arrest and oppressive detention of Bradley Manning.
Source: Glenn Greenwald, former Constitutional and Civil Rights Litigator joins McChesney on Sunday

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Music includes Monty Python - Argument, supaclean - One Big Texas, Crosby Stills Nash and Young - Carry On

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How The Wealthy Buy Politicians

Lawrence Lessig & Jack Abramoff

Jack Abramoff is a former lobbyist who pleaded guilty in 2006 to charges of fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to bribe public officials. Abramoff also worked as businessman, movie producer and writer. Abramoff's lobbying and the scandals and investigation are featured in a documentary movie "Casino Jack and the United States of Money" and a political satire movie titled "Casino Jack".

Lawrence Lessig is a law professor at Harvard. He has been the lead counsel in important cases concerning copyright laws for digital content. His current work concerns institutional corruption.
Source: Lawrence Lessig interviews Jack Abramoff

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Music includes Sam Fasano III - It's Just Not Fair, Ryan Harvey - November 8th 2004, Eric Bogle - No Man's Land, taacc01, Big Bill Broonzy - Black Brown And White, Louis Armstrong - Lazy River

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What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic

Catherine Crier

Catherine Crier, former judge and Emmy-winning journalist, argues that partisan politics are hurting the United States. She advocates reducing legal corruption in Washington, D.C. She has been television personality for CNN, ABC, Fox News and ESPN.
Source: Patriot Acts

The Other Scott Horton

Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton

The Other Scott Horton is an international human rights lawyer and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine and no relation to the interviewer. They discusses the U.S. government's refusal prosecute torturers. Also how WikiLeaks exposed high-level U.S. efforts to squash previous Spanish investigations of American political and military figures. Included is the contrast of U.S.’ repudiation of international law and universal jurisdiction, after helping establish them after WWII. The National Defense Authorization Act's indefinite detention provision also part of the conversation.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton





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Music includes Dizzy Gillespie and His All Star Quintet - Salt Peanuts, Cass Dillon - Christmas in Fallujah, Jesse Jackson in 1-16-1984, The Celebration of the Lizard - The Unknown Soldier, Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain, Flogging Molly - What's Left of the Flag, The Chambers Brothers - Love Peace and Happiness, Anne Murray - A Little Good News, Outlandish - Just Me, Frank Sinatra - The Lady is a Tramp, Willie Nelson - Whiskey River

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Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity with Tavis Smiley

Remaking America

Tavis Smiley moderated a conversation on solutions for restoring America's prosperity with the following people.

Majora Carter, Founder and
President Majora Carter Group

Roger A. Clay, Jr., President Insight
Center for Community Economic Development

Barbara Ehrenreich, Author

Vicki B. Escarra,
President and CEO, Feeding America

Michael Moore, Filmmaker

Suze Orman, Host CNBC

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor
Columbia University, Sustainable Development

Tavis Smiley, Talk Show Host PBS &
Cornel West, Professor Princeton University,
Religion and African Amer. Studies

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Music includes Brother Can You Spare A Dime 2008, Makana - We Are The Many

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