Energy Evolution

Amory B. Lovins

Amory B. Lovins and Edward Lucas discuss how bold solutions for the new energy era is akin to reinventing fire. Dr. Amory B. Lovins is co-founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute. Edward Lucas is International Editor of The Economist.
Source: Reinventing Fire: Bold Solutions for the New Energy Era

Bruce E. Levine

Does TV Help Make Americans Passive and Accepting of Authority?

Bruce E. Levine, a clinical psychologist and author, discusses how TV makes Americans passive and accepting of authority. He talks with Scott Horton about the mental health issues and social isolation caused by watching television and how the corporate state has essentially colonized Americans who as a result cannot effect political change.
Source: Bruce E. Levine

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Music includes Graham Nash and James Raymond - Almost Gone, Bob Marley & The Wailers - War, Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ, Makana - We Are The Many, Chris Brown and Kate Fenner - Resist War, David Rovics - Operation Iraqi Liberation, Brian Wilson - Gone Gone Gone, Terry Gangstad - Theatre of the Whine, Temptations - Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today), Earth Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland, Beatles - All You Need Is Love, Emmanuel Rodriguez - Midnight in Ethiopia

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Should Drugs Be Legalized?

Paul Butler & Nick Gillespie

Theodore Dalrymple & Asa Hutchinson

Would the United States be better off legalizing all recreational drugs? A panel of experts tackled that question in an Oxford-style debate.

Paul Butler is a criminal law scholar and professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
Nick Gillespie is editor-in-chief of Reason.com and ReasonTV, the online platforms of Reason, the libertarian magazine of "free minds and free markets."
Asa Hutchinson, former administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is currently CEO of Hutchinson Group, a homeland security consulting firm, and practices law in northwestern Arkansas.
Theodore Dalrymple is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist, who most recently practiced in a British inner city hospital and prison.
Source: NPR: Should We Legalize Drugs?

Marvin E. Odum

Christine Todd Whitman

Frederic Krupp

Daniel Franklin

The future of energy

The world continues to face critical energy challenges. With political change happening in many parts of the world what can the world expect?

Panel includes:
Marvin E. Odum, President of Shell Oil
Christine Todd Whitman, Governor of New Jersey, Adminstrator of EPA
Frederic Krupp, President of Environmental Defense Fund
Daniel Franklin, Executive Editor of The Economist
Source: C-SPAN: Energy Policy In 2013

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Music includes Tom Lehrer - The Old Dope Peddler, Musiq (Soulchild) - Are You Experienced?, Putumayo - Why Am I a Rastaman, Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down, Crosby & Stills & Nash and Young - Carry On, Odetta - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Art Baron & Jay Ungar & Matt Glaser - Kingdom Coming, Frank Zappa - I Am The Walrus, Greatful Dead - US Blues, Stephen Longfellow Fiske - Earth Anthem, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan - La Negra

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Health Care For Some?

Beatrix Hoffman

Beatrix Hoffman talks about the history of the American health care system. She explains why the United States has been one of the few developed countries to not adopt universal health care and examines why the issue is so divisive.

Beatrix Hoffman is the author of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. She is a professor and chair of the history department at Northern Illinois University.
Source: BookTV: Health Care For Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930

Manuel Castells

Alternative economics

Manuel Castells talks about the current economic downturn. He urges a profound reassessment of our economic beliefs and institutions.
Source: Analysis: Alternative economic cultures

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Music includes Jack Hardy & Jill Burkee & Mark Dann & Steve Forbert - This Land Is Your Land, Woody Herman and the Herd - Fanfare for the Common Man, Odetta - No Expectations, Crosby & Stills & Nash and Young - Carry On, The Lion King - Circle Of Life, Capitol Steps - Al-Jazeera, George Carlin - Modern Man, Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising, Ryan Harvey - The Day They Caught Saddam Hussein, FDR 9-23-1944, Young Ladies - My Country 'Tis of Thee, National Parks

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How Big Companies Rob You

David Cay Johnston

How Big Companies Use Plain English To Rob You Blind with David Cay Johnston. “No other modern country gives corporations the unfettered power found in America to gouge cus­tomers, shortchange workers, and erect barriers to fair play. A big reason is that so little of the news . . . addresses the private, government-approved mechanisms by which price gouging is employed to redistribute income upward.”
Source: The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use Plain English To Rob You Blind" with David Cay Johnston

John Fasullo

The Best Climate Projections Are Extreme

Climate scientists agree that the planet is warming, but there is a wide range of projections as to how hot it’s going to get. An analysis from scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that the more alarming estimates may be the most accurate. John Fasullo, one of the climate scientists responsible for the analysis, joins Steve Curwood to discuss the future of our warming planet.
Source: The Best Climate Projections Are Extreme

Why is America always at war? with Danny Schechter, filmmaker and blogger.
Source: Is America always at war?

David Roberts

Climate Change Is Simple with David Roberts, staff writer for Grist.
Source: Climate Change Is Simple - David Roberts Remix

Download or Play Big Companies Rob You Part 1
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Download or Play Big Companies Rob You Part 3 & Climate
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Music includes Roy Zimmerman - Vote Republican, Jimi Hendrix - Spanish Castle Magic, The Beach Boys - Surf's Up, George Harrison - Peace, Jack Johnson Feat & Ben Harper - With My Own Two Hands, The Lion King - Hakuna Matata, The Matrix Trailer, Frank Sinatra - Mack the Knife, David Klein - Beanie for Peace, The New Kingston Trio - Try To Remember, Inca Flutes - Zona Roya

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