Quote of the Day: "The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history." -- Arthur Henderson (1863-1935) British Union Leader, Politician, Disarmament Advocate, 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Hour One: START treaty...when will Republicans do the right thing? Former Senator Gary Hart (D-CO), Chairman of the Board of the American Security Project will be here along with Dr. David Kay, former IAEA/UNSCOM Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector - www.americansecurityproject.org/

FBI agents claim they prevented a potential terrorist attack in downtown Portland on Friday. A Somali-born teenager – Mohamad Osman Mohamud – parked a van packed with explosives near a large crowd gathering to watch a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony. When he then tried to detonate the explosives with a cell phone – FBI agents swooped in and arrested him. Job well done, right?

Quote of the Day: "We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people." -- Mikhail Gorbachev

You need to know this about economics. Between July and September this year – American businesses posted the largest profits ever – nearly 1.7 trillion dollars! Never have US companies been so profitable in the history of this country. In fact – this this is part of a steady trend that started when worker salaries began to flatten out with Reaganomics. Most recently, corporations have seen their profits steadily increase every quarter since 2009 – and then they went through the roof the last few months. Yet what have we seen in the labor market?