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On the Program - March 3 2008
Guest: Christopher Coyne www.ccoyne.com Topic: After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy - Does exporting democracy hurt more than it helps?
Guest: Karen Ackerman www.aflcio.org Topic: Election...candidates' records on economic issues.
Guest: Joe Madison Host of "Madison - The Black Eagle" Topic: Next week Darfur trip with Thom
February 29 2008 show notes
- Ralph Nader has announced his VP; Matt Gonzalez who ran for San Francisco mayor.
- Book: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict , Joseph Stiglitz.
- Guest: Joshua Holland, AlterNet.
- Guest: Ralph Nader and his new running mate, Matt Gonzalez.
- Guest: Clara Jeffery, Editor, Mother Jones. Torture hits home.
- Guest: Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and The Independent, author.
- Guest: Brett Morgen, director, "Chicago Ten".
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
February 28 2008 show notes
- Laura Flanders was guest hosting as Thom was participating in the Air America Cruise.
- Guest: Lou Dubose, former editor of the Texas Observer, co author with Molly Ivins of "Bushwhacked".
- Guest: Jonathan Steele, Guardian, author of "Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq".
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
February 27 2008 show notes
- Laura Flanders was guest hosting as Thom was participating in the Air America Cruise.
- Last night's Democratic presidential candidate debate.
- Guest: Dr. Erika Falk, Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns.
- Guest: ACLU attorney Ben Wizner. Guantanamo.
- Guest: Susan Griffin, "Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen".
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
February 26 2008 show notes
- Guest: Climate skeptic Marc Morano. Do Climate bills harm the economy?
- Guest: Greg Palast. Exxon Shipping v. Baker: What's at Stake?
- Guest: Mike Adams. "Feminists Say the Darndest Things".
- Guest: Kathryn Joyce. Demographic Winter and the Christian Right.
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
February 25 2008 show notes
- Thom is traveling to Darfur. Donate $50 for each "Sack of Hope" to help Sudanese refugees.
- Guest: Larisa Alexandrova, Raw Story. The Siegelman story, CBS 60 Minutes.
- Guests: Lene Johansen, Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Paul Shapiro, senior director of the Factory Farming Campaign, The Humane Society of the United States. The beef recall.
- Guest: Alfred S. Regnery, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism.
- Guest: Jesselyn McCurdy, ACLU Legislative Counsel, Washington. Crack v powdered cocaine.
- Guest: Comedian Lee Camp. "What is Fox News? It's just a parade of propaganda, isn't it?
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program - Feb 27-29 2008
Laura Flanders, host of RadioNation, will be guest host for three days while Thom is on the Air America Cruise.
February 22 2008 show notes
- "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
- Bernie and Thom agree with Republican President Dwight Eisenhower.
- The Democratic debate last night.
- Prairie View A&M University students marched 7.2 miles to vote.
- The "oh, damn" test.
- Guest: P.J. Crowley, Center for American Progress. US embassy in Belgrade attack. Kosovo.
- Why does Thom say free trade isn't free?
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program - Feb 26 2008
Hour One - Marc Morano www.epw.senate.gov Topic: Thom and Marc debate - Do Climate bills harm the economy?
Guest: Investigative Journalist Greg Palast www.gregpalast.com Topic: Exxon Shipping v. Baker: What's at Stake?
Hour Two - Mike Adams www.dradams.org Topic: Thom challenges Mike on his book - "FEMINISTS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS"
Hour Three - Kathryn Joyce www.thenation.com Topic: Demographic Winter and the Christian Right...Christian conservatives predict a looming catastrophe as birthrates fall in Europe and Muslim immigration rises.
On the Program - Feb 25 2008
Hour One - Guest: Kathryn Joyce www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/joyce Topic: Demographic Winter and the Christian Right...Christian conservatives predict a looming catastrophe as birthrates fall in Europe and Muslim immigration rises.
Guest: Larisa Alexandrovna www.rawstory.com Topic: Reaction to CBS 60 Minutes finally airing the Siegelman piece last night
Hour Two - Guest: Paul Shapiro with The Humane Society http://www.hsus.org & Lene Johansen www.cei.org Topic: A rousing 3 way debate - The Politics Behind Beef Recall Revealed
Hour Three - Guest: Al Regnery Topic - His new book - Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism