Aug 15, 2013
Ethan Zuckerman: Rewiring, Connection Expansion and How Unconnected We Are

Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab and author of Rewire; Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, talks about how, in spite of all the opportunities the internet gives us for connection, we're usually not that connected, and tells us what to do about it.

Aug 8, 2013         1 
Michael Austin-- Misquoting the Founders-- That's Not What They Meant

Michael Austin, is the author of That's Not What They Meant; Reclaiming the Founders from America's right wing.

Aug 7, 2013
Robert McChesney, on Jeff Bezos Acquiring the Washington POst

We're going to start off talking about Amazon Owner Jeff Bezos' acquisition of the Washington Post, and then about his latest book, Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America,

Aug 7, 2013
Michael McCray, on Whistleblowing and the ACORN8

Michael McCray is an attorney, author of Race Power and Politics, and one of the organizers of the Whistleblower Summit for Civil and Human rights.

Jul 31, 2013
Update on Progress and Challenges for Whistleblowers-- Interview with Tom Devine

Update from Tom Devine, Legal Director Government Accountability Project.

Jul 25, 2013         3 
Update on Public Banking in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia

It wasn't a tax on tea. It was something Ben Franklin told the British. When they shut it down in the American colonies, within months, the colonists were so pissed, the revolution was brewing. It was over public banking. That's what Mike Krauss, who's spearheading the Public banking charge in PA says.

Jul 24, 2013         6 
Rise of the Warrior Cop; Interview with Radley Balko

This is a terrifying interview with a man who has done his homework and shares just how bad the police state has become-- Let's start with over 50,000 violent SWAT team home invasions a year, a police culture funded by the drug war that has become militarized, the existence of what amounts to SWAT porn, and guess which president has raised the budget the most for further militarization--

Jul 18, 2013
The Power of the Herd; Non-Predatory Power and Horse Sense; Intvw With Linda Kohanov

a fascinating, fun discussion of what we can learn from horses and herds-- about power, conncetion, dominance, leadership, psychopaths, and courage.

Jul 10, 2013         3 
Senator Bernie Sanders

A progressive PAC, NSA, Public Banking, Students, Economics and more.

Jul 10, 2013         5 
CIA Veteran Ray McGovern on Ed Snowden, NSA and Lying Spying Liars

what has Ed Snowden revealed that we did not know before. How has he changed things? Who has lied and deserves to be fired. What about the act of war NSA engaged in, and would Obama even know if NSA started a war, based on how things are going?

Jul 3, 2013         1 
Part 2 Interview With a Sociopath

M. E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath, is a pseudonym for a woman who reports that she is in her early thirties, a law professor and former law firm attorney. The publisher claims this is the first book written as a memoir, by a sociopath. The book reports that she was tested by a psychologist who determined she meets the criteria for being a psychopath.

Jun 27, 2013         9 
Interview with a Sociopath

M. E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath, is a pseudonym for a woman who reports that she is in her early thirties, a law professor and former law firm attorney. The publisher claims this is the first book written as a memoir, by a sociopath. The book reports that she was tested by a psychologist who determined she meets the criteria for being a psychopath.

Jun 26, 2013
Nicco Mele:The End of Big-- How the internet Makes David the New Goliath

Nicco Mele says that Radical Connectivity is changing everyting-- ending the power of big, giving power to small.

Jun 20, 2013         2 
Interview with Sandra Brown, On Sociopaths, Psychopaths and other Cluster B Personality Disorders-- How They Hurt Victims

There are millions of sociopaths, psychopaths and narcissists who make life miserable at best and, who, at worst, hurt, financially destroy and mentally damage tens of millions of Americans. Sandra Brown trains psychotherapists to help the victims of these people who are diagnosed as Cluster B Personality Disorders. She discusses how to identify them, how to deal with them and more

Jun 20, 2013
Clive Boddy, Author, Corporate Psychopaths

I interview business researcher Clive Boddy, discussing the effects of corporate psychopaths.

Jun 19, 2013         1 
Nick Grossman; The Peer Economy, Disruptive Technologies and Top Down Backlashes

Nick discusses the emerging peer to peer economy, it's disruptive effects on existing systems and economics, and how top down forces are resisting these bottom up aspects of progress.

Jun 13, 2013
Zipcar Founder Robin Chase on Bottom up Approaches to Business

Robin Chase is founder of Buzzcar, and before that Zip Car. She's been listed among Time Magazine's 100 most influential people. I heard her speak at this years personal democracy forum and she blew me away with her presentation, talking about new kinds of bottom up approaches to doing business.

Jun 12, 2013
WITH AUDIO! Katherine Eban; Generic Drug Investigative Reporter On Generic Drug Production Corruption

Katherine Eban has done extraordinary investigative journalism looking at corruption in the production of generic drugs. She talks about how the corruption affects healthcare, all about the FDA and healthcare in America.

Jun 12, 2013         2 
Jeremy Scahill and Dirty Wars, the Movie, Covered Up Killings, Ed Snowden, and the Future of American Democracy

Jeremy Scahill's new movie, Dirty Wars just came out. It's an incredible documentary that makes you realize the massive courage and intelligence Scahill brings to his work. Scahill talks about the secret dirty wars being fought all over the world, with unsupervised killings. What are unsupervised killings? Ones that President Obama does not even know about.

Jun 5, 2013         9 
Paul Craig Roberts; Disinformation, False Flags and a Government that Decieves

An hour conversation with Paul. He estimates that the budget for disinformation exceeds $100 billion a year-- that it's done by CIA, FBI, Military, agencies-- as well as corporations like Monsanto

May 29, 2013         1 
Medea Benjamin-- Tips on How to Speak Out/Interrupt a President and Other Powerful People and Hearings

A few days after Medea Benjamin interrupted President Obama during a major policy speech, I spent an hour picking her brain for tips, strategies and advice on how to use this power form of activist theater.

May 22, 2013
Present Shock- Interview with Douglas Rushkoff; on Conspiracy theories, Preppers and the end of story

Douglas Rushkoff's book, Present Shock, is brilliant, covering the way our culture is changing-- with in depth discussion on narrative and story, how the "Hero's Journey" narrative is fading, being replaced by something very different. Just as, about 40 years ago, Alvin Toffler's Future Shock described the way our rush into the future was changing and shocking us, Rushkoff's book describes the radical changes in our culture.

May 9, 2013         33 
Sociopaths, Anti-Social Disorder-- The Guy Who Wrote the Book

A wide ranging interview exploring the many aspects of the 8.5 Million plus sociopaths in the US. There are some shocking and frightening facts in this interview.

May 8, 2013         1 
Michael Meade; Apocalypse, Living in the Shadow of Democracy, and why the world doesn't end

a wide ranging interview with a guy I've wanted to interview for almost ten years-- a big picture visionary who weaves myth, anthropology, story and etymology so we see our world in new, deeper, more meaningful ways.

May 1, 2013
Ellen Brown; Public Banking, Bail-outs and Bail-ins

we talk about public banking, derivatives, bail-ins, Cyprus, student loans, globalization--

Apr 11, 2013
Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael, on Invisible Success and Memes We Live By

This was a real treat. Daniel wrote an essay in response to our email exchange about this interview-- on Invisible Success. We discussed his work, his books, and this essay that ties so much together. Whether you're an Ishmael fan (and you should be) or not, this interview will be a real treat.

Apr 3, 2013         4 
Lee Fang; Mapping the Right Wing Cancer Metastasizing Throughout the States

Lee Fang has become one of the best investigative reporters the progressives have going for them. I discuss his new book, which maps out and details the hundreds of new and old right wing operations, funded with hundreds of millions of dollars-- which are metastasizing within every state in the nation.

Mar 27, 2013         7 
Paul Craig Roberts On The Biggest Bubble, Globalization, Left and Right,

A wide ranging discussion on the biggest bubble in the world, globalization, the biggest bubble,

Mar 13, 2013         1 
Les and Susan Schor Fehmi: Bottom up vs. top down attention and ways of focusing

There are different ways to pay attention. Knowing how can change the way you see, feel and even cope with and experience pain.

Feb 27, 2013
Don Lafferty Web/Social Media Wizard

Don is one guru I go to to learn what's new with social media, on-line marketing-- and I'm not alone. He's a consultant to some of the biggest publishing houses and top selling authors as well. It's been a few years since our last interview so we connected for an update.