Mar 12, 2014         1 
Adolph Reed; Nothing Left-- The long, slow surrender of American liberals

Adolph Reed recently published an article with Harpers, titled, Nothing Left-- The long, slow surrender of American liberals. He was just on the Bill Moyers show and he spent over an hour discussing the article and other issues with me.

Feb 26, 2014         2 
Edward Slingerland; Trying Not To Try--

Edward Slingerland is professor of Asian Studies and Canada Research Chair in Chinese thought and Emobdied cognition at the University of British Columbia. He is author of author, Trying not to Try, and head researcher on a three million dollar international study on the evolution of religion and morality

Feb 19, 2014         8 
Noam Chomsky; On Hopeful News, Billionaires and Psychopaths

Noam Chomsky comes back for another visit to my show. We talk about Hopeful news, Billionaires and what to do about them, wealth inequality, not caring and Psychopaths

Feb 12, 2014
Anis Shivani: Top-Down and Bottom-up Publishing

wrote that publishing is a Top Down system, saying in his Dailybeast article, "This model of literary production is doomed. The idea that there should be centralized, massively consolidated, bureaucratic organizations known as the major trade houses, with multiple layers of editors, vast publicity departments, and books fed to them by an entity known as literary agents, only to take repeated losses and rely on a few stars...

Jan 29, 2014         1 
Keith Farnish-- Undermining the System

Keith is a unique Scottsman, working to undermine the system. He's written a book, Undermining and we talked about it and his ideas about it and tools of disconnection.

Jan 22, 2014         2 
Whistleblower Former NSA Exec Thomas Drake On Obama's Speech, Bengazi, 911 and more- part 1

Thomas Drake was one of the whistleblowers Edward Snowden mentioned, who inspired him. Drake was one of a handful of people charged under the espionage act. Ultimately all charges were dropped. He's a patriot and a hero. Returning to Bottom Up Radio, he discusses Obama's NSA speech, Bengazi, 911, abuse of data by law enforcement and NSA's violation of the constitution.

Jan 22, 2014         5 
NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake Interview Part 2

The second part of my 2.5 hour interview with Thomas Drake

Jan 19, 2014         13 
Attorney to Gov.Blagojevich: "Chris Christie Could Face RICO or Mail/Wire Fraud Charges"

Chris Christie is in trouble, according to someone who should know.

Jan 15, 2014         3 
NSA Whistlebower-- William Binney: Corruption in NSA, Lies About Snowden, Threats to Democracy

Bill Binney is a brilliant, intense, yet at the same time funny man bent on saving america from the totalitarianism that organizations like NSA are taking us toward. He reveals how corporations make NSA decisions, the system of corruption at unaudited NSA and other spy agencies, the lies by those who suggest Ed Snowden should have gone through the system.. and much more.

Dec 18, 2013
James Fallon, Psychopath Neuroscientist

James Fallon is a brain scientist who was getting work assessing brain scans of psychopathic killers. Then he realized, his own brain scan looked like those psychopaths' brains. He's written a riveting book, The Psychopath Inside, about his journey facing a reality that includes discovering a family tree adorned with murderers, including LIzzie Borden.

Dec 11, 2013         4 
interview With FBI Profiler of Psychopaths, Mary Ellen O'Toole

Mary Ellen O'Toole teaches FBI agents about psychopaths. She's profiled serial killers.

Dec 4, 2013
Keith Poole-- Political Researcher-- How Conservative is Obama?

Keith Poole does research on how members of congress vote and how presidents take stands on congressional roll-call ballots. It made for some fascinating discussion about northern and southern politics, gerrymandering, Hillary vs. Elizabeth Warren.

Dec 4, 2013         1 
Ellen Brown-- Detroit Bankruptcy Brings "Bail-ins" To The USA

Ellen Brown, THE leading expert on public banking, discusses the effects of the Detroit Bankruptcy, which a judge just authorized to move forward.

Nov 27, 2013         1 
Corporate Spying on Activists-- Intvw W Gary Ruskin

Gary Ruskin, Director of the Center for Corporate Policy, recently issued a report on Corporate Espionage against non-profit organizations

Nov 20, 2013         4 
Andrew Kreig-- Presidential Puppetry

We talk about the puppet masters behind the last 30 years of presidents, about JFK, about Roger Shuler

Nov 13, 2013
Jim Lesar-- A FOIA-- Freedom Of Information Act Request Master-- tips and history

The FOIA request can be a great tool to find out what the government has records on. Jim Lesar's been using them for decades, and the system has changed over that time. He talks about the history of FOIA and offers tips on how to make FOIA requests.

Nov 6, 2013         1 
Ellen Miller; Transparency and Open Government-- Armaments Against Corporate and Plutocratic Powers

I've long wanted to interview Ellen Miller because she leads an incredibly important organization-- one that is providing major armaments in the fight against plutocracy and corporate top-down power and the alliances they make with their enablers in government. sunlightfoundation.com is a resource you want to know about as is Ellen's work.

Oct 23, 2013         1 
Multiple Intelligences Genius Howard Gardner-- Are Apps Producing an App Generation?

I interview one of my favorite geniuses-- Howard Gardner, developer of Multiple Intelligence Theory, on his new book, App Generation, with his co-author Katie Davis-- who specializes in digital effects on adolescents.

Oct 16, 2013         4 
Coleen Rowley-- Just Back from Meeting With Ed Snowden in Moscow

Coleen Rowley just got back from meeting with Edward Snowden, in Moscow. She shares what she learned

Oct 9, 2013         3 
The Internet Bites Back-- Pratap Chatterjee on Data Profiteers

Pratap Chatterjee is executive director of corpwatch.org. He's been doing great work investigating how corporations, many of them military complex companies, are now engaging in "data profiteering."

Oct 2, 2013         1 
Christopher Pyle Church Committee WhistleBlower-- On Spying on members of Congress

Christopher Pyle is a Whistleblower from a different time. he testified at the Church Committee hearing exposing the US military's spying on civil rights and anti-war activists. He has a take on the current situation, how NSA spying could influence elected politicians-- that's worth hearing.

Sep 25, 2013         1 
Peter Ludlow, on Systemic Evil, Whistleblowers and Hacktivism

Peter Ludlow has some very interesting ideas and observations on young people's responses to Snowden, Manning, etc., and he brings an interesting perspective and info on hacktivism- activism via hacking

Sep 18, 2013         6 
Heidi Boghosian; Spying on Democracy

Heidi Boghosian has written a brilliant, powerful expose, spelling out how the surveillance and police state has metastasized throughout far too much of our culture. We cover a lot of ground in this interview just over 30 minutes.

Sep 12, 2013         1 
Ian Hughes-- A World Damaged by Psychopaths. We have the Answer

Ian has a big picture and a detailed understanding of how psychopaths have caused incredible damage, suffering and pain... and he has solutions.

Sep 11, 2013
Frans De Waal; Primates, Fairness, The Evolution of Morals

a discussion of morals, and behavioral tendencies that lead to morals that exist in animals, which, in fact, go back over 200 million years.

Sep 5, 2013         8 
Elliot Fineman-- The Starbucks Boycott, Because of their Pro Gun Stance, Is Gaining Traction

Starbucks is allowing guns in their establishments. There's a movement to boycott Starbucks to stop it. I talk with the organizer.

Aug 28, 2013         1 
Pamela Jaye Smith; Mythic, Archetypal & Symbolic Aspects of Evil, Bad Guys, Sociopaths and the Dark Side

the title says most of it. I interview my go-to expert on mythic and symbolic dimensions of culture.

Aug 22, 2013         1 
Marcy Wheeler/Empty Wheel; The Really Bad Committee Obama is Creating To Review NSA Policy

an in depth discussion of Obama's creation of a committee to purportedly review surveillance policies-- but that's really designed to make us more comfortable with them continuing doing what they have been doing. Her article about Cass Sunstein, the guy who advocated for using sock puppets to confuse and disrupt online Conspiracy Theory discussions.

Aug 22, 2013         5 
Greg Palast; Summers, Obama, Rubin-- The Bankster Monsters From Hell

Greg has uncovered a bombshell memo that shows how vile Larry Summers is. His article gives the details. This interview covers what's in the memo and then expands to give background on the roots and top levels of one of the most malevolent conspiracies in the world.

Aug 21, 2013
Robert Fuller on Rankism and Dignitarianism

What is Rankism? What is dignitarianism? The answers show us a future we must strive for.