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Budgeting for National Security and the Environment

jonah — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:31:02 +0000

This week, President Obama released a budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, so we’ll be going inside out in two particular areas of the budget–defense and military spending, and environmental and energy spending.

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Winslow Wheeler – Director of the Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information
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Elgie Holstein, Senior Director for Strategic Planning, Environmental Defense Fund
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The NDAA, Indefinite Detention and the Fiscal State of the Union

jonah — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:40:10 +0000

On the week of President Obama’s 3rd State of the Union, we’ll begin the show with a “Fiscal State of the Union” from the former head of the GAO.

Freeing Prisoners and Freeing the Internet

jonah — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:44:00 +0000

This week, we’ll discuss the proposed SOPA/PIPA legislation in Congress, the potential thaw in US-Myanmar relations and continuing efforts to bring justice to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

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Tim Karr – Campaign Director, FreePress
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Timothy Karr manages all online initiatives for Free Press

Corporations and the American Dream

jonah — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:51:41 +0000

On this week’s show, we discuss the history of the corporation in America and how the public’s attitudes towards business and corporations has evolved through time.

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James Hoopes – Author, Corporate Dreams: Big Business in American Democracy from the Great Depression to the Great Recession; Professor of Business Ethics, Babson College
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Arley Johnson – Executive Director, Advocates for the Other America; Former WV State Legislator
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Gross National Happiness

jonah — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:22:04 +0000

While the “pursuit of happiness” is engrained in our national spirit as a universal human right, we don’t share a universal way of measuring that happiness. Over time, our definition of happiness changes as it’s pulled by social, media and cultural forces. Is it even possible to quantify happiness so as to improve our policy choices? This week, we’ll examine the metrics and mechanics of happiness with the Queen of Bhutan and a professor of psychology and expert on what makes us happier.

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Sonya Lyubomirsky, Professor, UC Riverside; Author, The How of Happiness

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She currently teaches courses in social psychology and positive psychology and serves as the Department of Psychology

Transforming Our Economy, Transforming Ourselves

jonah — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:37:36 +0000

On this week’s show, we discuss the potential moment of transformation in our political economy and hear one man’s spiritual principles for personal wealth and success.

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Gar Alperovitz -Co-Founder, Democracy Collaborative; Author, America Beyond Capitalism
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Gar Alperovitz has had a distinguished career as a historian, political economist, activist, writer, and government official. He is currently the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland. He is also the president of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives and is a founding principal of the University of Maryland-based Democracy Collaborative, a research institution developing practical, policy-focused, and systematic paths towards ecologically sustainable, community-oriented change and the democratization of wealth.

Bill Wiese – Author, Recession-Proof Living
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Since 1970, Bill Wiese has been as a real estate broker, primarily in residential properties. His wife Annette has also enjoyed selling new homes for a builder during the past 14 years. Both have served in various aspects of the local church including worship, teaching, and prayer. He’s although the author of the best-selling book “23 Minutes in Hell.” In 2007, Bill and Annette began traveling full-time and have transitioned into full-time ministry.

The Biology of Belief

jonah — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:21:14 +0000

On this week’s show, we’re presenting an interview from our partners at Ode Magazine with an expert in the relationship between the genetic core of our bodies and how our mental and environmental conditions can change it.

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Dr. Bruce Lipton, Author, The Biology of Belief
Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences.

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(This interview was conducted by Jurriaan Kamp of Ode Magazine; this program was originally broadcast on October 5th, 2011)

Can Democracy and Capitalism Co-Exist?

jonah — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:55:48 +0000

This week, we feature a talk by a veteran journalist and author who’s writings have long focused on how capitalism and democracy can collide.

Bringing Change through Sports

jonah — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:45:24 +0000

This week we’re exploring how sports can change lives. We’ll hear stories of building soccer fields in under-served communities, helping high school students use sports as a gateway to a college education and a historical look at player-management relations.

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Drew Chafetz -Co-Founder & CEO,

The Economics of Peace and Development

jonah — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:51:49 +0000

This week on the show, we’ll be exploring new ways of thinking about the relationship between economic growth and peace. Is maintaining national security really the same thing as projecting more military strength? Do changes to the global economic order come down to imbalances in foreign trade or material wealth? Or, perhaps, are our security and our wealth more about ideas and shared opinions than the exact amount of weapons or resources we possess?

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Lloyd Dumas – Professor, University of Texas at Dallas; Author, The Peacekeeping Economy
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Lloyd J. Dumas is a Professor of Political Economy, Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dumas had published eight books and over 120 articles in eleven languages in books and journals of seven different disciplines. He has discussed the policy implications of his work on more than 300 TV and Radio programs in the United States, Russia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific.

Dierdre McCloskey – Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago; Author, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
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Deirdre N. McCloskey has been since 2000 UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was Visiting Tinbergen Professor (2002-2006) of Philosophy, Economics, and Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Trained at Harvard as an economist, she has written fourteen books and edited seven more, and has published some three hundred and sixty articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law. She taught for twelve years in Economics at the University of Chicago, and describes herself now as a “postmodern free-market quantitative Episcopalian feminist Aristotelian.”