Great Speeches and Interviews

Juan Cole on the Middle East

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:26:13 PST

Juan Cole

Peter B. Collins

The conversation between Juan Cole and Peter B. Collins concerned Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Israel, Palestine, the CIA and drones.

Juan Cole has testified before the U.S. Senate and knows Arabic and Persian. He blogs at Informed Comment and is a historian of South Asia. He has been a guest on PBS News Hour, ABC Nightly News, Nightline, the Today Show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, the Colbert Report, Democracy Now! and many others. He lived in various parts of the Muslim world for nearly 10 years.
Source: Foreign Policy Roundup: U. Michigan’s Prof. Juan Cole

Cancer Alley Case Gets Surprising Support from EPA Administrator Jackson

Mossville, Louisiana sits in the shadow of 14 petrochemical refineries. For decades, Mossville residents have complained about their health problems to industry, and to state and federal agencies. They reached past the U.S. regulators to take their case to the highest human rights court in the western hemisphere, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Now a candid comment from the highest U.S. environmental regulator appears to have boosted their petition. Living on Earth and Planet Harmony’s Ike Sriskandarajah reports.
Source: Obama Administration Divided Over Cancer Alley Case

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Music includes Solar Twins - Casbah, Bobby McFerrin - don't worry be happy, Rise Against - Hero Of War, Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us, MLK Mix, Gandhi Tells British Authorities To Leave India, Thomas Pace - Home No More, George Carlin, Living On Earth - Cancer Alley Case Gets Surprising Support, Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues, Billy Kennedy - Down By The Riverside, Beatles - Piggies, Terry Gangstad - Soap Mouthwash, Frank Sinatra - I did it my way

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How Money Corrupts Congress

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:30:12 PST

Jack Abramoff

Are members of the U.S. Congress using inside information to get rich? Mike Pesca talks about dirty politics and big money with a panel including former super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Source: Dirty Politics And Big Money

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig talks to Charlie Rose

Lawrence Lessig of Harvard University is the author of the book "Republic, Lost; How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan To Stop It"
Source: A conversation with Lawrence Lessig

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Music includes David Rovics - The War Is Over, Groucho Marx - Against, Dan Rheault - Antiwar, Conspiracy of Silence - The John Kasper Band, Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir - Life Ev'ry Voice and Sing, Monty Pythons - The Galaxy Song, Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome, Jimmy Carter, Johnny Cash - Ive Been Everywhere, Joan Baez - Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Elvis Presley - America The Beautiful, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Chimes Blues, Vera Lynn - We'll Met Again

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The Great Disruption

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:01:54 PST

Tom Boden

Huge Increase In Global CO2 Emissions

Tom Boden tells Bruce Gellerman that the increase in carbon dioxide is larger than the worst-case scenario suggested by United Nations scientists. Tom Boden is a Scientist and Science Team Leader at the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Source: Huge Increase In Global CO2 Emissions

Paul Gilding

Richard Heinberg

Think economic crisis meets the environmental crisis. Economic growth as we’ve known it is over says Paul Gilding and Richard Heinberg. Paul Gilding is a Professor at Cambridge University Program for Sustainability Leadership. Richard Heinberg is at the Post Carbon Institute and he is journalist and educator.
Source: The Great Disruption

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Music includes Pat Scanlon - War is Not the Answer Never Was Never Will, Bob Marley & The Wailers - War No More Trouble, Gene Autry - When The Mailman Says No Mail Today, The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps, One Love One World, Simon & Garfunkel - Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Rock The Casbah, The Lion King - Hakuna Matata, Tom Lehrer - So Long Mom (A Song For World War III), Jeff Foxworthy- Protect the House, Willie Nelson and Leon Russell - Heartbreak Hotel, Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle

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A look at Iran, Iraq and suicide terrorism

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:15:48 PST

The Other Scott Horton

Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton

The Other Scott Horton is an international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine. They discuss the assassination Iranian nuclear scientists and the justification for the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki's sixteen year old son and unchecked executive power.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton

Adam Lankford

Scott Horton Interviews Robert A. Pape and Adam Lankford

Two professors and authors debate the root cause of suicide terrorism and whether it results from U.S. foreign policies and military occupations or is instead a manifestation of personal mental health issues.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Robert A. Pape and Adam Lankford

Gareth Porter

Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the 20 year U.S. campaign of death and destruction in Iraq. He also talks about how Nouri al-Maliki tricked the Bush administration into negotiating a troop withdrawal deadline and why the gigantic U.S. embassy is destined to become a museum of U.S. atrocities.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter

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Music includes Sherreece - Wings, Country Joe & the Fish - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag, William Clinton - 2nd Inauguration, Big Bill Broonzy - Black Brown And White, Martin Luther King - I have a dream, The Lion King - I Just Can't Wait to Be King, Judy Collins - Amazing Grace, Michael Jackson - Why You Wanna Trip On Me, cisco houston - beans bacon gravy

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Ralph Nader and the Billionaires

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:34:26 PST

Two billionaires, Ted Turner and Peter Lewis talk with Ralph Nader. They discuss the activism, Iraq War, marijuana, hemp, nuclear power and health insurance and more.

Ralph Nader is the founder of the consumers' rights movement. He played a key role in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Freedom of Information Act and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He has harshly criticized the two major political parties for preserving a campaign finance system that makes them both dependent on wealthy contributors.

Ted Turner

Ted Turner founded of the cable news network CNN and the cable channel TBS. He owns 2.1 million acres of land across 12 states and also 100,000 acres in South America. According to Forbes magazine he is worth $2.1 billion. The United Nations Foundation was started with a $1 billion grant from Ted Turner to support the United Nations in executing its programs worldwide.

Peter Lewis

Peter Lewis is the chairman and CEO of Progressive Corporation, the fourth largest U.S. personal auto insurer and he's worth $1.05 billion. He has donated multi-millions to Princeton University, Marijuana Policy Project, American Civil Liberties Union, MoveOn and many more charities and political groups.
Source: RALPH NADER, TED TURNER & PETER LEWIS

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Music includes R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It, John Fogert - Deja Vu (All Over Again), Jimi Hendrix - If 6 Was 9, Gil Scott-Heron - The Liberation Song (Red, Black And Green), Beatles - Rocky Raccoon

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Life and Death in Afghanistan

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:27:48 PST

Gareth Porter

Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the expansion of U.S. drone strikes. Initially the strikes were limited to Al Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban but now they include groups allied with the Pakistani military. He states that U.S. economic conditions will force military budget cuts and curtail the empire of bases and he asks for a citizens’ movement to end war and empire.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter

Anand Gopal

Scott Horton Interviews Anand Gopal

Independent journalist Anand Gopal discusses the American creation of an unsustainable Afghanistan that’s guaranteed to collapse when U.S./NATO money stops flowing. He reminds us of the fact that Afghan corruption gets worse as foreign aid increases.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Anand Gopal

Ray McGovern

Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern, who is a former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses how the U.S. government is once again fixing the facts around the policy. He explains why Petraeus made analysts stop honest assessments of the failing Afghanistan War. He urges us to get out and protest government wrongdoing.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern

Afghanistan

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Music includes Peace on Earth - U2, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger, Hey Ma - James, John Mayer - Waiting World Change, taacc01, Gandhi Advocates Policy of Nonviolence, To Give Us Peace - Jan Seides, Change The Story - Geoff Scott, My Home Town - Tom Lehrer, Steve Earle - Jerusalem

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Views on the War in Libya

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:34:55 PST

Jeremy Scahill

Scott Horton Interviews Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill discusses Yemen, President Saleh, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Al Qaeda, Obama, Bush, Ed Schultz, Libya.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Jeremy Scahill

Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Scott Horton Interviews Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Rep. Dennis Kucinich discusses his attempt to provoke debate in Congress concerning the authority to declare war. He voted to defund the Libyan War.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Glenn Greenwald

Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald talks about Obama and War Powers Act and the Libyan War. He also comments on WikiLeaks Julian Assange and journalism.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald

Nick Turse

Scott Horton Interviews Nick Turse

Nick Turse discusses how JSOC, the Joint Special Operations Command became the president’s own private army. He also comments on why the precision airstrikes in Libya were probably guided by special operations forces on the ground.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Nick Turse

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Music includes Wildman - like a wave MSTR, CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE - The John Kasper Band, House Of The Rising Sun - Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA, Johnny Cash - the night they drove old dixie down, jimi hendrix - castles, Woody Guthrie - Vigilante Man, Jaws - Theme Song, Neil Young - after the garden, U.S.A. for Africa - we are the world, mariachi - adelita, Dean Martin - That's Amore, Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert, Chronology chunk - Omette Coleman, Mexican Shuffle - Herb Alpert

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Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Manage One

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:27:56 PST

They’re arresting the Occupy Movements for trampling grass in public squares. But the finance industry who trampled the U.S. economy in the collapse of Wall Street have yet to be punished says William Black.
Source: Prosecuting Financial Titans

Bill Black talks about the Banksters with Peter B. Collins

Bill Black, former Savings & Loan regulator talks about failure to prosecute fraudsters. Black is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Black was litigation director for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board from 1984 to 1986, deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation in 1987. Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. He takes on Attorney General Holder and the U.S. Attorney in Sacramento for failing to investigate and prosecute financial crimes.
Source: Straight Talk on Banksters from Prof. Bill Black

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Music includes Joan Baez - One Tin Soldier, Jesus of Nazareth-1977, baker street - Gerry Rafferty, Greensleeves - Richard Dyer-Bennett, Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier - Barthelson, Hello Dolly! - Louis Armstrong, Universal Soldier - Donovan, Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust, Willie Nelson Julio Iglesias Blue Spanish Eyes, We'll Meet Again

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Rage and rebellion across the Islamic world

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:51:09 PST

I must confess that I have my own views of the Muslim world. Like most countries they want self-determination. That is the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government. Self-determination is an idea that can't killed with bombs or bullets or autocratic leaders.

Robin Wright

Robin Wright talks with Charlie Rose about the Islamic world
Source: Robin Wright

Al McCoy

SubordiNations

Al McCoy talks about how empires are maintained, why the U.S. empire is in decline, and what the consequences might be depending on how we respond to that decline. Al McCoy is a professor of history at the University of Wisconson–Madison, and author of 'Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State,'
Source: TomCast for April 24, 2011: SubordiNations

Robin Wright talked about the recent Middle East uprisings and she responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
Source: Rock The Casbah

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Music includes Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers, Rock The Casbah - Clash, Edwin Starr-War What Is It Good For, casbah - Solar Twins, folsum prison blues, Peace - George Harrison, Judy Collins - Both Sides Now, ron white naked eating cheetos, Burning of the Midnight Lamp - Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson - Bridge Over Troubled Water

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Jeffrey Sachs on U.S.-style capitalism

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:47:23 PST

Sachs gives a startling account of the inadequacies of U.S.-style capitalism. He offers a bold plan of sustainable infrastructure, taxes, job training that he says must be taken to avoid further damage. One of the most influential international economic advisors, Sachs was the director of the UN Millennium Project and is the president and co-founder of Millennium Promise Alliance.
Sources: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs
and Jeffrey Sachs interviewed by Charlie Rose

"At the root of America's economic crisis lies a moral crisis: the decline of civic virtue among America's political and economic elite. A society of markets, laws, and elections is not enough if the rich and powerful fail to behave with respect, honesty, and compassion toward the rest of society and toward the world. America has developed the world's most competitive market society but has squandered its civic virtue along the way. Without resorting and ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery." ~ Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University, Special UN Advisor; Author, The Price of Civilization

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Music includes Lenard Cohen - Everybody Knows, Youngbloods - Get Together, Dave Lippman - My Favorite Songs, How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live - The New Lost City Ramblers, they don't care about us - Michael Jackson, Willie Nelson - Angels Flying too Close to the Ground

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Environmentalists Paul Hawken & Bill McKibben talk about the economy

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:09:49 PST

Paul Hawken & Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org and author of "Eaarth", and Paul Hawken, entrepreneur and author of "Blessed Unrest", talk about the ailing economy and the economy we must build to succeed. Greg Dalton moderates this discussion.
Source: Blessed 350: Bill McKibben and Paul Hawken

Mayan Long Count Calendar

Prophecies and Predicting the End of the World

The Mayan Calendar comes to the end of its 5125 year cycle in December 2012. Prophecies based on the ancient calendar, warn the world will end then. Bruce Gellerman travels to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza to track down the truth.
Source: Predicting the End of the World

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Music includes With God On Our Side - Aaron Nevill, Jesus-1977, War - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Swan Songs - Hollywood Undead, Peacesong - Enemy Me, War Warning from Madison, Let There Be Peace On Earth - Vince Gill, Teach Your Children - Crosby, Stills & Nash

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Ralph Nader and the Police State

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:26:52 PST

Scott Horton Interviews Francis Boyle

Francis Boyle discusses how in 2004 the FBI and CIA tried to make him an informant to betray his Arab and Muslim legal clients. His refusal landed him on several terrorism watch lists and guaranteeing him a lifetime of harassment when traveling. He asks if we are already living in a police state, which will become a military dictatorship after one more major terrorist attacks. Currently Professor Boyle lectures on international law at the University of Illinois College of Law.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Francis Boyle


Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader talks with Bob McChesney

Ralph Nader was named by The Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century. Nader has organized millions of citizens into more than 100 public interest groups to advocate for solutions. His efforts have helped create laws, regulatory agencies, and federal standards that have improved the quality of life for generations of Americans. Because of Ralph Nader we drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments.
Source: Ralph Nader on Media Matters with Bob McChesney

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Music includes Vote Republican 2.0 by Roy Zimmerman, They Lied - jay mankita, Will Rogers, The Times They are a-changin' - Bob Dylan, Ali-2001, New Orleans - Freeman Z, Osama Bin Laden - Comedy, Mystery Babylon - Peter Tosh, Dreas Bells Of War, Mariachi Tamazula-Alma Llanera, Joe Hill - Joan Baez

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Robert Reich talks about the sick economy

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:31:21 PST

Robert Reich

Harry Kreisler interviews Robert Reich about political change and the structural causes of the 2008 economic collapse. Reich recounts early experiences with the Clintons. He concludes with an evaluation of the importance of political leadership, and grass roots mobilization.
Source: Politics, Policy, and the Great Recession with Robert Reich (Conversations with History)

Tavis Smiley, Andrew Ballen, Cornel West

China and the Hip-Hop Culture
Tavis Smiley talks to Andrew Ballen, a Black entrepreneur, who went from North Carolina to Shanghai. He explains his view of Chinese culture and race.
Source: China – The Hip-Hop Culture

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Music includes Willie Nelson - Peaceful Solution, Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock, Nelson Mandela, Peace - George Harrison, The Matrix Trailer, Jose Ortega- His Mariachi Band - Mexican Hat Dance, Bobby Mcferrin - Blackbird, Welcome to Post Legal America, In The Year 2525 - Zager & Evans, Bush and Saddam - Everton Blender, Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir - Say Yo' Business: Live!, Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle

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A Search for the Happiest Places in the World

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:03:07 PST


Eric Weiner

NPR National Correspondent Eric Weiner and Ted Asregadoo talk about the book, "The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World."
Source: The Geography of Bliss

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Music includes The Compassionate Conservative - In The Garden of Eden(Zinn-Nader), John Prine - Sam Stone, Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon, Nelson Mandela, Jesus(1977), Holy Wars...The Punishment Due - Megadeth, rainbowstew - Merle Haggard, Soldier Blue - Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Baez -There but for fortune, Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd, Vietnam - Jimmy Cliff, Willie Nelson - City of New Orleans

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A long-term view of climate change

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:49:08 PDT

Tim Flannery

Dr. Tim Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, paleontologist, environmentalist, professor and global warming activist. He was named Australian of the Year in 2007.

Flannery explains that over the last 10,000 years humanity has built a “super-organism” – a level of organization similar to that of ants, termites, or bees. The glue that holds the super-organism together is the division of labor, interdependence. As “we form this one great super-organism, where we are all interconnected, we gain the capacity to deal with environmental challenges.” Flannery sees international progress in addressing climate change and expects more in the future.
Source: Dr. Tim Flannery: A Natural History of the Planet

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Music includes Lenard Cohen - Everybody Knows, Imagine - John Lennon, Jesus Christ - Woody Guthrie, The Cowardly Lion On Courage, On The Face Of It - The Evens, Hit Or Miss - Odetta, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan, supaclean - beat the bushes, What's Going On - Marvin Gaye, Marx Brothers (The) - The Original Voice Tracks From Their Greatest Movies - The Collected Speeches Of Groucho, Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair - Canticle, We'll Met Again, Tijana Taxi - Herb Alpert, Mambo Rage

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The War of the Worlds Original Broadcast

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:48:32 PDT

First Broadcast 73 year ago on October 30, 1938 by The Mercury Theatre on the Air

When first broadcast, some listeners heard only a portion of the broadcast, and took it to be an actual news reports. Newspapers reported that panic ensued, people fleeing the area, others thinking they could smell poisonous gas or could see flashes of lightning in the distance.
Source: The War of the Worlds (October 30, 1938)

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Music includes Don't You Ever Let Nobody Drag Yo's Spirit Down - Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir, Suicide is Painless - Mike Altman, usa for africa - we are the world, Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix, Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock, Upside Down - Joe Higgs, In the Blink of an Eye - Ryan Harvey, Larry David- Earth to America, What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong, George Carlin - Faith Based, We Shall Overcome - Guy Carawan, The Mooche - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Requiem For A Dream

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How lobbyists and huge campaign contributions manipulate politics and the economy

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:09:49 PDT

Jacob Hacker

Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

Bob McChesney talks with Jacob Hacker, Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Jacob Hacker has made important contributions to public policy ideas in the areas of healthcare, social welfare and economic opportunity. Jacob has spent his career researching how the institutions of social protection work, practically and economically.

Paul Pierson

Paul Pierson is noted for his research on comparative public policy and political economy, the welfare state, and American political development. Pierson is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley.

The bottom line is that lobbyists and campaign contributions by the wealthy have changed the structure of the economy for the worse.
Source: Winner-Take-All Politics: Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

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Music includes New New New War War War, Joan Baez - Saigon Bride, zinn-cspan-patriot4, War Song - Graham Nash, basic training cigarettes, Masters of War, with my own two hands, Change The Story - Geoff Scott, Peace - The Best of George Harrison, Piggies - The Beatles, Protest Song - Brendan Quinn, Classical Guitar - Tango Flamenco, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Popcorn, Spirituals Medley - Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir, Movie Songs - Mission Impossible Theme, We'll Met Again

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End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:09:38 PDT

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council. Kennedy was in San Francisco to promote The Last Mountain, a new film that features his efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Dirty fuels should be forced to cover their full costs, Kennedy says. Dirty fuels cannot compete without subsidies. Kennedy argues our democracy is broken, and the campaign finance system is a system of legalized bribery.
Source: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council

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Music includes Vote Republican 3.0 by Roy Zimmerman, matisyahu-one day, Dave Lippman-Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs, wille-whatever happened, goodbye blue sky, Frank Zappa - Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, The Times They Are A-Changin', Jimmy Cliff - Vietnam, Max Roach, We Will All Go Together When We Go, Peace And Love, We'll Meet Again

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The Afghanistan War after 10 years

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:01:01 PDT

Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern and Prof. Jonathan Stevenson talk to Peter B. Collins. They talk about Afghanistan and Gen. David Petraeus. McGovern served 27 years in Army intelligence and at the CIA.


Jonathan Stevenson

Professor Stevenson teaches strategic studies at the Naval War College, and has a background as a journalist. He notes that the generals are becoming bolder in overstepping their roles, and that presidents are becoming more passive to this kind of behavior. They talk about Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Syria.
Source: Two Critical Views of Gen. Petraeus: Ray McGovern and Prof. Jonathan Stevenson; plus Will Durst on Birthers

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Music includes caffeine, prine - flag decal heaven, gods a gonna cut you down, Pete Seeger Live - new protest song about BP oil spill in gulf coast on Banjo w James Maddock guitar, black eyed peas - where is the love, september song, We'll Met Again

What Would Gandhi Do?

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:25:56 PDT

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Gandhi was born Oct. 2, 1869. In celebration of his 142nd birthday, this program explores non-violent resistance through the eyes of Gene Sharp and includes a few short excerpts from the movie Gandhi.

Gene Sharp

What Would Gandhi Do About Iraq and Weapons of Mass Deception?

It doesn’t have to take guns and tanks to effect change, according to Sharp. Sharp was interviewed by Tom Ashbrook in late 2002 before the second Iraq War.

Gene Sharp is president and founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a nonprofit organization that promotes non-violent struggle in the face of dictatorship, war, genocide and oppression.
Source: What Would Gandhi Do?

Gene Sharp speaks on civilian-based defense

He asks why hasn’t war been abolished? He notes that nuclear deterrence is a desperate and bankrupt policy and power derives from obedience and cooperation of people, not from violence.
Source: Gene Sharp Lecture on Civilian-Based Defense

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Music includes excerpts from the movie Gandhi, Po Polu, passing through

Fighting Global Poverty With Science

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:30:53 PDT

Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo is a Professor of Economics at MIT and is a recipient of the MacArthur genius award and many other awards. She has co-authored the book, POOR ECONOMICS: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. She was interviewed by Terrence McNally, a journalist and radio host.
Source: Q&A: ESTHER DUFLO, Author

Scott Horton

Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton

The Other Scott Horton is an international human rights lawyer and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine. They discuss the spreading of American ideas through education instead of with bombs. Also they talk about why a one-world government is not a realistic possibility.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton

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Planting for the Future

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:34:33 PDT

Wangari Maathai

Hear a Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Wangari Maathai who founded a grassroots organization(Green Belt Movement) that empowers African women to improve their lives and conserve the environment through planting trees. She speaks about the balance of human and natural resources, and her feelings about God. Interviewed by Krista Tippett.
Source: Planting the Future

Neo Johnson and Zjaeriq Sanders

Let 4th Graders Read A Credit Card Agreement

Is your credit card agreement readable? Does it really have to be so long and complicated? 4th graders read a credit card agreement and say what they think of it.
Source: The Friday Podcast: 4th Graders Read A Credit Card Agreement

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Beware of the military-industrial complex

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:51:25 PDT

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address was delivered January 17, 1961. He explains the military-industrial complex to a U.S. audience.
Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address


Gareth Porter

Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses Eisenhower’s extraordinary farewell address and the overblown Soviet threat and missile gap hoax scare. They discuss the revelations that the British mission in Afghanistan was simply to give the Army something to do and the three choices for fighting back against state militarism: abolish government, protest for change, or expatriate.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter

Ray McGovern

Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern is a former senior analyst at the CIA. He discusses the Dept. of Justice's decision to use military tribunals instead of federal court trials for the alleged 9/11 plotters. He also discusses where the U.S. empire of bases intersects with the domination of oil and gas resources.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern

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An alternate history of the U.S.

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:56:21 PDT

Thaddeus Russell

Cindy Sheehan's first guest is Thaddeus Russell, he's an historian, cultural critic, and author of "A Renegade History of the United States."

Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Cindy Sheehan's next guest is Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, and he discusses the U.S. military intervention in Libya. His biggest objection is that the entire power to make war is given by our Constitution to Congress not to the President. The founders and the Constitution clearly valued the importance of putting the war powers in the hands of the Congress.
Source: Double feature

Kevin Bales

Kevin Bales talks about slavery. He is an anti-slavery advocate and the president of Free the Slaves. He is also a Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University in London.
Source: Kevin Bales, Anti-Slavery Advocate

Governor Schwarzenegger

Does chemical pollution affect young male sexuality? Scientists continue to sound the alarm about some chemical exposures that may effect reproductive health and development.
Source: Hormone Disruptors Linked To Genital Changes and Sexual Preference

Climate Solutions: Do It Locally
Cities and states must carry the torch to cut carbon emissions and fight climate change. That's the message from Governor Schwarzenegger's third and final Governors' Global Climate Summit, at UC Davis. Reporter: Gretchen Weber
Source: Message from Climate Summit: Do It Yourself

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George Orwell's "1984" Nightmare

great.speeches@yahoo.com — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:57:25 PDT

1984

Great Speeches and Interviews is committed to showing the dark side of civilization. In pursue of that goal we present the radio play of George Orwell's "1984" from the NBC University Theater starring David Niven. He cautions that any government can become totalitarian.

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power....The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -George Orwell, 1984
Source: Audio Book - 1984 George Orwell .mp3

Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald is interviewed by Dylan Ratigan. They discuss how the hopes from 2008 presidential campaign were crushed in 2011.
Source: Glenn Greenwald: Cultivating Hope While Perpetuating Unfairness Is Cruel

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