The Story of Carl – On Workers Memorial Day
Carl loved books and loved history and, after spending two years in the army as part of the American occupation forces in Japan immediately after World War II, was hoping to graduate from college and teach history, perhaps even at the university level if he could hang on to the GI Bill and his day [...]
Transcript: Barbara Honegger, “October Surprise”, Apr 25 2006
Vice President Dick Cheney has hired Iran-Contra arms dealer and discredited intelligence asset Manucher Ghorbanifar as his "man on the ground" in Iran. Barbara Honegger wrote about him in her book, "October Surprise: Did the Reagan-Bush election campaign sabotage President Carter's attempts to free the American hostages in Iran?"
The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever
Book by Cass R. Sunstein
Review by Thom Hartmann, originally published at buzzflash.com on April 19, 2006.
Transcript: Laurie David, film “Too Hot Not to Handle”, Apr 17 2006
Laurie David is the executive producer of the new documentary, which is about global warming. It is focused on the United States and features Tom Potter and the City of Portland. Hybrid vehicles. Flex fuel cars. Renting cars.
Transcript: Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, “Coyote Wisdom”, Apr 14 2006
Dr. Mehl-Madrona is a medical doctor and psychiatrist with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology who has written three books about Native American wisdom, story, practices and ritual; "Coyote Medicine", "Coyote Healing", and "Coyote Wisdom". The stories that we live contribute to our health and disease. The role of ceremony and ritual.
Democracy Be Damned – Republicans Need Another War
George W. Bush is at it again. This time, reports Sy Hersh in The New Yorker, it’ll be Iran. (Those of us who guessed it would have been Syria first apparently underestimated his hubris.) And this time he wants to be able to use nukes.
Transcript: James Balog, National Geographic, trees, Apr 07 2006
James Balog is a photographer with National Geographic. His latest book is "Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest". America has 95% deforestation across the country at large; people have forgotten. Shifting to coal and oil has reduced cutting of forests, but the new young forests are different to the old, and have less [...]
Transcript: Trade policy rant, Apr 05 2006
Thom riffed on, "are our trade policies, international trade policies, threatening the survival of this nation?" China's holding of American debt. The difference between the budget deficit and the national debt versus the trade deficit.
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