Hour One - George Monbiot www.monbiot.com Topic: His attempt to execute a citizens arrest of U.S. Ambassador John Bolton

Hour Two - Guest: Joe Madison - Talk show host "The Black Eagle" www.joemadison.com Topic: Darfur and elections

Hour Three - Jonathan Steele www.guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk Topic: His book "Defeat: How Britain and America lost Iraq"

TONIGHT – Join me Thom Hartmann and our friends at Green 960 KKGN for "A Night of Unity"…featuring Angie Coiro, John Scott and Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton delegates…Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay at 223 Twin Dolphin Drive in Redwood City…tickets are $10 and a portion of the proceeds goes directly to the California Democratic Party…for more information visit www.green960.com http://www.green960.com/

• Upcoming Event: Unity Day in the Bay with Thom Hartmann, May 29th, Redwood City, CA.


• Guest: Michael Ledeen, a senior scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Iran - Why don't Neocons trust democracy?


• Guest: Allison Kasic, Independent Women's Forum. Should the government offer incentives or other encouragement to get more women participating in science/math/engineering/technology college courses?


• Richard Miller of Talk Radio News, just back from Afghanistan.


• Guest: Philippe Sands, QC, Project on International Courts and Tribunals. Author, "Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values",
  Guest: Al Franken. His Senate campaign against Republican Norm Coleman.

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Hour One - Michael Ledeen www.aei.org Topic: Iran - Why don't Neocons trust democracy?

Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Should the government offer incentives or other encouragement to get more women participating in science/math/engineering/technology college courses?

Hour Three - Philippe Sands www.pict-pcti.org Topic: His new book "Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values"

Guest: Al Franken www.alfranken.com Topic: Senate campaign against republican Norm Coleman

Coming Up…May 29th – Join me and our friends at Green 960 KKGN for "A Night of Unity"…featuring Thom Thom Hartmann, Angie Coiro, John Scott and Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton delegates…Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay at 223 Twin Dolphin Drive in Redwood City…tickets are $10 and a portion of the proceeds goes directly to the California Democratic Party…

• Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• Guest: John Cusack. His new movie, War, Inc..
• "Anything goes" Friday.
• Monday May 26 is Memorial Day; the show will be a 'best of'.

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• Guest: Timothy Lee, Center For Individual Freedom. Topic: Why is American industry spending big bucks to kill unions?
• Guest: William Yeatman, energy policy analyst on the energy and global warming team at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
• Obama - Ask Hillary First!
• Sponsor segment: Guest: Laurie Walters, Ironweed Films, a progressive film club.
• Upcoming Event: Unity Day in the Bay with Thom Hartmann, May 29th, Redwood City, CA.
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress, MicCheckradio.org. "News Under the Radar".

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About a decade ago I was in the far, far north of Eastern Australia, at a remote public school serving the Aboriginal village of Lockhart River. All the students were black/Aboriginal and all but one of the teachers was white, all from other parts of Australia. I interviewed several of them, and one made the most interesting observation.

"These kids are from a cooperator culture, not a competitor culture," he said, pointing out that cooperation was what kept Aboriginal society intact and functioning for tens of thousands of years. "When we taught them to play soccer, they changed the rules so that they play until both teams have the same score. That is when they end the game."

We need more cooperation in the world. Consider this example (with special thanks to my old friend and editor Dave deBronkart for the tip on this):

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• Guest: Kari Chisholm, Blue Oregon. Does Oregon Put Obama's White Working Class Problem To Rest? Transcript.
• Guest: Fred Lucas, staff writer, Cybercast News Service. Election results through the lens of both conservative and liberal.
• Guest: Dr. Stephen Frye, author, "Twenty-Five Reasons to Legalize Drugs - We Really Lost This War".

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• How long has the government been lying to us in order to impoverish the middle class?
• Kentucky and Oregon voting today.
• Guest: Hank Stern, managing news editor, Willamette Week. Oregon is one of the most normal states.
• Guest: Mark Dice, founder of the Christian Group "The Resistance". Why is he boycotting the Starbucks' logo... does it really offend him or is he just looking for attention?
• Guest: Jeff Sharlet, the Revealer, author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power".
• "Full Monty Alert": Guest: Jennifer Moss. Naked activism.

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Last Sunday I wrote a short blog suggesting that Obama should consider Hillary Clinton as his VP www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/22/8163/74523/400/520298.

What has startled me even more than the roughly 30/70 "good idea"/"are you nuts?" emails I've gotten in response is the ten percent or so (on both sides, but mostly the latter) who expressed concern that with Clinton (or any "establishment/machine" candidate) on the ticket (a'la LBJ) that Barack Obama would face a fate identical to that of JFK.

Hour One: Guest: U.S. Senator (I-VT) Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

"Anything Goes Friday"

By Thom Hartmann

Last night I found myself screaming at the television. What the commentators seemed to be saying was "Well, yeah, those folks out in Oregon, those mostly white folks out in Oregon, they did vote for Barack Obama, but, you know, they're the exception in this country because they're just so weird. They are so liberal out there in Oregon. You can't use them as any kind of barometer or metric for anything about what could happen in the real election."

Not true.

I wanted to do a reality check. So, I checked in with Kari Chisholm of www.BlueOregon.com, which is the premier political blog in this state, the state of Oregon.

by Thom Hartmann

The issue at hand for the Democratic Party for winning in ‘08 is not losing to McCain but losing to a divided Democratic party. The first thing Obama should do if nominated is put Hillary on the ticket. Will the Republicans have a field day with her on the ticket? Yes! Is their some bad blood in the water due to some negative campaign strategies on the part of the Clintons? Probably. Can Hillary be a tough fighter able to play tough allowing Obama to stay higher above the fray? Yes!

Hour One - Kari Chisomm www.blueoregon.com Topic: Does Oregon Put Obama's White Working Class Problem To Rest?

Hour Two - Fred Lucas www.cnsnews.com Topic: Election results through the lens of both conservative and liberal ...now what?

Hour Three "Everything You Know is Wrong" Dr. Stephen Frye www.25reasons.org Topic:"Twenty-Five Reasons to Legalize Drugs - We Really Lost This War"

• Jus cogens - no exceptional circumstances whatsoever may be invoked as a justification for torture.
• Guest: Professor Ward Churchill. Academic Freedom - Should John Yoo be fired, prosecuted or both?
• Should Hillary be vice president?
• Guest: Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's Forum. School choice, voucher program and should we stop subsidizing colleges?
• Guest: Cliff Schecter. "The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn't".

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