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Info on Podcast #47

October 7, 2009

One on one with Ravi Batra.  Professor Batra of SMU is the controversial economist who accurately predicted the fall of the Shah, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the 2008 real estate bubble.  He explains how his forecasts are based on the “law of social cycles” and predicts the imminent fall of American capitalism, [...]

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Info on podcast #46

October 2, 2009

In collaboration with Truthout.org, we talk with Truthout reporter Sam Ferguson in Buenos Aires about the war crimes trial of Gen. Rovere.  Rovere was a high-ranking military leader during the 1970′s, and was indicted, then pardoned in the 1980′s.  In 2007  the pardon was revoked, and he is on trial for the “disappearing” of hundreds [...]

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Podcast #45

October 2, 2009

Confirmation of the credibility of Sibel Edmonds and her charges. In this program, former FBI counterintelligence specialist and manager John M. Cole gives strong support to the charges that Sibel outlined in our Podcast #40 and in the recent article in the American Conservative. Cole cites two extremely high level sources at FBI who confirmed [...]

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Info on Podcast #44

October 2, 2009

This one really rocks! Writers Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor talk with PBC about the punk rock scene in San Francisco in the 1970-80′s. The no-holds-barred conversation includes explicit language, as do some of the songs you will hear. Boulware and Tudor’s new book is called Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless [...]

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Info on Podcast #43

September 29, 2009

One on one with Prof. David Ray Griffin, focusing on the two most recent of his 35 books: The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 is Unscientific and False and Osama bin Laden, Dead of Alive? Building 7 is the gateway to busting the myths of 9/11 [...]

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Info on Podcast #42

September 28, 2009

PDA Special Report. Here’s a special dispatch from the western conference of Progressive Democrats of America, www.pdamerica.org.  Activists from CA, OR, WA and AZ gathered to talk policy and strategy.  The meeting was hosted by the California Nurses Assn, and CNA Political Director Michael Lighty updates us on the health care reform battle, including the [...]

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Info on Podcast #41

September 26, 2009

Journalist Reese Erlich, just back from Afghanistan, and analyst Conn Hallinan talk about the so-called “good war”. And filmmaker Joe Berlinger talks about his new documentary, CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil and the 17-year legal battle over Chevron-Texaco’s toxic mess in the Amazon Basin.  Erlich reports on his on-scene observations and comments on reactions [...]

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Info on Podcast #40

September 26, 2009

Sibel Edmonds ungagged! In this exclusive one on one interview,  Sibel tells the story of her hiring at the FBI, the administrative missteps and criminal behavior she became aware of, Turkey’s use of bribes and personal matters to compromise members of Congress and a top State Dept. official to advance its interests, and her revelations [...]

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Info on Podcast #39

September 24, 2009

Melanie Sloan of CREW reveals the 15 Most Corrupt elected officials in Washington, DC; then Harper’s writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus takes us to Washington, California, where everybody’s growing pot; and Prof. Larry Bogad of UC Davis talks about political theater, including the recent scam edition of the New York Post. Sloan also gives the details of [...]

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Info on Podcast #38

September 24, 2009

David Cay Johnston comments on Wall street bailouts and weak prospects for new regulation;  Prof. Joshua Clover details plans by faculty, students and employees to shut down the entire University of California statewide on September 24;  Bob Hertz of HealthCareCrusade.com shreds the Baucus proposal and advocates for us, the consumers; and PBC rants about the [...]

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