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Boiling Frogs: “Jersey Girl” Lorie van Auken Still Looking for Truth About 9/11

August 26, 2011

Lori van Auken, whose husband was killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11/01, continues to search for the truth.  This powerful interview is part of the Boiling Frogs series, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds.

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Should Aldous Tyler Challenge Obama in Primaries? Roger Shuler Updates Alabama Bingo Trial, Examines Rick Perry’s Pay-to-Play Corruption

August 24, 2011

Aldous Tyler, the Wisconsin activist, is considering a primary challenge to Obama–woud you support it?  Roger Shuler of Alabama returns to update us on the “Bingo trial”, incoherent actions of the Holder Justice Department, and Gov. Rick Perry’s legal problems–if he were treated the way former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was.

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Journalist Ralph Steiner Gives Us an In-Depth Recounting of the UFO Event at Roswell, New Mexico

August 22, 2011

Ralph Steiner is a journalist with a background in physics who has investigated the 1947 Roswell UFO event for many years.  With credit and thanks to Steiner’s archives, we include interview clips from many credible people, framed by the rich detail of Steiner’s commentary.  It’s a follow-up to our interview with Annie Jacobsen about her [...]

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Ex-Evangelical Leader Frank Schaeffer Says Michelle Bachman Lies About “Submission” and More; Will Durst Unloads on Congress

August 19, 2011

Frank Schaeffer used to be an insider in the religious right–son of Reconstructionist preacher Francis Schaeffer, who is cited as a major influence on Michele Bachman.  He issues a powerful indictment of her fundamentalism, and starts by calling her a liar about “submission” to her husband.  Will Durst comments on the 12-member “Super Congress”.

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Tom Frank, Harper’s Columnist, on Obama’s Decline and the Age of Enron; Journalist/Activist Mike Elk on the HuffPo Strike and ALEC

August 16, 2011

Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter With Kansas and The Wrecking Crew, returns to talk about his next book, the problems with Obama, and his recent Harper’s column on the Age of Enron.  Mike Elk, journalist and activist, talks about the writer’s strike at Huffington Post and about the role of ALEC in filling [...]

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Prof. Stephen Zunes On Drone Deaths, AfPak, Iraq, Syria and Much More; Email Responses to Call for a Primay Challenge to Obama

August 15, 2011

J. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and Chair of Middle East Studies at University of San Francisco, returns to talk about an array of foreign policy issues, starting with the false claim from Obama advisor John Brennan that there have been no civilians killed by drone strikes in the past year and the inability of [...]

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Henry Norr on the Thwarted Gaza Flotilla; Harvey Wasserman on NO NUKES Reunion Concert

August 12, 2011

Henry Norr tells how Greece, Israel, Turkey and the US blocked this summer’s Gaza Freedom Flotilla from sailing to Gaza; Harvey Wasserman on the NO NUKES concert and efforts to block new nuke plants in the US.

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Middle East Update with Phyllis Bennis on Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Israel, Turkey, Iraq and more…..Will Durst on Obama “The Concessionaire”

August 8, 2011

Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, returns with a detailed recap of recent events in the Middle East and America’s wars;  Will Durst compares Obama’s concessions in the deficit struggle with the great cave-ins of recent history, including the one at the coal mine in Chile last year. 

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Progressive Dems in California Call for a Primary Challenge to Obama; Bob Fitrakis with New Evidence of Election Theft in 2004

August 5, 2011

Presidential campaigns, future and past.  PBC comments on the recent resolution by progressive Democrats calling for a primary challenge to Obama next year;  Dr. Bob Fitrakis presents new evidence of GOP election fraud in Ohio in 2004, which delivered a second term to Bush and Cheney.  

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Tea Party Radicals, Dancing on the (Debt) Ceiling; Jason Leopold’s Exclusive Causes Air Force to Suspend Ethics Training with Christian Themes

August 4, 2011

Just back from vacation, PBC opens with a bad Lionel Richie tune and a rant on the sordid deficit deal–Obama is a bad negotiator who was forced to accept a lose-lose-lose deal.  Jason Leopold of Truthout on his latest exclusive investigative report: the Air Force uses Bible quotes and other religious messages to train missile [...]

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