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• Broadcasting live here and simulcast on • Roots Up Radio and Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, Sweden

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We spoke with Douglas Valentine author of Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues That Shaped the DEA. Through interviews with former narcotics agents, politicians, and bureaucrats, this exposé documents previously unknown aspects of the history of federal drug law enforcement from the formation of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) up until the present day. Written in an easily accessible style, the narrative examines how successive administrations expanded federal drug law enforcement operations at home and abroad; investigates how the CIA comprised the war on drugs; analyzes the Regan, Bush, and Clinton administrations’ failed attempts to alter the DEA’s course; and traces the agency’s evolution into its final and current stage of “narco-terrorism”.

at 5 PM MST Michael Hardt is Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University. When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth. Drawing on scenarios from around the globe and elucidating the themes that unite them, Hardt and Negri focus on the logic of institutions and the models of governance adequate to our understanding of a global commonwealth. They argue for the idea of the “common” to replace the opposition of private and public and the politics predicated on that opposition. Ultimately, they articulate the theoretical bases for what they call “governing the revolution.” Though this book functions as an extension and a completion of a sustained line of Hardt and Negri’s thought, it also stands alone and is entirely accessible to readers who are not familiar with the previous works.

·         Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form.

·         What the protesters in Genoa want – The Democracy Reader

It is certain to appeal to, challenge, and enrich the thinking of anyone interested in questions of politics and globalization. NOTE: Great interview of Michael on Charlie Rose: July 24, 2001 (which doesn’t seem to embed well, so click *here*).

At 6 PM MST Jeff Sharlet returns! Author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, we’re looking forward to another fantastic conversation with a well-loved Friend of the Show.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. —Matthew 10:36

The Family is about the other half of American fundamentalist power—not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. Sharlet follows the story back to Abraham Vereide, an immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the far right with his own polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of establishment power, a “family” that thrives to this day. In public, they host Prayer Breakfasts; in private, they preach a gospel of “biblical capitalism,” military might, and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao as leadership models, The Family’s current leader, Doug Coe, declares, “We work with power where we can, build new power where we can’t.” We will discuss his newest Salon article on the Stupak Amendment and the newly revealed Democratic Party’s connections to the Family The Democrats’ new “Family” values

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At 3 PM PACIFIC Broadcasting live here and simulcast on http://www.Rootsupradio.com and Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, Sweden

At 4 PM Craig Renke. In 2006 Citizen Investigation Team launched an independent investigation into the act of terrorism which took place at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. This exhaustive three-year inquest involved multiple trips to the scene of the crime in Arlington, Virginia, close scrutiny of all official and unofficial data related to the event, and, most importantly, first-person interviews with dozens of eyewitnesses, many of which were conducted and filmed in the exact locations from which they witnessed the plane that allegedly struck the building that day. Be forewarned: Our findings are extraordinarily shocking and frightening. They are also deadly serious, and deserving of your immediate attention. This is not about a conspiracy theory or any theory at all. This is about independent, verifiable evidence which unfortunately happens to conclusively establish as a historical fact that the violence which took place in Arlington that day was not the result of a surprise attack by suicide hijackers, but rather a false flag “black operation” involving a carefully planned and skillfully executed deception. If you are skeptical of (or even incensed by) this statement we do not blame you. We are not asking you to take our word for it, nor do we want you to do that. We want you to view the evidence and see with your own eyes that this is the case. We want you to hear it directly from the eyewitnesses who were there, just as we did. Please understand that this information is not being brought to your attention simply for educational purposes.

at 4:30 Michael Persinger – My primary philosophical goal is to discern the commonalities that exist between the sciences and to integrate the fundamental concepts. I assume that the human brain, its microstructure and intricate activity are the source of all human knowledge. To that end I have emphasised geophysics because it is a central focus for the physical sciences and neuroscience (originally physiological psychology) because it is a central focus for the emerging biosocial sciences. One of the major consequences of this bilateral interest has been the pursuit and discovery of subtle interactions between the geophysical/meteorological environment and human behavior.

Because scientific explanations and attributions are transient labels applied to the largely inferred and unseen shared sources of variance within numerical data (or verbal responses that serve as nominal data), I have pursued methodology and multivariate (statistical) approaches. Magnetic fields were selected as a focus because they are one of the few stimuli that evoke changes across all levels of scientific discourse. This perspective was summarized in ELF and VLF Electromagnetic Field Effects (1974) and Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events (1977). These approaches in conjunction with the goal of integrating concepts have influenced my decision to investigate interdisciplinary problems and to apply these skills both within academic and practical settings.

Within academic settings, I organized the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at Laurentian University. This program was one of the first to integrate Chemistry, Biology and Psychology. The program was developed because there is a subset of students with integrative capacity who are not “A” students but who are extraordinary problem solvers who love to learn. Within clinical settings, I became a Registered Psychologist, specializing in Clinical Neuropsychology, in order to facilitate the integration of neurology, neuropsychology and psychology and to develop quantitative methods whose results could help facilitate the adaptation of people who have sustained mild to moderate brain traumas. Within the commercial setting, we have pursued the possibility that control of experience, from depression to memory, may be simulated by transcerebral application of complex magnetic field patterns associated with activity of either endogenous or exogenous ligands at the synapses.

·         This Is Your Brain On God.

·         God On The Brain – BBC

We also spoke to Michael Nagler taught at UC, Berkeley, for over forty years, and founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program in which he taught the upper-division nonviolence course as well as meditation and seminars on the meaning of life. Prof. Nagler has spoken and written widely for campus, religious, public and special interest groups on the subject of peace and nonviolence for many years, especially since 9/11. He has consulted for the U.S. Institute of Peace and many other organizations and is President of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education (www.mettacenter.org) and of PeaceWorkers, and on numerous other boards, and has co-founded Educators For Nonviolence. He has worked on nonviolent intervention since the 1970’s and served on the Interim Steering Committee of the Nonviolent Peaceforce. In addition to his many articles on peace and spirituality, he is the author of America Without Violence (Island Press, 1982), The Upanishads (with Sri Eknath Easwaran, Nilgiri Press, 1987) and The Search for a Nonviolent Future (Inner Ocean Publishing) which won the 2002 American Book Award and is being used in courses and reading groups around the world and has been translated into Italian, Korean, Croatian, and Arabic — among other books. In July, 2005 he co-hosted, with Rabbi Michael Lerner, the first national conference on Spiritual Activism, which has lead to the creation of a Network of Spiritual Progressives. Michael Nagler is a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran, Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, and has lived at the Center ashram in Marin County since 1970. He gives workshops for the Center’s meditation program around the World.

We also spoke with Marc Maron He has been host of The Marc Maron Show, and co-host of both Morning Sedition, and Breakroom Live all politically-oriented shows, produced under the auspices of Air America Media. He was also the host of Comedy Central’s Short Attention Span Theater for a year, replacing Jon Stewart. Maron has been a frequent guest on the Late Show with David Letterman and made 42 appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, (more than any other stand-up performer). He was a regular guest on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and hosted the short-lived U.S. version of the British TV Rock Trivia gameshow Nevermind The Buzzcocks on VH1. Maron has been featured in his own specials on HBO and Comedy Central, as well as on comedy showcases such as the Cam Neely Foundation fundraiser, which also featured such performers as Jon Stewart, Denis Leary, and Steven Wright. He can briefly be seen in the film Almost Famous as the “Angry Promoter” who engages in quasi-martial arts fisticuffs with Noah Taylor, then chases the tour bus yelling “Lock the gates!” In May 2008, he toured with Eugene Mirman and Andy Kindler in Stand Uppity: “Comedy That Makes You Feel Better About Yourself and Superior to Others.” In January 2009, a collaboration with Sam Seder which had begun in September 2007 as a weekly hour-long video webcast became Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder, produced by Air America. Until its cancellation in July 2009 the show was webcast live, weekdays at 3PM Eastern, with episodes archived for later viewing as well. In its final incarnation, the show was quite informal, taking place in the (actual) break room of Air America Media, with the cafeteria vending machines just off-camera. This meant occasional distractions when Air America staff and management alike would occasionally come in for food and drink. Maron and Seder also held court in an online “post-show chat” with viewers, in an even less formal continuation of each webcast, after the credits had rolled. His first one-man show, Jerusalem Syndrome, had an extended off-Broadway run in 2000 and was released in book form in 2001. In 2009 he began workshopping another one-man show, Scorching The Earth. According to Maron (in Scorching The Earth) these two shows “bookend” his relationship with his second wife, Comic Mishna Wolff, which ended in a bitter divorce. During his career, Maron frequently appeared in the live alternative standup series he’d organized with Janeane Garofalo called “Eating It,” which used the rock bar Luna Lounge in New York’s Lower East Side as its venue from the 1990’s until the building was razed in 2005.

at 5 PM Ray DelPapa, from SOA Watch he was the main organizer for Saturday’s Miami Honduras Convergence Event   www.SOAW.org

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At 3:30 Judy Rebick Judy Rebick is a well-known social justice activist, writer, broadcaster and speaker. She is currently the CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University, and the publisher of rabble.ca, Canada’s most popular independent online news and discussion site. Judy is the author of several books and articles, most recently Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political (Penguin 2009). Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005). Her other books are Imagine Democracy (Stoddard 2000) and Politically Speaking (Douglas & McIntyre 1996). Transforming Power is the result of the last two or three years of Rebick’s travels around the world looking for new approaches to political and social action and her life time of experience as an activist. Rebick hopes it will inspire dialogue and action about the new paths to social change that we need to transform and create a better world. http://www.TransformingPower.ca

At 4 PM Noam Chomsky has been engaged in political activism all of his adult life and expressed opinions on politics and world events which are widely cited, publicized and discussed. Chomsky has in turn argued that his views are those which the powerful do not want to hear, and for this reason he is considered an American political dissident. Some highlights of his political views: • Power, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate. The burden of proof is on those in authority to demonstrate why their elevated position is justified. If this burden can’t be met, the authority in question should be dismantled. Authority for its own sake is inherently unjustified. An example of a legitimate authority is that exerted by an adult to prevent a young child from wandering into traffic. • That there isn’t much difference between slavery, and renting one’s self to an owner, or “wage slavery.” He feels that it is an attack on personal integrity that destroys and undermines our freedoms. He holds workers should own and control their own workplace, a view held (as he notes) by the Lowell Mill Girls. Very strong criticisms of the foreign policy of the United States. Specifically, he claims double standards in a foreign policy preaching democracy and freedom for all, while promoting, supporting and allying itself with non-democratic and repressive organizations and states such as Chile under Augusto Pinochet, and argues that this results in massive human rights violations. He often argues that America’s intervention in foreign nations, including the secret aid given to the Contras in Nicaragua, an event of which he has been very critical, fits any standard description of terrorism. http://www.chomsky.info

 At 5 PM The Last Internationale is a radical folk duo (Edgey and Delila) from New York. Rejecting the belief that musicians should be mere entertainers or controversial only for the sake of healthy political discourse, the group prefers to mix music with (dis)organized resistance. Their intent isn’t simply to change your mind, but to inspire acts of rebellion that will bring down empires. TLI recently released their debut album, which is available on their website @ Manifestarecords.com as well as other online outlets such as CD Baby. Edgey is also a published author. His first book is titled Fighting for Freedom: Because A Better World is Possible, published by Planting Seeds Press and distributed by AK Press. His second book, Negative Dialectics, is scheduled for release next year. http://www.myspace.com/thelastinternationale

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