Progressive Commentary Hour

Progressive Commentary Hour - How to steal an election - 09/17/12

How to steal an election – look at voter fraud that the tactics of Karl Rove, the Koch Gang, the GOP (and Dems), ALEC, et al use to swing the elections and ways to protect your vote Greg Palast is a journalist’s journalist, with the BBC and the British newspaper The Guardian, who has been called by the Tribune in the UK “the most important investigative journalist in our time.” He has won many awards including from the Financial Times,  the National Press Club and the George Orwell Courage in Journalism. In the past his investigations have included cover-ups, racketeering, and bribery among the big oil and energy companies and the nuclear industries fraudulent site testing and lies over nuclear reactor safety measures.  His new book is Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps Prof. Harvey Wasserman is a professor of history at Columbus State College and Capital University in Ohio.  He is an investigative journalist, author and has been a national voice in the anti-war and anti-nuclear movements for four decades. He is also a senior advisor for Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service.  Among his many books are “George W Bush vs. the Superpower of Peace” and  most recently  an e-book introduced by Greg Palast  -- “Will the GOP Steal America’s 2012 Elections”

Progressive Commentary Hour - Susan Lindauer - 09/10/12

911 report with Susan Lindauer, former US intelligence asset who gave advance warning about the 911 attacks.

Progressive Commentary Hour - Domestic Surveillance - 09/10/12

Military and intelligence domestic surveillance on the American public

David Rosen is a journalist, author and business development consultant who has specialized in investigating American history and government policy, the media and technology. His articles appear AlterNet, CounterPunch, Huffington Post, The Brooklyn Rail and Counterpoint in India.  He is also the author of the “Media Current” blog for Filmmaker magazine and was a consultant for the Sundance Institute.  In the past, Dave served on the boards and was treasurer for PBS’s Independent Television Service and as well as been an advisor to the Ford, Rockefeller, Johnson and Benton Foundations and a consultant for Rep. Richard Gephardt and Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak

Professor Andrew Kolin is professor of political science at Hilbert College in Hamburg, New York, where he specializes in American political thought, civil liberties, US foreign policy, and constitutional law. Much of his recent work has focused on the conflicts between state power and democracy and the history of the US turning into a police state.  His latest book published this year is “State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W Bush” which traces the history of American politics for sowing the seeds for a national police state from the founding of the republic to the present

Progressive Commentary Hour - Rising Epidemic of Poverty in America - 09/03/12

http://youtu.be/pPphshat4T8

Progressive Commentary Hour - Geoengineering - 08/27/12

http://youtu.be/Zq2v89n5tHg

Progressive Commentary Hour - Special on Hydrofracking - 08/13/12

Special on Hydrofracking – all you will need to know

Guests: Prof. Tony Ingraffea is the distinguished Anthony Dwight Baum Professor of Engineering at Cornell University and head researcher of the Cornell Fracking Group – the nation’s leading computer simulation laboratory identifying the severe environmental risks as a result of hydrofracking. Jennifer Krill is the Executive Director of Earthworks  – a national nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the environment through advocacy and pressure on Congress, particularly concerning oil and natural gas ordinances and legislation.  Formerly she was a campaign director for the Rainforest Action Network. Dominic Frangello is a city council member for the township of Caroline, New York, in a region most directly threatened by industry’s fracking intentions. He is also the leading anti-fracking advocate in an effort to solicit commitments from NY elected officials to protect the state against fracking.

Progressive Commentary Hour - America's war and foreign policy on Syria - 08/06/12

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is an award winning author, sociologist and geopolitical analyst. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Geopolitica in Italy, a contributor the Moscow-based Strategic Cultural Foundation and an associate with the Center for Research on Globalization. Among his books are The Globalization of NATO, and a forthcoming book on the War on Libya and the Re-colonization of Africa. Russ Baker is a leading investigate reporter and analyst in alternative media best known for his coverage of the Hutu-Tutsi massacres in Rwanda, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the overthrow of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He is the founder of the progressive news site WhoWhatWhy.com, author of the bestseller Family of Secrets about the Bush family, and teaches journalism at Columbia University. Finian Cunningham is an Irish investigative reporter and journalist living in East Africa, and the Middle East and East Africa Correspondent for the Center for Research on Globalization in Montreal.

Progressive Commentary Hour - Pathology of Power - 07/30/12

Dr. Jim Garrison is the co-founder and president of Wisdom University. As the co-founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation, he was instrumental in the founding of the State of the World Forum in 1995, which generated a global network of leaders and visionaries from all walks of life to define a template for a more sustainable global civilization. in 2000, he initiated the launch of the Commission on Globalization which challenged the existing global governance system and gathered diverse stakeholders and scholars together to identify and design variable alternatives. Jim has graduate degrees in religion and theology from Harvard and Cambridge universities. His first book in 1980 was "The Plutonium Culture" and later most recent publications are "Civilization and the Transformation of Power" and "America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Nation" Dr. Paul Ray is widely acknowledged by many in the progressive community as a leading visionary and futurist exploring the future of human civilization. He is the founding director of the Institute of the Emerging Wisdom Culture at Wisdom University. Formerly Dr. Ray was a former executive of American Lives Inc., a market research and opinion firm specializing in analysis of lifestyles, values and expectations in American society and was a chief policy research on energy conservation for the Department of Energy, mines and resources for the canadian government. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Ray spearheaded research and consultations for over 100 projects. After surveying over 100,000 Americans dring a 13 year period, he identified an emerging subculture permeating much of the American society that are known as Cultural Creatives, which is the title of his book: "The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World."

Progressive Commentary Hour w/Gary Null - RAY McGOVERN & DAVID VINE on Obama's Militarism - 07/23/12

The military legacy of President Obama and expansion of the American empire with distinguished guests Ray McGovern and Prof. David Vine. Vine is professor of Anthropology at American University and author of 'Island of Shame: the Secret history of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia' Ray McGovern served as an Army intelligence officer and a CIA analyst from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Among his duties was preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s most senior national security advisers. Since retiring from government service, he has been one of our nation’s most vocal peace activists and journalists. As an act of conscience, in 2006 Ray returned the Intelligence Commendation Medallion given him at retirement for “especially meritorious service.” In 2003, he helped create Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose the way intelligence was being falsified to “justify” war on Iraq. Ray’s opinion pieces appear in many leading newspapers here and abroad, including a major section in an important book, “Neocon’d Again” dealing with America’s war in Iraq. He holds degrees in theology and philosophy from Fordham University, is a graduate from Harvard Business School and has a certificate of theology from Georgetown University.

Progressive Commentary Hour - Preparing for serious Solar and CME Storms - 07/16/12

Matthew Stein is an engineer with a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a National Merit Scholar. He is the owner of Aloha Aina Builders, which specializes in hurricane resistant, energy efficient, and environmentally friendly homes, and is also president of Stein Designs which invents consumer and commercial water and bacteriological filtration systems, photovoltaic roofing and other energy efficient and sustainable products. Matt writes extensively on sustainable preparedness and self-sufficiency in the face of predictable and unpredictable catastrophic scenarios and conditions. in addition to writing on the future of perfect storms for the Huffington Post, he is the author several exhaustive books on how people can prepare themselves for having to rely on our own resources and ingenuity, most notably "When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability and Surviving the Long Emergency" and "When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide to Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival"