Thursday Lineup

4 PM ET:  Uprising Radio

4:30 PM ET:  Democracy Now

5:30 PM ET:  Free Speech Radio News

6 PM ET:  The Majority Report

7 PM ET:  The David Pakman Show

8 PM ET:  Occupied Territory

9 PM ET:  Background Briefing

10 PM ET:  Against the Grain

11 PM ET:  Making Contact

11:30 PM ET:  Culture Shocks

12:30 PM ET:  The Turning Point

Tuesday Line-Up

Democracy Now (~9:30 AM ET)

Background Briefing (~10:30 AM ET)

The Real Stratfor Scandal; More Corporate Tax Cuts?; Fact-checking Romney's Union Bashing

The David Pakman Show (~11:30 AM ET)

--Susan Saladoff, director of the documentary Hot Coffee joins us to discuss the scam that is "tort reform."

--Anneke Green, Assistant Editorial Page Editor for the Washington Times, is on the show to talk about whether the Republican Presidential field is moving too far to the right for the Republican base and the general voting public.

--David previews an upcoming show announcement, and talks about getting his car towed over the weekend, which he filmed, including him paying the cash-only towing fee with $155.58 in coins that he transported in a pillowcase.

--Reviewing giveaway suggestions for the next David Pakman Show giveaway.

--Ben and Jerry's apologizes for Lin-sanity frozen yogurt flavor after putting fortune cookie pieces in it, and we discuss whether that is actually insulting, and whether replacing it with lychee honey, another Asian food product, is less insulting.

--The myth of sleeping eight hours.

--Mitt Romney explains that his wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

--A new poll indicates that Rick Santorum came from behind in an Alabama three-way, while Santorum blasts Romney in a Cumming, Georgia rally.

--Pennsylvania man claims to have had a decade-long romantic relationship with Rick Santorum, and while the story is fake, David was really hoping it was true.

--Rick Santorum explains that separation of church and state makes him want to throw up.

--Rick Santorum explains higher education is simply a liberal plot to secularize America.

--Voicemails and emails on Louis' $10,000 bet, jail for masturbation, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Ron Paul, Muslim attacking atheist, much more.

Freedom News Hour (~12:20 PM ET)

Is the Greek financial crisis really resolved? Don’t be so sure. Also, the $40 billion national mortgage settlement is likely going to cost taxpayers money. The guys will talk about how that will likely work.

The Majority Report (~1:15 PM ET)

Blogger, professor and Middle East specialist, Juan Cole on the regime crackdown in Syria, expulsion of Hamas and Afghanistan reaction to Qur’an burning.  Plus, Wikileaks’ massive email dump.

Against the Grain (~2:00 PM ET)

Last February, thousands of protestors occupied Wisconsin's state capitol trying to prevent the passage of legislation gutting collective bargaining rights for public sector workers. It was tremendously inspiring, but ultimately unsuccessful. Labor educator Michael Yates looks back at the upsurge in Wisconsin and ruminates on the lessons to be drawn from it, especially for unions.

Community Currency (~3:00 PM ET)

F29 - Shut Down the Corporations Day of Action

Guest: David Osborn

On January 1, 2012, Occupy Portland put forward a bold call to action to shut down corporations on leap day, Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Occupy Portland is “leaping into action” for a not-to-miss day of civil disobedience to alert the world that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) must stop existing and that we as a society can reclaim our power over government!

Over 50 US cities are joining Portland and even Mexico City is uniting to end ALEC.

David Osborn is an instructor at Portland State University where he teaches courses on culture, narrative and social movements. He was been deeply involved in the Occupy Movement and is also active in the Climate Justice Movement with Rising Tide North America.

Black Agenda Report (~4:00 PM ET)

Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide; UNAC Peace and Social Justice Conference in CT; Left-Right Unity Over Preventive Detention?; U.S. Attempting a Replay of Libya Regime Change in Syria; Day 247 for Marathon Newark Demonstrations; Dictatorship Reigns in Michigan

Occupied Territory (~5:00 PM ET)

You can’t have wealthy people without poor people– it’s a fact of life. And it is way past time to lighten the load of the rich and transfer what they have to those who have nothing or very little.

This is what the Occupy movement is all about.

A conversation about the “maximum wage”– a lid on what any one person can accumulate– with Sam Pizzigotti, editor of Too Muchl, a weekly magazine about income inequality (associate with The Institute For Policy Studies).

The News Dissector (~5:45 PM ET)

Gary Stein joins Danny to talk about Alan Greenspan and how Ayn Rand’s beliefs influenced our nation’s economic culture

This Way Out (~6:40 PM ET)

Out and Off-Off-Broadway with playwright Robert Patrick, including his personal story and illuminating behind-the-scenes anecdotes; marriage equality becomes the law of Mary-land, Maine advocates push to restore theirs at the ballot box, another U.S. federal court disses DOMA, registered Queensland couples get recognized, marriage equality is on the menu for Australia's P.M., India's government does damage control after its legal mouthpiece messes up, and more global LGBT news.

The Solution Zone (~7:00 PM ET)

Guest: Ari Berman, Author, The Nation

Topic: 2012   The Year of the Big Donor

The hold the Super PACs have on this year’s election means that every major candidate needs his or her own billionaire to compete.

The Nation’s Ari Berman discusses outrageous campaign expenditures expected in 2012 and the influence these donors hope to buy in Washington DC.

Citizen Radio (~7:30 PM ET)

Citizen Radio contributors Austin G. Mackell and Aliya Alwi join the show to talk about their arrests in Egypt. Sign the petition to Australia's Prime Minister to act on Austin's arrest.

Labor journalist Mike Elk talks about lockouts and how Occupy can help labor.

Also, a discussion about the anti-vaccine crowd, and Jamie follows up on a sad story about tens of thousands of abused chickens. Visit savethecocks.com.

Citizen Radio is a member-supported show. Visit http://wearecitizenradio.com to sign up and support media that won't lead you to war, and to keep CR Productions growing!


Free Speech Radio News (~8:30 PM ET)

Letters and Politics (~9:00 PM ET)
 
Uprising Radio (~10:00 PM ET)

Syria Death Toll Rises, as EU Slaps More Sanctions; Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation; Civic Circus

The Majority Report (New--Tuesday's Show) (~11:00 PM ET)

"Rupert Murdoch" calls in and throws son James under the bus.  Bribery, government and police officials on the take, mass cover ups; Sam digs in to culture of corruption at the Murdoch empire.  California AG puts pressure on Fannie & Freddie. Plus, Majority Report's Chastity reporter calls Senator Santorum's office looking for hard data.  

 


 

Playlist for Monday

All New Shows (All First Plays)
   
Democracy Now
   
Law and Disorder
   
Antiwar Radio (Interview with Muhammad Sahimi)

Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and political columnist on Iran issues, discusses his article “Deconstructing Lieberman’s Iran Resolution;” the false premises upon which Senate Resolution 380 is based; Iran’s closely inspected and safeguarded uranium enrichment program; rehashing the Qom facility “gotcha” lies from 2009; why the US isn’t interested in a diplomatic resolution, wherein sanctions are dropped in exchange for Iran implementing the Additional Protocol and allowing more stringent inspections; and why even regime change won’t stop Iran’s civilian nuclear program, unless Tehran is occupied for decades.


Antiwar Radio (Interview with Eric Margolis)


Eric Margolis, internationally syndicated columnist and author of War at the Top of the World and American Raj, discusses the many countries covertly and overtly supporting Syria’s armed resistance; the Western media’s one-sided anti-Assad coverage; how the US is hijacking the Arab Spring, toppling unfriendly dictators (while protecting compliant ones) and subverting genuine grassroots democratic revolutions; the near-total elimination of al-Qaeda, so that it exists mostly as a catchall name for anti-American groups; and the danger of Russian intervention in Syria. 

The Progressive Radio Show

The guest this week is David Batker, the co-author, with John De Graaf, of “What’s the Economy For, Anyway?

Wings

The Thomas Jefferson Hour

If Jefferson could have witnessed historical events during his lifetime, which ones?

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Does U.S. superpower status translate into better lives for average Americans? Dan compares global hegemony to Sauron's Ring and hopes economic realities create opportunities to ditch it.

Citizen Radio

Chicago workers occupy factory, the War on Women continues, Listener Mail

David Feldman Show

Sexy Liberal Comedian John Fugelsang explains Santorum, The New Testament,  Onanism, Contraception, and growing up with a mother who once was a nun. With Frank Conniff, Paul Dooley and Steve Rosenfield.

David Feldman Show

Lowering The Flag For Whitney, Chris Christie's Homophobia, CNN's Roland Martin's Homophobia, Charles Blow, Christian Homophobia, Alcohol Versus Pot, Gin, Museums, The Myth Of Twitter Followers, E.S.P.N. Insults Asians, Cafeteria Social Conservatives, Home Schooling, Santorum, Counting Votes and Why The Government Gives More To Charity Than Republicans Do. With Will Ryan, Jimmy Dore, Frank Conniff, Stefane Zamorano, and Guy Nicolucci.

Free Speech Radio News  

Occupy Wall Street Radio

Behind the News
Guests: Gary Weiss on Ayn Rand, Adolph Reed on politics (black and otherwise).

Playlist for Sunday

Equal Time for Free Thought, Show 414
Are there too many people? Has the "population bomb" exploded yet?

It seems counter-intuitive to argue that 7 billion humans in every corner of the planet isn’t a serious problem, but is overpopulation the actual cause for our ecological crises?  Is disease, poverty, water and food shortages, pollution, and climate change ultimately a result of what some cynics call a cancer on the face of the Earth… Us?  Or is something else going on here?

We will address these questions and concerns with special guest Ian Angus as we ask, are there too many people? Angus is editor of Climate and Capitalism, an online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. His previous books include The Global Fight for Climate Justice, and his new book is Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crises.

The Thomas Jefferson Hour, Show 955
President Jefferson is asked how poverty affects freedom in America.


Wings
An eloquent survivor tries to move the US Congress, then speaks candidly to Jean Parker about what it means to become abruptly disabled. A Nobel laureate describes the progress of the land mine treaty and the distance it has to go.

Greenpeace Radio

Political Analysis

Whistle-blower Hugh Kaufman, senior policy analyst at the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response

As the nation approaches the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and the massive oil spill that followed, Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest (www.solartimes.org) takes a closer look at the worldwide use of so-called “dispersants" by Big Oil to "clean up" the environmental damage caused by oil spills. SLV is joined in this pursuit by EPA whistle-blower and environmental defender Hugh Kaufman, a forty-year veteran of the EPA, who gained notoriety in the spring of 2010, after speaking out about the BP cover-up in the Gulf  -- and exposing the toxic and environmentally damaging nature of "Corexit," a dispersant used by BP after the disastrous 2010 "spill."

Voice of Palestine

Radio Ecoshock

Dr. James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warns it isn't enough to reduce our emissions. We must actually take carbon dioxide back out of the air, to avoid entering a new and dangerous age of greenhouse living.

We are currently at 392 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere, and rising rapidly. The target Hansen says is 350 parts per million. That is the level where the Polar ice, which regulates the climate humans have known for the past 10,000 years, will remain on planet Earth.

Chris Mooney, author of "The Republican War on Science," says scientists fail to communicate the danger of climate change, because they wrongly believe mere facts will convince the public.

Instead, Mooney outlines studies showing humans use facts to bolster pre-existing beliefs about the world. There are large differences in the basic personalities of those who gravitate toward the Right and Left of politics.

The F Word

Farrah Khan, a counsellor and advocate at a violence against women legal clinic, explains the spectrum of violence against women and the repercussions of the media coverage of the Shafia trial.

Between the Lines

Growing resistance to austerity measures in Greece and the economic Eurozon crisis; Campaign to overturn indefinite detention law; consumer groups demand thorough federal testing of genetically engineered salmon.

The Majority Report

CouterSpin

This week on CounterSpin: Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan provided a real-life example of something many corporate pundits say they've longed to see: A Palestinian activist pursuing non-violent resistance. And yet his 66 day hunger strike to protest Israel's policies of detaining Palestinains for months at a times without charge didn't draw much media attention. We'll talk to Yousef Munayyer of the Palestine Center about that. Also on CounterSpin today, US media are calling the fire that killed at least 360 people in an overcrowded Honduran prison a tragic accident. Our guest calls it "only the latest deadly outcome of the larger politically driven firestorm that is Honduras today," and that has everything to do with the U.S. We'll hear from history professor and author Dana Frank on that story.

David Pakman Show
 
Green News Report
 
Citizen Radio
 
The Jimmy Dore Show
 
Partisan Gridlock
 
Antiwar Radio
Interview with Dennis Kucinich
 
Antiwar Radio
Interview with Gareth Porter

Antiwar Radio
Interview with Robert Naiman

Current Playlist

Black Agenda Radio
Uprising Radio Weekly Digest
Green News Report
Antiwar Radio (Interview with Dennis Kucinich)
Truthdig Radio (Interview with Lawrence Lessig)
CounterSpin
Antiwar Radio (Interview with Gareth Porter)
Free Speech Radio News
Culture Shocks
Antiwar Radio (Interview with Robert Naiman)
David Pakman Show
Talk Nation Radio with David Swanson
Between the Lines
Making Contact
The Progressive Radio Show
The Thomas Jefferson Hour
Asia Pacific Forum
Democracy Now
Citizen Radio
The Majority Report (with Sam Seder)


plus some snippets from Chomsky, Howard Zinn, etc here and there.