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Guest#1 - Michael Dorsey - Professor of Environmental Policy - Wesleyan University College of the Environment Topic#1 : Weak Climate Deal at UN Doha Conference Again Fails to Seriously Address the Climate Crisis As the Planet continues to suffer from the devastating effects of catastrophic climate change - The world’s The biggest polluters have yet again failed to take any serious responsibility for their major role in the climate crisis --at the UN COP18 Climate Summit in Doha this Saturday. Guest #2 - Victor Menotti – Executive Director - International Forum on Globalization: Topic #2: New Study Shows Koch Brothers a Major Force Behind the UN Climate Stalemate A report entitled "Faces Behind a Global Crisis: US Carbon Billionaires and the UN Climate Deadlock highlights Charles and David Koch as THE top spenders to stop climate policy hold hostage any progress in Washington, and hence any meaningful global deal in Doha

TOPIC #1: BANGLADESH FACTORY BURNS AS WAL MART PROFITS ROLL IN Guest: Stephanie Luce - Associate Professor of labor Studies at The Murphy Institute and City University, New York With more than 120 dead in a Bangladesh factory fire where Wal Mart clothing was manufactured, the conditions for garment workers are dangerous, demeaning and brutal, yet workers repeated demands for better pay and safe working conditions have been largely ignored.. and  the profits for the Monopoly Corporations keep rolling in.  Can public outrage combat corporate greed and help change working conditions there? TOPIC #2: PROJECT CENSORED - THE STORIES THE CORPORATE MEDIA DOESN’T COVER Guest: Andy Roth Ph.D - Associate Director - Project Censored Project Censored - a non profit - News/Watchdog and Teaching organization supports and highlights those journalists who tell the truth about the powerful (no matter the consequences) and are relentless in their quest to hold Big Media accountable for their decisions

GUESTS: Richard Falk -  United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Danny Muller - The Middle East Children’s Alliance As the US gives unqualified support of the Israel’s all out attack against a trapped and mostly defenseless civilian population - not to mention 3 billion dollars in military funding - they claim Israel is the victim of unprovoked attacks by Hamas -- But the truth of what is going on in Gaza, is a far different than the story being told by US corporate media outlets -- and the government

Guest #1 David Gans - Civil Rights Director - Constitutional Accountability Center Topic: Supreme Court to Hear Civil Rights, Voting Rights Cases As the Supreme Court returns to work it will be considering both Civil and Voting Rights cases, but will the shift in the court since Samuel Alito joined the bench and John Roberts became Chief Justice negatively voting rights and affirmative action regarding higher education?. Guest # 2 Brentin Mock - Journalist  -The Nation,  Lead Reporter, Voting Rights Watch Topic: Voting Rights Victory - Pennsylvania Court Blocks GOP Voter Suppression Laws." In a major victory for voting rights - Judge Robert Simpson, of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, ruled on Monday that the state’s new, restrictive and repressive, Voter ID law cannot stand, while across the country Voter Registration Laws pare being challenged and often overturned in court on the grounds that they are unconstitutional.

Guest #1 Marjorie Cohn professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law Topic: Professor Cohn discusses  - Federal Judge Katherine B. Forrest’s decision last Wednesday   against Indefinite Detention Without Trial that will block the US government from enforcing the controversial statue . Guest #2 Rocky Anderson - Presidential Candidate - Justice Party Topic: Rocky’s Scathing Response to Tom Hayden's article entitled “Saving Obama, Saving Ourselves,” saying Hayden never would have written such an apologist piece for an “imperial militarist and corporatist regime” in the '60s or '70s

Topic: How We Could Have Prevented 911 GUEST: Colleen Rowley - 11 YEARS LATER 911 STILL REMAINS UN-INVESTIGATED -A former FBI Special Agent and Division Counsel describes some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures, (651 200-2455) or back-up cell 952 393-0914. Topic:"Guilty Verdict" in First Federal Drone Trial GUEST #2 Brian Terrell - Convicted Activist , Brian Terrell one of the two anti-war activists convicted in federal court  yesterday of misdemeanor trespassing at central Missouri's Whiteman Air Force Base to protest the use of unmanned military drones, discusses drone warfare

Guest - Greg Palast - Author Vultures' Picnic and the New York Times bestsellers, Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Topic: Greg's new book - Billionaires and Ballot Bandits How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps www.ballotbandits.com The election has not been stolen from Barack Obama — it’s been stolen from you.  From We the People who march to the polls believing America is still a democracy, the land of the Brave, home of The Free, and that our votes count

Guest #1 : Mildred Elizabeth Sanders - Professor of Government, Cornell University, Author, "Roots of Reform” Topic: Are Conventions Necessary? And  Romney’s NeoCon Foreign Policy Advisers There are no surprises in store as the Republican Convention progresses for views - with heir apparent candidates being anointed rather than selected and what about Romney’s foreign policy advisers? No questions asked? Almost all are former Bush and Reagan administration NeoCons Guest #2:  Alice Slater -  New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - http://www.abolition2000.org Topic: Ignoring Iran's Call for Banning Nuclear Weapons by 2025 Iran called for a World Nuclear Weapons Ban by 2025 at the  Non-Aligned Movement Summit but the story is unreported by the New York times, even though the paper ran a front page article on the summit

Topic #1: America's #1 Political Prisoner, Former Governor Donald Siegelman Petitions President Obama For Clemency Guest: Former Governor of Alabama Don Siegelman A victim of Karl Rove’s political witch hunt, on August 3rd Former Governor of Alabama Donald Siegelman was sentenced by a Federal Judge sentenced to 78 Months in prison - 3 years of supervised release and 50,00 dollars in fines. A petition requesting clemency from President Obama for this travesty of justice is now being signed. Topic #2: Big Oil and Energy Traders Manipulating Gas Prices Guest:  Antonia Juhasz - Oil Policy Analyst, Author - The Tyranny of Oil Topic:   Gas prices are continuing to rise and have reached record highs in many states but it isn’t an issue of supply and demand - it’s an issue of PRICE MANIPULATION by Big Oil and Energy Trader

10 Nobel Peace Laureates Ask NBC to Stop WAR-O-TAINMENT show “Stars Earn Stripes.” GUESTS: Jody Williams 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Mairead Maguire - 1980 Nobel Peace Prize Winner David Swanson, Author, Peace Activist and Roots Action Campaign Coordinator Following the Olympic games coverage on NBC a new ‘REALITY’ show premiered called “Stars Earn Stripes” glorifying violence, militarism and war. The series is co-hosted by Wesley Clark a retired NATO Supreme Allied Commander and former Presidential candidate. In response to the programs initial airing over 35,000  have signed a petition posted at StarsEarnStripes.org and others are protesting outside NBC Studios in New York - demanding that NBC air programming that depicts a real, more accurate picture of the devastation of war

Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Cal State University By Tenured Professor Guests: Dr. Marilyn Joshua Williams, Attorney James Otto Dr. Marilyn Joshua Williams first black Chair in the Department of Elementary Education, at California State University Northridge was unseated as chair of the department, without cause and is filing a racial discrimination lawsuit against the California State University system

GUEST #1: Stephan Salisbury - Senior cultural writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer' fa finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. TOPIC: Police Shootings Echo Nationwide, Aurora Gets the Attention, But Guns Are Going Off The horrific movie theater shootings in Aurora - have once again focused our wandering national attention ong un violence in America-- but the shootings minority civilians by police officers is a growing problem that has gone largely unnoticed and unreported, in America even in official channels. GUEST #2 - Shani Rigsbee - Singer/SongwriterProducer - We Hear Your Voice - Charity Single TOPIC: A Peace and Unity" Concert,  August, 4th, Greek Theater, - Producer Shani Rigsbee discusses the event featuring Iranian Pop Superstar ANDY - the Persian Elvis  together with pop stars from Afghanistan, Israel Korea, to crossing cultures, continents, and generations  to bring understanding and commonality through music. The charity single We Hear Your Voice, will be performed live for the first time live at the event

Guest: Colin Goddard - Victim of the Virginia Tech Shootings advocate for The Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence TOPIC: Since Columbine 13 years ago there have been at least 125 fatal mass shootings in the United States, another 70 Americans were shot in Aurora Colorado on July 20th, the most victims of any mass shooting in US history. There are currently ¼ billion guns in our homes in America and anyone can buy a weapon at a gun show without a background check.  Virgina Tech Victim Colin Goddard, now with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence discusses what Americans need to do to end the insanity and force reinstatement of the assault weapons ban in the United States.

Guest:  Elizabeth Hotlzman: Former Congresswoman, District Attorney Topic: Author of the new book: Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution -- and What We Can Do About It." In a thoroughly researched book co-author Elizabeth Holtzman discusses the unprecedented way Bush and Cheney sought to engineer and fix the system while in office to avoid prosecution, using their power to manipulate the system and circumvent the law -- and what legal avenues still exist to bring them to justice

Topic - FILM - THE KOCH BROS EXPOSED Guest : Director Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films www.bravenewfilms.org Guest: Lisa Graves - Executive Dir. PR Watch www.prwatch.org The new film The Koch Brothers Exposed provides a much needed investigative look at the power and money empire of Charles David the Koch and the frighting influence and control they have over the American political system and the media echo chamber. Director Robert Greenwald and PR Watch’s Lisa Graves join me to discuss clips from the film which reveal the multiple ways in which the Koch fortune has influenced and corrupted our Democracy