Summary: War by any other name is still war. This week on Talking Left, we played some great interviews from guest hosting for Thom Hartmann, and gave you our take on some of today's top news. And!! This week is also the debut of Talking Left on the Progressive Voices channel on TuneIn! In the first hour, we got in to two different rulings on election laws. In Ohio, voting rights were protected, but voters in Wisconsin were not so lucky. In addition, we talked about another court ruling, which considered the question - should lying in political campaigns be illegal? And, of course we talked about the Senate's votes on a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and why it's important that we keep up the fight to get money out of politics. In hour two, we gave you our take about the United States being "at war" with ISIS, as well as President Obama's take on the Authorization for Use of Military Force from back in 2013. The biggest question we have is for Congress... if they're not willing to vote on sending our military men and women back in to Iraq, why they heck do they even want to be in Congress? And, in the second hour, we also played for you an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith, author of "Who Stole The American Dream?". Hedrick explained how the shift from stakeholder to shareholder capitalism has harmed workers, and how a return to viewing employees and customers as part of the business could repair some damage to our nation. During the third hour we play two great interviews from sitting in for Thom on Friday. First up was Cindy Cohn, General Counsel and Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cindy explained the recent ACLU v. Clapper hearing on NSA surveillance, and what we can do to help declare government spying unconstitutional. After that, we played Friday's interview with Tim Karr, Senior Director of Strategy at Free Press. Tim talked about this week's "Internet Slowdown Day" and why we should care about net neutrality. Thanks to Rocky Mountain Mike for writing and producing our incredible theme music! Please check out his amazing Sound Cloud! Thanks to We Act Radio - 1480AM WPWC, Netroots Radio, SoFlo Radio, Progressive Voices on Tune in, and Radio or Not,- for helping to ensure all listeners have corporate-free, independent radio! You can also follow all of the news about upcoming topics and guests on our Facebook page and on Twitter @TalkingLeft. And you can subscribe to Talking Left free on iTunes! As always, thanks for listening!
