A 15 Month Afghan Exit Plan

15 month exit plan for Afghanistan involves 'no-Al Qaeda' agreement with Taliban, and economic aid ... Guest is Erik Leaver, research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in D.C...Peak oil is finally here, $4 gasoline, smaller cars imminent ... Gitmo bans Chomsky's "Interventions" and sentences Al Qaeda press secretary to life for 'propaganda' ... Gibbs watch out! ... Fidel sheds jogging suits for 'tropical casual' to signal larger role ... U.S. police state confiscates $1 billion a year of property without warrants or due process, goodbye 4th Amendment ... Talban commander breaks down in tears at an Obama drone attack that kills civilians, hates Obama more than Bush for escalating attacks ... Obamacare plan only a ten year patch to unsustainable health care system.

My 30 Minutes with Teddy at the Biltmore Hotel

My 30 minutes with Teddy at the Biltmore Hotel. Feingold 1st Senator to call for Afghan exit as poll majorities now say war not worth it. Shocking: Chancellor Obama retains Bush rendition and border laptop/camera/Ipod search policies. Mexico decriminalizes drugs. Housing prices(and bad mortgages)turn around as recovery gains surprising steam. I finally review Oliver Stone's hoot of a film: W.

Health "Reform" Shows Need for Public Financing of Elections

How to deal with the right wing town hall Brown Shirt thugs. Medical industry's co-option of reform legislation dramatizes the dire need for public financing of congressional elections. Guests are U.S. Public Interest Research Group's Campaign finance advocate Lisa Gilbert and Healthcare Advocate Larry McNeely talking about the role of insurance money in the current fight and the status of the public campaign finance bill. Late in show, anonymous genius from Minnesota calls and regales us with brilliant encyclopedic knowledge of the U.S. healthcare system. Recession ending this summer but unemployment up (247,000) to 9.7% and years long recovery expected. Real rate (U6) dips to 16.5%.

Sadistic Interrogation

This is one of the three reasons why there has to be an independent commission (retired judges?) to investigate the Bush, Cheney, Yoo and Company, CIA sadistic interrogation practices. #1 is they probably committed illegal acts and if we are a civilized country that goes by rule of law, well ..... #2 is there has to be an investigation and probable prosecution to draw the line in the sand to future thugs and fascists that this won't be tolerated, it's essential to retaining our national identity and stopping the slide into fascism and #3, like she says, those torture memos were just the authorizing legalese, we still don't know what REALLY happened and it is probable that other abuses occurred beyond those authorized in the memos, and the tactics authorized were probably exceeded in many instances.

New Solar City, Strip Searches, Teenage Sexting, Progressives and Liberals, Afpakistan, Gaza

Gay film star Jack Wrangler dies; Florida's new "Solar City"; strip searching 13 year olds and D.A. filing pornography charges against teenage "sexters"; Progressives, Liberals, Lies and Democrats; Obama Report -- wading even deeper into Afpakistan quagmire and his Republican-heavy hedge fund Administration; latest on Israel's war crimes in Gaza.

For the second time, Blogtalk censors have taken their axe to my show description. Note how their filter rejected my use of the word pornography in the above description and forced me to change it on blogtalk to "***nography" to get past the filter. Orwellian and Stalinesque, huh? Also stupid.

Obama Jumps Into Afpakistan Vietnam Quagmire

It didn't take him long. On Day 31 Obama made what may become the single most fateful decision of his presidency. Instead of getting out, he decided to jump into the quagmire by adding 17,000 troops (for starters) for $70 billion a year and escalate drone attacks in Pakistan, both of which will widen the war into Pakistan. Day 31, remember it. Also, how the U.S. is sinking into Depression and Obama's rudderless centrism is eroding decisive action; forced feeding at Guantanamo.

Obama's Center-Right Administration

Obama's center-right administration shapes up with new association: Toby Keith. Plus more chitter chatter from America's most progressive talk show host: Bombay, nuclear proliferation and more chilling news on the American global police state.

Democrats, U.S. Terror, Permatemp Work & the Decline of the Middle Class

Democratic Convention hangover. U.S. troops kill 95 civilians in one of largest terrorist attacks of Afghanistan invasion. Hurricane forecasters plead for a little money. One-fourth of U.S. jobs now in "security" industry -- and you still don't believe me about the fascist shift? Plus, stock picks in the new security economy. Labor Day report on "permatemp" work and the decline of the Middle Class.

Cuba's Top Performing Education System

Special guests Tallahassee radio host Hans Meyer plus Stanford University Professor Martin Carnoy talking on his research on the best performing educational system in Latin America -- Cuba's -- and what the U.S. can learn from it. Also, Miami International now laciviously strip searching passengers with milimeter waves.

Liberal Democrats Pushing War on Iran

Liberal Democrats pushing war on Iran with House Res. 362; latest U.S. terror attack kills 47 civilians in wedding party; people who love dogs more than people; Naomi Wolf's "The End of America," Hitler's takeover, FISA and the U.S. fascist shift.

Obama NOT

Shorts today: Obama NOT; McCain impeachable; Criminalizing everything: teen felony-busted for taking naked pic of himself; South Florida public defenders rejecting flood of felony cases and police militarizing with high power rifles; insurance companies jacking rates again

Sea Level Rise In Florida and Stop Electing Judges

Special guests Melissa Meehan, Florida Climate Organizer with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and Jennifer Rennicks talk about heading off sea level rise, about carbon taxes and the abandonment of central Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and St. Petersburg. Plus Dr. James Obrien, Professor of Meterology and Oceanography at Florida State University. Also, why Florida must STOP electing its (hanging) judges. And continuation of our series on the fascist shift in the U.S.

ALMOST BANNED BY BLOGTALK RADIO!

This show was almost banned, until I talked them out of it. This is the original description that they objected to. Compare it to the slightly rewritten one that this link takes you to. Draw your own conclusions and post your comments.

Today's watershed MWSHOW formally Denounces Barak Obama for his neocon foreign policy statements and officially designates the U.S. Government as a Terrorist Organization. Also, kicking off our series on sea level rise in Florida.

Hard Voting in Florida, Reframing "Terrorism" and the War on Drugs

Yet another Last Place for Florida -- the hardest state to vote in; Reframing "Terrorism"; the Hashish cafes of Amsterdam and our continuing serialization of Naomi Wolf's "The End of America" on the fascist shift in the U.S.

War Drums Pounding Louder on Iran

The Coming War on IRAN. With Hillary threatening to “obliterate” Iran in a nuclear war the war drums are beating louder and louder. Plus more on the new American police state and the War on the War on Drugs — cocaine and the hallucinogens.

Florida's Dysfunctional Regressive Tax System

Hey There, we've got yet another blockbuster this week, about the #1 issue in Florida, our dysfunctional, regressive tax system and the need for a comprehensive overhaul. Special guest is James Tait, executive director of the Florida Center for Fiscal & Economic Policy, coming on around 10am. Tait was Gov. Reubin Askew's economic advisor and chief of staff. But we start the show with the second installment of readings from Naomi Wolf's "The End of America" on the fascist shift.

Five Shorts

New serial on America's "fascist shift", horrifying weekly excerpts from Naomi Wolf's new book 'The End of America';our first obituary: Phillip Agee, American Hero who exposed CIA torture, murder and subversion; Labor Report: two-tiered part-time jobs and the decline of the middle class; Insurance companies defy Crist and legislature; first heart grown from stem cells.

Pot Pourri

Today is a potpourri of short commentaries on Florida issues: a special report on Fascism in Florida -- the selling of our highways to profit making corporations; plus the faltering Everglades restoration and an update on the fiscal mess.

The Florida Green Party

Special guest Spokesperson Alan Kobrin of the Florida Green Party plus Christian Sharia in Florida.