We take you inside the oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast, then look at the bigger fights over oil policy in California, and around the world. Guests:* Greg Helms, manager of the Ocean Conservancy’s Fisheries Conservation Program; 25-year Santa Barbara Resident. Miyoko Sakashita, Oceans Program Director at the Center for Biological Diversity Antonia Juhasz, … Continued


We’re joined live by Ralph Nader political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney. Nader is a five-time candidate for President of the United States, having run as a write-in candidate in the 1992 New Hampshire Democratic primary, as the Green Party nominee in 1996 and 2000, and as an independent candidate in 2004 and 2008. His … Continued


We’re on live with Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, activist, author, Presbyterian minister, and the best-selling author of several books including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the … Continued