Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich on his amendment to allow states to create a single-payer health care system is removed from the Pelosi health care bill. Panel discussion on financial regulations one year after Economic Panic of 2008. Biographer Anne Heller on her new book Ayn Rand and The World She Created.
Analysis of tea party activist and activism on today's elections. Republicans boycott Senate Environment Committee hearing on climate change. And we have a debate on the Senate Climate Change Bill.
We get a report on Karzai winning another term as Afghanistan' s Election. Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus Raul Grijalva on health care bill. Panel discussion on the nuts and bolts of the health care bill. And we'll look at the latest GDP numbers and the economy.
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya responds to the coup government's ultimatum to the Brazilian government to hand over Zelaya or lose diplomatic standing. We also speak to Andres Conteris who is in the Brazilian embassy with Zelaya. Adriel Bettelheim, White House correspondent with Congressional Quarterly talks about health care and Afghanistan. Pulitzer prize winning economic journalist … Continued
On Letters to Washington we speak to Tim Russo who is outside of the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras where deposed President Manuel Zelaya is at. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell takes a look at the week ahead in Congress. Nadia Hijab of the Palestine Center on the upcomingObama/Netanyahu/Abbas meeting. Senate and House Historians on the numerous … Continued
Highlights: Excerpts from speeches given at Saturday's mega tea party protest on Capitol Hill. Linguist George Lakoff talks about the left/right messaging war. Round table discussion on how the left should react to the rise of right wing populism with Adele Stan, DC Bureau Chief for Alternet, Andrej Grubicic, World Social Forum, and Medea Benjamin … Continued
Democratic Congressman John Conyers tells Mitch Jeserich that he doesn’t support the health care bill as it is now and that his Judiciary Committee will investigate former White House officials. We’ll talk to former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders about her similar experience in ’94 to that of Van Jones and Tea Party Activist and 2008 … Continued
Pacifica Radio takes a hard look at how the Obama Administration responds to the economic crisis, global warming, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, health care expansion, civil rights, and the so called "war on terrorism", with host Mitch Jeserich.
