Archive for January, 2008
1/31/08 Craig Chalquist, PhD, therapist, author, joins Meria to discuss the mental/psychological aspects of our environment crisis. The environmental crisis is crisis of consciousness; the soul of place; where we live and work; our connection to the natural world; eco-anxiety; overheting of the collective mind; psychic numbing; empire psychology; the stages of grief; what John […]
1/30/08 Meria is joined once again by Ray McGovern, Founder of VIP’s “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity”, former career analyst with the CIA. This is an EXCELLENT interview. Creeping fascism; Intel manufactured before the rush to war; corporate media; They lied - now what?; What the founders foresaw; Article 2, Section 4 - high crimes […]
1/28/08 Meria interviews Marsha Weissman, Executive Director of the Center for Community Alternatives; our criminal “justice” system; the alternatives to prison, penalties and restitution; paying to be on parole and probation; bankruptcy doesn’t apply; Attica; CCA- non governmental agency; Re-integrative justice; community and individual responsibility; client specific planning; no rehab in prison; overcrowding; prisons […]
1/27/08 Heavy storms in Calif; Review of “Sweeney Todd”; Bush opens 3.4 million acres of Tongass to loggers; war on journalists; sanctions on Iran; NATO wants preemptive nuclear first strike capacity; Wolfowitz is back (ugh); www.ronpaulnewspaper.com; union memberships grow; 72,000 American casualties of current wars; One French trader and $7 billion?; Spy satallite to fall […]
1/24/08 Jack Blood , the other excellent radio host joins Meria to discuss many things in the news. Bill HR2640 - Veterans Disarmament Act; guns as a deterrent for crime; medical records now open in a huge database; “Vietname Veterans Against John McCain”; HR1955 now HR1959 - the homegrown terrorist acct - still time to […]
1/23/08 Meria is joined once again by Paul Craig Roberts, former Asst. Secy of the Treasury under Reagan, Editor, Author of several books including “The Tyranny of Good Intentions”; the newly sworn in democratic congress; the assault on the Constitution - Bill 1955 - the Homegrown Terrorists Act and the Extremists Beliefs Commission. […]
1/22/08 Heath Ledger dead; Stock markets around the world almost dead; everyone claims the right to preemptive nuclear strikes; China’s banks take a bath; Fed cuts interest rate another 3/4 points; Latin America saves their own money; Fred Thompson drops out of the race; China’s created snowfalls; Israel’s “collective punishment” on the Palestinians; Texas hypocrite […]
1/21/08 Today on Martin Luther King Jr’s Day, Meria interviews Stephanie Jones, Executive Director of the National Urban League’s Policy Institute. Stephanie is also Editor in Chief of the State of Black American Report, and Opportunity Journal Magazine. What about the coming election from a woman who worked both with Edwards & Clinton? the NUL […]
1/19/08 As we begin a new year, why not start with this great interview with Guy Finley, as Meria discusses his latest book “365 Days to Let Go, Daily Insights to Change Your Life”. Daily meditations set to the seasons themselves. The seasons of our lives - our individual “story”; the importance of letting […]
1/17/08 Biggest construction drop in 27 yrs; Dow down 307 points; Bush’s “stimulus” package; Bernanke to cut interest rate again; food & oil prices soar; Canada puts U.S. on torture watch list; White House says it “recycled” it’s email tapes; mega-farms lose in Court; Kucinich wins in court, loses anyway; Strait of Hormuz video a […]
