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Federal Reserve analyst and author Ellen Hodgson Brown grades Ben Bernanke.  America's Most Wanted Latina Lesbian shares her New Year's Eve plans.  with host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Ellen Hodgson Brown, author (Web of Debt)

        Maureen Gosling, documentary film producer/director/editor ("Blossoms of Fire")

        Marga Gomez, re: New Year's at Theatre Rhino

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We find out the latest on Congressional healthcare reform wheeling and dealing.  PLUS: the world meets in Copenhagen next week to work on global warming—except everybody's backpedaling on the way to the summit.  We learn what we can do.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Donna Smith, legislative  advocate, California Nurses Association
        Ellen Shaffer, co-dir. Center for Policy Analysis
        Robert Creamer, political organizer and strategist
        Lupe Rodriguez, program and public policy dir. Women's Health Rights Coalition ACCESS

        Brian Edwards-Tiekert
        Cathy Kunkel, Mobilization for Climate Justice

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Obama's surge will make 100,000 US troops in Afghanistan—for what?  PLUS: a kidnapping, a coup, a forced exile, a forced election—why isn't the Obama adminstration doing anything about what's happening in Honduras?  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Reese Erlich, foreign correspondent
         Michael Klare, Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College
         Patricia De Gennaro, Huffington Post columnist; sr. fellow World Policy Institute

        Jesse Freeston, in Honduras, reporter The Real News Network
        Sergio Moncada, co-founder Hondurans for Democracy
        Clif Ross, poet, filmmaker (Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out)

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It's not about global warming or climate change: it's about beauty and spirituality—that's what's needed to solve the planet's environmental crisis.  PLUS: Sexism is alive and well, and ruining our future!  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Curtis White, essayist, novelist, author (The Middle Mind: Why American's Don't Think for Themselves); new book: "The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature"

        Dr. Barbara Berg, teacher (Sarah Lawrence, Yale Medical School, etc.); writer (Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, Ms., etc.); author (The Crisis of the Working Mother; etc.); new book: "Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future"

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The founder of AfterDowningStreet.org with his first book, about the "imperial presidency".  PLUS: a Pakistani journalist, who grew up attending madrassas, talks about the limits of U.S. foreign policy.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: David Swanson, press sec'y to Dennis Kucinich's 2004 pres. campaign; Washington director Democrats.com; author ("Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union")

     Ali Eteraz, writer (Guardian UK, Foreign Policy; Alternet; altMuslim; etc.); author ("Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan")

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An estimated 3.5 million Americans are Arab; some are Muslims; some are in the US Armed Forces; one opened file and killed 13 people at Ft. Hood.  What's it like to be Arab-American?   We find out.  PLUS:did the Democrats sell out women to get a healthcare bill through the House?  and what are women doing about it?  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Alia Malek, Syrian-American, formerly attn'y, Civil Rights Division, US Dept of Justice; free-lance writer (Salon, New York Times): author (A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories)

        Ellen Shaffer, co-dir. Center for Policy Analysis
        Darcy Burner, exec. dir. American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation
        Cindy Pearson, exec. dir National Women's Health Network

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An estimated 3.5 million Americans are Arab; some are Muslims; some are in the US Armed Forces; one opened fire and killed 13 people at Ft. Hood.  What is it like to be an Arab-American?  We find out.  PLUS: Boomers will spend more time being old than they ever spent being young: will our world be transformed by this generation—again?  Ted Roszak says yes.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Alia Malek, Syrian American, formerly an attn'y with the Civil Rights Division, US Dept. of Justice; worked with civil rights in Lebanon and the West Bank; free-lance writer, NYC; author ("A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories")

        Theodore Roszak, prof. emeritus hist. Cal State; author 20 books (Making of a Counter Culture '69; etc.); new book: "The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections of the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation

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The House votes Saturday on healthcare legislation: we hear the latest.  PLUS: the Chinese Cultural Revolution, from people who lived it.  with host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Adam Green, Progressive Change Campaign Committee  www.boldprogressives.org

          Claire Van Kampen, music director, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (at Zellerbach w/ "Love's Labour's Lost")

           Bai Di, dir. Chinese and Asian Studies, Drew University
           Dongping Han, prof. History, Warren Wilson College

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