On today's Progressive Commentary Hour, Gary spoke about these articles and spoke with Dr.Jim Garrison,

The collapse of the middle-class job

Sadistic capitalism: Six urgent matters for humanity in global crisis

Gary went to his guest now and here is his bio:

Dr. Jim Garrison

is the founding President of Ubiquity University and the Wisdom School

of Graduate Studies, an international school of higher education built

upon innovative principles of whole brain and whole system learning. The

university operates on four continents with partners in the EU, India,

Mexico, South Africa, Russia, Vietnam and others. As the co-founder and

President of the Gorbachev Foundation, Jim was instrumental in the

founding of the State of the World Forum  to lay a template for a  more

sustainable global civilization.  In the late 80s he served as the

executive director of the Esalen Institute Soviet-American Exchange, and

founded the International Foreign Policy Association in collaboration

with Secretary of State George Schultz and Georgian President Edward

Shevardnadze. He is the author of “America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? and “Civilization and the Transformation of Power”  Jim has graduate degrees in religion and theology from Harvard and Cambridge universities. His websites are WisdomUniversity.org and UbiquityUniversity.org

This is article Jim Garrison spoke about:

Democracies end when they are too democratic.