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On the September 19, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we take a look at the upcoming Supreme Court case McCutcheon v Federal Election Commission, a case brought by a wealthy donor and the Republican National Committee seeking to overturn limits to contributions by individuals to candidates and committees.

First we hear from Scott Nelson, attorney at the Public Citizen litigation group in Washington D.C., and then we listen in on a telephone press conference put on by ReThink Media, "a non profit communications organization supporting the work of advocacy groups fighting back against the corrupting influence of money in our political system."

Representatives of three of six organizations supporting campaign finance reform that filed briefs in this case, The Campaign Legal Center, The Brennan Center, and The Constitutional Accountability Center, spoke on the telephone conference. This podcast includes an additional 10 minutes from the conference that had to be cut from the broadcast due to time constraints.

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Ray McGovern returned for the September 12, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody to talk about Syria. How much confidence should we have in the Obama administration's 'high confidence' that the Assad regime was responsible for the August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria? What about claims by President Obama and Secretary Kerry about Iran's possible nuclear weapons ambitions? Why did Ray tear a page out of the pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution given to him by Dennis Kucinich?

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On the September 5, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, broadcast the day after The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to give President Barack Obama the power to a launch a military attack to punish Syria for using chemical weapons, and as debate heated up in the rest of congress and the public, Alternative Radio's David Barsamian returned to the show to talk about Syria.

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Investigative journalist and best-selling author Greg Palast, www.gregpalast.com, returned for the August 29, 2013 editon of the show to talk about Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo. What is so striking about this 1997 memo from Timothy Geithner to Larry Summers? What was illegal about it? Why would Larry Summers be such a bad choice to head the Federal Reserve? If he is formally chosen by President Obama, will Senator Elizabeth Warren stand up for the public interest, or sit with the banksters?

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On the August 22, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from Malcolm Byrne, deputy director of the National Security Archive, about their release of recently desclassified documents on the 60th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh that are believed to be the first formal acknowledgement by the CIA of their role in the coup.

In a segment recorded the day that whistleblower Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, we hear from Nathan Fuller of the Bradley Manning support network. The morning after this was recorded, Manning released a statement through her attorney that she wished to be known henceforth as Chelsea.

In the final segment, as a deadline for hundreds, possibly thousands, of new low power FM radio stations rapidly approaches, we re-air a March, 2012 interview with Brandy Doyle of the Prometheus Radio Project about the potential of LPFM.

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Iranian-American Moji Agha is on his Mossadegh Awareness Begets American Nonviolence Tour, and we heard from him about on the August 15, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody

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On the August 8, 2013, edition of Tell Somebody, Professor Robert McChesney talks about Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, his new book with co-author John Nichols.

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On the July 30, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we talk to Dr. Stephanie Kelton, chair of the economics department at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Kelton discusses the state of the U.S. economy and what to do about it generally, and responds to statements made on the NPR "Here and Now" program by an economist at the investment banking firm BNP Paribas.

After that, we have an update on the Bradley Manning verdicts, announced at noon on the day of the broadcast.

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Guest host Nilufar Movahedi took the Tell Somebody microphone for the July 23, 2013 edition of the show, speaking with Michael Liimatta, president and co-founder of Connecting for Good, a nonprofit organization that is bridging the Digital Divide in Kansas City with free and affordable in-home wireless internet, low cost refurbished PC's, and digital life skills training.

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On the July 16 edition of Tell Somebody, Mike Murphy sat in for Tom Klammer and talked about the 24 citizens arrested for civil resistance when they sought to open a door to a nuclear weapons-free world during their peaceful protest at the newest U.S. nuclear weapons complex facility opened here in Kansas City, and their quest for fair trials.

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