After the president, the White House Chief of staff may be the most powerful person in the world. Success as president requires a White House chief of Staff effectively empowered to do the job right. Chris Whipple wrote the book, The GATEKEEPERS; How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Marilynn Preston, is the author of Energy Express, America' s longest-running syndicated fitness column. Her latest book is All' s Well. We talk about Bottom up approaches to health and well being.

Yaneer Bar-Yam is Director of the New England Complex System Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, author of Making Things Work; Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World. He' s used complexity theory and quantum mechanics theory to predict that the Arab Spring would happen, and applies these approaches to social problems, health care, education, warfare, terrorism and more.

Anthony Flaccavento is the author of a brilliant book. I just love this book ' -Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up' -. He' s been an organic farmer for twenty-some years. He' s ran for congress as the Democratic candidate in Virginia.

Linh Dinh has been publishing articles series, Postcards from the end of America, chronicling the real life experiences of people at the edges of our society.

Robert Barrios is an anthropologist who has studied how people, neoliberals in particulat, exploit disaster and disaster victims.

Walt McRee is the emeritus director of the Public Banking Institute and a consultant who helps municipalities, counties and states navigate the process of creating a public bank.

John Kiriakou's new book is Doing Time Like a Spy, How the CIA Taught me to survive and thrive in a prison. He describes spy training and how he used what he learned in prison, including how to deal with prisoners who F'ed with him. Also discuss writing a column in prison and how to do it and deal with guards.--He tells me he's in regular contact with Piper Kerman of Orange is the New Black and working on a project w Oliver Stone

David Swanson has written a series of brilliant books debunking all the arguments justifying war. We explore his thinking on war and it's intersection with my ideas on Bottom up

Greg Palast is back for another interview-- an amazing interview that you don't want to miss.