My guest tonight is Allen Frances, M.D. He was the chair of the DSM 4 Task Force and the chair of the department of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina. He's currently Professor Emeritus at Duke. The reason I contacted him is he wrote an article titled "DSM 5 Field Trials Discredit the American Psychiatric Association."

Bonnie Burstow has written, Psychiatry and the Business of Madness, a blistering excoriation of psychiatry, documenting, with erudite detail, her accusations that psychiatry is a dangerous, ineffective business, without scientific support.

Rob Hopkins, a Brit, is the author of The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, and he' s really considered just about the leader of the Transition Town movement.

Chuck just co-authored a report on wealth inequality that is shocking. We discuss the report, billionaires, the dangers and damages billionaires wreak, solutions and billionaire psychopaths

William I. Robinson is professor of sociology at US Santa Barbara and author of the book, Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity----We discuss how global capitalism and the Transnational Capitalist Class force us to change the way we think about change-- about activism, revolution, and system change. He also offers an extraordinary explanation of the connection between murders of blacks and Global Capitalism

Ken Silverstein's Harper's magazine article, Shaky Foundations: The Clintons' so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends, has just been published. He tells me how they do it and throws in the dirt on one of the Clinton's closest advisors, Sidney Blumenthal. Silverstein says the Clintons should be indicted and prosecuted

As Brian described, we went deep discussing the aspects and implication of Holocracy, a powerful manifestation of how the organization is transitioning from a top-down patriarchal, parent child model to one with distributed power, empowering ALL the employees. I see it is the leading edge of a movement that could change the way we think about leadership, about how government and organizations work.

Steffi Black is the creator of Spread the Kindness interactive workshops and presentations focusing on bringing kindness into schools and the workplace.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a pioneering Positive Psychologist and a leading researcher. He's calling for the field to start looking at the world from a group or cultural perspective, not just individuals. He gives some fascinating history of his early work and inspirations, and insights on new info on the neurobiology of flow.

Some government organizations are outrageous in their efforts to resist cooperation with FOIA requests. Here are some crazy stories, and some discussion of doing investigative reporting.