Psychologist Mary Pipher returns to the show. Last time she talked about writing to change the world. This time, she talks about how discouragement, despair, depression can be a response to challenging times for activists, and how change and activism can be embraced, even in a red state, even working with conservatives, on opposing Keystone XL pipeline

Ward Wilson has made great progress getting out his message that Nuclear weapons dont do what they claim-- and the world spends at least $100 billion a year to maintain over 19,000 of them.

Mark discusses a series of books, published over the last 80 years, that have been killed, ie., conveniently disappeared from access

Edward Slingerland is professor of Asian Studies and Canada Research Chair in Chinese thought and Emobdied cognition at the University of British Columbia. He is author of author, Trying not to Try, and head researcher on a three million dollar international study on the evolution of religion and morality

I talk for almost two hours with Paul Craig Roberts On Russia De-dollarization, capitalism, Psychopaths, Ed Snowden and NSA, Monsanto GMO. Corporatization of the FDA and more

a wide ranging conversation covering economics, psychopaths, capitalism, narcissism, soul...

WOW. In 90 minutes we covered a lot of ground-- predatory capitalism, a US military engaging in criminal acts for corporations, 911, Iran, Ukraine, Ed Snowden, a review of Glenn Greenwalds book, Israel, Billionaires, psychopaths... and again and again, when I asked what its going to take to change things... blood on the streets

Consider that Non-violent actions are successful over 60% of time vs 23% of the time for violent actions, and non-violent uprisings took one third of the time of violent ones. I talk about many of the aspects of nonviolence with Michael Nagler-- the conversation is enlightening and humbling

I was REALLY looking forward to picking Jim Scotts brain, after checking out three of his books on Domination, Resistance, Anarchism-- and he rose to my expectations. This interview will stretch your imagination in thinking about how to resist power, how to make change happen, why you should practice violating laws...

We talk about his alzheimers, about the holographic web of life, the goddess, feminine wisdom, about patriarchy, spirals, Rumi