Virtually Speaking

Avedon Carol and Vast Left talk about Left-side Obama criticism in the wake of his same-sex marriage statements; VastLeft's chance encounter with Elizabeth Warren, "Public-Private Partnerships" and the London 'drought.'

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Stuart Zechman and Ja Ackroyd discuss the apparent problem of transition to oligarchy in the United States, and how movement liberals hurt our cause and our country when we replace our vigilance against the tyranny of elites with easily manipulated, partisan driven fear of the popular right-wing.

From the VSS Media Panel: Avedon Carol and Jay Ackroyd discuss Jamie Dimon on Meet the Press and the mess in Europe, with the Greek, French and German elections turning against the austerians.

Andrew Gumbel is the co-author of Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters  Michael Isikoff discusses the book at the Daily Beast

 

Allison Kilkenny is cofounder of CItizen's Radio. She writes for the Huffington Post, the Nation and other publcations.  They talk about the recent May Day actions by the Occupy movement.

 

(PRERECORDED! NO Call ins)

Will Bunch blogs at Attytude and writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He and Susie Madrak (Suburban Guerrilla & Crooks and Liars) talk about sports, the future of Occupy and developing news stories.

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Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss the core values of movement conservativism and movement liberalism. Recorded in the morning.

Rerun of Glenn Greenwald and DIgby, January 2011, in which they focus on wikileaks and the erosion of civil liberties in the US.

Jay talks with Glenn Carle about the efficacy of secrecy.

The author of The Interrogator: An Education, Carle served twenty-three years in the Clandestine Services of the Central Intelligence Agency, working in a number of overseas posts on four continents and in Washington, DC. He has worked extensively on Balkan, Central American, and European political, security, terrorism and economic issues. His last position was as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats, on the National Intelligence Council.  Listen live and later on BTR.

Jay's first 2 hr conversation with Glenn is here.

Two of the biggest astronomical events of the year – May 20’s annular solar eclipse and June 5’s transit of Venus – are just around the corner. What’s the big deal, and how can you get in on the action?

Paul Doherty (a.k.a. Patio Plasma), senior scientist at San Francisco’s Exploratorium chats with MSNBC science editor Alan Boyle about eclipse/transit angles; how and where to see this month’s eclipse and next month’s once-in-a-lifetime transit safely; Explo activities and events and using virtual worlds - particularly Second Life - for outreach/education/science experiences.

Read Alan's show notes at Cosmic Log.

Spocko and Greg Basta of New York Communities for Change (Zombie Acorn). On the agenda: lessons learned by established non-profit activist groups while working with Occupy Wall Street;

some upcoming actions re home foreclosures and May 1st OWS 99% actions.