This week: Spocko and Mike Stark talk about Rush, advocacy and activism.

The Tuesday line-up: Spocko and Mike Stark talk about advocacy and activism on the 1st Tuesday of the month; Susie Madrak and guest consider the impact of current events on working and middle class people on the 2nd Tuesday; Avedon Carol and Lambert Strether dissect breaking news and crazy liberalism on the 3rd Tuesday; Dave Johnson maps the forest with a guest on the 4th Tuesday; and Jay Ackroyd and guest shed light on current insanities of the political and economic kind, on the 5th Tuesday.

From the VSS Media Panel: Avedon Carol and Culture of Truth discuss their own observations from the past week, compared to coverage from the corporate media's Sunday morning talk shows. In a pre-recorded segment, Culture of Truth comments on the most ridiculous moment from this Sunday morning.

Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss the present and future of liberalism in a centrist America. Plus 'What Digby Says'

Jay Ackroyd talks with filmmakers Frances Causey and Don Goldmacher about Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? the night before it opens at The Quad Cinema in NYC for a week long run, against the backdrop of a growing worldwide populist democratic movement. Follow @HeistDoc @FCausey @donnyg1941 @JayAckroyd

Dave Johnson talks with Natasha Chart, online campaign manager at SEIU. They plan to talk about labor's situation, driving organizing through technology and the attacks on women's rights. Plus The Z Files. Follow @DCJohnson @NatashaChart

Aaron Bady (@zunguungu) is everywhere! He's stopped by VS to talk about WIkileaks (http://bit.ly/jDyMN7 ) and about Occupy Oakland.( http://bit.ly/vDN1kT ). Now he joins us to discuss his review of David Graeber's opus Debt: The First 5,000 Years 

 

This is a replay of Thursday night, February 23.

Special Oscars edition .... Marcy Wheeler blogs as emptywheel, while David Dayen produces the Firedoglake news feed.

David and Marcy analyze the foreclosure fraud "settlement" (terms have still not been released) and then Marcy provides a report from the ground on the state of the Klown Kar err... GOP primary race.

Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss the GOP debates and corporate taxation

Aaron Bady (@zunguungu) is everywhere! He's stopped by VS to talk about WIkileaks (http://bit.ly/jDyMN7 ) and about Occupy Oakland.( http://bit.ly/vDN1kT ). Now he joins us to discuss his review of David Graeber's opus Debt: The First 5,000 Years

In a science rerun, cosmologist Lee Smolin discusses the nature of time, and questions the explanatory power of the multiverse hypothesis.

 

And he does it on the day that the super fast neutrino beat the speed of light. Or, maybe not.