Radio Nation (Liberal)

This week, Reckless Endangerment: what Pulitzer Prize-winning business reporter and New York Times columnist GRETCHEN MORGENSON has to say about Fannie Mae. With the Middle East in the news, author JAMES CARROLL takes the long view, in considering the city of Jerusalem. Then, in part two, two Bills. Political comedian Bill Hicks and from Public Television, BILL MOYERS.... Plus a few words from me on the future of this program.

This week, Chris Hedges on the World as it is, Adam Hochschild on Ending all Wars, and Vermont's independent senator Bernie Sanders on the World as it could be - with Single Payer health care .All that and the state of health care, -- a nurses perspective.

This week - Balances of power: we talk about big oil vs. the people and the potential for a Universal Declaration of Rights for Mother Earth. Then in part two journalists who try to keep focus on the people typically left out. Environmental crusaders Antonia Juhaz and Tracie Washington, water activists Maude Barlow and columnist Bob Herbert in his first interview since leaving the New York Times. All that and commentary from Mike Papantonio and Katrina Vanden Heuvel and remembering...

This week saw demonstrations to mark the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assignation called "We are One" rallies across the country they drew attention to King's support for public workers and their right to organize--connecting worker's struggles then with those raging now, NAACP president Ben Jealous and Ray Stever, two leaders of the rally in Newark New Jersey join us, and from DC on the budget battle we hear from congressman, Keith Ellison, co-chair of the progressive caucus...

This week, Bill Fletcher, formerly director of TransAfrica, on the military intervention in Libya, heartland correspondent Jeff Biggers on the nuclear power debacle in Japan - will it result in a bonanza for natural gas and big coal. Film-maker Michael Moore and SICKO star Donna Smith review progress on healthcare, a year after the passage of Obama's reform law, and all these years after the movie...And Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich on Wall Street power. All that and a look back at 100 years...

For years, the FOX-led media has made it seem as if the Tea Parties were the only one's with a complaint about budgets and bailouts. This year, though, a new wave of protest is sweeping the country, from Wisconsin to Washington, and it's not unconnected from what's happening internationally. This week, on GRITradio Rev Jesse Jackson Ohio's Senator Sherrod Brown and the extraordinary Egyptian author and feminist Nawal Saadawi. All that and the latest on a CIA killing fomenting fury in...

This week, resistance grows to two mean-spirited Governor's plans, and I hit the road for Wisconsin and Ohio...For the back story on the battle and the future plan for labor we sit down with organizers, activists and among others, musician Tom Morello, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin and The Reverend Jesse Jackson. What's it all mean and where's the struggle going next?

This week, revolution in Egypt and concession back here? Christy Setzer of US Chamber Watch gives the President low marks for his speech to his opponents at the chamber and the AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka tries to persuade businesses to keep jobs in the US. A media shakeup in the works -- The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel and the Huffington Post’s Ryan Grimm join me to talk about the big merger news and the targeting of journalists in Egypt. And in the second half of our show, be get a...

On this week’s program, Haitian American writer, Edwidge Danticat on Haitian art, history, culture, all the bits you typically don’t see. Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake on what happened when she tried to visit accused Wikileaks leader, Private Bradley Manning. And a few takes on our economy – from two who listened closely to the President's State of the Union, and the filmmaker behind a new movie, the Economics of Happiness. All that and a warning about Wisconsin from The Nation’s John Nichols.

On this week's show: what’s the state of our home? We look at the continuing foreclosure crisis, the struggle for security still in Gaza, and our planet’s watery home, its oceans, which are in trouble. Among our guests, Sarah Ludwig, co-director of the neighborhood economic development advocacy…David Helvarg, author of Saved by the Sea, and Palestinian blogger Leila El Haddad… All that and filmmaker Ken Bowser whose new film is about, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune.

New Congress, New Rules, Old Wars. On This week's GRITradio we talk about the prospects for changing the filibuster rule, the most destabilizing new revelations in the Wiki leaks release and the Rise of a Global Ruling Class. Among our guests: the New Yorker's Rick Hertzberg, author David Swanson, The Atlantic's Chrystia Freeland and former British Diplomat Carne Ross. All that and some thoughts from Pandagon's Amanda Marcott on Boehner's tears, and me, on the making invisible of public...

Economic high-wires, high-wires of the real sort, and doing good while having fun.. This week on GRITradio the economic 911 from economists Richard Wolff and Jeff Madrick, Wavy Gravy, the subject of a new documentary, "Saint Misbehavin," and high-wire artist Philippe Petit on achieving the impossible, breaking the rules and his heart-stopping walk between the World Trade towers. It's all coming up on GRITradio

On this week's show, debates! Over the arrest of Julian Assange and the Presidents deal with the GOP – some for Benefits. Among our guests: Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch, Bill Fletcher of the Center for Labor Renewal and the latest on the Democrats' will to fight from Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of VT. All that, plus as Michelle Bachmann calls for the defunding of Planned Parenthood, we hear what pro-choicers are up against in the states It's all coming up on GRITradio...

This week, Beyond Big Oil, organizing the plantation, and austerity - for whom? In this week's show, Greg Palast on the ravages of the oil industry beyond BP, and Emira Woods and Nick Jahr on how Liberian Rubber Tappers won a Daniel v. Goliath battle against US Firestone. Economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff lay out the thinking behind Austerity - and explain just why Americans should pay close attention to what's happening to the Euro. All that a debate over the death of the cap and...

Coming up Pulitizer prize winner Chris Hedges, on the death of the liberal class. Did they jump or were they pushed? We'll hear from Hedges about the wages of war, the evil of objectivity, and why he's down on the hive mind... And with Veterans Day just passed...veterans ask: if military brass are so concerned about protecting troops from out gay people -- what about protecting them from wrongful discharge -- and Rapists? Kathy Kelly of the Center for Conscious Non Violence responds to...