American Gulag
1/28/08 Meria interviews Marsha Weissman, Executive Director of the Center for Community Alternatives; our criminal “justice” system; the alternatives to prison, penalties and restitution; paying to be on parole and probation; bankruptcy doesn’t apply; Attica; CCA- non governmental agency; Re-integrative justice; community and individual responsibility; client specific planning; no rehab in prison; overcrowding; prisons as abnormal environments; drug addiction is a HEALTH problem – treatment works, prison doesn’t; prisons as increasing punitive; $30,000 per prisoner a year; Black Americans in the justice system; from schoolyard to prison; inequity of black Americans vs. white Americans in prison; return of Jim Crow; racial desparities of those with criminal records; undermined voting rights; lifetime punishment- the job market; financial penalties in addition to jail time; “governing through crime”; poverty-desperation-crime; the racial wealth gap; women more disenfranchised in prison than men; programs for rehab; community based solutions are needed; parents in prison- effects on the family and more. Who benefits?
Paul Craig Roberts
1/23/08 Meria is joined once again by Paul Craig Roberts, former Asst. Secy of the Treasury under Reagan, Editor, Author of several books including “The Tyranny of Good Intentions”; the newly sworn in democratic congress; the assault on the Constitution – Bill 1955 – the Homegrown Terrorists Act and the Extremists Beliefs Commission. Accusation is now evidence; 9/11- Al Queda – no evidence; Halliburton’s detention centers in the U.S.; Election 08 will it change anything? The recession and the economy; offshoring; Federal Reserve; is there an alternative to the dollar?Bush clones for 08; exclusion from debates; public can’t identify the candidates that would bring change; Clinton, McCain, Obama; Polls & vote tallies in New Hampshire; Republican voting machines; software by republican operatives; Lobbys will be happy with either; Bush has diminished America’s power; Iranian ships issue – false flag; lies to war – fabrications; US Military & Intel stood up to stop an Iranian war; will our economy ever rebound? offshoring; economy kept going by debt; Greenspan’s housing bubble; job creation? zero; trade deficits; Foreign countries buying up U.S. assets and future income; China’s pegged to the dollar, will it change? Can we have a depression? Previous superpowers and their decline; what can we expect? Hard hitting information
Will Thomas
1/16/08 Will Thomas returns to the show to discuss his EXCELLENT book “Days of Deception, Ground Zero & Beyond”. This is the most exciting book I’ve read in a long time. 9/11/01 in real time; what do to now – emergence; Doom & Bloom; Kucinich’s “Dept of Peace”; Richard Grove’s excellent work; turf wars inside the 9/11 “movement”; financial incentives behind 9/11, Iraq,Afghanistan, and possibly Iran; “Deep Pockets” – 9/11 a fireworks display; Pearl Harbor truth – Robert Stinnett’s “Day of Deceit”; commercial shipping moved out of the way on that day of “infamy”; the Pearl Harbor stand-down, the 9/11 stand-down; what can Bush do in a year?; All evolves back to the Vatican and the Bank of Rome; money is why 9/11 happened; Federal Reserve; put options on 9/11; Richard’s work on financial trading software; fraudulent trading activities; the price REAL truthers pay; Bank of England; the Black Pope; the Jesuits; the micro chips made in China; Paying off 9/11 Commission to cover up Pakistan; using low level nukes in Iraq; radiation illness; “nothing can outlast the truth”. Here’s the link to order the book:http://www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/STORE.html
