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GARY NULL DVD SPECIAL!
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
--Thomas Jefferson
Christiane Brown’s Solution Zone is dedicated to speaking out about the hidden issues and buried facts of our day, separating truth from spin, and featuring in depth, and often explosive conversations with America’s best known progressive politicians, activists, bloggers and authors.
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Threats of Goverment Shutdown
America is being held hostage by a minority party, the Tea Party who have been demanding massive cuts in the name of reducing deficits, but the truth is they want to cut back are the programs they do not like, while inflating the programs, e.g. the military, which they do.
Guest: Danny Schechter – The News Dissector
LIBYA – Another Unauthorized War
Guest: Robert Neiman – Director: Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org
After a summit meeting in Paris the Libyan military operation was put into motion, and now the US is at war with a third Muslim Country (a fourth if we count Pakistan) – but where did President Obama get the authority to go to war? The answer is – He didn’t.
Something is missing in the US/Libyan war equation, and that something is called “The Authorization To Use Force.” By law the the US Congress must authorize the use of force in matters of war unless if the President feels there’s an imminent or actual threat to the United States.
With regard to Libya the threat is to the citizens of Libya not the United States. Congress has never authorized or even debated the current US military “intervention” in Libya. President Obama – simply went ahead, along with the Arab League and United Nations – and made the determination on his own.
Robert Neiman, Director of of Just Foreign Policy.Org discusses the legal and political ramifications of this latest military action, and why the American people need to protest and make their voices heard.
Japan Nuclear Disaster: When Will We Ever Learn?
Guest: Harvey Wasserman is senior advisor to Greenpeace USA since 1990,author of a dozen books, and co-author, with Pete Seeger, of the "Song for Solartopia and ON-LINE editor of nukefree.org
For years scientists and anti-nuclear activists have been warning about the dangers of nuclear power plants and the serious risk of fallout if these pants are damaged by earthquakes, explosions or human error. Once damage occurs, the results are deadly.
In the wake of Japan’s 8.9 earthquake at least four reactors and maybe as many as six have been damaged. Radiation is leaking into the atmosphere and the cooling systems at the reactors are not working. The government is trying desperately to discover another way to get water cover to the nuclear rods and keep them cool, but if this does not succeed nuclear meltdown is likely.
Harvey Wasserman a longtime voice in the anti-nuclear movement discusses the potential impact of the Japanese nuclear disaster on Japan and the world, including the lack of vision of that led to the building of these dangerous plants throughout the world, and how a similar nuclear disaster could befall to Southern and Central California if a 8.9 quake were to strike and compromise the Diablo Canyon and San Onfre nuclear power plants.
Guest: Attorney Steve Kohn, President The National Whistleblower Center, Author – The Whistleblower’s Handbook
As one of the leading whistleblowers in the country, Steve Kohn has written first ever layman’s guide to exposing workplace wrongdoing and reporting fraud, entitled The Whistleblowers Handbook, A Step By Step Guide To Doing What’s Right And Protecting Yourself.
Steve takes us through his book, including the steps to take if “your boss is a crook” and the many rules of whistle blowing including Understanding the Maze, Following the Money, making Protected Disclosures and Being Prepared for the Lid to Blow.
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Guest: Bill Scher – Executive editor Liberal Oasis.com
Why Wisconsin Matters to You & Why Public Employees Are Not the Problem
As thousands are rallying in Wisconsin and across the nation to support the Democratic budget standoff in Wisconsin, we discuss with Bill Scher why so many who are not part of a union so committed to protecting the role of organized workers in our government and our economy.
Bill discusses the vital importance of opposing conservative governor’s attacks on the collective bargaining rights of our nation’s civil servants across the nation, and the reasons that supporting unions is important for all Americans: these reasons include keeping workplace standards high, strengthening the middle class, protecting the ability of any workers to negotiate fair pay and secure retirements and insuring through decent government pay, that we have a decent government.
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Guest: Greg Seymour:
Renewable Energy Coordinator, with the Nevada Wilderness Project
U.S. Government - 677,000 Acres for Solar Development or 22 Million Acres?
The weather bashing the east coast and the flooding in the west continue to provide irrefutable evidence that climate change is upon us – the US government begins to move forward on a major transition to Solar energy and how do it it right from the beginning.
Guest: Bob Koehler: Award-winning peace journalist, fiction writer, poet and regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Common Dreams, OpEd News and TruthOut.
Egyptian Revolution: What Future Will Follow This Extraordinary Beginning?
It has been an extraordinary month Egyptians locked arms, a dictator tumbled.
Journalist Bib Koehlwer discusses his latest article Discovering Fire highlighting the extraordinary month in Egypt where citizens locked arms and caused a dictator to fall from power.
But the next steps that follow this early beginning will determine whether this revolution actually results in lasting change for Egyptians or if these events are remembered as only a divine moment of protest.
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Reagan’s True Legacy: Reagan was a con-man. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.
Guest: Greg Palast www.gregpalast.com
As the nation is swept by a revisionist media blitz in celebration of what would have been Ronald Regan’s 100 birthday, Greg Palast, investigative Journalist for the BBC and The Guardian Newspaper, discusses the true legacy of the Reagan Presidency, including Iran Contra, the invasion of Grenada, a war waged on the nation’s poor to benefit millionaires, a new meanness of spirit, and a tripling of the budget deficit.
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Bradley Manning’s Imprisonment, Illegal and Inhumane
Guest: David MacMichael - Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
Private First Class Bradley Manning, a 22 year old, intelligence analyst charged with releasing classified video of American troops shooting Iraqi civilians from an Apache helicopter has been inprisoned for 246 days a little over 8 months and held in solitary confinement at the U.S. Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Virginia, since July. U>S Military officials have admitted they are unable to make any connection Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. His imprisonment has been called inhumane, excessive and equivalent to torture, and he has yet to be convicted of any crime. He is awaiting court martial.
David MacMichael is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst. A ten-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, he was a counter-insurgency expert in South-East Asia for four years. David was a marine corp. captain whose last commission before resigning in 1959 was commanding the the headquarters company at Quantico the very facility where Bradley Manning is being held.
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Arizona Shootings and the Need to Address the Violent Climate Created by the Right-wing Media.
Guest: Sara Robinson - Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future
Some suggest that the left and right are no different in their rhetoric, but in our discussion Sara Robinson dismantles those claims, pointing out the radical differences between the two groups, including the fact in that there are no major figures on the left calling for the deaths of conservatives, and no shootings of right-wing leaders.
Robinson views the Arizona shootings as domestic terrorism and the result of 20 years of conservative media propagating violent rhetoric against liberal Americans. Gifford got caught in the crossfire. Will the right admit to their role in fueling the flames of this escalating tide of violence and pull back on their rhetoric? How many more will be killed before American rise up and demand change?
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Gary Null