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07-31-08 Episode

Faiz Shakir: Research Director at The Center for American Progress and serves as Editor-in-Chief of ThinkProgress.org.

Mike Lux: co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies, L.L.C., a political consulting firm. Read his blog huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux.

Scott Dick: regular contributor on Military/Vets issues. Dick hosts his own radio broadcast called The Scott Dick Show.

R. J. Shulman: political satirist. You can read Shulman’s blog at ptsd1.blogspot.com.

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07-30-08 Episode

Paul Waldman: author of four books on media and politics. His latest is called “Free Ride: John McCain and the Media”. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects at Media Matters for America. He is also a columnist for The American Prospect. You can read his blog at paulwaldman.blogspot.com.

Randy Hayes: founder of Rainforest Action Network.

Lou Dematteis: San Francisco Bay Area photojournalist and documentary photographer Lou Dematteis has covered issues of social, political, economic and environmental importance for the past 30 years. A former staff photographer for Reuters News Pictures. His new book is called “Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest”.

Saul Kaye: singer-songwriter. His band is called The Saul Kaye Band.

Lt. Gov john Garamendi: 46th Lieutenant Governor of California. He brings to the office 32 years of public service.

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Peter B in Madison, WI

This Friday, August 1, we will be live from Madison, Wisconsin, site of the Nonstop Radio conference. Get the details at www.nonstopradio.com Guests include Thom Hartmann, John Nichols (The Nation, media reform leader) and Matthew Rothschild of the Progressive. PBC will be leading several panels at the conference on Saturday and Sunday. If you can, join us in Madison!

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07-29-08 Episode

Steve Poizner: California’s Insurance Commissioner. Contact the Commissioner and find out more about your rights at insurance.ca.gov.

Rory O’Connor: veteran media critic. O’Connor’s new book is called “Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America’s Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternatives”. Read his blog at roryoconnor.org/blog

Ken Silverstein: Washington, DC Editor for Harper’s Magazine and writes Washington Babylon for Harpers.org.

Jason Leopold: investigative journalist. He writes for the online publication The Public Record.

Melanie Sloan: Executive Director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW. Prior to starting CREW, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia.

Anima LaVoy: co-founder of Swing Semester. Originally from Washington, DC, Anima Sarah La Voy earned her degree in psychology from Earlham College, a Quaker liberal arts school in Richmond, Indiana. While living in the Midwest, she learned about small town economies, country music, and people who didn’t think like her.

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07-28-08 Espisode

Evan Russell: medical student at John Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Rocky Anderson: founder of High Road for Human Rights. Anderson served as Mayor of Salt Lake City from 2000-2008.

Cliff Schecter: political commentator and journalist. His blog is called The Political Carnival. His latest book is called “The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn’t”.

Anna Baltzer: Jewish American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Her new book is called “Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories”. Baltzer is currently working with Global Exchange to expose human rights abuses in Palestine and supporting nonviolent resistance to the Occupation. You can buy her book and learn more about Anna Baltzer at her website annainthemiddleeast.com.

Ivan Eland: Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute.

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07-25-08 Episode

Robert Parry: founder of ConsortiumNews.com. His new book is called “Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush”.

Jonathan Rintels: President and Executive Director of The Center for Creative Voices in Media.

Ph.D Dagmar Herzog: professor of history at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Her new book is called “Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics”.

Cathy Zoi: CEO of the Alliance for Climate Change. The Alliance, established and chaired by Former Vice President Al Gore, is spearheading a massive campaign to persuade Americans and people elsewhere in the world of both the urgency and solvability of the climate crisis.

Brad Friedman: self-described election integrity muckraking journalist jerk. You can read his blog at Bradblog.com.

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07-24-08 Episode

Rep. Maxine Waters: Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991 representing the 35th District of California.

Bruce Fein: lawyer in the United States who specializes in constitution and international law. He is a pro-impeachment republican.

Scott Dick: regular contributor on Military/Vets issues. Dick hosts his own radio broadcast called The Scott Dick Show.

Pam Singh: council for the International Justice Program for Human Rights Watch.

R. J. Shulman: political satirist. You can read Shulman’s blog at ptsd1.blogspot.com.

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07-23-08 Episode

Eric Boehlert: senior fellow at Mediamatters.org. He is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and a former senior writer for Salon.

Diane Farsetta: Senior Researcher for The Center for Media and Democracy. Farsetta coordinates CMD’s No Fake News campaign. You can read her blog at prwatch.org/blog/6.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing the 10th District of Ohio. He has been serving since 1996 and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2004 and 2008 elections.

Harvey Wasserman: Free Press Senior Editor. Wasserm is a “Superpower of Peace” columnist and author of a dozen books including SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030.

Aldous Tyler: founder of nonstopradio.com.

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07-22-08 Episode

Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman: former American Democratic politician, a pioneer as a woman officeholder. She is now an attorney and author on politics. She served for eight years as a U.S. Congresswoman and won national attention for her role on the House Judiciary committee during the Watergate scandal.

Osa Schultz: long-time Alaska fishing family that spans several generations. Schultz will testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the impact the Exxon Valdez oil spill has had on her family, her business and her community.

Travis Valsoff: Alaskan Native Fisherman.

Juan R. I. Cole: University Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Cole has written extensively about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. He has a regular column at Salon.com. And you can read his blog, Informed Comment at juancole.com.

Jason Leopold: founder of pubrecord.org. Leopold has broken numerous stories on the financial machinations of Enron, and his investigative pieces on the company have been published in The Nation, Salon.com, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal The San Francisco Chronicle, CBS Marketwatch, Entrepreneur, Utne Reader and other publications. Leopold was also a contributor to CNBC and National Public Radio and had also been the keynote speaker at more than two-dozen energy industry conferences around the country.