The Peter B Collins Show

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "Behold our King!" During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the letter to Hebrews. Nothing is more needed in the 21st (c) western church than to refocus and re-orientate ourselves towards Jesus Christ. The book of Hebrews drives us to do exactly that by setting forth the beauty, uniqueness, sufficiency, and worth of Christ. Behold our King! Originally preached in 2013.

From the archives! "The full assurance of hope". During COVID-19 we're bringing back some older content which hasn't been heard in a while. This series looks at the writer of Hebrew's desire for his recipients to "have the full assurance of hope". How often, as a Christian, have you had doubts as to your salvation, or as to what lies the other side of death? Both in the Bible and down through the history of the church we find believers at one moment performing great feats for their God, only to be drowning in doubt and confusion the next. Over and over again in scripture we are exhorted to be sure and certain both of our standing in Christ and of our future because of Christ. In this series we seek to understand how we can have full assurance in Christ. Originally preached in 2011.

Child detainee challenges our kangaroo court; Obama denounces GOP as PBC cheers; Chew reviews Inception. Prof. Lisa Hajjar was at Guantanamo for a recent session of the infamous military commissions for Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was picked up in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15. Prof. Hajjar is a sociologist from UC Santa Barbara and an editor of Middle East Report who details the Khadr case, the flimsy evidence (including torture-induced false confessions) and the remarkable competence displayed by the now-23-year-old as he has fired lawyers, demanded to represent himself, and threatened to boycott the proceedings. The American military lawyers assigned to represent him show remarkable courage in denouncing a rigged system. Prof. Hajjar also comments on the recent Supreme Court denial of an appeal from another Canadian brutalized by the US, Maher Arar. Her detailed article is here, and adds important new details and context to the Arar case. Two other Canadians were also held in Syria, where they were tortured and interrogated at the same time as Arar; one was a friend from Toronto who was the original focus of investigators. While a Canadian commission fully investigated the Arar case and delivered a formal apology and $10.5 million settlement to Arar, the US courts have consistently blocked his access to justice. In the second segment starting at 1:03 you will hear President Obama's weekly radio/internet address interlaced with PBC's comments. For the first time, Obama directly criticizes Republicans in the Senate for blocking extension of unemployment benefits and loans for small business. PBC cheers, sort of. And Gary Chew has a review of the new film Inception that you've gotta hear, maybe twice. Like the movie, his review is based on dreams, and like its star, Leo DiCaprio, Gary is a writer/actor of considerable talent. The Chew review starts at 1:16:30

BP's blowout: a view from Florida's Gulf coast; Karl Rove's "biggest mistake"; FCC obscenity ban overturned. Author H.P. Albarelli, Jr. joins us from his oil-free beach just west of Tampa Bay on the Gulf coast of Florida. He talks about his recent piece for Truthout.org about the disaster, which leads to broader criticism of Obama's weak leadership on this crisis, poor appointments, and failure to bounce Bush appointees. Albarelli also talks about an outbreak of dengue fever in Key West, which is one of the locations where the CIA tested dengue as a weapon in the 1950's; he points out that the symptoms of dengue are very similar to the symptoms of people who are exposed to oil dispersant chemicals like Corexit. His powerful book about US chemical and biological warfare efforts is called A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments. His article on dengue fever will appear soon at Truthout.org PBC comments on Karl Rove's Wall St. Journal column July 15 entitled "My Biggest Mistake in the White House". Rove tries to make the case that Bush didn't lie about WMD in Iraq, with more lies. And your humble host closes with a string of obscenities that have been broadcast on TV, as an appeals court overturned the ban on "fleeting expletives". Warning: f-bombs in this podcast!

Gitmo, still open; an Israeli whitewash; Obama's "disgusting" policies. Andy Worthington, British journalist and author of The Guantanamo Files updates us on Guantanamo: 93 % of the prisoners Bush and Cheney called "the worst of the worst" were innocent. 60 of the 181 remaining detainees are innocent Yemenis whose release is blocked by Obama's moratorium, which is being snubbed by federal judges; 48 others are designated to be held indefinitely without trial, only 35 will face trials, including the KSM posse. Read Andy's frequent updates on his website, and please support him if you can. PBC offers news and commentary on Israel's "investigation" of its attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla on May 31, starting at 1 hour 2 minutes into the podcast. In the third segment starting about 1:11 Roger Shuler returns to talk about the Siegelman case, and a recent commentary he wrote about the Obama administration's policies on whistleblowers and civil liberties, where he quotes Anthony Romero of the ACLU who is "disgusted" with Obama's policies. Bonus music with meaning from Neil Young and John Fogerty.

Jason Leopold on BP's pattern of reckless mismanagement; PBC talks back to Tim Geithner. Leopold is a great investigative journalist and deputy managing editor at Truthout. His latest in-depth report on BP's dangerous practices in Alaska has led to the resignation of BP's CEO of Alyeska, Kevin Hostler; it has also led corporate media outlets like CNN, AP and the Wall St. Journal to plagiarize Truthout's exclusive reporting. Hostler is exposed as an intimidating manager who rammed through cost cutting as engineers warned of increased risk. There was a leak from the pipeline this May, and response was slow because Hostler had moved staff away from the pipeline. Leopold's story is a must-read, and there's more in the interview. In the second segment, starting about 51:08, your humble host replays an interview with Geithner from the PBS News Hour, and calls "bullshit" on the many evasions and spins served up in response to critical questions about the prospects for recovery for working Americans. Geithner dances around the most serious issues with PR talking points; cheerleading for Wall St., he ignores the reality that manufacturing jobs will not be returning and many more people will lose their homes.

Gov. Don Siegelman on Supreme Court ruling; David Swanson on sneaky House vote for war funding. Gov. Siegelman may benefit from the recent Supreme Court ruling for ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, which invalidated the "honest services" statute. The Court has since returned the Siegelman-Scrushy convictions to the 11th Circuit for review. Siegelman tells how Karl Rove and friends framed him, how Elena Kagan backs prosecutors over the wrongfully convicted, and his prospects for justice in the next legal rounds. Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union is a tireless progressive activist and the cofounder of After Downing Street Coalition. He deconstructs the bizarre tactics used by House leaders to fund the escalation in Afghanistan without leaving fingerprints. Read his excellent article about it here. We run down the list of members who voted against the tactics and the bill for the right reasons--and can only identify 8. While many Dems spoke out against the war and escalation, only those 8 had the courage to actually vote against it--a new low. We describe the strange politics of this moment--Republicans, who all support the war, voted against the funding, while most anti-war Dems voted for it. And now, Obama threatens a veto over the part of the bill intended to stop teacher layoffs.

Stem Cell Clinical Trials; Commentary on Kagan Confirmation; movie review: Mother and Child. Dr. Eva Feldman of the University of Michigan has exciting news on clinical trials of stem cells on ALS (Lou Gherig's disease) patients. States like California and Michigan bypassed Bush-era restrictions on stem cell research, and we are seeing real promise for halting deterioration in ALS patients. Dr. Feldman is quite impressive, and explains the science and procedures simply and vividly. Please share this interview with families struggling with ALS and other diseases like Parkinson's and diabetes. Prof. Marjorie Cohn offers smart comments from a progressive perspective on Elena Kagen and the "vapid" process (Kagan's words) of Supreme Court confirmation. Most troubling to Prof. Cohn is almost-Justice Kagan's brief to deny habeas corpus rights to prisoners at Bagram in Afghanistan, even those not picked up in Afghanistan. And Gary Chew has a summer movie review of Mother and Child and a song from the movie, Little One by Lucy Schwartz. For easy access, the Kagan segment starts at 31:00 and the Chew-review is at 56:00.

Child sex slavery and pandering. Two well-informed writers talk about a sordid, difficult subject. Nick Bryant has just published The Franklin Scandal, which details a child pandering network run by an influential Republican from Omaha, Lawrence King. King fleeced a credit union of about $40 million, and used his political influence to get the FBI and other law enforcement and judicial agencies to coverup his child sex pandering network, which included the abuse of some residents of Boys Town and the outrageous conviction of one of the female victims on perjury charges. More info at the book's website. Charles A. Bonner is a human rights attorney from the Bay Area, who represented a young girl who was kidnapped and held in a dungeon by a serial rapist; he has published a fiction book based on those real events in Syracuse, NY called The Bracelet. The book also details international sex slavery rings that exploit impoverished young women from third world countries. Bonner offers free legal consultation to victims, listen for his contact info.

Write That Book Already! Authors Sam Barry and Kathi Kamen Goldmark's new book is an entertaining and informative self-help book for writers; both have worked in publishing and have been published, and their insight and "tough love" are quite valuable. PBC invited his friend and colleague Rona Renner, host of the Childhood Matters radio show to join us for a friendly "intervention". Rona has been thinking about writing a book, and we use her as our author-wanna-be--providing real world examples of the challenges of writing a book and getting it published. We talk about the practical side of writing, getting support, finding an agent, asking for an advance--all the key questions you'll face if you want to write a book. Sam and Kathi also write the "Author Enablers" column. So go write a book, and send a copy to PBC!

The Internets: Social Network Bill of Rights, Legalize online gambling? Two reports on the web: first, attorney Lisa Borodkin reports from the conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy in San Jose. Borodkin and USC law professor Jack Lerner have proposed a bill of rights for social media; she discusses the real lack of privacy and control by users over Facebook and other sites, how most people are clueless about their exposure online, and that operators take advantage of user ignorance. One example: after you delete a photo from Facebook, it is still archived and available to anyone with the correct URL. In our second segment, we talk with Melanie Brenner, head of Poker Voters of America, who is promoting California Senate Bill 1485 to legalize and tax online gambling here; we're joined by my friend and poker player Mark Lewis, who is skeptical of online gambling: "it's not about protecting consumers...it's about money, for the state and the operators". Second segment starts about 37:22

Steven L. Pease, author of The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement. Pease, a retired CEO and venture capitalist, talks about his interest in Jewish culture that developed as he worked with many Jews in business. As a gentile, he has an outsider's appreciation for the cultural and religious characteristics--especially the commitment to education--that have enabled Jews, especially Americans, to excel in numbers that are disproportional to the population. For example, Jews make up about 2/10ths of one per cent of the world population, but 31% of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine have been Jewish.

Journalist Paul Fitzgerald on US drone attacks; Nancy Talanian on adopting refugees from Guantanamo. Fitzgerald and his wife Elizabeth Gould first covered Afghanistan for CBS in 1981, later for PBS. We talk about their latest dispatch at Boiling Frogs about the negative impact of US drone strikes, which kill 50 civilians for each alleged terrorist assassinated. We talk about Karzai's visit to Washington, the US efforts to undermine his peace feelers to the Taliban and other opponents, Gen. McChrystal's spin on "progress" in the war, and much more. Fitzgerald refers listeners to an article by Nathan Freier linked here. Talanian is director of No More Guantanamos and talks about a Russian named Ravil Mingazov who was ordered released on May 13 by a federal judge, after 8 years at Guantanamo without charge or trial. The towns of Amherst and Levitt have offered to accept Mingazov and another prisoner. While Obama has pledged to close Gitmo, his Justice Dept. continues to hold men the courts have ordered released and to use legal maneuvers to continue to detain innocents. We also talk about the administration's efforts to block legal action by Canadian Maher Arar to vindicate his rendition, torture and imprisonment by the US. The second segment starts at about 57:13

Outspoken Professor Francis Boyle discusses the October 2001 anthrax attacks, the technology behind the letter to Senator Daschle, and assesses the case based on his years of expertise with America's bio-weapons programs, and as an expert who was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, which was passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. This is the next episode of the Boiling Frogs interview series, cohosted with Sibel Edmonds. Boyle discusses possible motivations behind the anthrax attacks, including those held by criminal elements within the US government to foment a police state, and the investigation that never was. Professor Boyle talks about Israeli war crimes as crimes against humanity, and more. Boyle is a human rights lawyer and professor of law at the University of Illinois. As an internationally recognized expert, Professor Boyle serves as counsel to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to the Provisional Government of the State of Palestine. He is the author of several books, including The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence published by Clarity Press.

War Correspondent Anand Gopal on Afghanistan/Pakistan; Veronique Raskin on organic wines. Gopal is an independent reporter who writes for The Nation, Wall Street Journal and Christian Science Monitor. He was our guest in January regarding his reporting on American night raids and secret detention centers in Afghanistan, and in this conversation he updates us on the US assaults on Marjah and Kandahar, Karzai's efforts to engage Taliban leaders in peace talks (thwarted by the US), Taliban leader Zakir (former Gitmo prisoner) and other issues. He also confirms the comment made on MSNBC this week by NYT reporter and former Taliban hostage David Rodhe: Taliban members do not believe that al Qaeda was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Veronique unveils the new Peter B. Collins Organic Wine Club--sign up and get 3 great bottles per month for just $49.99 plus shipping. She talks about her French origins, and her vision of organic wines that goes all the way back to 1980. Your wine purchases and/or club membership help support the PBC Show! The second segment starts at about 44:00

Moonie Paper Going Down?Journalist Robert Parry of Consortiumnews.com has filed a Special Report on financial problems at Moon's Washington Times which has been a reliable propaganda organ for the GOP for more than 20 years. John Gorenfeld also joins the conversation, author of Bad Moon Rising: How Rev. Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom. Moon has poured more than $3 billion into this rag, and reportedly much of that money was laundered from drug profits; Parry and Gorenfeld note that the mainstream media and Democrats have accepted the Moonie paper and its biased reporting with little criticism, and that it has been bypassed by Fox News and others as the megaphone for GOP talking points.

Filmmaker Laura Poitras and Prof. Roberto Rodriguez on apartheid in Arizona. Poitras is producer/director/cinematographer of new documentary The Oath which adds new information to the case of Salim Hamdan (bin Laden's driver) who spent 5.5 years at Guantanamo and tried in a military tribunal; he is now free in Yemen. The film also profiles Abu Jandal, who recruited Hamdan into al Qaeda. It opens in early May in NY, watch for it this summer. Rodriguez wrote a commentary for Common Dreams which adds context to Arizona Gov. Brewer's signing of SB 1070, the draconian law that allows police to stop anyone they suspect of being an illegal resident. We talk about how McCain unleashed the Tea Party virus that is now threatening his re-election. Rodriguez supports boycotts, and political theater--like citizens going to police stations to ask to have their documents inspected. The second portion begins at 22:55

David Swanson on the imperial presidency, Kate Hanni on flyers' rights. Swanson is the tireless activist whose resume includes ACORN, Kucinich for President 2004, Democrats.com, AfterDowningStreet.org, impeachpac.org andthe lates, defundwar.org His new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union details the expansion of executive power advance by Bush and maintained by Obama, and singles out Congress for failing to assert its oversight, war powers, and budget responsibilities. Swanson is brilliant at seeing the big picture while engaging in specific battles. Kate Hanni reports a key victory for the traveling public: you cannot be imprisoned on a plane on the tarmac for over 3 hours. Airlines will be subject to huge fines--up to $27,000 per passenger--for future episodes. Hanni also talks about the pitfalls of the new body scanners being deployed. And you'll hear the parody song "Naked Airlines" during our chat.

Russ Baker on the Bush dynasty. Baker discusses his book, Family of Secrets, the first complete historic portrait of the generations of Bushes in government, and provides us with an overview of how this dynasty shaped our politics. This is the next installment of the Boiling Frogs interview series, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds. He tells us about the shadow government in the US, the real players, elites, and power centers within each president's government, and the limitation on what and how much an American president can accomplish considering the influence of these powerful and independent fiefdoms characterized by entrenched agendas and constant intrigue. Baker defines and explains the concept of Forensic Journalism, and talks about his nonprofit news organization WhoWhatWhy, the need for nonpartisan and independent journalism today, the current media landscape in the US, and more. Russ Baker is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of Family of Secrets-- the Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years. He has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Village Voice and Esquire. He has served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, and is the founder of WhoWhatWhy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization.

Yemenis trapped at Gitmo, Accountablity for BushCo? British journalist Andy Worthington is our expert on America's Gulag and wrote The Guantanamo Files. Charlotte Dennett is a journalist and lawyer; her book The People v. Bush has just been published. Worthington talks about the new hysteria produced by the failed terrorist action on Christmas Day and the fear projected by American politicians of both parties. He corrects the record about the former Gitmo prisoners released under Bush who are now leading al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, about Liz and Dick Cheney's rants and about the 6 Yemenis released in December and more than 80 who remain. Dennett was a candidate for Vermont Attorney General in 2008, and based her campaign in part on Vincent Bugliosi's legal strategy to prosecute Bush for murder. She talks about her campaign and the ongoing struggle for accountability, which is largely opposed by ObamaCo, and profiles activists like Michael Ratner, Glenn Greenwald, David Swanson and the ACLU as they continue to fight for justice and constitutional rule.

Goodman and McGovern on CIA deaths in Afghanistan. Melvin A. Goodman is a former analyst for CIA, State Dept. and Defense and author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA. Ray McGovern started at the CIA in the 1960's and was daily briefer to Reagan. Combined, they have more than 60 years of intelligence experience. They comment on the suicide bomber who killed 7 CIA agents in Afghanistan, the CIA's role in the drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the likely cycle of vengeance that will follow, and Obama's decision to commit more US troops. We also talk about the attempt to blow up a US airliner approaching Detroit on Christmas day and the hysterical response, as well as the dismissal of criminal charges against Blackwater mercenaries for the Nisour Square incident. Read Goodman's commentary at www.truthout.org and McGovern's dispatches at www.consortiumnews.com

Special Report: Gaza Freedom March. We talk to 3 Americans who joined 1400 people from around the world in Cairo, Egypt--attempting to cross into Gaza to join Palestinians in a march to remind the world of Israel's brutal assault on Gaza just a year ago. Ali Glenesk is a student at UC Berkeley who we talked to in Podcast 78; Tom McAfee is an activist and independent journalist from the Bay Area, and Col. Ann Wright (retired from US military and State Dept) is a courageous peace promoter who has been on our show many times. You'll hear their accounts of the efforts to persuade the Egyptian government to let them cross the border, and their encounters with Cairo citizens and riot police.