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Free Forum with Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally

Features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. Guests have included Michael Lewis, Ken Burns, Arianna Huffington, Paul Krugman, Temple Grandin, Bill Maher, Cornel West, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Norman Lear. [http://terrencemcnally.net]

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30:18

Q&A: ZACHARY KARABELL Author,

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2009/11/09

Aired 11/01/09ZACHARY KARABELL argues that the economies of China and the US have melded over the past 20 years, as billions of dollars flow east from the US for Chinese-made goods and return to this country from China in exchange for IOUs."This mega-economy is hiding in plain sight, unrecognized, unacknowledged, and unwanted by many millions whose lives are being reshaped by it." Karabell's not suggesting this is an unalloyed good thing, "but it's a fact. And it's better to deal with

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Q&A: LESTER BROWN, Founder of Worldwatch and Earth...

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2009/10/25

Aired 10/20/09In Lester Brown's new book, PLAN B 4.0: MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION, Brown lays out the symptoms, the diagnosis, and the cure. He estimates that we could solve all the world's greatest problems for $200 billion a year - less than half the US defense budget. PLAN B 4.0 is a comprehensive plan for reversing the trends that are undermining our future. Its four overriding goals are to stabilize climate, stabilize population, eradicate poverty, and restore the earth's damaged

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23:22

Q&A: JODIE EVANS, co-founder of CODE PINK

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2009/10/19

Aired 10/13/09JODIE EVANS is the co-founder the International Occupation Watch Center in Iraq, and of CODE PINK, with, among others, Medea Benjamin. Jodie's Baghdad Journals are at the center of the book, Twilight of Empire, and she is co-editor with Benjamin of Stop The Next War Now. JODIE - "I am just returning from my 10-day trip to Afghanistan. As we left, a farm was bombed and eight members of a family were killed. Eight U.S. soldiers also lost their lives in an insurgent raid on their

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26:32

Q&A: CORNEL WEST, Author, Educator and Philosopher

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2009/10/15

Aired 10/13/09More than just a reflection on his life, Cornel West says his new memoir Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud is "an intensified dance with mortality." Following West's diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer -- now in remission -- he decided to write about his life in a way that might touch other souls. West calls the memoir his "most unique, delicate and difficult book to write," requiring him to "examine the dark corners of [his] soul...It is a life-transforming

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53:18

Q&A: Bruce H. Lipton, PhD and Steve Bhaerman

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2009/10/01

ìSpontaneous Evolution introduces the notion that a miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden rather than fight over the turf. When a critical mass of people truly own this belief in their hearts and minds and actually begin living from this truth, our world will emerge from the darkness in what will amount to a spontaneous evolution.îIn Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (And A Way To Get There From Here), pioneering

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50:42

Q&A: DANIEL ELLSBERG, Author

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2009/09/11

Aired 09/08/09Daniel Ellsberg is an American hero. September 23rd is the 40th anniversary of the first night of copying the Pentagon Papers, which he took from his safe at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica.America was embroiled in a dirty war based on lies. A president was abusing the power of his office, ignoring the will of the people, Congress and the courts. He promised peace while planning war without end. Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst, leaded the truth about the Vietnam war

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49:43

Q&A: Gil Friend, President & CEO of Natural Logic Inc

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2009/09/04

Aired 08/01/09"You don't have to choose between making money and making sense.... Green business practices are good for business and for the world. They can increase profits, lower costs, and attract customers."Those are the words of Gil Friend. Gil and I met in 1973 when I directed a video documentary of a Buckminster Fuller World Game Workshop. Each in our own ways, we've been plugging away at that game ever since.Gil Friend, President & CEO of Natural Logic Inc, is a systems

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50:00

Q&A: MICHAEL LIND, Policy Director, New America's...

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2009/08/28

Aired 08/25/09Michael Lind is a Senior Research Fellow and Policy Director of New America's Economic Growth Program. Lind's first three books of political journalism and history, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution; Up From Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America; and Vietnam: The Necessary War were all selected as New York Times Notable Books. Other books include Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American; What

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27:43

Q&A: Eduardo Galeano, Author

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2009/08/17

Aired 08/11/09It is my privilege to have Latin America's most acclaimed writers, EDUARDO GALEANO. I confess I was not aware of him until Hugo Chavez presented Barack Obama with one of his books. For that introduction, I thank the Venzuelan President. GALEANO's works are a unique blend of history, fiction, journalism and political analysis, and his life is so much more than that.Born in Uruguay in 1940, EDUARDO GALEANO began writing newspaper articles as a teenager, by the age of 20 he

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23:23

Q&A: Rick Steves, Travel Author

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2009/08/13

Aired 08/11/09I like it when someone does something better than they have to, or takes stands or risks they don't have to take. RICK STEVES has a comfortable business and a comfortable place in our culture and media. He helps people learn how to make travel less stressful and more enjoyable. But in TRAVEL AS A POLITICAL ACT, he sticks his neck out. He has traveled to and written about Iran, El Salvador, Turkey, for instance, in ways that challenge what passes for conventional wisdom. Of

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55:38

Q&A: MICHAEL LEWIS, Author

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2009/07/30

Aired 07/28/09MICHAEL LEWIS is one of my favorite popular writers. He writes about sports, business, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, political campaigns, now fatherhood - in bestselling books and for the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, among others. He's smart and he has a sense of humor. Malcolm Gladwell says he's one of our best storytellers.LEWIS was a trader at Salomon Brothers before he wrote his first best-seller, LIAR'S POKER about the excesses of Wall Street in the 1980s. He

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51:16

Q&A: HENRY JENKINS, Author, CONVERGENCE CULTURE:...

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2009/07/21

Aired 07/21/09HENRY JENKINS is the Provost's Professor of Communications, Journalism, and Cinematic Art at the University of Southern California. Until recently, he served as the co-founder of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His newest books include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture.www.henryjenkins.org/

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56:35

Q&A: ROBERT WRIGHT, Author and Blogger

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2009/07/18

Recorded 06/05/09Christianity, Judaism and Islam are both peaceful and violent. Robert Wright discusses what circumstances bring out the best and worst in religion.Is religion a force for good or ill?This question has been more energetically debated over the last few years, globally, due to the West's confrontation with radical Islam, and in the U.S., to the political emergence and activism of evangelical Christians. This was brought to a head with the misadventures of George W. Bush, from

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Q&A: JANE MAYER, New Yorker Correspondent and Author

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2009/07/01

Aired 06/30/09JANE MAYER, one of our nation's foremost investigative journalists will join us for at least the last half hour, maybe a bit more. Her best-selling 2008 book, THE DARK SIDE, was chosen by the New New York Times, The Economist, Salon, Slate, and Bloomberg as one of the best books of the year.In THE DARK SIDE, MAYER reported (to quote a review by Andrew Basevich), "Since embarking upon its global war on terror, the United States has blatantly disregarded the Geneva Conventions

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46:41

Q&A: LYME DISEASE documentary "UNDER OUR SKIN"

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2009/06/26

Aired 06/23/09LYME DISEASE and the documentary, UNDER OUR SKIN(opening in LA Friday June 26)ANDY ABRAHAMS WILSONproducer/director/cameraLORRAINE JOHNSONCEO, California Lyme Disease AssociationRICHARD HORWITZ MDPhysician, President, International Lyme and Associated Diseases Education Foundation MANDY HUGHESLyme disease patientLyme disease is one of the most misunderstood and controversial illnesses of our time. Difficult to test accurately, tens of thousands of people go undiagnosed-or

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49:47

Q&A: REZA ASLAN, Author

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2009/05/30

Aired 05/19/09REZA ASLAN is the author of "NO GOD BUT GOD" and his new book, "HOW TO WIN A COSMIC WAR: God, Globalization and the End of the War on Terror"REZA ASLAN says the only way to win a cosmic war is not to engage in one.That may seem obvious to some, but he's also saying that unless we recognize that we've been pulled into a cosmic war -- what that means and how it changes things -- we haven't got a chance of "winning" or even making the best of the situation."A cosmic war is a

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51:35

Q&A: DAVID KORTEN author then RANDY HAYES founder of...

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2009/05/19

Aired 05/12/09DAVID KORTEN author, AGENDA FOR A NEW ECONOMY:From Phantom Wealth to Real WealthDAVID KORTEN is the author of WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD and THE GREAT TURNING: From Empire to Earth Community. He is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, and a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)http://www.yesmagazine.orghttp://www.livingeconomies.orgRANDY HAYES has been highly successful waging corporate accountability campaigns with Rainforest

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Q&A: MATT TAIBBI - Columnist, Reporter, and Blogger

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2009/05/12

Aired 05/05/09MATT TAIBBI is a fire-breathing, shoot-from-the-hip reporter, columnist and blogger, whose March Rolling Stone article, "The Big Takeover," paints a dark picture of greed, corruption and power.http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/132859You can learn more about Taibbi's work at:www.trueslant.comwww.alternet.org www.rollingstone.com

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Q&A: MIKE LUX, Author

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2009/05/07

Aired 05/05/09One of Ronald Reagan's most famous and successful quotes is from his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, "There you go again..." No one can remember what it was about or whether it was accurate, but it worked.I bring it up because a new book makes clear that that same line applies all too well to the right in this country. "There you go again..." - bringing up the same old stereotypes, same old fears, same old prejudices...Today's first guest MIKE LUX has a new book out -- THE

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Q&A: BEN SKINNER, Author: "A CRIME SO MONSTROUS"

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2009/04/26

Aired 04/21/09Currently a fellow at the Carr Center for Human rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, previously a Special Assistant to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, BEN SKINNER has written for Newsweek, LA Times, Foreign Policy and others. He was named one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the Year 2008. His first book, now out in paperback, is A CRIME SO MONSTROUS: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery.http://www.castla.org

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