What Motivates Political Action?

• Corporate Power: Supreme Court sides with Coal Mine Profits over People.
• Prosecute Bush: The Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war, a window into a US inquiry.
• MUSIC: Francisco Herrera mixed with poetry, "Casas de Carton"... 
• The Psychology of Motivating Action: Is "more" always better? Research suggests that isn't the case. 
• Experimental psychology: The Gaza Strip test case.
• Hope: A key ingredient in a person's decision to join a cause.

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  Populist Movements

• Bankruptcy: Punished by 2005 Law.
• Worse than Apartheid: Israel's Roads and Weapons.
• Prosecution of Bush era Officials: More than a pipe dream... Israeli Officials Feel the Heat.
• Media-Criticism: Falsehoods on Bush Vs Obama's policies to keep us Safe.
• MUSIC:  Gypsy Jazz.
• Banksters in Obama Administration:  Former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. 
• Rise of the Right Wing: Prelude to Howard Zinn on American Populist movement. 

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  First New Episode of 2010

• Haiti: A Historical Perspective to Dispel the Media Myth that Blames the Victim
  
  • Role of Corporate Globalization
  • Century of Opression
• Howard Zinn and the voice Ginora Dollinger a local hero in a 1930s auto worker's strike in Flint Michigan
• MUSIC:  Stevie Ray Vaughn and a guitar masterpiece.
• Prosecute Bush:  Evidence of the Possible:  The Case of Peru's Alberto Fujimori

3 Minute Animation "Petite"
 

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  2009 GDAE Podcast Retrospective

 2009 GDAE Podcast Themes of:

• Music,
• Financial Robbery of 2009,
• Prosecuting Bush era officials for numerous crimes,
• American Exceptionalism,
• Human Exceptionalism
• Climate Change
• Right-wing Fringe Storm Clouds,
• Health Care,
• Perpetual War
• Middle East,
• Media Reform, 
• Humor
• Obama
• and more

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Episode 24 - December 31, 2009 US Senate Reform: Filibuster

• People's History: Voice of Sojourner Truth & thoughts on Deep Social Change...
• Media Criticism: Washington Post disconnect with public desires for real healthcare reform via Fair and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). 
• Echo of American Exceptionalism: Congressman Alan Grayson and Chris Mathews via the WakeUp AM Podcast.
• Prosecution of Bush: Jane Mayer's Book "The Dark Side".
• Musical diversion: Jimi Hedrix "Little Wing".
• Filibuster: Healthcare legislation is exposing US Senate as a barrier to majority-rule democracy.  
• Poetry: Night Before Christmas Debacle.
• Bloopers.
  

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Episode 23 - November 29, 2009 Climate Justice

• Climate Change: November 30 Day of Action, Corporate villains, Act for Climate Justice dot ORG.
• Wall Street's so-called "profits" and the Phony Accounting that created them.
  
• Climate Change II: Naomi Klein: Framing the issue in terms of "reparations".
  
• The Chasm between the Super Rich and the Rest of Us: Words of wisdom from Kuwait's Abdlatif Al-Hamad. 
• Prosecution of Bush: War Crimes Against Children from a Book by Professor Michael Haas and Article by Sherwood Ross.
• Musical diversion: Sam Bush Fiddle Solo exploration from "Little Maggie" with Doc & Merle Watson.
  
• Bloopers.
  

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Episode 22 - November 11, 2009 Israelis Speak Out

• Immigration: An interesting twist on the issue from Mexico's perspective.
  
• MUSIC: Francisco Herrera, "Cuando el Pobrea"
• Echos of American Exceptionalism: How it relates to torture, healthcare and The Goldstone Report & US relations with Israel. 
• Breaking the Silence: Israeli soldiers speak out on the injustices of occupation and the crimes in Gaza.
• Prosecution of Bush for War Crimes: Law professor Johnathan Turley.
• The Mail Bag: Feedback from the listeners.
• Phyllis Schlafly: A funny take from the crew at WakeUp AM Podcast.

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Episode 21 - October 18, 2009 Afghanistan

• Afghanistan Escalation in the Balance: Voices of Rickback Bookboch, Stephen Walt, General Petraeus, WakeUp AM, Obama, Richard Engel.
  
• MUSIC: Dana Lyons' "Cows with Guns".
• Prosecute Bush: Guantanamo Detainee Attorney Michael Rapkin calls for Bush & Cheney prosecutions for torture.
• Afghanistan II:  Rory Stewart on US Poised to Drive off Cliff in Afghanistan
• The Answer: How we know "We are All One"

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Episode 20 - October 9, 2009 Human Exceptionalism II

•  "Human Exceptionalism" with Rickback Bookbock: An extension of Episode 19 (Book "Ishmael") & Episode 18 (American Exceptionalism).
• MUSIC: Stephen Stills on guitar.
• Wall Street insider:  Jim Finkle's new perspective on mortgage backed bonds, asset managers vs investment bankers, and Wall Street culture.
• Prosecute Bush: Conference on prosecution of Bush at Massachusetts School of Law at Andover hosted by Dean Lawrence Velvel, with views of Vincent Bugliosi and Christopher Pyle.

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Episode 19 - September 27, 2009 Human Exceptionalism

"Reality Sucks" might be the subtitle for Episode 19...  Our exploration of "exceptionalism" leads to a realization that Americans are literally out of touch with reality... in part, because they know reality sucks and, in part, because many Americans believe that America is exceptional; They believe that our colonial founding was a stroke of genius unmatchable elsewhere in the world, and that this, and our uniquely American "can do" attitude, set us apart from other nations.  We are bred to believe we are "the best," which means we must lead and we must have special rights to perform that noble mission. That is, the US must have special latitude to carry out it's leadership role. This invokes a pattern of questionable behavior by the US in which the "means justify the ends," because the "ends" are the ends of the exceptional, democratic United States.

This is just one chain of logic that emerges from exploring the concept of American exceptionalism.  This exploration also steers us to observe the deep-rooted similarities between American conservatives and liberals who have the same breeding on American exceptionalism.  Traditional exploration of the subject is strongly oriented toward foreign policy matters rather than domestic, in part because the subject is "the nation" and nations tend to interact with other nations. 

However, a broader exploration sees the impact at home.  American's in-grained cultural belief that they and their nation are "exceptional" is reflected in basic behaviors that some would say are unhealthy. One example is a "resting-on-laurels" orientation; "We're great by definition. We don't have to try to be great." In not trying to be great, many take on an attitude of... not trying in life in general.  The daily world around is complicated. But there's an attitude that, "I'm an American; I don't need to worry about those complications."  Chris Hedges observes that American's prolonged exceptional attitude has left many unequipped to function in society... for example illiterate and thus dependent on television and radio for their information... media that are corporate and right-wing celebrity dominated.  You can see where this is going... now you can listen.

This subject was introduced in GDAE Podcast Episode 18.  Episode 19 is a continuation.

• Human Exceptionalism:  Insights from the book "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn. Rickback Bookbock joins for a reading.
• MUSIC:  6th Avenue Heartache by the Wallflowers... CSN "In My Dreams" Excerpt.
  
• American Exceptionalism:  Andrew Bacevich on false notions of military power and living beyond our means... Chris Hedges on Americans being out-of-touch with reality.
• Prosecute Bush: The Supreme International Crime by Nuremberg Trial Judge Robert Jackson.

 

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