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Unspun with Doug Bennett
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Dr. Doug Craig, clinical psychologist and blogger at Climate of Change, co-hosts with me on Unspun. Our special in-studio guest is Paul Hughes, Executive Director of Forest Forever and the Forests Forever Foundation. We talk about current logging practices and legislation that might be effective in protecting and restoring forests. Paul shares his knowledge from years of involvement as an environmentalist, journalist and lobbyist. Dr. Craig makes the connections between logging, corporate influence and climate change. |
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Unspun has two guests on the show, Marily Woodhouse, a forest and watershed advocate working with TheBattleCreekAllince.org., and Doug Bevington PhD, Forest Program Director for Environment Now and author of The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear. We have an in-depth discussion of current forest practices and why environmentalist must prevail over special interests, especially concerning "clearcutting" aka Deforestation.
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Unspun goes in-depth with Dr. Ravi Batra, prophetic economist, futurist and internationally best-selling author of six books including Greenspan's Fraud and The Myth of Free Trade. Dr. Batra talks to us about the continuing upheaval, our disastrous economic decline and collapse, and his latest book, The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos. More at ravibatra.com. |
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Unspun features excerpts of Chris Hedges' speech at Berekeley, Ca., on August 25, 2011, "Calling All Rebels". Hedges, son of a preacher, multi-lingual, Pullitzer Prize winning, foreign correspondent for New York Times for 15 years, senior fellow at the Nation Institute, author of eleven books, delivers a beautiful and brutally honest assessment of America and its absolute failure to serve the people while abusing the world. More information about Chris Hedges and his work can be found at Truthdig.com. |
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Unspun features Amy Goodman Internationally recognized journalist and host of Democracy Now!, live en route to Redding for her 2012 appearance at David Marr Theater in Redding,. We talk about independent public media, Martin Luther King Jr., the corporate assault on democracy, the Occupy movement and more. Does the Amy Goodman dynamo ever slow down or run out of gas? An amusing portion of the show discusses the hazards of touring and palm trees in Redding. |
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Unspun guest, Dr. Helen Caldicott, recognized as an educator on nuclear dangers and anti-nuclear weapons and anti-nuclear power activist, a Harvard pediatrician by profession joins us on the phone from Australia. We discuss the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons, the use of depleted uranium munitions and the current threat presented by the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima 1, 2 and 3. Are we facing the "China Syndrome", and what does that mean to the world? |
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Anti-war activist, author and historian, David Swanson, joins us to discuss his book, War is a Lie, Co-host, Rocky Compton, Vietnam vet and I talk with David about Pearl Harbor, the infamous attack that ushered Americans into the "Good War", WWII. He points out that virtually every war America has been involved in for the last century started as a lie, and they continue as the results of more lies. His website,"Let's Try Democracy", at davidswanson.com and warisacrime.com are great blog sources, his books are real eye-openers. |
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Our in studio guest is Jim Dyar, journalist, musician, singer/songwriter based in Redding, CA.. He currently performs with the Muletown String Band and his own band, The Jim Dyar Band. He covered Arts and Entertainment and The Outdoors for the Record Searchlight for 17 yrs. We talk about his development as a journalist and musician over the years, sing a couple of his original songs, and get into his evolution as a activist for social and economic justice. |
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Co-hosting with me is Doug Craig, clinical psychologist, Climate Change activist with ClimateofChange blog on the Record Searchlight online. Our guest on the phone is Professor Robert Howarth, Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology at Cornell University, We discuss the disappointing Durban Climate Summit, and what current energy policies mean to the environment. His latest paper is about "frakking" and the role of methane in the atmosphere. |
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My guest on the phone from Wash. D.C. is 27 yr. CIA analyst, Ray McGovern. Ray is a founder of Veteran Intelligence Professional for Sanity and currently works with Tell the Word. One of the most courageous truth-tellers I know talks to us about the failed U.S. foreign policy, The so-called "War on Terror" under Obama, the false stories about Iran's nuclear ambitions and the National Defense Authorization Act that threatns the liberty of all people around the world, including Americans, with indefinite detention without evidence or charges. |