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There’s plenty to talk about from this past week and things happening in the future.
The Iranian elections are apparently a sham (no surprise there) as protesters are taking it to the streets.
Are we going to close Gitmo or not?? Even General Petraeus says “YES”!
The world would really love to tell Dick Cheney to shut up (me included).
Military interrogator Matthew Alexander picks apart Cheney’s ridiculous speeches. (Check out Matthews book on the link below)
We’ll talk with Ali Frick from The Center for American Progress and Think Progress.org.
A special report from The American News Project: “The Road To Ruin: Part 1″ You NEED to hear it!
Plus a Media Matters Minute
And plenty of scrutiny of the “mainstream media” and the idiots at Fox News.

Also, please check out Chris Bliss’ non-profit organization MyBillOfRights.org and see the great patriotic work that he’s doing.

by Jim Swanson
Progressive News Radio

 

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Ali Frick joins us each week for Progressive News radio to discuss the inside of Washington. Ali is currently with The Center For American Progress and Think Progress.org. Unfortunately, we have to announce that Ali will be leaving the show. Her last segment will be recorded Friday June 19th. The good news about this is that Ali, who already has a Master’s Degree in History from Yale, has just been accepted at Yale Law School. WOW! Talk about your overachievers!

We will certainly miss her commentary and discussions weekly, but hope that someone else from Think Progress will be able to join us each week to help keep YOU informed.

For now, enjoy her latest segment with Progressive News Radio host, Jim Swanson.

by Jim Swanson
Progressive News Radio

He’s known as one of the world’s best jugglers and comedians. Now he’s known as one of America’s true patriots.

Chris Bliss has started a non-profit organization called “MyBillOfRights.org“. He’s trying to get a Bill Of Rights monument built in every state capitol in America as well as town squares.

But he can’t do it alone!

In this special interview, we talk about the organization, his plans, the designers and working toward his goal.

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED. Click on the MyBillOfRights.org logo below to check out the site and donate to MyBillOfRights.org TODAY!

Click the YouTube link below to see Chris’ grand finale juggling that has an estimated 60 MILLION hits on YouTube and Google Video.

Chris Bliss Juggling Finale

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PART ONE - 59:39
PART TWO - 43:50

Plenty has been going on this past week in politics and news around the world.

On this edition, we’ll have ANOTHER report about a continuing problem in Iraq for our soldiers. And it’s something that needn’t happen. They can’t get access to CLEAN WATER.! If you’re NOT outraged, you should be.

A special report from The American News Project as former Governor and one-time Presidential candidate George McGovern gives fair warning to President Obama about his Iran and Afghanistan policies. Governor McGovern tells the parallels between President Obama and President Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam.

Robin McGhee, lead organizer with Meet In The Middle 4 Equality, talks with us about the California Proposition 8 decision to be made any day by the California Supreme Court.

We have a story about former Alabama Governor Don Siegleman. The 11th Appeals Court has refused to hear his case. He remains out of jail for now, but may be re-sentenced soon. Progressive News Radio spoke with Governor Siegelman back in October of 2008. You can hear his story HERE.

Our political analyst from Think Progress.org, Ali Frick discusses the latest happenings in Washington.

Matt Rothschild has a “Progressive Point of View“.

Ben Fishel has a Media Matters Minute.

On the May 21st edition of PNR, our guest is comedian /juggler /true patriot, Chris Bliss. If you don’t know who Chris is, be sure to check out his famous juggling to the Beatles “Abbey Road” album and check out his site called “My Bill of Rights.org” before next week’s show.

by Jim Swanson
Progressive News Radio

The California Supreme Court is supposed to rule on Proposition 8 in the next few days. They will either uphold it or overturn it.

We had the pleasure of speaking with Robin McGhee, the lead organizer for “Meet In The Middle”.

Everyone in the state of California is invited to Fresno, the Saturday AFTER the court ruling to either celebrate or protest.

Click on the mp3 player below to hear the interview with Robin or you can download it and listen at your convenience.

You can help support the LGBT Community in California by visiting “Meet In The Middle’s” website HERE, get all the details on what they are doing to make sure there is equality in California.

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PART 1 - 56:28
PART 2 - 36:47

Be sure to look for related reading and links from this week’s show below.

Is the Swine Flu Epidemic really an epidemic (possibly?), or is this another example of an over-zealous media latching on to sensationalism?
More people are jumping on the bandwagon to impeach Jay Bybee.
How ’bout them torture memos? More finger pointing and some interesting analysis from Jonathan Turley.
Chrysler declares bankruptcy, GM drops an entire brand name (Pontiac). How many jobs are going to be lost THIS TIME?
Lots of GREAT entertainment from “The Queen of Looneyville” herself, Minnesota Republican Representative Michelle Bachmann.
We’ll talk about Matthew Iglesias’s article “The Republicans Are Acting Like Swine” (Link below)

RELATED READING AND LINKS:
Matthew Iglesius’s article “The Republicans Are Acting Like Swine” is from The Daily Beast
David Bach’s Book “Fight for Your Money” can be found HERE
And you can WATCH Max Bluementhal’s “report on “Right-Wing Extremsists” HERE

Thanks for listening,

Jim

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This episode is in two parts
PART 1 - 58:06
PART 2 - 33:40

This past week, America has been infatuated with the torture issue. And for good reason. In Part 1, we’ll discuss the latest happenings with some very special reports. We’ll also talk with the Editor-In-Chief of Think Progress, Faiz Shakir about Think Progress’ efforts leading the pack to have Jay Bybee, a torture memo writer (when he was part of the OLC) and now sitting on the bench of the 9th District U.S. Court of Appeals, impeached. Other groups are following suit.

The newest health worry is the new strain of swine flu. As of this writing, 20 Americans have been stricken with the disease and have either recovered or are recovering. However the US is declaring a public health emergency for swine flu. Read the AP story HERE.

In Part 2, more information about the Environmental Protection Agency’s qualifying CO2 (carbon dioxide) as a health hazard and a contributor to global warming. Leave it to Minnesota Republican Rep. Michelle “nut case” Bachmann to say that CO2 is natural and we can’t survive without it. (What color is the sky in your world, Michelle?) Former Vice-President Al Gore testified in Congress about gross polluters fabricating their emissions reports, to the ridicule and bemusement of Texas Republican Representative “Asshat” Barton.

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Part One - 64:17
Part Two - 33:25

As of this posting (April 12), the captain of the hijacked cargo vessel is still being held hostage by the pirates that overtook the ship earlier in the week. We’ll have a complete report with reaction from the captain’s wife, how America can work to thwart ship hijackings AND the television network “Military Analysts” who shill for corporations that make defense equipment. One Air Force General says he’d send the new F-22 fighter jets after the pirates. Sorry, champ. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is flushing plans for that plane down the commode.

Attorney General Holder says he will NOT review the conviction of former Alabama Governor Don Seigelman. (WHAT?) In an earlier episode of PNR, we spoke with Governor Seigelman and you can hear that interview HERE

Levi Johnston, Trip’s Daddy with Bristol Palin, gets the chance to tell HIS side of the story.

The economy is bad, but to get out from under car payments, people are beginning to torch their own cars in record numbers. You do know that’s insurance fraud, right?

Ben Fishel has a Media Matters Minute.
Matt Rothschild from The Progressive has a Progressive Point of View.
Progressive News Radio’s Political Analyst Ali Frick from Think Progress.org and CAP discusses Representative Spencer Bachus’ (R-AL) claim that there are 17 Socialists in The House and the big Tea Parties being thrown by Fox News Channel all over the country. (oh…fun)

ENJOY!
AND THANKS AGAIN FOR LISTENING! We appreciate it!

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Running Time - 37:53

It proved to be a busy weekend for North Korea, President Obama and, of course, the Sunday talk shows.

Italy is devastated by a strong earthquake, three police officers are ambushed and killed.
Newt Gingrich is converting to Catholicism? Read the entire Max Blumenthal story here.

Well have a Media Matters Minute with Ben Fishel, A Progressive Point of View with Matt Rothschild and The Center for American Progress and Think Progress.org’s Ali Frick joins us for some political analysis.

Related reading: “Is the Twice-Divorced Newt Gingrich Converting to Catholicism for a 2012 Run? - by Max Blumenthal

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There are two parts to today’s edition.
Part 1 is 51:36
Part 2 is 49:08

The Republicans, the obstructionists and the plain idiotic just keep giving us this great material to work with. There’s plenty to go around in this edition of PNR.

We’ll catch you up on the latest news with North Korea preparing to launch a “satellite”.
The auto industry continues to hold on by a thread and that thread is starting to fray.
Some special reports including one from The American News Project called “Viewpoint: The Populist Moment“.
The Paul Krugman/Tim Geithner battle continues to roil as we hear from both sides. (I wish someone would book them both on the same show, the same day and let the slug it out verbally).
Karen Schwartz from The Kaiser Family Foundation talks about avenues to take for your family’s health insurance coverage if you’re laid off.

And our special guest, a good friend of the show, Craig Aaron, Program Director at Free Press.net speaks with us about their happiness with a new administration that is a little more broadband friendly. Lots of interesting details.

Enjoy

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PART ONE 43:40
PART TWO 41:09

Plenty of news for this edition, plus a few special reports.
Republican Minority Whip Eric Cantor gets a brow beating from Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’S “Morning Joe”, but does find some solace on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”, where his nutbag supports can call him to thank him AND also thank Michelle Bachmann. (PULEEZE). THEN we find out that the night of President Obama’s big press conference, Eric was enjoying himself at a BRITNEY SPEARS CONCERT!

The always informed Ali Frick from ThinkProgress.org and The Center for American Progress, joins us to talk politics and her experiences in dealing with the Amanda Terkel vs. Bill O’Reilly fiasco that’s being tossed around this past week in the media. Check out ThinkProgress.org for the latest on that story.
Jonathan Turley was on with Rachel Maddow this past week talking about the NECESSARY moves that PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST MAKE to indict and convict former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Pepe Escobar has his second of a two part report on “The Taliban Riddle”.
The American News Project takes a look at Congressional Fundraisers.
Ben Fishel as a Media Matters Minute.
Matt Rothschild has a Progressive Point of View.
ABC’s Investigative reporter Brian Ross takes a very chilling look at the drug cartels and the escalation in violence that’s gripping Mexico and starting to spill over the border into the U.S.

Today’s edition of PNR is in TWO PARTS
PART ONE is 53:54
PART TWO is 59:21

There are two stories in the podcast that you can read more. For “The Coming Evangelical Collapse” click HERE.
For the Jeremy Scahill Story on the Blackwater Protesters found GUILTY and sentenced to JAIL, click HERE.

There’s plenty of more outrageous news going on in this edition as well. On the good side, a crocodile has been given a new lease on life by undergoing extensive skull and facial reconstruction after being hit by a car. Who knows? It’s these kinds of things that can lead to better technologies and new ideas to use on we humans!

Some special reports to listen for in the program:
1. “The Taliban Riddle” comes to us from The American News Project and reporter Pepe EScobar.
2. Did you know it costs 100 BILLION dollars to MAINTAIN over 1000 US military bases in other countries? A special report from someone who knows ALL about it.

Plus Meaghan McCain Twitters away, Laura Ingraham Twitters at Meaghan, AIG continues to be a thorn in EVERYONE’S side, California’s biggest cash crop, marijuana, may actually help the Golden State out of the financial doldrums.

Plus our Media Matters Minute with Ben Fishel.
And Matt Rothchild, Editor of “The Progressive Magazine” has a Progressive Point of View”

Thanks for listening.

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This edition of PNR includes the return of our good friend and political analyst Ali Frick (pictured at left) from The Center For American Progress and Think Progress.org. She’ll be with us every week to analyze the Washington, D.C. circus known as politics. Her knowledge is incredible and we’re very happy to have her on the PNR team.

Also this week, ABC’s Diane Sawyer talks with two doctors about The Biology of Sex. It’s not just for recreation, it’s for better health.

Be sure to hear our second installment of our two part series on the people trying to close The School of The Americas. You can scroll back to last week’s show to hear part one, if you like.

John Stewart skewers CNBC’s Jim Cramer on The Daily Show / North Korea says they’re ready for war - Bernie Madoff may NOT be behind bars for long. Some say he’s too valuable / Matt Rothschild has a Progressive Point of View and we’ll have our Media Matters Minute from Media Matters for America.

Next week, be sure to join us for more special reports:
1. The Cost of Empire.
2. The Coming Evangelical Collapse
3. Can Marijuana Save California’s Economy
4. The Taliban Riddle with Pepe Escobar from The Real News Network.

If this is your first visit to Progressive News Radio, thank you for dropping by. We hope you’ll stay a while and check out what we have to offer. The truth about the shenanigans in Washington and around the world. We do our best to bring you the latest news around the world. We also dig deep and look for important stories that are NOT being covered by the major networks…and you can bet there are many of them. At any rate, you ears to our site are very appreciated. Thanks again for stopping by.

This edition of PNR is posted in two parts.
(Part 1) lasts 1 Hour and 3 minutes
(Part 2) lasts 27 minutes.

We’ll talk about the latest happenings in the Chandra Levy case…an arrest has been made.
President Obama opened his health care conference this week to rounding success at least from the Democratic side of the aisle. The Republicans are still hammering about too much spending. How hypocritical can they possibly be? (Don’t answer that!)

The automobile industry, as with the rest of the economy continues it’s downward spiral. Will GM be forced into bankruptcy by next week. There were some huge losses.

Speaking of huge losses, 667,000 made their way to the unemployment line in the month of February, bringing our national unemployment rate to a shameful 8.2%. As we’ve said before, if you factor in the people who have stopped looking for work, their benefits have run out, or they are now working a measly paying part-time job, that percentage swells to nearly 15%,

We’ll have Part One of a Two Part special on the Battle to close The School of The Americas.

The Rush Limbaugh/GOP Circus is still in town…we’ll have the latest.

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Thanks for listening.

Jim

After a nasty flurry of computer problems at our main studio, we’re back! FINALLY!

Plenty of goodies in today’s two part podcast.
The fallout continues, as well as the nasty criticism of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s rebuttal to the President’s speech from last Tuesday.

We’ll try to explain what the heck a “bank stress test” is and talk about B of A’s honcho getting raked over the coals by Congress last week. And wouldn’t you know it…Northern Trust Bank gets caught putting on a lavish golf tournament and party. They even spent $100,000 dollars and hired singer Sherly Crow to be the entertainment. Ah, those silly bastards.

There’s a lot of news to cover too…from the National Guard FINALLY making an exit from New Orleans after three and a half years, The Chinese Government cracks down on human rights lawyers in that country, Ben Fishel brings us a “Media Matters Minute” complete with lies from the recent CPAC conference. Plus, Matt Rothschild, the editor of “The Progressive” has his “progressive point of view”.

It’s great to be back on the webwaves! (?) We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email HERE and let us know what you think of the program. You can also sign up for our email alert service. We’ll let you know as soon as the next program is posted as well as alert you to any special reports or programs that get posted on Progressive News Radio.

Thanks for your patience while we were under repair.

Jim

Welcome to the weekend version of Progressive News Radio’s “News Hour”

Actually, there’s so much to cover with the failed auto bailout and the corruption of Illinois Governor Blagojevich, today’s show is about 90 minutes, broken into two parts.

You can either download the files onto your computer to play later (mp3) or listen on the mp3 player below.

* The hoopla surrounding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has taken some pretty weird turns and I’m sure this entire episode is by no means anywhere near an end.

* But leave it to the idiotic pundits from Fox News and even Chris Matthews and Nora O’Donnell from MSNBC to try and make the connection between “Blago” and President-elect Barack Obama. It’s actually shameful (but golly, Jim…it’s brings in the ratings).

* Since it’s our Friday program, we’ll also talk with our long-standing guest and friend from Think Progress.org and The Center for American Progress, Ali Frick. Ali is also our political analyst here at PNR and we’ll talk with her about the Illinois Governor, the bailout failure and some other important stories.

* The days are getting nearer to January 21, 2009, when Barack Obama will be sworn in as President. He’s said that he’s going to use his middle name (Hussein) as he’s sworn in. Bay Buchanan thinks that’s OK, in her own condescending and bigoted way.

* Ben Fishel has a Media Matters Minute and Matt Rothschild, the editor of “The Progressive” has a “progressive point of view”.

* Earlier in the week, the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart went toe to toe with former Arkansas Governor and 2008 Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee about gay marriage. Will Jon win the argument. Naturally, if your a progressive…perhaps not if you’re a conservative.

Thanks again for coming to the site. Enjoy the program.

Welcome to the next level of Progressive News Radio!

Beginning today and each Monday Wednesday and Friday, we’ll have a new edition of Progressive News Radio’s “News Hour”.

As always, you can listen on the site (on the mp3 player below) or download the file and listen later on your computer.

What’s new?

Instead of the usual three hour podcast once a week, we now have three one hour “News Hours” on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. That will keep the news much fresher for you and perhaps beat the networks to the punch on a lot of items throughout the day.

There may be one day a week where there’s so much to talk about, we’ll present a two hour podcast, but be sure that everything we talk about is important. (OK, maybe 98% of everything)

Ali Frick, our political analyst from Think Progress and the Center for American Progress will continue to join us each Friday, with her segment repeating on Monday’s podcast, in case you miss Friday’s show.

We’ll also continue to feature Matt Rothschild’s “Progressive Point of View” and “The Media Matters Minute” as well as interviews from politicians, important organizations and people in the entertainment business.

Feel free to drop us an email HERE and let us know how we’re doing. You can also subscribe to the show’s email alerts by emailing us HERE and putting “Subscribe” in the subject line.

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Our other sister site is Progressive News Interviews. These interviews appeared on Progressive News Radio’s podcasts, but are available as stand-alone interviews without the news and commentary content.

Now for this week’s Progressive News Radio:

HOUR ONE
We don’t need to tell you the shape of the economy. It’s hitting everyone. But consumer spending this past week was announced to have dropped 2.8%. And the Holiday shopping season is still yet to begin. / California is, again, engulfed in flames. This time Southern California is at the mercy of Mother Nature’s “Santa Ana Winds” which whipped through at 70 M.P.H. / The humanitarian crisis in the DR of the Congo is worsening / President-elect Barack Obama brings the “radio address” into the 21st century with his first address via You Tube / We’ll also hear from our political analyst, Ali Frick (pictured at left) from the Center for American Progress and Think Progress.org / Matt Rothschild, editor of “The Progressive” magazine brings us the first of his two “progressive point of views”.

HOUR TWO
The passage of Proposition 8 in California which now bans gay marriage is still in the headlines as protests and demonstrations spread across the country. Activist Dan Savage argues for gay marriage with the head of the right-wing Family Research Council, Tony Perkins / Al Gore electrifies the crowd at the web 2.0 summit with a great speech on how the internet can help us with the global warming crisis / It’s still up in the air, but we’ll try to figure out exactly why the Senate Democrats want to go easy on turncoat Joe Lieberman. A lot of people want him gone from the Democratic caucus.

HOUR THREE
Federal Air Marshals are too busy smuggling cocaine and molesting kids to protect you. We’ll discuss the article from writer Mickael Grabell of ProPublica / The latest business victims of the economy file for bankruptcy protection as we also discuss the overall outrage and criminality of the entire bailout system as recipients of the money are using some of it to pay exorbitant bonuses to their executives / In health news, we’ll report on overweight ten year-olds, who are said to have the arteries of a 45 year-old. Scary stuff.

Welcome to Progressive News Radio! We truly thank you for listening.

Congratulations, America! We have our country back!

Now that Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has been elected President of The United States aftera night of we progressives holding our collective breath, we can rest easy, knowing The United States will soon be in the great hands of a tremendous and historic administration.

During this week’s program, we read an excerpt from an article written by J. Edward Tremlett that appeared in Op Ed News.com. The complete article can be read HERE.

Now to this week’s show.

HOUR ONE
Even though President-elect Obama is already planning a truly “middle class” stimulus package, there was plenty of other news to go around for the week, including the horrendous unemployment numbers for the month of October. The jobless rate is now 6.5% / President-elect Obama holds his first news conference / Gay activists are jarred by the right to marry being denied in California, one of the most progressive states in the country / We’ll visit with our regular weekly guest, Progressive News Radio’s political analyst, Ali Frick from The Center for American Progress and Think Progress.org / We’ll take a look at what an Obama administration might look like / Progressive Magazine‘s editor, Matt Rothschild has a progressive point of view about “A New, New Deal with An Old Deck.”

HOUR TWO
The world is congratulating Mr. Obama on his election and looks forward to a new start as Afghanistan welcomes an Obama Presidency and wants a new strategy (we had one?) / Discussion and confusion as the F.C.C. and The Supreme Court talk about indecency on television and radio and trying to determine how the “f” word is bad and under what context / Randi Rhodes takes on Limbaugh and so do we (sort of) / Ben Fishel has this week’s Media Matters Minute from Media Matters for America / Also other election night “goodies.”

HOUR THREE
Election night reactions from the mainstream media as “Focus On The Family’s” James Dobson laments the Obama election and compares it to Hitler bombing Britain (say WHAT?) / ABC’s Robin Roberts speaks with Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and author Thomas Friedman about what Barack Obama faces on January 20, 2009 in regard to the country’s economic woes / We’ll have Barack Obama’s entire victory speech delivered in Chicago’s Grant Park (been there) / AND Voices of America and the historic election.

Enjoy! - JS

Welcome to Progressive News Radio!

You can listen to our three hour podcast each week by either listen on the site (below-see mp3 player) or by downloading it to play on your iPod or computer later.

We have some exciting news as we announce two future guests to our program.

The October 21st program will feature an interview with one of America’s strongest women, Cindy Sheehan. Disgusted with Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi’s policies and “impeachment is off the table”, Cindy is vying for Ms. Pelosi’s Congressional seat on November 4.

On the October 28th edition of Progressive News Radio will hear us interview former Alabama Governor Don Sielgelman, who spent time in prison after being unjustly convicted of crimes he did not commit. We all suspect that Karl Rove was behind it all and Governor Siegelman will also talk with us about his efforts along with Representative Robert Wexler (D-FL) to force a vote on the House floor to bring contempt charges against Rove.

For this week’s show, there’s plenty of interesting and educational programming.

HOUR ONE
The economy, a possible recession and money matters are concerning all of us. We’ll have an in depth report on all of it. / Voter purging and voter fraud have already been in the spotlight and more stories come to the surface almost daily. / Our political analyst, Ali Frick (pictured left) from The Center for American Progress and Think Progress.org will speak with us about the presidential election and the latest antics from the always entertaining McCain-Palin campaign. / Plus, Hour One will also contain a phenomenal speech from almost two years ago, regarding the failure of the press to hold the Bush Administration accountable and actually become the fourth estate by asking questions and challenging our leaders. The speaker? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

HOUR TWO
Speaking of always entertaining, Sarah Palin, vice-presidential candidate for the Republican Party is just about shoulder deep in hot water or Bandini (you pick). She’s been found guilty of ethics violations in the “Troopergate” investigation. / The rallies for both McCain and Palin are beginning to fan the flames of possible violence. Especially disturbing is the hate speec