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Pvt. Michael Kern

A Private at Fort Hood attempts to hand-deliver a letter against the expanding war to President Obama during today’s memorial service, we’ll speak to the active-duty veteran soldier who says that while Secret Service destroyed his letter, he’s determined to get it to the President; we’ll also be joined by Dahr Jamail, who has written extensively about the growing GI resistance movement; plus, Andy Worthington, the director of a troubling new film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo, live in the studio; on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, she’ll talk about the permanent war budget and its implications for the ongoing theft of people’s money; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Private Michael Kern, Iraq Vets Against the War, active-duty Iraq veteran at Fort Hood

Dahr Jamail, journalist and Flashpoints special correspondent, author, The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Andy Worthington, co-director, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo

Single Payer Healthcare

An in-depth look at the health care reform package moving through the House; and why advocates of single-payer claim that the health care bill is not even close to what is really needed to transform the system;  also, we continue our series on the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Donna Smith, Community Organizer for CNA

Chuck Idelson, CNA Spokesman

Cindy Young, CSEA

Daniel Hodges, Access Single Payer

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

"Dow Accepts Full Responsibility for Bhopal Disaster" - Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men

We continue our multi-part series on the anatomy of a financial coup d’etat, on a day when new revelations show that Goldman Sachs secretly bet on the US housing crash; also, environmentalists win a major victory in Oregon, in reversing a draconian law that restrained peaceful environmental activists from protesting the destruction of land and wildlife; plus, how The Yes Men Fix The World, an interview with corporate prankster Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men and Antonia Juhasz of Global Exchange’s Chevron Program; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Lauren Regan, Staff attorney and director of Civil Liberties Defense Center

Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men

Antonia Juhasz, Director, Chevron Program, Global Exchange; author, The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What we Must do to Stop It

Brad Will. Shot and killed in Oaxaca, 2006

We continue our multi-part series, the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; plus, we’ll speak to John Ross in Mexico City about the murder or Brad Will in Oaxaca three years ago; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

John Ross, historian, author and poet

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

We launch our multi-part series, Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; Obama’s war in Afghanstan continues to unravel, we’ll speak with investigative journalist Gareth Porter; also, protesters in San Francisco disrupt a speech given by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, attempting citizen’s arrest for the massacres in occupied Palestine; and an attorney representing members of the Uighur community, detained inside the US torture prison camp at Guantanamo, talks about the Supreme Court finally agreeing to hear their case.

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Capitalism

Part three of our multi-part series on the Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts, today, we’ll look at the role of banks and financial institutions, raiding agencies and various US government bodies; also, we’ll take an in-depth look at the logic and apparent racism that surrounded the Judge’s decision to change the venue for the trial of the police murder of Oscar Grant.

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Guests:

Larry Everest, author, historian and civil rights activist

Catherine Austin Fitts,  Solari Network

Guantanamo Bay Prison

We’ll feature part two of our multi-part series, the Anatomy of a Financial Coup d’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; also, the US Supreme Court agrees to hear the case of 13 Uighurs who are still being held at Guantanamo, five years after they were to be released; plus, we’ll speak to the filmmaker of The Road to Fallujah, who is kicking off a national tour of US universities, attempting to build bridges of communication between American and Iraqi college students; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights, Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Mark Manning, filmmaker, The Road to Fallujah, and Global Access Media

Financial Coup D'Etat

We kick off our multi-part series, The Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat, with Catherine Austin Fitts; also, high-level US Generals contradict General Stanley McChristol’s logic in a call for more troops and say the policy will likely strengthen the Afghan insurgency; JR and the Block Report talk to the father of one of Oscar Grant’s friends who was witness to his murder about Oakland’s decision to change the venue for the killer cop’s trial; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Gareth Porter, investigative historian and journalist; author, Perils of Dominance

Jack Bryson, father of two of Oscar Grant’s friends, who were witness to Grant’s murder

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Israeli soldiers fire on Palestinians in Qalandiya, West Bank (courtesy of Getty/The Independent)

Internationally-renowned, award-winning journalist Robert Fisk talks about the recent takeover of central military headquarters in Pakistan, the recent corrupt elections in Afghanistan, and the situations in Iraq and Iran; also, on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we’ll continue our discussion of the financial coup d’etat in Washington and on Wall Street; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Robert Fisk, award-winning author and journalist with the Independent of London

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Censored 2010

Special correspondent Tim Russo reports from the major military crackdown in the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; we’ll also have a report from the Brazilian embassy, where President Manuel Zelaya remains surrounded by security forces; also, on Community Business, we’ll have an expose on Andrew Cuomo and his role in the subprime meltdown; and Peter Phillips briefs us on the new 2010 Project Censored Yearbook.

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Guests:

Tim Russo, FSRN and Flashpoints Special Correspondent

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! en Espanol and Nonviolence International

Peter Phillips, Project Censored

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network