Tuesday July 10,2012

Summary:
Ron Paul’s rEVOLution, Defense of Marriage Equality, Where in the world is Jesse Jackson Jr. ? Exposing TPPA, Eco-Burial

Guests:
Brian Doherty, Editor/Author/Commentator
Gail Rubin, Author

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Hour 1:
Brian Doherty is our guest to talk about Ron Paul – the revolution and what it means for our political culture beyond Ron Paul as well as Doherty’s book:, Ron Paul’s rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. He is the author of three previous books, including Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement and Gun Control on Trial. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, National Review, and The Weekly Standard, among other publications. He has been a commentator on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including The O’Reilly Factor and Glenn Beck Show. He lives in Los Angeles.

Hour 2: In Defense of Marriage Equality, commentary on Marth Nussbaum’s article on gay marriage.

Exposing the TPPA. Top secret trade agenda revealed by Truthout, call the TPPA (Trans-Pacific Trade Act) that extends extraordinary rights to corporations. And it’s all happening in secret, even from Congress.

What TPPA Will do:

  • 1. limit regulations on foriegn corporations operating on US soil – granting them greater rights beyond what US firms.
  • 2. extend incentives to outsourcing to low wage countries.
  • 3. establish an alternative legal system to give new rights to circumvent US courts and laws and to sue the US govt for loss of profits

    • Who decided? Not our representatives, not us… the corporations wrote the rules of the TPPA.

    Hour 3:
    These days, many people are concerned about the carbon footprint they leave. Now that concern is extending to the last thing we do on Earth—burial. Funeral authority and author of A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die, Gail Rubin gives us the inside scoop on green burial and the surprising harm conventional funerals inflict on the environment.

    And more on the TPPA.

    Show Links:
    America the Beautiful: A Fire Sale for Foreign Corporations
    Trans-Pacific Partnership