Chris’ most recent book is “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress” – a collection of Chris’s most insightful and timeless essays on our current political climate, the middle east, and the decline and decay of the American empire. He also writes a weekly column for the award winning political blog Truthdig

Beth Clay is the present Senior Vice President of Capitol Strategy Consultants in Washington DC, where she works with corporate and nonprofit organizations and government relations. Much of her work is focused now on dietary supplement regulation and alternative health policy issues, particularly regarding vaccination and autism. Formerly she was a senior on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness with Chairman Congressman Dan Burton.  It was her work with Rep. Burton’s investigation into CDC failures over mercury in vaccines leading to autism that has made her best known. She has also worked with the NIH’s Office of Alternative Medicine, and was a member of the US delegation to Codex Alimentarius’ Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses.

Emily Tarsell is the mother of 21 year old Christina Tarsell who died suddenly following her third injection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine.  She is a licensed clinical counselor and is now the volunteer Director of the Gardasil Network Development group at Barbara Lo Fisher’s National Vaccine Information Center and doing out reach to families who have experienced the loss of a daughter or have suffered serious adverse events from the HPV vaccine.

Barbara Honegger is a former White House Policy Analyst and Special Assistant to the Assistant to the president for Domestic Policy and a nationally recognized investigator and author about the attack on the Pentagon during 911. She was called as an expert witness at the First International Hearings on 911 held in Toronto in September 2011. Earlier, Barbara was a Senior Military Affairs Journalist at the Dept of Defense’s Naval Postgraduate School and is best known for her book “October Surprise”, which exposed the Reagan teams Irangate and led to a full federal investigation in the House. She is among the first of 50 high level former and current government officials to call for a new 911 investigation and she is a founding member of the International organization, Political Leaders for 911 Truth.

Our country is being fracked by the merger of government and big business

Residents evicted for aquafracking water withdrawals

Pattern recognition technology to predict the future of mental illness in teens

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Judge James P. Gray currently presides over the civil trial calendar for the Superior Court of Orange County where he has served since 1989.  He has devoted many years in social reform and civic philanthropy, especially in the areas of education, alcohol and drug programs and supporting centers for the treatment of psychological and physical trauma.

Judge Gray is now the Vice Presidential candidate, running on the Libertarian Party ticket with former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson for the Libertarian Party.

He has also served in the Peace Corps and was a defense attorney in Navy JAG Corps during the Vietnam era.  In 1998, he ran as a Republican candidate for the US Congress and in 2004 ran for the US Senate for the Libertarian Party.  He is the author of two books: “Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs” and “Wearing the Robe: Art and Responsibilities of Judging in Today’s Courts”

Dr. Ben Freeman is a National Security Investigator at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) in Washington DC where he specializes in Department of Defense personnel issues, weapons procurement, and the impact of lobbying by foreign governments on U.S. Foreign policy. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, on National Public Radio, and in numerous other media outlets. he has testified before the Senate on the dramatic increase of military brass in the armed forces.

Prior to joining POGO, Ben earned a Ph.D. in political science from Texas A&M University, where he was also an instructor in the Political Science Department and the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He recently completed a book on lobbying by foreign governments in the U.S. titled “The Foreign Policy Auction.” www.POGO.org

Dr. Alejandro Junger has been an international visionary doctor in cardiology over the years. He is a board certified physician in internal medicine and cardiology practicing in New York and California. After becoming a patient of our current dominant medical system, Dr. Junger embarked on a thorough journey and exploration into natural and integrative medicine to heal himself, which led to his living and studying in India its eastern medical practices and other natural healing practices. He was the medical director of the famous fasting and detoxification center, WE Care Holistic Health Center in Palm Springs was the director of the integrative medicine service at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.

Dr. Junger’s is the author of the best selling book “Clean: A Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself” which is the basis for his Clean detoxification program.

Commentaries:

Michael McCray — whistleblowers are uniting to fight Obama’s war on women

Robert Fisk — the children of Fallujah, the hospital of horror

Paula Caplan — Psychiatry’s Bible, the DSM, is doing more harm than good

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DR. MARTHA HERBERT  is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, a Pediatric Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and an affiliate of the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.  She is also the director of the TRANSCEND Research Program (Treatment Research and Neuroscience Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Dr. Herbert earned her medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and has a doctorate in evolution and history of consciousness from the University of California, Santa CruzShe received the first Cure Autism Now Innovator Award and is now on the Scientific Advisory Committee of Autism Speaks.

Her main research interests are in addressing autism as a “dynamic encephalopathy” (something that can change) rather than a “static encephalopathy” (something that is fixed for life) and in how environmental vulnerability affects brain and body health.

She is the author of “The Autism Revolution: Whole Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be”, which has just recently been published and outlines her medical research into autism and its treatments.

JULIE MATTHEWS  is a certified nutrition consultant specializing in autistic spectrum disorders and founder of the Nourishing Hope, dedicated to the treatment of autism through nutritional means.  She is host of the Autism One Radio program broadcast out of San Francisco.  Julie’s work has been based upon the most current research into the biochemistry of Autism and the role nutrition plays in restoring health. She is a leading education advocate for nutritional science to medical practitioners treating autism and board member of the Weston Price Foundation and a conference educator for DAN (Defeat Autism Now) and Autism One.

Jennifer Cockrall-King is a Canadian journalist and author whose articles have been published many of Canada’s leading magazines and newspapers and publications such as the Chicago Sun, National Post, Macleans and others in the US. She hosts the blog FoodGirl and in her hometown in British Columbia, she is the founder of the Okanagan Food Writers workshop to introduce food writers to major issues concerning food sustainability. She is the author of “Food and The City: Urban Agriculture and The New Food Revolution”, which explores the global movements in urban agriculture and urban food issues and attempts to redefine food, other than industrial agriculture, for the years ahead..

In the past she worked at the ACLU legislative office, one effort being reform of the Patriot Act. Kathleen holds a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law school and graduated magna cum laude from St. Mary’s College in Maryland.

www.whistleblower.org

Her most recent book just being released today is “Love Has Wings: Free Yourself from Limiting Beliefs and Fall in Love with Life” which focuses on how beliefs keep us stuck in situations of uncertainty – personal and global – and how to shift our perspective to feel able to make constructive differences in how we act, think and speak.

Max hosts the popular financial program The Keiser Report on RT television and anchors the news and analysis program On The Edge for Iran’s Press TV. Earlier he present programs on BBC World News and the al-Jazeera TV series People and Power. He is also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and writes a column for The Ecologist magazine.

Why the world financial markets imploded – looking at the future

For many years, John Perkins was an economic hit man (EHM), a job he held to convince developing nations to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development and to guarantee that development projects were contracted to US corporations such as Halliburton and Bechtel. He was a direct participant or witness to such dramatic modern events as the Saudi Arabian Money Laundering scandal, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the assassination of Panama’s president Omar Torrijos and the Panama invasion, and other government and corporate intrigues leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Now with both the global and domestic financial collapses, a strengthening of the corportacracy parallel to increasing rates of unemployment, homelessness, rising illness and disease and diminishing healthcare, John is in a unique position to provide comment and analysis since he contributed to these very same events in poorer nations.

After 911, John broke his silence with the publication of his international best seller “ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” Since then he has been a champion of Amazonian indigenous spiritual culture and environmental movements through his Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance projects.

John’s latest book is “Hoodwinked: Former Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and How to Remake Them”.

The national debt and deficit conundrum and why it matters to us

Professor Simon Johnson is the Ronald A Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he specializes in financial and economic crises. He is member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisors and the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee and President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies. From 2007 to August 2008, Prof. Johnson served as the chief economist of the IMF and the director of its research department where he focused on formulating innovative responses to the global financial crisis. Along with his co-author James Kwak at the University of Connecticut, he hosts the influential website BaselineScenario.com which keeps up on the current economic crisis.  Their most recent book – “White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You” comes on the heels of their acclaimed book Thirteen Bankers – considered by many economists as the most concise book on the financial meltdown. The new details the history of our national debt and deficit, which is being regarded by many commentators as perhaps the key topic during the upcoming presidential election.

Neuroscientific advances in understanding the emotional life of the brain – how we think, feel and love, and how contemplative practice can change the brain from negative emotions

Prof. Richard Davidson is the William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and holds the directorships of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin where he has been teaching since 1984. Prof. Davidson is regarded by many as a leading pioneer in the new discipline of brain research known as Affective Neuroscience. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research into brain imaging and analysis including a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, a Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, and theWilliam James Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society. He is the past-President of the Society for Research in Psychopathology and of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and in 2003 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Time Magazine named Prof. Davidson as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. That is the science side of Prof. Davidson. However as a graduate student at Harvard during the mid 1970s, Richard made his first trip India to study meditation which has been a discipline he has practiced ever since. In 1992, at the insistence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he commenced to break away from standard brain research protocol, which had focused solely on mapping negative brain function such as in depression, stress and psychotic conditions, and instead focused on brain function of the positive emotions such as compassion, kindness, and happiness. After studying many of the most advanced meditators from India, Nepal and Bhutan who were brought to his university’s brain imaging laboratory, Prof. Davidson discovered evidence for the brain’s neuroplasticity enabling us to change our brains to become more resilient, attentive and aware that benefits both physical health and our emotional lives.

His research and hypothesis of Emotional Styles are presented in his most recent book, co-authored with Sharon Begley who has been a guest on this program in the past – “The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel and Live, and How You Can Change Them.”

Mat is the co-author with his wife Mel Gilles of a recent book that has sparked appraise from some of our more important environmental advocates such as Derrick Jensen and Bill McKibben. The book is “The Last Myth: What the Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us About America” – which explores how such beliefs, both religious and secular have come to dominate the politics, economics and culture of America and prevent us from clearly taking the appropriate action towards real, objective challenges and threats such as climate change, peak oil and the disintegration of a cohesive society.

Why we should pay attention to Spain’s potential collapse

Earthquakes of historic importance on the west coast

We are at a full gallop into totalitarianism

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In the past Richard was a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune for 27 years and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, and other major publications

His newest book is “The Nature Principle:  Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age” which expores Nature Deficit Disorder’s affects on adults and our society at large, while also offering a new future vision for re-immersing ourselves in nature to bring an end to this condition.