IRAN
An hour with Rostam Pourzal, board member US Branch, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran helps us start setting the record straight on Iran. Robert Naiman, national coordinator of Just Foreign Policy discusses dangerous as well as beneficial foreign policy we can act on now!
Frameshop editor and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS Jeffrey Feldman discusses the week's framing opportunity.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast takes a break from the Armed Madhouse report!
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Campaign Frame
SHOW: 7-13-2008
Should Obama denounce Jessie Jackson?
Limbaugh's at it again thanks to Jessie Jackson and an ill-placed comment. We spend an HOUR WITH Maya Rockeymoore, President, Global Policy Solutions, LLC and author of The Political Action Handbook: A How to Guide for the Hip-Hop Generation, for a look at his so-called anti-bias humor and your calls.
Frameshop editor and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS Jeffrey Feldman discusses John McCain's latest gaffe involving Iran.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast tells the tale of "Peanuts" trip to coal country!
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 7-06-2008
PAY HOW MUCH LESS AND WHEN?
This week's Republican echo-chamber continues its DRILL HERE, DRILL, NOW, PAY LESS pressure. A “moment” (remember “The chickens are coming home to roost?”) that Democrats are missing!
We continue last week's push-back to Newt Gingrich and his stealth 527's sloganeering by answering the comeback question, PAY HOW MUCH LESS AND WHEN plus we begin the reframing to John McCain and Republican same-old party policy failure.
Arjun Makhijani of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, free-lance journalist Diane Grassi and political analyst John Ridgway all respond.
Frameshop editor and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS Jeffrey Feldman takes on progressive and Democratic party divisions over FISA.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments on the high price of gas..
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 6-29-2008
AN HOUR WITH ENERGY ACTIVIST HARVEY WASSERMAN Author of Solartopia: Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030
This week's Republican echo-chamber has shrilled DRILL HERE, DRILL, NOW, PAY LESS and gone unchallenged by most Democrats --WHY?!!
Forget just the reframe opportunity lost, like INVEST HERE, INVEST NOW, PAY AMERICANS-- the high price of oil is forcing a natural reversal of NAFTA-- and more!!
Frameshop editor and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS Jeffrey Feldman takes on James Dobson!.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments on SCOTU backstabbing Americans for EXXON.
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 6-22-2008
Maya Rockeymoore, President, Global Policy Solutions, LLC and author of The Political Action Handbook: A How to Guide for the Hip-Hop Generation, joins us to debunk the idea of "color-blind" anti-affirmative action and why today more than ever, affirmative action is still an answer to America's need for balancing entrenched inequality.
Fear driving a rush to oil-drilling in America today is like rushing to invade Iraq was yesterday -- irreversible consequences mean trouble. THINK FIRST, ACT SECOND-and ASK GOOD QUESTIONS! Join us for a discussion with Nick Berning, press secretary from environmental advocacy group Friends of the Earth.
Frameshop editor and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS, Jeffrey Feldman, takes on Newt Gingrich and Justice Scalia!
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast, comments on Obama's concern for swing states on the Palast Report.
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 6-15-2008
Is there a populist UPRISING? Author and activist David Sirota thinks so, but making it count is not as simple as you might think...
Frameshop editor and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS Jeffrey Feldman takes on Ann "lickspittle" Coulter!
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast talks about Hillary, RFK and Hugo Chavez in this week's Palast Report.
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 6-08-2008
What force may have kept Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary race and now with Barack Obama the presumptive nominee, is it the reason her supporters can't 'just move on?
Behavioral experts Rom and Ori Brafman offer an explanation in their just released book SWAY: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior.
Author Jeffrey Feldman and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS unwraps McCain's recent reframe strategy.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast covers the recent New Mexico primary in our exclusive Palast Report.
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 6-01-2008
Scott McClellan Tells ALL (I have the "scathing" What Happened) and I share the details!
And hey, how 'bout them half-valuable Democratic delegates? Oh, and one more thing, who is REALLY responsible for the "imperial presidency" and how will the next president rein in (or reign in) power?
Author Jeffrey Feldman and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS takes on "assasination humor"!
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast chats with us in our exclusive Palast Report.
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 5-25-2008
Enjoy this Memorial Day "Best of" rebroadcast of 5-04-2008!
SHOW 5-18-2008
Will the rush to global nuclear power be a dangerous first step toward enriching plutonium for weapons?
Dr. Arjun Makhijani --President, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
and one of those Obama-electing "egghead" types-- will show us how
America can get the job of carbon cutting with free-market NON-nuclear
technologies accomplished TODAY. Now, there's a change EVERYBODY can believe in!! Download Arjun "Dr. Egghead's" book, Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for US Energy.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast chats with us in our exclusive Palast Report.
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Palast Report
SHOW: 5-11-2008
THE CRITICAL GLOBAL FOOD CRISES--Food shortages threaten political and social stability worldwide.
How is it affecting migration into the US from Mexico, now? Tune in this Sunday to hear from Sameer Dossani, Director, 50 Years is Enough and contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus.
Author Jeffrey Feldman and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS hit a nerve so deep this week comparing Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos with pre-massacre Zimbabwean radio that the whole right-wing blogosphere lit up-- now that's the kind of Action we'll be talking more about!!
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast chats with us in our exclusive Palast Report.
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 5-04-2008
FREE RIDE: JOHN MCCAIN AND THE MEDIA
Paul Waldman, American Prospect columnist, Media Matters Senior Fellow and coauthor of FREE RIDE: John McCain and The Media reveals how radical Republican John' McCain 'Cons' the media.
Last week Hillary Clinton denounced Moveon.org. This week Barack Obama denounced his pastor Jeremiah Wright's positions. Have both now thrown the left under the bus? Are their constantly center-right moves strategy, or reality and-- how does it matter?
Author Jeffrey Feldman and author of OUTRIGHT BARBAROUS brings us Coulter Jokes About Lynching, Still on CNN in Action Point exclusive segment The Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast chats about Daddy Bush's gold mine in our exclusive Palast Report.
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Palast Report
SHOW: 4-27-2008
THE 'HORTIFICATION' OF BARACK OBAMA!!
Republican/McCain dirty tricksters are already at their VIOLENT CAMPAIGNING! We're on it and we'll talk about it, more on the Weather Underground and the thing conservatives fear most-- Liberal ideas Americans love!!
Brad Friedman of BRADBLOG and Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones' DC Bureau, report on elections devlopments with the FEC and voting anamolies in Pennsylvania!
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE discusses Ann Coulter's escalating attacks on Barack Obama on the Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast is out this week and ejoins us next week for the Palast Report!
The Action Point Countdown, Reference Shelf review and your calls!!
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The Palast Report
SHOW: 4-20-2008
You Don't Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows-- or do you? William Ayers was just one of a generation tired of dying and killing through unjustifiable American foreign policy and willing to put his life on the line to stop it. Completely out of the Weather Underground by the 1981 Brinks Robbery that cost a life-- why isn't anyone telling the REAL story of the movement both Obama and Clinton disdains-- the antiwar left? SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE PENDING!!
IRAN: Time to act. Iran policy analyst from the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation and editor of Iran Policy Watch, Carah Ong joins me to discuss new CAMPAIGN FOR A NEW AMERICAN POLICY ON IRAN, Iran peace initiative developments and how quick-thinking Democrats turned mean-spirited anti-Iran legislation into something meaningful!
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE discusses ABC and Obama on the Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast covers the oil-free zone of the ABC Democratic debate.
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SHOW: 4-13-2008
Religion AND guns AND xenophobia, OH MY!!!
Emmy-winning political analyst and "broadcast architect" John Ridgway rejoins us this week to look at the newest flap in the "Democrat wars" and what opposition camps will have to accomplish to make Obama's recent gaffe, stick!
What is the "National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor" and why should you care?
Diane Grassi, New Media Journal contributor joins us for Part Two of her three-part series on the "U.S. electric superhighway"!
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE discusses Ann Coulter on the Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast suggests that we Torch the Torture, in Tibet!
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SHOW: 4-06-2008
IT'S NOT YOUR MOTHER'S CIA ANYMORE!
Noted for his 2006 face-off with previous Secretary of Defense neoconservative Donald Rumsfeld, CIA veteran analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity-- Ray McGovern continues to Speak The Truth to Power. Be prepared to dial-in for this one!!
When it comes to the news, how do you know what you know-- before you know it? Rarely interviewed multi-Emmy award winning “broadcast architect” and political analyst John Ridgway joins us to discuss how news media finds "the moment" as we set the stage for his upcoming Campaign 2008 Summer special series for Action Point: The Ghost in the News!
BBC journalist and author of the Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast tells (almost) all about Randi Rhodes in the Palast Report and Frameshop-Is-Open.com editor Jeffrey Feldman nails McCain's family values in this week's Campaign Frame and more!
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The Palast Report Part One, Part Two
SHOW: 3-30-2008
What could Obama's foreign policy really do for America?
Ask newly retired Deputy United States Military Representative to NATO, Brigadiere General and Obama delegate-- John Adams!
How have Republican strategists attempted to use Reverend Wright to destroy Barack Obama and why should Hillary supporters care?
From yours truly and Jeffrey Feldman, we reveal some startling and dengerous developments including Obama Reverend's So-Called "Hate Speech" and the Propoganda Campaign Behind It! and Why The Wright Smear Is Wrong and what you can do about it!
Are US 'war-mongers' getting closer to a strike on Iran?
Policy analyst from the Center for Arms Control and Policy Analaysis and editor of Iran Nuclear Watch, Carah Ong reports...
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments on the candidates and their mortgage meltdown positioning in The Palast Report!
The Reference Shelf Review, Action Point Countdown and more!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 3-23-2008
How can Obama avoid the "Angry Black Man" frame?
Randall Kennedy, renowned attorney and author of SELLOUT: The Politics of Racial Betrayal, joins us with his thoughts.
What is the "National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor" and why should you care?
Diane Grassi, New Media Journal contributor joins us for Part One of her three-part series on the "U.S. electric superhighway"!
Local florist and co-owner of Melrose Flowers brings us Spring organic gardening and new Melrose Florist program news!
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE joins us with another great Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments on EXXON and their new BF John McCain.
The Reference Shelf Review, Action Point Countdown and more!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 3-16-2008
Obama denounces his pastor. Where will his high road style take-- or leave-- him?
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE joins us with another great Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments on Elliot Spitzer!
The Reference Shelf Review, Action Point Countdown and more!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report Part 1 Part 2
SHOW: 3-09-2008
HOW DO YOU FEEL?
Hillary wins Ohio and Democrats turn on her with accusations of using "bush-style" politics. Callers vent. What do we do now?
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE joins us with another great Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments on EXXON and their new BF John McCain.
The Reference Shelf Review, Action Point Countdown and more.
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 3-02-2008
THE SURGE IS NOT WORKING, AND YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY!
Brian Katulis, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, explains.
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE joins us with the Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments on EXXON and their new BF John McCain.
The Reference Shelf Review, Action Point Countdown and more!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 2-24-2008
Ralph Nader and CUBA!!
Steven Clemens, Deputy Director of Government Relations at Citizens for Global Solutions, a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy advocacy organization and editor-in-chief of The Washington Note, joins us to discuss Cuba!
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE joins us with another great Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments
The Reference Shelf Review, Action Point Countdown and more!
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The Campaign Frame
The Palast Report
SHOW: 02-17-2008
Special Guest: America's Favorite Citizen Journalist Brad Friedman
The Election 2008 horse race aside, primay vote counts have been c-r-a-z-y! Why? Brad Friedman's got more than a few ideas and hey-- let's talk about whistleblower Sibel Edmunds too! Your calls, your concerns!SHOW: 2-10-2008
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE joins us with another great Campaign Frame.
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments.
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The Palast Report
SHOW: 02-03-2008
ACTION POINT "BALLOTBOWL" SUNDAY!!!
If Democracy is not a spectator sport then in America today
Presidential campaigns may be the "bloodiest" that it gets.
This Sunday the Action Point decks are cleared to hear your
complaints and kudos for them all-- and with gloves off too!
John "The Adult" Edwards BUMPED HIMSELF OUT-- but should we still vote
for him? "Billary" lunges forward-- to what end? And Barack
is still just another black guy expected to save American face
overseas (before, he just had a dream)-- what if he can't live up to
YOUR expectations?
Blogger Jeffrey Feldman and author of FRAMING THE DEBATE rejoins us (and just in time).
BBC journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast comments on Bush's State of the Union in this week's Palast Report.
The Reference Shelf Review, Action Point Countdown and more!
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The Palast Report
The Campaign Frame with Jeffrey Feldman