Author of the new book on Rush Limbaugh, "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh's Assault on Reason," (limbaughbook.com). Also the author of "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest" and "President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (www.obamapolitics.com), along with "Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies" (www.collegefreedom.org). Call and comment! www.limbaughbook.com
Eli Pariser is an online organizer and disorganizer, the former Executive Director of MoveOn (and now the board president), a co-founder of Avaaz.org, and as of May 2011 the author of The Filter Bubble. Eli has appeared as a commentator on "Good Morning America," "World News Tonight," the Colbert Report, and all of the major cable news channels except Fox News. His Op-Eds have appeared in the Washington Post, LA Times, and other periodicals. Call and speak with Pariser and McChesney during this live program. www.thefilterbubble.com
Join McChesney as he talks with Jacob Hacker, PhD, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream, The Divided Welfare State, and, with Paul Pierson, Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Call 800 222 9455 to join the conversation, or listen live online http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters at 1pm Sunday on Media Matters with Bob McChesney.
John Bellamy Foster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, USA, where he teaches environmental sociology, social theory, Marxism and political economy. Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He became a director of the Monthly Review Foundation Board and a member of the Monthly Review editorial committee in 1989. He became a co-editor in 2000, and president of the Monthly Review Foundation in 2002. Foster was active in the anti-war and environmental movements from a young age. His early research centred on political economy and theories of capitalist development. In the late 1980s, he turned toward issues of ecology, focusing on the relationship between the global environmental crisis and the crisis in the capitalist economy, stressing the imperative for a sustainable, socialist alternative. Foster has written numerous books, including: - The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth (2010) - The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet (2009) - The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (with Fred Magdoff, 2009) - Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present (with Brett Clark and Richard York, 2008) - Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (2006) - Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire (co-edited with Robert McChesney, 2004) - Ecology Against Capitalism (2002) - Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000) - Hungry For Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment (1999, co-edited with Fred Magdoff and Frederick Buttel) - The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (1999, 2nd Ed.) In Naked Imperialism, Foster explains the growing U.S. military role in the world and the shift toward a more overt, brutal imperial project. In Critique of Intelligent Design, Foster draws on his ecological work to defend historical materialism as fundamental to a rational, scientific worldview, against proponents of "intelligent design" and other superstitious ideologies. The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences explores the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. Foster argues that the crisis must be understood in the context of a broader crisis of monopoly-finance capitalism. The only real solution, Foster argues, is a radical restructuring of the entire economy to meet the needs of the vast majority, a reorientation toward production for social use as opposed to private gain. Foster's most recent book, The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet, includes essays on global warming, peak oil, species extinction, world water shortages, global hunger, alternative energy sources, sustainable development and environmental justice. He argues that we have reached a turning point in human relations with the earth, and that any attempt to solve our problems merely by technological, industrial or free market means, divorced from fundamental social relations, cannot succeed.
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 900 television and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." She is also one of the the first recipients, along with Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald, of the Park Center for Independent Media's Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. The Independent of London called Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! "an inspiration"; PULSE named her one of the 20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009. Goodman is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. Her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, proves the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world. Enjoy this recently recorded program. www.democracynow.org
