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Irma Muniz is the wife of Ramiro "Ramsey" Muniz, an American political prisoner for nearly 17 years for his heroic activism for Latino rights and empowerment. It got him framed and incarcerated for life without parole, a shocking yet common miscarriage of justice.

Discussion will focus on his case and efforts to free him.

Jack Rasmus is a Professor of Political Economy at St. Mary's College and Santa Clara University, CA. He's also a freelance journalist, frequent speaker, a playwright and author, including his newest book titled, "Epic Recession and Financial Crisis: Prelude to Global Depression."

His latest economic views will be discussed.

Stjepan Mestrovic is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University and author of "The Good Soldier on Trial: A Sociological Study of Misconduct by the US Military Pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq."

Four low-ranking soldiers and lawyer Paul Bergrin were spuriously charged to absolve Colonel Michael Steele, the Pentagon high command, and responsible top US officials.

America's imperial war strategy will be discussed, Obama an out-of-control warlord like Bush.

Pioneer trends strategist Gerald Celente founded The Trends Research Institute in 1980. He's also the author of Trends 2000 and publishes the quarterly Trends Journal, providing timely, comprehensive, accurate business, economic, political, social, technology, and other forecasts on "over 300 different trend categories."

His latest world views will be discussed.

John Pilger is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. His achievements include years as a foreign and war correspondent, author of 10 books, and other frequent writings. He's also a longtime critic of Western imperialism and believes a "journalist's job, first of all, (is) to look in the mirror of his own society" and report on it accurately.

Major world issues will be discussed.

William Cook is a writer, author, and Professor of English at the University of La Verne, CA, where he served earlier as Vice President for Academic Affairs for 13 years.

His books include Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness, Psalms for the 21st Century, and the newest one he edited, titled The Plight of the Palestinians.

Occupied Palestine and his new book will be discussed.

Webster Tarpley is an author, journalist, lecturer, and outspoken critic of US foreign and domestic policy. His newest book is titled, "Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History," the worst of it yet to come.

Discussion will focus on Tarpley's view of an imminent US/Israeli war against Iran, perhaps an October surprise.

Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. A new edition of her latest book, "Web of Debt," is an essential analysis of the private banking system, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.

Brown's latest writing will be discussed.

For over 40 years, Bob Chapman has written articles and analysis on business, finance, economics, and politics, and is currently the owner and editor of the International Forecaster, "a compendium on business, finance, economics, and social and political issues worldwide."

Chapman's latest views on the economy will be discussed.

John Kozy is a retired philosophy and logic professor, now blogging on social, political, and economic issues. He taught for many years and has been a writer for another 20. Visit his web sites at www.jkozy.com and www.johnkozy.mindsay.com.

His latest writing will be discussed.

James Petras is Binghamton University, New York Professor Emeritus, a noted figure on the left, a well-respected Latin American expert, and a longtime chronicler of the region's popular struggles.

He's also a prolific author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including his latest titled, "War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America."

His new book will be discussed.

Kevin Barrett is a scholar, university lecturer, and author, his latest book titled "Questioning the War on Terror," ripping apart conventional views, exposing the motives behind it, sinister ones to engender fear, wage imperial wars, and impose draconian homeland repression.

The book and Barrett's latest world views will be discussed.

Jack Rasmus is a Professor of Political Economy at St. Mary's College and Santa Clara University, CA. He's also a freelance journalist, frequent speaker, a playwright and author, including his newest book titled, "Epic Recession and Financial Crisis: Prelude to Global Depression."

His latest economic views will be discussed.

Ray McGovern is a retired CIA Officer (1963- 1990), turned activist and political critic, addressing major world and national issues in lectures and frequent articles, his most recent titled Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly Folly. 

His views on the WikiLeaks release and possible war on Iran will be discussed.

Jane Burgermeister is an investigative journalist currently writing for Nature, the British Medical Journal, Reuters Health, and the Renewable Energy World web site as its European correspondent.

She also has her own web site accessed through the following link: http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/

Her recent experiences under Austria's justice system will be discussed and why legal institutions throughout Europe are threatened.

Dave Lindorff is a long-time award-winning investigative reporter/journalist, contributing to numerous publications and popular web sites in America and abroad.

He's also a prolific author, his books including The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush from Office; This Can't Be Happening: Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy; and Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains.

Lindorff's current views about the Gulf disaster and other major topics will be discussed.

Gabriel Kolko is a leading historian, scholar, activist and Toronto's York University Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus. 

He's written many articles and 14 books, including The Age of War: The United States Confronts the World; Century of War: Politics, Conflicts, and Society since 1914; and his newest titled, World in Crisis: The End of the American Century.

Kolko's current world views will be discussed.

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Kathy Kelly is a long-time political/social/anti-war activist and coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV). In 1996, she helped establish Voices in the Wilderness to end the repressive US/UN Iraq sanctions. 

VCNV is a dedicated resistance campaign against imperial wars, violence, and the "war on terror," abroad and at home.

Recently, she was in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Discussion will focus on her trip.

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James Fetzer is the distinguished Department of Philosophy McKnight University Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

He's also a prolific author of numerous articles and 20 books in the philosophy of science and theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

In addition, he's the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a non-partisan association of faculty, students, and scholars, dedicated to exposing the official lies, removing the shroud of deceit, and revealing the facts about 9/11.

Current world and national issues will be discussed.

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Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues, a new edition of her latest book, "Web of Debt," is an essential analysis of the private banking system, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.

The Daily Bell "Compendium of Free-Market Thought" says "in modern thought (there are now) Keynsians, Austrians and Brownians."

Brown's latest writing will be discussed.

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Michael Hudson has had a long, varied and distinguished career as a Wall Street insider, leading economist, expert on financial history, and Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He's also an author, consultant, head of a Harvard-based economic and financial history group, and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends (INSLET).

Hudson's latest economic views will be discussed, including his recent article on Europe's Fiscal Dystopia: The New Austerity Road to Financial Serfdom.