The Progressive Podcast Network

This week: Join ALL OF US! for the last podcast of 2011 as we look ahead to 2012 and the coming election year.

Iowa awaits. What will GOP voters do this year? We answer a lot of questions in this one, but the central theme is an attempt to predict what might happen over the next few months. Also the…

King Corn or underdog energy option? We look at ethanol, from its fictional portrayal on one TV program to the special treatment it gets in the Senate and the White House.

This week: WE’RE BACK! Well at least Kathy and Meg are. Nancy and Brian are away but hope to return soon. Join us for our holiday episode!

• A tale of two countries: Kim Jong-il vs. Vaclav Havel
• The NDAA and detention of American citizens
• The Iraq war is over?
• 2011 in review

When Barry Goldwater received his party’s nomination in 1964, it was an attempt on the part of the GOP to go with an aggressive message to take on Johnson. It didn’t work then, but there can be…

Cain drops out while Newt Gingrich surges

• The unemployment rate drops to 8.6%
• The payroll tax cut – well played, Mr. President
• In praise of ObamaCare
• The brutal logic of climate change

We look at alcohol prohibition in two countries, especially American prohibition and how American fervor for the 18th amendment which enacted Prohibition, changed to fervor for the 21st repealing…

• Black Friday
• Secret loans from the Fed to the big banks
• NBA lockout ends
• Quick hits: Barney Frank retires, the Catholic Church introduces us to “consubstantiality“

• Black Friday
• Secret loans from the Fed to the big banks
• NBA lockout ends
• Quick hits: Barney Frank retires, the Catholic Church introduces us to “consubstantiality“