Yes, we did what Howard Dean, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Thom Hartmann  and this fall, Barack Obama, told us to do.  We got off the couch and got active.  Back in 2004, We went out and got ourselves three hours of alternative independent very lefty labor oriented talk radio on the same channel as Rush and Sean.  In our area we have 63 hours of right wing Ayn Rand loving talk radio to our 3 hours.

Each week on "Democracy's Edge" (named after Francis Moore Lappe's book by the same name) the Feral Cats of Freedom with co-hosts Diane and Dave call on their listeners to help them cough up fur balls of truth from the baloney that we've all digested throughout the week from the Fat Cat News, the Corpulent Corporate Press and the Bloviators of Blather. 

We have had on voices that were in the wilderness but now seem to be getting heard.  We had on Dean Baker almost 2 years ago.  We've had Glen Ford (blackagendareport.com) on a year ago telling us about the 150 trillion "mother of all bubbles" caused by "the banksters."   Francis Moore Lappe, Sam Pizzigati, Ari Berman and Katha Pollitt of "The Nation", Melvin Goodman "Failure of Intelligence" , Rick Perlstein "Nixonland",  General Robert Gard, NY Times Foreign Correspondent Stephen Kinzer, Harvey Wasserman, Stephen Zunes.

This week we've asked Stephen Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute return to talk about the "lost science of money".

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In "Obama's Challenge" by Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect, he hopes that Obama's administration will not be done in by "the undertow of bad ideas".  One of those bad ideas is clearly "the bad bank.  Dean Baker weighed in on this on Tuesday and Paul Krugman takes it on on his blog today:  krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

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As the Obama administration apparently prepares to launch Hankie Pankie II -- buying troubled assets from banks at prices higher than they will fetch on the open market -- it occurred to me that an updated version of an old Communist-era joke may be appropriate: under Bush, financial policy consisted of Wall Street types cutting sweet deals, at taxpayer expense, for Wall Street types. Under Obama, it's precisely the reverse.

This is a turn on the famous Galbraith quote  "Under capitalism "man exploits man.  Under communism, it's just the opposite." 

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