Is there any plan to transcribe the interviews?

Transcrpts are needed in order to analyze and expand the issues discussed.

Love your new radio show. An excellent and very useful discussion. We need more constructive dialogue like this on how we the people can bring about change, rather than spending valuable blogging comments on decrying the current state of affairs.

One issue that the people clearly want to happen and the corporations, insurance and M$M don’t, is true universal health care. If you care about this very important issue especially for those that are struggling in our tough economy, then you have a chance to make your voice heard tomorrow at 1PM on a live webcast of a panel discussion sponsored by the Kaiser Foundation titled, “The Health Blogosphere: What It Means for Policy Debates and Journalism. The panel appears to be heavily weighted with Bush loyalists, right-wingers and faith-based nonsense proselytizers. We need to counter that by inducing people from all over the progressive and science/free-thinking segments of the blogosphere to participate, to debunk the junk that the panelists will bring.

You can get all the details by going to the Nequals1 blog site, Home of the Brave (see sig). Annie’s site title is very appropriate because on behalf of nurses, she has bravely taken on the medical establishment, not to mention some serious personal challenges that have required much bravery and perserverance.

http://revolutionredux.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/kaiser-network-hosts-health-blogosphere-live-webcast/

Great interview on an important topic. A little feedback for the editor of the audio: More editing please. It's too long.

Enjoyed the spots and can think of a lot of people I'd like to hear you talk with. I'd like to hear interviews with some bloggers and how they do their jobs: receive info, deal with feedback, challenges they face, etc.

I disagree with Todd that the interview was too long. It was an invaluable discussion of a topic that is virtually ignored my the media entirely. A good, well-rounded discussion like this is exactly what is needed to get more people to fully understand the stranglehold that the citizenry is under vis a vis the Beltway class and their UA (Unamerican Accomplices), the Mainstream Media.

Excellent, excellent choice of topic and guest.

-I think highly of his work..

I think both you and he are right-on that we need to keep up pressure-especially during an election year-for as far as how much pander-voting we as a Democratic voting block will allow..

Sorry-but rule of law and infringments of my freespeech in re: to the FISA vote did it for me..

As an active blogger for over 3 years, I'd also agree change comes incrementally--but there still has to be an "enlightened' majority to do so-to give that final push-that final heave-ho to push standouts through the door..

I'm just feeling their weight a little more these days-so I need a break at times..

People/bloggers/progressives can't be expected to keep up the same ire and fervor for so many different scandals plaguing our govt (and which many Dems (gang of 8) may be complicit in)day in and day out.

So don't.

We're not a monolithic bunch-the Dems.

Feed your own interests..break from those that don't...

Get your own personal time to regroup and re-energize to do battle-then go back at it with all of your energy in tow..

The FISA vote really REALLY pissed me off--and I'm wanting some karmic debt to be paid NOW by treasonous Dems..

If I'm right-and I believe I am--then if I'm patient and keep a higher ideal of the right thing to do-I think in due time I'll see that karmic debt paid-off..

It's only a matter of time---but I am not the timekeeper in such a big universe.

Sirota says, at different points in the conversation, that political change can be very rapid--"exponential" is the term he uses. Not much later, he stresses the need to take the "longer view" and that change requires patience. The rate of political change is indeed variable--it is not ness. fast, or slow. It is not, by definition, characterized by any particular speed.

Another interesting part of the conversation was regarding insider culture, lobbyist power, and campaign money. I believe campaign finance reform is as close to a silver bullet as any tool available to us, regarding repairing non-representative government. However, I also subscribe to Greenwald's intimation that there is more at play than money--and agree that the pittance involved in some cases can't be the sole reason politicians are controlled so easily. Even they cannot be so cheaply bought. But simply labeling the problem "beltway culture" or some such is equally unsatisfying, in that it is overly vague, and non-explanatory.

Regardless, the conversation as a whole substantially validates the tactic being employed by Accountability Now.

Politicians, like Barak Obama, will tell us what we want to hear and make strong statements to get elected. Once elected(or nominated), all bets are off and they immediately turn on us in favor of their corporate masters. If there is no way for us to recall them and put someone else in office, then there is no incentive for them to tell the truth and deliver on their campaign promises. Until the people can can control their representatives with immediate action, this country will decline into 3rd world status. All politicians are criminals. We know that. Unless we have a way to kick them out of office mid term, we will be subjected to torture, rendition and the destruction of the rule of law and the constitution. The odds on politicians giving the people a mechinism to hold them accountable is astronomic. Never gonna happen. Nothing will ever change.

With my two favorite progressive voices! Thanks.

ps--I could listen to you two for hours. Not long enough is right!

Glenn,

It would be great to get a timer display on these interviews so that it would be easier to reference certain parts of the conversation.

America needs to hear more from David Sirota. According to the federal corporate government -USA, Inc. - the only way for the world to be is capitalistic, wherein just a few have wealth, everyone else being. . expendable. We accept a near-feudal type of governing system, in which the powerful and priveleged run things and are insulated from the consequences of their thievery.

The media has access to the elite, and a worldwide technological network, but mostly does play by play.

I find it curious that for many people, the idea of "change" means a new governing party in the White House. But, I've heard Obama talk about procedrual changes, which along with them could come real revampments of our stupid economic, political and legal systems, systems that enable fertile ground for political prostitutes to thrive. This will be difficult for a country as religious as this one still is, since religions, being tax exempt, mostly bless the way things are.