Special Edition Third Planet Report with host Alan Graf, hippielawyer

This week's edition is recorded in Oregon.  Featured is

1) An interview with General Merrill McPeak, former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War.  General McPeak envisions a benevolent 1000 year US Empire, the vision of which he believes has suffered a set-back by the malfeasance and incompetence of Bush and co.  This interview was conducted at the General's home a few days after he met with Barack Obama for the purpose of establishing a potential relationship as a military advisor to the presidential candidate;

2.  View from the windy misty coastal beaches of Oregon

3.  Songs from the misty coast by hippielawyer:

Forward Horizon

Realization

Proceeding quietly

Depths yet unexplored

and

mist in the morning

Third Planet Report 3/20/07--I weep for all the people murdered by the War Machine.

This week's report features:

1.  Interview with retired General Merril McPeak, former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on why the war is wrong wrong wrong;

2. Interviews with people on the street at the peace march in Nashville TN including More than Warmth founder Judy Meeker

3. Mucho music and musical commentary

No More War

Alan Graf, hippielawyer

Third Planet Report 3/13/07 with host hippielawyer Alan Graf

This week's show features:

1.  The Third Planet Review, panel discussion with Ina May Gaskin, midwife,  Albert Bates, eco-village founder and peak oil expert, and Peter Schweitzer, executive director of Plenty International, a grassroots relief and development agency on contemporary news issues--

Folks--this panel is really good--great chemistry and really insightful comments on contemporary issues--its worth a listen.

 

2.  Songs and music from hippielawyer and James Kohn including an electric version of Doorstep of the Man;

3.  Commentary by hippielawyer.

 

Third Planet Report 3/8/07 with host Alan Graf, hippielawyer

The show includes the following:

1; Interview with Noah Goodman about his friend, 27 year old American, Eric Volz, who is now serving 30 years in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he did not commit.  Noah tells how Eric was framed by the authorities in a strange twist of legal injustice and how he now faces his own probable murder in a Nicaraguan jail cell;

2.  Interview with Mario Menendez, the publisher of Mexico's third largest newspaper, Por Esto.  Mario tells of the coming meeting with George Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, scheduled for March 12-14 at the hacienda of Robert Hernandez Ramirez, who Menendez says is Mexico's biggest drug lord and money launderer to the tune of 600 billion dollars;

3.  Interview with Ina May Gaskin on the state of health care in this country.  Ina May covers lack of portability, why the system punishes people who get sick and the conditions at Walter Reed;

4.  Interview by student reporter Molly Smith on US Imperialism.

More on Eric Volz's saga at www.friendsofericvolz.com

Alan Graf