USA Today Smear Campaign Blackout

­Think about how much air time the GSA scandal has received, which involves little more than 800 thousand dollars, against an issue such as members of Congress thinking that the main supplier of food to the troops in Afghanistan may have overbilled the military by more than 750 million dollars. Alyona will tell you about a smear campaign launched against two journalists at USA Today. It’s a...

CCR Calls for Transparency in Manning Case

Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur Nick Hanauer is on the show to talk about the doom and gloom report coming from the Congressional Budget Office this week that warned of the US economy going off a fiscal cliff, and falling back into recession. That's if scheduled tax cuts expire and budget cuts go into effect, so what's Congress to do? Then, Mitt Romney finally released an education plan this...

JP Morgan Still Too Cozy with DC

­On tonight’s show we take a look at the new nuclear talks with Iran… and a boost for nuclear spending in the US defense budget with Joe Cirincione. Slipped into the NDAA for 2013 is an amendment that would lift a ban on the dissemination of propaganda by the State Department, here at home. Michael Hastings, who broke the story, will join us tonight. And, Joel Tennenbaum has been fighting the...

Veterans Reject NATO wars

­We'll take a look at perhaps one of the most important moments of the anti-NATO protests in Chicago this past weekend. We'll speak to a veteran, who threw his service medal away, as well as get J.A. Myerson’s take. Then, while there was a lot of action on the streets, the actual NATO Summit, which concluded last night, was pretty uneventful. Also we'll ask if the end of this 10 year-long...

NATO: Journos Held at Gunpoint for Live Feed

­We’ll speak with two men who were held at gun point by the Chicago police for live streaming. Then, in one of the most watched antiwar protests in decades, dozens of Veterans tossed their medals into the streets. And it's Monday Hangover, so we'll talk about why the Obama campaign is going after Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital when Private Equity donations favor Obama. And then don’t miss...

Financial Checkup: Facebook IPO Falls Flat

­Lauren Lyster, host of the Capital Account here on RT, is on the show for our weekly Financial Checkup. Then, will the economy implode if Obama wins a second term? That's what our guest tonight, Joe Weisenthal, deputy editor of the Business Insider argues. Also, corporations have taken over our politics, but have they also taken over our universities? We'll look at how corporations are pouring...

US to Israel: We are prepared to attack Iran

Former chief-of-staff to Colin Powell, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, is on the show to discuss the simmering tensions with Iran. Then, on eve of going public, the Facebook backlash is in full force. So we'll talk to the founder of a social networking alternative, one that keeps your personal information safe. Next, Chris Hedges, plaintiff in the suit that caused a Federal Court judge to overturn...

Obama issues Yemen exec order

­Michael Hastings is on the show to talk about Pakistan finally being invited to the NATO summit, President Obama issuing a veto threat to the new NDAA and has issued an executive order regarding Yemen, that many argue could stifle free speech all the way here in the US. Then, we talk to Kevin Zeese about the upcoming NATO summit and how both protesters and police are preparing. And what can...

US moving to de-list MEK?

­We'll take a look at reports that the Obama administration is going to de-list the MEK, which comes just a week ahead of more talks with Iran. Then, Americans Elect tried to get a bipartisan team on the presidential ballot. But they ran into one gigantic problem: no candidate got enough votes. Next, a federal judge has said that two cases can be revived to see if military contractors can be...

Monday Hangover: JP Morgan too big to manage

­Tonight on our Monday Hangover Panel, we’ll talk about the $2 billion JP Morgan loss. And CEO Jamie Dimon played defense this weekend on Meet the Press, but is his response only making things worse? Then, you may not have heard, but the State Department approved of parts of an arms sale to Bahrain on Friday. We’ll talk about it with Harper’s Scott Horton. And a federal judge ruled that the NSA...