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Guest #1 David Gans - Civil Rights Director - Constitutional Accountability Center Topic: Supreme Court to Hear Civil Rights, Voting Rights Cases As the Supreme Court returns to work it will be considering both Civil and Voting Rights cases, but will the shift in the court since Samuel Alito joined the bench and John Roberts became Chief Justice negatively voting rights and affirmative action regarding higher education?. Guest # 2 Brentin Mock - Journalist  -The Nation,  Lead Reporter, Voting Rights Watch Topic: Voting Rights Victory - Pennsylvania Court Blocks GOP Voter Suppression Laws." In a major victory for voting rights - Judge Robert Simpson, of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, ruled on Monday that the state’s new, restrictive and repressive, Voter ID law cannot stand, while across the country Voter Registration Laws pare being challenged and often overturned in court on the grounds that they are unconstitutional.

GUEST #1 : Greg Palast - Investigative Journalist Upcoming book, Billionaires 8 Ballot Bandits - How the Election Games are fixed by the Koch gang, Karl Rove and their buck-buddies Topic # 1 Over 5 million Americans were illegally denied the right to vote in the 2008 Presidential election, and as we enter the 2012 election cycle the fix in in again and Americans will have their votes, purged, spoiled, or otherwise not counted. Investigative Journalist Greg Palast discusses the tactics that will be used in 2012 to snatch the election away once again, and what we can do to combat and expose them. GUEST #2 - Dennis Marker –– Author - FIFTEEN STEPS TO CORPORATE FEUDALISM - How the Rich Convinced America’s Middle Class to Eliminate Themselves Topic #2 How methodical was the plan, to eliminate the middle class - who was behind it and and how did it unfold? In his new book FIFTEEN STEPS TO CORPORATE FEUDALISM Dennis Marker outlines the Fifteen steps that have worked in conjunction to nearly eliminate the middle class in America and what we need to do to regain it.

Guest: Glenn Greenwald

Guests: Ray McGovern – 30 years CIA Veteran, and Medea Benjamin – Code Pink Last week Attorney General Eric Holder announced to the world that that an assassination plot, allegedly linked to Iran, has been foiled. The only source for information on this has been “justice” officials whose credibility is extremely suspect. Ray McGovern weighs in. Meanwhile 7 protestors were arrested this morning in Washington DC for speaking and holding sings at the start of a meeting held by the House Armed Services Committee where Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was testifying. The group put out a statement saying: “We represent the 99 percent of Americans who have been hurt by these endless wars that have robbed us of trillions of dollars and destroyed our economy." Medea Benjamin of Code Pink provides an update.

Debt Ceiling – Manufactured Crisis forces Bad Bill, and Creates Unconsitional Super Congress Guest: Jane Hamsher – Producer, author, founder and publisher of the blog FireDogLake. www.firedoglake.com On Monday, President Obama signed the atrocity known as the Budget Control Act of 2011. 95 house democrats went along with this plan; supporting a bill that is not about financial responsibility – but about using an artificially induced crisis (sound familiar – think Bailout), to enable the wealthiest 2 per cent of Americans to continue getting away with not paying their fair share of taxes. The groups behind this fake crisis are not concerned about the financial state of the United States of American or about its people, they are concerned with lining their own pockets. They have purchased the political influence they needed to pass a bill that It Takes the legislative authority away from the many and illegally delegates it to a few. It is anti-democratic, irresponsible, Bad policy, bad practice, bad faith And constituently illegal.

Guest: Ali Gharib is a national security reporter for ThinkProgress covering U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly Iran. http://thinkprogress.org/author/aligharib/ Topic: Right-Wing Pundits Jumped To Blame Muslims And ‘Jihadists’ For Norway Attacks – Are Muslims the Only Terrorists? On July 22nd, when news broke of the terror attack in Norway, right-wing pundits quickly moved forward with speculation that that the attacks, since they appeared to be “terrorism” must be therefore be associated with Muslim extremism. It was soon discovered, that, on the contrary, the terrorist Andres Breivik, was a blue-eyed, blond haired Christian, who’s anti-Muslim whose 1500 page manifesto which justified his horrific acts in the name of a combined hatred of Muslims, Marxists, multiculturalists and feminist women. Journalist Äli Gharib discusses why, in American political discourse, acts of “Terror” have more and more come to be defined as: violence committed (only) by Muslims whom the West dislikes, no matter the cause or the target.

Guest: Greg Seymour: Renewable Energy Coordinator, with the Nevada Wilderness Project  U.S. Government - 677,000 Acres for Solar Development or 22 Million Acres? The weather bashing the east coast and the flooding in the west continue to provide irrefutable evidence that climate change is upon us – the US government begins to move forward on a major transition to Solar energy and how do it it right from the beginning. Guest: Bob Koehler: Award-winning peace journalist, fiction writer, poet and regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Common Dreams, OpEd News and TruthOut. Egyptian Revolution: What Future Will Follow This Extraordinary Beginning? It has been an extraordinary month Egyptians locked arms, a dictator tumbled. Journalist Bib Koehlwer discusses his latest article Discovering Fire highlighting the extraordinary month in Egypt where citizens locked arms and caused a dictator to fall from power. But the next steps that follow this early beginning will determine whether this revolution actually results in lasting change for Egyptians or if these events are remembered as only a divine moment of protest.