Host Theresa Mitchell speaks with Jack D. Forbes, author of "Columbus and Other Cannibals." Forbes is professor emeritus and former chair of Native American Studies at the University of California at Davis. He was instrumental at the start of the Native American Movement in 1961, and went on to found Native American Studies programs across the country as well as an indigenous university.

Michelle and Kathleen host a quick look at recent really good non-fiction books, many political. The show includes short samples of interviews with authors on a variety of topics including the redistribution of wealth, voluntary simplicity, surviving a right-wing fundamentalist reform school and facts and fictions of the human species.

Host Per Fagereng speaks with Loretta Napoleoni about the current economic crisis from an international perspective. Loretta Napoleoni is the best selling author of Rogue Economics, Terror Incorporated, and Insurgent Iraq. She is an expert on financing of terrorism and advises several governments on counter-terrorism. She is senior partner of G Risk, a London based risk agency. As Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, Napoleoni brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks.

Host Dave Mazza speaks with Joel Magnuson, professor and author of "Mindful Economics: How the US Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could be Different."

Joel Magnuson, professor of economics at Portland Community College, writes extensively on the political economy and on environmental issues related to capitalist development. He is a member of an international research group based in Cambridge, England, which is building a new philosophical foundation for economic theory and practice.

As a starter for this morning's special on understanding the economic crisis hosts Cecil and Celeste speak with Arun Gupta, editor of the Indypendent newspaper in New York City focusing on economics. He wrote the recent piece “Obamanomics: Why the Stimulus Plan Will Not Revive the Economy.”
http://www.indypendent.org/2008/12/12/obamanomics.

Lew Daly, co-author with Gar Alperovitz of "Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back," discusses wealth creation, income redistribution and moral philosophy.

Lew Daly is a Senior Fellow at Demos and the author of "God and the Welfare State."