Oh, it is okay to have Obama, but it is okay to have McCain? Guys who criticize Obama, but never the Democratic Congress which is where the power is, tell me a lot about insiduous Republican Party or Tea Party posing as "discussion on Obama"!

I wonder what Wolfe, who is constantly pretending to hate discussion while spewing out his half baked theories, on "The Nation", "Democracy Now", will do on your radio show? More talks and discussion while pretending to care, to discuss and objectively critique while actually supporting the McCain plan for more military budget.

Oh...you are all "actually" angry with the Republican agenda? Quit the pretense. Some of your arguments are pro-Republican agenda parading as "critique or objective analysis" of Obama!

It never is about the Congress, the Supreme Court...it is always Obama! That's telling!

I totally agree with your interviewer that this "pretentious separation of state and religion" in schools leads to the kind home schooling and religious schools that I see all over the US - which is getting more and more extreme. Jewish school, Catholic school, Muslim school, Atheist school...it is crazy. I'm all for everyone showing up with their own religious symbols or not..In some schools in Asia, including India, there are kids who'll show up with a dot, with a scarf, with a cross, or with their atheism - but all wearing a uniform. It is possible to find a balance...but in the US and the Europe that balance is never there. It is always one ism or the other! On and on!

Addison, I agree with some of your comments, are you implying that "Barbara Lee, Sanders of Vermont" who identify themselves as Progressives are "war mongers"? Wow, you do have a narrow, perpetually switching, defintion of progressiveness. There are many ways to define progressiveness! A progressive psychology, a progressive mind, progressive social values and progressive politics. So stop boxing, and playing an agenda. Try to change your own thinking and communication...a foundation of Buddhism!

tO Philip and nor-Cal people,

...ought to have more perception regarding the “war-party/one-Party system” by at most including discourse as a daily program on “illegal & UN-constitutional wars"! so I am finding time taken from my (research) writing to comment on “tyranny abroad” and “plutocracy-at-Home”?

The 1950-1965 time-Era was one of “hep-Triangle” of Sausalito/Berkeley-Okland/San fRancisco, where multi-culturalism was reborn into Existentialism and Zen Buddhism. And, where peace-Associations opened minds and values socially and publically thru kPFA-fm (late 1950's)?

The tyranny of Syria, is hypocriful, as the Syria Ba’ath party is not much less than military-Tyranny into oppression-State... and alignments w dictatorial ‘autocracy”. The resurgence is good there, but stats are the improbabilty? What reason has logic to bare-Witness, than rather people of democracy getting killed that they organize and topple the military by violent means, as 350,000 military personnel against them is daily-Indigestion—as one e-Group Head sent to me yesterday—

“Debt Ceiling Deal Capitulation to Economic Terrorism" Sun. July 31, 2011 6:06 am

...capitulation on the part of the President and the Democratic Senate to economic terrorism on the part of the Republican caucus- but then there is really no difference between the two right wing parties both are capitalist enabling pukes.” (from Cort Greene)

The one-Party system does not allow progress. Progressives who support “war-Party” are aligning w tyranny, not change...Matt and Phillip should not talk around this perception--know better!!

the peace-Warrior