Gerald Le Melle holds a J.D. from Georgetown University.  He lived in Africa for ten years and now is the Executive Director of Africa Action having previously worked for Amnesty International USA.  Hosts Dave and Diane have a lot of questions about what's going on with this new part of the U.S. military called AFRICOM.  Is this the way to resolve conflicts in countries in Africa? Do Africans want our help? Is the United States of Africa a good idea?  What has Africa got that we want?  Lots.  If we paid African farmers a fair price for their crops like cocoa for all the chocolate we consume, would they be able to get out of poverty?  A great free wheeling discussion, if I do say so myself.
Diane

Raed Jarrar was born in Iraq and got his degree in Architecture at the University of Baghdad.  His master's theses in Architecture from the U of Jordan examined local mthods of reconstruction in post-war Iraq.  Currently he is working as a consultant for the American Friends Service Committee.  Raed has worked towards bridging the gap between Iraqi leaders and U.S. Congress members. 

Hosts Diane and Dave discover that most Iraqis don't want to parition Iraq.  They believe like we do in "E Pluribus Unum" it turns out.  For a different perspective on Iraq from a real Iraqi, listen to this podcast.

Dr. Arjun Makhijani joins the hosts of Democracy's Edge. 
Dr. Makhijani got his Ph.D. at Berkley and now works in Takoma Park, Maryland at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Reseaarch of which he is president.

A recognized authority on energy issues and nuclear issues in particular, Dr. Makhijani is the author and co-author of numerous reports and books on topics such as nuclear defense systems, radioactive waste storage and disposal, nuclear testing, disposition of fissile materials, energy efficiency, and ozone depletion.  He is the principal editor of Nuclear Wastelands: a Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and Its Health and Environmental Effects, published by MIT Press in July 1995, and subsequently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.


The banksters succeeded in bringing misery to the whole world without using any nukes.  But just in case the crony capitalists and globalists don’t do us  in completely,  maybe we ought to pay a little more attention to the real thing; nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and nukes in space.  After all look what happened when we weren’t watching the bond traders and bucket shop bozos?  Should we worry or Should we stop worrying and learn to once more love the bomb? And since we’re broke, what is this costing us?

Hosts Diane Kamp and Dave Zollinger cough up fur balls of truth each week from the baloney digested throughuot the week from the Fat Cat News.

Stephen Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute at monetary .org is the author of "The Lost Science of Money".  Stephen and his colleagues are dedicated to de-mystifying money because  “If it had to be summarized in one sentence it is that by misdefining the nature of money, special interests have often been able to control a society’s monetary system, and in turn, the society itself.”

The Teamster and the Rancher, Dave and Di, ask Zarlenga about the details of the "American Monetary Act" that they have proposed.   Should we incorporate the Federal Reserve into the Treasury?  And they ask him to explain the difference between banking and money. And should there be such thing as a moral economy or moral and just money?

The Feral Cats of Freedom on Democracy's Edge Talk Radio are searching for new ideas to either fix or replace or political and economic system.  What do you think of Zarlenga's ideas?