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"We think all of our interviews are special, but there are some that seem to strike a chord in listeners—maybe because they engage questions that aren’t often engaged, or encourage alternative visions. We revisit three of those conversations on this week’s show."

McPherson explains the physics of what will occur when the polar ice cap, now melting because of excessive greenhouse gases, has all melted, thus ending its ability to reflect the heat of the sun back out to space. Stores of methane are also released from where the ice was, vastly increasing the greenhouse effect. The sun's heat, no longer reflected back, and more greenhoused in, now irreversibly warms the earth. McPherson argues this could well occur by 2022 or sooner, causing the temperature of the oceans to keep increasing irreversibly, rapidly increasing global average temperature to 4°C. above 1866 baseline. McPherson points out that human life on earth started only 7000 years ago. He argues that this temperature will result in the loss of the “planetary air-conditioner,” thus the "loss of habitat" for human species. Want more? Go to guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/climate-change-summary-and-update/ for McPherson's roughly 150,000-word magnum opus on the subject.

Gordon describes what the Sandinistas did for the people of Nicaragua in terms of health, education, and dignity, but is quick to point that neither Danny Ortega nor today’s Sandinista movement bears any political resemblance to the Sandinistas of the 80s who captured the world’s imagination and ire of the US, with its own long and ugly history of intervening in Nicaragua. She points out how Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo had come back into power after making political alliances with the extreme right, and after joining a reactionary Catholic sect which led to the imposition of overly strict laws against abortion.

This organization serves as a political and policy research arm of the Arab-American community. Zogby was born in the US of Palestinian parents, and is an important Palestinian voice that needs to be heard. Unfortunately, just when Palestinian voices need to be elevated, they are heard less and less frequently in our media, and here he speaks to that issue. He is introduced by Mohamed Mohamed.

Prins tells host Robert Scheer that after the recession of 2008, the Federal Reserve conjured $4½ trillion, which allowed private banks to almost double in size and continue to take risks with money. She says that money could have instead gone to aid small businesses and loan forgiveness. And they discuss whether the central banks and institutions like the International Monetary Fund are actually helping regular people or simply making the rich richer.

Gallup is President of the World Service Authority, a global public service human rights organization founded in 1954. Addressing politicians' current mania to exclude and/or imprison "undocumented" asylum seekers, he presents his World Citizen card wherever he is challenged to prove his legality.