Virtually Speaking

Sundays @ 6pm pacific | 9pm eastern •VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAYS: OUR MEDIA NOT THEIRS | Two writers from the excellent VSS media panel discuss developments of the week, often highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts. Always informative, always passionate, frequently with a touch of snark.

This week in liberalism.  | Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd| In the continuing exploration of the role of Centrism in the Democratic party and for meaningful ways to express Movement liberalism as a registered Democrat. Or not. This program is pre-recorded

  Hr 2 -  Jay talks with economist Dean Baker, author of The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive, Taking Economics Seriously, False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, The United States Since 1980, The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot), and The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein). He was the editor of Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index. Follow @ceprdc

Virtually Speaking Science | MSNBC's Alan Boyle (ed. Cosmic Log) talks with Marc Millis, of the Tau Zero Foundation and one of the big names in interstellar travel discussions. Marc worked for years on NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program aka the "Warp Drive When?" program. Produced in cooperation with MICA.

Dave Waldman, aka KagroX, a non-practicing attorney, former Capitol Hill aide and Hotline staff writer (back when Chuck Todd was an intern), David writes chiefly on Congressional procedure at CongressMatters and is the voice behind Daily Kos’ Today in Congress feature. They’ll talk about US Congress, jobs #OccupyWallStreet and what it means for progressives.

Sundays @ 6pm pacific | 9pm eastern •VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAYS: OUR MEDIA NOT THEIRS | Two writers from the excellent VSS media panel discuss developments of the week, often highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts. Always informative, always passionate, frequently with a touch of snark.

Ongoing discussion centering on the nature, ideology and political realities of liberalism and conversely on the nature, ideology and political realities of Democratic centrism. No call-ins: recorded the previous Thursday.

Hr 1 - This week in Liberalism Jay Ackroyd and Stuart Zechman Hr 2- Jay visits with Les Leopold, co-founder and director of The Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute, designs research and educations programs on occupational safety and health, the environment and economics. The author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It, Les is a strategic consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance, which brings together trade unions and environmental organizations.  Follow @Les_Leopold @JayAckroyd

Former political operative and recovering journalist, blogger and working class warrior Susie Madrak chats with Will Bunch about his new Kindle book: October 1, 2011: The Battle of Brooklyn Bridge." Follow @will_bunch, @SusieMadrak

Sundays @ 6pm pacific | 9pm eastern •VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAYS: OUR MEDIA NOT THEIRS | Marcy Wheeler and Stuart Zechman talk about War (Libya), War (Iraq), and War (Iran). And bailouts: Marcy reports that Ben Bernanke is trying to let BoA put its derivative risk in the same place as depositers bank accounts. Bad idea for 99% of us. Follow them @emptywheel @stuart_zechman Each week, two writers from the excellent VSS media panel discuss developments of the week, often highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts. Always informative, always passionate, frequently with more than a touch of snark.

Ongoing discussion centering on the nature, ideology and political realities of liberalism and conversely on the nature, ideology and political realities of Democratic centrism. No call-ins: recorded the previous Thursday.

Hr 1 - Virtually Speaking A-Z: This week in liberalism. Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd| continue the search for deeper understanding and meaningful expressions of Movement liberalism. Follow @Stuart_Zechman Hr 2 - Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd. Jay talks about the overlap between the right and left wing populist movements with  frameshop founder Jeffrey Feldman. Jeffrey applies Cultural Anthropology to the analysis of politics and communication.   Follow @JeffreyFeldman @JayAckroyd

  MIT's Tom Levenson hosts VS Science on the third Wednesday of the month to discuss history of science, economics, and some climate science. Science Historian Naomi Oreskes, author of "Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming," has a long-standing interest in understanding the establishment of scientific consensus and the role and character of scientific dissent. Follow @TomLevenson

Recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people.

Susie Madrak and  Culture of Truth discuss developments of the week highlighting issues neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts,  drawing from their work of the prior week and the wickedly funny Bobblespeak Translations Informative, thoughtful and passionate. Follow them @bobblespeak @susiemadrak