The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show

Douglas Rushkoff returns. I asked him to describe the most important new memes and ideas in his book. He replied, "the economy is an operating system. It is not a feature of nature. People made it. These rules were designed. If you forget that human beings have the ability to change them If you accept them as facts of nature then you are pretty doomed. They are not facts of nature. and were created not with our best i

I was VERY excited to do this two part 2 hour interview. Darcia Narvaez has written an award winning book that simply blew my mind. It explains so many of our modern day problems, including psychopaths, narcissists, crime, loss of empathy in our culture. We dive deep to discuss how ancestral parenting , the way children were raised for 99% of human history, is a key part of brain moral development.

Rob Hopkins, a Brit, is the author of The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, and he---s really considered just about the leader of the Transition Town movement.

Chuck just co-authored a report on wealth inequality that is shocking. We discuss the report, billionaires, the dangers and damages billionaires wreak, solutions and billionaire psychopaths

William I. Robinson is professor of sociology at US Santa Barbara and author of the book, Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity We discuss how global capitalism and the Transnational Capitalist Class force us to change the way we think about change-- about activism, revolution, and system change. He also offers an extraordinary explanation of the connection between murders of blacks and Global Capitalism

Ken Silverstein's Harper's magazine article, Shaky Foundations: The Clintons--- so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends, has just been published. He tells me how they do it and throws in the dirt on one of the Clinton's closest advisors, Sidney Blumenthal. Silverstein says the Clintons should be indicted and prosecuted

As Brian described, we went deep discussing the aspects and implication of Holocracy, a powerful manifestation of how the organization is transitioning from a top-down patriarchal, parent child model to one with distributed power, empowering ALL the employees. I see it is the leading edge of a movement that could change the way we think about leadership, about how government and organizations work.

Steffi Black is the creator of Spread the Kindness interactive workshops and presentations focusing on bringing kindness into schools and the workplace.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a pioneering Positive Psychologist and a leading researcher. He's calling for the field to start looking at the world from a group or cultural perspective, not just individuals. He gives some fascinating history of his early work and inspirations, and insights on new info on the neurobiology of flow.

Some government organizations are outrageous in their efforts to resist cooperation with FOIA requests. Here are some crazy stories, and some discussion of doing investigative reporting.

I interview Andrew Bard Schmookler about his new book, What We're Up Against. We discuss evil, brokenness and the challenges we must face to deal with the evil he describes

I have David Swanson in this second half of the night's show on pushing the Nobel Peace Prize to return to giving awards to people who do what Alfred Nobel specified in his will.

There an effort to force the Nobel Peace Prize nominating committee to return consistently to awarding peace prizes to people who meet Alfred Nobel's criteria for the award, as he stipulated it in his will. I interview David Swanson and Mairead Maguire. David Swanson ia a dedicated anti-war, peace activist and author. Mairead Maguire was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and has continued to work for peace for a long time.

Micah L. Sifry is a democracy activist, cofounder and Editorial Director of Personal Democracy Forum, one of my favorite conferences for smart people and cutting edge innovation, and the author of numerous books, including Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency, The Big Disconnect, Why the Internet Hasn't Transformed Politics (Yet) and, most recently, co-editor of A Lever and Place to Stand.

Kevin Gosztola has co-founded a new website, Shadowproof.com , that, like the Phoenix, has risen from the ashes of Firedoglake.com, where Kevin had written a column, The Dissenter, which he is continuing along with archiving all of the past content from Firedoglake. Kevin was, earlier in his career, a writer and editor at OpEdNews.com.