On the May 21, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, hear Cecile Pineda, author of Devil's Tango - How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step.  

"An astonishing anatomy of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster..." John Nichols

"Pineda's masterful framing of the urgency for readers to learn from the Japanese nuclear disaster and the machinations of its industry handlers makes Devil's Tango one of the most important and required reads this year...." Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post

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The facebook event page for a KC MoveToAmend rally said "127 Years ago, on May 10, 1886, corporations began to finagle constitutional rights through the US Supreme Court. THAT was just the beginning! This year, on the 127th "birthday" of corporate persons, Kansas City Move to Amend will join activists all over the nation with a rally at the Nichols Fountain."  

After a reminder that the corporate personhood "ruling" wasn't even in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision, but only in the headnotes written by the clerk of the court, the May 14, 2013 edition of the show consists of the remarks of eight speakers at the rally, including yours truly.

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Two of journalist Arun Gupta's latest articles are The Trouble With Professor Petraeus and Little Bagdhad, California. Gupta got on the phone with Tell Somebody for the April 30, 2013 edition of the show to talk about both of them. 

On April 29, 2013, I recorded a conversation with former CIA analyst and Presidential daily briefer Ray McGovern.  Ray held forth on some of the usual subjects, but with an added emphasis on the media.  Ray has said that in his 50 years of observing Washington, D.C., the biggest change he's witnessed is that we no longer have in any real sense a free media. On this show, Ray expands on that in the light of some of his recent interactions with university students, and talks about torture, detainess, and the conflict inherent in the CIA between intelligence analysis and operations directorates.

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On the April 23, 2013 editon of Tell Somebody Homelessness Marathon director Jeremy Alderson joined Gas Free Seneca co-founders Yvonne Taylor and Joseph Campbell to talk about the havoc being wreaked in the Finger Lakes area by Inergy LP, the Kansas City-based company planning to use 'fracking' in the area and to store explosive gases in empty salt mine caverns near Seneca Lake. Alderson was arrested for chaining himself to an entrance gate to the storage facility.

While preparing this show on April 23, I learned that Common Cause  President & CEO Bob Edgar had died suddenly that morning.  Edgar had been a guest on the show in May and October, 2012, and this show includes a portion of his October interview.

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The April 16, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody was the second of two parts on the Free Press National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado.  The show features excerpts from Free Press President/CEO Craig Aaron's opening and closing remarks at the conference, the remaining portions of an interview with Free Press co-founder Professor Bob McChesney, criticism from Project Censored's current and former directors Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, and a response from Craig Aaron.

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The April 9, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody is the first of  two shows covering the 2013 National Conference for Media Reform in Denver , Colorado.

We hear from conference attendee Janet Wilson, law professor and past president of the National Lawyers Guild Marjorie Cohn, former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, journalism professor and Free Press co-founder Bob McChesney, and Free Press president & CEO Craig Aaron.

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On March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush came on national television and said "At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.”

On the March 19, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we observe the 10^th anniversary of Shock and Awe and other anniversaries just past and upcoming: a short clip of Bradley Manning’s statement acknowledging his release of documents to Wikileaks; International Womens Day March 8, 1917 and the start of the February Revolution in Russia, reading an excerpt from an eyewitness account; the 10^th anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie in Gaza on March 16 with a rebroadcast of a 2009 interview with her parents Cindy and Craig Corrie; and the April 4, 2004 wounding of Tomas Young with 2005 and 2007 interviews with Young and a 2008 interview with his mother, Cathy Smith.  In a February appearance via Skype to an audience viewing the film Body of War, Tomas Young announced that he would end his life.

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Kansas City cab driver and advocate for the homeless Richard Tripp and investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author Greg Palast were guests on the the March 12, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody.

For years, Richard Tripp, founder and director of Care of Poor People (www.coppinc.com) has held a Winter Survival event, and a Spring Break for the homeless in Kansas City.  For years, a couple thousand Kansas Citians have gotten free food, free clothes, and free entertainment twice a year from Tripp's organization.  As spring approaches this year, there are rumblings of coming legislation to outlaw giving food to hungry people outside of (inadequate) shelters and food kitchens, or, as a recent Kansas City Star article put it, "pretty soon, feeding the homeless in Kansas City without permission could be just as illegal as feeding the geese."  

Tripp is "not ready to make nice" about this, and talks about it on the show.

In the second half of the show, we hear about the late Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, from someone who knew him: investigative journalist and New York Times Bestselling author Greg Palast.  Palast describes the real Chavez, not the boogeyman "dictator" portrayed in the fawning corporate media, and works in tidbits about the Koch brothers, Canadian Tar Sands oil, and more (including a free download about Chavez at www.gregpalast.com).

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On Saturday, February 9, 2013, Gershon Baskin spoke at Avila University in Kansas City, MO at an event billed "Peace in the Midst of Conflict."

Gershon Baskin, PhD, is the founder of IPCRI, the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, the only joint Israeli-Palestinian think-tank in the world. It is devoted to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (http://www.ipcri.org).

Baskin was featured on the February 19 edition of Tell Somebody with excerpts from his speech and an interview.