Our Times with Craig Barnes

Broadcast on KSFR 101.1 FM, Santa Fe - Saturday 9am MST

Farewell -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 6, 2013

Dennis Marker -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 30, 2013

Ellen Brown -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 23, 2013

Rozanne Junker -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 9, 2013

Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 2, 2013

What are the possibilities for local communities to create their own currencies?  Who has already done it and how have they succeeded?

Annie Leonard -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 23, 2013

Annie Leonard, creator of the wildly viral Story of Stuff explains her strategy of popular engagement, building relationships, finding meaning, and working together, all to bring about a widespread activism to support a change in the way we think about consumption and happiness.

Austin Vickers -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 16, 2013

What do we do when the stories that bind us pull in opposite directions? What is the transformation that can lead to freedom from the old paralyzing stories?  Austin Vickers leads us through the power of intention and imagination described in his new film, People v. The State of Illusion."

Omar Barghouti & Marty Kaplan -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 9, 2013

How shall the Palestinians regain their right to water, medicines, land and free politics? Omar Barghouti, the founder of BDS, (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions), explains the conditions which cry out for global support, and the plan to bring Israel to the table of human rights.

Jeffery Clements -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 25, 2013

One half of one percent contributed 80% of all of the six billion dollars that was spent in 2012 elections.  Thirty two very rich people contributed more than the sum total of all the rest of those who contributed less than $200.  Jeff Clements, author of Corporations Are Not People, spells out the threat of big money to our shredded democracy.

Eric Herm -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 19, 2013

Eric Herm came home after years of travel and adventure, deciding to return to his family's fifth generation cotton farm.  One day he bought GMO seed and read the warnings never to touch his seed and then his mouth because the seed was infused with poison.  From that day on Herm has dedicated his farm and his life to non-GMO cotton production. 

Cathie Sullivan and Jeffery Haas -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 12, 2013

Emmet Bondurant -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 5, 2013

No one understands the ins and outs of the filibuster better than Emmet Bondurant, lead counsel for Common Cause's lawsuit to have the filibuster declared unconstitutional.  Emmet discusses the issues in that lawsuit as well as the weak efforts at reform in this month's back door negotiations in the US Senate.  At stake is the principle of majority rule vs. minority tyranny.

Bill Stewart and Buie Seawall -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 29, 2012

As Tea Party intractability not only takes the country toward the fiscal cliff but, even more seriously, promises long-term Congressional dysfunction, journalist Bill Stewart and ethics professor Buie Seawell weigh the consequences for constitutional government, for Barack Obama, and for US foreign policy.

Alexis Stoumbelis -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 22, 2012

When the US military support for the brutal regime of El Salvador failed to suppress popular movements, the international investment community moved to take over the country through programs of "privatization," the sale of national assets, water, utilities, etc., to global corporations.  Now the Obama Administration, in a bid to fend off invasion of Latin American markets by European and Chinese interests, furthers this privatization to the great detriment of the government and people of that country.

Ellen Brown -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 15, 2012

Ellen Brown, author of The Web of Debt, explores the long history of the peoples' resistance to banking concentration and abuse, looking at who creates money, who owns the Federal Reserve Bank and how public banking could save governments millions and re-direct financing toward needed social programs that private banking overlooks.

Hamid Dabashi -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 8, 2012

Professor Hamid Dabashi, himself Iranian born, describes a combination of poetry and cruelty in Iranian history and the movement of Iran's culture toward a new  cosmopolitan future. Neither Iran, nor Islam, nor the region, nor the age, can be described with simplistic slogans of hatred or love, says Dabashi.

Brene Brown -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 1, 2012

Dr. Brene Brown, author of the NY Times #1 Best Seller, Daring Greatly,  explores courage, vulnerability, the armors we put on to defend ourselves against exposure, and the Wholeheartedness that awaits the freer, undefended self.

Grove Burnett -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on November 24, 2012

Grove Burnett discusses E.O. Wilson's The Social Conquest of Earth in which the famous evolutionary biologist discusses the genetic predisposition of humans toward altruism.

Thomas Linzey -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on November 17, 2012

John Padoven -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on November 10, 2012

After former NM state legislator, Vietnam veteran, and successful business executive John Padoven suffered a stroke while working in Shanghai, China, he came home to New Mexico to recover. Still "type A" and not wanting to become a couch potato, he eventually decided to ride a bicycle across America from Washington state to Key West, Florida, a journey that would become a search for his authentic self and his true country.

Robert Watson -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on November 3, 2012

Jerome Bernstein and Bill Stewart -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on October 27, 2012

What's at Stake in this election?

Larry Rasmussen -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on October 13, 2012

Earth-Honoring Faith

Jenny Flanagan -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on October 6, 2012

Voter protection

Richard Wolff -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on September 29, 2012

Democracy At Work, A Cure for Capitalism

Shake Scenes -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on September 22, 2012

Jeff Hass -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on September 15, 2012

Awful conditions in today's Palestine

Jonathan Miller -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on September 8, 2012

No Labels

Bill Stewart -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 28, 2012

Richard Wolff -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 21, 2012

Bill de Buys -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 14, 2012

A Great Aridness

Jim Fitzpatrick -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 7, 2012

Doug Clopp -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on June 23, 2012

Hal Bolton -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on June 9, 2012

Emmet Bondurant -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on June 2, 2012

Challenges the filibuster in federal court for Common Cause.

Robert Watson -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 26, 2012

John Bonifaz -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 19, 2012

Harriet Lerner -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 5, 2012

Mariel Nanasi and Jeff Haas -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 28, 2012

David Meyer -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 21, 2012

Rebecca Goldstein -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 14, 2012

Phyllis Bennis -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 7, 2012

Chris Williams -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 31, 2012

Jenny Martinez -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 17, 2012

Jim Fitzpatrick Healthcare and Supreme Court -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 10, 2012

Grove Burnett and Ruth Zapora -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 3, 2012

Eberhard Riedel and Jacqueline West -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 25, 2012

Lynne Twist -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 18, 2012

Fred Nathan and Bruce Throne -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 11, 2012

Thomas Linzey -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 4, 2012

Russ Baker -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 28, 2012

Michael Schermer -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 21, 2012

Believing Brain

Corporate Tax Bill -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 14, 2012

Courtney Martin & John Cary Jr. -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 7, 2012

Bill Stewart & Brian Egolf -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 31, 2011

Jeff Clements -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 17, 2011

Norman Finklestein -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 10, 2011

Eric Friedenwald Fishman -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 3, 2011

Eric Friedenwald Fishman 2 -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 3, 2011

Joshua Goldstein -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on November 11, 2011

Debonah Tang -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on November 4, 2011

St. Elizabeth’s Homeless Shelter

Richard Wolff -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on October 29, 2011

Michael Kazin -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on October 22, 2011

Martha Burke -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on October 15, 2011

Jessica Winegar -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on October 8, 2011

David Kortem -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on September 24, 2011

Don Tashjian -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on September 17, 2011

Richard Wolff -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on September 9, 2011

Tony Gerlicz -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 30, 2011

Robin Williams -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 23, 2011

Ken Mayers -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 16, 2011

Ken Mayers, former Marine Corps major and now prominent leader in the movement of Veterans for Peace, describes his experiences in Athens with the volunteers who planned to sail the Audacity of Hope to Gaza to deliver humanitarian supplies. Mayers describes their encounters with Greek police in Syntagma Square and on the seas and the maueuvers of the Greek, Israeli, and American governments to stop their good will mission. 

Heather Gerken -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 9, 2011

Heather Gerken, Skelley Wright professor of constitutional law at Yale University, and who has appeared on PBS, testified to congress, written numerous articles, etc., here discusses campaign finance reform and the recent Supreme Court decision that strikes down an Arizona law that attempted to level the playing field in elections by public financing for candidates. She helps us understand the internal workings of doctrines of campaign contributions and independent expenditures and then leads on to Citizen’s United and a discussion of the Roberts Court’s unwillingness to regulate money in politics.

Gary Hart -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 2, 2011

Former US Senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart explores the complexities of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the consequences of our longest military engagements in history, the need to investigate how we got into these wars, and the desperate dysfunction in the current US Congress.

Fred Nathan -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on June 25, 2011

Andy Schmookler -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on June 11, 2011

Andy Schmookler, author of The Parable of the Tribes and other examinations of American political thought, speculates on the nature of evil, or, to put it differently, the great force for lying, torture, and self interest that has taken possession of American politics. Andy is a candidate for Congress in the 6^th District of Virginia and hopes to reawaken a conversation about politics, virtue, and the great spirit that can head us toward good or evil.

Terry ONeill -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 28, 2011

Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, discusses the package of legislation that has passed the US House of Representatives during the first session of Congress this year.  From making abortions more expensive, or by slashing programs that disproportionately employ or benefit women such as Pell Grants, Headstart,  or Food Stamps, or pre-natal care, this Congress has systematically discriminated against women.  Why or how?  Because "we are invisible," says O'Neill.

Jerome Bernstein -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 14, 2011

Jerome Bernstein, Jungian psychoanalyst, considers the Biblical and historical origins and the deep roots in story that produces the chaos we are in today.  The interplay between justice and equity or moral and ethics leads to a discussion of wisdom and what might be our innate human nature.

Ben Barber -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 7, 2011

Ben Barber, the author of 17 books on democracy and sometime advisor to a Libyan foundation to establish democracy, evaluates the American military role in Libya, the violations of international law that occur when Moamar Kaddafi himself is targeted, and the predictable difficulty of negotiating with him when we have tried to kill him.

Gary Hart -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 30, 2011

Former US Senator Gary Hart discusses the origins of the American republic that at its origins meant public responsibility for citizenship and civic virtue.  “We must earn our rights by the performance of our duties,” quotes Hart, lamenting the loss of personal responsibility and public virtue in today’s politics.

Shoaib Rahim -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 24, 2011

Afghanistan is a country in cultural transition, caught in war still after 30 years, and is viewed in this conversation by Shoaib Rahim, an Afghan Fulbright scholar who has spent the last year at Duke University. Rahim addresses the contradictions between the need for both a quick American withdrawal and a long-term American presence.  He addresses the catastrophe of American military power killing civilians and the equally potentially catastrophic result from an American hasty retreat that would leave the country helpless before it is able to cope on its own, with its own institutions. Rahim calls for an honest discussion of these ambiguities rather than the easy sloganeering of global politics.

William Hogeland -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 16, 2011

William Hogeland gives us stories of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence that few of us have heard, including the critical days of May 1776 when mechanics, small shop keepers and privates in the militia banded together with John and Samuel Adams to demand, not just an end to taxation by the British, but a form of democratic government in which ordinary people would have the vote.  Working people brought off the critical change in Pennsylvania's legislature that eventually led to July 4th, and changed history.

Dana Freyer -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 9, 2011

Dana Freyer faces the ambiguities in America's presence in Afghanistan from the standpoint of one whose organization Global Partnership for Afghanistan has planted ten million trees, recreated irrigation systems, taught chicken inoculation and cold storage, and involved more than 175,000 Afghanis in their own agricultural redevelopment.  Simply pulling out is not an option, she says. As we wind down our military presence we must find ways to protect the significant gains that are liberating both men and women from poverty and terror.

Elaine Pagels -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 2, 2011

Elaine Pagels has found in the Nag Hammadi gospels a message of personal transformation and clarity that would make a modern psychologist proud.  As the nation's most celebrated interpreter of these fourth century scrolls, Pagels discusses the contrast between the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of John and the mechanisms of church politics that brought the latter into the acceptable canon while condemning Thomas as heresy from which he has only been redeemed by the discovery in 1945 of these ancient scrolls.

Santa Fe Girls School -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 26, 2011

The Santa Fe Girls School is a private school for girls in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades, that requires of its entering students only that they have a desire to learn.  In this program four eight graders describe their experiences out on Project Preserve, restoring the Santa Fe River, removing non native species of trees, creating habitat for beaver, measuring water quality, reporting to the officials in the Surface Water Commission about phosphates that they have measured over a multi-year period.  They will knock your socks off!

Richard Schneider -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 19, 2011

Richard Schneider has spent the last 20 years of his life running a school in a small village of India, opening doors to the world beyond for young boys and girls who would never have had a chance to rise above their traditional cast.  He tells us about caste and class, gratitude and brotherhood, and is one of those soft-spoken people of light who quietly are changing the world.

Herman Daly -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 5, 2011

For thirty years Herman Daly has been  a voice in the wilderness detailing the flaws in the growth economy, examining promises of prosperity that neither technology nor resource manipulation can ever fulfill.  Not only are there limits to growth, growth does not feed our spiritual or moral lives, a reality almost completely ignored by neo-classical economists.  Daly's Steady State Economics is still iconic for those who see the advantages of small scale production, decentralization, increased durability of products, and increased long-run efficiency in the the use of scarce resources.  In this conversation he lays it all out in vivid detail.

Ben Barber -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 26, 2011

Ben Barber has been a consultant to Saif Qhaddfi's democracy foundation until resigning this week. As the author of 17 books on democracy and modern culture he looks at tribal and family loyalties and predicts a long difficult road for Libya ahead. "Democracy is not just regime change, and no two countries are alike. Libya does not have the width and breadth of middle class that Egypt has and has little infrastructure with which to replace the dictator."  The focus then shifts to Madison, Wisconsin and the destruction of the middle class by the narrowest interests with the most money and the gradual shift of this country toward plutocracy.

Jacqueline St. Joan -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 19, 2011

Jacqueline St. Joan is a former judge, law professor, feminist and now a novelist whose My Sisters Made of Light strips back the veil from honor killing and women's chattelization in Pakistan.  St. Joan weaves a story of intrigue and passion and in the telling lays bare practices that will chill westerners to the bone.  The story may never see the light of day in Pakistan and the names of her informers have to be disguised, so deep are the fears of both men and women on this subject.

Nabil Echchaibi -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on February 5, 2011

As the Middle East is rocked by turmoil and upheaval, Nabil Echchaibi returns to Our Times to relate what is being said by Al Jazeera, who is in the streets of Cairo, and who is telling the story in Arabic.  Echchaibi puts the Muslim Brotherhood in a light unfamiliar to western viewers as the champion of the revolution and is a professor of mass communications at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a Moroccan who keeps close tabs and recounts how they too have been harassed, kidnapped and beaten by Mubarak's supporters.  Altogether, this is an exciting new view of what is happening in Egypt during these tense days of decision.

Dr. Brene Brown -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 29, 2011

Dr. Brenè Brown has been researching and gathering data for more than 10 years and concludes that when we live someone else's story and therefore crowd out our own special creativity, the pain and grief of that loss does not go away. It turns to fear, anger, and shame. If we go on living in a way that is not authentic we may try to mask the pain with perfection, aggression, or addiction. The better answer is to discover and follow a path that allows us to make our own, individual contributions to the world; to be vulnerable to our imperfections; to trust that we are enough. Humorous, authentic, and alive, Dr. Brown lives what she teaches.

Nina Simons -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 22, 2011

Nina Simons co-founded Bioneers and is now the author of Moonrise, a compilation of the stories of remarkable women who have been moved to write, sing, champion the village, or stand up to the powers, all over the world. Her own journey to find her place as a partner with her husband, not just the shadow behind the throne, and to accept the full power of her own abilities, underscores the message of the book.

John Rubel -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 15, 2011

John Rubel was director of research and development in the Pentagon when the Minuteman missile was the pride of the Air Force because it could be launched within a single minute. "What civilian controls?" asked Rubel to the generals.  "Very complicated," came their reply, in effect admitting that there were none. So Rubel set out to convince at first the Eisenhower and then the Kennedy administrations that a vastly improved protocol was required. Rubel's courage and intellectual timber come through in this fascinating interview.

Mark Sardella -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on January 8, 2011

Mark Sardella, who has spent a lifetime engaged in analysis and criticism of Investor Owned Utilities, argues in favor of decentralization of our power supplies with greater resulting efficiencies and unleashing a mass of local investment with potentially net positive effects on global warming.

Charles Eisenstein -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 10, 2010

Charles Eisenstein explores the biology of cellular collaboration and the impact of the New Biology on Darwin's theory of natural selection, on modern theories of competition and the free market, and on our current tendency to think of ourselves as separate, independent, self-interested people. All these old stories are coming to an end, says Eisenstein, to be be replaced by an understanding of our natural interdependence and tendency to collaborate for our common survival.

Bob Reich -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on December 4, 2010

Former Labor Secretary Bob Reich explains how current economic policies recommended by Republicans and some democrats to put more money in the hands of the banks and the investment class cannot succeed because the middle class cannot purchase what the investment class produces. The remedy must be to create purchasing power in the middle class and no conversation in Washington is openly addressing this issue. America has therefore concentrated its wealth to a degree not seen since 1928 and the consequence is the same. Too much money at the top and not enough in the middle and bottom has produced the biggest crisis in American economics since the great depression and with much of the same cause.

Nabil Echchaibi -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on November 20, 2010

Amid all the fear of Islamic Jihad, the American public hears little of the conversation going on within Islamic media, including television and on the blogosphere, concerning modernization and morality, how to live in ways that may include dance and song and material gain as well as maintaining the faith. A current of popular shows, originating from Cairo, London and even Los Angeles,  is taking on the Imams and nationalists and urging full engagement with the West. This is an engagement that seeks to hold on to traditional moral values and advance into the new world at the same time. Nabil Echchaibi is a professor of mass communications at the University of Colorado and leads us through this most revealing story.

Bob Edgar -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on November 13, 2010

President of Common Cause, Bob Edgar, has the organization geared up to fan out through the states to initiate post-election programs from coast to coast, involving media, public actions, and tested messaging. Among the actions is a planned demonstration at the site of the Koch Brothers meeting in Palm Springs in January where these arch libertarians plan to continue their assault on democracy.

Kristie Karsen, David Geist & Jonathan Richards -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on November 6, 2010

Kristie Karsen, David Geist and Jonathan Richards discuss the music of Sonheim and Kristie's production of Company that runs in Santa Fe through November 14. Sondheim is described as a pioneer in musical theater, forging music that advances the story as well as complementing it, that in fact is the story. David Geist who has played for the greats in New York and now plays at Pranzos Restaurant in Santa Fe adds his appreciation of the Sondheim innovation, and Jonathan Richards, movie critic, actor and savant of theater culture enriches this wonderful conversation about musical theater in our times.

James Fishkin -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on October 30, 2010

The framers of the Constitution of the US tried to create institutions of deliberation, places where reasoned and thoughtful debate could occur and where rationality might triumph. With the arrival of the mass media and the internet, however, something unexpected has occurred: instead of reasoned exchanges, our population has segregated itself into like minded and self-confirming cliques of opinion that have bred extremism and irrationality rather than rationality. Professor Fishkin has developed a remarkable response to this phenomenon, re-creating institutions of Deliberative Democracy and these he has pioneered all over the world from China to Ireland, from Rome to Denmark and widely within the United States. The principles and practice of this experiment to remake democracy are available in this program and at cdd.stanford.edu

Robert Watson -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on October 23, 2010

Robert Watson is a student of the American presidency, has published over 30 books, and judges Barack Obama to be the most hard working and transparent president in our history. He has also compiled long lists of Obama administration accomplishments that are stunning in their length. Because Rupert Murdoch and Karl Rove flood the airwaves with stories of Obama failures the actual record may come as a surprise.

Jerome Bernstein

Aired on October 17, 2009

Jerome Bernstein, Jungian psychologist, digs into the sources of fury and rage in American politics, the personality "splitting" that causes fear and anger to burst to the surface and tear asunder the social contract.