Laura Flanders

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, ROBERT JOHNSON, and BARRETT SHERIDAN on whether the worst is over. And if it is, what’s to prevent another economic storm from happening again?

Van Jones — a man with a long record of community organizing around jobs, jails and the environment and the author of a best-selling book “The Green Collar Economy,” and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.

August was a dark month, so to speak, for advocates of healthcare reform—public option or single payer. Where were the activists? And what’s the message?

Marshall Ganz, a long time organizer and lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government,Maggie Mahar, the author of Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Healthcare Costs So Much, and Nina Agrawal, Director of Community Outreach for National Physicians Alliance in NY on what needs to be

In an explosive report published yesterday on the Nation website, investigative reporter JEREMY SCAHILL reveals that Blackwater founder Erik Prince has been implicated in murder, viewed himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims from the globe, and that the company smuggled weapons into Iraq. Will he face charges?

One of the proposals to pay for healthcare reform was to impose an income tax surcharge on families earning more than $350,000. Under pressure from congress, that number has now gone up to $1,000,000 for families and $500,000 for individuals. But does it stand a chance against the conservatives’ anti-tax fantasy?

In this week’s Got Docs? we take a look at ‘What’s Organic about Organic?’, a new film by Shelley Rogers. She follows around activists, scientists, and most importantly, farmers, as they look at the issues involved in ‘being organic’.

Bank of America workers have leveled damning accusations against their employer, claiming that the Bank pressures its employees to burden consumers with debt and enroll in high fee programs. The SEIU’s Stephen Lerner, Former BoA employee Chris Feener, and Max Fraad Wold on the bank’s unsavory practices.

Threats to private healthcare insurers? Single payer leading to socialism? As the House and Senate move further in on their dissection of healthcare reform, we had our own house call from Dr. Howard Dean.

MATT TAIBBI, ROBERT JOHNSON, and MICHAEL LUX on Goldman Sachs’s record profits, the company’s big bonus plans, and how backroom deals and taxpayer dollars were used to resuscitate the banking industry. Are they simply bold risk takers or the most brilliant financial coup makers in the history of capitalism?