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Trumix.com listings available of What the Media Doesn\'t Tell You Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. The Two Income Trap In this installment of Books of Our Time, host Lawrence R. Velvel discusses with author Elizabeth Warren her new book "The Two Income Trap."  The book is a revealing look at how overall wages have decreased for family earners despite women entering the workforce.  Warren is a professor of law at Harvard University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discrimination in the Ivy Leagues Dean Lawrence R. Velvel sits down with author Dan Oren to discuss his  book "Joining the Club."  The book details the extensive religiously based discrimination that took place at Yale University and other Ivy League institutions throughout the 21st century. Produced by the Massachusetts School of Law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Private Lives and Public Consquences P. II William Chafe from Duke University sits down with Dean Lawrence R. Velvel from the Massachsuetts School of Law to discuss Chafe's new book "PRIVATE LIVES AND PUBLIC CONSQUENCES: PERSONALITY AND POLITICS IN MODERN AMERICA."  This is the second part of their two hour discussion on BOOKS OF OUR TIME. They discuss the personal lives of FDR, MLK, JFK and many more prominent public figures of the 20th century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry Velvel interviews Charlie Savage on "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency" part 1/2 Listen in during this installment of Books of Our Time as Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Charlie Savage.  Savage is a national reporter for the Boston Globe and recently won a Pulitzer prize for his articles about signing statements that were used by George W. Bush to negate legislation and extend presidential power.   In this interview Savage will be discussing his new work, âTake Over â The Return of the Imperial Presidency in This inversion of American Democracyâ. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New York Times and the War on Terror In this installment of "What the Media Doesn't Tell You" host Larry Velvel discusses The New York Time and their coverage of the wire tapping scandal with Sherwood Ross and David Walsh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overthrow, part 2 of 2 Overthrow, part 2 of 2 In this second of two parts, What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel talks with author Stephen Kinzer about his book, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.  They discuss why America has entered upon so many overthrows of governments, why this is largely ignored by the media and common history books and how it has impacted the world of today and the rold of American in that world. The Massachusetts School of Law, located in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overthrow, part 1 of 2 Overthrow, part 1 of 2 What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel talks with author Stephen Kinzer about his book, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.  They discuss why America has entered upon so many overthrows of governments, why this is largely ignored by the media and common history books and how it has impacted the world of today and the rold of American in that world. The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Terrorists Want What Terrorists Want What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel talks with author Louise Richardson about her book, What Terrorists Want.  They cover terrorism from the first records of such over 2000 years ago to the present, with an emphasis on understanding the mental processes that drive these terrorists.  Can an effective antiterrorism policy be crafted without such an understanding?  Richardson believes not, and presents her case. The Massachusetts School of Law ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Covering, the Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights Covering, the Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, and author Kenji Yoshino discuss the phenomenon of people putting on false faces in public in order to project conformity and "getting along."  The book and author suggest that the intense pressure we experience daily to conform and not stand out in terms of either opinion nor personal characteristics   amounts to an assault on our civil rights, and one that is diffi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will Corporations Destroy American Democracy? Will Corporations Destroy American Democracy? What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, and author Lee Drutman discuss the history and abuses of corporations in America.  As useful as they can be, have corporations imposed their will on the American Democratic system?  How did it become that corporations are considered legal persons with Constitutional rights.  Is this healthy? Visit the homepage for What the Media Doesn't Tell You at www.mslawradio.com.   ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joining the Club Joining the Club What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, and author Dr. Dan Oren, Yale medical professor  discuss religious discrimination at Yale and other Ivy League schools in the 20th century.  In this time of presidential politics when religion is creeping into campaign issues more and more, this interview illuminates some long held prejudices and attitudes in many institutions of higher learning, and perhaps in the governmental and corporate arenas where graduate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Two Income Trap The Two Income Trap What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, and author and Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren discuss the plight of so many middle income Americans who now depend upon two incomes to provide what one could 40 years ago.  How did two incomes go from being thought of as a boon to the family to being a detriment?  Ias the middle class truly suffering or are they just too ready to spend on unnecessary items? The Massachusetts School of Law, locat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are Top government Officials War Criminals? Are top Government Officials War Criminals?Interview with Michael Ratner What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, and Michael Ratner, head of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, discuss issues surrounding the culpability of attorneys who render opinions that allow government officials to conduct apparently illegal acts.  They discuss several instances when the current administration has been advised by its own lawyers that such things as torture may not be alwa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Takeover, part 2 of 2 Takeover, part 2 of 2 In this second of two parts, What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Boston Globe's Pulitzer winning reporter, Charlie Savage, about his new book, Takeover -- The return of the imperial presidency and the subversion of American democracy.  Savage details the rise of a stronger and more unitary presidency from the time of Harry Truman to the present.  He discusses the Signing Statements for which his work earned him a Pulitzer, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Takeover, part 1 of 2 Takeover, part 1 of 2 In this first of two parts, What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Boston Globe's Pulitzer winning reporter, Charlie Savage, about his new book, Takeover -- The return of the imperial presidency and the subversion of American democracy.  Savage details the rise of a stronger and more unitary presidency from the time of Harry Truman to the present.  He discusses the Signing Statements for which his work earned him a Pulitzer, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Less Safe, Less Free, part 2 of 2 Less Safe, Less Free, part 2 of 2 In this second of two parts, What the Media Doesn't Tell you host Lawrence Velvel interviews author and professor James Lobel, whose new co-authored book, Less Safe, Less Free, discusses the effects of the "war on terror," by the Bush administration and how such moves throughout our nation's history have damaged civil liberties and freedoms.  Lobel believes that a "preventive paradigm" has been adopted that strikes first and examine ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Less Safe, Less Free Less Safe, Less Free, part 1 of 2 In this first of two parts, What the Media Doesn't Tell you host Lawrence Velvel interviews author and professor James Lobel, whose new co-authored book, Less Safe, Less Free, discusses the effects of the "war on terror," by the Bush administration and how such moves throughout our nation's history have damaged civil liberties and freedoms.  Lobel believes that a "preventive paradigm" has been adopted that strikes first and examines ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Higher Education, the lower and middle class problem 2 of 2 Higher Education, the lower and middle class problem 2 of 2 What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, continues his discussion with Colleen O'Brien of the Pell institute, in Washington.  The discussion focuses on the difficulties lower and middle income students have in college with not just financing the education, but dealing with the seeming culture shock of dealing with many who are far more affluent.  O'Brien believes that colleges, especially top tier ones, need to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Age of Betrayal Age of Betrayal What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, interviews author Jack Beatty about his book, Age of Betrayal.  Beatty's book centers on what was called the "Gilded Age," the latter decades of the 19th century in America.  It was a time of both unparalleled opportunity and heinous discrimination and maltreatment of many.  The discussion not only centers on this age, but on how it parallels our own time and how similarities in corporate manipulati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Kall discusses opednews with Larry Velvel Interview with Rob Kall of opednews.com What the Media Doesn\\\'t Tell You host, Larry Velvel, interviews Rob Kall, founder and owner of opednews.com, a web site that aggregates editorial and news material, including considerable original content.  The website primarily focuses on political issues. The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Problems with Educational Opportunities Problems with Educational Opportunities What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, interviews Colleen O'Brien, head of The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education.  The discussion centers around the lack of media portrayal of difficulties middle and lower economic class individuals have in gaining entrance to, adjusting to and financing higher education.  They discuss why the media seems to focus only on the "elite" educational institutio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are We Rome? Are We Rome? What the Media Doesn't Tell you host Lawrence R. Velvel of the Massachusetts School of Law interviews Cullen Murphy, editor at large for Vanity Fair magazine, about his new book Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America. Murphy discusses how the Roman Empire and the United States are similar and how they are different. Murphy says that both societies demonstrate great arrogance. The Romans believed that they would win any war they engaged in. They believed th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More on the Libby Commutation More on the Libby Commutation In this installment of What The Media Doesn't Tell You Dean Lawrence R. Velvel of MSL discusses Scooter Libby's trial conviction, and commutation with Professors Constance Rudnick and Andrew Starkis, both of the Massachusetts School of Law. During opening statements, Libby's attorney stated that Vice President Cheney would testify, yet he never did. What did Libby know about Valerie Plame that caused him to lie to the grand jury? Did Libby lie to the grand jury ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Libby Commutation--Who Knew What? The Libby Commutation--Who Knew What In this edition of What the Media doesn't Tell You, Larry Velvel and guest David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation magazine, discuss the Libby trial and who knew what and when.  They focus on the media's role and whether or not there appears to have been a presumption of some kind of presidential commutation or pardon on the part of the defense before or during the trial proceedings. The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NY Times Issues and Why Can't we get Good Politicians In this edition of What the Media doesn't Tell You, Larry Velvel hosts two shorter programs that were extensions of two of his best shows.  First, we hear more discussion with David Walsh and Sherwood Ross on the subject of the New York Times and their hesitation to publish regarding the domestic spying by the NSA just prior to the 2004 presidential election. Second, Larry continues the discussion with David Michael Green and Alan Erhenhaldt about why we seem to have difficulty getting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why did George Bush Win in 2000? Attorney Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional lawyer who is now ablogger on politics and the media for Salon.com, was interviewed by DeanLawrence R. Velvel on how George Bush became the Republican candidate in2000.  Greenwald has just written a book, to be published on Tuesday, June26th, on the disaster of George Bushâs presidency.  The interview withVelvel was for the radio show called What The Media Doesnât Tell You, whichdiscusses subjects the mainstream does not present ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website War Funding War Funding In this edition of What the Media Doesn't Tell you, host Larry Velvel discusses with long-time journalist Sherwood Ross and peace activist David Swanson issues surrounding the reluctance of Congress to cut off funding for the Iraq war.  Would such a move place our troops in jeopardy?  Does the media investigate this issue and if not, why not?  Has such a move ever been executed before now? The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gasoline Gasoline In this program of What the Media Doesn't Tell You, Larry Velvel and his guest, Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen discuss the real causes for the price we pay for gasoline at the pump.  How has the market become separated from the old formula of supply and demand?  Why doesn't the media cover the real reasons for the inflated price of gasoline?  How does futures trading affect the present price? The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why do We Have Corrupt Politicians? Why do We Have Corrupt Politicians? In this program, MSL dean Larry Velvel and guests, professor David M. Green and Alan Ehrenhalt, editor of Governing magazine, discuss why so many politicians seem to be corrupt and why the media does a minimal job of covering this phenomenon The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Iran have a right to... In this broadcast of What the Media Doesn't Tell you, host Larry Velvel and writer Randy Shaw discuss the issue of whether Iran has a right to be upset about what is happening in their neighboring nation, Iraq.  Do they have valid vested interests in the political outcome in Iraq?  Can any possible justification be given for their potential development of nuclear weaponry?  Why does the mass media either ignore Iran or assume that the administration's pronouncements are corre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9/11, were aircraft attacks foreseeable? In this broadcast of What the Media Doesn't Tell you, host Larry Velvel and veteran journalist Sherman Ross discuss whether the air attack of 9/11 was, in any way, foreseeable.  There were pronouncements by the administration that it was totally unforeseeable, was this true?  Had aircraft ever been used as weapons before, had any ever struck tall buildings?  Should the press have contradicted the official White House information? The Massachusetts School of Law, located in An ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website