Daily Briefing - Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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Robert Scheer is a journalist, author and columnist, a senior lecturer at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communications and is Editor-in-Chief Truthdig which he also founded. His books include The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq, Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush, The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America, and his latest, The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street.

Jamie Court is president of Consumer Watchdog. He was an early pioneer of the HMO patients' rights movement in America, and has led successful corporate and political campaigns to reform HMOs, insurers, banks, oil companies, drug makers, and utilities. He is the author of Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom And What You Can Do About It and co-author of Making A Killing: HMOs and the Threat To Your Health. His latest book is, The Progressive's Guide To Raising Hell: How To Win Grassroots Campaigns, Pass Ballot Box Laws And Get The Change You Voted For.