** "What we need, people say, is a third party. Well I'll be happy with a second one right now, because we only got one - a war party..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on casinos, diversity and genocide, dungeons and porridge - and the US violating itself legally - kidnapping President Maduro in violation of their Venezuela 1922 extradition treaty...

** "These are people who Wall Street basically left in the dust, who were the working class, who were the poor..."

John Magaro Talks Omaha, The Big Short, The Agency, Orange Is The New Black. And why the actor takes it personally regarding his latest film Omaha, as a widowed father living with his children in their car following an eviction, in an economically destroyed Middle America. And ironically the opposite of his role in The Big Short, as a real life Wall Street housing market monster.

While regarding the bleak world of Omaha, "this was a world that I knew very well, it's a world that I came from. I grew up in the Rust Belt in Cleveland - I grew up at a time when the auto industry and neighbors of mine were out of work. It was kind of like stepping into my childhood, than anything else..."

** "This is one bet you don't need insider trading for - in our creepy billionaires department..."

In Case You Missed It - This week's most absurd and head shaking news...And what it all has to do with smart glasses, David Bowie and voyeurism; astrology, red state spying and women's reproductive rights - and the Canadian department of forest tidiness...

"In CIA lingo, home is where the coup is..."

Lies, More Lies... Nowhere Man - The American Versus The Global Action Hero On Screen: Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on 'the US as righteous victim of one country after another, always justified by some motif in imperialist revenge movies.' Referencing Stallone, Eastwood, Chuck Norris, race - and 'two series highlighting oligarchic and paternal differences...'

Plus...ICE, insanity and our current political reality...