Public protest isn't dead, but those are only a few people in a huge population that suffers all sorts of indignities regularly. Our military budget is outlandish and our freedoms are regularly taken away. What have we traded these for, and why don't more people join the protests? We ask John Kampfner,author of Freedom for Sale, and Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Seven years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq. We're still there, but attention in the media has largely shifted to Afghanistan, and even Pakistan. It's a complicated story, says Nation contributing editor Christian Parenti, who joins us in studio to look back at seven years of war in Iraq, and look forward at what's next--and how war keeps us controlled at home.

Seven years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq. We're still there, but attention in the media has largely shifted to Afghanistan, and even Pakistan. Millions of people hit the streets seven years ago, across the world, to protest the coming invasion of Iraq. Tea parties (and now coffee parties) seem to be popping up everywhere, and this weekend will see a large-scale march for immigration reform. Just Thursday, Lt. Dan Choi and others marched on the White House for a repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.

A top general appears in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee and what does he say? Well, it depends what you read, doesn't it? Read the New York Times, the Hill and most of the U.S. press and the general came out (as it were) for the first time, for a review of the Pentagon's Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy. Significant, newsworthy? Absolutely. But just as newsworthy were comments the General made about U.S./Israel relations. Comments which didn't make it into those papers.

Recently, we featured the documentary American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein, a documentary about scholar and professor Norman Finkelstein's struggles with the larger intellectual community--and the U.S.'s Israel policy.

Are we, maybe, possibly, going to see an end to the endless health care debate this weekend? With recent reports saying Dennis Kucinich has decided to vote for the bill, signs are pointing to yes. But without a public option, is this really health care reform we can believe in?

Here to discuss--and make us laugh at--the fate of the health care bill, financial reform, and who the members of Congress are that we can count on to keep fighting for better reform is Stephanie Miller,host of The Stephanie Miller Show.

Kate Clinton is back with a serious call: to fill out your census form and show America that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are diverse, live all over the country, and have families.

The latest women's movement story from the New York Times Magazine has a farming theme. “The Femivore's Dilemma” by Peggy Orenstein describes how somewhere between the workforce and the housework some women are raising chickens, growing vegetables, raising chicks. tending gardens. Sounds lovely?

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of the revolutionary book Diet for a Small Planet, the co-founder of three national organizations focused on democracy, hunger, poverty and environmental issues, and a frequent Twitterer, too.