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We begin with a discussion about the war on the poor, declared this week at a “Fiscal Summit” in New York presided over by a billionaire deficit hawk who is championing the Ryan budget and promoting the belief that our fiscal woes are the result of too much spending on programs that help the middle class and the poor, and that these programs should be cut to reduce the deficit. Gary Rivlin, the co-director with Barbara Ehrenreich of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of “Broke USA”, joins us.

 

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 We now look into the just-released report by the U.S. Census Bureau that finds white births are a minority in America with children from racial and ethnic minorities for the first time now accounting for more than half of the births in the U.S. Mark Mather, a demographer with the Population Reference Bureau joins us to discuss the divide between the older white population with the votes, money and power, and a growing young population that is foreign to them.
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 Finally Toby Miller joins us in the studio. He is one of the world’s leading analysts of popular culture, media, and their connection to the politics of everyday life. His latest book is “Greening the Media” and we will discuss the dirty secrets that hide inside our favorite electronic devices, debunking the myth that information and communication technologies are clean and ecologically benign, while arguing for ways to make the media greener. Toby Miller
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May 16 - The Republicrat Stranglehold on Democratic Choice; Cutting Our Nukes Down to 900; Still Trying to Water Down Regulations on Wall Street

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 We begin and discuss the collapse of an attempt by AmericansElect to open up this year’s presidential race with an online-selection of candidates. Joining us is the former mayor of Salt Lake City, Rocky Anderson, a Presidential candidate on the Justice Party ticket who is fighting for ballot access against the Republicrat stranglehold on America’s democracy that makes a mockery of our ideology of free market choice. rocky anderson

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Then we look into a new study released today by Global Zero, an international non-partisan group of 300 world leaders dedicated to eliminating nuclear weapons. Bruce Blair who directed the study joins us to discuss the findings of a panel led by General Cartwright, the former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the former commander of U.S. nuclear forces, who is now calling for deep cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

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 Then as evidence of recklessness on Wall Street mounts, we examine efforts on the part of the Republicans on the Agriculture Committee who have oversight over derivative trading, to water down regulations even further. Bartlett Naylor, the former chief of investigations for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee joins us to discuss how Wall Street lobbyists write the legislation on these complex and esoteric financial instruments to allow unregulated overseas activities that often end up with the taxpayer holding the bag. bartlett naylor
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April 15 - California Crackup; Most Americans Favor Defense Cuts; The Latest Excess On Wall Street

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 We begin with the crisis in California where the governor faces a budget shortfall twice as big as projected due to declining tax revenues. Mark Paul, a former deputy treasurer of the State of California and author of “California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How to Fix it” joins us to discuss why the legislature can’t raise taxes and further deep cuts are being made at the expense of the poor. mark paul

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Then we examine the disconnect between the American public, a majority of whom want to cut the military budget, and the Republican Congress who refuse to cut it even though they signed off to automatic cuts. Steven Kull, a political psychologist and the Director of the Program for Public Consultation and a Senior Researcher at the Center for International Security Studies joins us. He has done a survey that finds three quarters of the respondents favor cutting defense as a way to reduce the deficit, including two thirds of Republicans as well as nine out of ten Democrats.

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Then finally we speak with Roger Lowenstein, the author of “The End of Wall Street”. He is a veteran financial journalist who wrote for the Wall Street Journal for more than a decade and now writes for the New York Times and Smart Money. We will discuss the latest excess on Wall Street and how the Dodd-Frank reforms meant to rein in derivative trading have been watered down since the crash of 2008.

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May 14 0 Leveling The Electoral Playing Field; The Indignants Make A Stand; Spain's Missing Historical Memory

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We begin with the other face of Facebook and look into how the co-founder of the social network is avoiding 600 million in taxes. Ilyse Hogue, former Senior Advisor to Media Matters and Director of Political Advocacy and Communication at MoveOn.org joins us to discuss this and how the 99% can level the electoral playing field as the 1% pour in millions to buy the 2012 elections.

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Then we look into increasing political tensions in Spain where youth unemployment is over 50% and mass demonstrations are expected to culminate tomorrow on the one year anniversary of the founding of the “Indignants” movement. Anthony Geist, a professor at the University of Washington who specializes in contemporary literature and culture of Spain joins us to discuss the political mood in a country that might soon join Greece as the next insolvent country in the Eurozone.

 

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Then we discuss the economic and political tensions in Spain further with Dr. Louisa-Elena Delgado, a professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Illinois-Urbana. We look into the Spanish national identity that has not been reconciled following the murderous reign of the Franco dictatorship, and the role of the disgraced King and the current conservative government who are imposing austerity while denying historical memory.

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May 13 - The "Dead Wrong" Wall Street Banker and Dodd-Frank; Will the Eurozone Unravel Before the Elections?; An African-American Theologian on Same-Sex Marriage and the Black Church

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 We begin with the latest scandal on Wall Street, the two to three billion dollar bad bet that JP Morgan Chase made which has forced the CEO Jamie Dimon to admit his previous dismissal of concerns about the bank’s trading practices were “dead wrong”.  Sue Craig, who covered JP Morgan Chase and the other big Wall Street banks for the Wall Street Journal and is now with the New York Times, joins us. susanne craig

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Then, with Greece in a political crisis and unable to form a government, we examine the possibility of a Greek default and exit from the Euro with Dimitri Papadimitriou, the President of the Levy Economics Institute. We  discuss the growing likelihood of a cascading crisis in the Eurozone with Greece teetering and increasing doubts about the solvency of Spanish banks likely to have an impact on the U.S. elections if the European Central Bank can’t kick the can down the road before November.

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Then finally we speak with Dr. Obery Hendricks, a visiting Scholar in Religion and African American Studies at Columbia University and the author of a new book  “The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church and the Body Politic”. We discuss the impact of President Obama’s recent acceptance of same-sex marriage in the Black Church and the broader African-American community.

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