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Then we examine another futile war in a failed state, Somalia, where Kenyan soldiers have captured the southern port of Kismayo that the al Shabab militia have apparently abandoned.  Robert Young Pelton, the founder and publisher of Somaliareport.com joins us to discuss the newly-assertive Kenyan military and his article at Foreign Policy “Hijacked: How the U.N. Saved the Somali Pirates from the Brink of Extinction”.

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Then finally, we discuss what we won’t be hearing in Wednesday night’s presidential debate with Mattea Kramer, a Senior Research Analyst at the National Priorities Project. She has an article at the Huffington Post and Tomdispatch, “Tough Talk for America: A Guide to the Presidential Debates You Won’t Hear.

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Then we examine the escalating tensions in the East Pacific between China, Japan and Taiwan over a territorial dispute that has been simmering for over a century. The Washington editor-at-large of The Atlantic, Steve Clemons joins us. He co-founded, with Chalmers Johnson, the Japan Policy Research Institute and we discuss how both Japan and China are raising the stakes, with Japan nationalizing the Senkaku Islands and China seeking UN support to expand its continental shelf claim to include the islands.

Then finally, we speak with a veteran political professional Steven Hill who has been working to reform America’s broken election systems for decades. He has an article at The Nation, “The Blue-State Strategy for Progressive Change” that argues the Democrats should focus on making voting easier in states where they control the governorships and legislatures, instead of whining about aggressive efforts on the part of Republicans to suppress Democratic votes in states that they control.