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Part 1

We begin with an analysis of how the two Republican front-runners will do in a match-up with President Obama. Allan Lichtman, the Distinguished Professor of History at American University joins us. He is the author of “The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Way of Predicting the Next President”, a system that has correctly predicted the outcomes of all U.S. presidential elections since 1984.

Part 2

Then we look into the intense religiosity of Rick Santorum that pundits argue cost him the election in Michigan and make him unelectable in the general election. Meanwhile at the state level, much of Santorum’s extreme positions on social issues are being voted into law in legislatures in Virginia, Alabama and Oklahoma and will be voted on tomorrow in the U.S. Senate. Sarah Posner, Senior Editor at Religion Dispatches and author of “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud and the Republican Crusade for Values” joins us.

Part 3

Then finally we look into the new nukes-for-food deal with North Korea with John Feffer, the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus. He was a PanTech Fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University and taught at Sungkonghoe University in Seoul, South Korea and is the author of “North Korea/South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis.”

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with an analysis of the 5 million internal emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that was hacked into by Anonymous who passed them on to Wikileaks who released them today along with a press conference in London featuring the Yes Men who were the target of an investigation by Stratfor on behalf of their client, Dow Chemical.  Mark Perry, an intelligence and foreign affairs analyst joins us to discuss the quality of this data dump.

Part 2

Then we look into the Obama Administration’s proposed overhaul of corporate taxation and how much of corporate America’s record profits are being hidden abroad in tax shelters. Scott Klinger, the Tax Policy Director of Business for Shared Prosperity joins us to discuss why corporations are sitting on piles of cash as their political hirelings beat the drum for more corporate tax cuts while the economy remains stalled because of the lack of demand by consumers who don’t have purchasing power because they are being downsized.

Part 3

Then finally we discuss the Republican primary campaign in Michigan where Mitt Romney is making appeals to restore the endangered middle class while bashing unions. Al Benchich, the former president of UAW local 909 who retired from GM after 36 years, joins us to discuss how the denigration of unions has accompanied the downsizing of the middle class and how the concessions the UAW made in the so-called “government bailout” have helped revive General Motors at the expense of providing new workers with a living wage.