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2016 Program Archive
| Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, chair of the Political Science Department at University of New England and author of The Making of Modern Libya, assesses the situation in Libya |
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Former Deputy Director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research's Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia, Wayne White, gives his analysis of the situation in Libya. |
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Former six-term mayor of Madison (and current mayoral candidate), Paul Soglin, discusses the stand-off in Wisconsin's capital. |
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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson - Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff accuses VP Cheney of cooking intelligence and deceiving Powell into making the case before the UN for the Iraq war. |
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Will Bunch author of "The Backlash: Right-wing Radicals, Hi-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama" on the Wisconsin demonstrations. |
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Joseph Nye author of "The Future of Power" on the role of the Internet in global revolutions and how the U.S. must combine hard power and soft power into smart power. |
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Former CIA agent and Middle East expert Robert Baer, author of The Devil We Know and The Company We Keep, analyzes changes in the Middle East and intelligence assessments of those shifts. |
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University of Texas Economist James K. Galbraith puts President Obama's budget proposal into perspective. |
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Alternet.org's Washington Bureau Chief Adele Stan gives her analysis of the CPAC convention and developments in the consersvative movement. |
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