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2016 Programs

2016 Program Archive

Jan 24 - Obama's Presidency; Russia; Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and The Brig

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Hear Part 1	Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise, talks about President Obama's current situation.
Hear Part 2	Barnard College Political Science professor, Kimberly Marten, author of Enforcing the Peace and Engaging the Enemy, explains factors behind bombings in Russia.
Hear Part 3	Jane Hamsher, creator of Firedoglake.com, relates the story behind her detainment at Quantico Marine Corps Base in an attempt to see Bradley Manning, detained for allegedly supplying files to WikiLeaks.

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Ambassador James Dobbins assesses calls to cut funding to US AID.

Media historian James Baughman, author of Same Time Same Station: Creating American Television and The Republic of Mass Culture provides context to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the calls for its defunding.

Robert Young Pelton, author of Come Back Alive and Licensed to Kill, discusses reports in the New York Times of a private intelligence operation.

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Hear Part 1	Susan Shirk, author of Changing Media, Changing China and China: Fragile Superpower, just returned from Washington, DC and discusses Hu Jintao's visit and broader issues of foreign and domestic policy in China.
Hear Part 2	Award-winning author of Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China and reporter for The Atlantic, James Fallows, continues the discussion of China.
Hear Part 3	Ben Manski, co-founder of MoveToAmend.org, talks about the one-year anniversary of the Citizens United.

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Hear Part 1	Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the IMF, current, MIT professor, co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, and co-author of 13 Bankers, talks about "Too Big To Fail" and the continuing power of the banks.
Hear Part 2	John Feffer, Co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his article, "Arab Democracy Now!"
Hear Part 3	Ted C. Fishman, author of China, Inc., talks about his latest book, Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World's Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Work Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation.

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Hear Part 1	Craig Aaron, Managing Director of Free Press, discusses the FCC's approval of the NBC-Comcast deal. [See Free Press's statement on the merger.]
Hear Part 2	Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, analyzes Hu Jintao's visit with Barack Obama.
Hear Part 3	Amy Wilentz, wrote about post-Duvalier Haiti in her books,The Rainy Season and Rainy Season: Haiti - Then and Now, comes to the studio to talk about her recent trip to Haiti and the situation there.

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