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We begin and go to Paris, France to speak with Ben Schreiber, the Climate and Energy Program Director at Friends of the Earth and get an appraisal of what was achieved at the recently-concluded U.N. summit on climate change, given the complaints from well-known environmental activists like Bill McKibbon and the former chief scientist at NASA, James Hansen, who has criticized the agreement as “a hoax”.

Part 2

Then we look into the Visa Waver Program Improvement Act passed 407 to 19 by the House last week, in response to the Paris attacks and the San Bernardino massacre, that bars citizens with ancestry from Syria, Iraq, Sudan or Iran from participating in the program aimed at promoting trade and tourism. Coleen Rowley, the former FBI special agent who pushed to interrogated Zacharias Moussoui the 13^th hijacker before the 9/11 attacks, joins us to discuss the willful blindness and double standard the blanket exclusion displays with countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Nigeria, that harbor and train terrorists, not designated as ineligible for the program.  

Part 3

Then finally we speak with Steven Hill, a Senior Fellow at The New America Foundation and the author of “Raw Deal: How the Uber Economy and Runaway Capitalism are Screwing American Workers”. We discuss this important new book that exposes the economic hoax of the so-called “sharing economy’ and the big lies that companies like Uber are “liberating workers” and making them “their own CEO’s”.

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with an analysis of the groups providing the so-called “research” behind Donald Trump’s policy pronouncements and the donors that fund them and speak with Ken Gude the Director of the International Justice and Security Program at the Center for American Progress. He joins us to discuss the network of right wing mega-donors behind groups like Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy that provides Donald Trump with conspiracy theories dressed up in bogus statistics on how Muslims want to impose Sharia Law on America and that violence against Americans in the U.S. is justified as part of the global jihad.

Part 2

Then, as Donald Trump’s Islamophobia and immigrant-bashing gains more and more traction among Republican primary voters, we discuss how ideas that used to be on the outer fringes of Republican discourse have now entered the GOP mainstream. Timothy McCarthy, a lecturer on History, Literature and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of “The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition” and “Protest Nation: Words that Inspired a Century of American Radicalism” joins us. We discuss populist discontent on the left and right and assess how deep is the well of anger, hate and paranoia that Donald Trump is tapping into.

Part 3

Then finally Ondi Timoner, a documentary filmmaker whose latest feature documentary is “BRAND: A Second Coming”, joins us in studio. She has captured and created a fascinating, funny and moving portrait of the comedian Russell Brand as he makes a journey from drug addiction to celebrity to political activism in a search for meaning and truth in his own life and in a world in need of a revolution against inequality and injustice, a revolution that Brand is trying to ignite but not necessarily lead.