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We begin with stock markets around the world tumbling today following what is being called Black Monday on the Shanghai exchange, after which as the opening bell sounded, the New York Stock Exchange plunged over 1,000 points in its biggest nosedive ever, as the DAX, the FTSE and other markets around the world also tanked. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Wallace Turbeville joins us to discuss the global contagion of falling prices as investors hedge against predictions of slower growth in China that is driving down oil prices and raising concerns about China’s economic stability.

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Then we look into the consequences for the millions of Americans with 401(k) retirement accounts that are subject to the turbulence of the stock market since for the past 30 years corporate America has shed itself of the more stable and secure defined benefit pensions obligation and rewarded Wall Street who charge higher fees while delivering lower returns with vulnerable 401 (k) plans. Scott Klinger, the Director of Revenue and Spending Policies at the Center for Effective Government who previously worked as a security analyst and portfolio manager for Walden Asset Management, joins us to discuss how American’s retirement security was gutted by moving workers into privatized 401 (k)-style accounts.

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Then finally with the recent announcement by the Los Angeles Police Department that its officers should no longer see themselves as warriors against crime but as guardians watching over communities, we speak with award-winning investigative journalist and author Joe Domanick. He is the Associate Director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and we discuss the rash of police shooting and the cries for justice from groups like “Black Lives Matter” in the context of police reform and his latest book, “Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing”.

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We begin with the announcement by former President Jimmy Carter that he has melanoma cancer that has spread to his brain and today, at the age of 90, is undergoing the first of four radiation treatments. Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and author of “Jimmy Carter”, joins us to discuss his article at CNN “Jimmy Carter’s courage in the face of cancer" and America’s 39^thpresident’s post-presidency since 1981 that has been remarkably active, making Jimmy Carter still a very influential figure in foreign relations and public life.

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Then we speak with Max Hoffman, a Political Analyst on the National Security and International Policy team at the Center for American Progress where he focuses on Turkey and the Kurdish regions. We discuss the recent agreement to allow NATO to use a Turkish airbase in exchange for giving Turkey’s President Erdogan a green-light to bomb the Kurdish PKK as well as the Islamic State. We assess whether Erdogan’s cynical power play to start wars to win elections will backfire as blowback from both the Islamic State and the PKK, who are conducting terrorist acts inside Turkey, escalates with the Turkish military suffering growing casualties.

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Then finally we look into the resignation of Greece’s Prime Minister Alex Tsipras who has called for new elections in September, and speak with James Angelos, a freelance journalist and former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal who also wrote for The New York Times. He is the author of the new book “The Full Catastrophe: Travels Amongst the New Greek Ruins”, and we discuss how Tsipras might handle the rebellion by 43 of 149 of his Syriza Party’s MP’s who oppose the bailout that Greece just got from Eurozone countries to avoid a default today on payments owed to the European Central Bank.