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We begin and go to Moscow to speak with the independent defense analyst Dr. Pavel Felgenhauer about the growing possibility that Putin will order his army that is massing on the border with Ukraine, to invade Eastern Ukraine under the guise of liberating Russian-speaking Ukrainians from a Western-backed government of Nazis and anti-Semites who are oppressing pro-Russian Ukrainians. We will also look into the possibility Putin will move to annex the Russian-speaking separatist Transdniestria region of Moldova and his ominous warning to Russians opposed to him, who Putin labeled in a speech to the Russian parliament as, “a fifth column” and a “disparate bunch of national traitors”.

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Then we speak with Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University who shared the Nobel Prize with others on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We will discuss his new article at Scientific American “Earth Will Cross the Climate Danger Threshold by 2036” and the recent Senate all-nighter on Climate Change, the White House’s new website on Climate Change, and Hillary Clinton’s remarks to students at Arizona State University that she hopes there will be a mass movement that demands political change to address global warming.

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Then finally we speak with the scientist who predicted the recent “Big Bang” breakthrough in 1983 that is now confirmed with new evidence of how the universe underwent rapid expansion a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Andrei Linde, a Professor of Physics at Stanford University, whose “chaotic inflation” theory has been verified by a team of scientists at the South Pole, joins us to discuss the significance of this discovery that has rocked the world of science, heralding in a “whole new era” of physics.

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We begin and go to Kyiv, Ukraine and speak with Taras Kuzio, a leading international expert on contemporary Ukraine and post-communist politics at the Center for Political and Regional Studies in the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. The author of “Commissars into Oligarchs: A Contemporary History of Ukraine”, he joins us to discuss the confiscation of Ukrainian businesses in Crimea by the right wing thugs and gangsters Putin has installed in the new government and the continuing activities of so-called “political tourists” from Russia sent into Eastern Ukraine to provoke incidents that might be used to justify a Russian invasion.

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Then we speak with Sally Kane, the President and CEO of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters about the latest turmoil at the Pacifica Radio network, whose headquarters in Berkeley, California are being occupied by the recently-fired Executive Director of Pacifica, Summer Reese, who broke into the Pacifica Foundation’s office which she is occupying and defiantly refusing to leave. We discuss some of the history of the recent turmoil at Pacifica outlined in a new article at the LA Weekly and the role that Pacifica plays in the broader public and community radio spectrum that is important for media diversity in the country, a role which may be in jeopardy if the network’s viability and listenership can not be revived.

Part 3

Then finally Jennifer Duffy, a Senior Editor for The Cook Political Report, who is responsible for U.S. Senate and Governor’s races, joins us to discuss why she moved three Democratic incumbents from the “leaning Democrat” column to the “tossup” column that could spell more bad news for the Democrats, already facing an uphill battle to retain control of the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections.