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| Meredith Bagby, author of "Government Shutdown is a Culture War, Not a Deficit Battle," discusses the forces behind the budget impasse. |
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| Mansour El-Kikhia, author of Libya's Qaddafi, examines the current NATO actions in Libya. |
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| McClatchy's Mexico City bureau chief, Tim Johnson, talks about protests against the Mexican government's handling of the drug war. |
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| IAN MASTERS GIVES HIS THOUGHTS ON THE DAY'S PROGRAM |
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| Flashback: Tim Johnson discusses his book, Tragedy in Crimson, How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China. |
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Andy Stern is the former president of SEIU and senior fellow at the Georgtown Policy Institute. |
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Harley Shaiken is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the issues of labor and the organization of work. |
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Jeff Farmer is the Director of Organizing for the Teamsters union. |
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Leon Fink is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and he edits the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americans. His latest book is Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry from 1812 to the Present. |
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Dave Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists |
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Dan Hirsch of Committee to Bridge the Gap |
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Victor Gilinsky, former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. |
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Mike Gray, co-writer of The China Syndrome and The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror. |
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| Scott Horton assesses the Obama administration's flip-flop on a military trial for 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. |
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| Nii Akuetteh discusses the situation in Cote d'Ivoire. |
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| Deborah Fallows, author of Dreaming in Chinese, discusses China's reaction to current events and the ways that language shapes thinking about society and politics. |
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| IAN MASTERS GIVES HIS ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S PROGRAM |
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| Samer Shehata, a professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies talks about the Arab spring. |
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C. Christine Fair, a former United Nations political officer and a professor in the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University reacts on the media-hungry pastor Terry Jones' burning of the Koran. |
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Robert Baer and Dayna Baer, authors of the new book The Company We Keep: A Husband and Wife True Life Spy Story talk about their real life experience in CIA. |
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