February 26 - Dying For Afghans Who Hate Us; Senator Feingold On "While America Sleeps"; Hollywood and The World Stage

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with an update on rioting in Afghanistan following the burning of Korans at a U.S. base and look into the selective nature of the outrage, since the same rioters routinely sack Shiite mosques and burn Korans, along with people. Chris Fair, a former United Nations political officer in Kabul, Afghanistan joins us to analyze why the people whose nation we are trying to build, appear to hate us and want us out of their country.

Part 2

Then Senator Russ Feingold joins us. He is the author of a new book, “While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era”. The only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act, we discuss how much we have waged the “war on terror” on ourselves and our own values, and how we are alienating the Islamic world by demonizing Muslims who want the freedoms we have and want to be free of the dictatorships that we have supported.

Part 3

Then finally with tonight’s Academy Awards broadcast expected to reach a record global audience, cultural critic and media expert and Chair of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Toby Miller joins us. We discuss the global influence of Hollywood movies in an era when piracy is diminishing box office returns and big budget special effects-laden comic book blockbusters have driven lower budget higher brow movies towards extinction.