July 23 - The War on Whistle-blowers; The Phony Markets Versus Government Campaign; Nationalizing the Big Banks

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Part 1	With editorials in both Monday’s New York Times and Los Angeles Times warning about intensified government efforts to not just go after whistle-blowers and leakers, but journalists too, we begin with Tom Devine, the Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project. He has represented or helped over 5,000 whistle-blowers and we discuss the spy hunt for whistle-blowers in the FDA and efforts in Congress to strengthen whistle-blower protection laws that Senators Kyl and Sessions are trying to sabotage.
Part 2	Then we speak with Princeton historian Julian Zelizer about the Romney campaign’s attempts to portray President Obama as the anti-capitalist candidate and enemy of free enterprise who, according to Mitt Romney, wants Americans to be ashamed of success. The author of “Governing America: the Revival of Political History”, Julian Zelizer has an article at CNN “Campaign 2012: The Phony War of Markets Versus Government.”
Part 3	Then finally historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz joins us. A former Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, he is the co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative and the author of “America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy.” We discuss his oped in Monday’s New York Times “Wall Street is Too Big to Regulate”.
	MUSIC: Stevie Wonder - Big Brother; Fiddler on the Roof - If I Were A Rich Man; Devotchka - How This Will End; M. Ward - Big Boat