June 11 - Make Russia Part of the Solution in Syria; The Architect of the Republican/Romney/Obama Health Plan; Did the Wisconsin Uprising Get Rolled by Electoral Politics?

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Part 1	We begin with escalating atrocities in Syria where the army and the “shabiha” death squads are poised to exterminate the town of Haffa and have the city of Homs under siege. Henri Barkey, a former member of the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Staff on the Middle East joins us to discuss the failed mediation by Kofi Annan whose UN military observers are being denied access to the killing fields and are often shot at by Assad’s forces.
Part 2	Then we speak with Christine Ferguson, the principal author of the Republican healthcare plan that was adopted by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts and later by President Obama. She was the Commissioner of the Department of Public Health Services in Massachusetts under Governor Romney and we discuss what will happen if some or all of Obama’s Affordable Care Act is struck down by the Supreme Court.
Part 3	Then finally Andy Kroll, a staff reporter in the Washington DC bureau of “Mother Jones” joins us. He has an article in the Huffington Post and Tom Dispatch “Getting Rolled in Wisconsin: Why Electoral Politics Sold Out the Popular Uprising in the Badger State – and Why it is Not Over”. We discuss why he considers the recall detrimental to a popular uprising and why much of the occupy movement and some progressives consider electoral politics irrelevant.
	MUSIC: Bright Eyes - The Trees Get Wheeled Away; Blind Alfred Reed - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live; Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster