December 14 - An Appraisal of Whether the Climate Deal is "A Hoax"; The Blindness and Double Standard of the New Visa Waiver Act; The Author of "Raw Deal: How the Uber Economy and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers

Full Program

Part 1

We begin and go to Paris, France to speak with Ben Schreiber, the Climate and Energy Program Director at Friends of the Earth and get an appraisal of what was achieved at the recently-concluded U.N. summit on climate change, given the complaints from well-known environmental activists like Bill McKibbon and the former chief scientist at NASA, James Hansen, who has criticized the agreement as “a hoax”.

Part 2

Then we look into the Visa Waver Program Improvement Act passed 407 to 19 by the House last week, in response to the Paris attacks and the San Bernardino massacre, that bars citizens with ancestry from Syria, Iraq, Sudan or Iran from participating in the program aimed at promoting trade and tourism. Coleen Rowley, the former FBI special agent who pushed to interrogated Zacharias Moussoui the 13^th hijacker before the 9/11 attacks, joins us to discuss the willful blindness and double standard the blanket exclusion displays with countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Nigeria, that harbor and train terrorists, not designated as ineligible for the program.  

Part 3

Then finally we speak with Steven Hill, a Senior Fellow at The New America Foundation and the author of “Raw Deal: How the Uber Economy and Runaway Capitalism are Screwing American Workers”. We discuss this important new book that exposes the economic hoax of the so-called “sharing economy’ and the big lies that companies like Uber are “liberating workers” and making them “their own CEO’s”.