July 10 - Texas Republicans Escalate Their War on Women; The Growing Hunger Strikes in California's Prisons; The 2013 Failed States Index

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Part 1	We begin with the continuing drama in the Texas legislature where, following a dramatic filibuster by Senator Wendy Davis, the Republicans are now pushing through their restrictive abortion bill again and this time they forcibly removed a citizen who was testifying, Sarah Slamen, who joins us to discuss what she was about to say before State Troopers carried her out of the Texas Senate chamber.
Part 2	Then we examine the growing hunger strike in California’s 33 prisons which are under a federal court order to reduce their overcrowded population by 10,000 which Governor Brown is resisting as he extends a three year deal with a private prison contractor Correctional Corporation of America, to house 8,200 inmates out of state. Paige St. John, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter with the Los Angeles joins us to discuss the 30,000 prisoners now on a hunger strike that coincides with Ramadan, and the standoff between the governor and the Federal Courts over California’s overcrowded prisons.
Part 3	Finally, Patricia Taft, the Director of the Transnational Threats Program at the Fund For Peace joins us to discuss their new report just released, the 2013 Failed States Index that ranks the world’s 178 states from the worst like Somalia, with a “Very High Alert” status; to Chad, Yemen, Afghanistan, Haiti, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Cote d’Ivoire, Pakistan, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Nigeria with a “High Alert” status; all the way on to the Scandinavian countries that receive an extremely low instability rating.