July 27 - Who is Winning the Debt Debate?; American Plutocracy; Not Reporting Antiwar Dissent; "Salvation Boulevard"

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Part 1	Lawrence Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota joins us to assess who is winning from the political brinkmanship in Washington that has our already weak economy held hostage to a threat of economic collapse unless political demands are
Part 2	We examine further the two America’s, the 99% majority of us who are trying to get by, and the 1% of millionaires and billionaires whose privileges the Republicans are prepared to fight to the bitter end to protect, even if it means destroying the economy. Sam Pizzigati joins us to talk about whether our democracy has become a plutocracy. He is the editor of the online newsletter “Too Much” and has and article at Alternet.com, “Plutocracy; If Corporations and the Rich Paid 1960’s-level Taxes, the Debt Would Vanish.”
Part 3	We hear from John Hanrahan, the former Executive Director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. With an environmental activist just being sentenced to two years in jail for protesting global warming, we discuss John’s article on Neiman Watchdog “At Least 1,400 arrests for anti-war dissent, but who’s counting? Not The Press
Part 4	Larry Beinhart joins us. He wrote “Wag The Dog” that became a classic movie, and “Salvation Boulevard” just out in paperback with a movie version of it in the theatres. We talk about religious intolerance that leads to violence, a subject in the news and the subtext of “Salvation Boulevard”, a thriller in which a born-again Christian private eye’s faith is shaken to the core when he takes the case of a Muslin student suspected of killing his atheist professor.