June 26 - The Junk Bond Deal That Made Mitt; "The Great Dismantling"; A Syrian Film Maker Who Testified Before the International Criminal Court

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Then the author of “Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States”, Michael Lind, joins us in the studio. We discuss America’s economic history, in particular the current era we are in that began in the mid seventies, the “Great Dismantling” as Michael Lind calls it. An era where the household wealth and living standard of most Americans has stagnated or declined, while the wealthiest one percent have benefited from increased productivity, accruing most if not all of the additional wealth.

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Then finally a Syrian-born film maker Sam Kadi joins us in the studio. The director of a new feature film “The Citizen” which is about a Lebanese immigrant who comes to America just before 9/11, he recently testified before the International Criminal Court in The Hague about the on-going slaughter of Syrian civilians by the Assad regime. Atrocities which film makers like Sami’s murdered colleague Basel and others, risk their lives to document.