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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
Please visit and bookmark the new site. You can search show archives here.
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| We begin with a discussion of the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Libyan dictator Gadaffi, his son, Saif al-Islam, and his Intelligence Chief, Abdullah al-Sanuss. David Scheffer, who was the first U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, joins us to talk about how this arrest warrant might affect the apparent stalemate in Libya |
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Then we look at the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on campaign finance with Jessica Levinson, who was part of the losing side of the case that the thin conservative majority struck down, invalidating an Arizona law that provided for qualified candidates to get public funds to match excessive spending by wealthy opponents. |
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Then we look at the broader corporate assault on citizen’s rights and the consumer’s ability to sue, with Susan Saladoff, the maker of a new HBO documentary feature film Hot Coffee. She joins us to talk about her film that profiles the incremental erosion of individual rights that the American people are giving away to corporate power in the name of tort reform. |
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Then, finally, we look into the psychology of political message management with Drew Westen, the author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in deciding the Fate of the Nation. He argues that the Democrats are about to make a catastrophic mistake if they join the Republicans and buy into the deficit hoax and the war on seniors. |
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