March 1 - The Great Wall Street Gas Swindle; The Filmmakers of "Shadow of Afghanistan 1959 to 2012"; "Responsibility to Protect" Syrians?

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with an entrepreneur and financial specialist Henry Schoenberger, the author of a new book “How We Got Swindled by Wall Street Godfathers, Greed and Financial Darwinism – The 30 Year War Against the American Dream”. We discuss the great swindle now going on in plain site every time you fill up at the gas pump, where in spite of a global oversupply of oil, prices are being driven up by Wall Street speculators while our Press and politicians distract us with rumors of war and lame excuses.

Part 2

Then we be joined in the studio by the filmmakers of an epic documentary feature “Shadow of Afghanistan 1959 to 2012”, which tells the modern history of Afghanistan where we have been engaged in America’s longest war and still know little about this country and its people. The filmmakers spent more than 20 years capturing the Soviet occupation, the exile of millions of refugees maimed by Soviet mines, a violent civil war, the fatal alliance of the Taliban with al-Qaeda, the invasion by United States forces and people still determined to survive to this day. Producer/ Directors Jim Burroughs and Suzanne Bauman join us.

Part 3

Then finally we discuss what more is at stake in Syria other than the fate of a dictator and the lives of its people trying to overthrow the Assad regime. And that is the fate of “Responsibility to Protect” or R2P at the United Nations where, under its Charter’s state sovereignty provision, nothing can be done to stop the Syrian government from killing its people. A former policy analyst in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs at the Department of State, Bennett Ramberg joins us. He has an article at Politico “The World Must Stop Syrian Slaughter”.