October 2 - A License to Kill American Citizens?; Whose Side Are We On In Yemen?; Are You A Rebel Or A Slave?

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Part 1	We begin and discuss the extra-judicial killing of two American citizens by the American government that has been largely met will widespread approval and praise. U.S. Constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein, who served as Deputy Attorney General in the Reagan Administration and is the author of "American Empire: Before The Fall”, joins us to determine the implications for our civil liberties at home now that the U.S. appears to have a license to kill its own citizens, and the blowback abroad that might aid our enemies.
Part 2	Then we discuss the fallout of the killings of the alleged leaders of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Awlaki and Khan, on Yemen and how it will impact the power struggle between the family of the 33 year long dictatorship of President Saleh and the democracy movement inspired by the Arab Spring that has the country on the brink of civil war and poised to be a failed state. With Saleh taking credit along with the U.S., Sheila Carapico, a visiting professor at American University in Cairo and author of “Civil Society in Yemen: the Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia”, joins us to question why we continue to fixate on Al Qaeda and support the Saudi peace initiative that is going nowhere, instead of siding with the democracy movement in Yemen.
Part 3	Then finally we discuss our own Arab Spring, the American Autumn, as protests continue in New York, Boston, LA and around the country against Wall Street and the shrinkage of the middle class, the impoverishment of working Americans and the growing wealth and political power of America’s oligarchs. Veteran New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer-prize winning author Chris Hedges joins us to ask whether you are a rebel or a slave.