Ramping Up for War in Iran? Our guess is yes, based on the recent resignation/retirement of forty one year Naval career veteran Admiral William Fallon, top military commander in the Middle East, who repeatedly said that an attack on Iran would not happen on his watch. So what happens? Get rid of his watch. A lot can happen in the next nine months, and now with Fallon, virtually the lone voice against a pre-emptive strike against Iran out of the way, we would not be surprised to wake up to news of yet another voluntary war.
Economics: We discuss several interesting and frightening articles relating to this topic, including Aida Edemariam's "The True Cost of War", published 2/29 in
www.informationclearinghouse.info, Paul Craig Roberts' "Watching the Dollar Die", published 3/14 in
www.counterpunch.org, and AP's Devlin Barrett's "Rebate Letter to Cost $42 Million", published March 8. If you join us for this segment, we promise you will be outraged, stunned and sick, but not necessarily in that order. It's time to rise up we say.
Politics: While the democrats fight among themselves, McCain is sauntering across the world and may well walk into the White House in January. Leave it to the left to jeopardize what should be a cake-walk, considering foreclosures, gas prices, food prices, the war and all else. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair's "A Great Day for John McCain (and Maybe Nader), published March 5 in
www.counterpunch.org provides a focal point for this segment.
Law and Disorder: Must-listen segments for sure. First, we focus on Adam Nossiter's "In Alabama, a Crackdown on Pregnant Drug Users", published in Saturday's N.Y. Times, which explains how it is that eight women from Covington County, Alabama have been sent to prison for imbibing drugs while pregnant, even though the law under which they were charged does not address fetuses. Then there's WPMI-TV's "Judge claims 'diminished capacity' in judicial ethics inquiry", published by MSNBC.com on Friday, with respect to the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission's 60 separate allegations against Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose and his defense thereof.
We close the podcast with a fascinating four year old Forbes article, "Buying Justice", by Robert Lenzer Matthew Miller, found by Sam after he read John Grisham's "The Appeal", which outlines how it is that certain judges who maight be too sympathetic to the little guys are targeted to be replaced by those more sympathetic to big business through huge money provided the Chamber of Commerce. Breathtaking.
We plan to return Thursday March 20. Thanks, as always, for your support.
