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View the full archive of Truthdig Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype Is the war in Afghanistan worth the sacrifice of even one American life? Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter says, “No! ... We are allowing the battle in Afghanistan to be defined by a domestic American political imperative. There is no urgency in Afghanistan, there is urgency in Washington, D.C.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Have All the Ramparts Gone? Peter Richardson’s new book about the groundbreaking Ramparts Magazine says the rag changed America. Truthdig arts and culture editor Kasia Anderson asks the author and former Ramparts Editor Robert Scheer why its impact isn’t better remembered, and what will take its place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Editors’ Round Table: Moore, Green Phone, Czar Trouble Truthdig editors Robert Scheer, Peter Scheer and Kasia Anderson give their takes on the week’s news, a new eco-phone and Michael Moore’s manifesto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Torture Memos Georgetown University law professor David Cole’s new book, “The Torture Memos,” investigates how key members of the U.S. Office of Legal Counsel rewrote the law to make torture legal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism Chris Hedges talks about the illusion of health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, and what he calls the “new racism” in the age of Obama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism Chris Hedges talks about the illusion of health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, and what he calls the “new racism” in the age of Obama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Did All These Marchers Come From? Josh Silver from FreePress.net joined us to discuss the Glenn Beck phenomenon, Obama’s health care plan, and our country’s dependence on for-profit media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Really a Lifeline for Homeowners? John Dunbar of the Center for Public Integrity has analyzed the Obama administration’s home loan modification program, which aims to keep troubled borrowers in their homes, and finds it “highly problematic.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism Chris Hedges talks about the illusion of health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, and what he calls the “new racism” in the age of Obama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thom Hartmann on ‘Threshold’ The Truthdig panel talks to radio host and author Thom Hartmann about his new book, “Threshold,” the need for serious financial regulation and his trip to Darfur. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Gates Arrest, Plus ‘Hurt Locker’ Review This week the Truthdig panel talks about the racial politics behind the arrest of high-profile Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who himself said, “I was cast by him [the policeman] in a narrative and he didn’t know how to get out of it.” Also, pop culture critic Sheerly Avni gives a big thumbs up to a new and telling film about the Iraq war, “The Hurt Locker.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dennis vs. Goliath Rep. Dennis Kucinich talks about winning a big victory for health care reform, grilling Hank Paulson over the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger, and the battle against crony capitalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Internet as a Media-Altering Force and the Facebook Addiction We talk with UC Santa Cruz history professor Matthew Lassar about the FCC, how Internet has altered the media, and why college kids can’t stop checking their Facebook accounts during classroom lectures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Illuminating the Connection Between Money and Politics In this episode, we talk with Maplight.org’s executive director, Dan Newman. Maplight, which lobbies for greater transparency in government, is a nonprofit group dedicated to illuminating the connection between money and politics. Its data reveals which politicians are on the take and the source of questionable political contributions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Dramatic Rethinking of Geographic Boundaries and Economic Responsibility Paul Starobin, author of the new book “After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age,” says a dramatic rethinking of geographic boundaries and economic responsibility would greatly improve the U.S. and states like California. Starobin suggests that America’s broke, ill-governed and way-too-big nationlike state, California, might be saved, truly saved, not by an emergency federal bailout, but by a merciful carve-up into three republics that would rely on their own ingenuity in mak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breadline USA Sasha Abramsky discusses his new solution-oriented book about the millions of Americans who work 40 hours a week and still go hungry, “these forgotten communities and these forgotten families who are doing everything they’ve been told they need to do to survive and ... they’re still being pushed backward by economic forces that they really don’t control.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall This week on the podcast: Sheerly Avni and Omar Turcios from The Beat Within, a magazine written by and for the troubled kids in juvenile prisons. Such facilities could be “recruiting grounds for crime fighting,” argues Avni, and that’s in our self-interest. “If you want to stop crime—very simple. You look at a bunch of 5-year-old kids in the ghetto. Ask yourself: ‘Do I want them to be criminals or not in 10 years? What’s that going to do to the value of my home?’ ” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.S. Citizens Detained and Deported by Immigration In its zeal to crack down on illegal immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining and deporting American citizens. The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Andrew Becker talks about his investigation into this disturbing trend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Business of War Pentagon whistle-blower Karen Kwiatowski returns to the Truthdig podcast to take stock of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which she says are effectively “a government jobs program for the military and military contractors.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amy Goodman on ‘Standing Up to the Madness’ The “Democracy Now!” host talks about her book, the state of activism and why “the media are the most powerful corporations on Earth—more powerful than any bomb, more powerful than any missile.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website