STEAL THIS RADIO #35
WHO IS BEHIND ELIOT SPITZER'S DOWNFALL? & FIRSTHAND REPORT FROM IRAQI VETS' "WINTER SOLDIER" HEARINGS
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Steal This Radio host Mitchel Cohen discusses the takedown of NY State Governor Eliot Spitzer, who was in Washington D.C. last February not primarily to have sex for pay, but to oppose the Bush adminstration's bailout of Wall Street, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in public funds.
Spitzer's Op-Ed in the Washington Post -- a public broadside against the Bush administration and the banks -- appeared on February 14, 2008. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html It was titled: "Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers"
Spitzer was the lone major figure in the United States standing in the way of the billionaire bailout -- "Leave no banker behind" -- and was using NY State law to block the enormous subsidies to the bankers.
They didn't cheer on Wall Street for nothing.
Mitchel reads Greg Palast's terrific account. http://www.gregpalast.com/
The 2nd part of the show is turned over to this weeks guest -- Dr. Michael Schwartz, professor ub SUNY Stony Brook Dept. of Sociology -- who reports on the Winter Soldier anti-war testimony last week in Maryland.
In extremely moving, gripping testimony, U.S. soldiers who have returned from Iraq told their stories -- at great risk to themselves -- about what they did and saw during their time in Iraq. You can see much of this testimony at http://www.IVAW.org
Michael Schwartz speaks all over the country about the Iraq war, and has written extensively on it. You can contact him directly at Michael.Schwartz(at)StonyBrook.edu
MUSIC
Magpie, "Power and Glory" (by Phil Ochs) Phil Ochs, "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" Colleen Kattau, "Royally Oilygarchy" Jolie Rickman, "Beholden, Peace Loving Nation"
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THEME
Mario Savio, speaking in Berkeley, 1964 Jefferson Airplane, "Volunteers"