March 16, 2008

Broadcast Date: 
Mar 16 2008

Reflections on how to stop the Iraq War, five years in; a look at how the Hamas/Israeli conflict is playing out regionally; and State Senator Eric Schneiderman on what progressives need to do to make Democrats accountable

Episode segments
  • The Iraq War, five years in
    Iraq War, National Politics
    Leslie Cagan is the national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Leslie Cagan reports on the Winter Soldier Hearings in Washington, DC, at which Iraq War vets talk about the "collateral damage" being inflicted by the United States, plus a roundup of fifth anniversary anti-war protests

  • Hamas: a regional view
    International Politics, Middle East
    Joel Beinin is a professor of history at Stanford University and is the author, most recently, of Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press); he is currently on leave from Stanford while he serves as Director of Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    An analysis of how the conflict between Israel and Hamas is playing in Egypt and throughout the Middle East

  • How to reward and punish Democrats
    National Politics, Electoral
    Eric Schneiderman is a state senator representing parts of Manhattan and the Bronx; he is the author of a recent essay in The Nation, "Transforming the Liberal Checklist"
    Esther Kaplan

    Senator Eric Schneiderman offers a critique of "checklist" politics and challenges progressive advocacy groups to demand more of their elected officials