April 6, 2008

Broadcast Date: 
Apr 6 2008

Is Iran winning the Iraq war? Plus, a new book on the "prosperity gospel" and a documentary, Stalags, explores Nazi-themed pornography popular in Israel in the 1960s.

Episode segments
  • Is Iran winning the Iraq war?
    Foreign Policy, Iraq War, National Politics, International Politics, Middle East
    Robert Dreyfuss, contributing editor at The Nation and author of The Devil's Game:How the U.S. Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.  Dreyfuss recently authored several articles on the role of Iran in Iraq, including Is Iran Winning the Iraq War.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The Iran-brokered cease fire in Basra puts into the open the privotal role of Iran in the Iraq war.  Robert Dreyfuss maps out the key Shia factions in Iraq and their ties to Iran.

  • God's Profits
    National Politics, Christian Right
    Sarah Posner, author of God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Investigative journalist Sarah Posner goes beyond the familiar critiques of the Christian right to look at a growing element within it--the prosperity movement and why it's so attractive to the Republican Party.

  • Stalags
    Holocaust, Film, Arts & Culture
    Ari Libsker, director of Stalags.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The documentary film, Stalags, explores a distinctly Israeli genre of paperback Nazi-themed pornographic pocketbooks, that were enormously popular during the 1960s, at the time of the trial of Adolph Eichman.