September 4, 2011

Broadcast Date: 
Sep 4 2011

Rearranging the furniture or a bold plan? President Obama's upcoming jobs talk. What do Howard Dean and Rudi Giuliani have in common? They're both pushing for removal of the MEK from the government's terrorism list. Plus baseball great Hank Greenberg.

Episode segments
  • Obama's Forthcoming Job's Talk
    National Politics, Domestic Policy
    Dean Baker is the Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington DC.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    In anticipation of President Obama's forthcoming speech on job creation, we talk with Dean Baker about the gap between what we hope and what we are likely to hear from the President.  And what would a strong job creation program look like?

  • The Campaign to Legitimize the Mujahadeen Al Khalq (MEK)
    Foreign Policy, International Politics, Middle East
    MJ Rosenberg is Seniot Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Why do so many prominent Americans support the campaign to remove the MEK from the State Department's list of terrorist organizations? Can it have something to do with the neo-con drive for regime change in Iran? 

  • Hank Greenberg: Reluctant Hero
    Arts & Culture, Anti-Semitism, Literature, Sports

    Mark Kurlansky is the author of Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want To Be One (Yale University Press).  His previous books include Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World and Salt: A World History.
    Alan Levine

    Hank Greenberg was one of the greatest hitters in baseball.  He also played in arguably the most anti-Semitic city (Detroit) during the most anti-Semitic period in the U.S. (the 1930s). As a result he became a Jewish hero.  Alan Levine talks with author Mark Kurlansky about how the confluence of time and place made Greenberg a reluctant hero.