September 23, 2012

Broadcast Date: 
Sep 23 2012

 The trailer for an incendiary anti-Muslim film is blamed for anti-American riots throughout the Muslim world.  What do we know about its origins?  Its distribution? And is it really the cause of the protests?

The Chicago teachers’ strike has now been settled.  Is it a victory for the union?  For Mayor Rahm Emanuel?  And what does the strike and settlement portend for the future of public education reform? 

Israeli historian, journalist and blogger, Gershom Gorenberg weighs in on Romney’s secretly filmed remarks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

Episode segments
  • Innocence of Muslims
    International Politics, Middle East, Israel/Palestine

     Sarah Posner is a journalist and senior editor for Religion Dispatches. She is the author of God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters.

     
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Demonstrations said to be fueled by the release of a 14 minute trailer for an incendiary anti-Muslim film continue to roil the Muslim world.  What do we know about the film's origins?  Its distribution? And why has it seemingly provoked such anti-American ferver? 

  • Chicago Teachers' Strike
    National Politics, Domestic Policy

     Diane Ravitch has been a historian of Education and an Education policy analysts since the 1970s, She served in both the George H.W.Bush and Bill Clinton administrations and is now a Research Professor of Education at New York University.  Her most recent book is The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education.   She blogs at dianeravitch.net.

    David Moberg is a senior editor and covers labor at In These Times  in Chicago.

     
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The Chicago teachers' strike--the first in 25 years in that city--has been settled.  For some, it's a great victory for the teachers' union and its leader, Karen Lewis, for other's the victory belongs to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.  To help us sort out what the strike means for public education in Chicago and for both the future of public education and the labor movement in the U.S., we talk with Diane Ravitch and David Moberg.

  • Romney's views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    American Politics, National Politics, Electoral, Israel/Palestine, Occupation

     Gershom Gorenberg is an American-born Israeli historian, journalist and blogger, specializing in Middle Eastern politics.  He is currently a senior correspondent forThe American Prospect.  

    His most recent book is The Unmaking of Israel.

     
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

     We talk with Gershom Gorenberg about Mitt Romney's secretly recorded comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict  recently released by Mother Jones. To view the full video, click here.