August 24 – “Game Over” For the Environment; Where’s Muammar?; Why Doesn’t the Left Support Workers Revolutions in Libya and Syria?

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Part 1	We begin with the challenge to President Obama on his doorstep, and that is the continuing protests organized by Bill McKibben at the White House, to dissuade the president from allowing a pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to cross the United States ending up at refineries in Texas. American environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben joins us. While Bill and 69 others spent last weekend in jail, the protests are continuing this week to prevent what NASA chief scientist Jim Hansen calls “game over” for the environment if this pipeline is built.
Part 2	Then a Libyan diplomat and former translator for Qaddafi, Abubaker Saad joins us to discuss where the dictator-on-the-run might be heading. Will Qaddafi finally hole up for a last stand in his hometown of Sirte, will he head south to friendly tribes and then on to Zimbabwe or Venezuela, or will he evade capture like Saddam Hussein and hide out in the maze tunnels under Tripoli?
Part 3	Then finally we speak with Stephen Zunes who was critical of the NATO intervention in Libya at the time when I last interviewed him, so we will get an update on how he sees the current situation with the end of the Qaddafi dictatorship and ask why elements in the European and American left do not support the largely working class revolutions in Libya and Syria.