September 27 – Can the U.S. and Pakistan Divorce?; Expanding the Wall Street Protest; Retirement Heist

Full Program Listen to Full Program Part 1 We begin with deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Pakistan where complaints about Pakistani duplicity that used to be muttered in private are now being publicly and bluntly stated by senior American officials like the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Vali Nasr who was recently Senior Advisor to the Obama administration’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan joins us. Part 2 Then Kevin Zeese, an attorney and activist who served as Ralph Nader’s spokesman in 2004 and is now co-director of “It’s Our Economy”, joins us. He discusses the on-going demonstrations on Wall Street that have been met by police brutality. Kevin Zeese is planning on expanding the occupation of Wall Street to occupy Washington DC on October 6th, the tenth anniversary of the Afghanistan war.  Part 3 Then finally Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist Ellen Schultz joins us. She covered business, finance and economics for the Wall Street Journal and has investigated the retirement crisis for decades. She is the author of a shocking new book “Retirement Heist; How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Workers”.   Economy Middle East Pakistan retirement wall street journal wall street protests More posts