February 14 –

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with Senator Bernie Sanders, the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. He and 26 other Senators today called for a stop to the wholesale closing of rural post offices and for measures to preserve First Class mail and Saturday delivery. We also discuss the obscene amounts of Super PAC money flooding into this year’s election and what can be done to overturn Citizens United.

Part 2

Then we get a reading on China’s next leader, Xi Jinping, who is visiting Washington as well as a broader assessment of China’s emerging role as a global superpower. One of the world’s foremost experts on China’s language, culture, politics and people, Perry Link, joins us to look into the current backlash from Arab countries, angry at China’s veto of a UN Security Council resolution aimed at stopping the Assad family dictatorship from killing the Syrian people.

Part 3

Then finally, we speak with an extraordinary and humble man who has had a direct effect on nonviolent resistance tactics around the world from Serbia to Iran, to Egypt and Russia. The founder of the Albert Einstein Institution Gene Sharp joins us. He is the author of a new book, just out, “Sharp’s Dictionary of Power and Struggle: Language and Civil Resistance in Conflicts.”