May 29 – Egypt’s Incomplete Revolution; Will Russia and China Stop the Murderous Assads?; The 1% “Job Creator” Versus Jobs for the 99%

We begin with an update on the Egyptian elections and speak with Samer Shehata, a professor of Arab Politics at Georgetown University’s Center For Contemporary Arab Studies. He is just back from Egypt and we discuss the incomplete revolution that may be further reversed by the election of a president who represents the old guard.

Then, as many countries expel Syrian diplomats in protest, we speak with Asher Kaufman who is a professor of History and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has an article at CNN “Only Russia and China Can Stop Carnage in Syria” and we discuss whether international outrage over the Assad’s latest massacre of women and children will sway Russia and China to re-think their protection of the Assad regime at the UN Security Council and their support of the Annan Plan that is being so flagrantly violated.

Then finally we speak with Chuck Collins, the author of “99 To 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can do About it”. We discuss whether the almost unlimited financial resources and support from the mainstream media that the candidate of the 1%, Mitt Romney has, can be matched by grassroots mobilization and an awakened moral outrage among the 99%, many of whom want jobs and economic justice, not a so-called “job creator”.