June 3 – Turkish Media Blackout of Demonstrations; Did China Win the Iraq War?; Finally Push Back Against Republican Obstructionism

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Part 1	We begin with a report from Gezi Park in Istanbul, the scene of the original demonstration by environmentalists that was brutally put down and has since morphed into the biggest protest against the ten year rule of Turkey’s Islamist government. Independent journalist Fabien Tepper joins us from the scene of the continuing protests for an update and an analysis of this massive political upheaval that most of the Turkish press is not covering.
Part 2	Then we look into the irony that the United States, having made enormous sacrifices with the loss of thousands of lives at a cost of trillions in taxpayer money, lost out to China, now the winner of the Iraq war in terms of access to the oil that the U.S. “liberated”. An expert on oil monarchies and the Gulf States, Gregory Gause, the department chair and professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont, joins us to discuss the changing global oil market.
Part 3	Then finally, with the Republicans set to gain another seat in the Senate following the death of Senator Lautenberg, we examine the unprecedented use of the filibuster by the Republicans that has become routine and is now finally being challenged by the White House. Douglas Daniels, a former staff reporter for Campaigns & Elections joins us to discuss the public’s frustration with gridlock that the media blames on both sides, although the Republicans are clearly the obstructionists.