July 7 – The Old Guard Tries to Capture the Counter Revolution; Snowden and the Anti-American Axis; Brazen Attempt to Undo Consumer Regulations

Full Program

Part 1

We begin in Cairo, Egypt for the latest insight into the chaos that has followed the intervention by the army that was supposed to prevent the chaos engulfing this divided country. One of the organizers of the revolution two years ago, Jawad Nabulsi, a businessman turned community organizer who was shot and is blind in one eye, joins us. We discuss the role of the old guard Mubarak police who are now trying to capture the counter-revolution against the Islamists by going after both the Islamists and activists like Jawad who brought about the original revolution.

Part 2

Then we speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leslie Gelb who was Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration and is the author of “Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy”. We discuss China and Russia’s role in the Snowden case and Leslie Gelb’s article in Sunday’s New York Times “A New Anti-American Axis” that argues Russia and China now see less cost in challenging the United States and fewer rewards for acting as a partner.

Part 3

Then finally we look into the latest effort by Wall Street to overturn efforts at financial reform that were enacted in the wake of the 2008 crash. Bartlett Naylor, the former chief of investigations for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and financial policy advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch joins us to discuss the brazen Senate bill, the Independent Agency Regulatory Analysis Act introduced by Senators Portman and Collins and Democrat Mark Warner that would neutralize and render impotent the Security and Exchange Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Labor Relations Board.