April 4 – Exposing the Owners of Fortunes Hidden Offshore; China’s Stupendously Corrupt Communist Party; Germany’s Economy Slows to “Near Stagnation”

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Part 1	We begin with the expose of a cache, 160 times larger than the Wikileaks State Department document dump, of 2.5 million files that were cracked open by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, exposing the secrets behind more than 120,000 off-shore companies and trusts that hide the fortunes and identities of politicians, ruling families, Wall Street swindlers, arms dealers and the global mega-rich. Gerald Ryle, the lead author of the ICIJ’s report “Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze”, joins us.
Part 2	Then we look into the staggering corruption inside and at the top of the Chinese Communist Party which exercises one-party absolute rule over a country in which less than half of one percent of Chinese families own 70% of the wealth and where the top seventy members of the National People’s Congress are worth $89.8 billion. Peter Kwong, Professor of Asian American Studies at Hunter College, who studies modern Chinese politics, joins us. He has an article at The Nation “Why China’s Corruption Won’t Stop”.
Part 3	Then finally, with a report out today showing Germany’s economy has slowed to “near stagnation”, we assess the implications of the Eurozone’s deepening recession on the engine of the Euro, Germany. Thomas Kleine-Brockoff, a senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations joins us to discuss Europe’s growing North/South – creditor/debtor split and increasing concerns over the region’s debt crisis and political instability.