January 12 – Sabotaging The Diplomatic Track With Iran; A Setback for Bigotry; One of the West Memphis Three Tells His Inspiring Story

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Part 1	We begin with an analysis of whether there will be a war with Iran or whether diplomacy will be revived to avert one. Gary Sick, who served on the National Security Council under President’s Ford, Carter and Reagan and was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis, joins us. We discuss Hillary Clinton’s condemnation and emphatic denial of U.S. involvement in the assassination of an Iranian scientist that appears to be an effort to derail talks underway in Turkey between U.S. and Iranian diplomats.
Part 2	Then we look into the setback in Oklahoma for proponents of a ban of Sharia law in the United States even though there is a total lack of evidence that anyone is planning or proposing to impose Sharia law on anyone. Faiz Shakir, a Vice President at the Center For American Progress joins us to discuss the casual anti-Muslim bigotry in this country that Fox News inflames and the Republican Party seems to tolerate if not endorse.
Part 3	Then finally we are joined in the studio by the award-winning film maker Joe Berlinger whose latest documentary feature “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” premieres tonight, Thursday on HBO. We talk about the appalling miscarriage of justice the film documents and the bitter-sweet happy ending with the filmmaker and with one of the so-called West Memphis Three, Jason Baldwin, who also joins us to tell his inspiring personal story of enduring eighteen years of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit.