January 24 – Taxing Mitt The Poster Boy For The 1%; “The Bibi Connection”; The Truth About Food Stamps

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Part 1	We will begin with the partial release of Mitt Romney’s tax returns that could make him the poster boy for the one percent in this election. Jeffrey Winters joins us. He is a professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and the author of the new book “Oligarchy”. He has an article at the Huffington Post “Romney a Nobody Among the Ultra-Wealthy, But Rich Enough to Stick Out as President”. We will discuss the American oligarchy of which Mitt Romney is a junior member.
Part 2	Then Max Blumenthal joins us. He is an award-winning investigative journalist, a Puffin Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and an investigative reporter with the Lebanese-based Al-Akhbar English where he has written “The Bibi Connection”, an investigative report that outlines a shadow campaign by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to defeat Obama and help elect a Republican president.
Part 3	Then finally, since Newt Gingrich has made a campaign issue out of food stamps, repeatedly referring to Barack Obama as the food stamp president, we will speak with Timothy Casey, a senior staff attorney with Legal Momentum, the nation’s oldest legal defense and education fund dedicated to advancing the rights of all women and girls. We will get a fact check on food stamps and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, know as SNAP.
	MUSIC: Shabazz Palaces – Gun Beat Falls; Radiohead – Electioneering (Cover); Das Racist – Sit Down People; Fionn Regan – Lord Help My Poor Soul