November 24 – Tahrir Square Explodes Again; How American CEO’s Fire Workers, Extract Wealth and Reward Themselves; Giving Thanks For Living Better

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Part 1	We begin by going to Tahrir Square in Egypt to get an update on the second Egyptian revolution, first from Rabab El Mahdi who is a professor of political science at the American University in Cairo. Then we speak with Joshua Hersh, who covers U.S. Foreign Policy and the State Department for the Huffington Post. He is in Cairo covering the upcoming Egyptian elections.
Part 2	Then we hear from a veteran financial reporter and Wall Street insider William Cohan, the author of the new book “Money and Power; How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World”. We discuss how corporate America is sitting on piles of cash that, rather than investing it in plant and equipment or on R&D, the top executives are using their idle billions to buy back company stock in order to reward themselves at the expense of the workers they are laying off.
Part 3	Then finally on Thanksgiving, in the spirit of being thankful for positive social trends that offer hope in a time of economic distress, political polarization, deadlock and dysfunction, Stephan Schwartz, a Senior Fellow at the Samueli Institute joins us to discuss how some communities are tackling hunger and homelessness in a humane and healing manner, separate and apart from government programs or Church-related charity.
	MUSIC: Arcade Fire – Half Light II; Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings – Money; My Morning Jacket – Thank You Too