On the first weekly roundtable of 2014, our panelists share their views on key takeaways/lessons learned from stories that made the news or didn’t from 2013 as well as their take on stories to watch in 2014.
Also, this week marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty. With the 2014 mid-term elections looming, Congressional members on both sides of the aisle have ‘discovered’ that inequality is indeed a problem in the US. Reaction to the War on Poverty and to solutions put forward by the Democrats and Republicans.
And Afghanistan: in addition to the messy US get out now or will the US stay for more than another decade confusion, former Defense Secretary Gates, who served under both Bush and Obama, gives a glimpse of the divide on military matters between the Obama White House and the generals. Is this revenge of the hawks?
Then there ‘bridgegate’, the dustup over GOP Presidential Chris Christie’s exposure as a bully; what could this mean for the next Presidential election?
And we mark the passing of controversial poet and political activist Amiri Baraka.
Panelists are: Jackie Goldberg, Tom Hayden and Dr. Gerald Horne.
Sojourner Truth, Friday January 10th. This is your host Margaret Prescod.
