Derivatives. Hedge Funds. Sub-prime. What does all this mean and how are you affected by it all? On this edition of The Burt Cohen Show, Burt's guest is Robert Marrone who spent 30 years on Wall Street. He explains how these confusing terms impact the price you pay for everything from groceries to business loans from the bank. Will the Dodd bill rein in the "too big to fail" banks? Listen in.

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Peter Galbraith was UN Special Envoy to Afghanistan. That is until Hamid Karzai banished him for pointing out that the election was a fraud. Listen in, as Galbraith offers valuable insights into realistic solutions. And enjoy the extra music in the beginning.

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With the vacancy on the Supreme Court, could this be the time to reverse
the routine elevation of corporate interests over individual rights? Burt's guest is David Gespass, president of the National Lawyers Guild, which is arguing for a Supreme Court nominee who values traditional individual liberties more than preservation of corporate power. They'll look at how far the court has come to make John Paul Stevens a "liberal," and look at some of the candidates on Obama's "short list"
 

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The next big showdown in Washington is on Obama's efforts to rein in the big banks and hold them accountable. Burt's first guest is Heather Booth who is leading the charge on this issue for Americans United For Change. Following that is a discussion with Mark Sump, a pioneer in merging technology and grassroots strategy. about why there's no talk of a new New Deal.

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Since the US invasion after 9/11, opium has become the base of the Afghanistani economy. In the first segment, Alfred McCoy, author of the Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade provides insight into the overwhelming power of opium in that war. In part two, Burt speaks with Merle Ratner of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Reponsibility Campaign about the continuously exploding bomb of Agent Orange and efforts to help the generations of victims.

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