Have you had it with creeping centralization? Bugged that your tax dollars are being used to prop up bigness? Well there may be an answer. On this edition of Portside, Burt Cohen talks with author Paul Starobin, whose article "Divided We Stand" appeared recently in the Wall Street Journal. We're talking about real devolution, America breaking up into more realistic groupings, new voluntary associations of states. Starobin suggests new regional governments may be inevitable with the collapse of the top heavy US economy.

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With the political and cultural demise of America's right wing evangelicals, what next for the Christian church? On this edition of  Portside, Burt Cohen speaks with Rev. Scot McKnight, internationally known speaker and professor of religious studies to talk about what he calls the Emerging Movement of the 21st century church.

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In the 1990s, the president and Democrats in Congress rubber stamped billions in aid for Israel, not matter what. On this Portside, Burt Cohen talks with Stephen Zunes, chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco and senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus. Progressives can't blame Bush for this one; the Clinton administration, with the support of Congressional Democrats, made possible the dramatic expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and thus made chances for peace much worse.

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Candidate Barack Obama made closing the prison camp at Guantanamo one of his first priorities. Now he and the Democrats seem to be dithering. On this edition of Portside, Burt Cohen talks with Rolling Stone columnist Mat Taibbi about Obama and the Democrats looking Bush-ish to the world. And speaking of changes in the world, in the second half, Burt speaks with reporter Jay Hartling in San Salvadorl. She was present at the inauguration of El Salvador's first left wing President Mauricio Funes, who was with the FMLN in their long war against the American-backed government.

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Afraid to be called flip-floppers, many politicans act on beliefs instead of new realities. On today's Portside, Burt Cohen talks with philosophy and logic professor John Kozy about the friction between old mindsets and new challenges, and how this endangers America's emergence from the recession

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