Mickey and guest co-host Michael Levitin address four social-justice and environmental issues:
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay – The New Immoral Age: How Technology Offers New Ways of Killing People and of Destroying the World
“It turns out … that I’m really good at killing people.” President Barack Obama (1961- ), (as reported in Reed Peeples, ‘A President and his Drones’, June 29, 2016, —a review of the book ‘Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone’, S. Shane, 2015) We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and …
John Kiriakou – The Pope Goes to Prison in America
ope Francis arrived in Washington today, snarling traffic and drawing some 300,000 people into the city. I’m excited that the Pope, who has called out capitalism for its indifference to the poor, and who has reached out to gay Catholics, has come to the United States. But I’m even more excited about his follow-on trip to Philadelphia, where he’s going to …
Stanley Heller – It’s Time to Break With Saudi Arabia’s ‘Kingdom of Horrors’
Saudi King Salman decided that a 10-vehicle motorcade in Washington, D.C., was too small for his needs, so his people rented 400 black Mercedes S-class automobiles to make it bigger. There was no place to put them all, so the White House housed them at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland until they were needed. Wall Street Journal correspondent Carol Lee …