The world of geopolitics exists in multiple layers often invisible to the public.  A core dimension that seems to drive them all – war and peace, riches and poverty, governments rising and falling – is the oftentimes dark world of international finance.  Our chief guest today is Steven Hiatt, editor of a book entitled, "A Game as Old as Empire," which explains a lot of the happenstance in today’s global environment.

John’s extended boralogue examines the disparate blips that have been moving on the global radar this week.

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Happy Earth Day!  (Also known as Lenin’s Birthday!)

There has been a long-standing relationship between neo-Marxism and the environmental movement, which has been sowing the seeds of its own destruction by rejecting sound economics and policies.

Now that the global warming train has left the station, an entire public-private industry is growing around greenhouse credit trading.  So who stands to profit? Richard Loomis from World Energy Source (www.worldenergysource.com) joins us.

The country felt tax pain this week — not only paying the tax, but also the burdensome record-keeping and time required to complete the returns.  Guess what?  The current congress is cooking up a lot more but they don’t want you to know what they’re up to.  Peter Ferrara (www.ipi.org) joins us.

John’s boralogue introduces the concept of carbon taxes and credits and what this means to everyday citizens.

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We’re clearing the decks for two important interviews, which will allow us to focus on emerging trends.

Last November, former Russian FSB agent Lt. Col. Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated in England by means of sophisticated radioactive Polonium-210 poisoning, another in a string of assassination hits by Russia’s FSB. But that didn’t happen before he co-authored a book with Russian historian Dr. Yuri Felshtinsky,
Ph.D., entitled, “Blowing Up Russia.” This was the first book
banned in Russia by Vladimir Putin since the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn were banned. Dr. Felshtinsky joins us for an eye- opening insight into the resurgence of the K-G-Used-to-B in Russia today and its choke-hold on the government there.

In the western world, we’re entering phase two of information consolidation about private citizens, where very little will be unknown about the citizens of western countries. Where will this trend lead western governments and how will they use the information for or against their own citizenry? David Holtzman, author of “Privacy Lost,” joins us.

Since these are both important interviews, John skips the boralogue for this week to create more time for the guests.

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Christ is risen.  He is risen indeed.

Tensions in the Middle East seem to have subsided this week with Iran returning the British soldier hostages and the dreaded attack on Iran seems to have fizzled, so far.

Even so, rumors of war remained strong in Israel through Passover, keeping their military on alert.  All sides seem to sense that something may break loose this year and are making preparations to maximize their positions if it does.

We’ll look at the new Palestinian government amalgam of Hamas and Fatah.  Western journalists are having all their rosy-glass viewpoint of the Palestinian side of issues dashed by this new government.  Gilead Ini from CAMERA (www.camera.org) joins us.

Then Suzanne Venker, author of "Seven Myths of Working Mothers,"
joins us to stress that the feminist doctrine that women can have careers and children at the same time has proven disastrous for families.

John does an extended boralogue on the history of tolerance, emphasizing how its latest form is being used to distinguish "healthy churches" from "unhealthy churches."  Healthy churches, according to secularism, are those which engage in communitarian group think using dialectic dialogue.

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