SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; Patriot Act II; The Theory Behind the American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Everyone is talking about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. What is it? And, how much of a threat is this illness to the general public? Dr. John Fielding, Director of Public Health in the Los Angeles County Health Office, joins host Larry Mantle to talk about the disease.
Patriot Act II
The Bush Administration is preparing a bold, comprehensive sequel to the USA Patriot Act passed in the wake of September 11, 2001. It will give the government broad sweeping, new powers to increase domestic intelligence gathering, surveillance and law enforcements prerogatives and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information. Erwin Chemerinsky, Syndey M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics and Political Science at USC, joins Larry Mantle to discuss the Patriot Act II.
The Theory Behind the American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
What is the philosophy behind the neo-conservative defense strategies that Bush Administration is using to guide its actions in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world? Larry Mantle will discuss US foreign policy in post-war Iraq with Joseph Cirincione, Senior Associate and Director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Jack Spencer, Senior Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation, Davis Institute for International Policy Studies.