Ports To Require Cleaner Burning Fuel; Tibet Update; Sergio Vieira De Mello And The Fight To Save The World; Fifth Anniversary Of The War In Iraq: Should the U.S. Stay or Go?
Ports To Require Cleaner Burning Fuel
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have proposed a $19-million plan to persuade shippers to burn cleaner fuel when vessels are near the California coast. The change, which could go into effect by July, is expected to slash local air pollution by 11%. Larry and his guest, S. David Freeman discuss the pros and cons of the plan and how it would be financed.
Tibet Update
The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to resign as the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile if the violence that has erupted in his homeland over the last week spirals out of control. The spiritual leader of the Himalayan people made the statement on the day China's top leadership lashed out at him, charging that he had orchestrated Tibet's worst anti-China riots in two decades to sabotage this summer's Beijing Olympics. Larry talks with Tseten Panucharas, past president of LA Friends of Tibet.
Sergio Vieira De Mello And The Fight To Save The World
Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Brazilian United Nations official, wanted to save the world; but his life abruptly came to an end when he, along with 14 other UN staff members on a mission in Iraq, was killed in a suicide-bombing in Baghdad in August 2003. Larry talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard professor, Samantha Power, one of de Mello's close friends, about her illuminating biography "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World" in which she not only honors the legacy of de Mello, but raises questions about the U.N.'s role in world affairs.
Fifth Anniversary Of The War In Iraq: Should the U.S. Stay or Go?
Larry Mantle talks with experts Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Max Boot, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Michael Intriligator, Ph.D, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Barbara Lee, Democratic Congresswoman representing California's Ninth District about whether or not we should keep our troops in Iraq for the long haul or pull them out quickly. Larry discusses these issues as well as where the Presidential candidates stand on this question of whether to stay or go with regard to the war in Iraq.