It looks like the US senate is about to make the global economic downturn worse...with your tax dollars. On this edition of Portside, Burt Cohen first talks with economist Mark Weisbrot about the plan to slip over a hundred billion of our dollars to the International Monetary Fund. And on the second half, Burt talks with author Paula Crossfield about why she says unfettered capitalism is bad for your diet and America's health.

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Ann Jones, author of Kabul in Winter, is Burt's guest. She spent years in Afghanistan and reveals much about realities on the ground and what's in store for what's become Obama's war.

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Will Obama End the War on Drugs? On this edition of Portside, Burt's guest is Peter Christ,  a twenty year police veteran of the drug war and now a spokesperson for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. What are the changes we can expect? Could the federal government actually be coming to its senses?

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Finally there seems to be agreement we need to reduce carbon emissions. On the next Portside, Burt Cohen looks at the prospect of a carbon tax. Polluting industries oppose a tax on carbon emissions and mainstream environmental groups seek to compromise by stopping with a cap and trade system. But will that get the job done? Is a carbon tax too drastic?
Tune in to find out what this may mean for you.

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Has the tide turned? Equal marriage rights seem to be sweeping the country, and New Hampshire is close, very close. On this edition of  Portside, Burt Cohen talks with Mo Baxley, head of the Freedom to Marry Coalition. Why isn't civil union good enough? And perhaps most interesting, why are the opponents so desperately afraid of equal marriage?

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