Proponents insist it will make America energy independent while polluting less. But is nuclear power that good to deserve a bailout to the tune of $54 billion of our money? On this show, Nuclear Information Resource Services executive director Michael Mariotte explains the battle is far from over. And nuclear is far from clean.

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It's being called the Summer of Liberal's Discontent. The 2008 election was all about Hope, but why is so little action being taken to address unemployment?  On this segment, Les Leopold, author of the Looting of America, consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance, explains what he thinks is going on and how public pressure might still work.

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Politicians are scrambling to look more deficit cutting than their competitor. But according to Micheal Lind, policy director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation, that's not only terrible economics, but bad politics as well. 

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It was June 28th 2009 that there was a coup d'etat in Honduras. In one of the first tests of the new Obama Administration, many hoped for a change of course, away from the old cold War framing of Latin American political; realities. But AlterNet columnist Kari Lydersen, who just returned from Honduras, explains, it is difficult to discern any difference between the policies of Reagan and Bush and the Obama/Hillary Clinton approach. This is not good news for the people of Honduras, or for the interests of the United States for that matter.

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 Seeking to find the real Hugo Chavez, filmmaker Oliver Stone (Platoon, Born on the 4th of July, JFK) traveled to Venezuela with a film crew and ended up talking with other left-leaing new South American presidents, such as Bolivia's Evo Morales and others. In this edition of the Burt Cohen Show, co-writer Mark Weisbrot addresses the attacks on the film published recently in the New York Times, and discusses the reasons why the movie was made. South of the Border opens in theatres in early July.

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