Fred Kaplan, columnist for Slate and author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, discusses his recent article: “How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy? Not As Much As He’d Like You To Think” which lays out McCain’s many foreign policy misstatements and mistakes including wanting to kick Russia out of the G8 and start a “League of Democracies” to bypass the U.N., his wish to take policy back to the early years of the Bush administration and how the McCain/neocon view falsely assumes the U.S. can and should rule the world.

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Fred Kaplan is a journalist and a contributor to Slate magazine. Prior to writing for Slate, Kaplan was a correspondent at the Boston Globe. He has also written for other publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and Scientific American. In 2008, Kaplan published the book, Daydream Believers.

Chalmers Johnson, former CIA analyst and author of the Blowback Trilogy, discusses his recent article: “The Military-Industrial Complex-It’s Much Later Than You Think” explaining the pervasive privatization of the intelligence industry, the history of corporatism and empire in America, total corruption of Congress and the inevitable end of empire.

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Chalmers Johnson is an author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia. He is the author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.