For Your Ears Only - May 27th, 2012

Podcast: 

fyeo_120527_complete.mp3

I. BILLBOARD

II. CAMPAIGN-CONGRESS CONNECTION

Eleanor Clift, TV commentator, www.newsweekdailybeast.com contributor

III. NATO AND AFGHANISTAN

Owen West, former USMC Major in Iraq, director of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, author of "The Snake Eaters: An Unlikely Band of Brothers and the Battle for the Soul of Iraq" (Free Press, May 2012)

IV. PHILANTHROPY AND FAITH

Simon Greer, President and CEO, The Nathan Cummings Foundation

V. NRC RESIGNATION FALLOUT

Karl Grossman, prize-winning investigative reporter, SUNY journalism professor, author of "Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power;" www.karlgrossman.com

VI. SINGING THE SIXTIES

Jennifer Sheehan, cabaret performer, "I Know a Place," May 23 – June 2 at Feinstein's, Loews Regency, New York, www.JenniferSheehan.com

VII. CREDITS/CLOSE

VIII. ARCHIVE: Iraq Remembered - 5/29/11

Major Jane Blair, USMC Reserve, author of "Hesitation Kills: A Female Marine Officer's Combat Experience in Iraq" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, May 30)