For Your Ears Only - June 3rd, 2012

Podcast: 

fyeo_120603_complete.mp3

I. BILLBOARD

II. FROM TIANANMEN TO OCCUPY

Shen Tong, Tiananmen Square student leader in 1989, now U.S. tech and media entrepreneur (VFinity) and activist (OWS, etc.), co-author of "Almost a Revolution" (1990)

III. CAMPAIGN AD WARS

Julian Zelizer, Princeton professor of history and public affairs, author of "Arsenal of Democracy," "Jimmy Carter," and "Governing America" (Princeton University Press)

IV. EGYPT AND SYRIA

Michael Wahid Hanna, fellow at The Century Foundation, Middle East and security issues

V. HIRING VETS

Owen West, Goldman Sachs managing director, Marine Reserve 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), www.westwrite.com

VI. CENTENNIAL SONGBOOK

Maude Maggart, cabaret star, "Into the Garden," June 5-16 at Feinstein's, Loews Regency, New York, http://www.maudemaggart.com

VII. CREDITS/CLOSE

VIII. ARCHIVE: KNOW THINE ENEMY - 6/5/2011

Lt. Col. James G. Zumwalt (USMC ret.), Committee on the Present Danger, author of "Bare Feet, Iron Will: Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields"(Fortis, 2010)