NEW COLD WAR HOT SPOTS

Program Summary: 15 Nov. 2014

Former Soviet Union leader Gorbachev warned during last week's celebration of the fall of the Berlin wall that the world is "on the brink."

1st Hour: We're addressing the sources and sounds of "a new Cold War" and, if this is happening what it means for everyday people.

Audio clip from RT's Crosstalk's April 29, 2014 "Cold War 2.0" then we follow  professor and contributor to The Nation magazine Stephen Cohen as he appears on John Batchelor's evening talk show from New York Nov. 11, 2014.

Bio: Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin.

Are we there, yet?

Late in the 2nd hour hear "The Taylor Report" from Toronto community radio about the current popular uprising in Burkina Faso.

Is this the future?