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Part one:
Harold Meyerson: The American Prospect and columnist for the Washington Post
HOW THE AMERICAN SOUTH DRIVES THE LOW WAGE ECONOMY
As he writes: The pre-Civil War contest between the Northern and Southern labor systems never left us entirely and is back with a vengeance today. As in the 1850s, when the South tried to extend slavery northward, so it is extending (more successfully than in the 1850s) its system northward today, as Republicans pass right-to-work and voter suppression laws in such states as Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. Meanwhile, European manufacturers are opening low-wage assembly factories all across the South because, believe it or not, it’s cheaper to have them there than in China.
http://www.prospect.org/article/how-american-south-drives-low-wage-economy
Part two:
Mel Goodman: Expert at the Center for International Policy. Mel is a national security and intelligence expert. He has worked as an analyst for the CIA and State Department, taught at the National War College and Johns Hopkins University,
The Iran Deal and the future….
Aside: if Krauthammer calls it the worst deal since the Munich Deal of 1938 it probably means it is worth embracing
