“I Returned from Vacation to Find the Soviet Union Had Collapsed” – RAI with A. Buzgalin

On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Alexander Buzgalin says that he returned from a vacation in the countryside to find Gorbachev was arrested, Yeltsin was leader and the Soviet Union was no more - with host Paul Jay

Obama Chose Wall St. Over Main St. - Thomas Frank on Reality Asserts Itself

On Reality Asserts Itself, Thomas Frank says the Democratic Party must acknowledge that in 2008 the crash and the discrediting of Bush, created conditions for much a more progressive policy - but Obama did not step up; with host Paul Jay