WE HAVE MOVED TO MONDAYS AT 9-10 PM BEGINNING 4/13/2015.

SHOW AUDIO: kpft_2015-05-25_2100, Trade Politics, Iraq, ISIS, Dictatorships vs democracy, middle income vs middle class, windpower, cat talk

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WE HAVE MOVED TO MONDAYS AT 9-10 PM BEGINNING 4/13/2015.

Welcome to Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show (every Wednesday night from 10-11PM CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My engineer and discussion partner is Egberto Willies (@EgbertoWillies).

For the purposes of this show, I operate on two mottoes:

• You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
• An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.

GUESTS: (More complete biographical info on my guests are below Source links.)

• CALLERS

POSSIBLE TOPICS:  100 Year Anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide and the importance of history’s judgment, $70k minimum wage, Toll roads everywhere, Back to the Moon, and more.

______________________________________________________________________ Some of the links used for this show are BELOW the break: SOURCES (Below the break) Not all topics discussed on tonight’s show:

• Trade Policy As A Strategic Tool During The Cold War
  • East-West Trade and the Cold War – Jyx – Jyväskylän yliopi (Finland)
  • Trade Policy in the 1990s | Brookings Institution
  • Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War
  • U.S. Trade Policy – Council on Foreign Relations
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1136927395,J. Barry Jones – 2002 – ‎Business & Economics: “One of these is the reviving use of strategic trade policies. … Likewise, trade can be used more directly as a tool of foreign policy. During the Cold War, for example, access to the US market was used as an enticement away from communism; …”

• How EZTag works: They always have your money.

SOURCES WHICH MAY BE RELEVANT TO OTHER DISCUSSION:

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