Interviews

This week on the New World Next Week: Total internet surveillance draws closer to reality with CISPA; the FBI and police get the green light for domestic drones; and a new company aims to mine asteroids.

This week on The International Forecaster with Bob Chapman: We delve into the latest twists and turns in the slow-motion collapse of the Euro, look at the gold and silver markets and rampant manipulation, and dip into the mailbag for questions from listeners.

A former Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI Crime Lab, Dr. Frederic Whitehurst joins us to discuss a startling new report on how the Justice Department has failed to report shoddy FBI crime lab work to the defense counsel of those who have been convicted based on that faulty evidence. We talk about Dr. Whitehurst’s time in the FBI crime lab and discuss his experience blowing the whistle on lies, fraud and cover up in some of the biggest cases in FBI history, including the 1993 WTC bombing and the 1995 OKC bombing.

Investigative journalist Joseph Trento joins us to discuss his latest article, “United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium.” The end result of a decades-long investigation, the article reveals a secret program through which the US helped Japan amass a stockpile of plutonium which the Japanese government could use to jump-start a nuclear weapons program.

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com joins us for a discussion about Balochistan, a region in Southwest Asia that straddles Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Rich in oil and gas reserves and mineral deposits, and covering a geostrategic area, Balochistan is increasingly in the sights of both Washington, which is increasingly advocating for intervention in the area in the name of “human rights.” Also at the table are Beijing and Moscow, who are both interested in the Iran-Pakistan pipeline that is slated to cut straight through the region.

This week on the New World Next Week: India gets set to join the SCO as the power struggle of the 21st century begins to take shape; the too big to fails are now even bigger thanks to government-sanctioned reform; and scientists crowdsource research as scientists fight for open access to their work.

This week on The International Forecaster we discuss: the latest turns in the European crisis, from Greek chaos to Spanish panic; the unemployment figures in the US and their manipulation; and how the calls for greater regulation in the wake of these economic crises is misplaced.