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Is America Growing Itself to Destruction?

Hosted by Warren Olney Oct. 05, 2007 National
America's continuing drive for material well-being has made it the world’s colossus, but it may also contain the seeds of destruction.  Will unlimited economic growth be the undoing—not just of America, but the rest of the world? Also, secret DOJ memos on interrogation, and anthropologists at war.

America's continuing drive for material well-being has made it the world’s colossus, but it may also contain the seeds of destruction.  Will unlimited economic growth be the undoing—not just of America, but the rest of the world? Also, secret DOJ memos on interrogation, and America's latest counterinsurgency weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan--anthropology.

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Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Christian Bordal, Dan Konecky

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