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 America's latest counterinsurgency weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan--anthropology.

From this Episode:

Do We Have Too Much?

America's continuing drive for material well-being has made it the world's colossus, but it may also contain the seeds of destruction. That sounds like fire-and-brimstone...

35 min

Anthropologists Help Military in Afghanistan, Iraq

The Pentagon has deployed some very different kinds of soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Military officers say that anthropologists and other social scientists are...

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Bush Responds to DOJ Terror Memos

Yesterday's New York Times revealed the existence of two previously secret Justice Department memos on techniques for interrogating suspected terrorists. Contrary to...

6 min

Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Christian Bordal, Dan Konecky

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