trade using their own currencies so has the dollar seen its day and as the euro going down but it michael snyder founder of the economic collapse blog dot com is here to discuss more welcome michael so what are the signs that there that the dollar is weakening what signs are we seeing today. well a lot of nations around the world are getting tired of using the u.s. dollar as essentially the defacto currency of the world for the past four decades essentially u.s. dollar has been used in most international trade transactions and in particular in a trade for oil back in one nine hundred seventy three the united states made an agreement with saudi arabia to trade to do all trade in u.s. dollars and is greatly benefited the united states but recently we've seen for take a lease on these emerging countries that you talked about they stood up and say why should the u.s. dollar continue to have preeminence for example china but i mean that this project into china will have the largest economy in the world i'm here to one sixty or so china sitting there and they're asking well russia and our currency how

pompous sounds like hopefully it doesn't go there michael thanks for coming on the show that was michael snyder founder of the economic collapse blog dot com well primaries being held today in wisconsin maryland and right here in the you see there romney has officially had the halfway mark in the delegates count on the republican establishment is now zeroing in on the g.o.p. front runner arts and has reports from college park maryland find out what's on voters' minds this is maryland the wealthiest state in the union the average median household income here is seventy one thousand dollars and it's mitt romney who reigned supreme amongst republican voters who voted for mitt romney just because of this chance to beat obama because he is he's an essential. experiences an executive nobody else can. i just like it's politics like you think he's going to be really well really good for the country why don't you voting for any of the other candidates ron paul for instance he's too far out. and. that's not the person i would vote for no not really i mean i know he's. things but not for country i don't l

peter pham in washington he is the director of the atlantic council's michael and sorry africa center and in london we go to james snyder he is the editor in chief of think africa press all right gentlemen this is cross talk you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it peter if i'm if i go to you in washington first what is in play here let's before we talk about what's going on with the coup now and afterwards let's talk about how we got there i mean there seems to be this rule of thumb is that critics of the libya intervention say i told you so the law of unintended consequences if you shake up the regime forcefully and impose order there you're going to have a large undesirable effect and we've got one in mali is that a fair reading a fair narrative. well i think there's a great deal of truth in it the fact is for all his faults colonel gadhafi was more or less in his box in recent years and he kept by himself all sorts of undesirable actors once that regime collapsed some of these actors including some of the toerags who are now causing the problems in northern mali returned home bringing with them

snyder. we're engaged in research on the topic as "going nuclear and international security in the 21st century" coed itted by michael brown reflects. we're developing new course offerings in this area including a new graduate course this fall offered by professor of chemistry and international affairs christopher cahill on nuclear materials science funded by a grant from the nuclear regulatory commission. so it's a great pleasure to convene this discussion today to have all of you here together. and to have the opportunity to introduce the doctor to discuss the situation in iran which is obviously a -- the pressing issue that intrudes discussion of nuclear fuel cycle choices into the lives of many people around the world. he's currently with the science for international affairs at the john f. kennedy school at harvard university. he's spent 27 years prior to joining harvard with the international atomic energy agency in vienna, and the last five of those as deputy director general and head of the safeguards department. and he oversaw effects to monitor iran's nuclear program and examining nuclear programs around th

snyder. we are engaged in research on the topic. the book was co-edited by the dean of the school, michael brown. and we are developing new course offerings in this area including a new graduate course in the fall offered by christopher cahill on nuclear materials, funded by a grant from the nuclear regulatory commission. it is a great pleasure to convene this discussion today, to have all of you here together, and to have the opportunity to introduce the doctor to talk about the situation in iran, which is a pressing issue that intrudes discussion of nuclear fuel and cycle choices into the lives of many people around the world. the doctors currently with the bill for center for science and international affairs, john f. kennedy school of government at harvard spent 27 years prior to joining harvard with the international atomic energy agency in vienna the last five of those as deputy director general and ted's department he led the agency efforts to identify and dismantle nuclear proliferation networks, including one of them led by a pakistani scientist, and oversaw efforts to monitor and contai