Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, The Legless Veteran; and Saudi Arabia Threatens To Dump US Assets If Blamed For 911

Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, The Legless Veteran

Historian Robert Goldstein has just come out with the book “Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, The Legless Veteran”. James Kutcher exposed some of the worst abuses of the red scare. His cases got massive publicity and contributed to the red scare’s demise and the discrediting of the federal loyalty program. Kutcher was a socialist in the 1930s and joined a small socialist organization. He was drafted shortly before American entry into World War II. He fought in north Africa and then Italy, where both of his legs were blown to pieces by a German mortar shell in 1943. After having both legs amputated and learning to walk with artificial limbs and two canes. In 1946, Kutcher was hired in a menial position at the veterans administration as a file clerk with no access to national security information.

However, as a result of President Truman’s March 1947 Federal Loyalty Program, and more specifically due to the listing of Kutcher’s organization, the Socialist workers party, and the attorney generals list of subversive organizations mischaracterizing it as seeking to violently overthrow the government Kutcher was fired from his VA position. The government then sought to take away his World War II disability pension and then to evict him and his aged parents from there public housing project in Newark, New Jersey.

Goldstein’s book tells a dramatic story about a shy and timid person with true fortitude who fought for 10 years to establish his and all Americans’ constitutional rights to due process,freedom of speech and association. Robert Goldstein tells the story of a true American hero
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Saudi Arabia Threatens To Dump US Assets If Blamed For 911

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for policy studies in Washington DC and has written several books on the middle east. She joins us to to talk about the alleged Saudi Arabian connection to 911 and Obama’s impending meeting with the Saudi Arabian king. The United States Congress is presently considering a bill to lift the sovereign immunity Saudi Arabia enjoys which protects the Saudi Arabian government from the pending wrongful death lawsuits brought by the families of the 911victims. Legislation to do this is backed by both Republicans and Democrats and opposed by the Obama administration. The Saudi Arabian government has threatened, some have called it black male, to dispose of the $750 billion in American assets, including treasury bonds, that it owns to protect itself if it’s sovereign immunity is lifted. Saudi Arabia is along with Israel America’s key ally in the Middle East.

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