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Bruce Shapiro on the USA turning 250 and  why a new Supreme Court decision means US President Donald Trump will have even more fire power. Japan is struggling to recruit people to its military among an ageing population. Plus the booming global trade in rare succulents and cacti is seeing people pay extraordinary prices for a prized plant, but the market is pushing some varieties to the edge of extinction.
Guests: 
Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. 
Tom Le, Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College, California
Charlie McCann, Features Writer, the Economist 's long-reads section, 1843

Anna Henderson (chief political correspondent, SBS) surveys the latest polling figures, as the Coalition records a historically low primary vote of 17 per cent. Why is the French government ditching the services of American tech firms Palantir and Microsoft? Plus, Italy now has more woodland than farmland. As Italians abandon rural village life, trees are sprawling into forgotten fields. 
Guests:
Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS
Océane Herrero, reporter, POLITICO, in Paris
Antonio Brunori, Secretary General of PEFC Italy (Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) and editor of “Ecodelleforeste.it” magazine

A new book interrogates how Rupert Murdoch's global media empire shapes politics and public opinion in Australia and beyond. Plus, as the current outbreak of Ebola in DRC grows, an annual report reminds us of the epidemics we've successfully averted.
Guests:
Andrew Robb and Matthew Ricketson, co-authors of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch's Media Wields Power and Punishment
Amanda McClelland, global health director, Resolve to Save Lives

UN peacekeepers will be leaving southern Lebanon after 40 years of service in the region, which dismays former peacekeeper, Professor Ray Murphy. Plus, "de-extinction" - the controversial science of reviving vanished species - raises myriad ethical and environmental questions. 
Guests:
Ray Murphy, former UN peacekeeper with UNIFIL in Lebanon and Professor with the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway
Sadiah Qureshi, Chair of Modern British History, University of Manchester. Writer and historian of science, race, and empire

After Pauline Hanson declared Australia should be 'monocultural', Coalition leader Angus Taylor has refused to commit his support for a multicultural Australia. International economist Mariana Mazzucato urges a whole new approach to economics which prioritises the common good.  Plus Australia's passion for soccer goes back further than you might think.
Guests:
Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS
Mariana Mazzucato, author of ‘The Common Good Economy  - A New Compass”.  Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London
Ian Syson, author of  The Game that Never Happened; The Vanishing History of Soccer in Australia