With the swearing of Barack Obama as the 44th President, and the beginning of the 111th Session of the US Congress, Pacifica Radio takes a hard look at how the new government responds to the economic crisis, global warming, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, foreign policy decisions raging from Pakistan to Somalia and Russia to Mexico, health care expansion, civil rights, and the so called "war on terrorism". With host Mitch Jeserich from the studios of WPFW in Washington DC.