This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Why the Sochi Olympics remind us of Berlin in 1936, The People’s Pope is Time’s man of the year, turning beauty advertising on its head, college football is big business, and immigration abuses.

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Guests, in order of appearance: Frances Kissling, Nancy Goldstein, Anna Hill, Ray Glier, Luis Nolasco and Lyzzeth Mendoza.

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