Here’s what’s happening on The Dylan Ratigan Show today:

States that balked at liability releases in a proposed $25 billion nationwide settlement over bank foreclosure practices must decide today whether its mortgage relief and reforms are worth legal claims they’ll loseDelaware Attorney General Beau Biden joined NY AG Eric Schneiderman in pushing for a narrow release that doesn’t protect banks from claims that haven’t been fully investigated, won’t support the agreement as drafted because of the scope of the releases.  Biden will join us at the top of the show with the latest on the settlement talks.

On our Megapanel today: Imogen Lloyd Webber, Guy Benson + Sam Seder.  We’ll talk about the political and diplomatic implications of the U.S. closing its embassy in Syria, and the brutality that has been unleashed there in recent weeks on the Syrian people.  The AP has a thorough writeup of the latest out of Horns, and international outrage over the deadly violence and mass killings that have happened there.

We’ll also talk “February Follies” in Nevada — it looks like the biggest loser in Nevada’s Republican caucuses is the state’s feckless GOP.  Unable to control how its county parties count and report results, state Republicans were scrambling Sunday to explain why it took so darn long to get the votes counted.

Our specialist today: Vern McKinley, author of “Financing Failure:  A Century of Bailouts.”  With information obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, McKinley disproves the claim that federal financial regulators and politicians prevented a more severe financial crisis and argues that reining in federal regulators is a necessary step toward truly promoting the safety and soundness of the financial system.

 

And, of course, we can’t miss talking about the Superbowl.  Since Dylan’s still in mourning that his beloved 49’ers didn’t make the big game, we’re going to talk about the ads — especially this ad with Clint Eastwood about “halftime in America.”  Take a look:

Then, are we alone in the universe?  We’ll talk to Dimitar Sasselov, author of The Life of Super-Earths:  How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet.  It is billed as the “gripping story of a moment of unprecedented potential-a convergence of pioneering efforts in astronomy and biology to peer into the unknown. The Life of Super-Earths offers nothing short of a transformation in our understanding of life and its place in the cosmos.”   Then, Keli Goff will handle today’s Daily Rant.