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20 december 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Eric Miller, Senior Defense Investigator at the Project
On Government Oversight (http://www.pogo.org)
got us up-to-date on Iraq reconstruction, including Halliburton,
the controversy surrounding Boeing, and the relationship
between the Pentagon and defense contractors
The
middle of the show:
- Roger Normand, executive director of the Center for Economic
and Social Rights (http://www.cesr.org)
discussed President Bush's contempt for international law,
the legality of the war with Iraq, and the capture of Saddam
The
rest of the show:
- past National Book Award winner Robert Jay Lifton, author
of the new book "Super Power Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic
Confrontation with the World" (http://www.nationbooks.org/)
- Steve Brouwer, author of yet another new book, "Robbing
Us Blind: the Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of
America" (http://www.commoncouragepress.com)
13 december 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Nancy Watzman, research and investigative projects director
at Public Campaign (http://www.publiccampaign.org)
will tell us about her most recent work, the Color of Money
project (http://www.colorofmoney.org).
This new investigation reveals that, despite campaign finance
reform, the US electoral system relies on an elite group
of wealthy, white donors to fund most campaigns thereby
discriminating against people of color and other underserved
communities who are not key donors.
- Laila Al-Arian, whose father, Professor Sami Al-Arian
was arrested with three other men on charges of conspiring
to commit acts of terrorism. Prof. Al-Arian was on our program
twice before his February arrest, and during those interviews
he had claimed that he had done nothing illegal. Prof. Al-Arian
believed that his democratic right to criticize the Israeli
government was at the heart of the investigation.
The
middle of the show:
- attorney Matthew Eisenbrandt, who is representing the
Center for Justice and Accountability (http://www.cja.org)
in a case against an El Salvadoran military officer-turned-US
citizen who is now being charged with torture and murder
that he allegedly while in the Salvadoran army
The
rest of the show:
6 december 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Dr. Lara Hansen, one of the co-authors of the World Wildlife
Fund's recently released report on climate change and global
glacier decline (http://www.wwf.or.jp/lib/publication/climate/glacier.pdf).
Dr. Hansen is the chief scientist of WWF's climate change
program.
- David Bacon, labor journalist and photographer, returned
to This is Hell. David's most recent work, "Saddam's
Labor Laws Live On," can be read by visiting http://www.progressive.org/dec03/bac1203.html.
David's forthcoming book on the free market's devastation
of the US-Mexico border, "The Children of NAFTA,"
is due out in January. You can currently see David's photos
in a show called "Rebellion on the Border." They
are being shown through December 20th at John Adams Campus
City College of San Francisco Campus Library, 1860 Hayes
Street. For more information on this exhibit call 415-561-1946.
The
middle of the show:
- Greg Mello, director of the Los Alamos Study Group (http://www.lasg.org)
discussed the further nuclearization of the Bush administration's
foreign policy through the just-passed Energy and Water
Appropriations Bill
The
rest of the show:
- Holly Wren of Michigan's Sweetwater Alliance (http://www.waterissweet.org)
talked about her group's fight against the privatization
of water and their campaign to fight water disconnections
in Detroit. Holly filled us in on the recent victory by
Michigan environmentalists against the world's top bottled
water supplier, Nestle.
- Bill Christison is the author of the Counterpunch piece
"US Foreign Policy: a Monstrous Mess ... US Intelligence
Policy: Also a Monstrous Mess" (http://www.counterpunch.com/christison12012003.html).
Bill was a CIA analyst for 28 years before retiring in 1979.
From the early 1970s he served as National Intelligence
Officer and was principal adviser to the Director of Central
Intelligence on certain areas including Southeast Asia,
South Asia and Africa. Toward the end of his spy career,
Bill was Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political
Analysis, a 250-person unit. Bill and his wife Kathleen,
who was on TiH back in May, are contributors to the new
book "The Politics of Anti-Semitism."
22 november 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Joe Farrar, a member of the School of the Americas Watch
(http://www.soaw.org)
national advisory group who reported live from the protest
at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Ben, a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement
(http://www.palsolidarity.org)
who tlaked with us live from western Jenin to report on
the March in Solidarity Against Separation.
15 november 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- Jemera Rone, Sudan researcher and Counsel at Human Rights
Watch (http://www.hrw.org)
talked about the human rights abuses in northern Uganda,
which are considered the worst in the world.
The
rest of the show:
- Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project
at the Institute for Policy Studies (http://www.ips-dc.org)
gave us the reasons behind this upcoming week's Free
Trade Area of the Americas protests in Miami.
1 november 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Milan Rai, author of "Regime Unchanged: Why the
War on Iraq Changed Nothing" (Pluto).
25 october 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Bob Pollin, author of "Contours of Descent: US
Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity"
(Verso).
Bob is also a professor of economics and founding co-director
of the Political Economy Research Institute (http://www.umass.edu/peri/)
18 october 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- live from Cochabamba, Bolivia, we talked with Jim
Shultz, executive director of The Democracy Center (http://www.democracyctr.org)
who will give us the lowdown on the Gas Wars there.
The
rest of the show:
- Dave Allen (http://www.blackboxvoting.com/)
is co-author, with Bev Harris, of the soon-to-be-released
book "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the
21st Century"
- investigative reporter Janine Roberts discussed her new
book "Glitter & Greed: the Secret World of the
Diamond Cartel" (Disinformation)
11 october 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Washington editor of The Nation (http://www.thenation.com)
and Fox News contributor, David Corn, author of the new
book "The Lies of George W, Bush" (Crown).
4 october 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- author Loretta Napoleoni, author of "Modern Jihad:
Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks" (Pluto
Press) who was live in our studio.
27 september 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Thomas Frank, editor of the new compendium of Chicago's
subversive zine The Baffler (http://www.thebaffler.com)
entitled "Boob Jubilee: the Cultural Politics of the
New Economy."
20 september 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Stan Cox is a Senior Research Scientist at the Salina,
Kansas based Land Institute (http://www.landinstitute.org/)
and a member of the Prairie Writers Circle. Stan is a plant
breeder. who has worked in the Agricultural Research Service
of the US Department of Agriculture as a wheat geneticist.
Stan has also taught high school in Hyderabad, India.
Stan's writing has appeared at Alternet and Counterpunch
including his most recent "Pirates of the Caribbean:
The WTO in Cancun" (http://www.landinstitute.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/08/31/3f54f2d60bfa0).
The
middle of the show:
- Kevin Baker (http://www.kevinbaker.info/)
is the author of "We're in the Army Now: The GOP's
plan to militarize our culture" that appears in the
October issue of Harper's Magazine (http://www.harpers.org).
Kevin was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans¹
bestselling history, "The American Century."
He currently writes the monthly "In the News"
column for American Heritage Magazine, and has been published
in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago
Tribune and The Los Angeles Times among other publications.
Kevin is also the author of several works of fiction including
1993's "Sometimes You See It Coming," and the
"New York’ City of Fire" trilogy.
The
rest of the show:
- Steve McGiffen, editor of Spectre (http://www.spectrezine.org/)
and an environmental adviser to the European Parliament
United Left Group, the GUE-NGL. He is currently writing
a book for Pluto Press on the regulation of biotechnology
in the European Union and beyond.
13 september 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- live from the WTP portests in Cancun, we talked with Food
First co-director Peter Rosset (http://www.foodfirst.org)
who, earlier in the week, had been stopped as he arrived
in Mexico because he was on a government watch list.
6 september 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- John Taylor Gatto (http://www.johntaylorgatto.com),
former New York State Teacher of the Year. John wrote the
cover story in the current issue of Harper's , "Against
School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why."
Just
the second half of the show:
30 august 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Reverend Graylan Hagler, senior pastor of Plymouth Congregational
United Church of Christ and national president of Ministers
For Racial, Social and Economic Justice, will discuss his
unique perspective on the whole Ten Commandments fandango
that's taking up so much airtime nowadays. He has a commentary
posted at TomPaine.com (http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/4775)
The
middle of the show:
The
rest of the show:
- John Feffer, editor of a collection of essays entitled
"Power Trip: US Unilateralism and and Global Strategy
after September 11" (Seven Stories) by contributors
to Foreign Policy in Focus (http://www.fpif.org).
Past This is Hell guests whose work is in "Power Trip"
include Bill Hartung, Michael Ratner, Mark Weisbrot, Stephen
Zunes, and John Gershman
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student
Ryan McKinley who created the Government Information Awareness
(http://opengov.media.mit.edu/)
project as a response to the US government's Total Information
Awareness program
23 august 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- live from Amman, Jordan, we spoke with Voices in the Wilderness
(http://www.vitw.org)
co-founder, and three-time Nobel Peace prize nominee, Kathy
Kelly. Kathy was on her way to Iraq in defiance of US sanctions
there.
- John Ross, author of the book "The War Against Oblivion
- Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000." John's Counterpunch
story "While Zapatistas Shout: "Gora Euskadi!": Fox
Government Rounds Up Mexican Basques and Ships Them to Aznar's
Torture Chambers" (http://counterpunch.org/ross08192003.html)
outlines the connection between the Zapatista movement in
Mexico and their counterpart, the Basques of Spain.
John was on our show back in March 2001
The
middle of the show:
- Susan Jane Brown, staff attorney for the Pacific Environmental
Advocacy Center (http://www.lclark.edu/org/peac/)
will tell us the truth behind the Bush administration's
'Healthy Forest Initiative' and its impact on America's
forests.
The
rest of the show:
- Peter Christ is a retired police captain and is now on
the board of directors of Law Enforcement Against Drug Prohibition
(http://www.leap.cc/).
- Peter Phillips is the director of Project Censored (http://www.projectcensored.org/),
the folks behind the annually released 'Most Censored' stories.
This year's edition "Censored 2003: the Top 25 Censored
Stories" is available through Seven Stories Press.
Peter's recent article, "Inside Bohemian Grove US Elites
Celebrate Patriarchy, Racism and Class Privilege" (http://counterpunch.org/phillips08142003.html)
is equally disturbing.
Peter was interviewed live from our studios back in June
1999.
16 august 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Ross Pourzal, Washington-based political analyst with
the Alliance of Progressive Iranians, specializes in the
rhetoric of Iranian opposition factions and how US pressure
is designed to exploit youth discontent in Iran.
- Dr. Quentin Young, National coordinator for Physicians
for a National Health Program (http://www.pnhp.org).
On Tuesday, it was announced that more than seven thousand
physicians have signed on to a proposal for national health
insurance. Dr. Young convened the group of physicians who
drafted the plan.
The
middle of the show:
- Wendy Wolford is the co-author of the new Food First (http://www.foodfirst.org/)
report entitled "Now It Is Time: the MST and Grassroots
Land Reform in Brazil." Wendy is also co-author of
the forthcoming Food First book, "To Inherit the Earth:
The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil."
Wendy was scheduled to be on last week's broadcast, but
has rescheduled for this week.
The
rest of the show:
- Wenonah Hauter, the director of the energy and environment
program at Public Citizen (http://www.citizen.org)
who will give you the real low-down on this week's US blackout.
- Andy Thayer of the Chicago Anti-Bashing Network (http://www.cabn.org),
will talk to us live from the "March Against Corruption
and Brutality at Area 5" - an action to accelerate
reform within the Chicago Police Department.
9 august 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Sheldon Rampton, co-author of "Weapons of Mass Deception"
(http://www.prwatch.org).
Sheldon also co-wrote "Trust Us, We're Experts"
and "Toxic Sludge is Good for You" both with John
Stauber
- Rick Herz, a lawyer with EarthRights International (http://www.earthrights.org/)
who represents the plaintiffs in a number of Alien Tort
Claims Act cases, including this past week's victory for
human rights activists over UNOCAL.
The
middle of the show:
- Karen Kwiatkowski (http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski-arch.html),
a recently retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who spent
most of her final three years of military service in the
Office of the US Secretary of Defense's Under Secretariat
for Policy, gave her insider's account of how the decisions
have been corrupted by the Bush administration.
The
rest of the show:
- BBC and Guardian investigative journalist Greg Palast
(http://www.gregpalast.com)
author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"
2 august 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Brent Cunningham, Managing Editor of the Columbia Journalism
Review (http://www.cjr.org)
who wrote the cover story for next month's issue called
"Re-thinking Objectivity."
- Carole Samdup, program officer specializing in trade policy
for Rights and Democracy, a Canadian human rights group
(http://www.ichrdd.ca),
gave us the low-down on what happened at the WTO protests
in Montreal this week and where the global justice movement
that ignited at the Battle of Seattle stands today.
The
middle of the show:
- Jim Naureckas, the editor of Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting's Extra! (http://www.fair.org),
returned to This is Hell.
The
rest of the show:
- David Potorti, author of a brand-new book entitled "September
11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows-- Turning our Grief
into Action for Peace", is one of the founding members
of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows (http://www.peacefultomorrows.org),
a group of family members of September 11th victims seeking
effective, nonviolent solutions to terrorism.
- Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals
for Sanity, Ray chaired National Intelligence Estimates
and prepared the President's Daily Brief during his 27-year
career at CIA. Read one of Ray's most recent pieces, "Cheney's
'Irresponsible' Speech", by going to (http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16520)
26 july 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- on the weekend of the 50th anniversary of the end of hostilities
between the US and Korea, John Choe of Nodutdol for Korean
Community Development (http://www.july27.org),
an organization that was wrapping up a week of events in
DC that included a protest at the White House where they
pleaded with the Bush administration to end the Korean War
now and sign a peace treaty already.
The
middle of the show:
- Catherine Austin Fitts, a community investment activist
and former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development
in the US. Catherine, who is also an investment banker,
gave us her insight on community investment and development.
The
rest of the show:
- Nick Thompson, a Washington Monthly contributing editor
and author of "Science Friction: The growing--and dangerous--divide
between scientists and the GOP" (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.thompson.html#byline)
- and live in the studio, we talked with filmmaker Bill
Siegel whose documentary "The Weather Underground"
will open here in Chicago at the Music Box Theater, 3733
North Southport in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, on Friday,
August 1st.
19 july 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- author Saskia Sassen, professor of sociology at the London
School of Economics and the University of Chicago. She recently
had a commentary published in the Guardian entitled "New
Lords of Africa: Global protests did help poor countries
over drugs and Aids. But the counterattack has begun"(http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,994216,00.html).
Saskia's insight on the WTO, Africa and the Bush administration
challenges conventional conservative and liberal views on
globalization.
The
middle of the show:
- William Sheehan, creator of the controversial website
(http://www.justicefiles.org)
which reveals everything about the state of Washington's
law enforcement officials. Bill's story questions issues
ranging from abuse of authority and the use of the Internet
to freedom of speech and the exercise of justice..
The
rest of the show:
- Eric Miller, senior defense investigator for the Project
On Government Oversight (http://www.pogo.org),
a nonpartisan, nonprofit government watchdog in Washington
DC. Eric gave us a rundown of the current abuses within
the process of US military materiel procurement
- Andrew Boyd (http://www.wanderbody.com),
a lecturer at New York University, is co-chair of Billionaires
for Bush (or Gore) and author of "The Activist Cookbook"
and "Daily Afflictions" talked about his recent
story in The Nation called "The Web Rewires the Movement"
(http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030804&c=1&s=boyd).
Andrew gave us an update of the current state of the global
justice movement - or whatever they're calling it nowadays.
12 july 2003
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day's complete broadcast:
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middle of the show:
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rest of the show:
5 july 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Cindy and Craig Corrie (http://www.rachelcorrie.com)
parents of Rachel Corrie, an activist with the International
Solidarity Movement who was killed by the Israeli military
earlier this year.
- Bill Prindle, deputy director of the American Council
for an Energy-Efficient Economy (http://www.aceee.org).
The
middle of the show:
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rest of the show:
- Dr. Glen Rangwala, the lecturer in politics at Cambridge
University who broke the story revealing that the British
intelligence dossier endorsed by US Secretary of State Colin
Powell before the UN Security Council was plagiarized from
a graduate student thesis on the Internet (http://middleeastreference.org.uk/).
- Journalist Doug Ireland returned to TiH to discuss his
recent work at TomPaine.com (http://www.tompaine.com)
which includes his articles entitled "After the MoveOn
Primary" and "A Modest Proposal."
28 june 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- live from Iraq, Marla Ruzicka, activist with the Campaign
for Innocent Victims in Conflict (http://iraqvictimsfund.org/)
filled us in on current conditions in-country until, ironically,
the power went out in Baghdad and we lost communications
with her. That pretty much sums up the conditions in Iraq.
- Tim Wise is the Senior Advisor to the Fisk University
Race Relations Institute, and former Associate Director
of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the
group credited by many with the political defeat of neo-Nazi,
David Duke. Tim returned to TiH this week to talk about
the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision and other
issues of race that are effecting the States
The
middle of the show:
- Julia Bonds, executive director of Coal River Mountain
Watch (http://www.appvoices.org),
and winner of the 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize (http://www.goldmanprize.org)
told us about the new scourge of the Appalachians, mountaintop
removal mining, which is like "strip mining on steroids."
The
rest of the show:
- Jason Leopold, the former bureau chief in Los Angeles
for the Dow Jones Newswire, and the author of an upcoming
book on the 2001 California energy crisis, told us about
his recent work in Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.com)
"Containment was Working" and "Undermining
Blix."
- Tyson Slocum, research director for Public Citizen's Energy
Program (http://www.citizen.org),
told us the story of the new Enron-like scandal plaguing,
among others, Congressman Tom DeLay. Tyson gave us the low-down
on Enron last August and that interview can be found online
in our Archives section. This scandal, involving Kansas-based
energy company Westar, has left many smoking-gun memos implicating
the culprits.
21 june 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Kurt Biddle, Coordinator at the Indonesia Human Rights
Network (http://www.indonesianetwork.org)
retured to get us up-to-date on the troubles in Indonesia
and especially Aceh.
- Eric Leenson, founder of the Friends of the MST, the Landless
Workers Movement of Brazil (http://www.mstbrazil.org/)
The
middle of the show:
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rest of the show:
- Anuradha Mittal of Food First! (http://www.foodfirst.org)
and the author of the just-released report "Biotech
Crops Are Not the Solution to World Hunger: The Third World
Debunks Corporate Myths about Genetically Engineered Crops."
- Sarada Tangirala, oil campaign coordinator for Project
Underground (http://www.moles.org).
Project underground has been on TiH a couple of times in
the past, but not for a few years, so for the uninitiated,
PU "exists as a vehicle for the environmental, human
rights and indigenous rights movements to carry out focused
campaigns against abusive extractive resource activity."
14 june 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- Dr. Claudia Fegan of Physicians for a National Health
Program (http://www.pnhp.org)
and co-author of "Universal Healthcare: What the United
States Can Learn from Canada"
- Maude Barlow, director of the Council of Canadians (http://www.canadians.org/),
Canada's preeminent nonpartisan citizen watchdog organization
will discuss globalization's impact on our water supply
The
rest of the show:
- Gary Lachman, author of "Turn Off Your Mind: The
Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius"
(http://www.disinfo.com).
Gary once was known as Gary Valentine, the lead guitarist
for Blondie. Go figure.
7 june 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Bo Hla-Tint of the Burmese parliament in exile (http://www.ncgub.net)
- Felice Cohen-Joppa, coordinator of the US Campaign to
Free Mordechai Vanunu (http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/),
an Israeli nuclear whistleblower who has been imprisoned
in that country for sixteen years.
The
middle of the show:
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rest of the show:
- Tim Ream, a member of Cascadia Summer (http://www.cascadiasummer.org)
which is fighting against the exploitation of forests in
the Pacific Northwest
31 may 2003
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24 may 2003
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17 may 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Steven Waldman, Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Beliefnet
(http://www.beliefnet.com/).
Steven used to be the National Editor of US News & World
Report and before that the National Correspondent for Newsweek.
He earlier served as editor of The Washington Monthly. Waldman
also was senior advisor to the CEO of the Corporation for
National Service, the government agency that runs AmeriCorps
and other volunteer programs. He is the author of an acclaimed
book titled "The Bill" about the passage of the
AmeriCorps law, which is now a textbook in college courses
around the US.
Steven discussed his writings at Beliefnet, including his
work "Jesus in Baghdad Why we should keep Franklin
Graham out of Iraq."
- Eve Lyman, US coordinator of Afghans for Civil Society
(http://www.afghanpolicy.org),
talked about her group which works to help bring about a
democratic alternative for Afghanistan that opposes violence
and religious extremism and promotes the development of
a civil society.
The
middle of the show:
- Isabel Lowsada spoke with us live from London about her
group, Act for Tibet (http://www.actfortibet.org/).
Act for Tibet believes that terror promotes terror and that
this is the time for rewarding non-violence with determined
and positive action. they work toward new and effective
ways to support the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan People.
The
rest of the show:
- Ben Tripp is a screenwriter, a cartoonist, and a columnist
for Conterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org).
Ben's most recent work includes his Counterpunch pieces
"Fear Itself: It's Like That Stain on the Couch"
"The Other 'F' Word "
- Adam Hochschild, author of "King Leopold's Ghost", filled
us in on the ongoing horrors that continue in the Congo.
10 may 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- attorney Jan Fermon who is a lawyer in Belgium representing
Iraqi civilians, Fermon is preparing a complaint accusing
US Gen. Tommy Franks of war crimes. We talked with Collette
Maulaert of Medicine for the Third World about this two
weeks ago and will get a full update this morning.
The
middle of the show:
- Dr. Elaine Hagopian, Professor Emeritus, and former Chair
Sociology Department at Simmons College, and works with
Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine (http://www.vopj.org/).
That organization calls itself "an association of Jews
in Greater Boston working to promote a lasting peace between
Israelis and Palestinians based on mutual respect, justice,
and equality."
The
rest of the show:
- Ray McGovern of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity will join us to discuss the use and abuse of intelligence
to support the Bush administration's case for attacking
Iraq.
3 may 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Jerry Meade from the Global Justice Committee of Chicago
Jobs With Justice joined us along with Luis Adolfo Cardona,
a former employee at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Antioquia,
Colombia. Luis is in the States under the protection of
the AFL-CIO against assassination attempts that were made
on his life in Colombia due to his union organizing.
The
middle of the show:
- Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist
and columnist. He wrote the introduction to "Forbidden
Truth" the controversial French bestseller on 9-11
authored by Jean-Charles Brisard. Wayne also writes for
Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org)
The
rest of the show:
- Corpwatch (http://www.corpwatch.org)
investigative reporter Pratap Chatterjee discussed his series
exposing the corporations that have their hands in the postwar
till.
26 april 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness (http://www.vitw.org),
which has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace
Prize. Kathy just returned from Iraq last night and told
us about her experiences there. Kathy was in Iraq with the
and the Iraq Peace Team (http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org)
- Jeff Milchen of Reclaim Democracy (http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org),
an organization that is fighting against the excessive 'corporate
citizen' rights of multinationals like Nike.
The
middle of the show:
- Andy Thayer of Chicago's Anti-Bashing Network (http://www.cabn.org/)
and the Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism (http://www.antiwar.org)
told us what's new with these two local organizations that
work on a national level
- Sandra Coliver of the Center for Justice and Accountability
(http://www.cja.org)
told us about the terrorists that have sought and found
safe harbor here in the States.
The
rest of the show:
- Collette Moulaert of the Belgian organization Medicine
for the Third World (http://www.m3m.be)
which is charging US General Tommy Franks with war crimes.
- editor and author Russ Kick talked about his new book
"Abuse Your Illusions: the Disinformation Guide to
Media Myths and Establishment Lies" (http://www.disinfo.com)
and his own website, the Memory Hole (http://www.thememoryhole.com)
19 april 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Bob Dreyfuss, a senior correspondent for the American
Prospect (http://www.prospect.org)
and has written several articles on the future of Iraq.
Bob has written extensively about the future of Iraq, the
Bush administration's hand-picked men to run the country
after the fall of Saddam, His most recent story in the American
Prospect is called "Humpty Dumpty in Baghdad: How the
Pentagon plans to dominate postwar Iraq " (http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/5/dreyfuss-r.html).
- Fareed Mohameddi, chief economist for PFC Energy (http://www.pfcenergy.com)
and senior director in the Markets and Countries Group.
PFC Energy was established in 1984 and is one of the preeminent
strategic advisory firms in global energy. Fareed's work
focuses on "global structural changes affecting the
investment environment in the energy industry." Fareed
also analyzes "national oil companies and the challenges
they face." According to his bio at the PFC Energy
website, Fareed has been at PFC Energy since 1990 and between
1996 and 1998 led the market analysis and country risk teams.
From 1998 to 2000, when he returned to PFC Energy, he was
vice president/senior analyst at Moody's Investors Service
as the lead country analyst for a number of petroleum and
gas producing countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and
Kazakhstan. In the past, Fareed had also worked as an economist
at the Institute of International Finance in the Middle
East and Asia departments, the World Bank, Wharton Econometrics
Forecasting Associates and the Ministry of Finance and National
Economy in Bahrain.
The
middle of the show:
- Tala Dowlatshahi, the Reporters without Borders (http://www.rsf.org/)
representative in the United States, talked with us about
the, sometimes deadly, challenges of being a reporter in
this war with Iraq. Tala was to appear last week, and has
rescheduled.
The
rest of the show:
- Mark Sedra, research associate at Germany's Bonn International
Center for Conversion (http://www.bicc.de).
The Bonn Center's mission is to transfer resources from
the military to the civilian sector. Mark has monitored
developments in the internationally-directed Afghan security
sector reform process including military reform, police
reform, judicial reform, counter-narcotics, and disarmament
particularly in the demobilization and reintegration of
ex-combatants. Mark is currently working to assess the effectiveness
of international donor policies pertaining to security.
12 april 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- David Cole is The Nation's (http://www.thenation.com)
legal affairs correspondent and the author of "No Equal
Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice
System (New Press) and co-author, with past TiH guest Jim
Dempsey, of "Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing
Civil Liberties for National Security (New Press)."
Sheryl Fred, a reporter for the Center for Responsive Politics
(http://www.opensecrets.org)
and its online publication, CapitalEye (http://www.capitaleye.org)
who broke the story on how a handful of Bush administration
favored construction firms got an early invitation to rebuild
Iraq
The
middle of the show:
- Michael Despines, the International Rescue Committee's
(http://www.theirc.org/)
former country director for the Democratic Republic of Congo
and the IRC's current senior policy advisor. Arjun Makhijani,
president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental
Research (http://ieer.org/)
and commentator on KNMU Public Radio in New Mexico (http://www.knmu.org)
discussed the future of nuclear power.
The
rest of the show:
- John Castanho, the secretary treasurer of the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union Local #10 (http://home.attbi.com/%7eflstfi/local10.html)
at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, whose members were
shot on by Oakland police this week at an antiwar rally
at the Oakland docks. And wrapped up the show with a live
report from the anitwar protest in Washington, DC with Christian
Wright of George Washington University's Students Against
War in Iraq
29 march 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- former UN weapons
inspector Scott Ritter, and East Chicago environmental activist
Betty Balanoff who is working with The Calumet Project (http://www.calproject.org)
is fighting a US Army toxic waste disposal site that is
within just a few blocks of two area schools.
The
middle of the show:
The
rest of the show:
- Palestinian
journalist Lamis Andoni. Lamis, an independent journalist
and analyst who has covered the Middle East for twenty-plus
years, (http://www.electroniciraq.net)
22 march 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Rachel Coen
of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting who dissected the
embedding of journalists in the war coverage (http://www.fair.org)
and Chris Toensing, editor of Middle East Report, told us
about the reality of Saddam's Iraq as a threat to the US,
the Middle East and the World (http://www.merip.org)
The
middle of the show:
- Stephen Zunes
of Foreign Policy in Focus gave us a rundown of the disinformation
supplied by the Bush administration in order to get into
this war (http://www.fpif.org)
The
rest of the show:
- International
Solidarity Movement member Greg Schnabel who gave us us
his eyewitness account of the tragic death of Rachel Corrie
who was killed during a home demolition by Israeli Defense
Forces in the Occupied Territories (http://www.palsolidarity.org).
15 march 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
The
rest of the show:
- BBC Newsnight
and Guardian reporter Greg , author of "The Best Democracy
Money Can Buy" (http://www.gregpalast.com).,and
a live report from the anti-war protests in Washington D.C.
with Gene Bruskin of US Labor Against the War (http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/).
Our cell connection with Gene broke up, but we just wanted
to make sure and link USLAW's site.(listen
to the entire show online). We also had the return of
Jeff Dorchen and the Moment of Truth.
8 march 2003
Krys
and Kevan chat with Palast:
- While your host was out sick, the asylum was taken over
by TiH producers Krys Bigosinski and Kevan Harris. They
played some classic interviews, which can now be found in
our Archives, but they also
received a surprise phone call from Greg
Palast.
1 march 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- live from her home in Wales, Merryl Wyn Davies,
co-author of "Why Do People Hate America". Joanne
Doroshow, executive director at the Center
for Justice and Democracy, talked about medical
malpractice, insurance and tort reforms.
The
middle of the show:
- Andrew Brugin of the Stop the War Coalition UK,
gave us a live report from London where he was attending
a conference of representatives from around the world to
discuss "joint cooperation and action to prevent war.
Norman Solomon, co-author of "Target Iraq: What
the News media Didn't tell You"
The
rest of the show:
- Kani Xulam, director of the American Kurdish Information
Network, gave us his perspective on the future of Iraqi
Kurdistan
22 february 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- from his home in Canada, Imad Khadduri. Imad worked
with the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission for thirty years,
until 1998, when he was able to leave with his family. Read
Imad's four-part series on the weapons inspections by clicking
here.
The
middle of the show:
- from Cochabamba, Bolivia, we talked with Jim Shultz,
executive director of The
Democracy Center, and author of "The Democracy
Owners' Manual" (Rutgers University Press). We also
talked with Chuck Lewis of the Center
for Public Integrity, who told us about the leaked
Patriot Act II.
The
rest of the show:
- from Istanbul, Sanar Yurdatapan. Sanar was recently
awarded the Global Rights Defenders award by Human Rights
Watch.
15 february 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Mike Marqusee who we talked with live from the
Stop
The War protest in London last September, opened
the show with a live report from the anti-war protests in
New York City
- Danny Muller of Voices
in the Wilderness called in as he was preparing
to go to the anti-war march in Chicago.
The
middle of the show:
- Andy Thayer of the Chicago Coalition Against
War and Racism called in as the protest on Chicago's
north side was taking shape. Three to five thosuand people
showed up despite the incredibly cold weather.
- Shengde Lian, executive director, Free
China Movement a former Tian An Men Square student
leader in 1989 and political prisoner will talk about the
alleged kidnapping, arrest and conviction of the founder
of the overseas Chinese democracy movement.
The
rest of the show:
- Writer Tom
Flocco will tell us about the many stories that
he breaks at his website
- Rev. Robert Moore, executive director of Coalition
for Peace Action will give us one last update from
the protests in New York City
8 february 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Bill Fletcher, president of TransAfrica
Forum and co-chair of United
for Peace and Justice, filled us in on the anti-war
movement, the plans for the following weekend's protest,
and the issues facing the African diaspora worldwide. Susan
Wright, editor of "Biological Warfare and Disarmament:
New Problems/New Perspectives" helped unravel the
myths about weapons of mass destruction spun by president
Bush in his State of the Union address, and Colin Powell
in his United Nations presentation.
The
middle of the show:
- Stephen Schwartz of Chicago's Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists, told us the time on their
Doomsday Clock and fillrf us in on the Bush administration's
weapons policies.
The
rest of the show:
- Ross Wehner of Mother
Jones discussed "Deflowering Ecuador,"
his story on the workers at Ecuador's booming rose industry
who are paying a heavy price for the roses that many of
us will present to our loved ones on Valentine's Day. And
we closed the show by talking with Michael Renner,
author of the report "Post-Saddam
Iraq: Linchpin of a New Oil Order"
1 february 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- Freelance writer Jennifer Berkshire who has written
for Labor Notes, Alternet as well as Dollars and Sense.
She covered the previous weekend's World Social Forum in
Porto Allegre for Counterpunch
and we spoke with The
Black Commentator co-publisher Glen Ford
The
rest of the show:
25 january 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- Amer Abdelhadi, manager of an independent radio
station, TMFM,
in the West Bank city of Nablus gave us a live report from
the Occupied Territories.
The
rest of the show:
- Malavika Vartak works on the south Asia campaigns
of International
Rivers Network and she filled us in on the Narmada
River Development project in India and its impact on millions
of people living in the river valley there. We got in touch
with Malavika through another group she works with called
the Friends
of the River Narmada
- we wrapped the show up with peace activist Adam Shapiro
was leading a workshop on the international component of
Palestinian nonviolent direct action at the National
Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington,
D.C. this weekend. Adam told us about his work with the
International
Solidarity Movement. Adam has been arrested by the
Israeli police while demonstrating for peace in the Middle
East, has been trapped with Yasser Arafat, and has had his
own parents lives threatened due to his work.
18 January 2003
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- Dr. Bryan Brickner, executive director and chair
of Illinois
NORML told us about the possibility of a medical
marijuana initiative in Illinois
The
rest of the show:
- Author and historian Bruce Cumings, whose work
focuses on Korea, gave us the necessary background for us
to understand the mess in Korea.
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