Robert
Dreyfuss is Rolling Stone's national security correspondent,
and a contributing editor at The Nation where he writes
the 'The
Dreyfuss Report, blog. Recent entries include, "Fire
Gates!," "Exit 2011, Parts I and II," "Iran:
No Sanctions" and "The Iranian Souffle."author
of "Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash
Fundamentalist Islam." He is the author of 2005's "The
Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist
Islam" (Henry Holt).
reporter Jason Grotto is the co-author of the five-part
Chicago Tribune series on 'Agent
Orange's Lethal Legacy.' Jason co-wrote the series with
Tim Jones.
Shlomo Sands a professor of history at the University
of Tel Aviv. Shlomo is the author of, "The
Invention of the Jewish People," (Verso Books)
winner of the Aujourd'hui Award, a French journalism award
for top non-fiction political or historical work. The book
was an international bestseller and was on Israel's bestseller
list for 19 weeks.
Patrick Bond is professor at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies where he directs
the Centre for Civil Society. Patrick also serves as visiting
professor at Gyeongsang National University Institute of
Social Sciences, South Korea. He is a co-advisor on the
adviser to the new short film, "The
Story of Cap and Trade."
We also have a 'Wasted Energy Report' from activist Danny
Muller in Portland, Maine, and Jeff
Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.
Rahul
Mahajan is the author of 2003's "Full Spectrum
Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond" (Seven
Stories Press) and 2002's "The New Crusade: America's
War on Terrorism," (Monthly
Review Press). Rahul serves on the Administrative Committee
of anti-war coalition United for Peace and Justice, the
Board of Directors of Peace Action and the Advisory Board
of Occupation Watch. In 2002 he ran as the Green Party candidate
for governor of Texas. Rahul reported from Fallujah during
the bloody April 2004 siege.
This will be Rahul's first appearance on This is Hell! since
October 13, 2001
investigative journalist Greg
Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers
"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and "Armed
Madhouse." Greg's new DVD is called, "Palast Investigates:
From 8-Mile to the Amazon," which focuses on the trail
of the financial marauders. The DVD is a compilation three
Palast reports on BBC Newsnight, none of which have been
broadcast on American television.
All of Greg's books and videos can be purchased through
his web site. Just click above on his name.
We'll be talking with Greg about his recent report, "World
Trade Organization Risks Financial 'China Syndrome'"
among other things.
This is Hell! was the first US radio program to ever feature
an interview with Greg, way back in December 16, 2000.
Greg once said of your bitter blind broke gap-toothed host
of This is Hell!, "Chuck should be syndicated. He has
the greatest guests. I do endless interviews on C-SPAN,
and it's so much fun on Chuck's show. It's like a vacation.
But he also does heavy stuff, so I feel like I'm getting
more information than with the other outlets."
Zoltan Grossman is a faculty member in Geography
and Native American Studies at The Evergreen State College
at Olympia, Washington's Evergreen State College. Zoltan's
studies and teaching have focused on many areas including
military interventions and the US military bases network.
He wrote the essay, "A
Century of US Military Interventions: From Wounded Knee
to Iraq," for Carolyn Baker's 2006 collection, "US
History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn't
Tell You" (iUniverse).
This week, he posted the article, "Afghanistan:
The Roach Motel of Empires,"
Matthieu
Aikins is an international freelance journalist
and photographer who has reported from Afghanistan, Iran,
and Pakistan for Harper's Magazine, Canada's National Post
and the Toronto Globe & Mail. For his reporting in 2008,
Matthieu was the winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists
Award in the Community Newspaper category, and the Atlantic
Journalism Award for Enterprise Reporting. Matthieu's article
in this month's Harpers' is entitled, "The
master of Spin Boldak: Undercover with Afghanistan's
drug-trafficking border police."
Our irregular correspondents were Dan 'The Auto Man'
Litchfield; Drew Colglazier gave us his inaugural
sports report; and Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.Here's an index
to our last nine years of podcasts:
Culture and media critic David Rosen is the author
of the new book, "Sex
Scandal America: Politics and the Ritual of Public Shaming"
(Key
Publishing).
David appeared on the July 21st, 2007 (listen)
and November 4th, 2006 (listen)
broadcasts of This is Hell!
Christian
Parenti is a contributing editor at The
Nation and visiting scholar at the the City University
of New York Graduate Center. Christian is the author of
the 2005 book, "The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations
in Occupied Iraq" (New
Press), which is now available in paperback. He is currently
at work on a book about climate change and war. His article,
"Zombie
Nuke Plants," is online at The Nation's web site
and will be published in the December 7th print edition.
The story's subheadline reads, "thirty years after
the Three Mile Island partial meltdown, the real nuclear
power threat is the relicensing of old plants."
Christian has been on This is Hell! a couple of times including
August 2nd, 2008 (listen)
and January 8th, 2005 (listen).
He also appeared way back on January 8th, 2000, to talk
about his now classic book, "Lockdown America: Police
and Prisons in the Age of Crisis." That interview is
currently unavailable but will be after the upcoming relaunch
of this web site.
Christian was quoted saying this about This is Hell!: "Hell
yeah, Chuck Mertz does good radio."
Alexander Cockburn is a syndicated columnist, the
'Beat the Devil' columnist at The
Nation, and the co-editor of Counterpunch.
Alexander's recent writing at Counterpunch includes, "The
Auld Triangle Goes Jingle Jangle," "It’s
Show Trial Time!," "One
in a Hundred," "Too
Fat to Fight," "The
Long Gaze of the State" and "All
the Populism Money Can Buy."
Alexander has been on This is Hell! several times including,
September 6th, 2008 (listen),
October 14th, 2006 (listen)
- an interview that was chosen as one of the 'Best of 2006'
by our listeners - and August 27th, 2005 (listen).
He was also on back in 2004. That podcast is currently unavailable
but will be after the upcoming relaunch of this web site.
Alexander says this of your bitter blind broke gap-toothed
radio show host: "Chuck Mertz's hate is pure,
and funny."
Our irregular correspondents were LaddieO.com, live
from URL Labs,
and Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.
Robert
Auerbach was an economist at the House banking committee
during the tenure of four Federal Reserve Chairmen including
Alan Greenspan. Robert also served as an economist in the
US Treasury's Office of Domestic Monetary Affairs during
the Reagan administration and as a financial economist with
the Federal Reserve. He received his PhD. in economics from
the University of Chicago where he studied under Milton
Friedman. His latest book is, "Deception and Abuse
at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Alan Greenspan's Bank"
(University
of Texas). His writing also appears at the Huffington
Post.
live from Toronto, award-winning syndicated columnist
Eric
Margolis. As a war correspondent, Eric covered conflicts
in Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Sinai, Afghanistan,
Kashmir, India, Pakistan, El Salvador and Nicaragua. He
was among the first journalists to ever interview Muammar
Khadaffi and was also among the first to be allowed access
to KGB headquarters in Moscow. As a veteran reporter of
conflicts in the Middle East, Sky News TV called him, "the
man who got it right," in his predictions about the
risks and entanglements the US would face in Iraq. Eric
is the author of the 2008 book, "American
Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict
Between the West and the Muslim World," which was a
finalist for the 2009 Governors Award for nonfiction."
Rajiv Shah is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in
the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. Rajiv follows developments in Chicago's use
of video surveillance at his Smart
Cameras blog. He has studied the development of these
so-called "smart cameras" which use additional
sensors and/or computer processing techniques.
live from Jordan, investigative journalist Pratap Chatterjee
is the senior editor at CorpWatch.
Pratap is the author of "Halliburton's Army: How A
Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way
America Makes War" (Nation
Books). This week, Pratap posted the story, "Paying
Off the Warlords: Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption,"
at TomDispatch.
Our irregular correspondents were:
live from London, David Skalinder a doctoral student
the London School of Economics. David will discuss the "Stalinist"
British care system and the Republican freedom fighters
who he interviewed who wish to "rid the world of the
totalitarian oppression that is free, convenient, and effective
health care."
live from San Juan, Dave Buchen will be talking
about recent general strike in Puerto Rico, the refinery
explosion and the threat of "terrorism," and,
of course, the MTV Latino Music Awards.
live from Los Angeles, Jeff
Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.
14 november 2009
(Note: We are currently attempting to locate a recording
of this broadcast.. Despite recording our show in three separate
places, we were unable to capture this edition of our program
for a myriad of reasons. If you recorded this broadcast, please
send us an email by clicking here.
You will be generously rewarded. Thank you.)
Salon.com's award-winning investigative reporter Mark
Benjamin. Mark's writing focuses on national security
issues with an emphasis on the plight of returning veterans
and detainee abuse. Mark broke the story on the deplorable
conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and also obtained
for Salon the Army's entire Abu Ghraib investigative files.
Thursday, he posted the article, "The
media's silly Fort Hood coverage."
Alfred McCoy is a Professor of History at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of "Policing
America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and
the Rise of the Surveillance State" (University
of Wisconsin Press). Alfred was on This is Hell! back
on January 28, 2006 (Listen
here) to discuss his book, "A Question Of Torture:
CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror"
(Metropolitan
Books). This week, he posted the TomDispatch piece,
"Welcome
Home, War!: How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying
Our Liberties."
New York Times and Time magazine columnist, Barbara
Ehrenreich. Barbara is the author of seventeen books
including her latest, "Bright-Sided:
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined
America" (Metropolitan Books). She is also a contributor
to The
Nation and Harper's.
Her recent writing includes the TomDispatch piece, "Are
Women Getting Sadder?: Or Are We All Just Getting a
Lot More Gullible?"
Author Barbara
Ehrenreich was scheduled but we were unable to connect.
Later, Barbara left a message saying she was "mortifed"
that we didn't talk. She rescheduled for the following Saturday.
So your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck
Mertz essentially rambles for an hour ...
James B. Steele co-wrote the Vanity Fair article,
"Good
Billions After Bad," with his investigative reporting
partner Donald L. Barlett. Steele and Barlett are the only
investigative
journalism team to have won two Pulitzers and two National
Magazine Awards. They are both contributing editors to Vanity
Fair and editors-at-large for TIME magazine. Their most
recent book is 2004's "Critical Condition: How Health
Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine"
(Doubleday).
Vanity Fair's sub-headline for "Good Billions After
Bad" reads:
As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled
more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds
into the financial system—without restrictions, accountability,
or even common sense. The authors reveal how much of it
ended up in the wrong hands, doing the opposite of what
was needed.
live from Copenhagen, Tom
Tresser is a volunteer organizer for 'No
Games Chicago.' Tom is a consultant, producer, educator
and trainer who works with individuals, companies and communities
to "leverage and amplify their creative assets in order
to solve problems, create economic value and trigger civic
engagement." He is the author of the book, "America
Needs You! Why You Should Become a Creativity Champion."
Find out more about Tom by going to his Creativity
Champion web site.
David Cole, is the co-author of "The
Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable" (The
New Press). David is a professor of law at Georgetown
University, a volunteer staff attorney at the Center
for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent
at The
Nation, and the author of the American Book Award-winning
"Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional
Freedoms in the War on Terrorism" (The
New Press).
David will be part of a panel addressing, "The Perils
of Preventive Law Enforcement in the War on Terror."
David will be joined by Chicago Police Superintendent Jody
Weis, former US attorney Thomas Sullivan, and Illinois State
Police director Jonathan Monken.
This event takes place Monday, October 19th, beginning at
10 AM in the Paris Room of Hotel Monaco, 225 North Wabash.
To RSVP, send an email by clicking here.
Stephen
Glain is a weekly columnist for the Abu Dhabi English-language
paper The National and a regular contributor to the London-based
Al Majallah magazine. Stephen has been a business reporter
for the South China Morning Post and a foreign correspondent
for the Wall Street Journal. His book, "Mullahs, Merchants,
and Militants: The Economic Collapse of the Arab World,"
(St. Martin's Press) was named the best book of 2004 by
online magazine The Globalist. His most recent writing includes
The Nation article, "The
American Leviathan." He is currently working on
a book about the militarization of US foreign policy which
is the subject of his Nation story.
Thomas
Frank is a regular columnist for the Wall Street
Journal. Tom's latest book is "The Wrecking Crew: How
Conservatives Rule" (Metropolitan
Books). Tom's earlier book,
"What The Matter With Kansas," has been made into
a documentary.
Joe Winston, the director of the new film, joined
us live in-studio.
Show times through Thursday, are 6:15 PM and 8:15 PM.
Glen Ford, executive editor of the Black
Agenda Report will discuss his latest writing including,
"The
Van Jones Affair: An 'Unfriendly Environment; for Progressives
at the White House," and "Black
is Back! A Coalition to Fight the Powers that Be - Including
Obama."
Tom Mucha, formerly of Crains Chicago Business
and CNN, is now a writer at GlobalPost. Tom's most recent
work is entitled, “World
of Trouble: Is the Nightmare Over?," a survey from
20 countries on where the world economy currently stands.
Craig Holman is Legislative Representative for
Public
Citizen. In that capacity, Craig serves as the organization's
Capitol Hill lobbyist on campaign finance and governmental
ethics.
Danny Weil has written a three-part series on charter
schools for Counterpunch. Danny is an attorney with thirty
years experience as well as a union organizer. Danny is
also a former primary school teacher in Los Angeles and
works as an educational and organizational management consultant.
He is currently director of the Critical Thinking Institute,
an educational institute serving public and private entities
throughout the world.
His three-part series at Counterpunch was headlined, in
order, "Neoliberalism,
Charter Schools and the Chicago Model: Obama and Duncan's
Education Policy… Like Bush's, Only Worse," "The
Charter School Hype and How It's Managed," and
"The
Future of Charter Schools."
Live in the studio, irregular correspondent Dr. Krys Bigosinski,
MD, gave us a report on his recent trip to his Polish homeland.
live from Beirut, Rami Khouri is the Director
of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International
Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as
editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper,
published throughout the Middle East with the International
Herald Tribune. You can find all Rami's work at the Daily
Star by clicking here.
In November 2006, he was the co-recipient of the Pax Christi
International Peace Award for his efforts to bring peace
and reconciliation to the Middle East. His most recent writing
includes the article, "Pro-Israel
Panic."
Global
Post executive editor Charles M. Sennott is a
former New York Daily News city reporter, Boston Globe investigative
journalist, foreign correspondent, Middle East and Europe
Bureau chief, and winner of the Livingston Award for National
Reporting as well as a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize
for Investigative Reporting by Harvard University's Shorenstein
Center. In 2004, Charlie article entitled "The Perils
of Empire" - and posted from the frontlines of the
war in Iraq - was recognized by the Foreign Press Association
as "Story of the Year." We'll be speaking with
Charlie about his Global Post project, "Life,
death and the Taliban," which "seeks to enhance
America's understanding of Taliban history in Afghanistan
and Pakistan. At this crucial time in the U.S.-led war against
the Taliban."
Anna Lenzer reports on water issues for Mother
Jones. Anna's article in the September edition, "Fiji
Water: Spin the Bottle," wonders "How did
a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship
thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?"
Sherwood Ross is a former writer at now-defunct
The Chicago Daily News and other major dailies and a columnist
for wire services. This week, Sherwood wrote the piece,
"Iraq
War's Winners and Losers." He currently runs a
public relations firm for "worthy causes."
Eugenia Tsao is a PhD candidate in medical anthropology
at the University of Toronto and a CGS Doctoral Fellow of
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(we have no idea what CGS stands for either, but we'll ask
Eugenia tomorrow). This week, she wrote the story, "Inside
the DSM: The Drug Barons' Campaign to Make Us All Crazy."
Our irregular correspondents were Kevan
Harris, 'The Radical Pessimist,' reporting live from
Istanbul; Elvis
DeMorrow returned with a Konspiracy Korner on the
Lockerbie bombing; and Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.
from March 21, 2009, and live from Mexico City, Laura
Carlsen is a program director at the Center
for International Policy's Americas Policy Program in
Mexico City. The prior weekend, Laura wrote, "Drug
War Doublespeak: Sorting Reality From Hype."
from April 11, 2009, Manuel Perez Rocha directs
"The NAFTA Plus and the SPP Advocacy Project,"
part of the Global Economy Project. Manuel is a Mexican
national who has led tri-national efforts to promote just
and sustainable alternative approaches to North American
economic integration for more than a decade. Manuel had
recently written the article, "The
Failed War on Drugs in Mexico."
from July 18, 2009, Jeff Faux is founder and former
president of the Economic
Policy Institute where he is currently a distinguished
fellow. Jeff's most recent article was a piece in The Nation
entitled, "So
Far From God, So Close to Wall St." He is the author
of "The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan
Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It
Back" (Wiley).
from July 26, 2009, author, journalist, and essayist Charles
Bowden is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and
often writes about the American Southwest. Chuck is currently
a contributing editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazines.
His most recent writing includes, "We
Bring Fear: A reporter flees the biggest cartel of all
- the Mexican Army." His most recent book is "Some
of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future"
(Houghton
Mifflin) which came out earlier this year.
from February 26, 2005, Dr. David Healy, director
of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine,
who has made claims that Prozac and other drugs like it
- known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - can
be addictive and cause suicidal tendencies in some people.
Dr. Healy recently testified in the deaths of two grandparents
murdered by their twelve year-old son in which Dr. Healy
believes Zoloft may have been the cause.
from June 13, 2009, Ethan Nadelmann is the founder
and executive director of the Drug
Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United
States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. Ethan
is the author of 1993's "Cops
Across Borders," which was the first scholarly
study of the internationalization of US criminal law enforcement,
and co-authored the 2006 book, "Policing the Globe:
Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations."
(Oxford
University Press). He has been described by Rolling
Stone as "the point man" on drug policy reform
efforts.
In honor of producer Drew Colglazier - who is leaving This
is Hell! after six years - it's 'The Best of Drew Colglazier.'
Interviews that Drew selected include:
from April 14, 2007, Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman
Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology
at Columbia University. His most recent book is "Good
Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots
of Terror." (Pantheon)
Mahmood had just published a London Review of Books article
entitled, "The
Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency."
From November 29, 2008, Frances Fox Piven is on
the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University
of New York. She is the author, most recently, of Challenging
Authority: How Ordinary People Change America. Frances had
just written the Nation article, "Obama
Needs a Protest Movement."
From October 11, 2008, Thomas
Frank whose latest book is "The Wrecking Crew:
How Conservatives Rule" (Metropolitan Books). Tom is
a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
From October 4, 2008, author Dave Zirin writes
the column 'The Edge of Sports' at http://www.edgeofsports.com
and is a regular contributor to SI.com, The Nation, SLAM
and the Los Angeles Times. Dave's latest book is "A
People's History of Sports in the United States" (The
New Press).
from April 18, 2009, Peter Gowan wrote "Crisis
in the Heartland" for the January/February edition
of the New Left Review where he is a member of the editorial
board. Peter is Professor of International Relations at
London Metropolitan University and course director of the
MA in International Relations. He is also a member of the
America Discussion Group at the Royal Institute of International
Affairs.
Peter recently passed away.
from September 17, 2005, MP George Galloway, author
of the book, "Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington: The
Brit Who Set Congress Straight About Iraq" (New
Press).Mr. Galloway is the Respect Party's Member of
Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow in London, a seat he
won after being expelled from the Labour Party following
thirty-six year of membership. The Party expelled George
for opposing the war in Iraq.
from February 16, 2008 writer and researcher Alex de
Waal is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at
Harvard University, program director at the Social Science
Research Council in New York City, and co-director of Justice
Africa in London. Alex had been part of a debate on Darfur
in Newsweek.
His most recent writing at the time included, "Making
Sense of Chad."
writer Andrew Cockburn, co-producer of the award-winning
film, "American
Casino: When You Are in Wall Street's Casino, You Play
by Their Rules." Andrew's recent writing includes the
Counterpunch piece, "The
Wall Street White House: How Goldman Sachs and Citi
Run the Show." His most recent book is 2007's "Rumsfeld:
His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy" (Verso).
"American Casino" was an official selection of
the largest international documentary film festival in the
world, the IDFA festival in Amsterdam, as well as at the
Tribeca film festival. The film is directed by Andrew's
wife Leslie who has won the Robert F. Kennedy Award,
the George Polk Award, the Columbia Dupont Award, the Overseas
Press Club Award and an Emmy.
"American Casino" is currently showing in Chicago
at the Gene Siskel Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State,
through Thursday, August 20th, at 6 PM and 7:45 PM.
Find out more about the Chicago showings by clicking here.
"American Casino" will be playing in San Francisco
from August 21 to September 3 at the Roxie, 3117 16th St.;
in Milwaukee from August 28 to September 4 at The Times
Theater; In New York from September 2 through September
15 at the Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St.; and in LA from
September 18 through 24 at the Laemmle Music Hall 3, 9036
Wilshire Blvd, in Beverly Hills.
Rein Müllerson was professor and chair of
international law at King's College, London until this past
May when he became the Rector of Tallinn University Nord.
Rein has been a member of the United Nations Human Rights
Committee, visiting centennial professor of the London School
of Economics and Political Science, and first deputy foreign
minister of Estonia. He was Head of the International Law
Department of the Institute of State and Law of the Academy
of Sciences of the USSR and Adviser to President Gorbachev.
He is the author of several books on international law and
politics including, "Democracy Promotion: Institutions,
International Law and Politics" (Nova
Publishers) which came out earlier this year. His most
recent writing is the openDemocracy story, "Europe,
America, Russia: the world-changing tide."
Michael Massing is a contributing editor of the
Columbia Journalism
Review, who writes frequently on the press and foreign
affairs. His latest article in the New York Review of Books
is "The
News About the Internet" where he argues that "the
practice of journalism, far from being leeched by the Web,
is being reinvented there, with a variety of fascinating
experiments in the gathering, presentation, and delivery
of news. And unless the editors and executives at our top
papers begin to take note, they will hasten their own demise."
His most recent book is 2004's "Now They Tell Us: The
American Press and Iraq" (New
York Books).
Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Professor
of History at the University of Michigan. Juan's most recent
book is , "Engaging
the Muslim World" (Palgrave). Juan writes at his
critically-acclaimed blog, the
Informed Comment. His most recent writing include the
TomDispatch column, "Armageddon
at the Top of the World, Not!: A Century of Frenzy over
the North-West Frontier."
Dr. Oliver Fein is president of Physicians
for a National Health Program, an organization of 16,000
doctors who advocate for single-payer national health insurance.
Dr. Fein is a general internist who is active in clinical
practice, and he is also professor of clinical medicine
and clinical public health at Weill Medical College of Cornell
University, where he serves as associate dean responsible
for the Office of Affiliations and the Office of Global
Health Education. Dr. Fein has advocated for an expanded
role for primary care, for academic health centers in urban
health care delivery systems, and for national health system
reform. He was Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow
when he worked in the office of Senate Democratic Majority
Leader George Mitchell in the early 1990s. He is chair of
the NY Chapter of PNHP and immediate past vice president
of the American Public Health Association.
Our man in Budapest, Todd Williams, gve us a report
on the goings-on in Eastern Europe. Jeff
Dorchen will delivered a Moment of Truth.
Melvin Goodman, is senior fellow at the Center
for International Policy and adjunct professor of government
at Johns Hopkins University. Melvin spent 42 years with
the CIA, the National War College, and the US Army. His
latest book is "Failure of Intelligence: The Decline
and Fall of the CIA." He is a a regular contributor
to The Public Record. His latest column was headlined, "The
CIA's Long History Of Lying to Congress."
live from Haifa, Noam Chayut, co-founder of Breaking
the Silence and a former Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense
Forces. Breaking the Silence recently release a report with
allegations that IDF soldiers used Palestinians as human
shields during this past December's war in Gaza.
Washington Post staff writer and author Kari Lydersen
will discuss her new book, "Revolt on Goose Island:
The Chicago factory takeover and what it says about the
economic crisis" (Melville
House).
author, journalist, and essayist Charles Bowden
is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and often writes
about the American Southwest. Chuck is currently a contributing
editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazines. His most recent
writing includes, "We
Bring Fear: A reporter flees the biggest cartel of all
- the Mexican Army." His most recent book is "Some
of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future"
(Houghton
Mifflin) which came out earlier this year.
University of California-Irvine Chancellor's Professor
of History Kenneth Pomeranz. Ken's most recent writing
includes, "The
Great Himalayan Watershed: Agrarian Crisis, Mega-Dams
and the Environment." His most recent book is 2006's
"The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and
the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Second Edition"
(M.E.
Sharpe) which he co-wrote with Scott Turk.
We'll also interviewed guest Kevan Harris (AKA 'The
Radical Pessimist') live from Tehran, but the connection was
horrible.
live from Tokyo, Eamonn Fingleton is the former
editor for Forbes and the Financial Times. Eamonn wrote
the Counterpunch article about "Detroit's Collapse,
the Untold Story: How the Press Helped Destroy the Auto
Industry." He is the author of "In the Jaws of
the Dragon: America's Fate in the Coming Chinese Hegemony"
(Thomas
Dunne Books). Find out more about Eamonn by going to
http://www.unsustainable.org.
live from London, Matt Kennard is a 2008 graduate
of the Colombia University Graduate School of Journalism
in as a Stabile Investigative scholar. Matt recently moved
back to his hometown of London and has written for the Guardian,
Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and several other prominent publications.
He wrote the Salon.com article, "Neo-Nazis are in the
Army now." This week, he wrote the story, "Irregular
Army: The rise of neo-Nazis in the US military."
Jeff Faux is founder and former president of the
Economic
Policy Institute where he is currently a distinguished
fellow. Jeff's most recent article was a piece in The Nation
entitled, "So
Far From God, So Close to Wall St." He is the author
of "The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan
Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It
Back" (Wiley).
Live from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, long-time activist and
human rights worker Grahame Russell, co-director
of the Guatemala-based NGO Rights
Action. Rights Action mission focuses on human rights
- including poverty as well as racial and gender discrimination
- and the environment. Grahame will give us an eyewitness
account of what's taking place in Honduras.
Immediately after returning from Gaza, irregular correspondent
Danny Muller gave a 'Wasted Energy Report.' Nicholas
Hale's 'Fool
Britannia' segment on all things Britain returned for
the first time in over a year. John K. Wilson, author
of "President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union"
(Paradigm)
and "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest" (Paradigm
Publishers) talked politics. And Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.
live from London, David Hill is a researcher and
campaigner for Survival International, "the only international
organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide."
David will discuss SI's latest report on recent violence
against Peru's indigenous, "Death
at Devil's Bend: an eyewitness account." In 2007,
David traveled to Peru and spent months researching some
of the world's last remaining uncontacted Amazonian tribes.
live from London, Saskia Sassen is professor of
sociology and member of the Committee on Global Thought
at Columbia University. Saskia's most recent book is 2007's
"A Sociology of Globalization" (WW
Norton). She wrote this week's openDemocracy piece,
"The
new executive politics: a democratic challenge".
Before that, she wrote April's openDemocracy article, "Too
big to save: the end of financial capitalism."
Adam Kokesh is a veteran of the Iraq War. During
his service in Fallujah, Adam was promoted to Sergeant and
awarded a Combat Action Ribbon and Navy Commendation Medal.
It was in Fallujah where his perspective on the war changed.
After receiving an honorable discharge in November of 2006
- and coming home and successfully dealing with post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) - he became active with Iraq
Veterans Against the War. Adam has organized to help
veterans struggling with PTSD.
Maria Gunnoe is an organizer with the Ohio
Valley Environmental Coalition. In April, Maria won
the 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize for North America for
her work as a campaigner against mountaintop removal coal
mining.
Chalmers Johnson wrote the TomDispatch piece, "How
to Deal with America's Empire of Bases," and May's
truthdig piece, "Chalmers
Johnson on the Cost of Empire." Chalmers last story
for TomDispatch back in February - with Tom editor Tom Engelhart
- was entitled, "Economic
Death Spiral at the Pentagon." Chalmers is the
president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and professor
emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. Chalmers
wrote the trilogy that includes, "Nemesis: The Crisis
of the American Republic," (Metropolitan
Books) "Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of
American Empire" (Metropolitan
Books) and "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism,
Secrecy, and the End of the Republic" (Metropolitan
Books).
Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at
the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of "Monsters
To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin"
(Paradigm
Publishers). This week, he wrote the piece, "Time
to Change the Story: Palestinian Violence Overstated,
Jewish Violence Understated."
live from Jerusalem, adjunct professor of business at
Hebrew University Bernard
Avishai. Bernard is the author, most recently, of
"The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global
Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last" (Harcourt).
He wrote The Nation article, "A
World Apart? : The White House and the Middle East."
Paul Rogers, professor of peace studies at Bradford
University, northern England, returns to This is Hell! Paul
is a weekly columnist on global security at openDemocracy.net,
the most recent columns being "Iraq,
AfPak, beyond: the global cost of war" and "A
tale of two paradigms." Paul also writes an international
security monthly briefing for the Oxford Research Group,
the most recent briefing is entitled, "The
Obama Cairo Speech - Context and Implications."
His latest book is "Why We're Losing the War on Terror"
(Polity)
which focuses on the post-9/11 era and why a new security
paradigm is needed. Paul has been called, "one of the
world's leading security experts." A third edition
of his 2002, "Losing Control: Global Security in the
21st Century" (Pluto
Press) is forthcoming. He was last on This is Hell!,
February 9, 2008.
Jonathan Mazower is Research Coordinator at the
UK's Survival
International, "the only international organization
supporting tribal peoples worldwide. We were founded in
1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK's Sunday
Times highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide
taking place in Brazilian Amazonia." Jonathan will
discuss SI's latest report on recent violence against Peru's
indigenous, "Death
at Devil's Bend: an eyewitness account."
Anthony DiMaggio is the author of "Mass Media,
Mass Propaganda: Understanding American News in the 'War
on Terror.'" (Lexington
Books). Anthony's recent writing includes, "The
Electoral Facade: Humanitarian Rhetoric and US Imperialism
in Iran" and "Lapdog
Journalists: The Iranian Elections and the Faith-Based
Media." His next book, "When Media Goes To War:"
comes out next February through Monthly Review Press. He
is the visiting lecturer of political science and teaches
American government at North Central College in Illinois.
Irregular correspondent Dave Buchen returned with
a report live from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth live from our
studios.
Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director
of the Drug
Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United
States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. Ethan
is the author of 1993's "Cops
Across Borders," which was the first scholarly
study of the internationalization of US criminal law enforcement,
and co-authored the 2006 book, "Policing the Globe:
Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations."
(Oxford
University Press). He has been described by Rolling
Stone as "the point man" on drug policy reform
efforts.
live from Damascus, Shane
Bauer is a freelance journalist and photographer,
and a Middle East correspondent for New
America Media. Shane is currently finishing a film about
rebels in Darfur entitled "Songs to Enemies and Deserts."
Last year, he received 1st place for independent audio slideshow
features in the National Press Photographers Association's
Best of Photojournalism contest. In 2007, he was a national
finalist for photojournalism in the Harry Chapin Media Awards
as well as a national finalist for feature photography for
the Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence
Awards. That year he also received the Lyon Prize in photography.
His recent writing includes, "Iraq's
New Death Squad," "Muslims
in Syria Like Obama's Tone But Want New Policy,"
and "Al-Qaeda
Violence Rising as US Strategy Unravels in Iraq."
Kate Bronfenbrenner is Director of Labor Education
Research at the New York State School of Industrial and
Labor Relations at Cornell University. Kate is the co-author
and editor of several books on current labor issues, including
"Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival
of American Labor" (Cornell
University Press). She just released the report, "No
Holds Barred: The Intensification of Employer Opposition
to Organizing." Last week, she wrote the Washington
Post editorial, "A
War Against Organizing."
live from Paris, Martin Shaw is professor of international
relations and politics at the University of Sussex. Martin
is a historical sociologist of war and global politics,
whose most recent books include 2005's "The New Western
Way of War" (Polity),
and 2007's "What is Genocide?." (Polity).
He is editor of the
global site, self-described as a critical gateway to
world politics, society and culture. His most recent writing
include the openDemocracy post, "The
trouble with guns: Sri Lanka, South Africa, Ireland."
Muhammad
Sahimi is Professor of Chemical Engineering and
Materials Science, and NIOC Professor of Petroleum Engineering
at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Muhammad is a member of the Union
of Concerned Scientists and a contributor to its Partners
for Earth Program. He recently wrote the New York Times
op-ed, "Iran's
Power Struggle."
Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth live from our
studios. We also introducee a new irregular correspondent,
David Skalinder, a Chicagoan who is currently studying
at the London School of Economics. David reported live from
London.
Kim Bobo is the founder and executive director
of Interfaith
Worker Justice and a columnist for Religious Dispatches.
Kim is the author of "Wage Theft in America: Why Millions
of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid - And What We
Can Do About It" (The
New Press).
American University assistant professor of anthropology
David
Vine, author of "Island of Shame: The Secret
History of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia" (Princeton
University Press).
Mahmood Mamdani, author of the new book, "Saviors
and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror"
(Pantheon
Books). Mahmood is Lehman Professor of Anthropology
and Political Science and Director of the Institute of African
Studies at Columbia University. He was also listed as one
of Foreign Policy Magazine’s top 100 global public
intellectuals,
freelance journalist David Neiwert is author of
"The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the
American Right" (PoliPoint
Press). David writes at Orcinus.
Howard Zinn is the author of "A People's History
of American Empire," “A People’s History
of the United States,” “Voices of a People’s
History," and “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress.”
Howard is the Visiting Professor and Rhodes Scholar at both
the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. Howard's
recent writing includes "Changing
Obama's Military Mindset" which was adopted from
a speech he gave in February.
Irregular correspondent Dan 'The Auto Man' Litchfield
talked about the car industry. Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth live from our
studios.
Interviews played during this special podcast - 'The Very
Best of Taylor Dearr ' - included:
from April 15, 2008, Jeff Faux is founder and
former president of the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epinet.org/)
where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff's most
recent article as of this date was a piece in The Nation
entitled, "Is
This The Big One?" Jeff is also a contributing
editor to American Prospect and a member of the editorial
board of Dissent.
from January 12, 2008, live from Karachi, Fatima Bhutto
is a writer and poet. She is the daughter of Mir Murtaza
Bhutto, who was killed in 1996 in Karachi when his sister,
and Fatima's aunt, Benazir, was prime minister. In the wake
of her aunt's death, Fatima had recently written the article,
"Farewell
to Wadi Bua."
From February 17, 2007, Patrick Cockburn returned
to This is Hell to discuss his recent columns including
"Who
is Muqtada al-Sadr?," "Targeting
Tehran" and "Now
It's War on the Shia." Patrick writes regularly
for Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org)
and is is the author of "The Occupation: War, resistance
and daily life in Iraq" (Verso)
which was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle
Award for best nonfiction book of 2006.
From February 28, 2009, Kristen Lombardi wrote
the investigative piece, "Coal
Ash: The Hidden Story How Industry and the EPA Failed
To Stop a Growing Environmental Disaster" at the Center
for Public Integrity. Kristen won the 2007 AltWeekly Award
for investigative journalism presented by the Association
of Alternative Newsweeklies. Kristen was recognized for
her Village Voice story, "Death
by Dust: The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic
cloud and cancer."
From June 14, 2008, David Cay Johnston is an independent
investigative journalist, formerly with The New York Times,
now focusing on the subject of taxation. David's most recent
book is 2007's "Free
Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves
at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill."
From February 2, 2008, Gareth Porter Gareth Porter
is an investigative journalist and historian who writes
for both the Inter Press Service and the Huffington Post.
Just before this interview, he posted the story, "Bush's
Iran/Argentina Terror Frame-Up," at The Nation.
His most recent book is "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance
of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam" (University
of California Press). A month earlier Gareth reported on
the Strait of Hormuz controversy, "Official
Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel."
Phyllis Bennis is the Director of the New Internationalism
Project at the Institute
for Policy Studies and a fellow at the Transnational
Institute. Phyllis is the author of several books including,
"Ending the Iraq War: A Primer," and, "Understanding
the US-Iran Crisis: A Primer" (Interlink
Publishing). This week, she wrote the article, "Netanyahu
at the White House: Not Yet Change We Can Believe In."
If you'd like to receive her talking points and articles
on a regular basis, click here
and choose "New Internationalism."
Tom Knoche is the National Coordinator of Healthcare-NOW!
which is organizing for a national Single-Payer Healthcare
System. Next Saturday, Helathcare-NOW! will join with thousands
of single-payer supporters in over 40 cities nationwide
in a "Nationwide Day of Action for Single-Payer."
To find out more on this event, go to their Facebook announcement
by clicking here.
Andy Thayer is the co-founder of the Gay
Liberation Network. Last Saturday, instead of listening
to This is Hell! - Andy was arrested at a rally for gay
rights in Moscow. Read what he has to say about the experience
by clicking here.
On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court will announce its
decision on Proposition 8. There will either be a protest
or a celebration at 7 PM in front of The Center on Halsted,
3656 North Halsted Street. Find out more about actions taking
place nationwide by clicking here.
Fawaz Gerges holds the Christian A. Johnson Chair
in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah
Lawrence College. Fawaz is the author of, "Journey
of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy." We'll
be speaking with him about his article, "Al-Qaida
today: a movement at the crossroads."
activist and writer Tom Hayden is a former California
State Assemblyman and State Senator. Tom is the Nation Institute's
Carey McWilliams Fellow. His his recent articles include,
"Did McChrystal Violate Geneva Conventions?,"
"McChrystal's Rise: More Secrets, Less Daylight,"
"The Politics of Escalation," and "Understanding
the Long War." They can all be found by clicking here.
Tom also blogs at Huffington
Post. His most recent books include, "Voices of
the Chicago Eight: A Generation on Trial," (City
Lights), "Ending the War in Iraq," (Akashic
Books), and "Writings For A Democratic Society:
The Tom Hayden Reader" (City
Lights).
Irregular correspondent Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.
During this podcast, This is Hell! looked back at the first
117 days of the Obama administration when it comes to the
economy. We played interviews from earlier this year, including:
from January 24th ... Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
David Cay Johnston is the author of "Free
Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves
at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill)."
In David's article posted shortly before this interview,
"Fiscal
Therapy," he discusses how we can get the economy
back on its feet, give taxpayers a break, save your retirement
fund and your kid's college tuition ... and it won't cost
you a penny.
from February 7th ... Benjamin
Barber is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and
President of CivWorld at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy
and advocacy organization. Mr. Barber was Walt Whitman Professor
of Political Science at Rutgers University and Gershon and
Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at The University
of Maryland. Barber was a founding editor and for ten years
editor-in-chief of the distinguished international quarterly
Political Theory. Benjamin has been a Senior Fellow at the
University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy
since 2005. He consults regularly with political and civic
leaders in the United States and around the world, and for
five years served as an informal consultant to President
Bill Clinton. Benjamin's books include, 1984's "Strong
Democracy," 2001's "Jihad vs. McWorld," and
most recently, 2007's "Consumed: How Markets Corrupt
Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole."
The paperback edition of his controversial Clinton memoir,
"The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton
White House," was published in May 2008. Barber's honors
include a knighthood from the French Government. At the
time of this interview, his most recent writing included
the column, "A
Revolution in Spirit."
from February 21st ... Dean Baker is co-director
of the Center
for Economic and Policy Research. Dean writes the Beat
the Press blog at the American Prospect. He is the author
of several books, including his recently-released "Plunder
and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy."
(PoliPointPress).
John Dunbar is the Center for Public Integrity's
lead writer/researcher on their new report, "Who's
Behind The Financial Meltdown?" John covered information
technology and economics for the Washington, DC, bureau
of The Associated Press. He was also an investigative reporter
with the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville.
attorney and investigator John Sifton is the Executive
Director of One
World Research. This week, John wrote the article, "The
Bush Administration Homicides." John worked at
Human Rights Watch from 2001 until 2007, which including
being the senior researcher on terrorism and counterterrorism,
focusing on Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and South
Asia, from 2005 to 2007. Previously, he had been a researcher
in the Asia Division, focusing on Afghanistan, as well as
India and Pakistan. Prior to his work at Human Rights Watch,
he worked for a humanitarian organization, primarily in
Afghanistan and Pakistan, and for a refugee advocacy organization
in Albania and Kosovo.
journalist and author Nomi
Prins most recent writing includes the articles,
"Flunking
the Stress Tests" and "Risk
is Best Managed from the Bottom Up." Nomi is a Senior
Fellow at Demos,
a nonpartisan public policy research and advocacy organization.
Her new book, "It Takes A Pillage," will be published
this Fall but can be pre-ordered by clicking here.
She is the author of 2004's "Other People’s Money:
The Corporate Mugging of America" (The New Press),
which was chosen as a Best Book of 2004 by The Economist,
Barron's and The Library Journal. She also wrote 2006's
"Jacked: How 'Conservatives' are Picking your Pocket
(whether you voted for them or not)" (Polipoint Press).
Nomi worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman
Sachs, and ran the international analytics group at Bear
Stearns in London.
Anatol Lieven is a professor in the Department
of War Studies at King's College London and a senior research
fellow at the New
America Foundation. This week, Anatol wrote the article,
"Pakistan’s
American problem." He is former senior associate
at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, previously
covered Central Europe for The Financial Times; Pakistan,
Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia for The
Times (London), and India as a freelance journalist. His
most recent books include, "America Right or Wrong:
An Anatomy of American Nationalism" (Oxford University
Press), and, "Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's
Role in the World (Pantheon) which he wrote with John Hulsman.
He is currently writing a book about Pakistan.
Michael Ash is an Associate Professor of Economics
and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts. Michael
is one of the co-authors of the new study, "Justice
in the Air: Tracking Toxic Pollution from America's
Industries and Companies to Our States, Cities, and Neighborhoods."
Irregular correspondent Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Dr. Krys Bigosinski
MD gave us a history of epidemics.
Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of
the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law
(http://www.lawandsecurity.org/)
and the editor of "The Torture Debate in America"
(Cambridge)
and (with Joshua Dratel) "The Torture Papers"
(Cambridge).
Karen's recent articles include, "Kiss
the Era of Human Rights Goodbye: What Bush Willed to
Obama and the World."
Richard Wilkinson is professor emeritus of social
epidemiology, at University of Nottingham Medical School
and author of the book "The
Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always
Do Better," co-authored with Kate Pickett.
British journalist and historian Andy
Worthington is the author of the book, "The
Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in
America's Illegal Prison," the first book to tell the
stories of all the detainees in America’s illegal prison.
Andy's recent articles include, "Dictatorial Powers
Unchallenged As US 'Enemy Combatant' Pleads Guilty,"
"Normal service is resumed; the quest for accountability
and justice continues," and "Even In Cheney’s
Bleak World, The Al-Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low."
activist Kathy Kelly is the author of, "Other
Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin prison" (Counterpunch/AK
Press). Kathy helped initiate Voices in the Wilderness,
a campaign to end the 'between war' UN/US sanctions against
Iraq. This included personally traveling on 24 of Voices
70 delegations to visit Iraq between 1996 and the beginning
of the invasion and current occupation. Kathy stayed with
the team in Baghdad throughout the first year of the war,
maintaining a household in Baghdad. Most recently, she and
three companions from Voices were in Beirut, Lebanon during
the final days of the Israel-Hezbollah war in the summer
of 2006. In 2007, she spent five months in Amman, Jordan,
living amongst Iraqis who’ve fled their homes and are
seeking resettlement. Kathy's activist career goes back
to 1988 when she was sentenced to one year in prison for
planting corn on a nuclear missile silo sites; being camped
at the Iraq-Saudi border during the first Gulf War; served
three months at Pekin federal prison for protesting against
the School of the Americas; as well as activism in both
Haiti and Bosnia. Kathy currently helps coordinate Chicago's
Voices for
Creative Nonviolence campaign.
Irregular correspondent Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. And Kevan
Harris, 'The Radical Pessimist,' returned
Fouad Pervez, currently a contributor at Foreign
Policy in Focus, is a writer, actor, and policy analyst
working on his PhD in international relations at Georgetown
University. Fouad, a native of Karachi, currently works
as a senior researcher at George Washington University.
He is also a member of Transcend
International, a global group of over 300 scholars and
practitioners working on issues of peace and development.
His most recent writing is, "A
Better Alliance with Pakistan."
Heather Williams is Associate Professor of Politics
at Pomona College and wrote the article, "Carbon
Cap and Trade: How Wall Street Will Game the Regs and
Trash the Planet."
Irregular correspondent Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. And Danny
Muller, formerly of Peace Action Maine and Voices in the
Wilderness, gave his latest 'Wasted Energy Report.'
Bill Black is an Associate Professor of Economics
and Law at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Bill
is the former Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud
Prevention. He was litigation director of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the Federal Savings
& Loan Insurance Corporation, Senior Vice President
and General Counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San
Francisco, and Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Thrift
Supervision. He was deputy director of the National Commission
on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement.
He is the author of 2005’s "The Best Way to Rob
a Bank is to Own One" (University
of Texas Press). Bill lost his tenure at University
Texas over the book. Black developed the concept of "control
fraud" - frauds in which the CEO or head of state uses
the entity as a "weapon." Control frauds cause
greater financial losses than all other forms of property
crime combined and kill and maim thousands. He recently
helped the World Bank develop anti-corruption initiatives
and served as an expert for Office of Federal Housing Enterprise
Oversight in its enforcement action against Fannie Mae’s
former senior management.
Henry Giroux is one of the founding theorists of
critical pedagogy in the United States. He is best known
for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies,
youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical
theory. He is the Global TV Network Chair in English and
Cultural Studies at Hamilton, Ontario’s McMaster University.
His most recent book is, "The University in Chains:
Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex."
His recent articles, "Commodifying
Kids: The Forgotten Crisis," and "Disney,
Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys:
Beyond the Politics of Innocence" are from his upcoming
book, "Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?,"
which will be published this September.
Robert Naiman is Senior Policy Analyst and National
Coordinator at Just
Foreign Policy. Robert has worked as a policy analyst
and researcher at the Center
for Economic and Policy Research and Public Citizen's
Global
Trade Watch. He edits the Just Foreign Policy daily
news summary and writes a blog on Huffington Post.
Marcelo Ballvé wrote the article, "A
Year Without a Mexican: Undocumented workers were the
economic lifeblood of small towns like Postville, Iowa—until
the immigration cops showed up." Marcelo was born in
Buenos Aires and now lives in New York. He is a contributing
editor at New America Media, where he covers immigration
and Latin America. His articles and essays have appeared
in Mother Jones magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian,
the San Francisco Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, the Los
Angeles Times and The New York Times. In 2007, he co-founded
community newspaper El Sol de San Telmo in the Buenos Aires
historic district.
Peter Gowan wrote "Crisis
in the Heartland" for the January/February edition
of the New Left Review where he is a member of the editorial
board. Peter is Professor of International Relations at
London Metropolitan University and course director of the
MA in International Relations. He is also a member of the
America Discussion Group at the Royal Institute of International
Affairs.
Irregular correspondent Jeff
Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.
live from Islamabad, Graham Usher is a contributing
editor of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org).
Graham is the author of "Dispatches from Palestine:
The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process" (Pluto
Press). His most recent writing includes, "Taliban
v. Taliban." Graham's articles on Pakistan appear
regularly in al
Ahram English Weekly.
Manuel Perez Rocha directs "The NAFTA Plus
and the SPP Advocacy Project," part of the Global Economy
Project. Manuel is a Mexican national who has led tri-national
efforts to promote just and sustainable alternative approaches
to North American economic integration for more than a decade.
He recently wrote the article, "The
Failed War on Drugs in Mexico."
Jürgen Todenhöfer is author of "Why
Do You Kill: The Untold Story of the Iraqi Resistance"
(Disinformation). Jürgen was a member of the German
parliament for 18 years. He has traveled throughout the
Middle East for 50 years and has written two bestsellers
about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is donating all
royalties from the sale of his latest book to finance medical
aid for Iraq refugee children and and an Israeli-Palestinian
reconciliation project.
Lisa Laplante is visiting assistant professor at
Marquette University Law School. Lisa is a human-rights
lawyer who worked with Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
and deputy director of Praxis:
Institute for Social Justice. She has also worked with Human
Rights Watch, the International Institute of Human Rights
in Costa Rica and the Center for International Justice and
Law. This week, she wrote the article, "Peru:
the struggle for memory," with Kelly Phenicie.
Her work can also be found at the blog Fujimori
On Trial.
Chris Shaw, author of "Five Ring Circus: Myths
and Realities of the Olympic Games" (New
Society Publishers). Chris is a professor at the University
of British Columbia and is a founding member and leading
spokesperson for the No Games 2010 Coalition and 2010
Watch.
Irregular correspondent Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.
Randy Shaw is the director of San Francisco's Tenderloin
Housing Clinic and the editor of the daily online newspaper
BeyondChron. Randy's new book is, "Beyond the Fields:
Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the
21st Century." (University
of California Press)
Pepe Escobar writes the column, "The
Roving Eye," for The Asia Times. Based in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, Pepe is also an analyst and correspondent for The
Real News Network. His recent writing includes the article,
"Liquid
War: Postcard from Pipelineistan," which draws
from his new book, "Obama does Globalistan." Wikipedia
points us to Pepe's "prescient article," "Get
Osama! Now! Or else ... ," published on August
30, 2001, twelve days prior to 9-11.
Christy Thornton is the executive director of the
National Congress on Latin America. Christy is a media and
global justice activist who has done field work in Cuba
and El Salvador. She holds a master's degree in International
Affairs from Columbia University focusing on international
institutions, US foreign and economic policy, and development
theory. She is a member of the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition,
the May First/People Link leadership committee, and the
Brooklyn for Peace Latin America committee. The NCLA report,
"The
2009 El Salvador Elections: Between Crisis and Change,"
came out just prior to this month's elections.
Irregular correspondent Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth live from WNUR's
studios. Dr. Krys Bigosinski MD gave us his latest
report on healthcare.
Sam Pizzigati is the editor of Too
Much, an online newsletter on excess and inequality.
Sam is a veteran labor movement journalist who spent 20
years directing the publishing operations of America's largest
union, the National Education Association. His latest book,
"Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality
that Limits Our Lives" (Apex
Press), won an "outstanding title" of the
year rating from the American Library Association. Sam recently
co-authored the report, "Beyond
the AIG Bonuses."
live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen is a program
director at the Center
for International Policy's Americas Policy Program in
Mexico City. Last weekend, Laura wrote, "Drug
War Doublespeak: Sorting Reality From Hype."
journalist Mark
Danner is a former staff writer at The New Yorker
and has written on foreign affairs and American politics
for more than two decades. Mark teaches at the University
of California-Berkeley and Bard College. This week, he wrote
the New York Review of Books story, "US
Torture: Voices from the Black Sites."
Robert McChesney is a Gutgsell Endowed Professor
in the Department of Communication at the University of
Illinois. Bob hosts the program 'Media Matters' on WILL-AM
580 AM every Sunday afternoon at 1 PM (US central time).
He is a co-founder, along with past This is Hell! guest
John Nichols, of Free
Press, the media reform network. He and John also co-authored
"Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars,
Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy" (New
Press). This week, they wrote The Nation piece, "The
Death and Life of Great American Newspapers."
Khalid Mustafa Medani is an assistant professor
with a joint appointment in political science and Islamic
studies at Montreal's McGill University in Montreal and
an editor of Middle
East Report. Earlier this month, Khalid posted the article,
"Wanted:
Omar al-Bashir and Peace in Sudan."
Irregular correspondent Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.
financial historian and economist Michael Hudson
is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term
Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst,
and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the
University of Missouri, Kansas City. In 2007, Dr. Hudson
was Chief Economic Policy Adviser for the Kucinich for President
campaign. Michael is now writing a new tax policy for the
United States. His most recent writing includes, "The
Language of Looting." In that article, Michael
writes what "Nationalize the Banks" and the "Free
Market" really mean in today's looking-glass world.
acclaimed journalist and renowned analyst Gerard Prunier
returns to discuss his new book, "Africa;'s World
War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental
Catastrophe." (Oxford
University Press). Gerard is a research professor at
the University of Paris and director of the French Centre
for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa. He is the author of
1998’s The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide, 2007’s
revised edition of "Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide",
and 2006’s "From Genocide to Continental War:
The Congolese' Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa."
Patrick Cockburn is the author of "The Occupation:
War, resistance and daily life in Iraq," which was
a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award for
best non-fiction book of 2006. Patrick's most recent book
is, "Muqtada! Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia revival and
the struggle for Iraq." His most recent articles include,
"My
Day at the Terror 'Charity': In the Suburbs of Lahore"
and "Did
the US Learn Anything in Iraq?: We'll Fix Those Uppity
Talibs Just Like We Did the Iraqi Shi'a."
Ray McGovern was a US Army infantry/intelligence
officer and then held senior positions in CIA’s analysis
division for the next 27 years. Ray was one of President
Ronald Reagan's intelligence briefers from 1981-85 charged
with preparing daily security briefs for the President,
the Vice President, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Cabinet
and National Security Advisor. He was also one of several
senior CIA analysts who prepared the President's Daily Brief
for President George H.W. Bush. Upon retirement, Ray was
awarded the Intelligence Commendation Medal from then-President
Bush. However, Ray later returned the medal in a protest
against the US government's use of torture. He now serves
on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals
for Sanity. He also works at Tell the Word, the publishing
arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city
Washington. His most recent writing includes this week's,
"Timidity
Derails Obama Intel Choice."
Chuck Collins is senior scholar at the Institute
for Policy Studies where he directs the Program on Inequality
and the Common Good. Chuck specializes in economic inequality
and the current economic crisis. He coordinates a number
of public policy initiatives to reduce income and wealth
disparities, including Wealth
for the Common Good, a network of business leaders and
high net worth individuals concerned about inequality. He
is co-author of "Paying
For a Strong Economy: Seven New Revenue Sources That
Can Revitalize America and Reduce Financial Speculation."
Along with Nick Thorkelson, Chuck is now writing the Economic
Meltdown Funnies. There's a full-blown comic book as
well as a daily blog. He is also the author of several books,
including "Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer
on Economic Inequality and Insecurity" (New
Press). He co-authored with Bill Gates Sr., "Wealth
and Our Commonwealth, a case for taxing inherited fortunes"
(Beacon
Press). His latest book co-authored with Mary Wright,
"The Moral Measure of the Economy" (Orbis
Books), examines Christian perspectives on US economic
life. It was named as one of the Best Spiritual Books of
2007, according to Spirituality and Practice.
Our irregular correspondents included Jeff
Dorchen, who delivered a Moment of Truth, and LaddieO.com
reported on all sorts of tech stuff live from the hermetically
sealed clean rooms at URL
Labs.
Michael Klare is a professor of peace and world
security studies at Hampshire College and the author, most
recently, of "Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The
New Geopolitics of Energy" (Metropolitan
Books). Michael's msot recent article is, "A
Planet at the Brink: Will Economic Brushfires Prove
Too Virulent to Contain?"
Kristen Lombardi wrote the investigative piece,
"Coal
Ash: The Hidden Story How Industry and the EPA Failed
To Stop a Growing Environmental Disaster" at the Center
for Public Integrity. Kristen won the 2007 AltWeekly Award
for investigative journalism presented by the Association
of Alternative Newsweeklies. Kristen was recognized for
her Village Voice story, "Death
by Dust: The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic
cloud and cancer."
Marjorie
Cohn is president of the National
Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas
Jefferson School of Law, where she teaches criminal
law and procedure, evidence, and international human rights
law. She lectures throughout the world on human rights and
US foreign policy. Marjorie is the author of "Cowboy
Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law,"
(PoliPointPress)
and the upcoming, "Rules of Disengagement: The Politics
and Honor of Military Dissent." She is a "Media
With Conscience News Magazine" senior editor, and
a contributing editor to Jurist.
Marjorie has received recognition in the San Diego area
for her legal work including the San Diego County Bar Association's
Service to Legal Education Award, being named one of San
Diego's top attorneys in academics, and she was awarded
the 2007 Bernard E. Witkin, Esq. Award for Excellence in
the Teaching of the Law by the San Diego Law Library Justice
Foundation. She was also a legal observer in Iran on behalf
of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in
1978 and has participated in delegations to Cuba, China,
and Yugoslavia.
Julia
Whitty is the environmental correspondent for Mother
Jones. Julia is the award-winning author of "The Fragile
Edge: Diving & Other Adventures in the South Pacific"
and "A Tortoise For The Queen Of Tonga." Julia
has has made more than 70 nature documentaries. She is on
the Board of Advisors of BlueVoice.
Julia most recent writing includes, "What
Invasive Species Are Trying to Tell Us."
Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth and Dan 'The
Auto Man' Litchfield returned.
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center
for Economic and Policy Research. Dean writes the Beat
the Press blog at the American Prospect. He is the author
of several books, including his just-released "Plunder
and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy."
(PoliPointPress).
Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre
for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge and
Harvard, and Professor of History at Harvard. Her latest
book is, "Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet
and the Enlightenment." (Harvard
University Press) Emma's most recent writing includes
The New York Review of Books piece, "Can
We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society?."
Steven Greenhouse is the labor and workplace
reporter for the New York Times and author of "The
Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker."
(Random
House) Steven has covered workplace issues for the Times
since late 1995 and is one of the few remaining full-time
labor reporters in the country.
Reese Erlich is the author of "Dateline Havana:
The Real Story of US Policy and the Future of Cuba."
(PoliPointPress)
Reese Erlich was a segment producer for the public radio
series "Crossing East" which received a Peabody
Award in 2007.
Jim Shultz is the executive director of the Democracy
Center based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Jim is an award-winning
author of and his on-the-ground reporting on the 2000 Cochabamba
Water Revolt won top honors from Project Censored. He is
currently on tour for his new book, "Dignity and Defiance:
Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization."
(University
of California Press)
Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth and Kevan
Harris, 'The Radical Pessimist,' was radically pessimistic.
William Blum is the author of "Killing Hope:
US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II"
and "Rogue State: a guide to the World's Only Super
Power" which are both published by Common
Courage Press. Last weekend, he posted the article,
"Obama
and the Empire." Visit his web site http://www.killinghope.org/.
live from Baghdad, independent journalist Dahr Jamail
is the author of "Beyond
the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist
in Occupied Iraq" (Haymarket
Books). Dahr reports for Inter Press Service and is
a regular contributor to TomDispatch. Dahr's most recent
writing includes "Iraq's
'Teflon Don'." Visit his web site, http://dahrjamailiraq.com/
Benjamin
Barber is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and
President of CivWorld at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy
and advocacy organization. Mr. Barber was Walt Whitman Professor
of Political Science at Rutgers University and Gershon and
Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at The University
of Maryland. Barber was a founding editor and for ten years
editor-in-chief of the distinguished international quarterly
Political Theory. Benjamin has been a Senior Fellow at the
University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy
since 2005. He consults regularly with political and civic
leaders in the United States and around the world, and for
five years served as an informal consultant to President
Bill Clinton. Benjamin's books include, 1984's "Strong
Democracy," 2001's "Jihad vs. McWorld," and
most recently, 2007's "Consumed: How Markets Corrupt
Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole."
The paperback edition of his controversial Clinton memoir,
"The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton
White House," was published in May 2008. Barber's honors
include a knighthood from the French Government. His most
recent writing includes the column, "A
Revolution in Spirit."
live from somewhere in southeast Asia, award-winning
independent journalist Allan Nairn recently wrote the articles, "U.S.
Intel Nominee Lied About '99 Massacre," and "Admiral
Dennis Blair, Prospective Obama Appointee, Aided Perpetrators
of 1999 Church Killings," about President Obama's new
Director of National Intelligence, retired Admiral Dennis
Blair.
Luke Bergmann is the author of "Getting Ghost:
Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American
City" (New
Press). Luke is a research director at the Detroit Department
of Health and Wellness Promotion and a faculty associate
at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He live's on
Detroit's east side.
Jason Hill is the senior author of the new study,
"Climate
change and health costs of air emissions from biofuels and
gasoline." Dr. Hill argues that corn-based ethanol
has a higher combined environmental and health burden than
conventional fuels. Jason is a research associate in the
Department of Applied Economics and the Department of Ecology,
Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota.
He has testified before US Senate committees on the use
of diverse prairie biomass for biofuel production and on
the greenhouse gas implications of ethanol and biodiesel.
He has also conducted independent analyses for the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory, the National Research Council,
and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Saul
Landau is scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker
on foreign and domestic policy issues. Saul is vice chair
of the Institute for Policy Studies board of trustees. For
his film work, Saul has won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights
Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting,
the First Amendment Award, and an Emmy. Saul's most recent
film is "We Don't Play Golf Here -- and Other Stories
of Globalization." Saul also received an Edgar Allen
Poe Award for "Assassination on Embassy Row,"
a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando
Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt. His most recent
article is entitled, "Farewell,
Monroe Doctrine."
Live in the studio, Jeff
Dorchen delivered a 'Moment of Truth.'
Aziz Huq is the director of the Liberty &
National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice
at New York University. Aziz's most recent book is 2007's
"Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a
Time of Terror," (New Press) which he co-authored with
with Fritz Schwarz. This week, Aziz wrote the article, "Obama's
Minimalist Approach to Guantanamo," wherein Aziz
argues that 'Obama's executive order on closing Guantanamo
... still doesn't go far enough toward addressing the worst
of the Bush administration's moral and legal quagmires.'
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner
Chair of South Asian History and Director of International
Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Vijay's
most recent book is 2007's "The Darker Nations: A People's
History of the Third World" (New press). This week,
Vijay wrote the article, "The
India Lobby: Drunk with the Sight of Power."
Kenneth Saltman is associate professor in the
department of Educational Policy Studies and Research at
DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author, most recently,
of "Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public
Schools," (Paradigm Publishers), and editor of Schooling
and the Politics of Disaster (Routledge).
In December, he wrote the article, "Obama's
Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate
Model of Schooling," with Henry Giroux.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston
is the author of "Free
Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves
at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill)."
In David's recent article, "Fiscal
Therapy," he discusses how we can get the economy
back on its feet, give taxpayers a break, save your retirement
fund and your kid's college tuition ... and it won't cost
you a penny.
Elizabeth Holtzman is a former Democratic congresswoman
from New York. Elizabeth beat a fifty-year incumbent to
win that seat. During her time in office, from 1972 to 1981,
she played a key role on the House Judiciary Committee that
impeached President Richard Nixon. She later was elected
as the district attorney of Brooklyn and is currently practicing
law in New York. Elizabeth is co-author with Cynthia L.
Cooper of "The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical
Guide for Concerned Citizens" (http://www.impeachbushbook.com/).
Her most recent writing includes, "Holding
Bush Accountable."
Norman
Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on
media and politics, writing the weekly "Media Beat"
column since 1992. His latest book is "Made Love, Got
War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State."
Norman is the founder and executive director of the Institute
for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers
and analysts. He is also a past winner of the George Orwell
Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity
in Public Language. Norman is senior advisor to the National
Radio Project, which produces the weekly public-affairs
program "Making Contact," heard on 160 noncommercial
radio stations in North America. This week, Norman wrote
the article, "The
Return of Triangulation."
former humanitarian aid worker Ann Jones, author
of "Kabul in Winter," (Metropolitan Books) will
discuss her writing including this week's Tom Dispatch piece,
"The
Afghan Scam: The Untold Story of Why the U.S. Is Bound
to Fail in Afghanistan."
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus
of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting
Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies
at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2001
he served on a three person Human Rights Inquiry Commission
for the Palestine Territories that was appointed by the
United Nations, and previously, on the Independent International
Commission on Kosovo. He serves as Chair of the Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation's Board of Directors and as honorary
vice president of the American Society of International
Law. Last year, the United Nations Human Rights Council
(UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations
Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights
in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967."
In December, Richard landed at Ben Gurion Airport with staff
members from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights on an official visit, planning to travel to
the West Bank and Gaza to document human rights conditions.
However, Israel detained him and held him for 30 hours,
before releasing him to a flight back to Geneva.
And live from Los Angeles Jeff
Dorchen delivered a 'Moment of Truth.'
investigative journalist Russ Baker is founder
of WhoWhatWhy/the
Real News Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative
news organization. Russ's exclusive reporting on George
W. Bush's military record won him a 2005 Deadline Club Award.
His new book is "Family
of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That
Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means
for America" (Bloomsbury
Press).
Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and
International Studies at the University of San Francisco,
where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He
is also the author of "Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy
and the Roots of Terrorism" (Common Courage Press) and co-author
(with Jacob Mundy) of the forthcoming "Western Sahara: Nationalism,
Conflict, and International Accountability" (Syracuse University
Press). Stephen's most recent writing includes "America's
Hidden Role in Hamas's Rise to Power" and "Virtually
the Entire Dem-Controlled Congress Supports Israel's War
Crimes in Gaza."
nationally syndicated columnist Robert Scheer is
the executive editor of TruthDig.com and a contributing
editor for The Nation. Robert conducted the famous Playboy
magazine interview in which Jimmy Carter confessed to the
lust in his heart. Robert was Vietnam correspondent, managing
editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine and served
as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He
is the author of, most recently, "The Pornography of
Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America"
(Hachette
Book Group). This week, he wrote the column, "Wall
Street Robber Barons Ride Again."
The interviews featured in 'The Best of War on Terror: 2008'
were:
From January 19, 2008: former UN weapons inspector in
Iraq Scott Ritter.
From March 15, 2008: Nir Rosen is a writer for
Rolling Stone, a fellow at the New America Foundation and
author of "In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph
of the Martyrs in Iraq" Find out more by going to Nir’s
web site at nirrosen.com.
From January 26, 2008: Graham Fuller, was a senior
political analyst at Rand and Vice Chair of the National
Intelligence Council at the CIA and currently adjunct professor
of history at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
From October 11, 2008: Anand Gopal is a correspondent
for the Christian Science Monitor based in Afghanistan.
This interview was conducted with Anand live from Afghanistan.
From July 12, 2008: Graham Usher is a contributing
editor of Middle East Report which you can find out more
about by going to merip.org. This interview was conducted
with Graham live from Islamabad.
And live from Los Angeles Jeff
Dorchen delivered a 'Moment of Truth.'
