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Podcast for December 19, 2009 [ 166.16 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (681)

Our guests were:

• live from Beirut, Martin Chulov is the Baghdad correspondent for The Guardian. This week, Martin posted the article, “Iraq: Water, Water Nowhere,” at the World Policy Journal web site.
• William Astore is a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel. Bill taught cadets at the Air Force Academy and officers at the Naval Postgraduate School. He currently teaches history at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. This week, he posted the article, “‘They’re Wasted’: The Price of Pushing Our Troops Too Far ,” at the TomDispatch web site.
• clinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine‘s latest book is 2007′s “Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy” (Chelsea Green Publishing). Last Friday, he posted the article, “Are Americans a Broken People?: Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression.”
• live from Dublin, Julien Mercille is a Professor at the University College of Dublin lecturing in US foreign policy. Julien writes regularly for Foreign Policy in Focus. This week, Julien posted the story, “Trail of Afghanistan’s drug money exposed.”

Our irregular correspondents were Dr. Krys Bigosinski MD, ranting on about healthcare reform; Todd Williams, ‘Our Man in Budapest’; Michael Roper of Chicago’s Hopleaf, 5148 North Clark Street, debuted his new segment on beer; and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.