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Podcast for Saturday, April 25, 2009 [ 1:37 | 142.37 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (399)

• Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who writes twice-weekly for the UK paper, The Independent. Last year, at the age of 29, Johann became the youngest person ever to be awarded the George Orwell Prize, which the Observer newspaper calls “Britain’s preeminent award for political writing”. In 2007 he was named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International for his reporting on the war in Congo. He is the author of 2003′s, “God Save the Queen?: The Monarchy and the Truth About The Windsors” (Icon Books). His recent writing includes, “The Dark Side of Dubai,” “The one lesson of this crisis is the more need for a more equal society,” “Why we should listen to the protesters,” and “How to spot a lame lame argument.” Many of our listeners emailed us about his January article, “You Are Being Lied to About Pirates.”
• 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.’