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Podcast for Saturday, April 5, 2008 [ 107.44 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (221)

• Haifa Zangana, author of “City Of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance” (Seven Stories). Haifa was a prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime. She is a weekly columnist at al-Quds newspaper and a commentator for The Guardian, Red Pepper and al-Ahram Weekly.
• Gary Brecher writes the War Nerd column at eXile.ru. Gary’s first book, aptly named “War Nerd,” is due out on June 1. This week, Gary posted the article “Who Won Iraq’s ‘Decisive’ Battle?” at eXile.
• 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 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.
• Howard Zinn is the author of “A People’s History of the United States” and “Voices of a People’s History of the United States”, now being made into a television documentary. Howard’s latest book is “A People’s History of American Empire“, told in comic book form. This week, Howard wrote the article, “Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire.”

And our irregular correspondents were:

• Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth from Chicago’s south side …
• Danny Muller gave his ‘Wasted Energy Report’ …
• and, from Seattle, Dr. Krys Bigosinski MD talked autism.