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Podcast for Saturday, April 7, 2007 [ 101.79 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (31)

• live from London, Craig Murray (http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/), former head of the British Foreign Office’s Maritime Section, wrote extensively on the detention of the fifteen Britons by Iran and was among the first to report that the boundary was contested. Craig’s story, "How I Know Blair Faked Iran Map," was published in the Daily Mail.
  Craig is also the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, a position he was removed from for accusing the Karimov administration of human rights abuses.
• Michael Heimbinder, Oakland Institute (http://www.oaklandinstitute.org) fellow and author of the new policy brief, "How Food Became a Casualty of Biotechnology’s Promise."
• live from Cairo, journalist and blogger (http://www.arabist.net/arabawy/) Hossam al-Hamalawy who co-wrote the Middle East Report Online (http://www.merip.org) story, "Egyptian Textile Workers Confront the New Economic Order" with past This is Hell guest Joel Beinin. Hossam also reported on the Cairo Social Forum, which he attended the previous weekend.

And that morning’s irregular correspondents were:

• LaddieO.com returned to give us the latest science, web and tech news from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs which recently moved to Baltimore
• Jeff Dorchen delivered another Moment of Truth
• our man in San Juan Dave Buchen gave us four stories from Puerto Rico
• and we introduced yet another new irregular correspondent, Mike Dvorak, who dispatched his first ‘The Wind Blows Report’