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• 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.