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Podcast for Saturday, August 2, 2008 [ 0:01 | 103.81 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (224)

• Christian Parenti returned to This is Hell! Christian is the author of, most recently, “The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq” (New Press). This week, he wrote the Nation piece, “Class Struggle in the New China.”
• Peter Rogers who wrote the Scientific American article, “Facing the Freshwater Crisis.” Peter argues that, “As demand for freshwater soars, planetary supplies are becoming unpredictable. Existing technologies could avert a global water crisis, but they must be implemented soon.” Peter is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and professor of city and regional planning at Harvard University. He’s also a senior adviser to the Global Water Partnership, an organization devoted to improving global water-management practices, as well as a recipient of Guggenheim and Twentieth Century Fund fellowships.
• Stacey Philbrick Yadav is assistant professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. Last summer, she was a faculty affiliate of the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies at the American University in Beirut. This week she wrote the Middle East Report article, “Lebanon’s Post-Doha Political Theater.”

And our irregular correspondents were:

• live from some social science convention in Boston, ‘The Radical Pessimist’ Kevan Harris …
• live in studio, Dr. Krys Bigosinski talked up something medical …
• and also live in the studio, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.