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Podcast for Saturday, August 22, 2009 [ 4:09:18 | 114.12 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (263)

• live from Beirut, Rami Khouri is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. You can find all Rami’s work at the Daily Star by clicking here. In November 2006, he was the co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award for his efforts to bring peace and reconciliation to the Middle East. His most recent writing includes the article, “Pro-Israel Panic.”
• Global Post executive editor Charles M. Sennott is a former New York Daily News city reporter, Boston Globe investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, Middle East and Europe Bureau chief, and winner of the Livingston Award for National Reporting as well as a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting by Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center. In 2004, Charlie article entitled “The Perils of Empire” – and posted from the frontlines of the war in Iraq – was recognized by the Foreign Press Association as “Story of the Year.” We’ll be speaking with Charlie about his Global Post project, “Life, death and the Taliban,” which “seeks to enhance America’s understanding of Taliban history in Afghanistan and Pakistan. At this crucial time in the U.S.-led war against the Taliban.”
• Anna Lenzer reports on water issues for Mother Jones. Anna’s article in the September edition, “Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle,” wonders “How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?”
• Sherwood Ross is a former writer at now-defunct The Chicago Daily News and other major dailies and a columnist for wire services. This week, Sherwood wrote the piece, “Iraq War’s Winners and Losers.” He currently runs a public relations firm for “worthy causes.”
• Eugenia Tsao is a PhD candidate in medical anthropology at the University of Toronto and a CGS Doctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (we have no idea what CGS stands for either, but we’ll ask Eugenia tomorrow). This week, she wrote the story, “Inside the DSM: The Drug Barons’ Campaign to Make Us All Crazy.”

Our irregular correspondents were Kevan Harris, ‘The Radical Pessimist,’ reporting live from Istanbul; Elvis DeMorrow returned with a Konspiracy Korner on the Lockerbie bombing; and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.