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Podcast for Saturday, August 23, 2008 [ 0:01 | 106.55 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (373)

• Barbara Crossette wrote the article “After Musharraf” for The Nation this week. Barbara is a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, was South Asia bureau chief from 1988 to 1991 and UN bureau chief from 1994 to 2001.
• James K. Galbraith, author of the new book, “The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too” (Free Press).
• Alice Farmer wrote a joint report for Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union this week entitled, “A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in US Public Schools.” Alice is the Aryeh Neier Fellowat Human Riughts Watch and the ACLU.
• Ivan Eland wrote this week’s Consortiumnews.com story, “Mixed Truth of the Russia-Georgia War.” Ivan is Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. He has spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office.
• Timothy Canova wrote the article, “The Legacy of the Clinton Bubble” for the Summer edition of Dissent. Timothy is the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange, California.

And our irregular correspondents this were reporting in from a fishing trip in western Michigan.

• Dr. Krys Bigosinski, MD, a former college athlete himself and currently studying sports medicine, gave us his thoughts on the Olympics …
• and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.