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Podcast for Saturday, December 15, 2007 [ 3:47:21 | 104.07 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (210)

• Jamey Lionette is a contributor to "Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed" (South End Press) which is edited by author and activist Vandana Shiva. Jamey’s contribution was posted at AlterNet this week under the title, "We Are What We Eat." Jamey and his family run Lionette’s Market (http://www.lionettesmarket.com) in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
• Jacques Leslie is the author of, "Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displace People, and the Environment" (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux). Jacques won two national journalism awards for his work at the Los Angeles Times as a war correspondent in Vietnam and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In recent years, Jacques has changed his focus to the environment, writing on power blackouts, the coming hydrogen age, food irradiation, SUVs, and groundwater speculation. This week, Jacques wrote the piece, "The Last Empire: China’s Pollution Problem Goes Global," for MotherJones.
• Ben Wallace-Wells is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. His most recent piece is entitled, "How America Lost the War on Drugs." Ben is a former contributing editor for the Washington Monthly and was a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

This week’s irregular correspondents include:

• Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth
• and Elvis DeMorrow told us what’s brewing in the Konspiracy Korner.