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Podcast for Saturday, December 6, 2008 [ 4:21:13 | 239.15 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (293)

• Gerard Prunier were on to discuss his opendemocracy.net article, “The eastern DR Congo: dynamics of conflict.” Gerard is research professor at the University of Paris. He is the author of 1998’s The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide, 2007’s revised edition of “Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide”, and 2006’s “From Genocide to Continental War: The Congolese’ Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa.”
• author, education theorist, 1960s antiwar activist and former member of the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers. Bill is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. He is the author of, among other titles, “Fugitive Days: A Memoir,” (Beacon) which came out in 2001 and has just been re-released. He is also co-author, with Bernardine Dohrn, of the upcoming “Race Course Against White Supremacy” (Third World Press) which is to be released in January. Shortly after Election Day, Bill wrote the article, “What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Looking back on a surreal campaign season.”
• Scott Horton is an attorney who specializes in human rights and the law of international conflict and is a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School. A life-long human rights advocate, Scott served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union. He is a co-founder of the American University in Central Asia, where he currently serves as a trustee, and has been involved in some of the most significant foreign investment projects in the Central Eurasian region. Scott recently led a number of studies of abuse issues associated with the conduct of the war on terror for the New York City Bar Association, where he has chaired several committees, including, most recently, the Committee on International Law. He is also a member of the board of the National Institute of Military Justice, the EurasiaGroup and the American Branch of the International Law Association and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Scott writes the daily blog ‘No Comment’ at Harper’s. Scott’s December cover story in the newsstand edition of Harper’s is called, “Justice After Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration.” He also writes a regular column for the American Lawyer.
• journalist Robert Dreyfuss is a contributing editor at the Nation, whose web site hosts his The Dreyfuss Report. Bob is the author of “Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam” (Metropolitan Books). His most recent writing includes, “Still Preparing to Attack Iran: The Neoconservatives in the Obama Era.”
• economist Steve Fraser is a visiting professor of Economic History at New York University. Steve is a consultant and Editor-at-Large for the New Labor Forum at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute of Labor and Community Studies at the City University of New York. He is the author of “Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace” (Yale University Press). He is also co-founder of the American Empire Project. His most recent writing includes, “Beyond the Bailout State: Roosevelt’s Brain Trust vs Obama’s Brainiacs.”

Our irregular correspondents were:

• Danny Muller of Peace Action Maine returned to give us a ‘Wasted Energy Report’ …
• producer Laura Mayer debuted as an irregular correspondent …
• and Jeff Dorchen delivered a ‘Moment of Truth.’