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Podcast for Saturday, February 28, 2009 [ 3:34:32 | 98.21 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (462)

• live from Manila, Walden Bello is Foreign Policy In Focus columnist, a senior analyst at the Bangkok-based Focus on the Global South, president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, and a professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines. Walden’s most recent writing includes, “The Global Collapse: a Non-orthodox View,” and “Asia: The Coming Fury.”
• Michael Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author, most recently, of “Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy” (Metropolitan Books). Michael’s most recent article is, “A Planet at the Brink: Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain?”
• Kristen Lombardi wrote the investigative piece, “Coal Ash: The Hidden Story How Industry and the EPA Failed To Stop a Growing Environmental Disaster” at the Center for Public Integrity. Kristen won the 2007 AltWeekly Award for investigative journalism presented by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Kristen was recognized for her Village Voice story, “Death by Dust: The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic cloud and cancer.”
• Marjorie Cohn is president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, evidence, and international human rights law. She lectures throughout the world on human rights and US foreign policy. Marjorie is the author of “Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law,” (PoliPointPress) and the upcoming, “Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent.” She is a “Media With Conscience News Magazine” senior editor, and a contributing editor to Jurist. Marjorie has received recognition in the San Diego area for her legal work including the San Diego County Bar Association’s Service to Legal Education Award, being named one of San Diego’s top attorneys in academics, and she was awarded the 2007 Bernard E. Witkin, Esq. Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Law by the San Diego Law Library Justice Foundation. She was also a legal observer in Iran on behalf of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in 1978 and has participated in delegations to Cuba, China, and Yugoslavia.
• Julia Whitty is the environmental correspondent for Mother Jones. Julia is the award-winning author of “The Fragile Edge: Diving & Other Adventures in the South Pacific” and “A Tortoise For The Queen Of Tonga.” Julia has has made more than 70 nature documentaries. She is on the Board of Advisors of BlueVoice. Julia most recent writing includes, “What Invasive Species Are Trying to Tell Us.”

Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth and Dan ‘The Auto Man’ Litchfield returned.