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Podcast for Saturday, February 3, 2007 [ 0:01 | 100.67 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (34)

• Scott Ritter, was one of the top UN weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998. Scott’s most recent book is "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change" (Nation Books). He served as an officer in the US Marine Corps and as a ballistic missiles advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf during the ‘first’ Gulf War.
• Harwood Schaffer is a research associate in the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Policy Analysis Center and worked with the Center’s director, Darryl Ray, on the Counterpunch piece, "Do Industrial Farms Harm Small Communities?: Why the Family Farm is Good for Rural America." Harwood has a masters in Agricultural Economics PhD candidate in sociology. As an ordained minister, he has worked with farm families throughout the Midwest.
• Diane Farsetta is senior researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy (http://www.prwatch.org/). Diane is the author of the new CMD report, "An Army of Thousands More: How PR Firms and Major Media Help Military Recruiters."
• Enrique Ochoa, discussed the costs of rising tortilla prices in Mexico. Enrique is a professor of History at the California State University, Los Angeles and the 2006-07 Weglyn Chair of Multicultural Studies at Cal Poly Pomona. He is author of "Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food Since 1910." He is currently writing a book on the tortilla industry in Mexico and Los Angeles.

Kevan Harris, "The Radical Pessimist," got cut off last Saturday while trying to report to us live from the war protests in Washington. So Kevekev returned this week to tell us what happened – and why your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio host sadly reminds him of George Washington. Elvis DeMorrow told us what’s happening in his Konspiracy Korner and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.