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Podcast for Saturday, January 17, 2009 [ 3:51:51 | 106.13 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (267)

• investigative journalist Russ Baker is founder of WhoWhatWhy/the Real News Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization. Russ’s exclusive reporting on George W. Bush’s military record won him a 2005 Deadline Club Award. His new book is “Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America” (Bloomsbury Press).
• Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the author of “Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism” (Common Courage Press) and co-author (with Jacob Mundy) of the forthcoming “Western Sahara: Nationalism, Conflict, and International Accountability” (Syracuse University Press). Stephen’s most recent writing includes “America’s Hidden Role in Hamas’s Rise to Power” and “Virtually the Entire Dem-Controlled Congress Supports Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza.”
• Robert Pollin a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherstand founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute. Bob’s latest writing includes “Tools for a New Economy; Proposals for a financial regulatory system.” His books include, “Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity,” (Verso).
• nationally syndicated columnist Robert Scheer is the executive editor of TruthDig.com and a contributing editor for The Nation. Robert conducted the famous Playboy magazine interview in which Jimmy Carter confessed to the lust in his heart. Robert was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine and served as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of, most recently, “The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America” (Hachette Book Group). This week, he wrote the column, “Wall Street Robber Barons Ride Again.”
• sociologist Larry King is co-author of “Mass privatization and the post-communist mortality crisis: a cross-national analysis” which appeared in the latest issue of Lancet.

Our irregular correspondents were Dr. Krys Bigosinski, MD, and from Los Angeles Jeff Dorchen delivered a ‘Moment of Truth.’