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Podcast for Saturday, January 24, 2009 [ 3:58:23 | 95.48 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (187)

• Kenneth Saltman is associate professor in the department of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of “Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools,” (Paradigm Publishers), and editor of Schooling and the Politics of Disaster (Routledge).
  In December, he wrote the article, “Obama’s Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling,” with Henry Giroux.
• Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston is the author of “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill).” In David’s recent article, “Fiscal Therapy,” he discusses how we can get the economy back on its feet, give taxpayers a break, save your retirement fund and your kid’s college tuition … and it won’t cost you a penny.
• Elizabeth Holtzman is a former Democratic congresswoman from New York. Elizabeth beat a fifty-year incumbent to win that seat. During her time in office, from 1972 to 1981, she played a key role on the House Judiciary Committee that impeached President Richard Nixon. She later was elected as the district attorney of Brooklyn and is currently practicing law in New York. Elizabeth is co-author with Cynthia L. Cooper of “The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens” (http://www.impeachbushbook.com/). Her most recent writing includes, “Holding Bush Accountable.”
• Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics, writing the weekly “Media Beat” column since 1992. His latest book is “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State.” Norman is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts. He is also a past winner of the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. Norman is senior advisor to the National Radio Project, which produces the weekly public-affairs program “Making Contact,” heard on 160 noncommercial radio stations in North America. This week, Norman wrote the article, “The Return of Triangulation.”
• former humanitarian aid worker Ann Jones, author of “Kabul in Winter,” (Metropolitan Books) will discuss her writing including this week’s Tom Dispatch piece, “The Afghan Scam: The Untold Story of Why the U.S. Is Bound to Fail in Afghanistan.”
• Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2001 he served on a three person Human Rights Inquiry Commission for the Palestine Territories that was appointed by the United Nations, and previously, on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. He serves as Chair of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Board of Directors and as honorary vice president of the American Society of International Law. Last year, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” In December, Richard landed at Ben Gurion Airport with staff members from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on an official visit, planning to travel to the West Bank and Gaza to document human rights conditions. However, Israel detained him and held him for 30 hours, before releasing him to a flight back to Geneva.

And live from Los Angeles Jeff Dorchen delivered a ‘Moment of Truth.’