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Podcast for Saturday, July 18, 2009 [ 3:56:15 | 108.15 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (633)

• live from Tokyo, Eamonn Fingleton is the former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times. Eamonn wrote the Counterpunch article about “Detroit’s Collapse, the Untold Story: How the Press Helped Destroy the Auto Industry.” He is the author of “In the Jaws of the Dragon: America’s Fate in the Coming Chinese Hegemony” (Thomas Dunne Books). Find out more about Eamonn by going to http://www.unsustainable.org.
• live from London, Matt Kennard is a 2008 graduate of the Colombia University Graduate School of Journalism in as a Stabile Investigative scholar. Matt recently moved back to his hometown of London and has written for the Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and several other prominent publications. He wrote the Salon.com article, “Neo-Nazis are in the Army now.” This week, he wrote the story, “Irregular Army: The rise of neo-Nazis in the US military.”
• Jeff Faux is founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff’s most recent article was a piece in The Nation entitled, “So Far From God, So Close to Wall St.” He is the author of “The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win It Back” (Wiley).
• Live from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, long-time activist and human rights worker Grahame Russell, co-director of the Guatemala-based NGO Rights Action. Rights Action mission focuses on human rights – including poverty as well as racial and gender discrimination – and the environment. Grahame will give us an eyewitness account of what’s taking place in Honduras.

Immediately after returning from Gaza, irregular correspondent Danny Muller gave a ‘Wasted Energy Report.’ Nicholas Hale‘s ‘Fool Britannia‘ segment on all things Britain returned for the first time in over a year. John K. Wilson, author of “President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union” (Paradigm) and “Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest” (Paradigm Publishers) talked politics. And Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.