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Podcast for Saturday, July 25, 2009 [ 4:08:53 | 113.93 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (552)

• Melvin Goodman, is senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. Melvin spent 42 years with the CIA, the National War College, and the US Army. His latest book is “Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.” He is a a regular contributor to The Public Record. His latest column was headlined, “The CIA’s Long History Of Lying to Congress.”
• live from Haifa, Noam Chayut, co-founder of Breaking the Silence and a former Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces. Breaking the Silence recently release a report with allegations that IDF soldiers used Palestinians as human shields during this past December’s war in Gaza.
• Washington Post staff writer and author Kari Lydersen will discuss her new book, “Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago factory takeover and what it says about the economic crisis” (Melville House).
• author, journalist, and essayist Charles Bowden is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and often writes about the American Southwest. Chuck is currently a contributing editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazines. His most recent writing includes, “We Bring Fear: A reporter flees the biggest cartel of all – the Mexican Army.” His most recent book is “Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future” (Houghton Mifflin) which came out earlier this year.
• University of California-Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of History Kenneth Pomeranz. Ken’s most recent writing includes, “The Great Himalayan Watershed: Agrarian Crisis, Mega-Dams and the Environment.” His most recent book is 2006′s “The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Second Edition” (M.E. Sharpe) which he co-wrote with Scott Turk.

We’ll also interviewed guest Kevan Harris (AKA ‘The Radical Pessimist’) live from Tehran, but the connection was horrible.

Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.