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Podcast for Saturday, March 8, 2008 [ 0:01 | 109.89 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (414)

• Ken Silverstein is the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine. We discussed his article in the March issue entitled, “Beltway Bacchanal: Congress Lives High on the Contributor’s Dime.”
• Theresa Hitchens is the director of the Center for Defense Information where she heads their Space Security Project. Theresa is the author of “Future Security In Space: Charting a Cooperative Course.” She wrote the Scientific American story, “Space Wars – Coming to the Sky Near You?” which appears in their March issue.
• James Suggett writes at Venezuelanalysis.com. This week he wrote on the tensions between Colombia and their neighbors Ecuador and Venezuela. His writing included “Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina strengthen ties, embark on ‘true geopolitical shift’” and “OAS supports Ecuador, Venezuela on ‘path of true peace’.”
• David Rose is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a special investigations reporter at The Observer. He wrote “Gaza Bombshell” which appears in the April issue of Vanity Fair. And what a bombshell it is. “With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.”

This week’s irregular correspondents were:

• Kevan Harris, ‘The Radical Pessimist,’ returned …
• Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth … the original Moment of Truth, since 1997 …
• Elvis DeMorrow came creeping out of the Konspiracy Korner.