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Podcast for Saturday, May 30, 2009 [ 3:56:31 | 108.27 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (359)

Interviews played during this special podcast – ‘The Very Best of Taylor Dearr ‘ – included:

• from April 15, 2008, Jeff Faux is founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epinet.org/) where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff’s most recent article as of this date was a piece in The Nation entitled, “Is This The Big One?” Jeff is also a contributing editor to American Prospect and a member of the editorial board of Dissent.
• from January 12, 2008, live from Karachi, Fatima Bhutto is a writer and poet. She is the daughter of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, who was killed in 1996 in Karachi when his sister, and Fatima’s aunt, Benazir, was prime minister. In the wake of her aunt’s death, Fatima had recently written the article, “Farewell to Wadi Bua.”
• From February 17, 2007, Patrick Cockburn returned to This is Hell to discuss his recent columns including “Who is Muqtada al-Sadr?,” “Targeting Tehran” and “Now It’s War on the Shia.” Patrick writes regularly for Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org) and is is the author of “The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq” (Verso) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for best nonfiction book of 2006.
• From February 28, 2009, Kristen Lombardi wrote the investigative piece, “Coal Ash: The Hidden Story How Industry and the EPA Failed To Stop a Growing Environmental Disaster” at the Center for Public Integrity. Kristen won the 2007 AltWeekly Award for investigative journalism presented by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Kristen was recognized for her Village Voice story, “Death by Dust: The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic cloud and cancer.”
• From June 14, 2008, David Cay Johnston is an independent investigative journalist, formerly with The New York Times, now focusing on the subject of taxation. David’s most recent book is 2007′s “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill.”
• From February 2, 2008, Gareth Porter Gareth Porter is an investigative journalist and historian who writes for both the Inter Press Service and the Huffington Post. Just before this interview, he posted the story, “Bush’s Iran/Argentina Terror Frame-Up,” at The Nation. His most recent book is “Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam” (University of California Press). A month earlier Gareth reported on the Strait of Hormuz controversy, “Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel.”