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Podcast for Saturday, September 23, 2006 [ 106.28 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (46)

• Kerry Pither of the Committee of Organizations Intervening at the Arar Inquiry returns to This is Hell to fill us in on what happened in the Maher Arar case this week. Arar is the Syrian-born Canadian who was the victim of US rendition.
  To find out more about Maher’s case, visit his web site at http://www.maherarar.ca
• Katharine Gunn, the British government employee who blew the whistle prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq on how hell-bent the Bush administration was for war. Katharine leaked a US intelligence memo indicating that a campaign had been mounted to spy against delegations on the UN Security Council. The plan was an effort to win approval for an invasion of Iraq despite President Bush claiming at the time that "We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq."
  Gunn faced two years imprisonment under the British Official Secrets Act, but charges were dropped.
  Katharine has written the article "Iran: Time To Leak," which encourages government officials to leak as she did to stop any pending war with Iran.
• Zaki Chehab, political editor of the London-based Al Hayat-LBC TV and author of "Inside the Resistance: Reporting from Iraq’s ‘Danger Zone’" (Nation Books)
• the Guardian’s Jonathan Steele returns to This is Hell to discuss his recent writing, in particular his work on Sudan including "Sorry George Clooney, but the last thing Darfur needs is western troops"
• Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, author of the new book, "Making Globalization Work" (Penguin UK). Mr. Stiglitz is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. Joseph founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University where he is a professor. He also chairs the University of Manchester’s Brooks World Poverty Institute.

Our correspondents included LaddieO.com who gave us a live web and tech report from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs; Jeff Dorchen, who delivered a Moment of Truth; Todd Williams – our man in Budapest – reported on the riots taking place their this week; and Elvis DeMorrow returned with his Konspiracy Korner.