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Podcast for Saturday, September 6, 2008 [ 0:01 | 105.38 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (421)

• Mark Weisbrot, co-director at the Center for Economic Policy Research, who has just co-authored a report entitled, “Oil Drilling In Environmentally Sensitive Areas: The Role of the Media.”
• Matt Kennard is a writer who, while studying for his Master’s in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in New York. looked into the increasingly liberal attitude of the US military to allow neo-Nazis and white supremacists to serve in the armed forces.
  Read Matt’s work at http://nazisinthemilitary.com/
• Jessica Montell, executive director of B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Jessica will discuss her group’s work on human rights and their “Shooting Back” project.
  Here’s how B’Tselem describes the project: “In January 2007, B’Tselem launched “Shooting Back”, a video advocacy project focusing on the Occupied Territories. We provide Palestinians living in high-conflict areas with video cameras, with the goal of bringing the reality of their lives under occupation to the attention of the Israeli and international public, exposing and seeking redress for violations of human rights.”
• author Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch.
• as a reporter, Gregg Erickson (http://www.ericksoneconomics.com) has covered Sarah Palin for over 20 months. Gregg is an independent economic consultant serving clients in “government, business and the legal profession.” He is also editor-at-large and reporter for the Alaska Budget Report, a newsletter covering the state’s the state budget, economy and government. And Gregg’s a columnist for the Anchorage Daily News and the Juneau Empire.

And our irregular correspondents were:

• Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth …
• Danny Muller told us what he saw at the two party conventions …
• and Elvis DeMorrow found John McCain in the Konspiracy Korner.