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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Dan 'The Auto Man', Danny Muller, Ha-Joon Chang, James Howard Kunstler, Jeff Dorchen, Martin Beck Matustik

Martin Beck Matustik author of “Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations” (Indiana University Press). Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. Ha-Joon Chang is an economist specializing in development economics. Ha-Joon Reader in the Political Economy of Development at Cambridge University. Ha-Joon is the author of several books including last [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Danny Muller, Dr. Krys Bigosinski MD, Gary Brecher, Haifa Zangana, Howard Zinn, Jeff Dorchen, Jeff Faux

Haifa Zangana, author of “City Of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance” (Seven Stories). Haifa was a prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime. She is a weekly columnist at al-Quds newspaper and a commentator for The Guardian, Red Pepper and al-Ahram Weekly. Gary Brecher writes the War Nerd column at eXile.ru. Gary’s [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Caroline Elkins, Danny Muller, David Morris, Fatima Bhutto, Glen Ford, Jeff Dorchen, Patrick Cockburn

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 recently wrote the article, “Farewell to Wadi Bua.” Caroline Elkins is [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Ben Dangl, Danny Muller, Dr. Krys Bigosinski MD, Elvis DeMorrow, Kevin Davis, Mahmood Mamdan, Nicholas Hale, Norman Solomon

Ben Dangl, author of "The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia." (AK Press) Ben is an editor and writer at both Upside Down World (http://upsidedownworld.org/) and TowardsFreedom.com (http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/).Read an excerpt from Ben’s book re-titled, "The U.S. ‘War on Drugs’ Is an Assault on South America�s Poorest" at AlterNet. live in [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Chris Toensing, Danny Muller, Jeff Dorchen, LaddieO.com, Laura Carlsen, Todd Williams

Chris Toensing will give us an overview of the entire Middle East conflagration Laura Carlsen, director of the International Relations Center Americas Program (http://americas.irc-online.org/) in Mexico City, where she has worked as a writer and political analyst for the past two decades. Laura wrote the IRC piece, "Mexico’s Dramatic Vote Count Lacks Credibility." Our [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Astra Taylor, Danny Muller, Elvis DeMorrow, Howard Zinn, Jeff Dorchen, John Prados, LaddieO.com, Tim Wise

John Prados is a senior fellow of the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, and author of "Hoodwinked: The Documents that Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War" (The New Press). His most recent writing includes the TomPaine.com article, "Big Brother’s History." Historian, academic, author, lecturer, activist Howard Zinn, best known for the seminal [...]