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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Don Peck, Drew Colglazier, Gareth Porter, Kate O'Donnell, Mike Marqusee, Norman Solomon

Our guests were: Don Peck is a deputy managing editor of The Atlantic. Don’s article, “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America,” appears in the March issue. Mike Marqusee is an American writer who emigrated to Britain in 1971. Mike writes Level Playing Field, a column on politics and culture for The Hindu Sunday [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Chalmers Johnson, Dave Zirin, Jeff Dorchen, Jim Shultz, Kate O'Donnell, Nomi Prins, Tariq Ali

live from Cochabamba, the Democracy Center‘s Jim Shultz explained what the hell is going on in the near civil war in Bolivia. You can read Jim’s blog by visiting http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/. The Democracy Center “works globally to advance social justice through investigation and reporting, training citizens in public advocacy, and leading international citizen campaigns.” journalist [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Danny Muller, David Enders, Drew Youngren, Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Lawrence Velvel, Lyndall Stein

live from (not) Dublin, Lyndall Stein is executive director of Concern, an “humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.” Lyndall’s most recent writing includes her openDemocracy article, “Ethiopia: the tears and the rains.” live from Baghdad, journalist David Enders [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Dr. Carsten Wieland, Frida Berrigan, Jeff Dorchen, Jeff Sharlet, Jim Shultz, Kate O'Donnell, Perspective, Todd Williams

Jeff Sharlet is author of the new book, “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power” (HarperCollins). Jeff is a contributing editor at Harper’s and Rolling Stone. He is also an associate research scholar at New York University’s Center for Religion and Media. He is also the editor of the web [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Doug Henwood, Eric Umansky, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Michael Massing, Science Researcher's Perspective, Spencer Ackerman, Todd Williams

Michael Massing, a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, who also writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs on the pages of the New York Review of Books. Michael’s article, “The Volunteer Army: Who Fights and Why?,” appears in the April 5th issue. Michael’s article in the March/April issue of CJR is [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Celia Szusterman, Gareth Porter, Jeff Dorchen, Justin Podur, Kate O'Donnell, Lawrence Mishel

live from Toronto, writer, translator, activist Justin Podur wrote Tuesday’s ZNet story, “Colombia’s war and Venezuela’s foreign policy.” Justin is also an editor for ZNet, which is part of Z Magazine. Justin has reported from Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Israel/Palestine, and Mexico. His work has also appeared in Dollars and Sense, New Politics, [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Bruce Dixon, Jeff Dorchen, John Perkins, Kate O'Donnell, Raed Jarrar, Stephen Zunes, Todd Williams

John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," will be on to discuss his new book, "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption." Stephen Zunes is the Foreign Policy In Focus Middle East editor and a professor of politics at the University [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Greg Palast, Jeff Faux, Kate O'Donnell, LaddieO.com, Todd Williams

Greg Palast (http://www.gregpalast.com), author of "armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans – Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild" (Plume) which just came out in paperback with a new chapter, "The Scheme to Swipe 2008." Jeff Faux, author of "The Global Class War" (Wiley). Jeff is also is founder [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Drew Youngren, Ira Chernus, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Kevan Harris, Paul Cruickshank, Phil Gasper

Phil Gasper teaches philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in California and writes the bimonthly "Critical Thinking" column for International Socialist Review. Phil wrote the Counterpunch piece yesterday entitled, "Prisoners of Ideology: America’s draconian approach to criminal justice" Paul Cruickshank, who co-authored the new study "The Iraq Effect: The War in Iraq and [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Dahr Jamail, Elvis DeMorrow, Ian Williams, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Kevan Harris, Phillip Cryan, Uri Avnery

Ian Williams (http://deadlinepundit.blogspot.com), whose most recent piece is entitled, "Accidentally on Purpose," and covers the Israeli bombing of the United Nations in Lebanon. Ian has written for newspapers and magazines around the world, including the Australian, The Independent, New York Observer, Village Voice, Financial Times and The Guardian. He is the UN correspondent for [...]