This program is a cutting-edge initiative of Global Research. It provides a global perspective on what is really happening in America and around the World - vital information unavailable in the mainstream, with noted guests sharing their expertise with listeners.
Topics discussed will include: the US military agenda in the Middle East, the presidential election campaign, the unfolding financial crisis on Wall Street, the dramatic hikes in gasoline prices, Israel-Palestine, law and justice, Al Qaeda and the "war on terrorism," what’s happening at the White House and on Capitol Hill, a review of social, economic and environmental issues, and other vital topics of national and international concern.
Date: OCTOBER 6, 2008 (11 AM - 1.00 PM, Central Time)
This Week's Guest: Mickey Huff and Davida Finger
Host: Stephen Lendman
Mickey Huff is a California-based Professor of History at Diablo Valley College. A Lecturer in Sociology at Sonoma State University, and Instructor of Critical Thinking and Media Studies at Berkeley City College. He's also Interim Associate Director of Project Censored (PC), the media democracyadvocacy group. It researches vital news stories that are "underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or censored by the US corporate media."
Each year, it ranks the top 25 and publishes them in its yearbook, "Censored: Media Democracy in Action." The latest "Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 - 2008" is now out and available for purchase online and at project censored.org/store. PC's work will be discussed on the program.
Davida Finger is a Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Katrina Clinic staff attorney and part of Law Professor Bill Quigley's social justice legal team. It's involved in issues ranging from public housing, voting rights, the death penalty, a living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights and civil disobedience to get them.
New Orleans post-Katrina and Gustav will be discussed on the program.
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Among our recent guests are Ilan Pappe, distinguished history professor, author and human rights activist, John Pilger, renowned author and documentary film director, Angara Chaterjii, human rights activist and Associate professor of Social Anthropology, Umberto Pascali, distinguished author and geopolitical analyst, Phillis Bennis, renowned American author and antiwar activist, Hana Al Bayaty, French-Iraqi antiwar activist, author and film director, Max Fuller, distinguished author and analyst of the Iraq war, Jane Mayer, political and investigative journalist for The New Yorker; Danny Schechter, media activist, independent filmmaker & TV producer; Peter Phillips, distingushed author, Sociology Professor and Director of Project Censored, Tom Burghardt, author and renowned analyst of the national security state, Dr. C. Stephen Frost, renowned British physician who investigated the mysterious death of Dr. David Kelly, Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower who played a centralrole in the Vietnam peace movement, author of the Pentagon Papers, Michael Ratner, distinguished attorney and civil rights activist, Dahr Jamail, award-winning writer and war correspondent Peter Dale Scott, distinguished poet, English professor and author, Doug Dowd, historian and author, Scott Taylor, renowned Canadian author, publisher and war correspondent, Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, distinguished author and specialist of the Middle East, Andrew Marshall, author and researcher at the Centre for Research on Globalization, David Ray Griffin, distinguished professor of theology, best-selling author and analyst of 9/11, Stephen Downs and Kathy Manly, New York-based defense attorneys of political prisoner Yassin Aref, Greg Elich, author and analyst of North Korea, Michael Parenti, scholar, peace activist and best-selling author, Ellen Brown, litigation attorney, best-selling author and analyst of the US monetary system, Briton Amos, author and human rights activist, Jerome Corsi, best-selling author, Richard C. Cook, author and analyst of the US financial crisis, Ramzi Baroud, best-selling author with a focus on the history of Palestine, F. William Engdahl, best selling author and analyst of the New World Order, Mike Whitney, author and analyst of Washington's military agenda, Dr. David Halpin, prominent British physician and antiwar activist, Francis Boyle, law professor and author, Cindy Sheehan, prominentantiwar activist, Michael Carmichael, author and historian, Felicity Arbuthnot, renowned author, antiwar activist and veteran Middle East war correspondent, James Petras, World renowned author and professor of sociology, Lynne Stewart, noted defense lawyer, Robert McChesney, leading media scholar, critic and activist, Marjorie Cohn, best selling author, leading American jurist and law professor, Rodrigue Tremblay, professor of economics, renowned author and former Quebec Cabinet Minister, Jules Dufour, professor of geography and distinguished Latin America studies expert.
Show Time: Mondays, 11:00am - 1:00pm CT (12.00- 2.00pm ET, 9.00am-11am PT)
Award winning author and economics professor Michel Chossudovsky is Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Montreal, which hosts the critically acclaimed website: www.globalresearch.ca.
Michel Chossudovsky has taught at universities and academic institutions in North America, Western Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. He is currently teaching in the International Development and Globalization Studies Program at the University of Ottawa.
He has undertaken field-research in all major regions of the developing World and has traveled to over 100 countries.
Michel Chossudovsky has also worked for several United Nations organizations on missions to Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa and has acted as adviser to governments of developing countries.
He is an active member of the Canadian antiwar movement and has written extensively on US and allied war plans in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central Asia.
He is the author of several international best sellers including The Globalization of Povertyand the New World Order (2003) and America's "War on Terrorism" (2005) and more than 500 articles. His writings have been translated into more than 25 languages. He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Stephen Lendman is a renowned author and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is based in Chicago and has written extensively on war and peace, social justice in America and many other national and international issues. Stephen Lendman is a recipient of a 2008 Project Censored Award, University of California at Sonoma.
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