Global Research News Hour on RBN: John McMurtry, Danny Schechter, Marcy Newman & Noam Chomsky

Program Details, Feb 2-6

The Global Research News Hour on RBN is an initiative of the Centre for Research on Globalization

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This program is a cutting-edge initiative of Global Research broadcast by RBN out of Houston, Texas.

Monday through Friday at 10am CT  (8am PT, 11am ET) 

The GRNH 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.

Republic Broadcasting Network (RBN)

The Global Research Website: www.globalresearch.ca  Contact email: [email protected]

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Host: Stephen Lendman

John McMurtry is Professor Emeritus of the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He’s a moral philosopher, ethicist, and vocal activist for global justice, world peace, and international law. His books include Unequal Freedoms, The Cancer Stage of Capitalism, and Value Wars.

The program will focus on key world topics, including imperial wars, Gaza, the Obama administration, and the global economic crisis.

Danny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, TV producer as well as an author and lecturer on media issues. Some call him “The News Dissector,” and that’s the name of his popular blog on media issues. He’s also co-founder of Media Channel.org. It covers the “political, cultural and social impacts of the media” and provides real information about it unavailable in the mainstream.

Schechter’s new book is titled “Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal.”

Discussion will focus on media coverage of the Gaza war.

Marcy Newman is an American scholar, teacher and human rights activist. She’s now a literature and American and Middle East Studies Professor at An Najah University, Nablus, Palestine. Previously she taught at Boise State University, Boise, ID and more recently at several other Middle East universities.

The program will focus on the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

Noam Chomsky is MIT Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics and a leading political and social critic of imperial America for over 40 years. He’s also a widely quoted intellectual on the left and an internationally known anti-war critic.

Chomsky is a frequent lecturer and prolific author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including his seminal critique of the media – Manufacturing Consent, co-authored with Edward Herman.

The Gaza war and aftermath will be discussed.

 2008 AUDIO ARCHIVE

Among our recent guests are Garda Ghista, Founding Director of the World Prout Assembly (WPA),  Michael Hudson, distinguished economist and author, David Swanson, Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and Washington Director of Democrats.com., Mickey Z, distinguished author and activist, Naomi Wolf, award winning best-selling author, Howard Zinn, award-winning historian and political scientist, 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 central role 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, prominent antiwar 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)

Republic Broadcasting Network (RBN)

About Global Research Hosts

Hosts

Stephen Lendman

Michel Chossudovsky

The Global Research Website: www.globalresearch.ca 
Contact email: [email protected]  

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.

Stephen Lendman can be reached at [email protected]

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 Poverty and 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.

Michel Chossudovsky can be reached at [email protected] 


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