Katherine Hughes, Gail Davidson, William Engdahl, Jennifer Duka & Jack Rasmus on the Global Research News Hour
Program Details, March 16-20
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Katherine Hughes, Gail Davidson, F. William Engdahl, Jennifer Duka, and Jack Rasmus are the featured guests on The Global Research News Hour
Dates:
Monday, March 16 – Katherine Hughes, host Stephen Lendman
Tuesday, March 17 – Gail Davidson, host Michel Chossudovsky
Wednesday, March 18 – F. William Engdahl, host Stephen Lendman
Thursday, March 19 – Jennifer Duka, host Stephen Lendman
Friday, March 20 – Jack Rasmus, host Stephen Lendman
Katherine Hughes represents the best of citizen activism. She is a Scottish national who has lived in the US since 1988 and maintains the web site www.dhafirtrial.net.
In 2004 – 2005, she attended Dr. Rafil Dhafir’s entire 17-week trial as an ACLU court watcher. He was convicted on 59 or 60 counts and sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for his “crime of compassion” – for using his own funds and what he could raise through his Help the Needy charity to provide essential to life aid to Iraqis under punitive sanctions from 1990 – 2003.
The latest on his case and the plight of political prisoners in America will be discussed.
Gail Davidson is a prominent lawyer based in Vancouver, BC. She is a spokesperson for Lawyers against War (LAW) and has been involved in an action in Canada to prosecute George W. Bush for war crimes.
LAW has recently sent a letter to the RCMP War Crimes Program requesting them to: begin an investigation of George W. Bush for aiding, abetting and counseling torture at Guantánamo Bay prison, Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Bagram prison in Afghanistan and other places.
Our focus in the program will be on George W. Bush’s visit to Calgary on March 17th. Gail Davidson will be reporting and providing analysis on the initiative directed against the former President of the US.
F. William Engdahl is a leading analyst of the New World Order and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globa.lization. For over 30 years, he’s written extensively about energy, politics, economics, and more.
He also authored “A Century of War: Anglo-American Politics and the New World Order” and “Seeds of Destruction, The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation.” published by Global Research.
His newest book is titled “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.”
The global economic crisis and Engdahl’s new book will be discussed.
Jennifer Duka is the wife of Dristan Duka, one of the so-called “Fort Dix Five” victims of America’s war on Islam. On December 22, they were convicted of conspiracy to kill American soldiers on the base even though there was no plot and no crime, just another case of FBI entrapment in the “war on terror” continuing under Barack Obama.
Discussion will focus on Duka, the “Fort Dix Five,” and other political prisoners in America.
Jack Rasmus is a professor of political economy at St. Mary’s College and Santa Clara University, CA. He’s also a freelance journalist, frequent speaker, a playwright and author of “The War at Home: The Bush-Corporate Offensive Against American Workers and their Unions.” His new books include “The Trillion Dollar Income Shift – Essays on Income Inequality in America” and “Epic Recession and Global Economic Crisis.”
Discussion will focus on Obama’s economic plan and a progressive alternative.
Among our recent guests are Jamilla El-Shafei, artist and longtime social justice and environmental activist, John Bellamy Foster, Editor of Monthly Review and Professor of Sociology, Diana Johnstone, noted political writer and best selling author, Noam Chomsky, prominent intellectual, author and professor of linguistics, 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)
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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]
