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The Global Research News Hour (GRNH) 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.

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John Williams, Vandana Shiva, Bob Chapman, Mickey Huff, and George Katsiaficas are the featured guests on The Global Research News Hour

Host: Stephen Lendman

Dates:

Monday, July 13 – John Williams

Tuesday, July 14 – Vandana Shiva

Wednesday, July 15 – Bob Chapman

Thursday, July 16 – Mickey Huff

Friday, July 17 – George Katsiaficas

Time: 10AM US Central time

John Williams is a consulting economist and editor of the Shadow Government Statistics web site and electronic newsletter. Calling government data manipulated, corrupted, and unreliable, he reverse engineers it for a more accurate assessment of economic conditions.

The global economic crisis will be discussed.

Vandana Shiva is a noted author, physicist, philosopher, ecologist, feminist, and longtime activist for human and civil rights.

She also founded Navdanya to support nonviolent farming, biodiversity, local farmers, and prevent crops and plants from extinction by stopping agribusiness from patenting all life forms to then force-feed GMO foods on everyone – even though eating them risks harm to human health.

Shiva also directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi, India and is an Associate Editor of The Ecologist magazine.

Her current work will be discussed.

Bob Chapman is a longtime market professional who for over 40 years has written articles and analysis on business, finance, economics, and politics and is currently the owner and editor of The International Forecaster, “a compendium of information on business, finance, economics, and social and political issues worldwide.”

The global economic crisis will be discussed.

Mickey Huff is a California-based Professor of History at Diablo Valley College, a Lecturer in Sociology at Sonoma State University, and an Instructor of Critical Thinking and Media Studies at Berkeley City College.

He’s also Associate Director of Project Censored (PC), the media democracy advocacy group. It researches and publishes 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 Censored Stories of 2007 – 2008 can be purchased online at projectcensored.org/store.

What’s new at Project Censored will be discussed as well as current world topics.

George Katsiaficas is a visiting American Professor of Humanities and Sociology at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea where he teaches and does research on the 1980s and 1990s East Asian uprisings. He’s also a Fullbright Fellow, longtime activist, and author of numerous books, including The Imagination of the New Left: The Global Analysis of 1968.

Rising South Korean right wing extremism and tensions over North Korea will be discussed

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Among our recent guests and Global Research authors: 

Bob Chapman, renowned market analyst and International Forecaster, Greg Wilpert, distinguished sociologist and author, Catherine Austin Fitts, renowned author and investment advisor, Henry C.K. Liu, renowned financial analyst and author, Michael Mandel, Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto,  Daniel Estulin, award-winning investigative journalist, Sid Shniad, Research Director of the Vancouver-based Telecommunications union, Russ Baker, founder of the Real News Project,  Stephen Fantl, Designer of the Free Digital Universe information age economic model, Jason Miller, editor of Thomas Paine’s Corner, Gila Svirsky, Israeli-based co-founder of the Coalition of Women for Peace, Brian Concannon, distinguished human rights lawyer and Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), Jack Rasmus, distinguished author and professor of political economy, St. Mary’s College & Santa Clara University, Ralph Nader, longtime consumer advocate, lawyer, distinguished author and presidential candidate , Mickey Huff,  California-based Professor of History, Dr. Oliver Fein, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, Joel Kovel, distinguished psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Ian Douglas, correspondent for the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Weekly and visiting Professor at An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine, Fred Magdoff, Professor Emeritus in Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont, John McMurtry, author, moral philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Ontario, .James Fetzer, prominent analyst and researcher  of 911, professor of Philosophy, McKnight University, Richard Wolff, renowned author and Economics Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Keith Harmon Snow, distinguished geopolitical analyst and author focussing on Central Africa, Katherine Hughes, prominent actvist involved in huamn rights actions, Gail Davidson, a prominent lawyer based in Vancouver, BC, Jennifer Duka, the wife of Dristan Duka, one of the so-called “Fort Dix Five” victims of America’s war on Islam. Jack Rasmus, author and professor of political economy, 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 Gavin 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.

About Global Research Hosts

Hosts

Stephen Lendman

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]

Michel Chossudovsky

The Global Research Website: www.globalresearch.ca 

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 also worked for several United Nations organizations and has acted as adviser to governments of developing countries.   

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). His writings have been translated into more than 25 languages. He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Contact email: [email protected]