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Date: May 26, 2008 (11 AM - 1.00 PM, Central Time)
Host: Stephen Lendman
This Week's Guests: Linda McQuaig and Chalmers Johnson
Linda McQuaig is a prominent, award-winning journalist with the Toronto Star covering Canadian politics. She does it with her trademark combination of solid research, keen analysis, irreverence, passion and wit.
She's also a prolific author of eight books that earned her a well-deserved reputation for taking on the establishment, no holds barred. Her newest book is Holding the Bully's Coat - Canada and the US Empire. McQuaig calls another recent one her best - It's the Crude, Dude: war, big oil, and the fight for the planet.
The program will focus on McQuaig's writing and her current work.
Chalmers Johnson is University of California, San Diego professor emeritus where he taught for 30 years as well as at UC, Berkeley. He's currently president of the Japan Policy Research Institute (JPRI), a not-for-profit research and public relations organization involved in public education relating to Japan and the Pacific region.
Johnson is also a prolific writer and author of 17 books, many articles and various other publications. From 1968 until 1972, he served as well as a consultant to the CIA'S Office of National Estimates.
Johnson is a prominent critic of Bush administration policies. He authored three volumes on it in what he calls his "inadvertent trilogy" - Blowback, the Sorrows of Empire and his newest book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.
Discussion will focus on his writings and recent articles.
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Among our recent guests are David Ray Griffin, distinguished professor of theology, best selling author and analyst of 9/11, 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, 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. Halpin, prominent British physician, Francis Boyle, law professor and author , Cindy Sheehan, prominentantiwar activist, Michael Carmichael, author and historian, Felicity Arbuthnot, veteran war correspondent, James Petras, World renowned sociologist, 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 author and former Quebec Cabinet Minister,Jules Dufour, Canadian professor of geography and Latin America studies expert.
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Award winning author and economics professor Michel Chossudovsky is Director of the Center for Research on Globalization which hosts the critically acclaimed website: www.globalresearch.ca. He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
He has worked for the United Nations on missions in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, has acted as an adviser to governments of developing countries. He is author of several international best sellers including The Globalization of Poverty (2003) and America's "War on Terrorism" (2005). His writings have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Center for Research on Globalization and a frequent contributor to Global Research. He is based in Chicago and has written extensively on war and peace, social justice in America and many other national and international issues.
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