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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: June 30, 2008 (11 AM - 1.00 PM, Central Time)
Host: Michel Chossudovsky
This Week's Guests: Michael Ratner and Dahr Jamail
Michael Ratner is president of the non-profit Center for Constitutional Rights that states its mission as follows: "to advanc(e) and protect the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and Universal Declaration of Human Rights" since its founding in 1966 by civil rights attorneys in the South.
Ratner is a past National Lawyers Guild president and co-hosts his own weekly Law and Disorder radio program (available online) on Pacifica Radio's WBAI in New York.
He's also defended and written about the Guantanamo detainees. The program will discuss his work and the important June 12 Boumediene v. Bush Supreme Court decision.
Dahr Jamail is a rare journalist at a time of corporate media dominance and what noted author Studs Terkel calls "in-bed-with" reporters.
Dahr is the real thing and an award-winning one to boot. He writes and reports independently and took great personal risks doing it "unembedded" in Iraq for eight months from 2003 to 2005. His "Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches" are featured on his web site - dahrjamailiraq.com.
Dahr's first book was published last October - titled "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq."
Dahr's work will be discussed on the program.
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Award winning author and economics professor Michel Chossudovsky is Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization 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 has undertaken field-research in all major regions of the developing World and has traveled to over 100 countries.
"It was as a young visiting professor at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, that Chossudovsky's interest in "economic repression" was first pricked. Augusto Pinochet's military junta, which overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973, quadrupled the price of bread and introduced other measures that would now be referred to as "a structural adjustment program." Chossudovsky set out, with a doctor, to study the malnourishment resulting from the bread price hike. He wound up with a paper that held the Pinochet regime responsible not only for conventional forms of political repression but for "economic repression" that impoverished three-quarters of Chile's population. Since then he has documented the purposeful impoverishment of people in dozens of countries." (Juliet ONeill, The Ottawa Citizen)
He is an active member of the Canadian antiwar movement; he 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 the author of several international best sellers including The Globalization of Poverty (2003) and America's "War on Terrorism" (2005) and more than 500 articles. His writings have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre 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. Stephen Lendman is a recipient of a 2008 Project Censored Award, University of California at Sonoma.
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