We played interviews with Mahmood Mamdani on the language
of genocide, Roger Morris on the history of the CIA,
and Charles Mann telling us what the Americas were
like beore 1491.
We also had live contributions from correspondents Nicholas
"Fool Britannia" Hale, Dan "The
Auto Man" Litchfield and John Wilson told
us about his new book on Barack Obama.
Jamey Lionette is a contributor to "Manifestos
on the Future of Food and Seed" (South End Press) which
is edited by author and activist Vandana Shiva. Jamey's
contribution was posted at AlterNet this week under the
title, "We
Are What We Eat." Jamey and his family run Lionette's
Market (http://www.lionettesmarket.com)
in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Jacques Leslie is the author of, "Deep Water:
The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displace People, and the Environment"
(Farrar, Strauss and Giroux). Jacques won two national journalism
awards for his work at the Los Angeles Times as a war correspondent
in Vietnam and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In
recent years, Jacques has changed his focus to the environment,
writing on power blackouts, the coming hydrogen age, food
irradiation, SUVs, and groundwater speculation. This week,
Jacques wrote the piece, "The
Last Empire: China's Pollution Problem Goes Global,"
for MotherJones.
Ben Wallace-Wells is a contributing editor to Rolling
Stone. His most recent piece is entitled, "How
America Lost the War on Drugs." Ben is a former
contributing editor for the Washington Monthly and was a
reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Maurice Carney is the Executive Director of Friends
of the Congo, which "was established at the behest
of Congolese human rights and grassroots institutions in
2004, to work together to bring about peaceful and lasting
change in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire.
The Friends of the Congo is led by people of African ancestry
and others of goodwill. We believe that with strong support
from friends of the Congo throughout the globe , the vast
human and natural resource potential of the Democratic Republic
of Congo can serve as an instrument to meet the great needs
of the people of Congo and Africa."
John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man," will be on to discuss his new book,
"The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic
Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption."
Stephen Zunes is the Foreign
Policy In Focus Middle East editor and a professor of
politics at the University of San Francisco. He is also
the author of "Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and
the Roots of Terrorism" (Common
Courage Press). His most recent writing includes the
ZMag article "Broken
Peace Process."
Fatima Bhutto is a writer and poet. She is the
daughter of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, who was killed in 1996 in
Karachi when his sister, and Fatima's aunt, Benazir, was
prime minister. Fatima recently wrote the piece, "The
Dismantling of Pakistani Democracy."
Gregory Levey (http://www.gregorylevey.com),
former communications coordinator and speechwriter for Ariel
Sharon and Ehud Olmert, and Israeli delegate to the United
Nations. He is now writing warnings about a new further
right wing trend within the Israeli government.
Reese Erlich, author of "The Iran Agenda:
The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis,"
which you can find out more about by visiting (http://www.theiranagenda.com).
He's currently in the midst of a book tour, so check out
his site to find out when he will be in your town.
investigative journalist Greg Palast (http://www.gregpalast.com)
returned to This is Hell to discuss his most recent writing
on the California wildfires and the new revelations in what
was once called Rathergate.
Paul Cruickshank is a fellow at New York University's
Law School's Center on Law and Security (http://www.lawandsecurity.org/).Paul
will discuss the article he co-wrote with another past guest,
Peter Bergen, entitled, "Al
Qaeda: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Bush administration
propaganda notwithstanding, Al Qaeda was not a factor in
Iraq before the U.S. invasion. But it is now—and any
withdrawal plan needs to deal with the demons we helped
create." It's part of Mother Jones' special report,
"US
Out of Iraq How? Bush broke It. We own it. A hard look
at what it really means to pull out of Iraq."
Make sure to check out the archive of articles by Paul,
Peter and Larry Wright by going to http://lawandsecurity.org/news_archive.cfm?y=2007
David Morse is an independent journalist and human
rights activist whose articles and essays have appeared
in Dissent, Esquire, Friends Journal, the Nation, the New
York Times Magazine, Salon, and elsewhere. His eyewitness
account of what is taking place in Sudan appeared as a two-parter
at TomDispatch.com entitled, "With
the Lost Boys in Southern Sudan," and "The
Coming Collision in Sudan,"
respectively. He traveled to South Sudan most recently with
support from the Nation Institute's Investigative Fund and
the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and wrote this article
during a residency at Blue Mountain Center.
Cynthia Stokes Brown, author of "Big History:
From the Big Bang to the Present" (New
Press)
live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen is the director
of the Americas Policy Program at the International Relations
Center. Laura has been working as an analyst and writer
in Mexico for over two decades. Her recent writing at the
time of this interview included the articles, "Plan
Mexico and the Billion Dollar Drug Deal," "Opposition
Gains Strength as Pro-CAFTA Forces Caught in Manipulation
Scheme," "Agrofuels Trap," and "Extending
NAFTA's Reach," which can all be found at http://www.americas.irc-online.org.
Trita Parsi, author of "Treacherous Alliance:
The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States"
(Yale
Press). Trita's recent writing also includes this week's
Op-Ed in The Hill, "Fund
Bridges, not Failed Policy."
Parsi is president of the National Iranian American Council
(http://www.niacouncil.org).
Stan Cox returnrf to This is Hell to tell us about
his latest article, "Big
Houses Are Not Green: America's McMansion Problem."
Stan worked in the Agricultural Research Service of the
USDA in Manhattan, Kansas, as a wheat geneticist 1984-1996.
He then went on to teach high school in Hyderabad, India,
from 1996 til 2000 when he joined the Land Institute (http://www.landinstitute.org)
as a senior research scientist. He is currently a plant
breeder and writer in Salina, Kansas.
Paul Craig Roberts who was Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and is now
a regular contributor to Counterpunch returned t This is
Hell to discuss his latest article, "Who
Are the Fanatics?"
Harper's contributing editor McKenzie Funk told
us about his cover article in the September issue, "Cold
Rush: The coming fight for the melting North" from
the top deck of the Healy icebreaker somewhere off the coast
of Alaska.
Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990
and Robert Gates' branch chief in the early 1970s. Ray was
one of President Ronald Reagan's intelligence briefers from
1981-85 charged with preparing daily security briefs for
the President, the Vice President, the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
the Cabinet and National Security Advisor. Ray was also
one of several senior CIA analysts who prepared the President's
Daily Brief for President George H.W. Bush. Upon retirement,
Ray was awarded the Intelligence Commendation Medal from
then President Bush. However, Ray later returned the medal
in a protest against the US government's use of torture.
He now serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity. Ray's most recent writing includes,
"Do
We Have the Courage to Stop War with Iran?"
Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director
of the Drug Policy Alliance (http://www.drugpolicy.org),
an organization that promotes alternatives to the war on
drugs. Ethan is the author of "Cops Across Borders,"
the first scholarly study of the internationalization of
US criminal law enforcement and co-author with Peter Andreas
of "Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control
in International Relations." In the latest issue of
Foreign Policy, Ethan wrote the cover story, "Think
Again: Drugs."
Ed
Whitfield is a social critic and community activist
who works closely with the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro,
North Carolina. Ed was recently named the Executive Director
of the newly formed Fund for Democratic Communities. He
recently played a prominent role in the establishment of
the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Ed is
currently working on a book reexamining school integration
in the light of the current discourse on "re-segregation."
Ed's recent articles at HuffingtonPost.com include, "A
Different View on School Desegregation" and "What
is Really Missing?"
Stephen I. Vladeck is Associate Professor of Law
at the University of Miami. Professor Vladeck served as
Executive Editor of The Yale Law Journal and was Student
Director of the Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security
Post-9/11 Litigation Project. Stephen has participated in
litigation challenging President Bush’s assertion of
power after September 11 to detain individuals without trial.
Professor Vladeck is also part of the legal team that successfully
challenged the Bush Administration’s use of military
tribunals at Guantánamo Bay in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Stephen is also a regular contributor to PrawfsBlawg (http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com)
Last Friday, Stephen wrote the Los Angeles Times opinion
piece, "The
lost Padilla verdict."
following a yearlong investigation, Jennifer Gonnerman
wrote the cover story for this month's Mother Jones, "School
of Shock: Electric shocks. Withholding food. Social
isolation. Why are we paying for autistic, mentally retarded,
and emotionally troubled kids to be treated like enemy combatants?"
Jennifer is also the author of "Life on the Outside:
The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett" which was a
finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. Her work has
appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York, The Nation,
Newsday, and many other publications. For seven years, she
was a staff writer at The Village Voice, where she covered
the criminal justice system.
Our irregular correspondents were:
LaddieO.com gave us a live web, tech and/or science
report from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs.
Michael Schwartz is professor of sociology and
faculty director of the Undergraduate College of Global
Studies at Stony Brook University. His books include "Radical
Protest and Social Structure" and "Social Policy
and The Conservative Agenda." This week, Michael posted
"Benchmarking
Iraq for Disaster" at TomDispatch.com. Michael
was last on This is Hell back in September 2006.
Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly
Review and author of "Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate:
An Economist's Travelogue," (Monthly
Review Press). Former economics professor at University
of Pittsburgh-Johnstown,
investigative journalist James Ridgeway wrote for
the Village Voice from the mid-1970's till April of last
year following the purchase of the Voice by New Times Media.
Since then, he has headed the Washington bureau of Mother
Jones. In The July/August 2007 edition, Jim wrote, "In
Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told
About the Oklahoma City Bombing."
economist Dean Baker is the co-director of the
Center for Economic and Policy Research (http://www.cepr.net).
Dean is the author of "The Conservative Nanny State:
How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get
Richer" (http://www.conservativenannystate.org).
Dean writes the blog, "Beat the Press," which
analyzes the media's coverage of economic issues. You can
find it at the American Prospect's web site. This week,
Dean wrote the truthout.org piece, "Midsummer
Market Meltdown: Is the End Near?" This is Dean's
first appearance since March 2006 on This is Hell.
Steven Rosenfeld is a senior fellow at Alternet.org
and co-author with past this is Hell guest Harvey Wasserman
and Bob Fitrakis of "What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary
Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election" (The
New Press). Steven has
been writing lately on ongoing electoral system problems
including, "Today Is D-Day for Electronic Voting Machines,"
"In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential
Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing," "Are
Voter Registration Drives Being Put Out of Business?,"
"Bush Government to Poor Voters: We Don't Want You
to Vote" and "Will Electronic Voting Reform Create
New Ways to Steal Elections?"
And our irregular correspondents will be:
Drew Youngren finally gave his Summer Swedish travelogue
and ...
Noam Chomsky returned to This is Hell for the first
time in three years. Noam is a professor of linguistics
and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Most recently, Noam is the author of "Interventions"
(City
Lights), a collection of op-eds distributed by the New
York Times syndicate yet, while published in other US papers
and around the world, the columns were never printed in
the Times itself. Last year, Noam released "Failed
States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy"
(Metropolitan
Books). His most recent writing includes the articles,
"What
is at Stake in Iraq," and "Imminent
Crises: Threats and Opportunities," which can both
be found at Z Magazine’s web site Znet (http://www.zmag.org).
Noam was voted the leading living public intellectual in
the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll conducted by the British
magazine Prospect. Noam's reaction was, "I don't pay
a lot of attention to polls"
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, MD, returned to This is
Hell to give his perspective on the current situation in
the Occupied Territories. Mustafa was a candidate for the
presidency of the Palestinian National Authority in 2005,
to fill the vacancy created by the death of Yasser Arafat.
In that election, he finished second to Mahmoud Abbas. Mustafa
is an advocate of democracy and nonviolent resistance. He
has been a consistent critic of corruption and nepotism
within the Palestinian Authority. Mustafa heads the Union
of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees which provides
healthcare to those Palestinians in refugee camps like Ramallah.
Mustafa is also secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative,
an opposition movement which campaigns for democratic reforms.
Howard Zinn is a historian, political scientist,
social critic, activist, playwright and was a shipyard worker
and World War Two Air Force bombardier in Europe. Howard's
latest book is "A Power Governments Cannot Suppress"
(AK
Press). You probably know Howard from his groundbreaking
book, "The People's History of the United States (Perennial
Classics). Howard is Professor Emeritus in the Political
Science Department at Boston University. His most recent
articles include "Put
Away the Flags." and "Are
We Politicians or Citizens?" Howard was recently
interviewed on Al Jazeera, and his 2007 Harlem Book
Fair conversation
with author Walter Mosley on a history of America was
recently broadcast on C-SPAN's amazing "Book TV"
program.
And our irregular correspondents were:
Kevan
Harris, the Radical Pessimist, returned after his
trip to the Middle East which included Iran and ...
Peter W. Galbraith is a a former US Ambassador
to Croatia, and is currently the Senior Diplomatic Fellow
at the Center for Arms Control and a principal at the Windham
Resources Group, a firm that negotiates on behalf of its
clients in post-conflict societies, including Iraq. His
book "The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created
a War Without End" will be released in paperback this
August. Peter wrote the article "Iraq:
The Way to Go" for the New York Review of Books
this week.
Saul Landau returned to This is Hell for the first
time in three years to discuss his recent writing including
both "Family
Jewels are Paste but Reveal Clues of Empire" and
"Blame
the Puppet." Saul is a regular columnist at both
CounterPunch
and progresoweekly.com.
His new CounterPunch Press book is A Bush and Botox World.
Saul also has a new film, "We Don't Play Golf Here"
on globalization in Mexico. You can get details on receiving
a copy by sending an email.
David Rosen appeared on This is Hell last November
to discuss the Congressman Mark Foley scandal. This week,
he wrote the article. "Moral
Hypocrisy on the Hill, Again." Last we heard, David
was completing the manuscript for "Perversions: America's
Secret Passion for Deviant Sexual Pleasures." He is
author of, most recently, "Sex & the City of Orgies,"
and "NYCSEX: How New York City Transformed Sex in America"
(New York Museum of Sex) for the periodical "Sexuality
and Culture." David is convener and executive producer
of Digital Independence, the forum on creativity, technology
and democracy.
Andy Worthington is a British historian, and the
author of 'The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the
774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison" which will
be released in October. This week, he wrote the story, "Gitmo's
Tangled Web"
David Michael Green wrote the Counterpunch piece,
"In The Last Throes, Judiciously" and is author
of the book, "The Europeans: Political Identity in
an Emerging Polity." David is a professor of political
science at Hofstra University in New York. He is also nvolved
with the Long Island Teachers for Human Rights, as well
as the student group, HOPE – the Hofstra Organization
for Progressive Empowerment. More of David’s work can
be found at his website, http://www.regressiveantidote.net.
Nadia Hijab, senior fellow and co-director of
the Institute for Palestine Studies (http://www.palestine-studies.org),
gave us the skinny on her most recent 'policy note' entitled,
"Reality Check on Palestinian Elections."
live from Pakistan, Graham Usher is a contributing
editor of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org).
Graham is the author of the February MERIP piece, "The
Pakistan Taliban," and "Dispatches from Palestine:
The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process" (Pluto
Press). Graham was on to explain to us all the things happening
in Pakistan from the impact of the Taliban, the Musharaff
presidency and the situation this week at the Red Mosque.
Dahr Jamail (http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com)
returned to talk with us about his latest writing, "Iraq
on My Mind: Thousands of Stories to Tell -- And No One to
Listen" which was posted at TomDispatch (http://www.tomdispatch.com).
Dahr is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle
East for the last four years, eight months of which were
spent in occupied Iraq. Dahr writes for the Inter Press
Service, Al-Jazeera English, and is a regular contributor
to Tomdispatch. Dahr's new book, "Beyond the Green
Zone: Dispatches from an Independent Journalist in Occupied
Iraq" will be released in October on Haymarket Books.
we spoke with writer Ramzy Baroud (http://www.ramzybaroud.net)
about his recent writing, "The Palestinian Left: A
Lost Opportunity," and "Finding
Lessons in Gaza's Bloodshed." Ramzy is a Palestinian-American
author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest
book is "The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle
of a People's Struggle" (Pluto Press).
Linda Brayer is an Israeli human rights lawyer
who represented Palestinians in the Israeli High Court of
Justice for twelve years. Lynda wrote the Counterpunch piece,
"Norman
Finkelstein and the Catholic Church." Norman was
on our program back in 2005.
research director S. Derek Turner told us about
the study his group, Free
Press, has done with the Center for American Progress,
"The
Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio."
The report shows how the right wing's grip on the airwaves
is because of a failed market, not a cultural revolution.
And our irregular correspondents were:
Nicholas Hale read his 'Fool Britannia' live from
Bristol ...
Roger Morris talked with us about his three-part
TomDispatch.com history of Defense Secretary Robert Gates
and American intelligence. Click here,
here
and here
for each successive part, respectively. Roger served in
the Foreign Service and on the Senior Staff of the National
Security Council under Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard
Nixon. Before resigning over the invasion of Cambodia, he
was one of only three officials comprising Henry Kissinger's
Special Projects Staff conducting the initial highly secret
"back-channel" negotiations with Hanoi to end
the Vietnam War. Roger's books include, "Richard Milhous
Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician, 1913-1952,"
"Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America,"
and he coauthored "The Money and the Power: The Making
of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America." Early next year,
he will release "Shadows of the Eagle," a history
of US covert intervention in the Middle East and South Asia
since the 1940s." Roger writes for and is a senior
fellow at the Green Institute (http://www.greeninstitute.net/).
Carolyn Nordstrom, author of "Global Outlaws:
Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World"
(University
of California Press). Carolyn is a professor of anthropology
at Notre Dame and is also the author of "Shadows of
War: Violence, Power and International Profiteering in the
Twenty-First Century" and "A Different Kind of
War Story." She also co-edited Fieldwork Under Fire:
Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture," all
of which are on UC Press as well.
Pauline Baker, president of the Fund for Peace,
will discuss 'The
Failed States Index 2007' which was compiled with the
assistance of Foreign
Policy. The Foreign Policy article on the third annual
Index can be read by clicking here.
And our irregular correspondents were:
LaddieO.com
reported live from the hermetically sealed clean room at
URL Labs on all things web, tech and scientific.
live from New Delhi, Jehangir Pocha returned to
This is Hell to discuss his most recent piece in The
Nation, "The Last 'Competitive Advantage":
Letter From China."
Chris Toensing is editor of Middle East Report
(http://www.merip.org)
and executive director of the Middle East Research and Information
Project. Chris returns to This is Hell to discuss the situation
in Gaza. Chris has a Master's in Near Eastern Studies from
Princeton and is an Arabic speaker who lived in Egypt for
three years.
Paul Rogers is professor of peace studies at Bradford
University, northern England. Paul wrote, "The
United States vs. Russia, Again," and "Afghanistan:
low level, high impact" which both appeared in
his weekly column on global security for openDemocracy.
Paul is also a consultant to the Oxford Research Group,
and the second edition of his book "Losing Control"
(Pluto Press) has recently been released.
LaddieO.com
returned with a live report from the hermetically sealed
clean rooms of URL Labs ... believed to be in the shadows
of the Baltimore Ravens football stadium ...
Robert Dreyfuss (http://www.robertdreyfuss.com)
is Rolling Stone's national security correspondent, and
the author of "Devil's Game: How the United States
Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam." Robert's work
also appears in The American Prospect, The Nation, Mother
Jones, and the Washington Monthly. We talked with Robert
about his piece at TomDisppatch, "Financing
the Imperial Armed Forces."
Neil Watkins, national coordinator of Jubilee USA
Network, an alliance of religious, human rights, environmental,
labor, and community groups working for the cancellation
of debts from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Neil spoke
with us live from the site of the G8 Summit Heiligendamm,
Germany,
Sujatha Fernandes is Assistant Professor of Sociology
at Queens College, City University of New York. Sujatha
is the author of "Cuba Represent!" Cuban Arts,
State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures
(Duke University Press). She is currently working on two
new books. One is based on her field research in Venezuela,
"In the Spirit of Negro Primero: Urban Social Movements
in Chávez's Venezuela," and the other is a memoir,
"Close to the Edge: Reflections on Race, Politics,
and Global Hip Hop." This week, Sujatha posted the
ZNet article, "Democracy
and Constitutional Reform: Rewriting the Constitution in
Bolivia and Venezuela."
Thomas Palley (http://www.thomaspalley.com)
heads the Economics for Democratic and Open Societies Project.
Thomas is the author of "Plenty of Nothing: The Downsizing
of the American Dream and the Case for Structural Keynesianism"
(Princeton
University Press). This week, Thomas posted the TomPaine.com
article, "The
China Dilemma."
Frida Berrigan returned to discuss her recent writing
including The In These Times piece, "Is
Bush Leading Us to Nuclear War?" which she wrote
with past guest Bill Hartung, and her TomDispatch story,
"We're
Number 1!" Frida is a Senior Research Associate
with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy
Institute (http://www.worldpolicy.org).
Stephen Eric Bronner told us about his writing
at ZNet, "About
Saving Darfur: Reflections on the Carrot and the Stick."
Stephen is the Senior Editor of Logos,
a journal of modern society and culture, and the Distinguished
Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. His
soon-to-be-released book is entitled, "Peace Out of
Reach: Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation"
(University
Press of Kentucky).
Jake Ward, spokesperson for the Save Internet Radio
(http://www.savenetradio.org)
coalition told us why July 15th may be doomsday for what
you're listening to right now.
Pratap Chatterjee returned to This is Hell to talk
with us about "Goodbye
Houston: An Alternative Annual Report on Halliburton"
which he co-wrote with past This is Hell guest Charlie Cray.
Pratap is the managing editor of Corpwatch
and the author of "Iraq, Inc." (Seven Stories
Press).
Mark Danner (http://www.markdanner.com)
discussed his TomDispatch writing, "Words
in a Time of War: Taking the Measure of the First Rhetoric-Major
President." Mark is the author of "The Secret
Way to War," "Torture and Truth," and "The
Massacre at El Mozote," among other books. Mark is
Professor of Journalism at the University of California
at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard College.
His writing on Iraq and other subjects appear regularly
in The New York Review of Books.
live from Caracas, Chris Carlson, who writes for
Venezuelanalysis (http://www.venezuelanalysis.com),
explained to us just what the hell is REALLY happening in
the government's closing of a television station. Check
out Chris's own site, Gringo
in Venezuela.
journalist Spencer Ackerman is a senior correspondent
for The American Prospect and a national security correspondent
for The Washington Monthly. Spnencer's piece, "Training
Iraq's Death Squads," ran at The Nation's web site.
Greg Palast returned because everyone's emailing
us his article, "The
Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom,"
and an interview
Greg did with some guy named Jeff Diehl. This is, again,
groundbreaking stuff from Greg. Greg Palast is the New York
Times bestselling author of "Armed Madhouse,"
which has just been released in paperback with additional
content and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."
University of Southern California sociology professor
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of "Domestica:
Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of
Affluence" (University of California Press).
Live in the studio, Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth, we heard it from
Kevan Harris,
aka 'The Radical Pessimist,' and Dr. Krys Bigosinski MD
checked in. All live in NUR's fantabulous new studios!
live from Baghdad, Patrick Cockburn, author of
"The Occupation" (Verso Books) nominated for the
2006 National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction.
Patrick's recent writing includes, "Iraq:
A Small War Guaranteed to Damage a Superpower."
Zaki Chehab is the author of "Inside Hamas:
The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement"
(Nation
Books). Zaki was on our program last year when he came
on to discuss "Inside the Resistance" (Nation
Books) the first story told from within the Iraqi occupation
resistance.
Antonia Juhasz (http://www.thebushagenda.net/)
is the Ida Tarbell Fellow at Oil Change International (http://www.priceofoil.org),
a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (http://www.ips-dc.org),
and a former Project Director at the International Forum
on Globalization (http://www.ifg.org).
Antonia's book, "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World,
One Economy at a Time" (Regan Books of Harper Collins
Publishers) is being re-released in paperback with a new
chapter.
Miriam Pemberton is Research Fellow at the Institute
for Policy Studies and Peace and Security Editor for Foreign
Policy In Focus, a project of IPS. Miriam is the co-author
of the recent report on America's military budget entitled,
"A
Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2008."
Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of
the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law
(http://www.lawandsecurity.org/)
and the editor of "The Torture Debate in America"
(Cambridge)
and (with Joshua Dratel) "The Torture Papers"
(Cambridge).
Her recent articles include, "Can
Guantanamo Be Closed?"
Robert Alvarez is a senior scholar at the Institute
for Policy Studies (http://www.ips-dc.org/)
where his currently focuses on nuclear disarmament, environmental
and energy policies. Bob's recent work includes, "Radioactive
Waste and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership," a
new study that "takes apart new plans by the Bush administration
to revive the nuclear power industry."
For his work at the Department of Energy, Bob was awarded
two Secretarial Gold Medals, the highest awards given by
the Department. Bob was one of the Senate’s primary
staff experts on the US nuclear weapons program. He helped
establish the environmental cleanup program in the DOE,
strengthened the Clean Air Act, uncovered several serious
nuclear safety and health problems, improved medical radiation
regulations, and created a transition program for communities
and workers affected by the closure of nuclear weapons facilities.
He also helped organize a successful lawsuit on behalf of
the family of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear worker and active
union member who was killed under mysterious circumstances
in 1974.
Drew Youngren, one of our producers-at-large, reported
live from Manhattan. Drew recently graduated with a PhD
in mathematics from Northwestern University and is currently
teaching in New York City.
live from Beirut, Dahr Jamail (http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/)
returned to This is Hell to tell us what's happening in
Iraq and throughout the Middle East.
