The Global Research News Hour on RBN: Afghanistan, Iraq and Latin America
June 16, This Week's Guests: Scott Taylor and James Petras
The Global Research News Hour on RBN is and initiative of the Centre for Research on Globalization
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Hosts: Michel Chossudovsky and Stephen Lendman
This Week’s Featured Guests: James Petras and Scott Taylor
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This program is a cutting-edge initiative of Global Research. It 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.
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.
Host: Michel Chossudovsky
Co-Host Stephen Lendman
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PROGRAMME DETAILS
Date: June 16, 2008 (11 AM – 1.00 PM, Central Time)
Host: Michel Chossudovsky
This Week’s Guests: James Petras and Scott Taylor
James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional journals. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, TempsModerne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, Le Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
James Petras’ most recent book is The Power of Israel in the United States.
Scott Taylor is editor and publisher of Esprit de Corps. He is a distinguished and independent war correspondent reporting from the Persian Gulf, Cambodia, Western Sahara, Croatia, Bosnia, Iraq, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.
In the 1990s, he embarked on a campaign to expose crime and corruption in the upper echelons of the Canadian Forces. Since August 2000, Scott Taylor has made a total of 21 trips into Iraq to report on the effects of UN sanctions, the ravages of depleted uranium following the 1991 Gulf War, and the heightening tensions with the United States. In March 2003, during his last trip prior to the United States’ invasion, Scott Taylor was asked to leave Iraq for fear of his being a spy for the Israeli Mossad. Since March 2003, Scott has returned frequently to Iraq to view first-hand the ongoing humanitarian crisis plaguing this embattled country under US military occupation. Then, for five harrowing days in September 2004, he experienced the rare occasion when “getting the story becomes the story.” Held captive by Ansar al-Islam mujahedeen in northern Iraq, his release generated a wave of international media coverage.
Taylor is the author of five best-sellers – Tarnished Brass: Crime and Corruption in the Canadian Military, Tested Mettle: Canada’s Peacekeepers at War (both with Brian Nolan), Inat: Images of Serbia, Diary of an Uncivil War: The Violent Aftermath of the Kosovo Conflict and Spinning on the Axis of Evil: America’s War against Iraq. He has just released his sixth book dealing with his experiences in northern Iraq called Among the ‘Others’: the forgotten Turkmen of Iraq, which was first published in October 2004 by Esprit de Corps Books.
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Among our recent guests are 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, 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.
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About Global Research Hosts
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.
Michel Chossudovsky can be reached at [email protected]
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.
Stephen Lendman can be reached at [email protected]
