Wednesday on Antiwar Radio, Charles Goyette will be talking with Seymour Hersh, whose article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism? has been causing outrage with its detailing of the convergence of the Bush administration’s goals with those of al Qaeda.
Preti Taneja
Assimilation, Exodus, Eradication: Iraq’s minority communities since 2003
Preti Taneja discusses her report for the Minority Rights Group International, “Assimilation, Exodus, Eradication: Iraq’s minority communities since 2003” [.pdf]: the plight of ethnic and religious minorities in post-invasion Iraq.
MP3 here. (27:16)
Preti Taneja is a freelance journalist and filmmaker working with Minority Rights Group International. She is also a contributor to the Guardian, OpenDemocracy and BBC Radio 4.
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Joe Conason
It Can Happen Here: It is happening now.
Joe Conason discusses his new book It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush, the criminality and impunity of the Bush junta.
MP3 here. (14:46)
Joe Conason is national correspondent for The New York Observer, where he writes a weekly column distributed by Creators Syndicate. He is also a columnist for Salon.com, and the investigative editor for The American Prospect magazine. His books Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth, and The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, with Gene Lyons, were both national bestsellers. His writing and reporting have appeared in many publications, including Harpers, The Guardian, The Nation, and The New Republic. He also appears frequently on television and radio (notably as a regular Friday guest on Air America’s The Al Franken Show). He lives with his wife in New York City.
Elizabeth de la Vega
Time to Remove Bush/Cheney: U.S. v. Bush et al.: conspiracy to defraud the people of America.
Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega talks about her conspiracy to commit fraud case against the president and his men: United States v. Bush et al., how they manipulated the American people and why impeachment is especially important during wartime.
MP3 here. (28:58)
Roger Morris
Worst Secretary of War Ever: Roger Morris takes a look at the corrupt legacy of Donald Rumsfeld.
Roger Morris explores both the “known unknowns” and the “unknown unknowns” of Donald Rumsfeld’s emblematic history and legacy, of his long march to power, and what he did with that power once it was in his hands. He’s got a great two–piece look at Don Rumsfeld on Tomdispatch.com.
Roger Morris, who served in the State Department and on the Senior Staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, resigned in protest at the invasion of Cambodia. He then worked as a legislative advisor in the U.S. Senate and a director of policy studies at the Carnegie Endowment. A Visiting Honors professor at the University of Washington and Research Fellow of the Green Institute (his work appears on its website), he is an award-winning historian and investigative journalist, including a National Book Award Silver Medal winner, and the author of books on Nixon, Kissinger, Haig, and the Clintons. More recently, he co-authored with Sally Denton The Money and the Power, a history of Las Vegas as the paradigm of national corruption. His latest work, Shadows of the Eagle, a history of U.S. covert interventions and policy in the Middle East and South Asia over the past half-century, will be published in 2007 by Knopf.
Antonia Juhasz
The Bush Agenda: Who is going to end up in control of all that Iraqi oil?
Antonia Juhasz, a Tarbell Fellow at Oil Change International and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time explains the terms of the recently leaked 29-page Iraqi oil law and the role that control over Iraqi oil played as a motivating factor in the U.S. invasion.
Antonia Juhasz is the Ida Tarbell Fellow at Oil Change International, a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, and a former Project Director at the International Forum on Globalization. She is also a Project Censored Award recipient and co-author of Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible, 2 nd Ed. Her articles have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Cambridge University Review of International Relations Journal, and the Johannesburg Star. Her new book is The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (Regan Books of Harper Collins Publishers, April 2006).