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March 10, 2010 |
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7 p.m. -
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Last Show:
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March 3, 2010
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Dr.
Louise Cainkar
Sociologist and assistant professor in
the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette
University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and author of the new
book "Homeland
Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience
after 9/11". Her areas of expertise
include Arab American studies; Muslims in the United States
and immigration integration. |
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Recorded remarks made by Dr. Cainkar about
her recent book "Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and
Muslim American Experience after 9/11", based on three years
of ethnographic research and more than one hundred in-depth
interviews and oral histories with Arab Muslims in
metropolitan Chicago. |
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February 24, 2010
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Dahr Jamail
Award-winning independent journalist,
world renowned for documenting the human cost of
the Iraq war, and author who
has reported from the Middle East for seven years. He
writes frequently to various media outlets and also reports on radio for
Democracy Now!, and appears frequently on numerous TV and
radio stations around the globe. |
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The new
announcement this week by the top U.S. general in occupied
Iraq that he could slow the exit of U.S. combat forces from
Iraq; the current situation in occupied Iraq; and the
upcoming elections there. We will also talk about
Afghanistan as violence and US troop commitment there
surges.
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February 17, 2010
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Greta Berlin
A U.S. human
rights activist, an advocate for justice for the
Palestinians since the early 60s, co-founder of
Free Gaza Movement,
who was on board the first ship to break the
Israeli siege on the occupied Gaza
Strip and deliver medicine. Greta
is planning to go back soon to deliver more
supplies. In one of her previous visits
to occupied Palestine, Greta
was shot by the
Israeli occupation forces.
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February 10, 2010
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Noam Chomsky's Speech
Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, political activist and writer, who has written
and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual
history, contemporary issues, international affairs and U.S.
foreign policy. Chomsky is author numerous books and
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“The Unipolar Moment and
the Culture of Imperialism”: A speech made by Professor Noam
Chomsky on December 3, 2009 at the 5th Annual Edward Said
Memorial Lecture at Columbia University School for
International Affairs. |
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February
3, 2010
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Dr. Zahi Damuni
One of the founders of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to
Return Coalition; who currently serves on its national
coordinating committee (representing San Diego) and its executive committee as
national treasurer. |
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Mark Shabib
A friend of Al-Awda (Houston Chapter), who works closely
with the Palestinian refugees in Houston. |
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Dr. Ammar Altahhan
Iraqi refugee who currently lives in Houston, Texas. Dr.
Altahhan was a medical doctor, business administrator and a
computer expert in Iraq. |
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Farqad Al Ameri
Board Member at the Iraqi American Community Center
in Houston, who works closely with the Iraqi refugees in
Houston. |
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We
will be talking with our guests about the Iraqi and
Palestinian refugees who are arriving from Iraq to the U.S.
(including Houston), and the efforts and programs made by
Al-Awda (National & Houston) and the Iraqi American
Community Center in Houston to support the refugees. |
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January 27, 2010
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Chris Hedges
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of many
publications including "War is a Force that Gives Us
Meaning", "Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi
Civilians" and the best-selling “American Fascists: The
Christian Right and the War on America". Hedges served for
eight years as the Middle East bureau chief of The New York
Times, and has written extensively on U.S. policy in the
Middle East and other critical foreign policy issues. |
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January 20, 2010
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Guest/
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Professor Walid Khalidi's Speech at the UN
World-renowned
Palestinian Historian and Scholar (born in Jerusalem);
General Secretary and co-founder of the Institute for
Palestine Studies; and author of numerous books and
articles.
We will listen to professor Khalidi's keynote presentation
about Jerusalem delivered at the UN Headquarters during a
special meeting in observance of the International Day of
Solidarity with the Palestinian People. |
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January 13, 2010
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Sheila Carapico
Professor of
political science and international studies at the
University of Richmond and the American University in Cairo.
A contributing editor to Middle East Report, Carapico
is also the author of Civil Society in Yemen: The
Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia, and
numerous articles and book chapters on Yemeni politics and
society. |
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The fighting in Yemen between
the Yemeni government and the Houthi & Al-Qaeda fighters and the U.S.
involvement; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq, and the
U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Middle East. |
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January 6, 2010
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Ambassador Maen Areikat
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) Representative to
the United States, who served for 11 years at the
Negotiations Affairs Department of the PLO, and took part in
Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and was an official member
of the Palestinian delegation at the Wye River negotiations
in 1998. |
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Continuation
of Arab Voices special coverage on the first anniversary of
Israel's massacre & war crimes committed in Gaza. We will
discuss various topics with Ambassador Areikat, who will be
coming to Houston next week (checkout Arab Voices
Community Calendar
for the details). |
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December 30, 2009
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Guests: |
Dr. Norman Finkelstein
- PART 2
An independent scholar who for many years taught political
theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Dr. Finkelstein is
author of several books including "Beyond Chutzpah: On the
misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history", "The
Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of
Jewish suffering", and "Image and Reality of the
Israel-Palestine Conflict". |
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Sami Abdel-Shafi
- in Gaza
Palestinian (politically independent) who lives in Gaza
City. He is co-founder and
senior partner at Emerge Consulting Group; who serves
on the board of directors of several non-governmental
organizations, and writes and publishes economic and
political analysis and provides commentary on Palestinian
affairs in the international media. |
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HCJPP Demonstration
Remarks by several Houstonians who participated in the
demonstration held on December 27 in Houston
(organized by Houston
Coalition for Justice & Peace in Palestine) to
commemorate the 1st anniversary of Israel's
massacre & war crimes in Gaza. |
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Part 2 of the
interview conducted with Dr. Finkelstein where he will talk
about the Goldstone Report, the full support Israel gets
from the U.S., the Palestinian Refugees issue, and the
one-state vs. two-state question.
We will also interview Sami Abdel-Shafi (who lives in Gaza)
about the current situation there one year after the Israeli
assault.
We will also listen to remarks made by several Houstonians who
participated in the demonstration held on December 27, 2009
in Houston (organized by Houston Coalition for Justice &
Peace in Palestine) to commemorate the 1st
anniversary of Israel's massacre & war crimes in Gaza. |
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December 23, 2009
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Dr. Norman Finkelstein - PART 1
An independent scholar who for many years taught political
theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Dr. Finkelstein is
author of several books including "Beyond Chutzpah: On the
misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history", "The
Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of
Jewish suffering", and "Image and Reality of the
Israel-Palestine Conflict". |
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Hedy Epstein
85-year-old Holocaust Survivor
(in which she lost both her parents). Hedy will be joining
the more than 1,300 international delegates from 43
countries participating in a historic Gaza Freedom March,
where the delegates will convene at the Gaza/Egypt border
next week. |
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Christmas in
the Palestinian City of Bethlehem, where Jesus Christ was
born; Dr. Finkelstein's remarks about the Israel-Palestine
conflict as we near the first anniversary of the Israeli
massacre and war crimes in Gaza; and Hedy Epstein's participation in the Gaza Freedom March
next week at the Egypt/Gaza border. |
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December 16, 2009
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Micha Kurz
Former Israeli Soldier and Master Sergeant with the Israeli
Defense Forces (IDF), who lives in Jerusalem and served as a
combat soldier in the occupied Palestinian territories. He
is co-founder of Breaking the Silence, an
organization of former Israeli soldiers speaking out about
their conduct in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He is
also founder and director of Grassroots Jerusalem, an
organization mapping grassroots activities in and around
Jerusalem. |
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Micha's own experience and his eyewitness
account as an Israeli soldier while serving in the occupied
Palestinian territories; the organization he co-founded,
Breaking the Silence, and the testimonies it has been
collecting and documenting of Israeli soldiers speaking
about their actions and what they were told to do inside the
occupied Palestinians areas; as well as the
Grassroots Jerusalem
organization. |
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December 9, 2009
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Robert Naiman
Policy Director and National Coordinator at Just
Foreign Policy who edits the Just Foreign Policy daily
news summary and writes a blog on Huffington Post. Naiman
has studied and worked in the Middle East, and also worked
as a policy analyst and researcher at the Center for
Economic and Policy Research and Public Citizen's
Global Trade Watch. |
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A discussion with Mr. Naiman about President Obama's Foreign
Policy after almost one year in office, especially towards
the Middle East. We will talk about the President's promises
and talks before his election and his actions after he was
elected. |
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December 2, 2009
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Reese Erlich
Freelance foreign correspondent who
has covered the Middle East for 23 years (he was in
Afghanistan this past summer). He is author of several books
including the
best-selling book "Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t
Tell You", and his latest book
"Conversations with Terrorists" will be published in 2010.
Erlich has produced several major radio documentaries and
has won numerous journalism awards. |
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A discussion
about the U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Middle East and
President Obama's decision to send more troops to
Afghanistan. |
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November 25, 2009
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Law and Disorder
Special
program about a major
decision written by a federal judge that was brought against
former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft for the illegal
and unconstitutional detention of American Muslims. This
program includes an interview with
Lee Gelernt,
ACLU
Attorney, and
Deputy
Director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project, as well as an
interview with
Farhana Khera,
first Executive Director of Muslim Advocates and the
National Association of Muslim Lawyers,
talking about a
Lawsuit filed to Make Public
the FBI’s Domestic Investigative Operational Guidelines. |
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November 18, 2009
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Guest/
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Faheem Kazimi
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Islamic Education
Center (IEC-Houston).
We will talk with Mr. Kazimi about the seizure by the U.S.
Federal Government of the IEC-Houston building last week
along with other mosques and a skyscraper in the U.S. that
are owned by the Alavi Foundation, a New York-based
foundation accused of being a front for the Iranian
government. |

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November 11, 2009
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Salam Al-Marayati
Executive Director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council
(MPAC), who also works as an advisor to several political,
civic and academic institutions in the U.S. seeking to
understand the role of Islam and Muslims in America and
throughout the world. Salam has written extensively on
Islam, human rights, democracy, Middle East politics, the
Balkan Crisis, and the Transcaucus conflict. Salam has also
been deeply involved in interfaith activities. |
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The attack at
Fort Hood in Texas, and the immediate trigger of anti-Muslim
backlash, especially by the mainstream media.
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November 4, 2009
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Ali Abunimah
Co-founder of
The Electronic Intifada,
the leading Palestinian portal for information about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media.
Abunimah is an
expert on Palestine and the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict,
and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the
Israeli-Palestinian Impasse.
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The
worsening situation in occupied Palestine as a result of the
ongoing Israeli occupation; Goldstone's Report “UN Fact
Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict”, and the new U.S.
House Resolution 867 that calls on President Obama and the
Secretary of State to "oppose unequivocally any endorsement
or further consideration of Goldstone's Report".
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October 21, 2009
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Yvonne Ridley
Award-winning
British journalist, author, human rights activist and Muslim
convert, who made international headlines when she was
captured by the Taliban while reporting on the war in
Afghanistan. Yvonne has worked for numerous media outlets
and has visited Iraq and Palestine, including several trips
to Gaza to break the siege imposed on it. |
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A discussion
with Yvonne about her personal experiences as a journalist,
her capture by the Taliban and later her conversion to
Islam. We will also talk about her trips to the Middle East,
including her trips to break the siege on Gaza, and also
talk about her work to defend Islam, and much more.
Note: Yvonne Ridley will be
speaking in Houston on Saturday, October 24 (click
here for the details). |
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October 14, 2009
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Guest/
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Richard Goldstone's Report
on Gaza
Head of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission to Gaza
Audio recording of Justice Goldstone's press conference held
on September 15 about the committee's findings on Gaza,
followed by the remarks he made at the United Nations Human
Rights Council on September 29. In that report, Goldstone
says Israel’s war actions against Palestinians in the Gaza
Strip amount to war crimes and possibly, in some respects,
crimes against humanity. |
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October 7, 2009
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Jeff Gates
A widely acclaimed author, attorney, investment banker,
educator and consultant to government, corporate and union
leaders worldwide; an adviser to policy-makers worldwide;
former counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee; and
author of numerous articles and books including his latest
book "Guilt By Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit
Took America to War". |
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A
discussion about Mr. Gates' latest provocative book "Guilt
By Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America
to War", in which the author says "America’s credibility
on the world stage has deteriorated due to a small group of
elites and extremists who pledge allegiance to Israel”. In
this book, former counsel to the U.S. Senate, Jeff Gates
documents how Israeli agents and their “assets” in the U.S.
manipulated policy-makers to wage war in Iraq and now seek
to expand that war to Iran. Mr. gates presents a 60-year
chronicle detailing betrayal, duplicity and deceit by a
nation that has long feigned friendship with America in
order to manipulate the U.S. military to wage its wars.
Guilt by Association also shows how guilt by association
was deployed to discredit the U.S. by its entangled alliance
with the state of Israel, and how association is routinely
used as a political tool either to accredit or discredit. In
this book, Mr. Gates chronicles a long tradition of
corruption and treason at the hands of foreign agents
committed to advancing the Zionist cause through well timed
crises, as well as the hidden influence that Israel exerted
over the 2008 presidential elections.
This must-read book is described as “Breathless just reading
it” by Noam Chomsky, “Explosively revelatory, powerful,
compelling and certain to be highly contentious” by
Ambassador Edward Peck, and “Magnificent, timely and
persuasive” by Paul Findley. |
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September 30, 2009
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Syria, Palestine, Egypt & Lebanon
@ the UN
Speeches/Remarks made at the Sixty-Fourth General Assembly
Session of the United Nations held in New York this month
covering various topics made by
the Syrian Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Walid Al-Moualem, Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, the
Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Aboul Gheit,
and the Lebanese President, Michel Sleiman. |
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September 23, 2009
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Dahr Jamail
Award-winning unembedded and
independent journalist and author who
has reported from the Middle East for over six years. He
writes for the Inter Press Service, and Le Monde
Diplomatique, among others. He also reports on radio for
Democracy Now!, and has appeared on the BBC, NPR, Al-Jazeera
and numerous other stations around the globe. |
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"The
Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in
Iraq and Afghanistan":
A new book just released by Dahr Jamail in which
he tells the hidden story of American soldiers
turning against the war, and brings us inside
the movement of military resistance to the
occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Dahr's
comprehensive study of today's military
resisters sheds new light on the contours of
dissent within the ranks of the world's most
powerful military. |
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September 16, 2009
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"American Muslims:
Outreach for America"
Speeches
made at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Houston
Chapter) 8th Annual Fundraising Banquet held on
August 15, 2009. The speeches cover various topics, but they
all focus on the theme "American
Muslims: Outreach for America",
to reflect CAIR's goals and achievements of doing outreach
for a better America.
We will listen to CAIR-Houston case successes given by
Iliana Gonzalez,
Civil Rights Coordinator at CAIR-Houston. The keynote
address was given by former US Congresswoman
Cynthia McKinney.
Nihad Awad,
Executive Director of CAIR-National was also in attendance
and delivered a speech. |
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September 9, 2009
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Dr. George
Bisharat
Prominent
Palestinian-American, Professor of Law at the University of
California's Hastings College of the Law, a frequent writer
and commentator on events, law and politics in the Middle
East, especially the Israeli-Palestinian problem, and author
of the book "Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law
and Disorder in the West Bank". |
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The new Israeli announcement to continue to build and expand
hundreds of housing units in illegal colonies built on
occupied Palestinian land in complete defiance to the U.S.
and international calls to halt such illegal activities, and
its impact on prospects for peace. We will also discuss with
Dr. Bisharat his view on a one-state vs. two-states
solution. |
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Date: |
September 2, 2009
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Libya and
Lockerbie: The Untold Story
Special program about Libya and the Pan Am Flight 103
bombing in Lockerbie.
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August 26, 2009
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Guests: |
Ralph Nader
Prominent Lebanese-American, political activist, former
presidential candidate, consumer advocate, lawyer,
one of the most unique, important, and
controversial political figures of the past half century,
author of countless books and publications, who was
honored by Time magazine as One of the 100 Most Influential
Americans of the Twentieth Century. |
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Various
topics including Mr. Nader's views on President Obama's
foreign policy, especially towards the Middle East and
Afghanistan; bringing peace to occupied Iraq and occupied
Palestine; mock executions by the CIA of suspected
"terrorists" post-9/11; and much more. |
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