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Show Details for Monday July 26th, 2010

Posted by themonitor on July 26, 2010

Tonight’s guests are Tom Englehardt and Brad Friedman

This week saw two significant stories which we will examine in detail on the show.

The 1st is the huge cache of secret US military files released today by Wikileaks.

We will be looking at this story with Tom Englehardt.

The 2nd story, discussed with Brad Friedman is the discrediting of Andrew Breitbart

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Tom Englehardt


Tom Engelhardt created and runs the Tomdispatch.com website, a project of The Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished. Each spring he is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

We will talk with Tom about his book, The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, and the huge cache of secret US military files Wikileaks. released today by

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Brad Friedman

Brad Friedman is an independent investigative journalist, blogger, broadcaster, VelvetRevolution.us co-founder, expert on issues of election integrity, and a Commonweal Institute Fellow. We talk to him this week about the discrediting of Andrew Breitbart

Posted in Afghanistan, Elections, Empire, Media, News And Analysis, Obama, Radio Shows, The "War on Terror", War Reporting | 1 Comment »

Show Details for Monday July 19th, 2010

Posted by themonitor on July 19, 2010

This week’s guests are Hugh Kaufman and Gareth Porter

Hugh Kaufman:

A noted expert at the Environmental Protection Agency, Kaufman said: “Thursday’s Senate testimony of EPA and NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] [officials] provides further confirmation that they are ‘sock puppets’ for BP and contributing to the poisoning of the Gulf. EPA green-lighted the massive use of toxic dispersants because BP wants to cover up the amount of oil contamination, not to protect the public health and environment.”

Background: Kaufman “led the investigation for the EPA’s Ombudsman that uncovered Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration cover-up[s] of the environmental effects of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack at the behest of the Bush White House.”

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hugh_Kaufman

Kaufman is extensively cited in ”Scientists: Obama not doing enough + VIDEO:
Shrimpers exposed to Corexit ’bleeding from the rectum.’”
http://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/07/scientists-obama-not-doing-enough-video-shrimpers-exposed-to-corexit-bleeding-from-the-rectum

Gareth Porter:

Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and historian. Dr. Porter received his master’s degree in international politics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian politics from Cornell University. He has served as Saigon Bureau Chief for Dispatch News Service International, Co-Director of the Indochina Resource Center, Independent Analyst with the Inter Press Service, and a Foreign Policy in Focus Scholar. He has also taught international studies at City College of New York and American University.

Among his books are Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam (University of California Press), Vietnam: A History in Documents, Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism (Cornell University Press), and A Peace Denied.

We will be talking about Afghanistan in general and his latest article: Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme

Kaufman is extensively cited in ”Scientists: Obama not doing enough + VIDEO:
Shrimpers exposed to Corexit ’bleeding from the rectum.’”

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Show Details for Monday July 12th, 2010

Posted by themonitor on July 12, 2010

This week’s guests are David Bacon and Brian Concannon.

David Bacon


David Bacon is the author of “Illegal People — How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants.” He joins The Monitor tonight to talk about Immigrant Workers and the legal situation. He is also the author of a couple of recent articles: Immigrant Workers Face Firings Even Without Arizona’s Laws and Another Immigration Policy Is Possible!

David is also a photographer. You can see a selection of his photographic work here: David Bacon Photographs & Stories

Links mentioned at the end of the interview: Alliance for Responsible Trade and National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)

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Brian Concannon

Brian Concannon writes and speaks often about justice, human rights and the democratic transition in Haiti. He is director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH). He formerly worked at the International Lawyers Office (BAI) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he has spent the last several years prosecuting crimes committed during the 1991-1994 coup. He joins The Monitor tonight to talk about the situation in Haiti, 6 months after the earthquake.

Towards the end of the interview Brian mentioned a The Half Hour for Haiti

Posted in Economic Inequality, Empire, Haiti, Immigration, Race, Radio Shows | Leave a Comment »

Show Details for Monday July 5th, 2010

Posted by themonitor on July 12, 2010

On 6/28 the transmitter at KPFT was not functioning. As a result, the show was only available online or on the air in Galveston. The show for 7/5 is a rebroadcast of the that show from June 28th so Houstonians can here it in full. It is available for download here

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