Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen on the Mariner Energy oil rig explosion in the Gulf Coast. Highlights from mid-east talks. In conversation with William Quandt, former Security Council Member with the Nixon and Carter administrations who participated in the Camp David talks and Israeli Egyptian Peace Treaty and Noura Erakat who is one of a … Continued
Palestinian Parliamentary member Mustafa Barghouti on the Israeli/Palestinian talks. More analysis on the talks with Nawaz Gerges, professor of Middle East history at London School of Economics and Eugene Rogan who heads the Middle East studies department at St Anthony’s college in Oxford. Carlotta Gall is the NY Times correspondent in Pakistan covering the floods. … Continued
Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights talks about new lawsuit to stop Obama administration from targeted assassinations. Laura Carleson of the International Policy Center talks about the latest on the drug wars. Normon Solomon, author of the book War Made Easy, previews Obama’s speech on Iraq.
Pres Obama makes remarks on economy & Chair of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke outlines policy options on how the Fed can help spur the economy. We have analysis from Jane Darista, of the Committee for Economists and Analysts for Financial Reform. A conversation about the history of demagoguery with Michael Signer, author of the … Continued
Roundtable discussion on hate crimes during a time of a national heated debate with Donald Haider-Markel, Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas, Mark Potock, Director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Policy Law Center, and Tad Stahnke, Director of POlicy and Programs at Human Rights First. It is the 40th anniversary … Continued
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, about the housing dip and overall economy. Dave Zirin, author of the book Bad Bosses. Highlights from New York city press conference with cab driver Ahmed Sherif who was attacked earlier this week for being Muslim. Then reaction from Nura Maznavi, Attorney and Counsel … Continued
We’ll have a panel discussion about why it has been difficult raising funds for Pakistan with Anasuya Sengupta, Global Fund for Women and Rafia Zakaria of the Pakistani newspaper DAWN. David Catanese of Politico talks about his article “McCain Pays Heavy Reelection Price. Raed Jarrar on Iraqi politics.
From same gender marriage to corporate person-hood to issues of citizenship, the 14th amendment is once again at the heart of the country’s political and cultural debates. Today we’ll be in conversation about this Reconstruction era amendment, its history and how its interpreted today with Maria Blanco Executive Director, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on … Continued
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will come to Washington DC for the first direct talks in over a year and a half. For analysis weýll be joined by former Israeli Peace negotiator Daniel Levy and Chris Toensing, editor of the Middle East … Continued
