Guest Mark Jerome Walters, author of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them. Also: The U.N. avoids major confrontation with Iran; US Congress nears completion of Energy Bill; Who really "discovered" North America?; The EU chooses France for new Fusion plant; UN reports huge HIV rates;
A conversation about the structural forces behind the worldwide AIDS pandemic with the authors of the book Global AIDS: Myths and Facts.
A Debate on One of the Most Frequently Cited Justifications for the 1991 Persian Gulf War: Did PR Firm Hill & Knowlton Invent the Story of Iraqi Soldiers Killing Kuwaiti Babies in Incubators? We spend the hour with Lauri Fitz-Pegado, the woman who ran the PR campaign for Hill and Knowlton and John Stauber, co-author … Continued
7:00 amRedevelopment Land Grab in Hunters Point. 7:30 amAnalysis of recent developments in Iraq. As’ad Abukhlil, Pofessor of Political Science at Cal State Stanislaus, author of Saudi Arabia and the US: The Tale of the Good Taliban, and Ahmed Al Rawi, Free Speech Radio News correspondent in Baghdad. 8:00 amA discussion with younger and older … Continued
The Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline: Guest Ian Gary, Catholic Relief Services Strategic Advisor for Africa.
The California Assembly joins the Senate in voting to repeal a law that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to apply for driver’s licenses Advocates for children say Governor Schwarzenegger’s plan to cap enrollment in the state’s Healthy Families Program could put tens of thousands of low income children on a waiting list for health insurance … Continued
A Bloody Week-End in Iraq Investigative Journalist John Ross Back from a Trip to Occupied Palestine The Anniversary of Rosa Parks Refusing to Give Up her Bus Seat International AIDS Day The Knight Report
World Aids Day; A new HIV prevention and testing hotline in Alameda County; Your tax dollars paid for Prison Guards Union members and State Legislators to be in Maui over Thanksgiving; Native American poet, author John Trudell
Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America’s Teenage Drug Epidemic by Meredith Maran.
AIDS Special: Rwanda 100 to be released from Guantanamo Bay? EPA not Protecting Children? FSRN-Corpwatch Exclusive: Benetton land-grabs in Argentina
