Michel Chossudovsky's Global Research News Hour - September 22nd

This Week's Host: Stephen Lendman
This Week's Guests: Danny Schechter and Ilan Pappe

Danny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, TV producer as well as an author and lecturer on media and other issues.

Some call him "The News Dissector," and that's the name of his popular blog on media issues. He's also co-founder of www.MediaChannel.org. It covers the political, cultural and social impacts of the media and provides real information about it unavailable in the mainstream.

Schechter has a new book out titled: "Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal." An in-depth review is posted on www.GlobalResearch.ca (direct link). The program will focus on the book's vitally important material given the current world financial crisis affecting everyone.

Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian, now living in the UK and teaching at the University of Exeter where he chairs the Department of History and is co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies. Formerly, he was the academic head and founder of the Institute for Peace studies in Givat Haviva Israel (1992 - 2000) and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa ( 2000 - 2008 ).

Pappe is an academic and human rights activist "who believes that commitment and professionalism do not necessarily clash, but rather reinforce each other."

He writes extensively on the Middle East and authored numerous books, including "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine."

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other Middle East issues will be discussed on the program.

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