Michel Chossudovsky's Global Research News Hour - Week 22.2009

Host: Stephen Lendman

Monday, May 25th

Jennifer Loewenstein teaches at the University of Wisconsin and is Associate Director of its Middle East Studies Program. She's also a board member of the Israeli Coalition against House Demolitions-USA branch, founder of the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, and a freelance journalist.

Conditions in Occupied Palestine will be discussed, especially in Gaza under siege.

Tuesday, May 26th

Peter Dale Scott is a poet, author, researcher, and former Canadian diplomat and UC Berkeley English Professor. He's also an anti-war activist going back to the 1960s.

He coined the phrase "deep politics" by which he means that "in every culture and society there are facts which tend to be suppressed, because of the social and psychological costs of not doing so." In other words, covert criminal acts - unaccountable, lawless, and self-serving that hide disturbing truths about the Kennedy assassination, 9/11, and possible world central bank conspiracy behind the global economic crisis.

Scott's latest article is titled Afghanistan: Heroin-ravaged State in which he explains the gap between national security establishment policies and outside expert opinions calling for a post-imperial society in a multipolar world.

Scott's article will be discussed and his common sense recommendations to Barack Obama.

Wednesday, May 27th

Dahr Jamail is an activist and independent award-winning journalist who reported "unembedded" from Iraq for eight months from 2003 - 2005. His Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches are featured on his web site - dahrjamail.com.

He's also the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, and his new book now out is titled Military Resisters: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Early this year, Jamail was in Iraq and continues writing insightful commentaries on what's ongoing there - currently an escalation of violence in response to an oppressive occupation.

Iraq under occupation will be discussed.

Thursday, May 28th and Friday, May 29th

Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney, author, and frequent writer on financial issues. Her latest book is titled Web of Debt, a brilliant analysis of the private banking cartel Federal Reserve, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.

Her book and related topics will be discussed in a two-part program.

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