Michel Chossudovsky's Global Research News Hour - Week 23.2009

Host: Stephen Lendman

Monday, June 1st

Sid Shniad has been the Research Director of the Vancouver-based Telecommunications union for more than 20 years. He's also an anti-war activist, a founding member of the Trade Union Committee for Justice in the Middle East, a member of Jews for a Just Peace and Independent Jewish Voices (Canada), a contributor to the Canadian Jewish Outlook magazine, and an outspoken critic of Israeli crimes in Occupied Palestine.

Current conditions in the Territories will be discussed.

Tuesday, June 2nd

Daniel Estulin is an award-winning investigative journalist. For over 14 years, he's researched the Bilderberg Group's far-reaching influence on business and finance, global politics, war and peace, and control of the world's resources and its money.

His book, "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group," was published in 2005 and is now updated in a new 2009 edition. It's about a shadow government comprised of "the most powerful men in the world" and their plans for a "One World Government," corporate controlled, and check-mated by militarized enforcement.

Estulin's book and the May 2009 Bilderberg meeting will be discussed, including leaked information about it.

Wednesday, June 3rd

James Petras is Binghamton University, New York Professor Emeritus of Sociology. Besides his long and distinguished career, he's a noted figure on the left, a well-respected Latin American expert, a longtime chronicler of the region's popular struggles, and a prominent analyst of Middle East and other regional issues.

He's also a prolific author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books.

Discussion will focus current world events and how the Obama administration is handling them.

Thursday, June 4th and Friday, June 5th

Russ Baker describes himself as "an old-fashioned muckraking journalist....bring(ing) the best of mainstream methods....to the alternative media, and the best of the alternative media....to the mainstream." In 2005, he founded "Who What Why/The Real News Project producing "grounding-breaking, transformative, independent investigative journalism."

In 2009, his new book was published titled: "Family of Secrets - The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America."

It's a sweeping, revealing, detailed account of money and power and will be discussed in a two-part program on consecutive days.

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