Michel Chossudovsky's Global Research News Hour - Week 25.2009

Host: Stephen Lendman

Monday, June 15th

Kevin Zeese is the Executive Director of the Campaign for Fresh Air & Clean Politics (FreshAirCleanPolitics.net) whose projects include Voters for Peace, Prosperity Agenda, Climate Security and True Vote. He's also a long-term political activist and was Ralph Nader's 2004 spokesperson during his political campaign.

Zeese is part of an effort to get Bush administration torture lawyers disbarred - 12 of them, including John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Michael Mukasey, Michael Chertoff, Douglas Feith, and John Yoo.

That topic will be discussed as well as torture as official US policy.

Tuesday, June 16th

Mickey Huff is a California-based Professor of History at Diablo Valley College, a Lecturer in Sociology at Sonoma State University, and an Instructor of Critical Thinking and Media Studies at Berkeley City College.

He's also Associate Director of Project Censored (PC), the media democracy advocacy group. It researches and publishes vital news stories that are "underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or censored by the US corporate media."

Each year, it ranks the top 25 and publishes them in its yearbook, Censored: Media Democracy in Action. The latest Censored 2009: The Top Censored Stories of 2007 - 2008 can be purchased online at projectcensored.org/store.

Project Censored and major world topics will be discussed.

Wednesday, June 17th

David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.

He's authored and edited over 30 books, many dozens of essays, and is best known for his outspokenness, films, and books on 9/11 - most notably, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11, and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.

His newest book is titled, Osama Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive? It will be discussed on the program.

Thursday, June 18th

Alan Hart is a researcher, author and former correspondent for Britain's ITN and BBC. For over 40 years, he's covered, reported, and written on Middle East events, their global consequences and terrifying implications.

His first book was titled "Arafat, Terrorist or Peacemaker?" in which he challenged readers with an unreported consideration - that as early as the 1980s, he was willing to make peace, but Israel spurned him and kept calling him a terrorist.

Hart's new book just out is titled "Zionism - The Real Enemy of the Jews, Volume I, The False Messiah." It's distills truths from hyped myths that proliferated for many decades, made "chosen people" out of Jews, co-opted America and other Western governments, denigrates Arabs as dangerous and inferior, and plays a large role for continued violence in the region.

Discussion will focus on Hart's book and the danger Zionism poses for Middle East peace.

Friday, June 19th

Jack Rasmus is a Professor of Political Economy at St. Mary's College and Santa Clara University. He's also a freelance journalist, frequent speaker, a playwright, and author of The War at Home: The Bush-Corporate Offensive Against American Workers and the Unions.

His new books include The Trillion Dollar Income Shift - Essays on Income Inequality in America and Epic Recession and Global Economic Crisis.

The global economic crisis will be discussed.

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