Michel Chossudovsky's Global Research News Hour - Week 28.2009

Host: Stephen Lendman

Monday, July 6th

Nancy Hollander is a criminal defense attorney and Executive Director of the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union, among her other credentials.

She represents Shukri Abu Baker, president and CEO of the Holy Land Foundation Charity (HLFC) until the Bush administration falsely declared it an enemy of the state, shut it down, tried, and convicted its five principles to long prison terms. Abu Baker and Chairman Ghassan Elashi each got 65 years for providing vitally needed social services to needy people in Occupied Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, America and elsewhere.

The case and HLFC's work will be discussed. Abu Baker's wife, Zaira, will also share her views of the injustice to her husband, now being appealed.

Tuesday, July 7th

Richard Wolff is Economics Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, now teaching in Manhattan at the New School University and Brecht Forum. He also writes, lectures, and makes documentaries on the global economic crisis with a new film just out.

For over 40 years, Wolff has been well known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. His new film and views on the current economic crisis will be discussed.

Wednesday, July 8th

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

He coined the phrase "deep politics" to mean 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 a possible Wall Street conspiracy behind the global economic crisis.

Scott's newest article is titled, "Oil and Islam - Will America Shift Away from Its Past Unilateralist Policies" in which he says the US must choose between full spectrum dominance or multinational cooperation with other nations on shared issues. The article will be discussed.

Thursday, July 9th

Irving Wesley Hall is a longtime activist and teacher of English, political science, philosophy, economics, and history at California and New York colleges, most recently American history and Research Methods at the State University of New York at Morrisville.

Hall's views on the current political and economic climate will be discussed.

Friday, July 10th

Jane Burgermeister is a dual Irish/Austrian journalist writing for Nature, the British Medical Journal, Reuters Health, and is currently the European Correspondent for Renewable Energy World's web site.

On April 8, she filed bioterrorism charges with the Vienna State Prosecutor's Office against Baxter AG, Baxter International and Avir Green Hill Biotechnology AG. On June 10, she did again with the FBI against the WHO, CDC, UN, and high-ranking government and corporate officials citing evidence of released lethal biological agents into the environment to be followed by planned use of mandatory toxic vaccines able to cause death or serious illnesses to people receiving them.

This topic will be discussed on the program.

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