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U.S. Politics

"The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Obama on JPMorgan," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 16, 2012
"So Much for Schneiderman Being Tough on Wall Street," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, May 16, 2012
"RNC Goes All In to Defend Wisconsin's Walker, but Where's the DNC?," by John Nichols, The Nation, May 16, 2012
"DNC Shamed Into Helping Wisconsin Recall, Still Not Committing Funds," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, May 16, 2012
"Uncovering the Other ALECs," by Sarah Blaskey & Steve Horn, Truthout, May 16, 2012
"Needy States Use Housing Aid Cash to Plug Budgets," The New York Times, May 16, 2012
"Bill Clinton, Boehner, and Some Other Rich White Guys Had a "Summit" and Agreed: It's Your Fault," by Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 15, 2012
"The National Security State Wins (Again): Why the Real Victor in Campaign 2012 Won’t Be Obama or Romney," by Tom Engelhardt & William J. Astore, TomDispatch, May 15, 2012
"John Roberts’ Gilded Age SCOTUS," by Joan Walsh, Salon, May 14, 2012
"How being 'the party of no' is working for the GOP," by Gary Younge, Guardian/UK, May 14, 2012
"JPMorgan Sought Loophole on Risky Trading," The New York Times, May 12, 2012
"Coal, Foreclosures and Bank of America’s ‘Extraordinary Event’," by Amy Goodman, TruthDig, May 10, 2012
"Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, May 10, 2012
"Mitt Romney, Bully," by Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, May 10, 2012
"Wall Street’s immunity," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 10, 2012
"Romney Apologizes After Reports of Bullying Emerge," The New York Times, May 10, 2012
"How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, May 10, 2012
"Activists Want DNC Convention to Move out of North Carolina After Amendment One Passage," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, May 9, 2012
"Angry opponents of N.C. amendment call for moving Democratic convention from Charlotte," McClatchy Newspapers, May 9, 2012
"President Obama endorses gay marriage, cites Sasha and Malia," McClatchy Newspapers, May 9, 2012
"DC Democrats Upset That Feingold Called Out Pelosi’s Game of Footsie with Bowles-Simpson," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, May 9, 2012
"Lugar Loses Primary Challenge in Indiana," The New York Times, May 8, 2012
"Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline," by Tom Engelhardt & Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch, May 8, 2012
"The American Character," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 7, 2012
"Liberals Steer Outside Money to Grass-Roots Organizing," The New York Times, May 7, 2012
"Progressive Election Strategy and the Norman Solomon Campaign," by Jeff Cohen, New Politics, May 4, 2012
"Occupy Doesn’t Need to Get With the Vote," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 3, 2012
"Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 3, 2012
"The Peace Prize War President," by David Bromwich, Huffington Post, May 3, 2012
"The People Behind the Lawmakers Out to Destroy Public Education: A Primer," by Diane Ravitch, Education Week, May 2, 2012
"The Constitutional Crimes of Barack Obama," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, May 2, 2012
"Bread, Circuses, and the Edwards Prosecution," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 1, 2012
"Romney spokesman quits after right-wingers freak out about his being gay," by Alex Pareene, Salon, May 1, 2012
"As His Austerity Agenda Melts Down, Scott Walker Blames Protests for Record Job Losses," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 30, 2012
"Celebrating our “Warrior President”," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 29, 2012
"A Resurgent American Left?," by Eli Zaretsky, Dissent, April 27, 2012
"Obama Justice and medical marijuana," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 26, 2012
"Revive Socialism!," by Michael Kazin, Dissent, April 25, 2012
"Two Blue Dogs Defeated in Pennsylvania Primaries," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 25, 2012
"Justices Seem Sympathetic to Central Part of Arizona Law," by Adam Liptak, The New York Times, April 25, 2012
"Iran War Politics: Elizabeth Warren Contradicts Defense Secretary In Hawkish Talk, Bob Kerrey Calls Attack 'Disaster'," by Nico Pitney, Huffington Post, April 24, 2012
"Reports show hard-to-track donors dominate outside giving," USA Today, April 22, 2012
"Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals," by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, April 22, 2012
"The Citizens United Gang," by Jim Hightower, Creators.com, April 18, 2012
"ALEC Retreats, Sort Of," Yes! Magazine, April 17, 2012
"ALEC Disbands Task Force Responsible for Voter ID, 'Stand Your Ground' Laws," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 17, 2012
"Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare," by Laura Flanders, The Nation, April 16, 2012
"In Senate, Republicans Block Debate on ‘Buffett Rule’," The New York Times, April 16, 2012
"The War on Public-Sector Workers," by Dean Baker, Truthout, April 16, 2012
"Obama and Romney Are Politicians, Not Visionaries," by Dean Baker, Common Dreams, April 10, 2012
"Santorum Quits Race, Clearing Path for Romney," The New York Times, April 10, 2012
"The "Suicidal State" and the War on Youth," by Henry S. Giroux, Truthout, April 10, 2012
"The Buffett Rule’s low bar," by Robert Reich, Salon, April 10, 2012
"It's Romney, the GOP Candidate Opposed by 59 Percent of Republicans," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 10, 2012
"How Rick Santorum Moved the GOP Primary to the Right," by Ben Adler, The Nation, April 10, 2012
"Deepening the progressive bench," by Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, April 10, 2012

Economy

"California, the ninth largest economy in the world, resorts to austerity," Independent/UK, May 16, 2012
"Wells Fargo Has Blood on Its Hands: Desperate Man Commits Suicide After Shocking Foreclosure Mistreatment," by Dave Johnson, AlterNet, May 15, 2012
"Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, May 15, 2012
"Lessons in Disloyalty: Eduardo Saverin and the Facebook IPO," by Ilyse Hogue, The Nation, May 14, 2012
"Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase: Why It's the Scandal of Our Time," by Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 14, 2012
"Colonized by Corporations," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, May 14, 2012
"Why We Regulate," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 13, 2012
"Colleges as Merchants of Debt," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, May 13, 2012
"A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College," The New York Times, May 12, 2012
"More Than 200,000 Americans Will Lose Their Unemployment Benefits This Weekend," by Pat Garofalo, Think Progress, May 11, 2012
"CHARTS: Economic Mobility Is Stronger In Union States," by Travis Waldron, Think Progress, May 10, 2012
"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte: How Bank of America Silenced a Whole Town," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 10, 2012
"Waiting for Copernicus: On the Slow-Death of Neoliberalism," by John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, May 8, 2012
"New York Times Reporters Need to Read Krugman’s Columns," by Bill Black, Naked Capitalism, May 8, 2012
"Health care increasingly out of reach for millions of Americans," McClatchy Newspapers, May 7, 2012
"How to End This Depression," by Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books, May 7, 2012
"Why America's Rich People Are Better Than Everyone Else's," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, May 7, 2012
"The Stall Has Arrived," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 4, 2012
"Argentina and the magic soybean: the commodity export boom that wasn't," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, May 4, 2012
"Social security is not going broke," by David Cay Johnston, Reuters, May 4, 2012
"The Crushing Burden of Student Debt," by David Graeber, Mike Konczal, Brian Kalkbrenner and Sarah Jaffe, Truthout, May 4, 2012
"Discrepancies on Medical Bills Can Leave a Credit Stain," The New York Times, May 4, 2012
"A Down Week, Worsened by a Weak Jobs Report," The New York Times, May 4, 2012
"Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty, and Freaky Weather Into the Arena," by Tom Engelhardt & Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, May 1, 2012
"The Tinder-Box Society," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 1, 2012
"Five Tax Fallacies Invented by the 1%," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 30, 2012
"How to Destroy Education While Making a Trillion Dollars," by Robert Freeman, Common Dreams, April 29, 2012
"Depression Symptoms: What’s Behind Europe’s Spike in Suicides," by Michelle Chen, In These Times, April 26, 2012
"Bank CEOs gain as millions lose dreams, retirement to foreclosure," by Scott Klinger & John Cavanagh, Newark Star-Ledger, April 25, 2012
"American Austerity," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, April 25, 2012
"Europe’s austerity recession," by Robert Reich, Salon, April 25, 2012
"Wall Street-Inflated Student Debt Bubble Hits $1 Trillion; Debtors Rally for Relief," by Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet, April 24, 2012
"Wells Fargo, Terrified to Face Victims of Its Foreclosure Fraud and Predatory Lending, Locks Shareholders Out of Annual Meeting," by Joshua Holland, AlterNet, April 24, 2012
"The Middle Class Hasn't Disappeared. It's Just Sliding Toward the Bottom," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 23, 2012
"The Housing Market Doldrums," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, April 23, 2012
"Call for Growth Rises to Counter German Push for Austerity," The New York Times, April 23, 2012
"Shareholders Say No to Citigroup CEO Pay: A Model for Fighting Crony Capitalism," by Dean Baker, Truthout, April 23, 2012
"Schneiderman Propagandist Confirms Report of Lack of Staffing for Mortgage Fraud Task Force," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, April 19, 2012
"Rising Fears That Recovery May Once More Be Faltering," The New York Times, April 19, 2012
"Locking Down an American Workforce: Prison Labor as the Past -- and Future -- of American “Free-Market” Capitalism," by Tom Engelhardt, Steve Fraser & Joshua B. Freeman, TomDispatch, April 19, 2012
"Spain’s contagious collapse," by Paul Ames, Global Post, April 19, 2012
"How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe," by Ellen Brown, Truthout, April 18, 2012
"Five Reasons Why The Very Rich Have NOT Earned Their Money," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 16, 2012
"Six Rigged Rules Corporations Use to Dodge Taxes," by Sarah Anderson & Scott Klinger, The Nation, April 16, 2012
"For Two Economists, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start," The New York Times, April 16, 2012
"Europe’s Economic Suicide," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, April 15, 2012
"Vampire Squid Update: SEC Fines Goldman For Huddles," by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch, April 13, 2012
"The Federal Reserve Turns Left," by William Greider, The Nation, April 11, 2012
"An Economic Quagmire," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, April 10, 2012

Bush Accountability

"War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes," Common Dreams, May 13, 2012
"Yoo, Latif, and the Rise of Secret Justice," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 9, 2012
"Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial," by Andy Worthington, Future of Freedom Foundation, May 7, 2012
"No Accountability for Torture," by David Cole, New York Review of Books, May 7, 2012
"More federal judge abdication," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 4, 2012
"UC Berkeley's John Yoo torture suit tossed out," San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 2012
"'Torture memos' author can't be sued for harsh interrogations, court rules," Christian Science Monitor, May 2, 2012
"Jose Rodriguez, Poster Boy," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 1, 2012
"U.S. Torturers are Still Awaiting Arrest," by William A. Collins, Other Words, April 30, 2012
"Bush aide blasts torture," by Jordan Michael Smith, Salon, April 10, 2012

Audio Archives, 1998

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February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

December

Week Ending December 4th, 1998

Hussein Ibish, Media Director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, who analyzes the current standoff between U.N. weapons inspectors and the Iraq government which is refusing to turn over military documents.
Father Roy Bourgeois, co-director of the School of the America's Watch, who describes his group's recent mass protest demanding the closure of a U.S. military school that trains Latin American soldiers.
Mike Feinstein, Green Party activist and member of the Santa Monica California City Council, who discusses his party's victories at the ballot box in local elections November 3rd.

Week Ending December 12th, 1998

Robert Parry, editor of I.F. Magazine, who examines the sordid U.S. history of support for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet now waiting in Britain for a decision on his extradition to Spain.
John Miller, media coordinator of the East Timor Action Network,who analyzes increasing violence in Indonesia and East Timor resulting from attacks by the military on citizens demanding democratic reform.
Marta Russell, investigative reporter and author who discusses what she sees as the horrifying implications of Dr. Kevorkian's drive to legalize doctor-assisted suicide.

Week Ending December 19th, 1998

Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute For Policy Studies, who assesses Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, as President Clinton prepares to visit the region December 12th.
Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project, who explains why she opposes the proposed merger of oil giants Exxon and Mobil.
Neil DeMause, co-author of the book Field of Schemes, who discusses why he feels taxpayer funded sports stadiums are a bad investment, in light of a recent Connecticut plan to attract the New England patriots to Hartford.

Week Ending December 26th, 1998

Gwendolyn Mink, professor of politics at the University of California who assesses the gravity of the charges against President Clinton and how the result of the impeachment process could impact sexual harassment law.
Attorney Leonard Weinglass, legal counsel for death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Steve Rendell from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, who examines a segment that recently aired on ABC network's 20/20 news magazine.
U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who explains why introducing universal health care legislation will be among his priorities in the next session of Congress.

November

Week Ending November 6th, 1998

Journalist John Nichols, who discusses the conscious effort now underway by Republican party strategists to suppress voter turnout in the upcoming November 3rd elections, as described in The Nation and The Progressive magazines.
Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the National Security Archive, who criticizes the Clinton administration for withholding documents important to the successful prosecution of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, now being detained in London for his role in crimes committed against Spanish citizens.
Peter Rosset, Executive Director of Food First, who analyzes why world hunger persists despite an abundant food supply. Related link: Five Myths About Food and Hunger

Week Ending November 13th, 1998

Bill Hogan with the Center for Public Integrity, who examines the corrupting influence of money in the U.S. electoral system.
Journalist John Nichols, who discusses how the 1998 state legislative elections will define Congressional districts, and political party advantage after the year 2000, as described in The Nation and The Progressive magazines.
Susan Burnett, member of International Concerned Families and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who talks about the recent denial for a new trial by Justice Ronald Castillo.

Week Ending November 20th, 1998

Vivian Stromberg, Executive Director of MADRE, , who talks about the devastation in Nicaragua by Hurricane Mitch, and Nicaraguan President Amaldo Aleman's campaign to obstruct relief efforts by non-governmental organizations.
Michael Shuman, author and research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, who assesses the surprising results in the November 3rd, Congressional election.
Ellen Miller, Executive Director of Public Campaign, who describes her group's victories in Massachusetts and Arizona, where voters supported initiatives authorizing clean money campaign finance reform.

Week Ending November 27th, 1998

Mira Tanna, with Voices in the Wilderness, , who examines the recent crisis in Iraq, and the effects of the UN sanctions carried out against the people of Iraq.
Gordon Clark, executive director of Peace Action, who criticizes U.S. policy towards Iraq and suggests alternatives available to the U.S. and the U.N in confront Saddam Hussein.
Michael Lux, political director of People for the American Way, who examines why voters supported an anti-affirmative action ballot measure in Washington state Novermber 3rd.

October

Week Ending October 2nd, 1998

Francis Boyle, Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, who examines the evidence gathered by Special Council Kenneth Starr against President Clinton and whether or not it meets the constitutional standards for impeachment.
Bernadette Del Chiaro, from the Toxics Action Center, who describes the 105-Day Countdown for Clean Air, an effort to force the state of Connecticut to clean up its five dirtiest power plants.
Father James B. Callan, who explains why he was fired by the Vatican as Pastor of Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Rochester, New York.

Week Ending October 9th, 1998

Michelle Sforza, Research Director at Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, who discusses her group's victory in defeating fast track legislation that would have granted President Clinton expanded authority to negotiate future trade agreements.
Barbara Lee, board chair of the White House Project, who talks about her group's campaign to have a woman elected as President of the United States within the next ten years.
Richard Matthews, of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association, who explains the purpose of Banned Books Week, observed this year from September 27th to October 3rd.

Week Ending October 16th, 1998

Journalist and author Martin Lee, who examines the results of German elections which ended the 16-year rule of conservative Helmut Kohl and brought a Social Democratic/Green Party coalition to power.
Daniel Rothenberg, author of "With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today," who talks about his book which documents through oral history, the plight of America's migrant farmworkers.
Bradley McCallum, the artist-in-residence with the New York Civil Liberties Union, who describes how an artist can be a powerful voice for social change.

Week Ending October 23th, 1998

Eugene Caroll, Deputy Director of the Center for Defense Information who examines NATO's threat of air strikes to force Yugoslavian military and police to withdraw from the embattled Kosovo province.
Michael Ratner, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, who condemns the U.S. government's refusal to deport Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel Constant to stand trial for alleged war crimes committed against the people of Haiti.
Joanne Sheehan, the New England Organizer for the War Resisters League, who talks about "A Day Without the Pentagon," a march and rally planned for October 19th in Washington, D.C."

Week Ending October 30th, 1998

Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies who examines some of the critical issues preventing Israel and the Palestinians from concluding a peace settlement.
Dr. William Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, who describes human rights abuses in the United States, the focus of a year-long campaign by his organization.
Alicia Littletree, an activist with Earth First!, who summarizes events which led to the death of David Chain an Earth First! member who was killed while defending a stand of old growth forest in northern California.

September

Week Ending September 4th, 1998

Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute For Policy Studies,who assesses recent U.S. missile strikes launched against suspected terrorist targets in Afghanistan and the Sudan.
Leon Spencer, Executive Director of the Washington Office on Africa, who describes the many forces involved in supporting or opposing the rebellion against the 15 month old government of Laurent Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sandaura Brookes, who talks about her intensive course that is a practical approach to self-defense for and empowerment of women.

Week Ending September 11th, 1998

Fred Weir, Moscow correspondent for the Canadian Press and In These Times who analyzes Russia's latest economic and political crisis. Related article: World Crises on the Horizon?"
Doug Henwood, Editor and Publisher of the Left Business Observer, who assesses the worldwide economic crisis following the collapse of economies in Asia, and now in Russia. Related article: World Crises on the Horizon?"
Gordon Bruno, Director of the Connecticut Center for School Change,who explains how the state of Connecticut has not met the goals mandated in the 1996 Sheff vs. O'Neill school desegregation case.columnist with the Nation Magazine, who examines the use and abuse of the grand jury system during the course of Ken Starr's investigation of the Clinton Presidency.
Debbie Weinstein, of the Children's Defense Fund, who assesses the consequences of federal welfare reform legislation enacted into law by Congress two years ago.
Shawn Ellis, spokesperson for the Detroit Metropolitan Council of Newspaper Unions, who describes recent developments in the union's three year strike against that city's two largest newspapers.

Week Ending September 25th, 1998

Commentator and author Paul Robeson Jr., who examines the electoral consequences of President Clinton's entanglement in the Monica Lewinsky sex and lies scandal.
Paul Bass, political reporter with the New Haven Advocate newspaper, who discusses the important primary race for the democratic nomination in Connecticut's 1st Congressional district.
Mark Jacobs, Director of the Westchester People's Action Coalition, who talks about plans to revitalize the organization, and continue the progressive work the group has been doing for 24 years.

August

Week Ending August 7th,1998

Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Plan, who analyzes the short-comings in legislation now before Congress designed to protect patients from abuses in their managed health care plans.
Carol Richardson and Ann Herman, who discuss their recent release from prison resulting from their non-violent civil disobedience demanding the closure of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas.
Molly O'Meara, of the World Watch Institute who describes the recent growth in the use of solar power throughout the world

Week Ending August 14th,1998

Fred Weir, correspondent for the Canadian Press Press and In These Times, who analyzes Russia's worsening economic crisis which has resulted in growing labor unrest.
Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the National Security Archive, who examines the connections between Cuban-American terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban-American National Foundation and the U.S. government.
Nat Hentoff, a long-time columnist with the Washington Post and Village Voice, who discusses his latest book Living the Bill of Rights, How to Be an Authentic American.

Week Ending August 21st, 1998

Syndicated columnist and author Norman Solomon, who examines the media's conduct in covering the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal.
David Krajicek, a former crime reporter for the New York Daily News, discusses his book Scooped: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze and Celebrities.
Jane Franklin, author of Cuba and the United States, A Chronological History, who talks about repeated assassination attempts against Cuban President Fidel Castro, and who funds them.

Week Ending August 28, 1998

Micah Sifrey, senior analyst with the group Public Campaign, who examines the chances for passage of campaign finance reform legislation after a recent victory in the House of Representatives. Related article: The Real Scandal: Campaign Financing.
Ellen Bernstein, of IFCO, the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing analyzes who receives campaign contributions from the Miami-based, right-wing Cuban American National Foundation.
Jennifer Einhorn, Director of Communications for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation, who discusses the recent series of "gay conversion" advertisements that have run in the nation's newspapers in recent weeks.

July

Week Ending July 3rd 1998

Ethan Nadleman, Director of the Lindesmith Center, who criticizes the recent United Nations' Special Session against drug use and trafficking around the world.
Charles Shiner, National Coordinator for the East Timor Action Network, who talks about the nebulus offer of autonomy, made by acting Indonesian president, B.J. Habibie, to the people of East Timor.
Author and commentator, Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who analyzes conflicts within the African American Community covered in his new book "The Crisis in Black and Black."

Week Ending July 10th 1998

Author Robert Weil, who examines the social dislocation by China's conversion to "Market Socialism," and other issues ignored by the major media during President Clinton's trip to the middle kingdom.
Jennifer Harbury, an American citizen and attorney, who talks about the recent trial before an international court in Costa Rica, which implicated the Guatemalan military and US complicity in the death of her husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a rebel commander.
Bonnie Eisenberg of the National Women's History Project describes the early women's rights movement in this country as the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention is being celebrated this year.

Week Ending July 17th 1998

Jaime Estades, Director of the Hispanic Education and Legal Fund, who discusses the general strike called by organized labor in Puerto Rico to protest the proposed privatization of the island's publically owned telephone company.
David Wilson, an editor with the Weekly News Update on the Americas, who examines the escalating violence between the Mexican military and Zapatista rebels and their supporters in Mexico's impoverished state of Chiapas.
Andrew Oliver-Rudis, a participant in the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana Cuba in 1997, who talks about a threatening phone call he recently received from the U.S Treasury Dept. for allegedly violating the U.S. travel ban against Cuba.

Week Ending July 24th 1998

Lagos newspaper publisher Nduka Obiaegbnam, who discusses the crisis which has engulfed Nigeria after the death of that nation's most prominent political prisoner, Chief Mashood Abiola.
Kim Moody, Director of the newsletter Labor Notes, who examines the critical issues at stake in the ongoing United Auto Workers Union strike against General Motors.
Peter Kostmayer, the Executive Director of the group Zero Population Growth, who talks about his organization's efforts to slow the Earth's population.

Week Ending July 31st,1998

Mario Murillo, of the Colombia Media Project, who describes the decades-long conflict in Colombia and the U.S. role there in providing weapons and training to government forces.
Belle Taylor-McGhee, of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, who talks about the status of a woman's right to choose, 25 years after Roe vs. Wade.
John Amidon, a political activist, who discusses his pilgrimage walk from the Danbury Federal Prison to Connecticut's State Capitol, in Hartford, to call for the closing of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia.

June

Week Ending June 5th 1998

Richard Lawlor, National Vice Chairman of Irish Northern Aid, who looks at the peace process referendum approved by voters in Ireland, both north and south.
John Miller, Media Coordinator of the East Timor Action Network, who discusses the fall of the U.S. supported Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia and assesses his successor B.J. Habibie.
Peace activist, Sister Carol Gilbert, who explains why she and five others damaged a B-52 Bomber that was on display at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. last week.

Week Ending June 12th 1998

Disarmament activist Daniel Ellsberg, who remembers the warning signs - ignored by the west - which lead to the present nuclear arms confrontation between India and Pakistan.
Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, who details what he feels needs to be done to achieve a true and lasting peace in Ireland, following overwhelming voter support for the Stormont Peace Agreement on May 22nd.
Paul Klite, the Director of Rocky Mountain Media Watch, who talks about his group's campaign to rid television news coverage of sensationalism and violence.half of the century can never happen again.
A Special Report on the 100th anniversary of the Philippines' independence from Spain, and the ensuing Phillipine/American War. Listen to the RealAudio June 12, 1998 archive of Pacifica Network News.

Week Ending June 26th 1998

John Miller, Professor of Economics at Wheaton College, who discusses growing criticism of the International Monetary Fund and their policies of austerity and privation
Lisa Valante, President of the Pittsburgh-Matanzas Sister City Project, who talks about the Treasury Department's new "presumed guilty" clause that is being used against U.S. citizens suspected of having traveled illegally to Cuba.
Alicea "Little Tree," an activist with environmental group Earth First!, who reports on her group's ongoing battle to save the old growth forests of northern California now under threat from lumber company clear cutting.

May

Week Ending May 8th 1998

Jodie Silverman, Communications Director with Public Campaign,who assesses the chances this year for passage of meaningful campaign finance reform legislation.
Anuradha Mittal, with the Institute for Food and Development Policy(Food First), who talks about an upcoming Congressional hearing on U.S. violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Peter Phillips, Director of Project Censored, who summarizes some of the past year's most important news stories that were ignored by the mainstream media.

Week Ending May 15th 1998

Charlie Scheiner, National Coordinator of the East Timor Action Network,who reports on Indonesia's growing political and economic crisis that threatens to unseat the dictatorship of President Suharto.
Anne Herman, inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, who talks about her civil disobedience at the School of the Americas, in Fort Benning, Ga., in 1997, that landed her a prison sentence.
Matthew Feiner, Connecticut Sculptor and Collage artist, who talks about the relationship between issues of peace and justice and his committment as a visual artist.

Week Ending May 22nd 1998

Harold Nelson, spokesperson for the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA, who talks about the recent assassination of Archbishop Juan Gerardi on May 3rd, in Guatemala.
Diego Zavala, of Amnesty International, who describes the growing number of human rights abuse cases connected with Mexico's military and police.
Paul Gionfriddo, Director of the Connecticut Association for Human Services, who explains why the rate of children living in poverty has drastically increased during the last decade, in one of the nation's most affluent states.

Week Ending May 29nd 1998

Bruce Hall, Field Organizer with Peace Action, who discusses India's recent nuclear weapons tests and the danger of regional and international nuclear weapons proliferation.
Alan Nairn, journalist and activist, who discusses the recent student demonstrations in Jakarta, Indonesia, demanding President Suharto to step down.
John Roulac, author of Hemp Horizons: The Comeback of the World's Most Promising Plant, who describes the efforts to re-legalize hemp cultivation in the United States.