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GUESTS: Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director of New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, Ruth Castel-Branco, Outreach/Communications Coordinator, 50 Years Is Enough Network

On Wednesday, President Bush nominated Robert B. Zoellick as a candidate for Managing Director of the World Bank. Zoellick had previously served in high-ranking foreign policy and economic policy posts under three Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan. He served as US trade representative under Bush in 2001 during which he distinguished himself primarily by protecting U.S. pharmaceutical firms in global trade talks. Zoellick was also known for repeatedly rejecting developing countries’ concerns on issues like agriculture, access to medicines, and protecting biodiversity. Last year, he became a top executive at Goldman Sachs, a global financial corporation. The US has exclusive authority to select the …

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GUEST: Steven Watt, Staff Attorney for the ACLU’s Human Rights Program

Yesterday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit against a subsidiary of Boeing Corporation for its participation in the U.S. government’s “extraordinary rendition” program. Jeppesen Dataplan Incorporated is being sued on behalf of three men who the ACLU said were abducted by the CIA and flown to foreign prisons where they were tortured. The complaint, filed in California, accuses Jeppesen of playing a crucial role in the U.S. government’s unlawful “extraordinary rendition,” program. Jeppesen is said to have provided flight and logistical support to a total of seventy such rendition flights since late 2001. Since the filing of the lawsuit, Jeppesen has refused to confirm or deny that it has done business with …

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GUEST: Bill Haley, Alex Haley’s son

Thirty years ago this year, the mini series based on Alex Haley’s ground breaking book, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” aired on television in the US, casting a spell across the country. Alex Haley traced his ancestry back to a proud African tribesman named Kunta Kinte who was forced into slavery. His novel won a Pulitzer prize and the National Book Critics Award. The miniseries, which won more than 30 Emmys, attracted over 80 million viewers per episode, with more than a 100 million viewing the finale. Despite these successes, the book had a troubled history. Even though Haley described the book as a blend of fact and fiction, critics questioned the extent of its factual basis. …

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… about the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.

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“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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GUEST: Noam Chomsky, has taught Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than 50 years, author of dozens of books including “Hegemony or Survival,” and “Failed States”

Since 2002, the New York Times Syndicate has been distributing op-eds written by the pre-eminent foreign policy critic and scholar of our time, Noam Chomsky. The New York Times Syndicate is part of the same company as the New York Times newspaper, and while readers around the world have had a chance to regularly read Chomsky’s articles, the New York Times newspaper has never published a single one. Only a few regional newspapers in the US have picked up the Op-eds, such as the Register Guard, the Dayton Daily News, and the Knoxville Voice. Internationally, the …

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GUEST: Gregory Wilpert, editor of VenezuelaAnalysis.com

Earlier in the week Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez refused to renew the license for the TV station Radio Caracas Television, known as RCTV) VHF. RCTV was the nation’s oldest private broadcaster, operating since 1953 and had a record of airing mostly right wing view points. During the two-day coup against Chavez in 2002, RCTV, along with four major privately-owned television channels openly supported the opposition government. Now, the Chavez government has threatened to crack down on another privately owned broadcaster, Globovision, accusing it of inciting an assassination attempt on the president. There have been several continuous days of demonstrations against Chavez’s RCTV decision, which in turn have incited counter demonstrations from Chavez supporters. During a visit to Finland, Chilean …

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GUESTS: Sara Guerrero, Artistic Director of Breath of Fire Latina Ensemble Theater and Executive Producer of 9 Digits Away From my Dream, Angela Cruz, Director, Aldo Sanchez plays Rene, Elizabeth Blanchard plays Ms. Jones

In a recent editorial to the Los Angeles Times, California State Senator Gil Cedillo defended his proposed Dream Act against the paper’s editorial criticisms. The Dream Act, or SB160, would allow undocumented students to be able to apply for state financial aid to pay in-state tuition fees for higher education. In defense of the legislation, Cedillo wrote to the LA Times that the “Passage of the Dream Act does not place one student’s future above another student’s future; it opens the door for all students.” Inspired by legislation such as the Dream Act is …

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… about the New York Conspiracy Trials .

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“To challenge power is not just an opportunity, it’s a responsibility.” — Noam Chomsky