Progressive Radio News Hour

Progressive Radio News Hour - Karl Grossman - 04/19/13

Karl Grossman is a State University of New York Professor of Journalism. He focuses on investigative reporting. He's done so for over 40 years.

His books include "Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know about Nuclear Power."

Updating Japan's nuclear disaster will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - John Kozy - 04/14/13

Kozy is a retired philosophy professor, now writing on social, political and economic issues. He taught for many years and has been writing for many more. Kozy's latest writing will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Michael Parenti - 04/13/13

Michael Parenti

Parenti is an internationally known, highly respected political scientist and award-winning author and lecturer.

His many books include Democracy for the Few (in its 9th edition), Superpatriotism, and Inventing Reality on the state of the media.

Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - James Petras - 04/12/13

Petras is Binghamton University, New York Professor Emeritus, a noted figure on the left, a distinguished Latin American expert, and longtime chronicler of the region's popular struggles. He's also a consummate scholar and prolific writer of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including his latest titled, "The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack." Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - John McMurtry - 04/07/13

McMurtry is an internationally recognized moral and political philosopher who is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Ontario. His volumes on Philosophy and World Problems for UNESCO are globally published, and his widely translated works include the influential books, "Unequal Freedoms," "The Cancer Stage of Capitalism," and "Value Wars." McMurtry is also an active public advocate for global justice, world peace, and international law. Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Rodney Shakespeare - 04/06/13

Rodney Shakespeare is a Professor of Binary Economics at Trisakti University, Britain where he teaches postgraduate Islamic Economics and Finance.

He's also a qualified UK Barrister, co-founder of the Global Justice Movement, and distinguished writer, scholar and lecturer, particularly at Islamic conferences on money, the real economy, and social and economic justice.

Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Rick Rozoff - 04/05/13

Rozoff's an activist, anti-war supporter, and editor of the web site Stop NATO. It "document(s) and oppose(s) global militarist trends and an expanding theater of war that began" by balkanizing Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It then expanded to South Asia, and now ravages the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Ellen Brown - 03/31/13

Brown is a civil litigation attorney, distinguished author, and frequent writer on financial issues. A new edition of her important book, "Web of Debt," is a brilliant analysis of the private banking system, how it usurped money creation power, and how we can get it back. She also heads the Public Banking Institute (PBI), an initiative to return power to the people where it belongs. Her latest writing will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Stjepan Mestrovich and Bill Hunsaker - 03/30/13

Stjepan Mestrovic is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University.

He was a consultant and expert witness for the International Court of the Tribunal for Yugoslavia. He provides similar services for US soldiers involved in court-martials and clemency hearings.

His books include "The Good Soldier on Trial: A Sociological Study of Misconduct by the US Military Pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq."

It deals with the conviction of Pfc. Corey Clagett for killing two unarmed Iraqis and trying to kill a third. Mestrovic testified on his behalf at his clemency hearing.

Bill Hunsaker also joins the show.

Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Paul Craig Roberts - 03/29/13

Roberts was former Assistant Treasury Secretary under Ronald Reagan, a Wall Street Journal Associate Editor, and holder of numerous academic appointments, including at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. He now prominently criticizes destructive, repressive state policies, harming people everywhere. Major world and national issues will be discussed.