Progressive Radio News Hour

Progressive Radio News Hour - Rodney Shakespeare - 07/06/13

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 - Mohammad Marandi - 07/05/13

Marandi is an Associate Professor at the University of Tehran. He also chairs their North American studies department. Discussion will focus on Iran, Syria and other Middle East issues.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Ellen Brown - 06/30/13

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 - Ralph Poynter and Denis Rancourt - 06/29/13

Ralph Poynter's a founding member of the United Federation of Teachers. For decades, he's supported fundamental worker, human and civil rights. He was jailed several times for his activism.

He's also Lynne Stewart's husband. He deplores her lawless imprisonment and campaigns for her freedom.

Discussion will focus on Lynne's struggle for justice.

Denis Rancourt is a distinguished tenured Professor of Physics, a recognized expert in his field, and an Environmental Science Researcher at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Yet he was persecuted, unfairly fired, and barred from campus. Doing so constituted a gross violation of his academic freedom, tenure, stature, and support for human rights, civil liberties and equal justice.

Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Paul Craig Roberts - 06/28/13

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.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Stjepan Mestrovic - 06/22/13

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

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.

Targeting Bradley Manning and other major issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Rick Rozoff - 06/21/13

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 - John McMurtry - 06/16/13

John 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 - Robert Abele - 06/15/13

Robert Abele is Professor of Philosophy at Diablo Valley College, CA. His books include "Democracy Gone" and "Anatomy of a Deception." It discusses the Iraq invasion, occupation, and preparation for the next deception.

He's currently writing a new book. When completed, it'll be discussed on this program.

Most recently, he contributed 11 chapters to The Encyclopedia of Global Justice.

Access his web site at www.spotlightonfreedom.com.

Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Francis Boyle - 06/14/13

Boyle is a distinguished University of Illinois law professor, activist, and internationally recognized expert on international law and human rights. His many books include "Palestine, Palestinians and International Law," "Biowarfare and Terrorism," and his newest titled, "Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade US Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution." Major world and national issues will be discussed.