Progressive Radio News Hour

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.

Progressive Radio News Hour - William Ayers - 03/24/13

Ayers is Distinguished University of Chicago (retired) Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. He founded the Small Schools Workshop and Center for Youth and Society. He's a longtime social justice advocate. Discussion will focus on major world and national issues.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Doug Dowd - 03/23/13

At age 94, Dowd is still active and vibrant. Through the late 1990s, he was an economic historian at Cornell, UC Berkeley and elsewhere. It went right along with his activism and progressive thinking.

He's still writing books and articles. His latest book is titled "Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis." His latest article is called "US Capitalism and Militarism in Crisis."

Major world issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - Hazel Gashoka - 03/22/13

Gashoka represents the best of student activism. She's targeted for doing the right thing. She challenged University of Ottawa racism. She's threatened with a lawsuit if she doesn't "immediately take down (her) defamatory video from (her) website and any other location it has been published." U of O racism, censorship and abuse of power will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - John Kozy - 3/17/13

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 - Herb Bix - 03/16/13

Herbert Bix is a Professor of History at Binghamton University, New York. A noted Asian/Japanese scholar, he writes often on issues of war and America's empire.

His books include "Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590 - 1884," acclaimed as one of the best ever on peasant rebellions in premodern societies.

His "Making of Modern Japan" won the 2001 nonfiction Pulitzer prize.

Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour - James Petras - 02/15/13

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 - 03/10/13

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 - Richard Wolff - 03/08/13

Richard Wolff Wolff is Economics Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts. He's now a New School University Graduate Program in International Affairs Visiting Professor. He's written numerous articles and books on topics ranging from modern imperialism, the economics of colonialism, current economic crisis, and much more for over 40 years. Current economic conditions will be discussed.