Progressive Radio News Hour

Progressive Radio News Hour

Guest:  Mickey Huff

Mickey Huff is a California-based Professor of History at Diablo Valley College and Director of Project Censored (PC) and the Media Freedom Foundation. MFF supports First Amendment freedoms and investigative research, and works closely with PC and other media related organizations.

PC is the media democracy advocacy group that publishes vital news stories suppressed or censored in the mainstream.

Each year, it ranks the top 25 and publishes them in its yearbook, Censored: Media Democracy in Action. The latest Censored 2011: The Top Censored Stories of 2009 - 10 can be purchased at projectcensored.org/store.

Major world and national issues will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour

Guest:  Herbert Bix

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

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Progressive Radio News Hour

Guest: Jack Rasmus

Rasmus is Professor of Political Economy at St. Mary's College and Santa Clara University, CA. He's also a freelance journalist, frequent speaker, a playwright and author, including his latest book titled, "Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression."

His forthcoming book is titled, "Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few."

His current views on the economy will be discussed.

Progressive Radio News Hour

Rachael Rudolph

Rudolph is Managing Editor of Encompassing Crescent. It's an online monthly magazine designed to bring together academics, activists, journalists, policy-makers, and political figures to facilitate and promote dialogue on vital global issues.

She also heads the International Relations for Facilitate Global, an NGO promoting peace, human rights, and economic change.

Currently, she's pursuing a research project in Saudi Arabia for a forthcoming book on Saudi-Western Relations.

Major regional issues will be discussed.

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Guest: Mahdi Nazemroaya

Nazemroaya is a Middle East/Central Asian analyst and Research Associate of the Center for Research on Globalization.

During the Libyan war, he spent months in Tripoli and reported accurately on what major media scoundrels suppressed.

Discussion will focus on Washington's rage for more Middle East war as it targets Syria and Iran for regime change.

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Guest: Elizabeth Woodworth

Woodworth is a writer and former head librarian for the British Columbia Ministry of Health (1978 - 2002). Her writing focuses mostly on social justice issues. She also works closely with David Ray Griffin on 9/11 related issues.

Discussion will focus on their vital Consensus 9/11 project. It compiled compelling "best evidence" on 9/11 truth. Tune in and hear it firsthand.

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Guest: Francis Boyle 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, "United Ireland: Human Rights and International Law." Discussion will focus on Boyle's new book and related issues.

Progressive Radio News Hour

John McMurtry 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 State 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

Guest: Ellen Brown

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.