Show Details for January 28th, 2007

This week’s Guests:

        CIA Veteran RAY McGOVERN on the DC peace march, the Libby trial, etc.

        Filmmaker ROBERT GREENWALD on “Iraq for Sale”

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We start the show with an important update: The trial Kathleen Wynne reported on last week has concluded with convictions of two election staffers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio of rigging the November 2004 recount.

After the headline we get to:

CIA veteran Ray McGovern on the DC peace march, the Libby trial, etc.

Ray McGovern is a 27-year veteran of the CIA and a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.  He has been a frequent guest on The Monitor.

Ray will update us on a number of timely topics.  He was at the big peace march in Washington yesterday.  In addition, he has been following the Scooter Libby trial closely.  And, if we have time, he will update us on the US-Iran situation.

 

 

 

Filmmaker ROBERT GREENWALD on “Iraq for Sale”

 

 

Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. He returns to The Monitor to discuss his newest film, “IRAQ FOR SALE: The War Profiteers,” the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.

 

Greenwald’s films have garnered 25 Emmy nominations, four cable ACE Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Award, and eight Awards of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute. Greenwald has received the Liberty Hill Foundation’s
Upton Sinclair Award for his political work.

 

Greenwald is the also director/producer of “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” (2005), a documentary that uncovers the retail giant’s assault on families and American values and “Outfoxed:
Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism” (2004). He also executive produced a trilogy of political documentaries: “Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election” (2002); “Uncovered: The Iraq War” (2003), which Greenwald also directed; and “Unconstitutional” (2004).

 

Brave New Films, Greenwald’s new media company, is working on telling stories using film that will influence the debates about the most important issues of the day and is currently distributing The Big Buy:
Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress.

 

WEBSITES:

IRAQ FOR
SALE: The War Profiteers    http://iraqforsale.org

Brave New Films    www.bravenewfilms.org

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Show Details for January 21st, 2007

This week’s Guests:

        Military correspondent
JOE GALLOWAY on the proposed escalation

        Election investigator
KATHLEEN WYNNE 

Joseph Galloway is a former senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder. His distinguished journalist career spans four decades, and he has covered wars including Vietnam, Desert Storm, Haiti, and
East Timor. He is the recipient of a Bronze Star Medal and the Medal of Valor of the U.S. Army awarded to a civilian for service during Vietnam

Galloway is co-author of the best-selling book “We Were Soldiers Once … and Young.”
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called Galloway “the finest combat correspondent of our generation–a soldier’s reporter and a soldier’s friend.”

Mark Bebawi will discuss the proposed escalation of US troops in
Iraq with him, and other topics related to the military. 

ARTICLE:
“Postponed sacrifices will come due with a vengeance”

By
Joseph L. Galloway

McClatchy Newspapers

Jan. 17, 2007

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/galloway/16482338.htm

 

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES BY
JOE GALLOWAY:

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/galloway

 

 

Election investigator
KATHLEEN WYNNE

 

 

Kathleen Wynne, former Associate Director of Black Box Voting, was a fulltime investigator there since the organization was founded in 2004. Wynne mentors citizens, teaching them how to monitor local elections and consults with public officials. She has testified at numerous public hearings and has provided evidence to members of the U.S. Congress, the EAC and other public bodies. Previously, Wynne spent 20 years as a senior administrator with major
New York City law firms. Her extensive legal experience has been invaluable in helping to teach citizens how to document elections problems with evidence that can stand up to scrutiny.

 

Wynne has just returned from a courtroom in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where her videotapes are being used as evidence of recount breaches in the 2004
Ohio election. 

 

Her investigations into the money trail that weaves through the election arena resulted in the first documented chain of money between Diebold and public officials. She videotaped all four of the Black Box Voting hack studies by Harri Hursti and
Herbert Thompson in Leon County, Florida, and
Emery County, Utah.

 

Pokey Anderson will ask her about some of these situations, and the broader context of election reform as support builds for some sort of legislation.

 

Kathleen is now living in
Texas, and continues her efforts to get honest, transparent elections.  She has appeared on CNN’s
Lou Dobbs’ show and others, as well as a previous appearance on The Monitor. 

 

CHAPTER:

“Election Reform in the Eyes of a Citizen, Through the Lens of a Camera”

By
Kathleen Wynne

Appears as a chapter in the book,

“HACKED! High Tech Election Theft in
America,”

edited by Austinites Abbe DeLozier and
Vickie Karp

 

WEBSITES:

http://hackedelections.com/index.html

http://www.blackboxvoting.org

 

 

QUOTE BY KATHLEEN WYNNE:

“There is a growing number of Americans who do not want any kind of machine counting our votes.  We are not being listened to because we are not the anointed experts on the subject.  What’s wrong with this picture?  Everything.  Our elections do not belong to the experts, the politicians, the vendors, the election officials….they belong to the average citizens, who make up the majority of this country and whose voices are not being heard and that’s got to stop.”

 

 

Nancy Boyda’s lack of…

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/05/is-boyda-nuts/

Show Details for January 7th, 2007

 Environmental writer Kelpie Wilson on new Green Energy Ideas and Iraqi Kurdish doctor and academic Sureya Sayadi on Iraqi Kurdistan, the death of Saddam and the state of her country

Kelpie Wilson is the t r u t h o u t environment editor.  Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson will talk with her about some of the top new ideas for green technology.

Trained as a mechanical engineer, Kelpie Wilson has long been an environmental activist and writer.  Her articles have appeared in Wild Earth, The Progressive, and the Earth First! Journal.  

 

She lives with her husband in a solar-powered cabin in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon.  She has been living off the grid since 1990.  Her novel, Primal Tears, published by North Atlantic Books in Fall 2005, looks at the kinship and alienation of humans from other animals and the natural world.

ARTICLE:

“2006 Top Green Tech Ideas”
January 5, 2007

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010507A.shtmlf

 

WEBSITE:

http://www.kelpiewilson.com

 

QUOTE:

 ”Under
Gale Norton’s leadership, the Department of Interior has become nothing less than a big box store for the mining, timber, oil, gas, and coal industries. As CEO, Norton has eliminated all rivals to give her corporate customers ‘low, low prices every day.’ Meanwhile, fish and wildlife and all the rest of us who need clean air and water underwrite the true cost.” — “From Teapot Dome to Gale Norton,” by Kelpie
Wilson,  t r u t h o u t | Perspective, March 19, 2006,

http://www.kelpiewilson.com/archive/teapot%20dome%20gale%20norton.htm

Iraqi Kurdish doctor and academic Sureya Sayadi

Sureya Sayadi is a doctor and academic living in the
United States.  She is an Iraqi Kurd, born in 
Kirkuk, Iraq. The Kurdish people number between 25-30 million, but have no state of their own, living in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Russia and
Turkey. 
Mark Bebawi will talk with her about the Kurdish people, who seem to get lost in the discussions in
Iraq about the Sunnis and Shiites.  She writes of recent history, “My people were brutally massacred by the Baathist government, while the
United States and other European countries helped Saddam procure the weapons and chemicals he used on us.”

While in high school in the Middle East, she emigrated to North Dakota, and later graduated from the

University of
Minnesota.  She has lived in the Caribbean and
England.  From working as a motel maid in
North Dakota to becoming a medical doctor, she continues to worry about families torn apart by war, including the many Kurdish refugees.

ARTICLE:

“Hillary Clinton and

George Bush: No Friends of the Kurds”

by

Sureya Sayadi

http://www.peacepalpitations.com/article.html

 

WEBSITE:

http://www.peacepalpitations.com/about.html