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2001 Audio On-Demand & Program Descriptions
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February 2001

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February 28, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Audio Zimbabwe
Brian Kagoro, spokesperson and attorney for the National Constitutional Assembly in Zimbabwe
Audio Henry Kissenger as War Criminal
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University’s Center for International Human Rights
Audio Globalization and Africa
Njoki Njoroge Njehu, national director of 50 Years is Enough: US Network for Global Economic Justice
 
Photo of Njoki Njoroge Njehu
Njoki Njoroge Njehu

She speaks Thursday night at the Jubilee Chicago Monthly Forum series entitled “Gender and Debt”. The talk at 6pm will be at the UIC Agape House, 1046 West Polk St. Information at 312.427.2533

Their website is 50years.org.

 
February 27, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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  Perspectives on Plan Colombia
Audio Michael Shifter, program director, Inter-American Dialogue's Democratic Governance program and adjunct professor of Latin American studies, Georgetown University
Audio Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), 9th Congressional District
Audio Rep. Mark Souder (R-IND), 4th Congressional District (surrounds Fort Wayne), Chairman of the Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources
Audio Russell Crandall, assistant professor of political science, Davidson College
Audio Max Manwaring, professor of military strategy, United States Army War College
 
February 26, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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  Globalization of Clothing: How do your second hand clothes get to Zambia?
Karen Tranberg Hansen, Professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, author of Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
 
February 23, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Audio
  Nigerian Activist
Sowore Omayale
Controversial Chicago State Lecture Funded by Former Autocratic Nigerian Leader
Sowore Omayale, Coordinator for the Committee for the Protection of People's Dignity, Nigerian student activist/organizer, former pro-democracy activist in the University of Lagos' Student Union until he was expelled
Audio Afghanistan: Humanitarian Crisis
Stephanie Bunker, UN spokesperson for Afghanistan
Audio Afghanistan: Human Rights Watch Report on Massacres of Hazaras
Vickram Parekh, South Asia Researcher for Human Rights Watch
More information available at www.hrw.org and Hazara.net
Audio Berlin International Film Festival Wrap Up
Facets Multimedia's Milos Stehlik
 
February 22, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Audio International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
Audio "The Right to Life": Human Rights in Afghanistan
Eric Beauchemin, Radio Netherlands
 
February 20, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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  Perspectives on the Latest Iraq Bombings
Audio Patrick Clawson, Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Audio Rania Masri, Iraq Action Council
Audio Ahmad Chalabi, Leader of Iraqi National Congress in Washington, DC
Audio Ali Abunimah, vice-president of the Arab-American Action Network
Audio Charles Duelfer, Center for Strategic International Studies, Former Deputy Chair of UNSCOM
Audio John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Audio Storer Rowley, member of the editorial board, Chicago Tribune
 
February 19, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Audio Burmese Junta Dialogue with Democracy Leader
Zar Ni, Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations and Research at National-Louis University, Free Burma Coalition
Audio Chile: Pinochet Trial Update
Marc Cooper, author of Pinochet and Me, host of Radio Nation, contributor to The Nation magazine
Audio Indigenous Rights in Mexico
Salomon Nahmad, anthropologist, former director of the Mexican government's National Indigenous Institute (INI). Interpreted by WBEZ's Jesse Hardman
 
February 16, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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  Submarine Collision and Japan-US Security Relations:
Two Perspectives
Audio Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, University of California, San Diego, author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (among many other books about Japan…)
Audio William Breer, Japan Chair for the Center for Strategic International Studies
Audio Headless Journalist Haunts Ukraine's President
Andrew Wilson, author of The Ukrainians, lecturer in Ukrainian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College, London
 
February 15, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Audio International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek
Audio Police Brutality in Romania
Radio Deutchewelles Max Easterman
Audio Landmines
Chris Kerke, Canadian government’s landmines scholar (a position they created for him), Professor of Political Science at Bridgewater State College
 
February 14, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Audio War Crimes Investigations
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University’s Center for International Human Rights points to three recent articles about war crimes that may or may not lead to a satisfactory conclusion
Audio History of Non-Violence
Jack DuVall, co-author of A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (companion volume to the PBS television series from this fall), executive producer of the television series and film
Audio Sexy French Films at the Berlin Film Fest Aren’t So Sexy
On this Valentines Day, Milos Stehlik reports that some French films have proven it takes more than flesh to be interesting
 
February 13, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Audio Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 101
Stephen Schwartz, Publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, executive director of the Education Foundation for Nuclear Science
Stephen Schwartz, publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
 

More information is available at
www.thebulletin.org

Audio 51st Berlin International Film Festival
Milos Stehlik looks at two films that are cultural conglomerates - a pricey German movie that uses Americans speaking English to portray Germans, and a Belgian film about learning Italian
 
February 12, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Audio China: Who's Afraid of Falun Gong?
Danny Schechter, author of Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or "Evil Cult"? Long time journalist and emmy-award winning broadcaster, executive producer of Globalvision and executive editor of the Media Channel
Jerome McDonnell with author Danny Schechter
  More information on Falun Gong is available here
Audio Film Review: Nineteenth Annual Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran
Milos Stehlik takes a closer look at three films that made a deep impression on foreign and Iranian film-critics alike.
 
February 9, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Indonesian Leadership Crisis
Jeffrey Winters, Professor of Political Economy at Northwestern University

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Nineteenth Annual Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran
Milos Stehlik looks at how filmmakers are depicting the opposition between Iran’s culture and its politics.
 
February 8, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine

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Scholarly Treasures in Timbuktu: a look at efforts to preserve Islamic African archives
John Hunwick, Professor of History and Religion at Northwestern University, director of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa

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The Uncertain Future of Armenian Culture in Turkey
Dorian Jones, Radio Deutchewelles
 
February 7, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Audio

Peru: Corruption Hype and Indigenous Rights Quiet
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University’s Center for International Human Rights has just returned from Peru and has this to say about Peruvian public opinion

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Jerome McDonnell with Ambassador George McGovern
Jerome McDonnell with
Ambassador George McGovern

George McGovern’s
Theories on Food

George McGovern, 1972 Democratic nominee for president and current US Ambassador to the UN Agencies on Food and Agriculture, author of The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time.

 
February 6, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Peru: Ongoing Drama of Montesinos’ Tapes
Gustavo Gorritti, journalist with La Prensa, advisor for Alejandro Toledo

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Colombia Update
Robin Kirk, Colombia researcher for Human Rights Watch
 
February 5, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Israeli Elections: Why Sharon, What Next?
Amotz Assa-El, Editor in Chief of the International Jerusalem Post

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Rasheid Khalidi, Professor of History and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago

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Sharon on Sharon
Ariel Sharon, Likud Party leader, former General and Defense Minister
Excerpt from an address to the United Jewish Conference in Chicago
  Further Perspectives on Ariel Sharon

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Avi Mograbi, filmmaker, director of How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon

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Ambassador Dore Gold, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, formerly Israel's representative to the United Nations, former Foreign Policy Advisor to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Frances Boyle, Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois

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Yossi Olmert, Senior Likud Official
 
February 2, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Colin Powell Snubs Montenegro
John Lampe, Professor of History at University of Maryland

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Indigenous Rights in the Philippines
Joey Lozano, Filipino writer, fellow at the University of Chicago’s Human Rights Program
Further information available here.
 
February 1, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine

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Lifting the Bamboo Curtain
Radio Netherlands' Jane Murphy


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