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January
30, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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Congo: Humanitarian
Crisis and the Hema-Lendu Conflict
Suliman Baldo, Senior Researcher for Human Rights Watch |
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Audio
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US-Mexico Relations
Susan Gzesh, lecturer at University of Chicago Law School |
|
Audio
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Vampires real and imagined:
Shadow of the Vampire
Facets Multimedia's Milos Stehlik |
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Audio
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Indonesian Politics
Update
Jeffrey Winters, Professor of Political Economy at Northwestern
University |
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January
29, 2001 |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Documentary Special:
"The Struggle for Iran"
Walter Cronkite, Host
(Internet broadcast not permitted)
More information is available at www.iranproject.org. |
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January
26, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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Weighing the Costs
and Benefits of Large Dams Projects
Dr. Jan A. Veltrop, consulting engineer, commissioner for the World
Commission on Dams |
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Check out the Worldview
Dam Special page for more interviews and links |
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January
25, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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International News
of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine |
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Audio
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Addressing Human Rights
in Nigeria
Bronwen Manbe, Senior researcher for the Africa division of Human
Rights Watch |
More information is available
at
www.hrw.org
www.nigeria.com
and Info
on Ken Saro-Wiwa |
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January
24, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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Russia Rundown
Marshall Goldman, Professor and Associate Director of the Davis
Russia Research Center at Harvard University |
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Audio
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Civics Lessons from
the Inauguration
While the post inaugeration consensus was there wasn't much to say
about George W. Bush's speech, Doug Cassel of Northwestern's Center
for International Human Rights disagrees. This week in his regular
human rights commentary Doug tries to draw some lessons about democracy
and civil society from this weekend's address. |
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Audio
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Climate Change Report
Ron Stouffer, Scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, a
NOA (or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) lab, one
of the lead authors of one of the chapters of the report |
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Perspectives on the
Lunar New Year: |
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Audio
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Getting Wet in the
Ganges:
India's Kumbh Mela Religious Festival
Swami Vardenanda, Assistant Minister, Vivekananda-Vedanta Society
in Hyde Park, Branch of the Ram Krishna Mission in India |
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Audio
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Chinese New Year
Wen Huang, Chicago writer |
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January
23, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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Bush Blocks Family
Planning Funding
Laura Echevarria, National Right to Life Committee
Steve Strombley, Planned Parenthood Chicago |
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Audio
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Western Hemisphere Institute
for Security Cooperation
Dorothy Pagosa, Illinois School of the Americas Watch |
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January
22, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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Transition of Power
in the Philippines
Sheila Coronel, Philippines Center for Investigative Journalism
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Audio
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Human
Rights Dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Marty Rosenbluth, Amnesty International's country specialist
for Israel and the Palestinian Authority |
| Audio |
Iran
Update
Ahmed Sadri, Professor of Sociology at Lake Forest College |
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January
19, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Philippines: President
Estrada on His Way Out |
|
Audio
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Part One: Setting the Scene
Sheila Coronel, Philippines Center for Investigative Journalism,
speaking from Manilla at a press conference given by the Vice President |
|
Audio
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Part Two: How did Estrada
get to this point and what's next?
Joey Lizano, visiting fellow at the University of Chicago Human
Rights Program |
| Audio |
Soon to be Unemployed
Madeline Albright
Wednesday, Secretary of State Albright spent the last part of her
address at the Chicago Council on Foreign relations summing up some
of the themes these policy efforts taught her. |
| Audio |
Pakistan and Islam
Jessica Stern, lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy
School of Government and an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign
Relations |
| Audio |
Taboo
Controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima’s new film
Taboo opens at the Music Box tonight. Facets Multimedia’s Milos
Stehlik declares this homoerotic samurai tale a success. |
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January
18, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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International News of
the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
(Colin Powell, DR Congo, British fox hunting ban) |
|
Audio
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“Weighing Sovereignty
in the 'Sit Room': Does It Enter or End the Debate?”
Robert Gallucci, Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University, long time State Department official, asks if the clash
between sovereignty and human rights exist outside of academia |
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January
17, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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Congolese President
Laurent Kabila Shot Dead
Suliman Baldo, researcher for Human Rights Watch, recently
returned from Congo |
|
Audio
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To Waive or Not to
Waive: Will Clinton Certify Aid to Colombia Despite Poor Human Rights
Record?
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University's Center for International
Human Rights |
| Audio |
"The Moral Implications
of Kosovo Operations"
General James P. McCarthy, USAF (Ret.), United States Air Force
Academy |
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January
16, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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"Just War and
Just Intervention: Reshaping a Tradition"
Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, professor and Chair of the Executive Committee
at Harvard Divinity School. He also serves as Counselor to Catholic
Relief Services in Baltimore, Maryland and is a faculty associate
at Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
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Audio
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Europe's Largest Buddhist
Temple Opens in Amsterdam
No longer is religion streaming in one direction as missionaries
from more developed states spread doctrine to less developed regions.
Now immigrant groups facilitate the flow of religious traditions
across borders in all directions. Radio Netherlands' Michel Walraven
reports. |
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January
15, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
|
Audio
|
Globalization and the
Interfaith Movement
Wayne Teasdale, lay monk, member of the Parliament of the World's
Religion's board of trustees, adjunct professor at DePaul University,
Colombia College, and the Catholic Theological Union, author of
The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the
World's Religions |
|
Audio
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"Transnational
Religious Institutions and the Layering of Sovereignty"
Susanne Rudolph, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor
of Political Science at the University of Chicago |
| |
The conference, The
Sacred and Sovereign: Human Rights, the Use of Force, and Religious
Pluralism at Century's Dawn, took place at the University of
Chicago Divinity School this past fall. More information is available
at
http://sacred-sovereign.uchicago.edu/ |
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January
12, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
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Audio
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Argentina: Topless Bathing
and IMF Woes
Edward Gibson, Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University
More information is available at www.carlossaulmenem.org.ar |
|
Audio
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Nepal: Maoist Rebels'
View of The People's War
Li Onesto, photojournalist, writer for the Revolutionary Worker
Her photographic exhibition, Dispatches: Report from the People's
War in Nepal, opens January 12, 2001 and runs through the 19th at
Around the Coyote Gallery, 1579 N. Milwaukee, 3rd floor of the Flatiron
Arts Building. There is also a web component that can be found at
www.rwor.org |
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Audio
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Asian Filmmakers and
Actors Energize Hollywood
Political change in one part of the world can sometimes lead
to cultural change in another. Milos Stehlik suggests that Hong
Kong's return to China in 1997 has had a noticeably positive impact
on the film industry in the United States. |
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January
11, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
|
Audio
|
International News of
the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine |
|
Audio
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Working to Eliminate
"Honor Crimes" in Jordan
Maha Abu Ayyash, the National Jordanian Committee to eliminate the
so called "Crimes of Honor," sculptor |
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January
10, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
|
Audio
|
Lockerbie Trial Wraps
Up
Robert Black, Professor at the Edinburgh Law School at the University
of Edinburgh
More information from this guest here. |
|
Audio
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Burmese Pro-Democracy
Leader Meets with Military Representatives
Simon Billenness, Coalition for Corporate Withdrawl from Burma |
|
Audio
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Thailand: 'Thais Love
Thais' Party Sweeps Elections
Kevin Hewison, Professor at the Southeast Asia Research Centre at
City University of Hong Kong, currently in Bangkok |
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January
9, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
|
Audio
|
NATO, EU Examine Health Risks of Depleted Uranium in Kosovo
Paul Beaver, Spokesman for Jane's Defense (spoke from British
Parliament)
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Audio
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Chile: Pinochet Waffles
Over Medical Tests
Pedro Matta, human rights organizer in Santiago |
|
Audio
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Human Rights in Colombia
Russell Crandall, Professor of Political Science at Davidson College |
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January
8, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
|
Audio
|
Russia Balks on Debt
Paul Goble, Director of Communications for Radio Free Europe,
Radio Liberty |
| Audio |
Tajikistan: "Teetering
on the Brink"
Many parts of Central Asia are already experiencing such shortages-as
they face their worst drought in nearly 75 years. The drought is
compounding the problems of a nation that still hasn't recovered
from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the civil war that raged
in the early 1990's. Radio Netherlands' Eric Beauchemin reports.
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January
5, 2001 Audio |
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
|
Audio
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Czech TV Fiasco
Christopher P. Winner, Executive Editor of The Prague Post |
| Audio |
Not a Happy New Year
for Film Critic Milos Stehlik
The start of a new year is a time for many to step back and
access how things are going and what lies ahead. This week in his
regular film commentary, Facets Multimedia's Milos Stehlik tries
his hand at an annual review, and from the movie Chocolat to the
film Quills, the results leave little room for optimism. |
|
Audio
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Tourism across the Taiwan
Straits
Shelly Rigger, Associate Professor of Political Science at
Davidson College and Author of Politics in Taiwan |
| Audio |
Religious Freedom in
China
Mickey Spiegal, Human Rights Watch researcher |
| |
January
4, 2001 Audio
|
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
|
Audio
|
International News
of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine |
| Audio |
Land Rights in Nicaragua
Maria Luisa Acosta, attorney with the Center for Legal Assistance
to Indigenous People in Nicaragua |
| |
January
3, 2001 Audio
|
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
|
Audio
|
Mid-East Peace Process:
Arafat Meets with Clinton
Ed Abington, advises Palestinian National Authority on relations
in DC; former senior US rep at Consul General in Jerusalem--representative
to Palestinians |
| Audio |
Further Reaction to
Arafat/Clinton Talks
David Schenker, Research Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East
Policy
Ali Abunimah, Vice President, Arab American Action Network |
| Audio |
Environmental and Indigenous
Rights in Mexico
Carlos Beas, Ucizoni, Union of Indigenous Communities of the
Northern Zone of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec |
| |
January
2, 2001 Audio
|
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
| |
Property Law and Capitalism
in the Developing World
Hernando DeSoto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy
(in Peru), and author of The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism
Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. |
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January
1, 2001 Audio
|
hosted
by Jerome McDonnell |
| |
Exploring
the Construction of Cultural Identity |
|
Audio
|
The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi
A novel about a West African man who identifies more with
Dutch culture than his own, with author Arthur Japin
|
| Audio |
Robert
van Gulik: The Dutch Mandarin
Radio Netherlands documentary produced by Dheera Sujan about a Dutch
man who identifies more with Chinese culture than his own |
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