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July 31, 2001 |
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Israel-Palestine conflict update
Daniel Pipes, Director of the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia
Rasheid Khalidi, Director of the Center for International Studies
and Professor of History at the University of Chicago |
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Guatemala: Labor Struggles to Prevent
Renewal of Violence
Reynaldo Gonzalez, labor leader and member of the Guatemalan National
Revolutionary Unity (URNG); Guatemalan delegate to the 89th World
Conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in June |
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July 30, 2001 |
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Japanese history through the eyes
of Hirohito
Herbert Bix, historian, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
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July 27, 2001 |
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Bolivia: President Hugo Banzer Resigns
Eduardo Gamarra, Professor at Florida International University's
Latin American and Caribbean Center |
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Redefining US-Mexican Relations
Piecemeal
John Coatsworth, Professor of History and Latin American studies
and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies at Harvard University |
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Lumumba: Cinematic Glimpse of Congolese
History
Worldview film commentator Milos Stehlik |
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More info on Lumumba and its historical
background is available at the film's
website |
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July 26, 2001 |
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U.S. Backs Out of Bio-Warfare Ban
Amy Smithson, Director of the Chemical and Biological weapons nonproliferation
project at the H.L. Stimson Center
Her report on the BWC monitoring protocol is available here. |
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Nicaragua: Sandinistas poised for
political comeback in upcoming elections
Magda Enriques, U.S. representative of the Sandinista Front, former
Ambassador for Nicaragua, She's been living in the U.S. since 1991
where she teaches at a middle school in Philadelphia |
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Portugal: Controversy Over Legalization
of Recreational Drugs
Radio Deutsche Welle's Malcolm Brabant |
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July 25, 2001 |
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Sri Lanka: Fresh Fighting with Tamil
Tigers
Deepa Ollapally, Senior Expert on South Asian affairs at the US
Institute for Peace |
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Reflecting on Jury Duty: Comparative
Look at Trust in Judicial Systems
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University's Center for International
Human Rights |
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Nepal: New Prime Minister and Maoist
Rebels Agree on Cease-fire
Ramjee Parajulee, author of The Democratic Transition in Nepal |
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Taiwan's Take on Cross-Straits Relations
Su Tzen-ping, Director-General for the Government Information Office
for Taiwan (Republic of China), ROC Government Spokesman |
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July 24, 2001 |
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Where to Go from Here:
Perspectives on Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
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Hanni Hassan,
Strategic advisor to Arafat and the Palestinian Authority |
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Yossi Alpher,
Israeli strategic analyst, former senior advisor for Barak during
Camp David talks |
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July 23, 2001 |
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Indonesia: Lawmakers Impeach Wahid
Jeffrey Winters, Professor of Political Economy at Northwestern
University, currently in Jakarta |
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Kyoto Protocol: agreement reached,
Everyone on board minus the US
Roda Verheyen, Climate Change expert for Friends of the Earth International,
has been attending talks in Bonn, Germany |
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Bush and Putin to start news arms
negotiations following demise of ABM treaty
Jack Mendelsohn, Executive Director of the Lawyers Alliance for
World Security |
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July 20, 2001 |
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UN Conference on Global Small Arms
Trade
Perspectives on how to deal with small arms trade |
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Perspective 1
U.S. Must Look Out for 2nd Amendment Rights When Confronting Small
Arms Trade
Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA) |
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Perspective 2
Lora Lumpe, editor of Running Guns: The Global Black Market in
Small Arms, arms control consultant with Amnesty USA and several
Norwegian humanitarian groups |
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http://www.nisat.org |
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Perspective 3
Mereso Agina, national secretary of the Kenyan women's association
Maendeleo Ya Wanawawake |
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http://www.iansa.org |
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UN Plan to Bridge Digital Divide
Addresses Problems Raised in G8 Report
Denis Gilhooly, technology policy adviser for the UN Development
Program (UNDP) |
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Digital
Opportunity Initiative |
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The Digital Opportunity Task Force |
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Fluffy Fast-Paced French Film Wins
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Milos Stehlik |
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July 19, 2001 |
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine |
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Russia and Belarus: Putin's
human rights record criticized leading up to G-8 meeting, U.S. State
Dept says accusations against Belarussian president credible
Paul Goble, Director of Communications at Radio Free Europe |
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Searching for WWII missing persons
Mariann Schroeder, Radio Netherlands |
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July 18, 2001 |
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The World Bank, the G8 and Bush:
President Bush calls for direct grants for poor countries
Dan Driscoll Shaw, former national spokesperson for Jubilee 2000/USA,
and former Economic Justice Program Coordinator for the Chicago
Religious Leadership Network on Latin America |
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Colombia: Rebel Abuses of Human
Rights Worsening
Robin Kirk, Colombia researcher for Human Rights Watch |
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July 17, 2001 |
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India-Pakistan Summit Fizzles to
a Close
Ambassador Teresita Schaeffer, Director of the South Asia Program
at the Center for Strategic International Studies |
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Life in Liberia
Shaun Skelton, the American Refugee Committee's Country Director
for Liberia |
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Oil Wrestling in Turkey
Dorian Jones, Radio Deutsche Welle |
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July 16, 2001 |
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Arms Control Update: The Demise
of the ABM Treaty
Stephen Schwartz, Executive Director of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists |
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www.thebulletin.org
www.ceip.org |
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Vicente Fox speaks at Chicago Chamber
of Commerce
Thanks to WBEZ's Jesse Hardman for production assistance |
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July 13, 2001 |
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India-Pakistan Summit Preview
Robert Wirsing, Professor of Security Studies at the Asia Pacific
Center |
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Preview of Mexican President Vicente
Fox's
Visit to Chicago
Susan Gzesh, Director of the Human Rights Program at the University
of Chicago, Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School |
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A Good Film at the Karlovy Vary
International
Film Festival
Facets Multimedia's Milos Stehlik |
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July 12, 2001 |
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine |
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Chinese American Perspective on
Beijing's Olympic Bid
Wen Guang Huang, freelance writer living in Evanston |
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Listen to Africa Conference Preview
Tom Derdak, Executive Director of Global Alliance for Africa
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Program Officer for conservation and sustainable
development for Africa at the MacArthur Foundation |
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July 11, 2001 |
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Organization of African Unity Meets
to Plan African Union
George Ayittey, American University |
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Reflecting on Vicente Fox
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University's Center for International
Human Rights |
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Japan: Irritants Sidetrack Progress
in Regional Relations
Bruce Cummings, Professor of History at the University of Chicago
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Czech filmmaker Otakar Vavra
From the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Milos Stehlik
takes a look at the work and controversial life of this 90 year
old filmmaker |
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July 10, 2001 |
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UN Conference on the
Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons
Rachel Stohl, Senior Analyst at the Center for Defense Information,
currently attending the UN Conference |
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UN
conference website
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US Perspective on Small Arms
John Bolton, US Undersecretary of state for arms control and international
security, speaking at the United Nations conference |
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Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival
Milos Stehlik, Facets Multimedia |
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July 9, 2001 |
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Chilean Court Halts Pinochet Trial
Pedro Matta, human rights activist in Chile |
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Recovering Sierra Leone
Johnathan Napier, Assistant Country Director for Sierra Leone/Guinea |
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July 6, 2001 |
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Mixed Views of U.N. Sanctions on
Iraq |
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Jerome McDonnell's
introduction to the wheeling and dealing involved in sanction negotiations |
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Sir Jeremy
Greenstock - Permanent representative of the United Kingdom
to the UN |
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Rania Masri
- Iraq Action Council |
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Amatzia Baram
- Chairman of Middle East History at the University of Haifa, Israel |
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July 5, 2001 |
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Macedonia: Ceasefire Agreement
Includes NATO Presence
Eran Fraenkel, Executive Director, Search for Common Ground (Skopje,
Macedonia) |
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Slovenia: Ten Years on, Citizens
Question EU Prospects
Mark Tamhane, Radio Deutsche Welle |
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Algeria: Berber Protests Mark
Independence Day
James Drummonds, Financial Times correspondent based in Cairo, was
in Algeria last month covering protests and related violence |
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July 4, 2001 |
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American Thoughts on Nationality
and the Role of the U.S. in the International Community
Produced and presented by Andrea Wenzel |
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July 3, 2001 |
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Milosevic Refuses to Enter Plea
at War Crimes Tribunal
Anthony D’Amato, professor
of law at Northwestern University; first American attorney to argue
before the European Court of Human Rights
M. Cherif Bassiouni, professor
of law at DePaul University; president of DePaul's International
Human Rights Law Institute; served as chairman of the U.N. Commission
to Investigate International Humanitarian Law Violations in the
former Yugoslavia |
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Nicaragua - Alternative Energy
Susan Kinne, professor and director
of alternative energy at National Engineering University in Nicaragua,
and coordinator of Grupo Fenix
Richard Komp,
president of Maine Solar Energy Association and president of SunWatt,
a solar energy corporation that helps out with Grupo Fenix
Grupo
Fenix Project Website |
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July 2, 2001 |
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Decommissioning Deadlock in Northern Ireland
Ray O'Hanlon, Senior Editor of the Irish Echo
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Guatemala - Missing
Child War Victims
Adrianna Portillo Bartow, Where are the Children Project
Marisabel Escobar, head of Guatemala office of the Where are the
Children Project (translated by Adrianna Bartow) |
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Where are the Children
website
www.watchproject.org
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Lesser Known World
of Ingmar Bergman's Theatre
Milos Stehlik takes a look at Bergman's theatrical production The
Ghost Sonata |
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