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2001 Audio On-Demand & Program Descriptions
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March 2001

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March 30, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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  Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
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Richard Sobel, Political Scientist at Harvard University, author of The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam: Constraining the Colossus
Audio Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, excerpts from speech to UN security council last year.
Steven Kull, director of the Center on Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, co-author of Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism. Kull is a political psychologist specializing in the study of public and elite attitudes on public policy issues.
  More information is available from www.vox-populi.org
Audio Remembering Vittorio Gassman
Film Commentary from Milos Stehlik
 
March 29, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
Audio US-Mexico Immigration Relations
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University’s Center for International Human Rights
 
March 28, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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  First Person Views from Past Worldviews
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AIDS in Africa
Senator Richard Durbin
Audio Personal Diplomacy In The Mid-East Peace Process
Ambassador Terje Roed Larsen
Audio Northern Ireland Peace Process
John Hume, leader of N. Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour Party, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize
Audio Sweatshops in Nicaragua for American Department Stores
Gladys del Carmen Manzanarez, former Chentex (Taiwanese-owned garment factory) worker/organizer
Audio My Lai Massacre Hero
Hugh Thompson, Vietnam Veteran
 
March 27, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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The Politics of Large Dams Projects
A View from the Displaced
Arundhati Roy, anti-dams activist, author of the Cost of Living, as well as the Booker Prize winning book--The God of Small Things
Audio Dams Update: World Bank Snubs World Commission on Dams Recommendations
Peter Bosshard, Berne Declaration
Audio World Bank Response
John Briscoe, Senior Water Adviser, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network (World Bank’s senior water professional and spokesperson on water issues)
 
March 26, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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  Looking Plan Colombia in the Mouth: Politicians Tour Colombia
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Perspective One: Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
Audio Perspective Two: Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA)
 
March 23, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Brazil: Landless Workers Movement
Wanusa Santos, member of the national coordination team of the Landless Workers Movement (known by its Portugese acronym MST) Tim Lohrentz, interpreter. Information available at www.mstbrazil.org
Audio Milos’ Bizarre World of Foreign Film Oscar Nominations
When the worlds of the mainstream American film industry and foreign cinema collide, a strange realm is created. This week, Facets Multimedia’s Milos Stehlik explores that bizarre place, and how the best foreign film category for the Oscars fits within it.
 
March 22, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
  Perspectives on US-China Relations
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Shelly Rigger, Associate Professor of Political Science at Davidson College, author of Politics in Taiwan
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Dali Yang, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, Director of the Committee for International Relations
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Frank Gaffney, Director of the Center for Security Policy
 
March 21, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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No Gun Ri
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University Center for International Human Rights looks at the alleged American killing of Korean civilians at No Gun Ri during the Korean War
Audio Environmental Conditions in Nicaragua
Scott Baker Hernandez, Environmental Coordinator for Nicaraguan Network
More information at www.infoshop.org/nicanet
 
March 20, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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  Perspectives on US-Israel Relations
  Yossi Alpher, Israeli strategic analyst, was a senior advisor to former Prime Minister Ehud Barak during the Camp David talks of July 2000
  Khalid Amayreh, journalist in Hebron, writes for a number of papers and journals in Europe and the Arab World
  Herb Zweibon, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel
 
March 19, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Argentina
Edward Gibson, Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University
Audio Serbia
Aleksandar Popovic, Vice-president of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS)
 
March 16, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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India: Tehelka.com Website Reveals Corruption in Ruling Party
Zafar Agha, the political editor of Tehelka.com
Audio Putting a Human or Statuesque Face on Humanitarian Disasters
Facets Multimedia’s Milos Stehlik takes a look at what it takes for human suffering to get noticed and how these techniques play out in film.
Audio East Asian Security: US missile sales to Taiwan and China’s reaction
Bruce Cummings, Professor of History at University of Chicago, currently at the Center for Advanced Studies at Stanford
Audio Balkans Update
William Stuebner, Vice President of Programs and Studies at the United Nations Association (UNA-USA)
 
March 15, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
Audio Fiji Coup Ruled Illegal… Straightening Out Legal and Leadership Confusion
John Davies, Professor and head of the Economics Department at Acadia University in Nova Scotia Canada
 
March 14, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Uganda's Elections: What Does Mouseveni's Victory Mean?
Ibrahim Wan, Dean of Studies at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
More information available at www.africacenter.org
Audio Sharon as War Criminal?
Doug Cassel, Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
  Perspectives on US-Korean Relations
Audio James Lilly, Director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
Audio Kongdan "Katy" Oh, Nonresident senior fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
 
March 13, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Japan: Dubious Future for Economy and Prime Minister?
Rick Katz, Senior Editor of The Oriental Economist
Audio Britain’s Worldview
Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s Ambassador to the US
Audio Mobile Phonetics
Stephen Beard, Radio Deutschewelle
 
March 12, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Mexico: Chiapas Delegation Enters Mexico City
Frank Contreras, Mexico City journalist, contributor to The World, Latino USA
Audio India’s Yamuna River: Cultural complications to fighting water pollution
Liesbeth de Bakker, Radio Netherlands
 
March 9, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Natural Capitalism
Amory Lovins, author of Natural Capitalism
Audio Super 8 Stories -Emir Kusturica
Facets Multimedia's Milos Stehlik reflects on the dubious place Kusturica holds in the film world, and how he ended up there
 
March 8, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine
Audio Cuba’s Legal System
Debra Evenson, former DePaul University Law professor, author of “Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba”
 
March 7, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Saving Kurdish
Michael Chyet teaches Kurdish and formerly worked with Voice of America's Kurdish language broadcasts
The Washington Kurdish Institute has additional information on Kurdish language and culture.
Audio Basques in Nevada? Preserving Diaspora Language and Culture
Joseba Zulaika, Director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno
Audio Kissenger: Moral, not Legal Criminal
Doug Cassel, Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law
 
March 6, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Indigenous Languages under Threat
Hugh Brody, anthropologist and filmmaker, has lived with the San of the Southern Kalahari and hunter-gatherer groups in the Arctic and Subarctic, guest edited an edition of the Index on Censorship devoted to indigenous peoples called Tribes: Battle for Land and Langauge. The Index on Censorship can be found at www.indexoncensorship.org
Audio North African Berbers Fight Arabization
Marvin Mikesell, Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago
 
March 5, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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Moving Towards a World Language?
Jerrold Sadock, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, member and former chair of the Linguistic Society of America's committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation
Audio Language Planning: Icelandic language preservation efforts
Ari Pall Kristinsson, director of the Icelandic Language Institute
 
March 2, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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South Korea and Missile Defense
Bruce Cummings, Professor of History at the University of Chicago, currently at the Center for Advanced Studies
Audio Chunhyang
Facets Multimedia's Milos Stehlik looks at the film by the prolific Korean filmmaker Im Kwon-taek
Chunhyang is playing at the Three Penny in Chicago, and at the Century 12 and CineArts 6 in Evanston
Audio Taleban's Cultural Cleansing of Hazara and Buddhist Treasures
Rob Schultheis, writer and journalist, currently working on an article on the Bamiyan statues for the Buddhist publication Tricyles
More information at hazara.net
Audio Gaelic Language Nightclub Opens in Dublin
Louise Williams, Radio Netherlands
 
March 1, 2001
hosted by Jerome McDonnell
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International News of the Week
Russ Watson, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine

Audio Turkey's Economic Fiasco
Bulent Aliriza, Director of the Turkish Studies program at the Center for Strategic International Studies
Audio Indonesia: Turmoil in Borneo
Jeffrey Winters, Professor of Political Economy at Northwestern University

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