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Interview: Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins is an outspoken atheist, secular humanist, and sceptic, and he is a supporter of the Brights movement.
While Europe is secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the Middle East or Middle America, divides opinion around the world. This work attacks God in various forms, from the sex-obsessed, cruel tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign, but still illogical, Celestial Watchmaker favoured by some Enlightenment thinkers.
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http://temcnally.podOmatic.com/entry/2007-09-13T13_25_17-07_00
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Interview: Michael Pollan, Professor and Author
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Michael Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism.
Pollan is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, a former executive editor for Harper's Magazine, and author of five books: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2008) The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006), The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (2001), A Place of My Ow...
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http://temcnally.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-02-19T17_48_40-08_00
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Interview: Robin Wright, Journalist and Author (Part 2 of 2)
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Robin Wright is an American journalist currently covering U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post, She has reported for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor, and has served as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, and The International Herald Tribune.
Books: "Dreams and Shadows: The Future o...
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http://temcnally.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-03-20T23_27_17-07_00
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Interview: DAHR JAMAIL, Independent Journalist and Author
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DAHR JAMAIL: Book BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE:
DISPATCHES FROM AN UNEMBEDDED JOURNALIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ
In late 2003, Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, DAHR JAMAIL an independent journalist from Anchorage, Alaska went to Iraq to report on the war himself.
His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource. He is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times and many ...
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http://temcnally.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-03-26T12_52_59-07_00
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Interview: KEVIN PHILLIPS. Author
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Aired 04/29/08 KEVIN PHILLIPS, Author," THE POLITICS OF RICH & POOR; AMERICAN THEOCRACY" And his newest - "BAD MONEY: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism."
KEVIN PHILLIPS describes the consequences of our misguided economic policies, our mounting debt, our collapsing housing market, our threatened oil, and the end of American domination of world markets.
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http://temcnally.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-04-30T14_56_57-07_00
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Interview: Robert Bryce, Journalist and Author
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Robert Bryce is a journalist in Austin, Texas and the author of Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron (PublicAffairs, 2002; a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year) and Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate (PublicAffairs, 2004).
Bryce was a reporter for the Austin Chronicle for 12 years, and is now the managing editor of the Energy Tribune.
His most recent book is Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence" (PublicAffairs 2008), wh...
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http://temcnally.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-05-07T15_17_48-07_00
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Interview: Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute
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Aired 05/20/08
Anuradha Mittal (Oakland Institute) http://www.oaklandinstitute.org on the global food crisis.
World food prices rose 39% in the last year. Rice alone rose to a 19-year high in March -- an increase of 50% in two weeks alone -- while the real price of wheat has hit a 28-year high.
Food riots erupted in Egypt, Guinea, Haiti, Indonesia, Mauritania, Mexico, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen. For the 3 billion people in the world who subsist on $2 a day or less, the leap in food prices is a k...
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http://temcnally.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-05-22T08_14_53-07_00
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