Dahr Jamail LIVE from Iraq on 'This is Hell!' -- Sat 10am EST [View All]

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This week's guests include:

* Village Voice political writer Rick Perlstein (http://www.villagevoice.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=%22rick+perlstein%22&ul=villagevoice.com&cmd=search&x=19&y=10). Rick's most recent work for the Voice includes a story on Bush's second term entitled "The Eve of Destruction" (http://www.villagevoice.com/news/index.php?issue=0503&page=perlstein&id=60130). And Rick has a new piece in The Nation on the right-leaning wing of the Democratic Party, the Democratic Leadership Council, called "Party Cannibals"
(http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050207&s=perlstein). Rick is the author of "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus," and is at work on a book about Richard Nixon and the 1960s.

* journalist Dahr Jamail (http://dahrjamailiraq.com/) will give us a live report from Iraq on the day before the elections

* economist Dean Baker co-author, with Mark Weisbrot, of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (University of Chicago Press). Dean writes the Economic Reporting Review, a weekly examination of the economic reporting in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and periodic analyses of the Federal Government's economic data on prices, employment, corporate profits, and the GDP. Dean is currently Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (http://www.cepr.net).


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