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2016 Program Archive
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| Reem Khalifa, Senior Editor - Diplomatic Affairs for Dar Al Wassat, Bahrain's independent newspaper, talks about the situation there. |
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| Georgetown University professor C. Christine Fair discusses the situation in Pakistan as Raymond Davis continues to be held in the shootings of two Pakistanis. Read her Foreign Policy article, "Diplomatic Duplicity," here. |
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| Frances Kissling, feminist activist, former president of Catholics for a Free Choice, and bioethicist, talks with Ian on International Women's Day. |
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| Ian Masters speaks with Libyan born humanitarian Omar Turbi on the conflicts currently taking place in Libya. Turbi promotes democracy and dialogue in the Arab world and Arab-American community. |
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| Micah Sifry discusses his new book, Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency. He is an expert on issue related to technology and politics. His new book puts WikiLeaks into a broader perspective. |
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William K. Black, who was responsible for putting people in jail after the S & L debacle, talks with Ian Masters about the Academy Award winning movie, Inside Job. |
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Bill Leuders, news editor of Isthmus, Madison, Wisconsin's alternative weekly, discusses the call that pranked Governor Scott Walker and analyzes the right-wing Republican agenda for both Wisconsin and the entire nation. |
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Dirk Vandewalle, Dartmouth professor and author of A History of Modern Libya, discusses the situation in Libya. |
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Dani Rodrik, professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, talks about his new book, The Globalization Paradox. |
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