The News Dissector

News Dissector - 01/16/14

Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and was noted as a co-founder of Reaganomics.[1] He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy.

During the 21st century, Roberts has frequently published in Counterpunch, writing extensively about the effects of the Bush (and laterObama) administrations related to the War on Terror, which he says have destroyed the US Constitution's protections of Americans' civil liberties, such as habeas corpus and due process. He has taken positions different from former Republican allies, opposing the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, and criticizing Israel's policies and actions against the Palestinians.[2']

News Dissector - 01/09/14

David Kairys

Ryan Noah Shapiro

The News Dissector - 01/02/14

News Dissector - 12/19/13

Our guest is Norman Solomon.

The author of several books on U.S. news media, Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org. He said today: “This is a test of journalistic integrity that the Washington Post is currently failing. Full disclosure is the least that readers of the Post’s coverage of the CIA deserve. Yet almost every day, the Post is publishing articles that cover the CIA without any indication that the Post’s sole owner is in business with the CIA to the tune of $600 million, while clearly seeking to expand that business relationship even further.”

 

News Dissector - 12/12/13

As  Nelson Mandela Lies In State

Prexy Nesbitt, Teaches course on Mandela and the Dialectics of Liberation At Columbia College in Chicago,  Leading black community activist on the issues. guide for political tours to Southern Africa

 

Discussion of the role played by musicians in the freedom struggle

We will play clip above from Here and Now featuring Me and Steven Van Zandt

 

News Dissector - 11/21/13

DS intro to issue of banking--JP Morgam fine etc

Cathy O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was postdoc at the MIT math department, and a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then chucked it and switched over to the private sector. She worked as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the middle of the credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses risk for the holdings of hedge funds and banks. She is currently doing stuff with data at Johnson Research Labs, writes a blog at mathbabe.org, and is involved with Occupy Wall Street's Alternative Banking group.

What John Connally told Celente about JFK assassination and America's future

KINGSTON, NY, 19 November 2013—John Connally had asked Gerald Celente to
meet him for lunch in Dallas on October 25, 1992. He wanted to discuss
the upcoming presidential election and Celente’s prescient forecast in
/Trend Tracking/ (John Wiley, 1989) identifying Ross Perot as a
political maverick that could lead a third party movement.Following lunch at the Anatole Hotel, Celente, John Connally, his wife
Nellie and four others piled into a limousine and drove to the Dallas
Book Depository. It was Connally's and his wife's first visit back to
the site since the assassination. They didn’t even attend the dedication
ceremony when the Book Depository was turned into a museum on
Presidents' Day, 1989.

News Dissector - 11/14/13

 

Donna Katzin, CEO Shared Interest---Donna's group works with development projects in post apartheid South Africa---Her Group is Sponsoring a screening of Mandela Long Walk to Freedom on Monday May 18th at the AMC Lincoln Square---we will talk about her work in post Mandela South Afrca

Interview with Dr. William Beeman,  IRAN expert who has been closely monitoring negotiations with the US.

 

News Dissector - 11/07/13

Themes nuclear disaster and 911

Harvey Wasserman. veteran anti-nukes activist.

Filmmaker Ray Nowosielski in studio. He produced Press For Truth, the story of what happened to the 911 Commission and is being involved in an ongoing probe into a 911 related story.

 

News Dissector - 10/31/13

Special guest; Colleen Rowley

She just visited Snowden in Russia

 

Shortly after becoming a Special Agent with the FBI, Rowley was assigned to the Omaha, Nebraska and Jackson, Mississippi Divisions. Beginning in 1984, she spent six years working in the New York Office on investigations involving organized crime. She also served in the U.S. embassy in Paris and the consulate in Montreal. In 1990, she was assigned to the FBI's Minneapolis office, where she became the chief legal adviser.[citation needed]

After the September 11, 2001, attacks, Rowley wrote a paper for FBI Director Robert Mueller documenting how FBI HQ personnel in Washington, D.C., had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis, Minnesota Field Office regarding its investigation of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui had been suspected of being involved in preparations for a suicide-hijacking similar to the December 1994 "Eiffel Tower" hijacking of Air France 8969. Failures identified by Rowley may have left the U.S. vulnerable to the September 11, 2001, attacks. Rowley was one of many agents frustrated by the events that led up to the attacks, writing:

During the early aftermath of September 11th, when I happened to be recounting the pre–September 11th events concerning the Moussaoui investigation to other FBI personnel in other divisions or in FBIHQ, almost everyone's first question was "Why?--Why would an FBI agent(s) deliberately sabotage a case? (I know I shouldn't be flippant about this, but jokes were actually made that the key FBI HQ personnel had to be spies or moles, like (Robert Hanssen), who were actually working for Osama Bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis's effort.) [2][3]

Rowley testified in front of the Senate and for the 9/11 Commission about the FBI's internal organization and mishandling of information related to the September 11, 2001, attacks. She jointly held the TIME"Person of the Year" award in 2002 with two other women credited as whistleblowers:Sherron

Telecommunications Policy--a corporate guy was just named to head the FCC Ev Ehrlich

President of ESC Company, a DC-based economics and business consulting firm that serves (among others) Fortune 500 firms, non-profits in areas such as infrastructure and climate change, and the baseball and hockey players unions.  Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs (Clinton, under Secretaries Brown, Kantor, and Daley), Vice-President for Strategic Planning and Chief Economist, Unisys Corporation, Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office, one-time legislative Assistant to Congressman John Conyers, Jr., author of two novels published by Warner Books, Big Government and Grant Speaks.  Ph.D. University of Michigan, BA Stony Brook University, educated by New York City public schools.

Recent works include:

· White Paper – This is the big one – regarding a progressive broadband agenda

· Wall Street Journal

· Oakland Tribune

· Fresno Bee

· Seattle Times

Net Neutrality

• Net Neutrality: "principle that advocates all internet traffic to be treated equally."

• The Case: The case between Verizon and the Federal Communications Commission concerns the FCC's 2011 open Internet rules requiring Internet providers to treat all Web traffic as the same in a manner that gives consumers equal access to all lawful content. Verizon has argued such network-neutrality rules are "arbitrary and capricious" and violate the company's freedom of speech. Early signs suggest two members of the court's three-judge panel are sympathetic to Verizon's case. Oral arguments were held on September 9. A decision – either to uphold or overturn the doctrine – is expected by year’s end.

News Dissector - 10/24/13

Media Censorship Today

Mickey Huff. editor of PROJECT CENSORED, editor of CENSORED 2014 (Seven Stories Press)

Robert Scheer, author and journalist, editor of Truth Dig, Former Editor of The Los Angeles Times and Rampart Magazine