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Darfur: Inside the Crisis
Greg Palast on His New Book “Armed Madhouse : Who's
Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme
to Steal '08…”
Darfur: Inside the Crisis
Top officials from two of Sudan’s main rebel groups
and journalist Tina Susman of Newsday discuss the situation
in Darfur and the new peace agreement. Abdullahi Eltom of
the Justice Equality Movement discusses why he opposed the
peace agreement and Adam El Nor Mohammad from Sudan Liberation
Movement on why he supported the agreement. [includes rush
transcript]
It’s been three years and three months since the war
erupted in Darfur, which is an isolated region in Western
Sudan. As many as 400,000 people have died in the region and
as many as three million people have been left homeless. The
United Nations has labeled the conflict one of the worst humanitarian
crises in the world. Congress and President Bush have declared
the Darfur killings to be genocide. On May 5th the Sudan government
and only one of three rebel groups signed a U.S-brokered peace
agreement but experts say the plan is rife with problems and
it is unclear if the plan will be effective at all. The cease-fire
officially went into effect last Monday. The African Union,
which brokered the deal held a meeting today of its Peace
and Security Council in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa
to try to get the other two rebel groups to sign the agreement.
- Tina Susman, Newsday correspondent who recently spent
5 weeks in the region looking at the devastation caused
by the war. Her series of reports titled, “Darfur:
Inside the Crisis” began running in Newsday on
Sunday.
- Adam El Nor Mohammad, Secretary of Public Service for
the Sudan Liberation Movement, known as the SLM. The SLM
is split into two factions – one of which signed a
May 5th peace accord and one which rejected the deal.
- Abdullahi Eltom, senior Justice and Equality Movement
member in charge of strategic planning and training. He
participated in the most recent peace talks in Abuja. JEM
is one of the main rebel groups that opposed the peace deal.
Greg Palast on His New Book “Armed Madhouse
: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The
Scheme to Steal '08…”
Investigative journalist Greg Palast joins us in the Firehouse
Studio to discuss the follow-up to his best-selling book “The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy.” [includes rush
transcript]
Telecom giant Verizon has been sued for giving the National
Security Agency the phone records of millions of Americans.
The lawsuit was filed on Saturday just days after USA Today
reported Verizon, Bell South and AT&T handed over millions
of phone call records to help the government build the world’s
largest database.
While the NSA spy story continues to make headline news,
BBC Investigative reporter Greg Palast says that the corporate
media is missing the real story.
He writes "The snooping into your phone bill is just
the snout of the pig of a strange, lucrative link-up between
the Administration’s Homeland Security spy network and
private companies operating beyond the reach of the laws meant
to protect us from our government. You can call it the privatization
of the FBI -- though it is better described as the creation
of a private KGB.
"Worried about Dick Cheney listening in Sunday on your
call to Mom? That ain’t nothing. You should be more
concerned that they are linking this info to your medical
records, your bill purchases and your entire personal profile
including, not incidentally, your voting registration."
- Greg Palast,
investigative reporter with the BBC and author of the books
"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and "Democracy
and Regulation." His latest book is "Armed Madhouse:
Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats, Bush Sinks,
The Scheme to Steal "08, No Child’s Behind Left,
and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War."
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