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Simon Shaheen and Moe Rock

Simon Shaheen - Musician and Composer
Moe Rock - Pop Musican/Green Wristband for Democracy in Iran Campaign

Host: Basima Farhat

Showtime: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern
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Simon Shaheen dazzles his listeners as he deftly leaps from traditional Arabic sounds to jazz and Western classical styles. His soaring technique, melodic ingenuity, and unparalleled grace have earned him international acclaim as a virtuoso on the ‘oud and violin.

Shaheen is one of the most significant Arab musicians, performers, and composers of his generation. His work incorporates and reflects a legacy of Arabic music, while it forges ahead to new frontiers, embracing many different styles in the process. This unique contribution to the world of arts was recognized in 1994 when Shaheen was honored with the prestigious National Heritage Award at the White House.

In the 1990s he released four albums of his own: Saltanah (Water Lily Acoustics), Turath (CMP), Taqasim (Lyrichord), and Simon Shaheen: The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab (Axiom), while also contributing cuts to producer Bill Laswell’s fusion collective, Hallucination Engine (Island). He has contributed selections to soundtracks for The Sheltering Sky and Malcolm X , among others, and has composed the entire soundtrack for the United Nations-sponsored documentary, For Everyone Everywhere. Broadcast globally in December 1998, this film celebrated the 50 th anniversary of the United Nations Human Rights Charter.

But perhaps his greatest success has come with Blue Flame (ARK21, 2001), where he leads his group, Qantara, on a labyrinthian journey through the world of fusion music to discover the heart of the Middle East. The album has been nominated for eleven Grammy Awards, and the band’s performances have been called “glorious.”

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Dar and Dale Emme

Founders Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program International

Host: Basima Farhat

Showtime: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern
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Dale and Dar Emme founded the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program International in 1994 after losing their youngest son, Michael, age 17 to suicide. The Yellow Ribbon Program is being used throughout the world as a simple, effective tool to save lives. Speaking throughout the US, Canada and Australia, the Emmes’ are helping raise awareness about the epidemic levels of youth suicide and are bringing focus, action, intervention, postvention and coalition building to suicide prevention efforts in many communities. Together they have written and published the story “I’ll Always Be With You” which appeared in the Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul book. They are currently working on a manuscript, “Legacy of the Yellow Mustang” about their travels throughout the world, work with youth who have attempted suicide, and families who have lost loved ones to suicide. Dale and Dar were appointed to the Colorado Governor’s Suicide Prevention Advisory Commission in 1998 and founding members of the National Council for Suicide Prevention.

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Barnet Meltzer, M.D.

Author/The Best Kept Secret to Permanent Weight Loss

Host: Basima Farhat

Showtime: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern
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Barnet Meltzer, M.D., is a pioneer and well-known expert in the field of Preventive Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Clinical Nutrition. Dr. Meltzer owns the distinction of being the first medical doctor to enter the field of Preventive Medicine in Southern California, and is a board certified physician and surgeon with over 30 years of clinical experience as a practicing primary care physician. As the founder and Director of the Meltzer Wellness Institute (MWI), Dr. Meltzer is a leading authority in health, wellness, and metabolic nutrition. He has a well-deserved reputation as Southern California’s #1 Wellness, Weight Loss, and Energy Coach.

Dr. Meltzer’s credentials include graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (the first Ivy League medical school). Upon graduating from medical school, Dr. Meltzer completed his internship at UCLA and served two years of surgical residency at the University of California Medical Center in San Diego (UCSD).

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Timothy Schwartz

Author/Travesty In Haiti

Host: Basima Farhat

Showtime: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern
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ABOUT Travesty In Haiti: TRAVESTY is an anthropologist’s personal story of working with foreign aid agencies and discovering that fraud, greed, corruption, apathy, and political agendas permeate the industry.

It is a story of failed agricultural, health and credit projects; violent struggles for control over foreign aid; corrupt orphanage owners, pastors, and missionaries; the nepotistic manipulation of research funds; economically counterproductive food aid distribution programs that undermine the Haitian agricultural economy; disastrous social engineering by foreign governments, international financial and development organizations–such as the World Bank and USAID– and the multinational corporate charities that have sprung up in their service, CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision, and the dozens of other massive charities that have programs spread across the globe, moving in response not only to disasters and need, but political agendas and economic opportunity.

TRAVESTY also chronicles the lives of Haitians and describes how political disillusionment sometimes ignites explosive mob rage among peasants frustrated with the foreign aid organizations, governments and international agencies that fund them. TRAVESTY recounts how some Haitians use whatever means possible try to better their living standards, most recently drug trafficking, and in doing so explains why at the service of international narcotraffickers and Haitian money laundering elites, Haiti has become a failed State. TRAVESTY reads like a novel. It takes the reader from the bowels of foreign aid in the field; to the posh and orderly urban headquarters of charities such as CARE International; to the cold, distant heights of Capitol Hill policy planners.

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Barbara Kasoff

Barbara Kasoff - President/Women Impacting Public Policy

Host: Basima Farhat

Showtime: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern
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Barbara Kasoff
Barbara Kasoff is the President and CEO, and Co-Founder, of Women Impacting Public Policy, Inc., a non-profit, bi-partisan public policy advocacy organization with over half a million members including 49 business organization, educating and advocating on economic issues for women in business.

Other companies that she has owned and managed, are Voice-Tel of Michigan, the fourth largest voice messaging company in the United States, Voice-Tel of Central Michigan, and Voice Response Corporation, a telemarketing and database marketing company. Barbara also opened and developed Voice-Tel of Australia, a company with 11 offices throughout Australia and New Zealand for the Voice-Tel franchisor. With her experience, Barbara has been able to incorporate her skills in management, her strengths in communications, and her considerable energies in powering her fledgling companies to secure a solid foothold in the rapidly expanding world of communications. Prior to becoming a business owner, Barbara previously served as Vice President of Customer Service and Senior Vice President of Research and Software Development for World Computer Corporation in Michigan for ten years where her team designed and installed new financial services software for credit unions. Altogether, she has been a business owner and corporate executive for 20 years, and has successfully sold 3 of her four companies.

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Scott Anderson

Nationally Certified Motorcycle Safety Instructor

Host: Basima Farhat

Showtime: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern
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Scott Anderson is a Nationally Certified Motorcycle Safety Instructor, Honor graduate of Motorcycle Mechanics Institute, former U.S. MARINE, and member of the motorcycling community for 42 years.

Born the 4th of 5 children to a middle class family in the Detroit suburbs Scott started on 2 wheels at the age of 5. Mini bikes to dirt bikes, dirt bikes to street bikes, not unlike many motorcyclists today. Over time Scott has seen the good, bad, and ugly that motorcycling has to offer. Scott is a recovering cross-addicted alcoholic that has been straight & sober for 23 years. An active member in his community he now teaches people how to, safely, enjoy motorcycling. He’s also very active in his community. Working with The Community Coalition to help young people learn positive alternatives to the life style that once consumed his own life.

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Dr. Clovis Maksoud

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - Listen to the Show!
 

Ambassador Clovis Maksoud is presently Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for the Global South at American University in Washington, DC.

A Lebanese national, Dr. Maksoud was the Chief Representative of the League of Arab States in India from 1961-1966. From 1967-1979, he served as the Senior Editor of Al-Ahram and then Chief Editor of Al-Nahar Weekly. Ambassador Maksoud was appointed as the League of Arab States’ Chief Representative to the United States and the United Nations on September 1, 1979. On August 15, 1990, he submitted his resignation from the League in the aftermath of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

A lawyer, journalist and diplomat, Dr. Maksoud served as the Arab League Ambassador to India and South-East Asia from 1961-1966. Dr. Maksoud is the author of several articles and books on the Middle East and the global South, among them: “The Meaning of Non-Alignment,” “The Crisis of the Arab Left,” “Reflections on Afro-Asianism,” and “The Arab Image.”

Clovis Maksoud was the Chairperson and Convener of many conferences on environment and development, human rights, population, and disarmament. Born on December 17, 1928, Dr. Maksoud graduated from The American University of Beirut, went on to receive his J.D. from the George Washington University in Washington, DC and did post-graduate studies at Oxford University in Britain.

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Russell Means

Native American Actor/Activist

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - Listen to the Show!
 

Russell Means has lived a life like few others in this century - revered for his selfless accomplishments and remarkable bravery. He was born into a society and guided by way of life that gently denies the self in order to promote the survival and betterment of family and community. His culture is driven by tradition, which at once links the past to the present.

The L.A. Times has called him the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. His indomitable sense of pride and leadership has become embedded in our national character. Today, his path has brought him to Hollywood, thus enabling him to use different means to communicate his vital truths. Through the power of media, his vision is to create peaceful and positive images celebrating the magic and mystery of his American Indian heritage. In contemplating the fundamental issues about the world in which we live, he is committed to educating all people about our most crucial battle - the preservation of the earth.

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George and Karen Eby

Cure for the Common Cold

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - Archive Available Shortly
 

Three decades ago, George Eby’s daughter, Karen, proved to be the unknowing test subject of a remarkable discovery - the cure for the Common Cold. Only 3 years old, Karen had a horrible cold, with a swollen throat which made swallowing difficult. At the time, Karen was taking zinc for treatment for Leukemia (another miraculous story in itself) and being unable to swallow the pill, her father told her she should just let it dissolve in her mouth, which she did. Several hours later, after a nap, young Karen felt so well that she was outside playing.

Thus began George Eby’s quest and decades of research along with professional scientists and doctors into the Zinc cure for the common cold.

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Writings and Poetry by Basima Farhat

Poet and Peace Activist

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - Listen to the Show
 

Basima Farhat - host of the The People Speak is awell known poet and peace activist in the Michigan area. She has been invited by numerous organizations for poetry readings within the cultural community, most recently reading in the same venue as Tony Award winning poet Suhair Hamad, sponsored by the Palestine Office a grassroots peace organization that has hosted many political leaders, such as Dr Mustafa Barghouti, Micheal Tarazi, Allison Weir.

Tonight she shares her talent as a writer and poet with our audience who are also invited to join and share their own writing and poetry during this special show.
 
 
 

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Mike Delaney

Producer ‘9/11 Missing Links’

Host: Charles Giuliani

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Listen to the Show
 

Now you will discover the definitive truth about 9/11 and learn why even the most popular movies on the subject have failed to address the evidence exhaustively presented in this video. The facts will make it abundantly clear that the so-called 9/11 “Truth” movement has been infiltrated and is ultimately controlled by the same criminal group who masterminded the attacks.
 
 

As they say, ‘if you want to control the dissent you lead the dissent.’ Utilizing evidence from the FBI, CIA, NSA, US Armed Forces Intelligence sectors, Foreign Intelligence organizations, local law enforcement agencies and independent investigators, Missing Links goes where no other 9/11 video has dared.

 
 
 

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Ralph Nader

Consumer Advocate/Author ‘Only The Super-rich Can Save Us!’

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - Listen to the Show!

ralph_naderRalph Nader is American’s most renowned and effective crusader for the rights of consumers and the general public, a role that has repeatedly brought him into conflict with both business and government.

Ralph Nader was born in Winsted, Connecticut to Nathra and Rose Nader, Lebanese immigrants who operated a restaurant and bakery. Nader’s dream of becoming a “people’s lawyer” was instilled in him in adolescence by his parents, who in noisy free-for-alls, conducted family seminars on the duties of citizenship in a democracy. Mark Green, a former Nader associate, said that “When (the Naders) sat around the table growing up, it was like the Kennedys. Except that the subject was not power but justice.”

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Ellen Brown

Author/Lawyer/Economic Analyst

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - Listen to the Show!
 

Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown’s eleven books include the bestselling Nature’s Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.

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Moe Rock & Rebecca Vilkomerson

Moe Rock - Pop Musician

Rebecca Vilkomerson - Director/Jewish Voice For Peace

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - Listen to the Show!
 

MOE ROCK - Persian American Pop musician whose song Ah-low has been downloaded over 1/2 million times by Iranians who have used it as an anthem of protest.

REBECCA VILKOMERSON - New Director of Jewish Voice for Peace speaks about her organization and personal philosophy and politics regarding Israel/Palestine.

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Michael Anthony

Iraq Vet/Author

Host: Samantha Legend

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - Listen to the Show!
 

Michael Anthony (MA) seemed destined to serve from the day he was born. The youngest of seven children, Michael has four brothers and two sisters, all but one of whom joined the military. His father and two grandfathers were also in the Military.

After graduating high school, he joined the Army Reserves, went through basic training, and then went through job training to become an Operating Room Medic. One year later he returned home and enrolled in college to begin his first semester. Almost immediately upon finishing his first semester he was shipped off to Wisconsin to train for four months before he would leave and spend his next year in Iraq. Michael is now back in the States and working toward a Bachelor’s Degree in creative writing.

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