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Rami Kashou

Fashion Designer

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

The son of the former Miss Jordan, Rami Kashou was born in Jerusalem in 1976 and raised in the West Bank city of Ramallah. His talent for design carried him through the challenges of a childhood interrupted by turmoil. “I grew up under military occupation. I used to sketch to escape the harsh reality and in an ugly situation I would create beauty.” Kashou remembers telling his mother and grandmother what to wear from the time he was five years old.

By age nine, he had started sketching designs for the women in his Ramallah neighborhood. “Women from the neighborhood would come to our house to drink coffee and I would show them my new designs. They would bring their fabric and I would design based on the fabric and then accompany them to the local seamstress and she would make the dresses.”

Upon arriving in the U.S. in 1996, Kashou worked in retail for several years. This eventually led him to a buying and merchandising position at a well-known boutique in Los Angeles. After a stint of traveling to Europe as a buyer, Kashou bit the bullet and purchased two sewing machines. He vigorously studied pattern making from the local vintage boutiques. “I would buy a piece and take it apart and inspect it, then I would learn.” Kashou said. After three years of self-education, he began creating what would later be known as the “One of a Kind” collection that was picked up by various notable Los Angeles boutiques.

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Ellen Brown

Author/Chairman and President of The Public Banking Institute

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

Ellen Brown, J.D., developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. She is the author of 11 books, and will be releasing another in 2011 focused on public banking. In Web of Debt, her most recent book, she traces the history and evolution of the current private banking system. She shows how it has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Ellen has written nearly 100 articles on this subject since Web of Debt was first published, and is the inspiration and thought leader behind the Public Banking Institute, where she serves as Chairman and President. She has degrees from UC Berkeley and UCLA School of Law.

About “WEB OF DEBT”
This book exposes important, often obscured truths about our money system and our economic past and future. Our money is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been “privatized,” or taken over by a private money cartel. It is all done by sleight of hand, concealed by economic double-speak. “Web of Debt” unravels the deception and presents a crystal clear picture of the financial abyss towards which we are heading, pointing out all the signposts. Then it explores a workable alternative, one that was tested in colonial America and is grounded in the best of American economic thought, including the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. If you care about financial security, your own or the nation’s, you should read this book.

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William Thorpe and Robert Wheeler

William Thorpe: Son of Jim Thorpe
Robert Wheeler: Author of Jim Thorpe: World’s Greatest Athlete

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

Born in 1888 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a Sac and Fox Indian. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the nation’s best college teams-Army, Navy, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. In 1912 he participated in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, winning both the decathlon and pentathlon. It was then that King Gustav V of Sweden dubbed him “the world’s greatest athlete.”

In 1913, strict rules regarding amateurism were in effect for athletes participating in the Olympics. Athletes who received money prizes for competitions, were sports teachers, or had competed previously against professionals, were not considered amateurs and were barred from competition.

Thorpe’s Medals and record were stripped by the IOC after they decided he had played baseball during 1909 and 1910 earning money as a college student. The IOC declared that he was a professional although protests leading to this disqualification came 6 months after the 30-day rule for such allowable contesting.

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Steven Jones Ph.D

Physicist

Host: Charles Giuliani

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

Steven Earl Jones is an American physicist. For most of his career, Jones was known mainly for his work on muon-catalyzed fusion. In the fall of 2006, amid controversy surrounding his work on the collapse of the World Trade Center, he was relieved of his teaching duties and placed on paid leave from Brigham Young University. On October 20, 2006, he announced his retirement. He holds that the World Trade Center was destroyed by controlled demolition during the September 11 attacks.

On September 22, 2005 Jones presented his views on the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and World Trade Center 7 at a BYU seminar attended by about 60 people. Pointing to the speed and symmetry of the collapses, the characteristics of dust jets, and reports of molten metal in the debris, Jones suggested that the evidence defies the mainstream collapse theory and favors explosive demolition. He called for further scientific investigation to test the controlled demolition hypothesis and the release of all relevant data by the government. Shortly after the seminar, Jones placed a paper “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?” on the Physics department web site.

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Rula Jebreal

Journalist/Screenwriter ‘Miral’

Host: Basima Farhat

Showtime: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

Rula was born in Haifa, Israel in 1973 and then lived with her family in East Jerusalem. She was brought to Dar El-Tifel orphanage at the age of 5 after the death of her mother. She studied here and graduated in 1991. In 1993 she got a scholarship from the Italian government to study medicine. She received a degree in physiotherapy from Bologna University. She went back to school specializing in journalism and political science. She immediately started working for newspapers such as Il Resto del Carlino, Il Giorno e La Nazione and Il Messaggero. Her area of expertise is foreign affairs related to the Arab Israeli conflict and the uprising of Islamic movements.

In 2000, she started working in television where she became the first foreign anchorwoman broadcasting the 8pm news.

In 2004, she started her daily talk show, Ominibus. She interviewed the most important and prestigious personalities from Italy, Palestine, Israel, and Europe. These included: Silvio Berlusconi, ex prime minister, Massimo D’Alema, the president of the Parliament, Lamberto Dini, minister of foreign affairs in France, Bernard Kouchner, Palestinian President, Abu Mazen along with Nobel Prize winner El Baradei.

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Paul Larudee

Director/Global March to Jerusalem North America and Feriha/Media Coordinator

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

Paul Larudee was born to an Iranian Presbyterian minister and his American missionary spouse in 1946 and grew up in the American Midwest. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University and spent 14 years in Arab countries as a contracted U.S. government advisor, Fulbright-Hays exchange lecturer, teacher, training administrator and graduate student.

Paul has visited the Palestinian region many times since 1965, including four times with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement that applies nonviolent principles to resist Israeli human rights violations. Paul was among seven ISM volunteers wounded by Israeli gunfire in April, 2002 in an otherwise nonviolent attempt to help Palestinian families. In 2006, he was held in Israeli detention for two weeks while unsuccessfully appealing a decision to deny him entry. He helped organize nonviolent resistance in Lebanon during the 2006 Israeli invasion. He is one of the founders of the Free Gaza Movement, whose boats, on August 23, 2008, became the first in 41 years to enter Gaza by sea, breaking the Israeli naval blockade. He is also a founder of the Free Palestine Movement, which also seeks to challenge Israel’s blockade and denial of access to all of Palestine by sea, air and land.

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Ann Wright

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

Mary Ann Wright has been a career military woman, a State Department diplomat, and for the past few years an influential spokesperson in the anti-war movement. Ann Wright grew up in Bentonville, Arkansas, and attended the University of Arkansas, where she holds a Master’s and a Law Degree. She also has a Master’s Degree in National Security Affairs from the US Naval War College. In her junior year at the University of Arkansas, she attended a three-week Army training program after meeting with a visiting Army recruiter. That experience helped inform her decision to join the service.

There she would remain for 13 years in active duty, with another 16 years in the Army reserves, retiring as a Colonel. Part of her work was special operations in civil affairs, in the event of troop invasions into countries like Iraq. Ann helped to develop, as she explained, “plans about how you interact with the civilian population, how you protect the facilities — sewage, water, electrical grids, libraries…It’s our obligation under the law of land warfare.” Ann requested a release from active duty from the Army and joined the State Department. For the next 16 years, she served as a foreign diplomat in countries such as Nicaragua, Somalia, Uzbekistan, and Sierra Leone. She was on the team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan in December, 2001, after the fall of the Taliban to US forces.

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Dr. Gudrun Björk

Psychoanalyst Gothenburg Sweden

Host: Jeannette LaFeve

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

Personal Bio: I obtained a license as a psychoanalyst in 1988. Since then, I have mostly worked with young adults suffering from psychosis or personality disorders. I have also worked with refugees (in Sweden and Britain) who suffer from PTSD and other anxiety disorders, depression or psychosis after having been exposed to wars, terror and torture.

I worked for MSF – Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Hebron, Palesine 2010 to May 2011 in a mental heath project. The target population for the project are people who have been traumatized by the conflict. The objective is to offer psychotherapy or psychological support. There were also social and medical components in the project. In addition to the Hebron project, MSF has mental health projects also in Gaza and Nabalus.

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Basima Farhat

Radio host/Writer/Palestinian-American Activist

Host: Jeannette LaFeve

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

Basima Farhat is a writer, a poet and as a master healer in the art of Reiki. She teaches meditative practice in the area as a spiritual counselor. Her Corporate workshop S.O.S., Stop Ongoing Stress deals with creative change in high-pressure work areas and she is currently working on a number of projects in the field of human potential development. Basima has recently completed a screenplay call the Tatesville Casket Company whose subject matter deals with the death and dying process.

A well know poet and peace activist in the Michigan area, Basima 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, and Allison Weir.

This Summer 2011, Basima journeyed to Washington DC to lobby on behalf of Palestine. Meeting such notables as Ralph Nader, and several congress members she will share her experiences of this visit and a lifetime of efforts publicizing and working on behalf of the rights of the Palestinian people.

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Laura Wells

Green Party Candidate for Governor of California

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

With a broad background in finance, management, and political innovation, Laura Wells is ready to take the lead in California to go beyond the partisan deadlocks and interest-group politics of Sacramento that have divided us socially and ruined us economically.

Laura aims to solve California’s problems without resorting to the tradition of failed politics of desperation, demagoguery, gamesmanship, or fear that have landed us where we are now. Laura Wells makes positive changes happen by building on strengths and positive vision, not by manipulating weaknesses or using evasive rhetoric to disguise reality or avoid painful decisions.

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Ward Churchill

American Indian Scholar and Activist

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

A prolific American Indian scholar/activist, Ward Churchill is a founding member of the Rainbow Council of Elders, and longtime member of the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. In addition to his numerous works on indigenous history, he has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and the repression of political dissent, including the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Five of his more than 20 books have received human rights awards.

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Paul Larudee, Joe Meadors, Jimbo Simmons, and Sister Pat Chaffee

American Delegates 2011 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza

Host: Jeannette LaFeve

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

PAUL LARUDEE was born to an Iranian Presbyterian minister and his American missionary spouse in 1946 and grew up in the American Midwest. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University and spent 14 years in Arab countries as a contracted U.S. government advisor, Fulbright-Hays exchange lecturer, teacher, training administrator and graduate student.

Paul has visited the Palestinian region many times since 1965, including four times with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement that applies nonviolent principles to resist Israeli human rights violations. Paul was among seven ISM volunteers wounded by Israeli gunfire in April, 2002 in an otherwise nonviolent attempt to help Palestinian families. In 2006, he was held in Israeli detention for two weeks while unsuccessfully appealing a decision to deny him entry. He helped organize nonviolent resistance in Lebanon during the 2006 Israeli invasion. He is one of the founders of the Free Gaza Movement, whose boats, on August 23, 2008, became the first in 41 years to enter Gaza by sea, breaking the Israeli naval blockade. He is also a founder of the Free Palestine Movement, which also seeks to challenge Israel’s blockade and denial of access to all of Palestine by sea, air and land.

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Jesse Ventura

Author of 63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You To Read

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

There’s the Freedom of Information Act, and then there’s Ventura’s way.

The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non- partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing original government data, Ventura discusses what it really means and how regular Americans can stop criminal behavior at the top levels of government and in the media.

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Ariel Vegosen

Move Over Aipac

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

Ariel Vegosen is a conflict resolution specialist, professional dialogue facilitator, ropes course instructor, youth educator, peace activist, media wizard, organic therapist,and world traveler. Some of her most inspirational work includes Seeds of Peace, Code Pink Women for Peace, and the political theater piece An Olive on the Seder Plate about Jewish people wrestling with the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. She currently works for Mintwood Media, a progressive PR collective serving the peace movement, organic and Fair Trade farmer movement, and other social justice organizations. Ariel has lead numerous interfaith dialogue based programs, organized and facilitated numerous programs for inner-city and at-risk youth, including facilitation of 15 teenagers on a social justice program in Uganda. Ariel enjoys working in organic gardens, teaching environmental education to youth, learning wilderness skills, performing poetry, motion theater, and aerial dance. She strives to end war, violence, and patriarchy. Ariel received her BA from the University of Maryland and a certificate in experiential education from the Brandeis-Bardin Institute.

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Susan Lindauer

Author/Whistleblower

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
 

As a U.S. Intelligence Asset, Susan Lindauer covered anti-terrorism at the Iraqi Embassy in New York from 1996 up to the invasion. Independent sources have confirmed that she gave advance warning about the 9/11 attack. She also started talks for the Lockerbie Trial with Libyan diplomats. Shortly after requesting to testify before Congress about successful elements of Pre-War Intelligence, Lindauer became one of the first non-Arab Americans arrested on the Patriot Act as an “Iraqi Agent.” She was accused of warning her second cousin, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Secretary of State Colin Powell that War with Iraq would have catastrophic consequences. Gratis of the Patriot Act, her indictment was loaded with “secret charges” and “secret evidence.” She was subjected to one year in prison on Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas without a trial or hearing, and threatened with indefinite detention and forcible drugging to shut her up. After five years of indictment without a conviction or guilty plea, the Justice Department dismissed all charges five days before President Obama’s inauguration. Lindauer has written a book Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq about her experience.

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