Ian Masters KPFK 90.7fm Sunday December 30, 2007

Ian Masters' KPFK 90.7fm Los Angeles Radio Program - 12/30/07

Guests and Program Detail  
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Sunday 12/30/07
11am Pacific Time

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LOUIS VANDENBERG Producer

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BACKGROUND BRIEFING
11am Pacific Time

Ambassador Peter Galbraith  is a former US ambassador to Croatia, is a fellow at the Center For Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. In the 1980s, he documented Iraqi atrocities against the Kurds for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  He was a personal friend of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated earlier this week.  His most recent book is The End of Iraq.

Tariq Ali is a filmmaker, novelist, activist and author.  His critical analysis focuses on Pakistan, the Middle East, neo-colonialism and international affairs.   His books include "Bush in Babylon: Recolonizing Iraq," "The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity" and "Pirates of the Carribean: Axis of Hope."  Tariq Ali's new book, "The Duel: Pakistan on the Flightpath of American Power," will be published in 2008.

Roger Morris served on the senior staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Johnson and Nixon until resigning over the invasion of Cambodia. An award-winning investigative journalist and historian, he is the author of several books, including "Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician." His history of U.S. policy and covert intervention in South Asia and the Middle East, entitled "Shadows of the Eagle," will be published by Knopf in 2008.  

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Live From the Left Coast
12noon Pacific Time:

Michael Scheuer was a twenty-two year veteran CIA analyst, who, until his resignation, was their top expert on bin Laden.  He is the author of the best-sellers "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror" and "Through Our Enemies Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of America," which has recently been published in a new edition. His new book, to be published in February of 2008, is "Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq."

John Anderson is a graduate from Rice University, who also holds three graduate degrees from Yale University. The former deputy editor of American Lawyer, he is the author of two widely praised nonfiction books: Burning Down the House and Art Held Hostage).  His new book is Follow the Money: How George Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog Tied America.