How did 9/11 change your worldview?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the impact 9/11 has had on our identities and our understanding of the world. From war and heightened security to wire-tapping and Islamophobia, how have the events and reactions of the last ten years shaped us and what's in store for the future? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How did 9/11 affect how you see the world and your place in it? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sandip Roy, journalist based in Kolkata, India. Sandip is on leave as an editor with New America Media and co-host of Your Call. He is currently the Culture Editor for FirstPost.com.

Basma AlKhateeb, women's rights activist in Iraq

Jamilah King, news editor for Colorlines magazine

Elliott Woods, independent writer and photographer; Iraq veteran

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the 10th anniverary of 9/11. How has reporting changed in the past decade in the US and abroad? We'll also discuss coverage of President Obama's jobs speech and unemployment. We'll be joined by the Sydney Morning Herald's Paul McGeough, McClatchy's Kevin Hall and independent journalist Aunohita Mojumdar join us from Kabul. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kevin Hall, the national economics reporter for McClatchy Newspapers

Paul McGeough, chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald

Aunohita Mojumdar, an independent journalist based in Kabul

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Can we talk about what actually happened on 9/11?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the questions that remain seven years after the 9/11 Commission delivered its report. What were their conclusions? And what is still missing? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. A wide range of people are calling for an independent investigation. Ten years after the attacks, is this warranted? And what would it reveal? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ann Wright, Retired Col. and a diplomat in the State Department for 15 years, serving in the U.S. embassies of Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Grenada and Nicaragua. She resigned in 2003 in protest of the then-impending invasion of Iraq. In 2009, she co-authored Dissent, Voices of Conscience.

Anthony Summers, an investigative journalist and author

Paul Thompson, a 9/11 researcher and co-author of The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11 and America's Response

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What is eco-terrorism?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Will Potter, author of Green Is the New Red. The FBI says the Earth Liberation Front is the country's "number one domestic terrorism threat." A new movie If a Tree Falls explores the controversy surrounding ELF members who set fire to timber companies and SUV dealerships. Is that terrorism? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. When does violence turn into terrorism? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and, you.

Guests:
Will Potter is an award-winning independent journalist who focuses on "eco-terrorism," the animal rights and environmental movements, and civil liberties post-9/11.

James Brady, Action Recruitment Coordinator for Greenpeace USA

Scott Parkin, a senior organizer with Rainforest Action Network

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What does Homeland Security do exactly?

It's been nine years since the Bush administration created the Department of Homeland Security. What does it do exactly? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about Homeland Security. $1.7 billion federal dollars was spent on "domestic security efforts" last year alone, and 268 million went to the state of California. But what is that money actually financing? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How has the approach to "security" changed under the Obama administration? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kathleen McClellan, homeland security & human rights counsel for the Government Accountability Project

Scott Amey, general counsel for Project on Government Oversight

G.W. Schulz, reporter for the Center for Investigative Reporting covering homeland security

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How are Obama's counterterrorism policies different from Bush's?

How are the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies different from the Bush administration's? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about Homeland Security under Obama and whether policies have changed at all since Bush. Public outrage is growing over the new use of body-scanners and intrusive pat-downs at airports. How do they fit into the larger picture? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. President Obama doesn't use the term "war on terror," but is his approach different? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Nico Melendez is Public Affairs Manager for the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) for California, Arizona, and Hawaii

Linda Lye, an attorney with the Northern California ACLU

Karen Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law and co-editor of The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror

Zahra Billoo, executive director for the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)

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What's in store for Pakistan?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Fatima Bhutto, niece of assassinated Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto, and author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir. As flood relief efforts continue, the U.S., with the support of the Pakistani government, has increased deadly drone operations. What explains this? Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Bhutto says if it weren't for American money and political support, the Pakistani government would not be in power. What lies ahead in this relationship? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Fatima Bhutto, niece of assassinated Pakistani president, Benazir Bhutto, and author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Hamid Karzai's 4-day visit to Washington, the role of money in politics and the ever-growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We'll be joined by Propublica's Marian Wang, National Journal's Peter Stone and Guardian's Jonathan Steele. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Marian Wang, ProPublica's reporter-blogger.

Peter H. Stone, a journalist covering lobbying and campaign finance issues for National Journal.

Jonathan Steele, Guardian's Senior Foreign Correspondent for the Guardian.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. As Moscow recovers from Monday's suicide bombings, what does the coverage in Russia look like? Also this week, members of Hutaree Christian militia were charged with conspiring to kill police officers. And NUMMI Toyota auto plant in Fremont closed its doors. We'll be joined by Christian Science Monitor's Fred Weir in Moscow, labor reporter David Bacon and TPMmuckraker's Justin Elliott.

Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@YourCallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Bacon, a photojournalist and associate editor at Pacific News Service/New America Media

Justin Elliott, a reporter-blogger at TPMmuckraker.

Fred Weir, Moscow correspondent for In These Times and regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor, The Independent, and the South China Morning Post.

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What Happens When the War on Terror Comes to You?

What happens when the focus of the war on terror turns to your country? Yemen, nearly unknown to most Americans, is now headline news. How does that sudden focus affect the way Yemenis and their country are perceived? What are we learning, and what's being missed? Got questions about Yemen that have nothing to do with Al Qaeda? Join the conversation live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What happens when the War on Terror turns to your country? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Dr. Sheila Carapico, professor of political science and international studies at the University of Richmond

Charles Schmitz, of the American Institute for Yemeni studies

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Media Roundtable

On this week's Friday Media Roundtable, we're discussing coverage of the botched airline bombing. What is missing from the news? And as Iran's media crackdown continues, how do journalists report on the opposition movement there? We'll be joined by Wall Street Journal's Farnaz Fassihi, Dafna Linzer of ProPublica and Center for Investigative Reporting's Robert Rosenthal. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us your comments and questions to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did the media fall short? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Robert Rosenthal, executive director of Center for Investigative Reporting

Dafna Linzer, senior reporter with ProPublica, covering intelligence and nonproliferation

Farnaz Fassihi, the deputy bureau chief of Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal, based in Beirut, Lebanon

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Your Call 061209 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. This week Laura Ling and Euna Lee of San Francisco-based CurrentTV were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korean prisons, a black man was shot dead by a white supremacist at the Holocaust museum and the Iranian people went to the polls to elect a new president. We'll be joined by the San Francisco Chronicle's Jason Rezaian in Tehran, David Neiwert, author of The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, and Olga Pierce of ProPublica who just finished a state-by-state look at unemployment insurance. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jason Rezaian in Tehran
Writes Inside Iran for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the writer, executive producer and narrator of a feature length documentary film on Iran called A World Between.

Olga Pierce in New York
Staff Reporter for ProPublica. She covered health policy for United Press International in Washington before attending the Stabile Investigative Journalism Seminar at Columbia University, where she won a Horton Prize for health reporting.

David Neiwert in Seattle
Freelance journalist and author of several books including the newly released The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right from Polipoint Press. Dave is a freelance journalist based in Seattle. His reportage for MSNBC.com on domestic terrorism won the National Press Club Award for Distinguished Online Journalism in 2000. Neiwert is also the managing editor of the video blog Crooks and Liars.

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Your Call 071108 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it is our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll speak with Tom Lasseter, Moscow Bureau Chief for McClatchy and the lead reporter on a recent five part series about the prisoners at Guantanamo, many whom were radicalized by their treatment. What was the response to 8 months of investigation? We'll also speak with National Public Radio's Ombudswoman Lisa Shepard. Where did the news media succeed and where did it fall short this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Tom Lasseter in Moscow
Bureau chief for McClatchy and the lead reporter for a recently published a five-part series detailing the U.S.'s treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. The series was the culmination of an eight-month investigation, during which McClatchy interviewed 66 former detainees, few of whom had talked before with reporters.

Lisa Shepard in Washington DC
Ombudsman for NPR. Prior to joining NPR for the 2 year appointment, Shepard was a journalism instructor and analyst.

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Your Call 071008 Guantanamo Diary

What was it like to come face to face with the men called the worst of the worst, only to find out they were no such thing? On the next Your Call we speak with Mahvish Khan, author of My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me. Khan, an American lawyer born to immigrant Afghan parents, volunteered to be a translator for detainees in Guantanamo. Instead of the worst killers she found innocent men caged by the worst excesses of the War on Terror. How is it that a country can illegally imprison innocent people, and also give an immigrant's child the opportunity to intervene on their behalf? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Mahvish Rukhsana Khan in San Francisco
Author of My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me. Khan, an American Lawyer with Afghan immigrant parents, made more than 30 trips to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to interpret for the Pashto speaking detainees.

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Your Call 051308 Guantanamo's Future

The major candidates running for president say if elected, they will close down Guantanamo. Then what? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the future of U.S. counter terrorism policies with Human Rights Watch's Stacy Sullivan. She recently sat in on a trial in Guantanamo. We'll also talk with Ivan Eland, The Independent Institute senior fellow. What will happen to Guantanamo's 280 prisoners if it shuts down? And what can we expect from the conversation about counter terrorism in the lead up to the Nov. election? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Ivan Eland is a Fellow with the Independent Institute and the author of The Empire: Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed.

Stacy Sullivan is a counterterrorism advisor with Human Rights Watch. She is just back from Guantanamo where she was a court observer.

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