What's in store for the future of Egypt?

What's in store for the future of Egypt and the surrounding region? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the historic massive uprising in Egypt. From Cairo to Alexandria, millions of people from all walks of life are taking to the streets to demand President Husni-Mubarak step down. How are the unprecedented events in Egypt changing the socio-political landscape across the region? What are the lessons for social movements in the U.S. and other parts of the world? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Samer Shehata, an Assistant Professor of Arab Politics at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Hesham Sallam, Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine

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What is the US role in Juarez?

How are US policies towards Mexico impacting the socio-economic landscape in the border town of Juarez? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: the Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields. Ciudad Juarez, across the river from El Paso, Texas, has become the murder capital of the world, three times more violent than Baghdad. So what explains the rise in drug related violence in Juarez and the rest of Mexico?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What should we do on this side of the border to stop the flow of drugs? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: the Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week the U.S. military admitted to killing two pregnant Afghan women and a teenage girl during a nighttime raid. We'll speak with the Times of London's Jerome Starkey. He broke the story. And WikiLeak released video showing U.S. forces firing on Iraqi civilians. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail and CNET's Declan McCullagh join us to discuss the coverage. Where did you see the best reporting this week?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Declan McCullagh, a senior correspondent for CBS News' Web site and the chief political correspondent for CNET News.

Dahr Jamail, an award-winning independent journalist.

Jerome Starkey, a correspondent with Times of London.

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What Should the "New Haiti" Look Like?

What should the economic reconstruction of Haiti look like? Will importing more low-wage garment factories bring sustainable job recovery, as Hillary Clinton and others advocate? Or is this a chance for rebuilding in a new direction? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our series Agenda for a New Economy as we talk about Haiti's economy--almost 4 months after the earthquake. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you think is the best direction for Haiti's economic recovery? And what is the responsibility of the international community? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joshua Nadel, assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at N.C. Central University. He worked in Haiti in 1996-1997 and worked on postwar reconstruction in Kosovo in 1999-2000.

Arun Gupta, writer for the Indypendent and Alternet.

Frantz Jerome--Haitian-born activist is a counselor at the New York City College of Technology at CUNY

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of Vice President Biden's trip to Israel, California's plans to close down 188 of its "worst" schools and threats to 'take out' Democratic lawmakers who vote against the healthcare bill. How did the media cover these stories? We'll be joined by Contra Costa Times education reporter Theresa Harrington, Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros and Media Channel founder and executive editor Danny Schechter. Where did you see the best reporting this week?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Theresa Harrington, education reporter for Contra Costa Times
Sherine Tadros, a correspondent for Al Jazeera English based in Jerusalem
Danny Schechter, founder and executive editor of Media Channel

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How Safe is it to Google?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the world's largest Internet search company and its privacy policies. The Washington Post recently reported that Google is teaming up with the NSA to prevent another hack attack. It's no longer just a search engine. If you use their email and cell phone, you're entrenched. So what's happening to all of that data? Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How much trust do you put in Google? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Andrew Leonard, Salon.com reporter
Matthew Phillips, EPIC Appellate Privacy Fellow

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Have We Learned to Love the Taliban?

Have we learned to love the Taliban? And how did this major shift happen so quickly? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the recent plans to start negotiations with the Taliban. Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants to talk to Taliban leaders, and his backers in the U.S. and Europe are all for it. What does this shift mean for the future of Afghanistan?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Are you ready for U.S. troops pulling out of Afghanistan, regardless of what it means for the future of the Afghan people? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Alam Payind, director of the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State University.

Aunohita Mojumdar, a freelance journalist covering Afghanistan for the last six years for the Christian Science Monitor, AlJazeera.com, Eurasianet and other outlets.

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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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What's the State of the Opposition in Iran?

On the next Your Call, we will have a conversation about the ongoing democracy actions in Iran. During recent Student Day protests, more than 200 people were arrested and many beaten. What are their demands? Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is Iran's protest movement impacting the rest of the region? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Farideh Farhi, an independent scholar and affiliate, Graduate Faculty at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Kaveh Ehsani, assistant professor of international studies at DePaul University

Sohrab Mahdavi, editor of TehranAvenue.com. He writes about art and culture for different publications.

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Friday Media Roundtable

This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Obama's visit to China, protests on UC campuses, and the state of media in Mexico. We'll be joined by The Daily Planet's Riya Bhattacharjee, Mexico City based journalist Franc Contreras and New America Media's Vivian Po. 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? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Riya Bhattacharjee, staff writer at The Berkeley Daily Planet
Vivian Po, staff writer at New America Media
Franc Contreras, journalist based in Mexico City

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What's your Wish List for China?

President Obama just left China, after negotiating a relationship that will define our economic and political reality in the coming decades. Yet most progressives are hazy about what they wanted Obama to tell Hu Jintao. Is it all about the economy? Should environmental degradation and global warming be the top priority? Or do democratic reform and freedom to dissent come before for everything else?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the progressive agenda for China? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Ling-Chi Wang, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and a US-China relations expert.

David Gordon, executive director of Pacific Environment.

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Are U.S.-Israel Relations at a Turning Point?

On the next Your Call we'll be joined by Joel Schalit, author of Israel Versus Utopia, to discuss the future of Israel. Israel is the number one recipient of U.S. economic and military aid, but its right-wing Likud government has bristled at Obama Administration calls for an end to illegal settlements. Meanwhile, the J Street Project is setting a new course for the Jewish-American relationship with Israel. Could a new U.S.-Israeli relationship emerge? And will any of it make real change for the Palestinians?

Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the future of US-Israel relations? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Joel Schalit, author of Israel Vs. Utopia

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What's Obama's Grade in Foreign Policy?

How would you grade Obama's foreign policy record so far? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about changes in U.S. foreign policy since Obama took office. Middle East expert Juan Cole says the president deserves good marks for his work on Iran, Pakistan and Iraq -- do you agree?

You can join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the criteria we should use to judge Obama's foreign policy as he moves toward his sophomore year? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Harry Kreisler is executive director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and executive producer and host of "Conversations with History."

Juan R. I. Cole, professor of modern Middle East and South Asian history at the University of Michigan

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Your Call 100209 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week the Senate Finance Committee voted down plans for a public option in health care. The White House announced it might not be able to close Guantanamo prison by January, and there's a renewed focus on the Iranian nuclear program. We'll be joined by Andreas Zumach, who covers the UN for the German daily Die Tagezeitung, Huffington Post's Ryan Grim, and ProPublica's Dafna Linzer. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did journalists fall short? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Ryan Grim, senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post

Dafna Linzer, senior reporter with ProPublica

Andreas Zumach, a journalist reporting on the United Nations in Geneva, for the German newspaper "Die tageszeitung" (taz)

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Your Call 100109 What's ahead for the U.S. in the world?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Noam Chomsky, celebrated linguist and leading critic of American foreign policy. As the U.S. sits down for direct talks with Iran, does Chomsky see a less confrontational foreign policy under Obama? What does the coup in Honduras mean for Latin America?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does a self-avowed anarchist like Chomsky find common ground with one-time coup leader Hugo Chavez? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guest:
Noam Chomsky, noted linguist and a leading public intellectual.

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Your Call 093009 What are we going to do with Afghanistan?

On the next Your Call we will be looking at alternatives to the plan in General McChrystal's report to President Obama. McChrystal says that without a significant increase in U.S. troops, failure is likely for the international mission in Afghanistan. What is America's national interest in Afghanistan? What would success look like and are we willing to provide the resources we need to bring that success to fruition? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

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Your Call 080709 Friday 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 we'll be joined by Sarah Varney from KQED's Health Dialogues, Michael Massing from the New York Review of Books, and Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, news editor for the Public Press. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. 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:
Sarah Varney in San Francisco
Health reporter for KQED Radio News and Health Dialogues, a monthly radio program produced by KQED and aired across California. Health Dialogues and Sarah's reporting about the Canadian health care system were recently given high marks by the Columbia Journalism Review.

Michael Massing in NYC
Contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is author of several books, most recently Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq which he co-authored with Orville Schell.

Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig in Tampa
News editor for the Public Press, non-commercial collaborative news service in San Francisco. Fitzhugh-Craig is the former city editor for the Oakland Tribune and won accolades for her investigative reporting for the Chauncey Bailey Project; she also won an Associated Press Managing Editors Award for column writing.

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Your Call 072409 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 a budget deal was struck in Sacramento, the F-22 was killed and health care reform teetered in DC. We'll be joined by the LA Times' Tracy Wilkinson in Mexico City, Tim Redmond of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Ricardo Sandoval from the Sacramento Bee. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. 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:
Tracy Wilkinson in Mexico City
Mexico Bureau chief for the LA Times, the only English language California newspaper with a Mexico bureau. Since June of last year, Wilkinson has overseen a team of reporters covering the drug war in Mexico from both sides of the border. Their reporting is collected in their series Mexico Under Siege: The drug war at our doorstep.

Ricardo Sandoval in Sacramento
Assistant City Editor for the Sacramento Bee. Ricardo is the former Mexico Bureau Chief for the Bee Papers and the current president of the Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Tim Redmond in San Francisco
Managing editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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Your Call 072209 What is the state of the protest in Iran?

What is the state of the protest in Iran? On the next Your Call we will discuss this Saturday's demonstration in support of the Iranian opposition at San Francisco City Hall - a demonstration that some groups on the left have decided to boycott. Is the battle in Iran now just a fight amongst the elite for power and money, or is there a grassroots demand for justice driving change? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can the American people play a positive role in Iran despite our government's long history of meddling? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Shahram Aghamir in San Francisco
Bay Area based activist and producer of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA

Kaveh Ehsani in Chicago
Assistant professor of International Studies at Depaul University and a member of the editorial boards of Middle East Report and the Tehran-based Goft-o-gu (Dialogue).

Reese Erlich in Oakland
Reese Erlich is a best-selling book author and Peabody-award winning journalist who writes regularly for the Dallas Morning News, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio and National Public Radio. Erlich is co-author of Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You and his latest book Dateline Havana: The Real Story of US Policy and the Future of Cuba was published this year. Reese is just back from a trip to Iran.

Hadi Ghaemi in New York
Spokesperson for United 4 Iran, the organizers of Saturday's rallies. The rally in San Francisco will be from noon to 4 p.m this weekend.

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Your Call 070809 What happened in Honduras?

What happened in Honduras? On the next Your Call we try to get past the global political considerations and try to understand on its own terms the military takeover and expulsion of President Manuel Zelaya. Is American influence really as powerful and nefarious as it is sometimes is portrayed? Are there changes happening there that neither progressives nor the Obama Administration fully understand? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. When we view world events through the lens of the superpower, what do we miss?

Guests:
Jose Castro in Nashville, Tennessee
Honduran radio host in Nashville, Tennessee. He hosts Puntes de Interes on 810 AM La Sabrosita.

Grahame Russell in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Co-Director of Rights Action which funds community-controlled development, environmental, human rights and emergency-relief projects in Guatemala, Honduras, Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico) and El Salvador, and does education and activism work with North Americans to address global exploitation, repression, enviro-destruction and racism.

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