What do we need to know about waste and corruption in Iraq?

What do we need to know about waste and corruption in Iraq? And will anything be done about it? On the next Your Call, we'll talk to Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. US taxpayers have spent $63 billion dollars on so-called reconstruction in Iraq, a plan that Van Buren says is "riddled with waste and inefficiency." What do we need to know about who will remain in Iraq and what their intentions are? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Peter Van Buren, foreign service officer with the Department of State and author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People.

Sinann Antoon, Iraqi poet and novelist; assistant professor at New York University; founder of Jadaliyya, an independent e-zine produced by the Arab Studies Institute

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How can we heal the legacy of Indian Boarding Schools?

How can we facilitate healing from the legacy of the US Government's Indian Boarding Schools? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with the filmmaker of "The Thick Dark Fog" about one Lakota man's trauma and recovery. The Canadian Government has set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help people tell their stories and heal. There's also a commission in the state of Maine. What do you think the U.S. government should do to help native people heal from the abuses that they suffered in boarding schools? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Randy Vasquez, director of The Thick Dark Fog, part of the 36th Annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco

Marilyn St. Germaine, a member of the Blackfeet/ Cree Tribe from Montana who was sent to government boarding school as a child

Denise Alvater, lead organizer of the Maine Tribal-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss coverage of the ongoing humanitarian and radiation disasters in Japan. We'll also talk about coverage of the US and EU decision to begin bombing Libya. Who's reporting on US companies based in Libya? We'll be joined by McClatchy's Kevin Hall, the Middle East Report's Chris Toesing, and veteran journalist Don Kirk joins us from Tokyo. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Kevin Hall, McClatchy's economics reporter

Chris Toensing, Middle East Report and Information editor

Don Kirk, a veteran correspondent and noted author

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What do you think about Obama bombing Libya?

What do you think of the Obama administration's decision to begin bombing Libya? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the unfolding news in Libya. US and European leaders declared a no-fly zone over Libya on Sunday after two days of strikes. How should the US and international community respond? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Does military action in Libya set a precedent of attacking countries where the leadership does not favor the US? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Dr. Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, scholar on modern Libya and professor of political science at the University of New England

Dr. Mansour El-Kikhia, exiled Libyan opposition leader and professor of political science at the University of Texas San Antonio

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What are the effects of war on civilians?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with war correspondent Anna Badkhen about her new book, Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories, a travelogue about war, food, and humanity. How do stories of people living in war zones help us understand the impact of war on civilian populations? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do people manage to persevere in extreme situations? And what stories would actually resonate with the public? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Anna Badkhen, a journalist and the author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories

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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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Your Call 070209 What changed in Iraq this week?

What has changed now that American troops have redeployed out of urban centers in Iraq? What still hangs in the balance? On the next Your Call we'll talk about who withdrew and where they went and what it all means. President Maliki declared it National Sovereignty Day, but how much will Iraqi police and military control? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. A majority of Americans and Iraqis want the troops out of Iraq. Is this a step in the right direction? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Vijay Prashad in Hartford, Connecticut
George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of eleven books, most recently The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World.

Nabil Al-Tikriti in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Assistant professor of History of the University of Mary Washington. From 1992-2003, Dr. Al-Tikriti was a context and liaison officer, administrator and logistician for Mdecins Sans Frontires. Al-Tikriti was a member of the team that operated the Catholic Relief Services humanitarian assistance project in Iraq in 1991-1992.

Basma AlKhateeb in Baghdad
Gender and Youth Project manager for the Iraqi AlAmal Association in Baghdad.

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Your Call 060209 Looking back, why did we enter Iraq?

What do we know now about why we went to war in Iraq? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Charles Duelfer, the principal author of the Iraq Survey Group's final report. He is out with the new book Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq. What is the truth? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. And what difference does the truth make to our current debate about the future of US policy in Iraq? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Charles Duelfer, the principal author of the Iraq Survey Group's final report and author of the new book Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq.

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Your Call 042909 Why does torture capture the public's imagination?

Why does torture capture the public's imagination in a way that death wrought by war does not? On the next Your Call we will discuss the disparity between our national conversation on torture and the relative quiet about the death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is it easier to imagine ourselves as the tortured, or the torturer, than as a soldier in the field? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Does the scale of war make it harder to fathom, while torture is intimate enough to come alive in the imagination? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Richard Falk in Santa Barbara
Professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, writer (the author or co-author of 20 books), speaker, activist on world affairs, and an appointee to two United Nations positions on the Palestinian territories.

Scott Horton in New York
Professor at Columbia Law School where he teaches law of armed conflict. He is also a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and writes the No Comment blog

Uwe Jacobs in San Francisco
Clinical director for Survivor's International

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Your Call 042809 How does remote-controlled technology change war?

How does remote-controlled technology change the nature of war and surveillance? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about unmanned aerial drones. They're being used to drop bombs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to track smuggling on the borders with Canada and Mexico, to find survivors after disasters, and for domestic surveillance. Who is piloting these drones? You can join us by calling in or by emailing feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is the world better or worse off with this technology? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Peter Singer, senior fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution and author of Wired for War

Eric Stoner, a freelance journalist based in New York, and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus

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Your Call 021009 What do we need to know about Iraq?

As Iraq moves through a critical phase, what do we need to know? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Professor Nadje Al-Ali, author of What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq, and Dahr Jamail, a Bay Area independent journalist who recently returned to Baghdad. With the recent election described as a success by Washington, what is daily life like in Iraq? How have the lives of women been affected by so many dead and imprisoned Iraqi men? And what's the status of U.S. troop withdrawal? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nadje Al-Ali, director of the Gender Studies Centre at SOAS, University of London.

Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist

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Nadje Al-Ali's speaking events:
When: February 10, 2009 [ 4pm ]
Where: UC BERKELEY GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES COLLOQUIUM LECTURE

When: February 11, 2009 [ 7pm ]
Where: LA PEA CULTURAL CENTER WITH MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE

When: February 12, 2009 [11am-12.30pm]
Where: CODEPINK TALK AT FIRST UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO

When: February 12, 2009 [ 5-6:30pm ]
Where: UC BERKELEY CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

When: February 12, 2009 [ 8pm ]
Where: GREEN ARCADE BOOKSTORE

Your Call 020209 What's our plan in Afghanistan?

President Obama is in the beginning stages of shifting military resources from Iraq to Afghanistan. What is his goal? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald, authors of Afghanistan's Untold Story. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently said Afghanistan is "our greatest military challenge." The U.S. plans to send 30,000 additional troops to the region. What has failed to this point? And what is the U.S. trying to accomplish by escalating the seven-year occupation? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:

Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald, journalists and authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story

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Your Call 111708 Iraq Update

How is Obama's victory changing life in Iraq? On the next Your Call we'll broadcast a pre-recorded conversation about the future of the occupation. From the streets to the halls of power, what do Iraqis face each day and what do they believe is possible with the Democrats in charge? Now that Obama is about to take ownership of Bush's war, what forces are constraining what he can do? On the next Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Jabran Mansoor in Amsterdam
Former Administrative Coordinator of the International Institute for the Rule of Law in Iraq, which worked with the government of Iraq, and before that the coalition authority, to establish an independent judiciary. Mr. Mansoor left Iraq in left Iraq since September 2007; and is looking for work in the Netherlands.

Leila Fadel in Baghdad
McClatchy's Baghdad Bureau Chief, where she has been, on and off, since June 2005.

Juan Cole in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of InformedComment.com

Nabil Al Tikriti in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mary Washington

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Your Call 101008 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. The financial crisis is deepening and many states are running out of money. California needs $7 billion in emergency loans to fund day-to-day government operations. Violence has decreased across Iraq in recent months, but four Iraqi journalists were killed over the weekend. We'll be joined by freelance writer Max Wolff, LA Times Baghdad bureau chief Tina Sussman, and The California Progress Report's Frank Russo. Where did you get the context you needed to make sense of the week's news? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Tina Sussman, Los Angeles Times Baghdad bureau chief

Max Fraad Wolff, an economist and freelance researcher/writer. His work regularly appears in Asia Times and Huffington Post.

Frank D. Russo, publisher of The California Progress Report

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Your Call 091808 Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

How much is the war in Iraq really costing us? What will be long term consequences of rock bottom lows in the economy? Inflation and unemployment are on the rise while the housing and stock markets are crashing. On Your Call we will speak with Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, about the economy and his latest book The Three Trillion Dollar War. Since 2004, the costs of the war in Iraq have increased by 130 percent. What has made the price tag on the war skyrocket, and how is it affecting our economy day to day? Join us, it's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest: Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winning economist and co-author of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

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Your Call 091508 Iraqi Reality

Is conversation about Iraq over? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Farnaz Fassihi, the deputy bureau chief for Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal, about her new book, Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq. What are the realities of Iraq and its future that John McCain ignores and Obama refuses to address? And how should the Iraqi experience figure in the American debate? It's Your Call, weekdays at 11:00, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Farnaz Fassihi, the deputy bureau chief for Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal

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Your Call 080508 Non-violence in Israel-Palestine

How strong is the non-violence movement in Israel? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with two Israeli filmmakers, Shai Carmeli Pollack and Rachel Leah Jones, who are using their camera to raise awareness about the Occupation. Sahi Carmeli Pollack's documentary film Bil'in Habibti documents the struggle against the construction of the wall by the residents, internationals and Israelis in the village of Bil'in. So who is watching these films? And do they make any difference? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Rachel Leah Jones, producer of the documentary film, Ashkenaz

Shai Carmeli Pollack, producer of the documentary film, Bil'in my love

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Your Call 072408 Spies for Hire

When intelligence is privatized, how do you ever get it back under public control? On the next Your Call we talk with investigative journalist Tim Shorrock, author of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. Private contractors have been a part of the American military since the war of independence, but American spies used to have government employee ids. Shorrock tells how all of that changed since 9-11, and now more than three-quarters of the $60 billion intelligence budget is spent on intelligence contracting. When the contractors who collect the intelligence work for the same companies that will be hired to act on the intelligence, who will know what the true picture is? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:

Tim Shorrock in San Francisco
Author of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing

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Your Call 053008 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week President Bush's former press secretary Scott McClellan just came out with a tell-all book. The U.S. Senate passed a $165 billion war-spending bill with no timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. We'll talk to independent journalist Anna Badkhen who has just returned from Iraq, John Nichols from The Nation and Richard Gizbert from Al Jazeera Television Network. Where did you see the best reporting? It's Your Call with guest host Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine.

Anna Badkhen, a Massachusetts-based freelance reporter and a former foreign and national reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Richard Gizbert, the host for The Listening Post, Al Jazeera's weekly program that focuses on the media.

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Your Call 050908 Media Roundtable

What has been missing from this week's news coverage? On the next Your Call, Rose Aguilar, will speak with journalists reporting on national and international issues. What happened to stories on Iraq? What do you think of election coverage? Any reporting that stood out? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
John Nichols, writer at The Nation and blogger

Tina Susman, Bureau Chief of Los Angeles Times, Baghdad

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