Kevin Phillips, Ray McGovern will be on The Monitor

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April 9, 2006: The Monitor

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<> ~ 6:15 pm CST -- Kevin Phillips on oil, debt, and theocracy



Kevin Phillips returns to The Monitor to discuss his new book today.

The book, which the New York Times Book Review called "extensively researched and frighteningly persuasive," is "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century."

Kevin Phillips is a respected political commentator and author of a dozen books. He got his start early: by age 27, had served as the chief elections and voting patterns analyst for the 1968 Nixon campaign. He served in the Nixon administration as a political strategist.

More recently, Phillips has become an ex-Republican. He is deeply critical of the Bush family in his 2004 book, "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush." In that book, he delved into four generations of the Bush clan's links to finance, oil and energy, the military industrial complex, and the CIA/NSA.

In 1982, the Wall Street Journal described him as “the leading conservative electoral analyst -- the man who invented the Sun Belt, named the New Right, and prophesied ‘The Emerging Republican Majority’ in 1969.” He has been a radio and TV commentator (including appearances on Bill Moyers' NOW program), and is now a registered independent.

BOOK:
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

WEBSITE:
American Theocracy http://www.americantheocracy.net/about.html


<> ~ 6:40 pm CST -- RAY McGOVERN on Plame, Iran



Ray McGovern is a 27-year veteran of the CIA and a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He has been a frequent guest of The Monitor.

Today, we will discuss recent developments in the CIA leak case which unmasked former Ambassador Joe Wilson's wife, and which has previously resulted in Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of top Cheney staffer Scooter Libby. Also, we'll look at today's Seymour Hersh article in The New Yorker.

RELEVANT ARTICLES:
"Bush Authorized Leak to Times, Libby Told Grand Jury," by JOSH GERSTEIN, April 6, 2006, New York Sun, http://www.nysun.com/article/30561

"The Iran Plans: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?" by Seymour M. Hersh, posted April 10, 2004, The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact


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April 2
-- KPFT Local News reporter Lisa Cohen on the Enron trial
-- ANDREW GUMBEL, author of Steal This Vote, reviews the history of American stolen elections

March 26
-- acclaimed investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH: September 11 to Iraq (part two)
-- ION SANCHO, Florida election official who invited a hack team to test his election machines. They waltzed right in and stole the test election. Also, a clip from Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti, telling how he did it.

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