Monday, January 07, 2008

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris

  • Attorney Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights discusses his group's current case before the U.S. Supreme Court re: Guantanamo detainees and investigation into the destruction of video tapes documenting CIA torture of prisoners. Ratner is the recipient of the 2007 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.
  • Briggs Bomba of Africa Action talks about the post-election violence in Kenya and the change in political leadership inside the African National Congress in South Africa.
  • Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy assesses the U.S. presidential primary season thus far, and the prospects for progressive change in the Nov. 2008 general election.
  • Dan Beeton of the Center for Economic and Policy Research describes his group's study which found that C-SPAN overwhelmingly favors conservative think tanks in its coverage by a three-to-one margin over all left-of-center think tanks.
  • Junaid Ahmad of the US-based National Muslim Law Students Association and the Pakistan-based People's Rights Movement assesses the repurcussions for Pakistan and the world after the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

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