Monday, July 28, 2008

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris
  • Jioni Palmer, national Press Secretary at Media Matters for America, discusses how CBS News edited out an embarrassing response from GOP Presidential candidate John McCain during a recent broadcast interview. 
  • Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist who reported from Iraq for eight months between November 2003 and February 2005, discusses the current situation on the ground in Iraq - and U.S. - Iraqi government negotiations on the future of the American occupation. Jamail is the author of, "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq."
  • Patty Lovera, assistant director of the group, Food and Water Watch, examines the health safety of food irradiation and the signs of growing trouble in the U.S. food system. 
  • David Swanson, co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, and Washington Director of Democrats.com, assesses the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on the imperial presidency - and the reasons why the Democratic party leadership has taken the impeachment of George W. Bush, "off the table."

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