Talk Nation Radio discusses John Pilger’s book, Freedom Next Time Resisting Empire, published by Nation Books and recently out in paperback (Bantam) and note the patterns established by US, UK and Israeli leaders interviewed by Pilger as they have tried to defend brutal and illegal policies. Pilger sees momentum toward a boycott of Israel. He is in the US to promote his book. We reached him by phone to Chicago.

Middle East expert Ali Abunimah’s recent book, One Country, a Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impass is due out in paperback this summer. We discuss the funding of Fatah and Hamas and the history of these Palestinian organizations and US/Israeli policies. Ali Abunimah has described the ‘new’ Fatah as a proxy force working for the US and Israel in the tradition of the Nicaraguan Contras.

The music is by Fritz Heede who produced the sound track for the film, The Oil Factor.

This program was produced by Dori Smith for Talk Nation Radio on June 18, 2007.

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In this podcast, we continue presenting highlights from the International conference, Building a Future Together: Alternatives to the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, which took place in Bethlehem, on 2-3 December 2005. Today, we bring you a lecture by Dr. Majed Nassar, titled Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Against Israel. Dr Nassar is Executive Director of the Palestinian Health Work Committees and is member of the Board of Directors of the Alternative Information Center (AIC).

This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for April 19, 2007.

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On Saturday, December 16th, 2006, Palestinian solidarity activists gathered on St. Catherine street in downtown Montreal to draw attention to a 2005 appeal from Palestinian civil-society organizations to “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights.”

This audio report was produced for CKUT Radio’s Off the Hour by Stefan Christoff on December 16th, 2006.

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