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Professor Jason Steck, Department of Political Science, Creighton University, will debate Professor Stephen Zunes, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of San Francisco, on the topic of Israel's recent military actions in Gaza. Professor Zunes is Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco and a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus. He is the principal editor of Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell Publishers, 1999) and the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press, 2003) and the forthcoming Western Sahara: Nationalism and Conflict in Northwest Africa (Syracuse University Press.) With Rachel M. MacNair, he edited Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War (Praeger, 2008). Professor Steck is Resident Instructor of Political Science and International Relations at Creighton University. He teaches courses in international security, international relations, and international cooperation. His research interests include investigating the dynamics of the relationship between military leaders and their civilian political counterparts as well as the ways in which military forces seek to achieve their strategic goals during conflict. Call in. Stand up. Speak out. Guest call-in number is (347) 327-9615.

Allen Shoenberger, Constitutional Law Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, will be our guest. Professor Shoenberger is a full professor of law and teaches: Constitutional Law, First Amendment Freedoms, Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Law and Medicine, International Human Rights Law, European Human Rights, European Union Law, and Appellate Practicum (a clinical course). He joins us to specifically speak about presidential pardons, America’s rule of law, the legal impact of war crimes, rendition, and torture alleged to have been committed in the execution of the Global War on Terror. Call in. Stand up. Speak out. Guest call-in number is (347) 327-9615.

Our guest is Ellen Brown. She is author of the book, Web of Debt. She developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown's eleven books include the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies. You can learn more about Ms. Brown by visiting her website, www.webofdebt.com. Call in. Stand up. Speak out. Guest call-in number is 347-327-9615.

Jack Cole, Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), will be our guest on Jan 3. Mr. Cole retired as a Lieutenant Detective from the New Jersey State Police after 26 years of service. LEAP has over 10,000 members and is made up of current and former members of the law enforcement and criminal justice communities who are speaking out about the failures of our existing drug policies. Those policies have failed, and continue to fail, to effectively address the problems of drug abuse, especially the problems of juvenile drug use, the problems of addiction, and the problems of crime caused by the existence of a criminal black market in drugs. Call In. Stand Up. Speak Out. 347-327-9615.