Middle East Panorama radio show on Resonance FM 104 or http://www.resonancefm.com/ Every Friday 14.00 - 15.00 London time (GMT)
- Interview with Lawrence Pintak, author of Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens - America, Islam and the War of Ideas (Pluto Books, January 2006). Journalist-scholar Lawrence Pintak, a former CBS News Middle East correspondent, argues that the Arab media revolution and the rise of 'patriot-journalists' in the US marginalized voices of moderation, distorting perceptions on both sides of the divide with potentially disastrous results. >> Listen
- From Don't Attack Iran, a joint public meeting of Action Iran and CASMII UK in London, University London Union, September 19, 2006. As the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, Hans von Sponeck provoked anger in Washington and London by calling for an end to UN sanctions on Iraq, imposed for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. He finally resigned from his position in protest against the continuation of UN sanctions against Iraq in February 2000. Other speakers of the meeting were: John Rees (Stop the War Coalition) Paul Ingram (BASIC) Kamin Mohammadi (Writer and Journalist) Mehri Honarbin-Holliday (Action Iran) Abbas Edalat (Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran)
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