Tuesday Aug 09, 2011

The Gary Null Show

Guests: Professor James Galbraith and Eric Walberg Professor James Galbraith is a distinguished professor and Chair of Government and Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin.  He is the son of renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith. James is the Chair of the international organization Economists for Peace and Security and a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute.  In the early 80s, he served on the Congressional staff as the Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee.  Prof. Galbraith has written many critical and controversial books challenging the nation’s predominant economic policy legislation and the paradigm from which it is based.  His latest book is, “The Predatory State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too” which targets the liberal economic policies being espoused by both parties for being bankrupt in theory and principle. Eric Walberg is a Canadian journalist and scholar who is known internationally for his in-depth investigations into the socio-politics of the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia. He has lived in the former Soviet Union, modern Russia and Uzbekistan as a United Nations advisor, translator and lecturer. Eric is currently a journalist for Cairo’s foremost newspaper Al-Ahram, and a frequent contributor to progressive sites such as Global Research, Counterpunch, and Dissident Voice. He has written numerous books on world geo-politics. His most recent is “Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games” which thoroughly documents the American-Israel alliance for dominance in the Middle East and Central Asia

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