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October 23, 2005: Sunday Monitor

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<> 6:00 pm CDT -- HEADLINES

<> ~6:15 pm CDT -- GUEST 1 -- GREG PALAST re HARRIET MIERS and other topics

Greg Palast is an award-winning investigative journalist and a frequent guest of Sunday Monitor. He is author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." He has written for The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Nation, and Salon.com, as well as numerous other publications. He wrote a column, Inside Corporate America, for The Guardian & Observer newspapers (UK). Now Palast’s investigative reports broadcast internationally on BBC Newsnight Television and appear regularly in Harper’s magazine. Among other stories, he broke the story about the felons list in Florida in the 2000 presidential election.

WEBSITE: www.gregpalast.com
His latest article is "JIM CROW RETURNS TO THE VOTING BOOTH"


<> ~6:35 pm CDT -- GUEST 2 -- JOE SUDBAY re FITZGERALD's INVESTIGATION OF SPY LEAK

Joe Sudbay is the Deputy Editor of AmericaBlog, where he has closely followed the investigation of the leak re Valerie Plame.

AmericaBlog addresses US politics overall with a particular focus on the Bush Administration, the radical right, and gay civil rights. Sunday Monitor had AmericaBlog founder John Aravosis on earlier this year talking about "White House correspondent" Jeff Gannon.

Joe Sudbay works as Vice President for Political Strategy at The Sheridan Group, a DC based consulting firm. He has twenty years of political experience at both the state and federal level. He has managed political campaigns, legislative efforts and grassroots development for both candidates and issues-based organizations. Prior to joining The Sheridan Group, he worked for nine years in the issue of gun violence prevention.

WEBSITE: http://AMERICAblog.blogspot.com


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Last week's show, October 16
-- MARJORIE COHEN, exec. v.p. of the National Lawyers Guild, on Harriet Miers.
-- SHANNON YOUNG, on Monsanto GM crops
-- DENNIS HALLIDAY, the former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq) about UN reform, Bolton, and Oil for Food