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The Monitor
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February 18, 2007

Today's Guests:

-- Intell expert JAMES BAMFORD on NSA's top-secret Echelon

-- Filmmaker DANNY SCHECHTER on the debt game


<> 6:00 pm CST -- Headlines

<> ~ 6:15 pm CST – Intell expert JAMES BAMFORD on top-secret Echelon



Author and journalist James Bamford is one of the leading experts on the US intelligence agencies. Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi will discuss Echelon with him. Echelon is a top secret worldwide intelligence and analysis network.

Bamford's 1982 best seller "The Puzzle Palace" was the first book to describe the inner workings of the National Security Agency. His subsequent books "Body of Secrets" (2001) and "A Pretext for War" (2004) have received widespread acclaim. He was formerly Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight.


<> ~ 6:40 pm CST – Filmmaker DANNY SCHECHTER on the debt game



Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson welcomes media critic, investigative journalist and filmmaker Danny Schechter back to the Monitor.

Danny will focus on the situation of American debt, individual and federal. We'll also look at the US economic situation relative to the massive American debt China is holding.

His latest film, released this past June, is “In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts.”

Danny Schechter is a television producer and independent filmmaker who often writes and speaks about media issues. He is the executive editor and blogger-in-chief of Mediachannel.org, the world's largest online media issues network. Schechter is co-founder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company now in its 18th year and a former CNN and ABC News producer.

His work has been honored by Emmy awards, the Iris award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong Award and the National Association of Black Journalists, among other recognitions.

Schechter is the author of, among other titles, "The More You Watch, The Less You Know" (Seven Stories Press) and "News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics" (Electron Press).

ARTICLE:
The U.S. and China: Is a Trade War Coming?
by Danny Schechter
AlterNet, December 13, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/45433/

WEBSITE:
http://www.newsdissector.org

BLOG:
http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/index.php

FILM: IN DEBT WE TRUST
www.Indebtwetrust.com


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