Stan Van Houcke Audioblog

Interview with Peter W. Galbraith, who served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Croatia and who wrote The End of Iraq. How American Incompetence Created A War Without End. The interview is followed by a lecture Galbraith gave on friday march 16, 2007 in the Norwegian capital Oslo.

Phyllis Bennis, author of \\\'Before and After. US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis\\\' gave on 10 september 2006 in Amsterdam a lecture on Israel, the USA and the failed war in Lebanon. \\\'It failed to do what it was supposed to do,\\\' being the annihilation of Hezbollah. At the same time Israel lost a lot of support under ordinary Americans because of the terror the jewish nation inflicted on the Lebanese population, a fact which was broadcasted life in the USA. The usual pro-Israel propaganda didn\\\'t work this time, according to Bennis.

Interview with David Ray Griffin (67) about his book \\\'The New Parl Harbor,\\\' in which he attacks with facts the offical account of the assault on the World Trade Center-towers and the Pentagon-building. Griffin has been for over 30 years professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont School of Theology in California. He is author and editor of more than 20 books. The human rights lawyer and Professor Emeritus Richard Falk of Princeton University, writes in the foreword of the book: \\\'this is a disturbing book, depicting a profound crisis of political legitimacy for the most powerful sovereign state in the history of the world... It is rare, indeed, that a book has this potential to become a force of history.\\\' Although more than 100.000 copies of \\\'The New Pearl Harbor\\\' have been sold in The USA, the corporate mainstream press boycots the book. I interviewed professor Griffin in Amsterdam on 8 september 2006, after the translation of his book into Dutch. My first question was why and when

Thirteen years ago I interviewed the British historian Paul Kennedy about his books \\\'The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers\\\' and \\\'Preparing for the Twenty-First Century.\\\' Recently I discovered the videotape of the interview. Although more than a decade old his analyses of the politics of the United States are still extremely clear and viable.