Saree Makdisi
Democracy Now!: Thursday, April 28, 2011
The rival Palestinian political organizations, Fatah and Hamas, have reached an agreement to end a nearly five-year internal schism, form an interim government, and hold a general election within a year. We speak with Saree Makdisi, professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA and the author of several books, including Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation. In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak with Thomas Tamm, the former U.S. Justice Department attorney who helped expose the Bush administration’s domestic warrantless eavesdropping program that intercepted private email messages and phone calls of U.S. residents without a court warrant. President Obama is expected to announce a major shuffling of his national security team today. We speak with Ray McGovern, former senior CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
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Today, a discussion of the protests against the University of California's regents approval Thursday of a 32 percent increase in student fees and the growing privatization of public education with UCLA student activist Zen Dochterman and the president of the AFC, Bob Samuels. As protesters gather at Ft. Benning in Georgia this weekend for the annual protest to shut down the U.S. Army training center dubbed by critics as the “School of the Assassins,” we’re joined by Blasé Bonpane, director of the Office of the Americas. And we talk with UCLA professor Saree Makdisi, author of “Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation,” as Israel is coming under widespread international criticism for its plan to engage in a new round of illegal settlement expansion on occupied Palestinian land. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour
