10/1/2006 Second Hour
Hour 2 The Bush Administration gives a lot of lip-service to diplomacy as a way to handle international relations, but in many cases has shown it prefers to use the military.  A discussion with two former diplomats: John Brady Kiesling resigned from the U.S. Foreign Service on February 25, 2003, after almost 20 years in the State Department in protest of the U.S. plans to invade Iraq. (www.bradykiesling.com) Craig Murray is a former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan.  He's now a writer and broadcaster, known as an outspoken critic of Western policy(www.craigmurray.co.uk/).
9/24/2006 First Hour
NOTE" "Because of the unavailability of some invited guests this weekend, due in part to the Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan holidays, the special program on "9/11: Myths, Conspiracies, and Truths" has been postponed." To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the murder of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and American Ronni Karpen Moffitt, by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on September 21, 1976, Sunday Salon will be looking at state sponsored terrorism at home and abroad. Hour 1 This week on Sunday Salon: In our first hour: Dr. Daniele Ganser, author of NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe along with Peter Kornbluth, author of "The Pinochet File" and Hector Salgado former Chilean political prisoner; will look at what we now know about U.S. complicity with international state sponsored terrorism.
9/24/2006 Second Hour
In our second hour, A look at Washington's response to torture and warrentless wiretapping. Jeffrey Klein founding editor of Mother Jones Mark Danner longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, and Lisa Hajjar  professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California-Santa Barbara will give us their insight.
9/17/2006 First Hour
NOTE" "Because of the unavailability of some invited guests this weekend, due in part to the Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan holidays, the special program on "9/11: Myths, Conspiracies, and Truths" has been postponed. This week on Sunday Salon... A look at pressing National and State issues. In our first hour: According to a report by the Public Policy Institute of California, "Since 1990, the number of prisoners in California has risen three times faster than the state's overall adult population, to almost 168,000 prisoners in 2005." In this hour we will speak with one of the authors of this report, along with people working both in and out of the California prison system.
9/17/2006 Second Hour
And, in our second hour... With possibly full Congressional approval of Bush's warrantless spying program a look back at the NSA could not be more timely. This hour will include excerpts from the hearings as well as thoughtful analysis from Constitutional Rights scholars.
9/10/2006 First Hour
This week on Sunday Salon.. A look at the 9/11 anniversary: In the First hour: Larry Bensky will co-host with Gail Sheehy author of "Middletown, America: One Town's Passage From Trauma to Hope"(Random House). During this hour both will speak with Lieutenant Keegan of the Port Authority on environmental health hazards at the World Trade Center site and author of "Closure: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery Mission" (Simon & Schuster). Also joining us is Joel Kupferman, executive director of the New York Environmental Law and Justice project (http://www.nyenvirolaw.org).
9/10/2006 Second Hour
And, in our second hour... 9/11 will be looked at from a global perspective. Lawrence Wright, author of "The Looming Tower Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11"(Alred A. Knopf) will join us along with Milan Rai (http://www.j-n-v.org), activist and author of "7/7: The London Bombings, Islam, And the Iraq War" (Pluto Press).
9/3/2006 First Hour
This week on Sunday Salon... A look at workers in honor of Labor Day... In our first hour: San Francisco Hotel Workers recently voted to authorize their second strike in two years, and held a rally this week in San Francisco. The workers have been without a contract for 2 years. Updates from workers and organizers: Linda Knighten is a cook at the Omni Hotel, and a member of the bargaining unit for Unite Here! Local 2. Lamoin Werlien-Jaen is the Secretary Treasurer, Unite Here! Local 2.
9/3/2006 Second Hour
And, in our second hour... Exploitation. Deportation. Harassment. Three of many issues facing Day Laborers on a daily basis. What's happening in California and around the nation to organize Day Workers and to improve conditions for them? Confirmed guests: Carlos Mares, Day Laborer and Organizer with Centro Legal Day La Raza in Oakland. Nelson Motto, Lead Organizer of the West Los Angeles Community Job Center, a program of Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (www.idepsca.org).
8/27/2006 First Hour
This week on Sunday Salon... Hurricane Katrina:  One Year Later In our first hour: A discussion with two of the contributors to the new book "After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina" (The New Press). Guests:   Adrien Katherine Wing is the Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law at University Iowa College of Law, and the editor of "Critical Race Feminism" and "Global Critical Race Feminism." John Valery White is J. Dawson Gasquet Memorial Professor of Law at Louisiana State University Law Center, and a Louisiana native.
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