Up at 6 Central: the Lancet report. Frank Rich. Live, on The Monitor

[Pokey Anderson]

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The Monitor
October 22, 2006

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Today's Guests:

-- Dr. LES ROBERTS reports 650,000 casualties in Iraq

-- New York Times columnist FRANK RICH

-- see below for Election Integrity film info


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<> ~ 6:15 pm CST -- Dr. Les Roberts: 650,000 casualties in Iraq



Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi will speak with Dr. Les Roberts about his recent study of civilian deaths in Iraq. The study, published in the widely-respected journal The Lancet, concluded that since the 2003 invasion, 655,000 Iraqis have died above the number that would be expected in a non-conflict situation, with over 600,000 of the deaths resulting from violent causes. This is triple the deaths in Darfur over the past 31 months.

Dr. Roberts is an epidemiologist experienced in counting people in conflict zones. He has taught in the department of geography and environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering. He received his MSPH degree from Tulane and his PhD degree from Johns Hopkins in environmental engineering.

Dr. Roberts worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for four years and worked with the World Health Organization in Rwanda during the civil war of 1994. He is presently the director of health policy at the International Rescue Committee, America's largest agency providing services to those affected by war.

ARTICLE:
"Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey"
By Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, Les Roberts
The Lancet
Published online October 11, 2006 (8 pages)
http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf

QUOTE:
"We estimate that, as a consequence of the coalition
invasion of March 18, 2003, about 655,000 Iraqis have died
above the number that would be expected in a non-conflict
situation, which is equivalent to about 2.5% of the
population in the study area. About 601,000 of these excess
deaths were due to violent causes. ... recent estimates
are that 200,000 people have died in Darfur over the past 31 months."


<> ~ 6:40 pm CST -- New York Times columnist FRANK RICH



Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson will speak with New York Times columnist Frank Rich about what he's called the Bush administration's "carpetbombing" of Americans with fictions.

He's said that Dick Cheney "is a particularly shameless master of these black arts ."

Frank Rich has been at the New York Times since 1980. While a theater critic, his sometimes scathing reviews earned him the nickname "The Butcher of Broadway." Beginning in 1994, he became an Op-Ed columnist. He was a film and television critic at Time magazine before that. He earned a B.A. degree in American History and Literature, graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1971. Rich and his wife live in Manhattan. "The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is his fourth book.

BOOK:
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: Bush’s America from 'Mission Accomplished' to 'Heckuva Job, Brownie'

APPEARANCE:
Next Sunday, Oct. 29, 7:30 pm, Frank Rich will speak at the local speakers series called The Progressive Forum (not to be confused with KPFT's Progressive Forum which airs on Thursday evenings).
Cullen Theater at the Wortham Theater Center downtown.
Tickets are available at the door, by phone at 832-251-0706, or
online at www.progressiveforumhouston.org

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Election Integrity Films coming the next two Thursdays, one local, one on HBO. Early reviews of both of these are good!

1. As part of a Double Film Feature:
-- 7:00 pm The Ground Truth www.TheGroundTruth.net
-- ~8:30 pm Stealing America...Vote by Vote by Oscar-nominated Dorothy Fadiman
River Oaks Theatre, Thursday, Oct. 26, at 2009 West Gray, HOUSTON http://stealingamerica.org

2. Hacking Democracy by Russell Michaels
Premieres on HBO -- Thursday, November 2, with multiple showings to follow
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/index.html




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October 8
-- past board chair of Amnesty International CHIP PITTS
on the current state of human rights law
-- election activist RADY ANANDA of Ohio on the recent conference there, and the hand-counted paper ballot initiative

October 1
-- Law professor MARJORIE COHN on new legislation enabling torture, imprisonment without access to evidence or counsel
-- Journalist HEATHER WOKUSCH on the prospects for an October surprise. Also, what citizens can do.

September 24
-- Joe Galloway on the demise of the US Army; torture
-- Ed Felten of Princeton on their investigation of a Diebold DRE: Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine, http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting

September 17
--David Dante Trout, edited “After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina”
--Mark Schleifstein, co-author with John McQuaid of “Path of Destruction”

September 10
--Paul Thompson, author of The Terror Timeline, A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11 and America’s Response

September 3
-- LIZ McINTYRE on the threat to privacy of tiny RFID chips
-- PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE RADIO on migrant workers
-- SHANNON YOUNG on the continuing uproar in Oaxaca

August 27
-- Conservative John Dean, former White House counsel under Nixon, on today's conservatives
-- Trita Parsi, the author of the forthcoming book Treacherous Triangle - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States

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