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A former defense researcher and member of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London and public affairs officer for the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America in Santiago, Chile, Larry Birns taught Latin American studies, comparative government, and international law for 15 years at a number of colleges and universities. Educated at Columbia and Oxford, he has edited a book on the overthrow of the Allende government, and has authored scores of articles on U.S.-Latin American relations, including for The Nation, New York Review of Books, Ottawa Citizen, the Guardian, London Independent, The Village Voice, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Houston Chronicle, Atlanta Constitution, Toronto Star, Orlando Sentinel, Newsday and The New York Times, among many other publications.
Birns has been the director of COHA since 1975. He has made frequent appearances on foreign and U.S. network radio and television programs, including regular appearances on the Voice of America and National Public Radio (“Talk of the Nation,” “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” and “The Diane Rehm Show”), as well as regular analyses for the BBC, Radio Havana, Canadian Television, and the CBC radio network (“As It Happens”), and has made repeated appearances on “The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour,” “Crossfire,” and ABC’s “Nightline,” and the CBC’s “Newsworld.” He also has appeared on “This Week With David Brinkley,” C-SPAN, “Firing Line,” CBS’s “Nightwatch,” NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” INN, CBS, ABC, and NBC Evening News, along with many TV and radio programs, as well as serving as a special news consultant to ABC. He also has appeared on the Larry King, Gill Gross, and Michael Jackson Network talk shows, as well as scores of local talk programs in cities across the country, including Boston, New York, Denver, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Chicago and Washington.
In addition, his analyses of Latin American issues are widely cited by the U.S., Canadian, British and Latin American wire services, and scores of foreign and domestic newspapers and news weeklies. Birns has also lectured at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
At 5 PM MST Ravi Somaiya – Originally from London, Ravi writes for a wide variety of people, including the Guardian newspaper back in England.
Gawker dishes the nation’s most current and cutting gossip across media, entertainment, technology, and business. Founded in 2002 and name checked frequently in mainstream publications, the site is essential reading for those who want big media hypocrisy debunked and faux-sincerity exposed, all with a healthy dose of snark.
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at 5:30 PM MST Richard ‘Ishmael” Scott returns to discuss his latest piece at Boiling Frogs Post on the Minot Barksdale AFB nuclear weapons scandal.
“Over 36 hours on August 29-30 2007, six AGM-129_ACM Air Launched Cruise Missiles each containing one W80_(nuclear_warhead) were removed from safeguarded weapons storage facilities at the Minot AFB in North Dakota, loaded aboard a B-52 bomber and flown 1500 miles to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana.
While removed from secure storage, these weapons passed through six separate links in the chain of custody without being discovered, without being visually inspected and were left unguarded and unsecured on the runways of both Minot and Barksdale for 15 hours and 12 hours respectively before the Ordnance Unloading Team at Barksdale discovered the error, established a security zone and activated a Nuclear Security Alert to further safeguard the warheads.
