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DESCRIPTION:Dennis Bernstein, Host of KPFA Radio's Flashpoints, will moderate a 
 discussion with Pratap Chatterjee and Professor Chaudhry, who will discuss 
 the expansion of the AfPak War and its connection to securing oil in the 
 region. Chatterjee will share his first hand investigations in Afghanistan 
 and Iraq, including the massive waste, fraud and abuse among the 
 multi-billion dollar contractors that support the US military, as well as 
 their treatment of their Third World workers. Chaudhry will discuss her 
 essay "Dis(re)membering \pä-ki-ˈstän\" which examines the historical 
 context of the war in the region, and it's evolution into Pakistan under 
 the guise of the War on Terror.\n\nTICKETS $10 advance, 12 
 door\nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/112744\nMoe's, Mrs. 
 Dalloway's, Walden Pond, Pegasus, Modern Times, A Great Good Place for 
 Books\n\nProfessor Chaudhry is Associate Professor at the Department of 
 Political Science. She teaches in the fields of comparative politics, the 
 political economy of development, the Middle East, North Africa and South 
 Asia. Professor Chaudry received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, 
 and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.\n\nHer publications include 
 The Price of Wealth (1997); "The Myths of the Market and the Common History 
 of Late Developers," Politics and Society (1993); "Economic Liberalizations 
 and the Lineages of the Rentier State", Comparative Politics (1993); and 
 "The Price of Wealth: Business and State in Labor Remittance and Oil 
 Economics," International Organization (1989).\n\nPratap Chatterjee is an 
 investigative journalist and senior editor at CorpWatch. He is the author 
 of "Halliburton's Army" (Nation Books, 2009) "Iraq Inc: A Profitable 
 Occupation" (Seven Stories Press, 2004) and "The Earth Brokers" (Routledge 
 Press, 1994). He has traveled to the Middle East and Central Asia over a 
 dozen times including four reporting trips to both Afghanistan and Iraq in 
 the last decade. A Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellow, Pratap Chatterjee 
 founded Terra Verde on KPFA and was a host on Apex Express for many years. 
 He received awards from the Overseas Press Club, the International 
 Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Investigative Reporters and 
 Editors for his reporting from Afghanistan in 2009.\n\nDennis Bernstein is 
 an investigative reporter for print and radio. He is the producer and host 
 of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio. Flashpoints 
 originates from Pacifica Radio's flagship radio station, KPFA, the world's 
 first listener-sponsored non-commercial FM radio. Bernstein was chosen by 
 Pulse Media as one of "20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009." His articles 
 and essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Nation, and the New York 
 Times, and his first full-length book of poems, Special Ed, will be 
 published in the Winter.\n\nThis is a benefit for the First Voice Media 
 Collective. First Voice is sending local grassroots media producers from 
 the Bay Area to Detroit to attend the Allied Media Conference and the US 
 Social Forum in June. Many participants from the KPFA Apprenticeship 
 Program will attend and bring back reports from both conferences.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/17/18648189.php
SUMMARY:Pratap Chatterjee and Prof Kiren Chaudhry speak on Obama's AfPak War
LOCATION:145 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/17/18648189.php
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