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DESCRIPTION:Dennis Bernstein 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 af-pak/istan" which 
 examines the historical context of the war in the region, and its evolution 
 into Pakistan under the guise of the War on Terror.\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.\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.  \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.  Bernstein was chosen by 
 Pulse Media as one of "20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009."  \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/2010/05/31/18649405.php
SUMMARY:Obama's AfPak War: Pratap Chatterjee & Professor Kiren Chaudhry
LOCATION:145 Dwinelle Hall\nUC Berkeley Campus\nBerkeley, CA 
 94720\n\nhttp://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/31/18649405.php
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