11-26-12 -- BEST OF DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE WITH ERNEST HANCOCK (MP3/Video Loaded)

Ian Williams (U.N. Correspondent for Tribune; Sr. Analyst Foreign Policy in Focus) on U.N.'s condemnation of U.S.'s Cuba Policy - Saul Landau (Professor, author, commentator, filmmaker) on the U.N./U.S./Cuba - Jeff Deist (Ron Paul's Chief of Staff)

Guests: Ian Williams

Topics: U.N. condemnation of U.S. Cuban Policy, U.N. Correspondent for Tribune, Sr. Analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus

Guests: Saul Landau

Topics: U.N. condemnation of U.S. Cuban Policy, Professor, author, commentator, filmmaker

Guests: Jeff Deist

Topics: Ron Paul's Chief of Staff, Ron Paul's future activism

Hour 1 - 3

Guests: Ian Williams

Topics: U.N. condemnation of U.S. Cuban Policy, U.N. Correspondent for Tribune, Sr. Analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus

BEST OF DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE WITH ERNEST HANCOCK RADIO SHOW for the week of November 19th, 2012:

Hour 1 - Ian Williams (U.N. Correspondent for Tribune; Sr. Analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus) on U.N.'s condemnation of U.S.'s Cuba Policy

Hour 2 - Saul Landau (Professor, author, commentator, filmmaker) on the U.N., U.S. and Cuba

Hour 3 - Jeff Deist (Ron Paul's Chief of Staff) talks about the future of the r3volution and Ron Paul's activism... (from end of 2nd segment to middle of 4th segment)

November 26th, 2012

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Hour 1

Ian Williams

Webpage: DeadlinePunditLTD.Com

U.N.'s condemnation of U.S.'s Cuba Policy

with a vote of 188 (yes) 3 (no)

Williams is a senior analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus

(FPIF.Org), and author of "Rum: A Social & Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776," and "The UN For Beginners." He said today: "The UN vote on the Cuba embargo reminds us yet again that U.S. foreign policy is concocted in a bubble detached from the real world, where most nations recognize that the boycott is designed to pander to the most reactionary Cuban emigres in Florida. Even dissidents in Cuba think that it is counterproductive, giving the Cuban government an excuse for its inefficiencies, while, like most such sanctions, harming
more the population than those in power. Obama, embarking on a second term, and winning Florida despite the Cuban vote, owes them nothing. He should use his influence to call off the embargo and allow free travel to and from Cuba."

Original Air Date:

2012-11-21 Hour 2 Ian Williams (DeadlinePunditLTD.Com)

on U.N.'s condemnation on U.S. Cuban policy

(Video Archive):

Hour 2

Guests: Saul Landau

Topics: U.N. condemnation of U.S. Cuban Policy, Professor, author, commentator, filmmaker

Hour 2

Saul Landau

Webpage: SaulLandau.Com

U.N.'s condemnation of U.S.'s Cuba Policy

with a vote of 188 (yes) 3 (no)

Landau, an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Landau’s most widely praised achievements are the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights, for which he won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for “Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.” In 2008, the Chilean government presented him withthe Bernardo O’Higgins Award for his human rights work. Landau has written fourteen books including a book of poems, “My Dad Was Not Hamlet.” He received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt. His 2011 film, WILL THE REAL TERRORIST PLEASE STAND UP covers 50 years of US-Cuba relations and features interviews with leading anti-Castro terrorists living in Miami as well as with Fidel Castro, retired and living in his home.

He is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Pomona. He is a senior Fellow at and Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies.

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