ROBERT SCHEER Editor of TruthDig.com, Scheer is author of the new book The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street. Scheer recently wrote the piece “They Go or Obama Goes,” which states: “When homes are foreclosed in a neighborhood, the equity of those in the area…

ERIC LeCOMPTE, MELINDA ST. LOUIS LeCompte is executive director and St. Louis is deputy director of the Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of more than 75 religious denominations, human rights groups and development agencies. The network just released a statement: “Jubilee USA joins global advocacy groups in an outcry against the new debt that Pakistan…

RICHARD WOLFF Recently back from Europe, Wolff is author of the book Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He said today: “Today’s general strike across France represents a major escalation of mass opposition to governments seeking to make the mass of people pay for the economic crisis…

Monday is Labor Day. Today the unemployment rate rose to 9.6 percent. The U6 rate, which includes those accepting part-time work instead of full-time work and those who have stopped looking for work, rose to 16.7 percent. SARAH ANDERSON, via Tamar Abrams Anderson is global economy project director at the Institute for Policy Studies and…

Amb. EDWARD L. PECK Available for a limited number of interviews, Peck was chief of mission in Iraq and Mauritania and deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration. On May 31, he sailed from Athens aboard the M/S Sfendoni as part of the flotilla taking humanitarian supplies to…

NIR ROSEN Available for a limited number of interviews, Rosen is author of In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq and a fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security. RAED JARRAR Jarrar is an Iraqi-born political analyst and Iraq consultant with the American Friends Service…

IVOR VAN HEERDEN SANDY ROSENTHAL Author of The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina — the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist, van Heerden is featured in the new film “The Big Uneasy,” a documentary by Harry Shearer that is playing tonight in theaters across the country. Van Heerden is an adviser…

Saturday, August 28 is the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. Rallies are planned by Fox host Glenn Beck and by Al Sharpton. DEDRICK MUHAMMAD Muhammad just wrote a piece titled “A Dishonor to the Legacy of Dr. King,” which states: “Does…

JORDAN FLAHERTY Author of the just-released book Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six, Flaherty said today: “I’m concerned about those who have been kept out of most discussions of the city’s future. More than 100,000 former New Orleanians remain displaced in 5,500 cities across every U.S. state. A recent survey found…

SNEHAL SHINGAVI Shingavi is an assistant professor of South Asian literature at the University of Texas in Austin. He addresses several aspects of the current crisis in his two-part interview with The Real News, “Why isn’t the world rushing to rescue Pakistan?” SHAHID MAHMOOD Mahmood was an editorial cartoonist for Dawn, a national newspaper in…