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Third Rail is a politically abrasive Nü media radio show, where we talk about all the important issues you care about, the stuff that the old media won't touch with a 10-foot pole. Brought to you by your hosts J. Scott and Chuck Browder. Careful, touch it and you might get shocked. Airs live at 8pm est every Wednesday.
Mission Statement to Our AudienceThird Rail's goals are to debate real issues in an intellectually honest manner, no matter the cost. We promise to confront and conquer contemporary ideological issues and still manage to keep a smile on our faces as well as yours. From out in left field to just right of Attila 'the Hun', we will cover all of the bases.
Upcoming Guests This WeekU.S. News and World Report senior writer Tom Omestad & Dr. Philip Zimbardo author of The Lucifer Effect - July 2, 2008 8PM EST
Thomas Omestad covers international affairs and diplomacy. In his 10-plus years with U.S. News, he has covered Mideast peace efforts, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, Cuba under Fidel Castro, Syria’s government, anti-Americanism, Georgia’s new democracy, Taiwanese democracy, Muslims in Europe, Libya’s future, Morocco’s Islamists, German politics, post-authoritarian Indonesia, North Korean political prisons and nuclear challenge, reform efforts in Iran, and more. He writes on general issues of U.S. foreign policy. He occasionally travels with the press corps that accompanies the president and secretary of state. Prior to joining U.S. News in 1997, Omestad was for 10 years the associate editor of the journal Foreign Policy, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In that capacity, he covered firsthand the fall of the Berlin Wall, the “Velvet Revolution” in Czechoslovakia, and the waning days of the Soviet Union. Earlier in his career, he reported for the Los Angeles Times and for the Associated Press in South Dakota. His articles on foreign affairs have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the New Republic, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and the Miami Herald, among other publications. Omestad, a Minneapolis native, received a bachelor of science in economics, with honors, from the University of Minnesota in 1982, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He also studied political science, business, German, and Japanese. Omestad has been interviewed on national radio and television programs such as CNN’s Paula Zahn Now, CNN Headline News, and ABC Radio’s The Warren Pierce Show, as well as major market radio stations across the country. Check out some of his more recent articles regarding Brazil and the current world food crisis both here and here.
PHILIP ZIMBARDO is internationally recognized as the “voice and
face of contemporary American psychology” through his widely seen PBS-TV series,
Discovering Psychology, his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment,
authoring the oldest current textbook in psychology, Psychology and Life, in its
18th Edition, and his popular trade books on Shyness in adults and in children;
Shyness: What it is, what to do about it, and The Shy Child. Past president of
the American Psychological Association, and the Western Psychological
Association. Third Rail's Video FeaturesPhilip Zimbardo: A Tribute Brazil bans rice exports, protests in Peru To view previous video click here.
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