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Making Contact
"Making Contact" is produced by International Media Project, an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1994, committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material. Its core focus is National Radio Project, the team that creates Making Contact.
This week on Making Contact:
More than a decade after the start of the second Gulf War, the United States has embarked on a bombing campaign targeting Islamic State forces inside Iraq and Syria. It’s the third U.S. military action inside Iraq in as many decades. But the reasons for the new war keep shifting, from protecting ethnic and religious minorities, to preventing terrorist attacks on the U.S. As independent producer Reese Erlich reports from Northern Iraq, this latest conflict, and the future of the region is tightly connected to the oil industry and international politics.
Featured speakers/guests:
Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda, The Tyranny of Oil, and Black Tide; Fauzi Ali and Aiwa Majdal, Yazidi refugees; Chenar Rozbyani, photographer; Richard Nabb, oil company advisor; Kemal Afaraci, assistant district manager Tak Tak oil field; Shirin Jabar, demonstrator at KDP rally.
Credits:
Host: George Lavender
Producers: Andrew Stelzer, Laura Flynn, Jasmin Lopez
