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Tuesday November 11, 2008
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Guest host: Frank Sesno
A look at medical, mental health, and other needs of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the efforts to improve the delivery of services.
Barbara Romberg, founder and president of "Give an Hour," a non-profit organization which provides mental health care services to veterans and their families affected by the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; clinical psychologist
Sydney Freedberg, staff correspondent, "National Journal"
Jason Forrester, director of policy, Veterans for America, a non-partisan organization working to rebuild the military by ensuring the troops are given the care their sacrifice merits
Dr. Stephen Xenakis, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret.), consultant to the Department of Defense.
Recent violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has displaced an estimated two-hundred-fifty thousand people and threatens to spread to a wider region of Central Africa: An update on the complex crisis in this mineral rich area.
Mvemba Dizolele, fellow, Hoover Institution
Jennifer Cooke, director, Africa Program, CSIS
Edmund Sanders, Nairobi, bureau chief, Los Angeles Times
John Prendergast, co-chair of the ENOUGH Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity
Kevin Kennedy, chief of public information, UN Peacekeeping Operations, Democratic Republic of Congo
Ann Veneman, Ex Dir, Unicef former Secretary of Agriculture, 2001–2005
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