“Six more years, six more years! Chavez, Chavez, six more years!” Fausta, of Faustasblog, interviews Daniel Duquenal of Venezuela News and Views for the details of the voting rituals of this key South American election.

Iranian dissident Zahra Kamalfar has been living with her children under unspeakable conditions in the transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport for 73 days. A one-time demonstrator against the extremist theocracy with a lengthy prison sentence, she escaped from an Iranian prison when on a two-day furlough to visit her children.

“If civil war does erupt, the notion that Hezbollah will emerge victorious is silly, because nobody will be victorious. Everybody will lose.”

In this exclusive podcast, Michael Totten talks with Tony Badran ( The Syria Monitor and Across the Bay) on the current atmosphere in Syria and Lebanon, and the prospects of another civil war in the region.

“The only explanation as to why we continue to ignore the secret Islamic terror network in America is that the demands of political correctness have made us so afraid of being branded racists that we force ourselves to be color blind, identity blind and gender blind till we end up, quite simply, totally blind.”

Why would Islamic terrorism bother to export agents into the US if they are already here? Vik Rubenfeld of The Big Picture interviews Harvey Kushner, author of Holy War on the Home Front: The Secret Islamic Terror Network in the United States, about how and where members of militant Islam are recruited here at home.

Exclusive: Richard Fernandez of Pajamas Media interviewed Dr. Robert Ayson of the Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence at the Australian National University to get some sense of how Australia and Japan might react to the North Korean nuclear test.

Austin Bay participated in this blogger conference call with Senator DeMint on new measures in port security.

“Hubris applies to people who believe that they know best; that they know better than the experts. They believe that their view of the world trumps the experts and everybody else…. They put their presumptions, what they believed to be true, ahead of the evidence. Every component of the disaster that has occured in the war… was written about by folks in and out of the White House prior to the invasion.” — David Corn

Pajamas Media Special Correspondent Andrew Keen interviews David Corn, the author of the best-selling Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War. Corn is also the Washington editor for The Nation. He blogs @ David Corn.Com.

An Exclusive Pajamas Media video presentation on Iranian President Khatami’s visit to the Washington National Cathedral. Produced by Andrew Marcus with Richard Miniter.
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“For almost two millenia, the Jews were the perfect victims. We had no state, we had no army, no political life. We had no ability to defend ourselves. We were gradually stripped of all our defenses and became the perfect victim.” — Benjamin Netanyahu

Pajamas Media Special Correspondent Pamela of Atlas Shrugsattended the speech of Benjamin Netanyahu at New York University yesterday and captured it on video. Here’s a significant portion.

On the eve of Mohammed Khatami’s controversial appearance at the National Cathedral in Washington, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) spoke with bloggers about the former Iranian president’s record and the Iranian regime in general. Online with the Senator: Robert Bluey (Human Events), Tim Chapman (Townhall), Andrew Cochran (The Counterterrorism Blog), Kathryn Jean Lopez (National Review Online), Paul Mirengoff (Powerline) Roger L. Simon and Juliette Ochieng (Pajamas Media). Pajamas Media recorded the discussion for this podcast.

Eugene, the 17-year old Israeli who made a media sensation by blogging from inside a bunker during the Israel-Hezbollah War, returns to Haifa after the war. In this podcast interview with Roger Simon, he speaks of the scene in Haifa now and the problems of Israeli society and political life in this new era. Eugene is now a Special Correspondent for Pajamas Media.

A Production of Pajamas Media, the Best of the Blogs, and POLITICSCENTRAL.

The UN ‘Solution:’ “Syria will not allow the UN’s diplomatic solution to be fulfilled.”

PJM’s Middle East Editor, Allison Sommer interviews Dr. Guy Bechor, head of Middle East Studies at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.

If you’ve gotten the impression that Iraq today is a wreck, you’ve gotten the wrong impression.

Richard Fernandez, PJM’s Sydney Editor and the writer behind “The Belmont Club,” phoned Major General William McCoy, Commanding General of the Corps of Engineers, Iraq, about a Washington Post assessment of the reconstruction efforts in Iraq (Much Undone in the Rebuilding of Iraq — Aug. 2, 2006) . The General had disagreed with just about everything in the article, yet his letter to correct the record went strangely unpublished by the Washington Post.

In this candid and far-ranging podcast interview, General McCoy discusses the conditions on the ground, the strategy of reconstruction, and what is needed to make a free, secure, and independent Iraq.

Some of General McCoy’s observations:

“We are making significant progress in the war on terror and significant progress in rebuilding Iraq.”

“People have to be able to see a future that is brighter than where they are.”

“Our contribution of 20 billion dollars is only a jumpstart of what this country needs…. There’s a 60 to 100 billion requirement for reconstruction in Iraq…. Have we had issues? Every day. And we continue to work through them to meet the needs of the Iraqi people.
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Tom Harb is the Secretary General of the International Lebanese Committee for UN Security Council Resolution 1559, the resolution mandating the disarmament of Hezbollah which never occurred. Mr. Harb speaks in this exclusive podcast interview with Roger Simon about what Harb’s sources in Lebanon are telling him about disturbing conflicts within the Lebanese Cabinet on Saturday, reported on earlier by POLITICSCENTRAL. He also describes the arrest by the Lebanese government this weeked of Cedar Revolution activists attempting to put up posters in favor of 1559. Pajamas Media POLITICSCENTRAL will be following this story in the days to come and staying in close touch with Mr. Harb.
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This Saturday Pamela of Atlas Shrugs managed to get the US Ambassador to the United Nations to sit down with her for nearly an hour. In a far-reaching and candid back-and-forth, they discuss the UN Ceasefire Resolution, the present and future state of Israel and the Middle East, and what lies ahead for the USA and the world in the War on Terror.
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A ceasefire is supposedly taking shape in the Israel-Hezbollah War but you wouldn’t know it from the “facts on the ground,” Michael Totten reports in this third podcast discussion with Roger L. Simon while en route from the front in Northern Israel to Tel Aviv. Earlier podcasts from Totten here and here.
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Terror plots being busted via electronic surveillance and confidential tips, Israelis in Lebanon, Ethiopians in Somalia, Iranians in Iran, and what Montgomery Ward taught us about fighting terrorism — all in the latest Glenn & Helen Show with guests Austin Bay and Jim Dunnigan.
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In his second podcast, Michael Totten reports from the rooftop of the Alaska Inn in Metulla, Israel. As the war revs up, he talks with some tense Israeli soldiers, then notices some people incongruously trying to continue their normal lives, jogging with their dogs or ordering pizza. He also recounts a conversation at the border with Israeli military historian Michael Oren. (First podcast report here)
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As the large-scale Israeli invasion of Lebanon begins, blogger/journalist Michael J. Totten on location at the border in Metulla, Israel gives this first exclusive PJM podcast report. Watch for more Totten podcasts from Israel soon at Politcs Central and PJM.

Blog investigation forced the vaunted British news agency to withdraw the Beirut photos of Adnan Hajj and fire the photographer. Is this just the tip of the iceberg? Should Reuters be investigated and, if so, by whom? PJM’s Roger Simon moderates this exclusive podcast discussion with Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post, Cliff May of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy and Thomas Lifson of The American Thinker.
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Inside a Jerusalem restaurant, Pamela of Atlas Shrugs talks with the Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick about the war. In this podcast, Glick criticizes the initial air war and warns that if Israel does not finish the job against Hezbollah, Lebanon is headed for Iran-style theocracy.

ISSUES CENTRAL: Exclusive podcast direct from a bomb shelter in Rosh Pina, Northern Israel - ERIKA GALILI - a web designer from Minneapolis who moved to Rosh Pina - speaks with PJM Middle East Editor ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER about the heavy new round of missile attacks in her neighborhood.

Sometimes lost in the confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel are other Lebanese groups like the Druze and the Christians. Here, in an exclusive podcast, Roger Simon speaks with AMALIA KAROUZ, a Greek-American woman married to a Christian Lebanese, about her life in Lebanon and the position of the Christian Lebanese in that society.

The dream of the Israeli Left was always if their country left Lebanon and Gaza, Israel would finally have peace. So they did - and the roof fell in. Israeli politics will never be the same, says Hebrew University Professor Reuven Hazan in this exclusive podcast interview with Pajamas Media Special Correspondent in Tel Aviv Allison Kaplan Sommer.

Doha and Raja of the influential The Lebanese Bloggers talk with PJM’s Roger Simon about Hezbollah, Israel and the future of Lebanon.

Eugene is back for a third time to talk to Roger Simon about the latest rocket attacks in Haifa. The mood remains surprisingly positive, even underground.

EUGENE - the seventeen year old from Haifa - has become something of an international sensation (interviews on CNN, NBC, Munich radio, etc.) for his reports from inside an Israeli bunker. Here he talks with Roger Simon about the situation in Haifa today. Eugene is now a Pajamas Media/Politics Central Special Correspondent.

Roger Simon interviews 17-year-old Eugene of Live from an Israeli bunker on the situation in Israel. More from Eugene to come as the situation develops.

As missiles fall deep into Israel… in an EXCLUSIVE POLITICSCENTRAL PODCAST Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. Simon interviews Israeli Ambassador to the US DANIEL AYALON on the ongoing war in Lebanon and the response of his country to the escalating threat from Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. Ayalon also tips his hat to the blogosphere where, he says, “more and more people in America and around the world will be getting their news and opinion.”