<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>Today, Monday, January 9, at 1 pm, Pacific Time, John Sakowicz and Sid Cooperrider, at KMEC Radio, welcome back State Department veteran, Peter Van Buren. We'll talk about the complex foreign policy issues facing the Trump Administration. In addition, we''ll discuss Van Buren's prescient 2014 book, "Ghosts of Tom Joad, A Story of the 99 Percent," </span><span>and his forthcoming book, "Hooper's War".</span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span> </span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>PETER VAN BUREN</span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span> </span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>Van Buren, a 24-year veteran Foreign Service Officer at the State Department, spent part of his career in Iraq. He is author of "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People".</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>Last October, he wrote “Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell: Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won’t Be Raised in the Presidential Debates,” See: <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175603" target="_blank">http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175603</a></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div></div><div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>Van Buren just wrote the piece “What Trump Could Do With Executive Power” for The American Conservative. See: <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-trump-could-do-with-executive-power/" target="_blank">https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-trump-could-do-with-executive-power/</a> </span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>KMEC Radio</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>Wherever you live, KMEC Radio is your community radio station. We broadcast from the offices of the Mendocino Environmental Center. Wherever you live, the Mendocino Environmental Center is your community. Our mission is peace and social justice. We put a special focus on environmental justice. </span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>We broadcast at 105.1 FM in Ukiah, CA. We also stream live from the web at <a href="http://www.kmecradio.org" target="_blank">www.kmecradio.org</a> </span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span>All shows are archived and available as podcasts. We may post shows to our Youtube channel. Individual shows get up to 43,000 views. 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