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Encyclopedia > Aaron Glantz
Aaron Glantz

Aaron Glantz, born in 1977 in San Francisco, is an American journalist. With a special focus on Iraq, Glantz works as a reporter for Pacifica Radio as well as for other media outlets such as the global news agency Inter Press Service (IPS). This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Pacifica Radio Network. ... Inter Press Service is a news agency with the specific purpose to support the production and dissemination of information on national and international realities with particular regard to the developing countries. ...


Glantz, who attended the University of California, Berkeley to become a journalist, is a founding producer of Pacifica Radio’s national newscast, Free Speech Radio News. He has visited Iraq three times during the U.S. occupation: for a month immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein; from February to May 2004; and during the elections in January of 2005. In the course of his work he has also reported from Denmark, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Korea, Turkey, and Vietnam. Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) is a worker run collective that produces a half hour newscast each weekday. ... Occupation zones in Iraq as of September 2003 The post-invasion period in Iraq followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational coalition led by the United States, which overthrew the Baath Party government of Saddam Hussein. ... Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: [1]; April 28, 1937[2] – December 30, 2006[3]), was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. ... Iraqi police officers hold up their index fingers marked with purple indelible ink, a security measure to prevent double voting. ...


Before becoming an international reporter, Glantz served as California State Capitol reporter for Pacifica’s flag-ship station, KPFA in Berkeley, California, where he won the California Journalism Award for radio in 2000. California State Capitol Capitol Building from N Street The California State Capitol building in Sacramento, California houses the California State Legislature and the office of the Governor of California. ... KPFA KPFA (94. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ...


Glantz lives with his wife Ngoc Nguyen in Berkeley.


Publication

In 2005; Aaron Glantz published his book How America Lost Iraq (Tarcher/Penguin; ISBN 1-58542-426-9), in which he gives a voice to the Iraqis and tells how the U.S. government squandered, through a series of blunders and brutalities, the goodwill with which most Iraqi’s greeted the American invasion and the elation they felt at the fall of Saddam Hussein.


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