Other International Programs    Africa: The Politics of Poverty 2003 Link TV presented a live call-in program about the impact of IMF and World Bank policies on poverty in Africa. The program includes a recent BBC documentary, Profits of Doom, that focuses on the West African country of Ghana, once hailed by the World Bank as a showcase for its policies. Today, after two decades of financial "discipline," the majority of Ghanaians are worse off than before. After the documentary, viewers called in their questions or comments to Robert Liebenthal, World Bank Senior Advisor for Africa; Njoki Jehu, Executive Director of 50 Years Is Enough; Tony Fratto, Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Treasury Dept.; and Thomas Palley, Director of the Globalization Reform Project for the Open Society Institute.  Newsbridge 2004 Newsbridge was a Link TV pilot produced by InterAct, which has led to the weekly Link TV series Global Pulse. The pilot program compared U.S. news reports with those from countries including Lebanon, Argentina and France on the reconstruction plans for post-war Iraq. Global Pulse, which ran between 2006 and 2010, compares news reports from around the world to explore what you know, and don't know, about the week's big stories. It is succeeded by Link TV’s news comparison series on Asia, launching in 2011. Africa Summit Link 2005 In February 2000, citizens at a soul food restaurant in the predominantly minority neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota were able to discuss issues of concern to the African American community with Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., President of the National Summit on Africa. The Summit was held in Washington DC and attended by hundreds of African and American political and community leaders. InterAct was able to connect the Minneapolis community to an important conference that would have been difficult for many of them to attend in person. Minneapolis and Washington were connected via San Francisco, making this InterAct's first 100% "virtual" program.