The US media have reported on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraqi cities. But 130,000 troops remain in Iraq and many argue that the occupation will continue only under a different guise. Have things really changed? Or has the occupation simply been rebranded?

Jeremy Scahill, best selling author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Patrick Cockburn, journalist and author of The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, and Kristele Younes, an Advocate at Refugees International on what the US withdrawal means. You can find more information on Iraq’s refugees at Iraqirefugeestories.org and Scahill's writings at his new blog, rebelreports.

Then, an interview with Mariam Said, whose mother, Wadad Makdisi Cortas’s memoir has just been published by Nation books. A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman, is a meditation on Arab identity in the twentieth century and of Cortas’s life in Lebanon as a woman, educator, and activist.

Finally, The Real News Network brings us up to date on the coup and struggle for power in Honduras.

Thanks to the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Teen Pregnancy Prevention for video in tonight’s show.