Oliver Stone & Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Making New Film “Snowden,” Humanizing World’s Most Wanted Man; “Pardon Snowden” Campaign Launches, Led by ACLU, Amnesty & Human Rights Watch; Obama’s War on Whistleblowers Forced Edward Snowden to Release Documents, Says Wikileaks Editor; Is Hillary Clinton’s Criticism of Edward Snowden a Distraction from Real Issue of Surveillance?
Listen to excerpts of the Veterans for Peace Event; and The Untold History of The United States.
Today on Flashpoints: More arrests in North Dakota in defense of mother Earth. We’ll speak with Tom Goldtooth, a Native American environmental activist. And we air excerpts of the documentary film by Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
James W. Loewen is an acclaimed historian and best-selling author whose mission is to overturn myths and misinformation that too often pass for U.S. history. A highly sought-after speaker and author, he engages audiences with intelligence and humor, honing in on a range of topics encompassing U.S. history, multicultural education, civil rights, race relations, voting … Continued
Heist: Who Stole The American Dream
With Arlie Russell Hochschild author of the book Strangers in Their Own Land Anger and Mourning on the American Right. About the book: In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country—a stronghold of the conservative … Continued
“Everything Was Cut Immediately”: LIU Faculty and Students Protest Lockout & Class Cancellations; Rep. Barbara Lee on Hillary Clinton’s Health: Transparency is Important, But We Need to Move Forward; Rep. Barbara Lee: Repeal 9/11 Authorization for Use of Force to Cancel Blank Check for Endless War; Lawyer for Imprisoned Whistleblower Chelsea Manning: Ongoing Pattern of … Continued
We check in with George Farah, who reveals the “Secrets of the Tomb,” otherwise known as the Commission on Presidential Debates. And the Mathbabe, Cathy O’Neil, drops in to discuss how numbers can crunch us with her book Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
With Robert Warrior, professor of American Studies and English at the University of Kansas. Warrior is co-author of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee with Paul Chaat Smith. About the book: It’s the mid-1960s, and everyone is fighting back. Black Americans are fighting for civil rights, the counterculture is … Continued
Today we hear excerpts from a talk by Alan Watts on the influx of Eastern philosophy into the American consciousness. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to … Continued
