Against the Grain – May 23, 2007
Acclaimed analyst and author Chalmers Johnson talks with Gray Brechin about Johnson’s new book "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic."
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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Acclaimed analyst and author Chalmers Johnson talks with Gray Brechin about Johnson’s new book "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic."
Author and activist Stephen Duncombe discusses his book "Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy."
Israeli academic Ilan Pappe talks about his groundbreaking book entitled "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine."
"Occupation 101" looks at the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Marxist geographer David Harvey talks about the origins, trajectory, and significance of free market fundamentalism.
Morris Berman discusses his book "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire," in which he argues that the US, as evidenced by domestic and foreign-policy trends and developments, has entered a new Dark Age.
A look at our credit-driven society in the "Overspent American".
Cultural studies expert Stuart Hall examines whether reality has any meaning apart from that which we give it – and what this means for how events are interpreted through the media.
Clemente and "Speed City" David Maraniss discusses the playing career and social activism of the baseball star Roberto Clemente. And Larry Walls describes how athletes at San Jose State University engaged in racial justice activism in the late 1960s.