Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses … Continued
A new film the coming out called the Most Dangerous Man in America. it chronicles the life of Daniel Ellsberg who released the Pentagon Papers in the early 1970’s. We’ll be joined by the film makers Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith. And we'll speak to Bill Quigley with the Center for Constitutional Rights. He's been … Continued
Labor, Democrats and the 2010 midterm w/ Bill Fletcher of Blackcommentator.com and Mark Brenner of Labor Notes. Curtis Roosevelt, grandson of FDR.
Latest on Iran with Dr Maziar Behrooz, professor of History at San Francisco State University. Joan Buskapic on her biography about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia called American Original.
-Latest on the standoff between US & Iran with Shahram Aghamir with Pacifica's Voices of the Middle East. -Dem Rep John Murtha death & a look at the political landscape for November 2010 with Dave Dayen of Firedoglake.com -A research study about the lives of 62 former GTMO detainees with Laurel Fletcher of UC Berkeley. … Continued
-Look at the week ahead on Capitol Hill with Leigh Ann Caldwell of FSRN. -Senate GOP stalls Obama nomination of a labor lawyer to the NationalLabor Relations Board. -Report on Tea Party Convention by Brian Edwards Teakert. -Conversation with historian Peter Linebaugh about Thomas Paine.
Highlights:-Full coverage of the new unemployment data with Sylvia Allegretto, UCBerkeley Labor Economist, & Seth Wessler, a senior researcherassociate at the Applied Research Center.-Tariq Ali on his new book Protocols of the Elders of Sodom and Other Essays.
-Tariq Ali on latest drone attacks in Pakistan and the revelation that US troops are operating in Pakistan. -Another conversation on the state of the peace movement with Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy, and Rebecca Griffin with Peace Action West. -Conversation with Lilly Leadbetter. A bill signed into law last year, The Lilly … Continued
-Review of the first primary election for 2010 in Illinois with David Moberg of In These Times. -Dem Rep Maxine Waters returns from Haiti and introduces a bill that would help towards canceling Haiti's $600 million debt. -Robert McChesney and Jon Nichols on their book The Death and Life of American Journalism.
