Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – August 14, 2005

Justice Sunday Justice Sunday is a television spectacle happening also this Sunday, where the Religious Right is beaming out their own special brand of TV style religious manipulation to try and garner support for Bush and the New Christian Right members of Congress and government. Larry Bensky will shine light on the Religious Right in … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – August 7, 2005

This week’s Sunday Salon has two exciting hours lined up with the welcomed participation of listener calls. In our first hour, Larry Bensky focuses the discussion on Hiroshima, with renowned historian Howard Zinn, Stephen Walker, author of Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima, Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, and Fuskao DeAngelis, who was … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – July 31, 2005

Pacifica’s national affairs correspondent Larry Bensky is back from New York for this week’s Sunday Salon. His guest first hour is Andrew Gumbel, author of Steal This Vote. We’ll hear shocking news about California’s new Secretary of State and see how California may just be right next to Ohio and Florida in having a corrupted … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – July 24, 2005

Larry Bensky, national affairs correspondent for Pacifica Radio and host of the weekly Pacifica radio news magazine, "Sunday Salon" comes to you this week live from New York City. We’ll find out why some people question the attitudes of George Bush’s Supreme Court nominee on women’s reproductive rights and environmental protections – we’ll talk about … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – July 17, 2005

fFirst Hour: "Iraq, Vietnam, and the Terrorism Puzzle" Guests: Terry McDermott, reporter, Los Angeles Times, author, Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers, Who They Were, Why They Did It (Harper Collins); Frances Fitzgerald, author, Fire in the Lake:The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972); Charles E. Neu, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Miami, author, America’s … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – July 10, 2005

Larry Bensky returns: Health, illness, hospitalization, life and its passages Susan Halpern, author, The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can’t Find the Words (Bloomsbury); Kelly Bulkeley, co-author, Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to Pre-Death Dreams and Visions (Beacon); Sharon R. Kaufman, author And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – July 3, 2005

Van Jones, founder of the Ella Baker Center forHuman Rights, will be guest anchoring "Sunday Salon" this Sunday, July 3rd, Larry Bensky has been out on medical leave andreturns next week. Our first hour, we’ll hear a live report from FreeSpeech Radio News and Pacifica Radio reporter AaronGlantz on the elections in Iraq. Then, we’ll … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – June 12, 2005

Matt Gonzalez continues to fill in for Larry Bensky, who is recovering from surgery. In our first hour, we discuss how to "Fight with our Dollars," by making choices with how we spend on money on a day to day basis. Pratap Chattergee from CorpWatch joins Alisa Gravitz from Co-op America and Catherine Austin Fitts … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – June 5, 2005

Matt Gonzalez is filling in for Larry Bensky, who is recovering from surgery. First hour, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey is with us live and discusses her historic amendment to bring the troops home from Iraq, and fills us in on the priorities of the Progressive Caucus in Congress. We’ll open up phones so listeners can speak … Continued