First Hour: Iraq, Two Years Later Guests include: Norman Solomon, syndicated media columnist and author (Target Iraq, What the News Media Didn’t Tell You); Alex Ryabou, Iraq Veterans Against the War. Second Hour: Peace Protests: Connections and Disconnections Guests Include: Amy Quinn, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington; local protest organizers. Listener participation welcome both hours: … Continued
First Hour: Spring Is Springing:Is There Life in the Urban Air? Guests: Mark Bitner, author, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, (Harmony Books) and Judy Irving, director, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Second Hour: A Complicated Crisis: Syria, Lebanon, and Beyond Guests: Euripedes Evriviades, Cyprus Ambassador to the U.S.; Scott Davis, author, The Road … Continued
First Hour: Sunset Story": Activism in Old Age Guests: Eden Wurmfeld, producer, "Sunset Story"; Howard Vicini, Mitzi Ross, Berkeley Gray Panthers and… Update from Fallujah: a Rare Voice from Within! Guest: Mark Manning, filmmaker Second Hour: Computers in Schools: Trap or Treasure? Guest: Todd Oppenheimer, author, The Flickering Mind: Saving Education from the False Promise … Continued
First Hour: The C.I.A.: from Test Tubes to Torture Guests: Michael Scheuer, author (as "Anonymous") Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Brassey); Lindsay Moran, author, Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy (Putnam). Second Hour: Can It Happen Here? Again? Voting Reform after 2004 Guests: Emily Levy, Project … Continued
First Hour: Political Resistance: The Bush Years Guests: Chris Carlsson, editor, The Political Edge (City Lights Books); Brian Drolet and Alpa Patel, producer/editors, Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation (Deep Dish TV: www.deepdishtv.org) Second Hour: Iraq: An Electoral Solution, or More of the Same? Guests: Christian Parenti, author, The Freedom: Shadows … Continued
First Hour: Democracy in Danger:The Ohio Election, 2004 KPFA premiere of a new radio documentary (Christopher Sprinkle, producer), Also: update with Susan Truitt, attorney, Ohio Citizens for Secure Elections (www.caseohio.org). Second Hour: The Death Penalty:American Paradigm A talk by Sister Helen Prejean in Berkeley, 1/23/05, hosted by Larry Bensky. NOTE: Both the Ohio documentary (and … Continued
First Hour: Social Security: Collapse or Crisis? Guests: Karen Dolan, Executive Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington (www.ips-dc.org); Scott Burns, co-author The Coming Generational Storm; (MIT Press), Don Morrison, North Dakota Progressive Alliance. Second Hour: Opportunism or Opportunity?: Israel/Palestine Today. Guests: Professor George Bisharat, Hastings Law School, San Francisco, author Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule … Continued
First Hour: Social Insecurity: The National Surveillance State Guest: Robert O’Harrow, Jr., Washington Post and Center for Investigative Reporting, author, No Place to Hide (Free Press). Iraq Election Update, with David Baran, Le Monde Diplomatique, ("Falluja, Iraq’s Place of Sacrifice," December 2004). Author, L’Iraq En Transition Paris, Mille et Une Nuits, 2004. Second Hour: Pioneering … Continued
First Hour: The Week that Was Washington Excerpts from Barbara Boxer questioning Condoleeza Rice. Second Hour: Executions and Justice Guests: Sister Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking (1993), The Death of Innocents (Random House, 2005); Professor Franklin Zimring, Earl Warren Institute, UC Berkeley, author, The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment . Note: Sister Helen Prejean … Continued
First Hour: The Human Condition: Oppression, Depravity, and Political Response Guests: Dr. Clayborn Carson, political science professor, Stanford University, editor, The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. (Vol.5, 2005, UC Berkeley Press); Laurence Rees, author Auschwitz: A New History (Public Affairs Press) – also writer/producer Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (PBS, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30 www.pbs.org/auschwitz); … Continued
