First Hour: Part 1 The 2004 Election in Historical Context Guest, Gore Vidal, author 46 (!) books, most recently, Imperial America: Reflections on the United States (Nation Books). Part 2 Vote Suppression: Is The Fix In? Guests: Gypsy Gallardo, St. Petersburg, FL (www.counteveryvote2004.org); Cleveland Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio). Second Hour The Kids Aren’t All … Continued
First Hour Molly Ivins, the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, UC Berkeley, 10/6/04 (Molly Ivins most recent book is Who Let the Dogs In? Political Animals I Have Known Random House.) Second Hour Two recent talks by Thomas Frank, author, What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America? Metropolitan Books. NOTE: These … Continued
First Hour: Presidential Politics and Health Care Excerpts from the 10/13 Bush-Kerry debate; guests: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, authors, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine (Doubleday) Second Hour Will Our Children Be Genetically Modified? Excerpts from a recent forum featurning Bill McKibben, author, Enough: Staying … Continued
First Hour: Lies, Truth, and the Media: The Dangerous Election Dance Guests: Michael Massing, author, Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq (NYReview of Books Press) Seymour Hersh, author, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (Harper Collins); Mickey Huff, co-director, RetroPoll (www.retropoll.org Second Hour: Four More Years? The Civil … Continued
First Hour: The Presidential Debate: A New Beginning? Excerpts from Pacifica Radio’s live broadcast of the 9/30 Bush-Kerry debate in Miami. Guest: Ben Fritz, co-editor, www.spinsanity.com, co-author, All the President’s Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth (Touchstone Books) Second Hour:Labor and the Election Guests: Mary Fromer, SEIU 707, Sonoma County; Mike Smith, … Continued
First Hour:Iraq Realities Guests: Cindy Sheehan, (www.realvoices.org) mother of Army Spec. Casey Sheehan, killed in Baghdad, 4/04; David O. Russell, director, "Three Kings" and "Soldier’s Pay" (at Roxie Cinema, SF; Oaks Cinema Berkeley); Douglas Valentine, author The Phoenix Program, and The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs (Verso). Second … Continued
First Hour Then And Now: The 2004 Election, and the Vietnam Experience Revisited Guests: Peter Davis, Producer/Director "Hearts and Minds" (1975) and "The Selling of the Pentagon" (1971); Thomas Powers, author, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York Review of Books Press); Carol Brightman, author, Total Insecurity: The Myth of American … Continued
First Hour: Beyond 9/11 and Iraq: Who Slays, Who Pays? Guests: Harlan Ullman, columnist, The Washington Times and commentator, Fox Network, author, Finishing Business: 10 Steps to Defeat Global Terror (Naval Institute Press); Joshua Goldstein, Brown University, author, The Real Price of War: How You Pay for the War on Terror (NYU). Second Hour:Can It … Continued
Hour One Beyond the RNC: Politics and Power in New York Includes excerpts from speeches at the Republican National Convention by Arnold Schwarzenegger and George W. Bush, plus John Kerry’s latest statement on Iraq. Interviews with protest organizers and their legal teams. Hour Two: Remember This! Intimate Portrayals of War Through the Eyes of Women … Continued
First Hour: Who Are the Republicans and How Did They Get That Way? Guests: Thomas Frank, author What’s the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (Metropolitan Books) Renata Adler, longtime staff writer, The New Yorker, author, Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Decision that Made Bush President (Melville House) … Continued
