Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – March 21, 2004

First Hour: 9/ll Update The September 11 Commission will hold hearings on Capitol Hill next Tuesday and Wednesday, 3/23 and 3/24, with witnesses including Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Madeleine Albright, and George Tenet. As a preview to the hearings, Sunday Salon hosts: Melvin Goodman, former CIA officer, now with the Center for International Policy, Washington; … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – March 14, 2004

First Hour: Women and Politics in the Bush Years Guests: Laura Flanders, host, Working Assets Radio, author, Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso), and Susan Douglas, professor of Communication, University of Michigan, co-author, The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Underminded Women (Free Press) Hour Two: A Radical Life with … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – March 7, 2004

First Hour: Killing the Buddha: A Heretics Bible. (Free Press) Two young men (Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau) travel the US, in search of clues to contemporary religious practices. and A Palestine Doctor’s Story. Interview with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, president, Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, director, Health Policy Institute, Ramallah. (Dr. Barghouti speaks Sunday March 7 … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – February 29, 2004

First Hour: Super Tuesday: Two Views from the Provinces Guests: Harvey Wasserman, Columbus, Ohio, senior editor, the Free Press, "Superpower of Peace" columnist; Dave Mann, Austin, TX, staff reporter, Texas Observer. Second Hour: California Matters – The Primary Hits the Coast Guests: Dr. Robert Smith, political science professor, San Francisco State University, co-author, African-American Politics; … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – February 22, 2004

Hour One: Gay Marriage: It CAN Happen Here! Guests include ACLU attorney Tamara Lange; David Moats, author Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage (Harcourt) and newly married couples. Hour Two: The Schools Today:Image and Reality Guest: Pedro Noguera, education professor, New York University, author City Schools and the American Dream. (Teacher’s Press)


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – February 15, 2004

First Hour How Much for That Presidentin the Window? Guest: Charles Lewis, executive director, Center for Public Integrity, editor The Buying of the President 2004 (Harper Perennial) www.publicintegrity.org Second Hour Losing the Battle for Hearts and Minds Guests: Robert Jensen, professor of journalism, University of Texas, author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – February 8, 2004

First Hour: Countdown to An Execution. Guests include: Aundre Herron, death penalty appellate attorney: Mike Farrell, chair, Death Penalty Focus; Mike Gray, author, The Death Game: Capital Punishment and the Luck of the Draw. (Common Courage Press) Second Hour: Robert McNamara and the Lessons of Vietnam Guest, Errol Morris, producer/director, "The Fog of War." Plus … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – February 1, 2004

First Hour: Poster Child for the Patriot Act? In-studio interview with attorney Lynne Stewart, charged with Federal felonies associated with her representation of imprisoned Muslim cleric Sheik Abdul Rahman. Also David Cole, law professor, Georgetown University, author, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism. (New Press) Special Report: Christian Parenti, … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – January 25, 2004

Hour One: Between the Battles:Iowa and New Hampshire Guests include: Farai Chideya, editor, popandpolitics.com; Peter Hart, senior editor, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Hour Two: The Forgotten Political Agenda:Civil Rights and Social Justice Guests include: Dr. Clarence Lusane, professor, school of International Sudies, American University, Washington; Sam Smith, editor, The Progressive Review. Listener phone-ins and … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – January 18, 2004

First Hour: Civil Rights, Then and Now. Guests: Claiborne Carson, history professor, Stanford, editor, Vols.1-4 "The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers" (Stanford); Debra Dickerson, author, The End of Blackness (Pantheon). Second Hour: The Bush Dynasty:Unbeatable in 2004? Guest, Kevin Phillips, author, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. … Continued