Month: February 2006

KFPK Wed. 3/1: Iraq, Iran and the Dubai Ports

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Iraq, Iran, and the Dubai Ports: IAN WILLIAMS will explain everything. He’s UN correspondent for The Nation; he writes the “Deadline Pundit” blog, and his most recent book is RUM: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776.
Enrique's Journey.
PLUS: The Republicans call it “illegal immigration”:
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist SONIA NAZARIO recounts the journey of a 16-year-old Honduran boy who fought immense obstacles and peril to reach his mother in the US, who he hadn’t seen since he was five. Sonia’s book is Enrique’s Journey.

She will be in conversation with MARC COOPER at the downtown LA Public Library next Wed., March 8, at 7pm — reserve online here.
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The InterpreterTODAY’S HISTORY LESSON:
The American Army executed 70 of its own soldiers in Europe between 1943 and 1946. Almost all of them were black, in an army that was overwhelmingly white. How an American war of liberation turned into a Jim Crow nightmare: Duke University professor ALICE KAPLAN will explain. Her new book is The Interpreter.

MORE STUFF TO READ: JON WIENER, “A Night at Arianna’s: The Democrats and the War,” at TheNation.com or TruthDig.com.

KFPK Wed. 2/8: TERRY GROSS on BILL O’REILLY

All I Did Was Ask : Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and ArtistsTERRY GROSS of NPR’s “Fresh Air” is heard by more than 4 million listeners on more than 400 radio stations — she talks about what went wrong in her interviews with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and Bill O’Reilly. Also, she answers the question, “What is the deal with rumors that you are a lesbian?” Her book, All I Did was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists, is out now in paperback. (Originally broadcast November, 2004)

ALSO: HAMAS says it expects to head a new Palestinian government. Its leaders have said recently they will never accept the legitimacy of Israel, but will consider a “long-term truce” if Israel withdraws to its 1967 borders. For comment and analysis we turn to ROANE CAREY, he’s acting managing editor of The Nation — he’s also editor of The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent — it’s out now in paperback.

Planet of SlumsPLUS: MIKE DAVIS has a new book out: PLANET OF SLUMS: “Sometime in the next year or two, a woman will give birth in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, a young man will flee his village in west Java for the bright lights of Jakarta, or a farmer will move his impoverished family into one of Lima’s innumerable pueblos novenes. The exact event is unimportant and it will pass entirely unnoticed. Nonetheless it will constitute a watershed in human history, comparable to the Neolithic or Industrial revolutions. For the first time the urban population of the earth will outnumber the rural.”