No show today — it’s the 4th of July. More stuff to read: my new piece in The Nation, “End of an Era at the LA Weekly.”
The KPFK Fund Drive continues! Today: the award-winning documentary “Iraq in Fragments” presents a stunning portrait of three worlds. We see the war in Baghdad through the eyes of an 11-year old boy, who has been apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; next, followers of Moqtada al-Sadr enforce Islamic law at the [...]
Do you want lies with that? Brutal working conditions, food poisoning, animal cruelty, low wages, plus sex and drugs in the packinghouse: all those stories are told in the film FAST FOOD NATION, out now on DVD, which will be our featured premium in the KPFK Fund Drive today. Manohla Dargis of the New York [...]
no show today — I’m out of town. It’s the 40th anniversary of Israel’s Six-Day War –you can read my interview with Tom Segev about it at TheNation.com.