Month: October 2007

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SUSAN FALUDI exposes they way the 9-11 attacks led to a call to restore “traditional” manhood, marriage, and maternity. “Once again,” she says, Americans “fled from self-knowledge and retreated into myth.” Susan wrote the unforgettable book BACKLASH; Her new book is The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in post-9/11 America.

also: from the charcoal pits of Brazil to the brothels of Bangkok, 27 million people work as slaves today, more than twice the total number in the 350 years of the African slave trade. KEVIN BALES talks about ENDING SLAVERY— he shows “how our world can be free at last” — Desmond Tutu.
Watch the video: Kevin Bales on ending global slavery.

More stuff to read: my piece at the Huffington Post, “Carl Bernstein: Hillary Will Continue Bush’s Legacy of Secrecy.”

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MIKE DAVIS talks about the politics, and the ecology, of the wildfires burning today in Southern California — which have now destroyed almost 1200 homes and led to the evacuation of almost 1 million people. Mike wrote the now-legendary piece, “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn” — it’s in his book Ecology of Fear, which we will be featuring as a fund drive premium.

also: What is it about Al Gore that drives right-wingers insane?
Apparently it has something to do with his winning the Nobel Peace Prize and the success of “An Inconvenient Truth.” “In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film.” — Rogert Ebert. We will be featuring the DVD of “An Inconvenient Truth” as a fund drive premium. watch the trailer

More stuff to read: my new piece at the Huffington Post,  “[Expletive] the Jews. They didn’t vote for us anyway”: Republicans and Israel.”

The KPFK Fund Drive continues — pledge at www.kpfk.org or by calling 818-985-5735.

Health care may turn out to be a bigger issue in the 2008 elections than Iraq, and the case for universal health care is presented with wit and skill in MICHAEL MOORE’s movie ‘SiCKO.’  Kenneth Turan of the LA Times called “SiCKO” Moore’s “most important, most impressive, most provocative film.” We’ll be featuring the brand new DVD of “SiCKO” as a fund drive premium.
Watch the trailer for “SiCKO”

Also: EVIL PARADISES, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to real places that claim to be “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions or governments. These are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Featured in the book: my essay on Ted Turner’s utopia — two million acres with no people; just him and his herd of bison. We”ll be featuring Evil Paradises as a fund drive premium.

More stuff to read: From the Huffington Post: My piece “Jews, Jesus, and Republicans: Playing Ann Coulter’s Game”
–and my piece “Who Wants to Bomb Iran? Democrats, not Republicans, says Seymour Hersh”

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“NO END IN SIGHT” is the first film to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, and anarchy. George Clooney says: “Watch this. Get your friends to watch it. Talk about it. Argue about it. And then call someone.” We’ll be featuring “No End in Sight” as a fund drive premium.
WATCH THE TRAILER for “No End in Sight”

Also: Your Minnesota Moment: Is Desmund Tutu bad for the Jews? St. Thomas College in St. Paul thought so—they cancelled a lecture of his because he’s criticized Israeli human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza–and then they changed their mind.

Plus: We have learned that when President Bush says, “We don’t torture,” it’s important to read the fine print. DAVID COLE will explain – he’s a law professor at Georgetown University, a contributor to Salon.com, The Washington Post, and The Nation. He says there’s no evidence our “paradigm of prevention” has done anything to prevent terror.
We’ll be featuring his new book as a fund drive premium: LESS SAFE, LESS FREE: Why America is Losing the War on Terror.

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Legendary investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH says the White House has changed the targets it plans to attack in Iran. Bush and Cheney have concluded that the public didn’t believe their claims about Iranian nukes, so instead they have targeted the Revolutionary Guard Corps – arguing that they are attacking Americans in Iraq. Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre – his report “Shifting Targets” appears in The New Yorker this week. Hersh will be speaking at UCLALive’s Royce Hall Thurs at 8pm — tickets/info at www.uclalive.org.

Also: Why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world — Nicholas Guyatt’s light-hearted report “from the front line of wacky religious fervor” (Observer). His book is HAVE A NICE DOOMSDAY. Guyatt teaches at Simon Fraser U. and writes for the London Review of Books.

Plus: SUPERCAPITALISM: ROBERT REICH says we need to revive the democratic process to bring capitalism under control – with fair taxation, well-funded public education, and organized trade unions. Reich was Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, and now teaches public policy at Berkeley. He’s speaking Thurs. nite at 730pm at Town Hall Writers Bloc in Westwood.

More stuff to read: my piece “Clarence Thomas and Rupert Murdoch” at the Huffington Post. . .
. . . and my piece “John Dean: From Nixon to Bush to Giuliani: ‘Much, Much Worse’”, also at the Huffington Post