LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST MIKE DAVIS talks about CHALMERS JOHNSON, our most brilliant and acute critic of American empire, author of the award-winning Blowback and more recently The Sorrows of Empire and Dismantling the Empire. He died Saturday. Also we’ll listen to my last interview with Chalmers. READ Tom Engelhardt [...]
Sarah Palin could win the presidency in 2012—that’s what Frank Rich [1] said in the New York Times on Sunday—but not in a two-person head-to-head race. For Palin to beat Obama, a third-party candidate would have to run, and take votes away from Obama. And we have a potential third-party spoiler, Rich says: New York Mayor [...]
“LENNONYC” tells the story of Lennon’s move to New York City in 1971 with Yoko Ono, his anti-war activism, the Nixon Administration’s effort to deport him, and the music he made in the last nine years of his life. It features interviews with musicians who worked with Lennon, plus immigration attorney Leon Wildes, photographer Bob [...]
It’s the Pacifica Archives fund drive, and we’ll be featuring Pacifica audio documentaries on Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon: for Jimi Hendrix, an amazing show featuring rare recordings and interviews with blues singer John Hammond (who befriended the young Hendrix in Greenwich Village in 1966), Chas Chandler from The Animals (who brought Hendrix to England [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST George W. Bush’s book tour, interviews plugging his memoirs, has gotten low ratings on TV — GREG MITCHELL reports on media and politics hits and misses — he writes the indispensable “Daybook” every morning at TheNation.com, and he’s the author of Campaign of the Century, the [...]
Of all the characters in the last 40 years of Doonesbury, my personal favorite is Mr. Butts—and not just because he appeared on the cover of The Nation (Jan. 1, 1996). Garry Trudeau has had lots of more compelling characters, but Mr. Butts in his own way was perfect: the smiling cigarette-man who was unfailingly [...]
The election day exit polls had some good news for Obama: voters don’t blame him for “current economic problems.” But the same poll also had some really bad news for him. . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE
California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer defeated challenger Carly Fiorina by a ten-point margin on Tuesday, winning a total of 3.8 million votes, more than the combined vote total of ten Tea Party senate candidates. The Tea Party Senate candidates made big news, but they ran mostly in small states. Also, several lost. . . . [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Our election analysis the morning after: HAROLD MEYERSON of the Washington Post looks at the Democrats’ loss of working-class whites in key midwestern states; JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation says first-term presidents often suffer mid-term setbacks–the question is what Obama will learn from this one; and [...]
California’s initiative to legalize marijuana failed to win a majority at the polls Tuesday. Prop 19, which received 3.3 million votes but lost 54 percent to 46 percent, would have would have legalized possession and cultivation of marijuana and authorized cities and counties to regulate and tax commercial marijuana production and sales. . . . [...]