The tomato is in trouble. The tomatoes in Big Macs and Taco Bell tacos and in supermarkets, especially in the winter, all come from the same place: South Florida. The tomato fields there are “ground zero for modern-day slavery” – that’s what the Chief Assistant US Attorney says. And there’s one other problem: those tomatoes [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST What Happens When Three Sputtering Economies Collide? MIKE DAVIS connects the dots between China’s bubble, the Euro’s trouble, and the unfolding disaster in Washington. Mike wrote about it for TomDispatch.com; he teaches writing at UC Riverside. Plus: The mess in Washington: HAROLD MEYERSON looks again at [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The Republicans were winning everything in the budget debate – then they threw it all away. We’ll have our political update from ARI BERMAN of The Nation. Plus: “Being a white man in America is not what it used to be,” says GARY YOUNGE. He asks [...]
JW: The Village Voice called Super Sad True Love Story “the finest piece of anti-iPhone propaganda ever written.” GS: I was a person like Lenny, fairly analogue, and to research this book I hired an assistant who got me an iPhone, and got me on Facebook and Twitter. I went from somebody who didn’t want to [...]
In my experience of 30 years of commuting on the 405 between West L.A. and Irvine, 55 miles each way, only one thing has significantly reduced traffic: the closing of the aerospace industry following its peak in 1987. . . . The one thing that reduces rush hour traffic is unemployment. Firing tens of thousands of [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Yesterday Wisconsin voted in the first round of the campaign to recall Republicans in the state legislature — and all six “real” Democrats won their primaries, defeating the fake Democrats run by the Republican establishment. The big elections will be Aug. 19. JOHN NICHOLS of The [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama’s Mother, the amazing Ann Dunham: she married a black man – Barack Obama Sr. — when she was 18, and then she worked with poor women in the third world for more than a decade. JANNY SCOTT of the NY Times tells that story – [...]