They called it “rebuilding Iraq,” and Peter van Buren knows a lot about what went wrong — he’s a career State Department foreign service officer who spent a year there on a Provincial Reconstruction Team. I spoke with him recently on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles. It says here you speak Japanese, Mandarin, and some Korean [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Ralph Nader, Cornel West, Jonathan Kozol and several others are looking for candidates to challenge Obama in the Democratic primaries next spring – JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation examines and evaluates their proposal. Also: The US effort to “Rebuild Iraq”: how about a plant producing frozen [...]
In a trial that never should have taken place, ten Muslim students at UC Irvine were convicted Friday of disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador on campus last spring.. . . . . . . . Continued at TheNation.com HERE
Georgia plans to execute Troy Davis Wed. at 4:00pm Pacific — despite impressive evidence that he is not guilty, and support for him from Jimmy Carter, the former head of the FBI under Reagan, and Pope Benedict XVI. KPFK is preempting regular programming, including our show, for a Democracy Now! live broadcast from outside the [...]
Cops lie. Under oath, on the witness stand. “I saw him reach for a gun.” “I found the drugs in his pocket.” But what happens when juries refuse to believe their testimony? Do cops ever get in trouble for fabricating evidence or lying under oath? Do they ever get charged with perjury? . . . [...]
First came the news that advisers to Israel’s foreign minister had recommended that Israel provide arms for the Kurdish terrorist group PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party which has been fighting an armed struggle against Turkey for an autonomous Kurdistan. The idea was for Israel to punish Turkey for expelling the Israeli ambassador, after Israel refused [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Today is the tenth anniversary of the War on Terror – of Congress authorizing the use of military force against terrorists. The result has been disastrous – but now several members of the House have introduced legislation that would repeal the 2001 Authorization. JOHN NICHOLS will [...]
If you Google “Pearl Harbor and 9/11,” you get more than 4 million hits. In George W. Bush‘s 9/11 interview on the National Geographic Channel last week, he said Sept. 11, 2001, eventually will be marked on calendars like Pearl Harbor Day: a day never to be forgotten by the people who lived through it. [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST RY COODER live in-studio talks about his new CD, “Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down.” “There’s you, the citizen, running in circles like a headless chicken. And there they are, there they all are, herding you faster and faster through the circle maze of lies [...]
This Labor Day, for the first time in 45 years, there won’t be a Jerry Lewis telethon on TV. It will be a great day for people with disabilities. The problem with the Jerry Lewis Telethon was not that he tried to help people with muscular dystrophy. The problem was the way Jerry Lewis did it. . [...]