THE JOHN KERRY FBI FILE: back in 1971, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI considered John Kerry a possible threat to national security because of his outspoken protests against the war.
John Glionna of the LA Times reports; plus Gerald Nicosia, author of Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans Movement.
Plus: HAROLD MEYERSON of the LA [...]
SANDRA TSING LOH was fired by KCRW for a broadcast that included a forbidden word — she talks about timidity in public radio.
(She’s still doing commentaries on “Marketplace” — and moves to KPPC in June.)
ALSO: The Fountain at the Center of the World , by ROBERT NEWMAN — the New York Times called it [...]
The first anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq :
— a report from UC Irvine historian MARK LeVINE of Occupation Watch live in Baghdad,
– and comment and analysis from HAROLD MEYERSON of the LA Weekly and the Washington Post.
Web extra: Sunday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld got caught blatantly contradicting his past statements on the [...]
3 STRIKES/10 YEARS
This week is the 10th anniversary of California’s three strikes law — and the latest evidence is that it has NOT reduced crime, as its defenders claim. Today: comment and analysis from JOE DOMANICK of USC’s Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism — he’s just published Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the [...]
SEYMOUR HERSH reported the My Lai Massacre; now in The New Yorker he shows that the Bush administration has tolerated a nightmarish nuclear weapons black market in Pakistan in return for permission for US troops to hunt Osama inside that country.
Also: our report on HAITI: AMY WILENTZ wrote the book The Rainy Season: Haiti Since [...]