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Two takes on the year in review:
REBECCA SOLNIT says it was “a bad year for Goliath” – but not necessarily a good one for David. “Thirteen months ago,” she writes at TomDispatch.com, “when Bush was reelected, the despondent around me seemed to think that our future was graven in stone. [...]
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Spying on Americans: George Bush says it’s a good thing – and he also thinks the president has the power to do it. DAVID COLE disagrees – he teaches law at Georgetown and his new book is Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties for National Security. His [...]
No show this week, but some recommended reading:
“Remembering Gene McCarthy” (TheNation.com)
“Nation Magazine Cruise Diary: The Case of the Forbidden Flambée” (HuffingtonPost.com)
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Dec. 8 is the 25th anniversary of the killing of JOHN LENNON. We’ll commemorate that anniversary by listening to some rare audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives documenting Lennon’s engagement with the anti-war movement of the sixties: ABBIE HOFFMAN talking about John Lennon in a 1981 interview, PETE SEEGER [...]