no show today — instead tune in to hear the Pacifica Archives special “Say It Loud,” featuring the voices of Muhammad Ali, Michael Moore, Gore Vidal, Tariq Ali, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Lily Tomlin, and Malcom X.
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American officials in Baghdad inhabit an isolated world: the Green Zone, a walled fortress filled with villas, swimming pools, and shiny new SUVs. It’s ground zero for cultural blindness, neo-con fanaticism, and imperial fantasy – the place where the American effort to remake Iraq was always doomed [...]
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Brutal working conditions, food poisoning, animal cruelty, low wages, plus sex and drugs in the packinghouse: those stories are told in the new film “FAST FOOD NATION.” It opens on Friday. ERIC SCHLOSSER, who wrote the book and the screenplay, will talk about how they made what Manohla Dargis [...]
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JOHN NICHOLS on the Democrats and the war: Congressman John Murtha says the meaning of the election is “get out of Iraq.” But that isn’t what Nancy Pelosi said, or Hillary Clinton. John is Washington Correspondent for The Nation magazine and writes “The Online Beat” blog at TheNation.com. [...]