An eyewitness report from Iraq: filmmaker Laura Poitras talks about her award-winning documentary “My Country My Country” – it tells the story of a Sunni activist-doctor named Riyadh — an opponent of the occupation, a clear-thinking, educated everyman on a quiet crusade in Baghdad to heal whatever damage he can, and to get Sunnis [...]
MIKE DAVIS talks about his new book Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb – it’s our featured premium in the KPFK fund drive today. Reviewer John Leonard praised the book in the new Harper’s for its “savage sarcasm. . . As usual with Davis, this brilliant little book [...]
It’s the KPFK fund drive, today cohosting with Suzi Weissman, and featuring the new DVD, “The US vs. John Lennon,” during the hour.
“The U.S. vs. John Lennon” tells the story of Lennon’s transformation from loveable moptop to anti-war activist, and recounts the facts about Nixon’s campaign to deport him in 1972. With Walter Cronkite, Gore [...]
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“Black Like Me”: GARY YOUNGE explains “the magnitude of the Obama-thon currently taking place.” “What the nation has liked most,” Younge says, “is not what Obama has said or done but what he is. In short, Obama is a black man who does not [...]