Gimme Some Truth, The John Lennon FBI Files
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"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.- Available now on DVD
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On the stand with yippies, Black Panthers, and political activists at the conspiracy trial that defined the youth rebellion of the 1960s.
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Historians in Trouble examines a dozen scholarly scandals of the last few years, and asks why some historians accused of misconduct end up on page one and have their careers ruined, while others end up honored at the White House by President Bush.
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Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files
"Return with Wiener to another, not necessarily simpler but very different time when govern-
ments feared revolution by the young, fomented by a rock star. . ." - - Booklist.
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Recent articles by Jon Wiener
- "Big Tobacco and the Historians"(The Nation)
- "Rick Warren's Clout."(The Nation)
- The Wal-Mart Story:Nelson Lichtenstein’s book. (L.A. Times)
- Free Speech in Wartime:Gene Debs (Dissent)
- Mark Rudd’s Weatherman Memoir.(L.A. Times)
- This Republic of Sufffering by Drew Gilpin Faust(Los Angeles Times)
- "Judging Clarence Thomas"(The Nation)
- History as Moral Obligation: An Interview with Saul Friedlander. (Dissent)
- 'Hell is Other People': Ted Turner's Two Million Acres in Mike Davis, ed., Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
- End of an Era at the LA Weekly: After the New Times Takeover
- Christopher Hitchens: Religion Poisons Everything (TruthDig.com)
- Arctic Jews: An Interview with Michael Chabon (Dissent mag)
- The Last Lennon FileSecrecy and Freedom of Information
- He didn't have to do it. That's one reason he's still admiredThe Guardian
- Was Nixon Worse?Counting the Dead in Vietnam and Iraq
- John Lennon's Legacy:Did 'Give Peace a Chance' Save a Single Life?
- Confrontation in Black and White:LA Times Book Review
- America, Through a Glass Darkly:The Hofstadter Boom
- A Century of Regime Change:Stephen Kinzer's Overthrow
- White Collar BluesBarbara Ehrenreich's Bait and Switch
- Remembering Gene McCarthy1916 - 2005
- Dreams and Delusions:Five New Books about California.
- Teaching 9/11Thinking about the "lessons of history"
- Cancer, Chemicals and HistoryWhen the corporations go after the professors
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Streaming Audio
- Amos Oz: "A Tale of Love and Darkness" (Dec. 8, 2004)
- Terry Gross: "All I Did was Ask" (Nov. 17, 2004)
- Howard Zinn: "Build the antiwar movement" (Nov. 17, 2004)
- Julian Bond: the 1960s (July 31, 2001)
- Joan Didion: "Where I Was From" (Nov. 5, 2003)
- Al Franken: "Lies and the Lying Liars" (Nov. 5, 2003)
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- The NationAmerica's Oldest Weekly Journal of Opinion
- Marc CooperL.A.'s Premiere Pundit
- Katha PollittPoet, essayist, award-winning columnist
- Barbara EhrenreichNickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch
- David CornMother Jones Washington editor
- Harold MeyersonOur man on the Washington Post op-ed page
- Juan Cole"Informed Comment" on Iraq
- Fresh Air with Terry Grossradio's greatest interviewer
- This American LifeIra Glass reinvents radio
- Harry ShearerRadio from the LeShowDome
- Eric FonerAmerican historian
- Howard ZinnA People's History of the US
- TomDispatchTom Englehardt's antidote to the mainstream media
- Mother JonesThe mother lode
- TruthDigDrilling beneath the headlines
- Ian WilliamsDeadline Pundit
- John NicholsThe Online Beat
- LA ObservedKevin Roderick
- History News NetworkThe past is the present
- AlterNetThe Mix is the Message
- Common DreamsNews for the progressive community
- Danny SchechterThe News Dissector
- The Media ChannelGlobal Network for Democratic Media
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Podcasts - full list
- 4 Oclock Wednesdays - Jon Wiener, Wed, September 01, 2010
- 4 Oclock Wednesdays - Jon Wiener, Wed, August 25, 2010
- 4 Oclock Wednesdays - Jon Wiener, Wed, August 18, 2010
- 4 Oclock Wednesdays - Jon Wiener, Wed, August 11, 2010
- 4 Oclock Wednesdays - Jon Wiener, Wed, August 04, 2010
- 4 Oclock Wednesdays - Jon Wiener, Wed, July 28, 2010
