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		<title>Pre-empted for fund drive: KPFK Wed. 2/22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: my show today 2/22 on KPFK has been preempted for the fund drive.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/02/22/pre-empted-for-fund-drive-kpfk-wed-222/</link>
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		<title>Santorum in Michigan, Newt in L.A.: KPFK 2/15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE NEWT GINGRICH was in Los Angeles this week, meeting Latino supporters in South El Monte and Tea Party members in Pasadena – SEAN WILENTZ will comment on Newt’s history – why so many Republicans hate him.  Meanwhile Rick Santorum tops Romney in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/02/14/newt-in-l-a-kpfk-wed-2-15/</link>
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		<title>Tom Frank: How did the Right do it?  KPFK 2/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TOM FRANK – “the sharpest, funniest political commentator on the scene,” says Barbara Ehrenreich – has a new book out: Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right.  It’s “a brilliant exposé of the most breath-taking ruse in American political history: how the right turned the biggest capitalist breakdown since 1929 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/02/07/tom-frank-how-did-the-right-do-it-kpfk-28/</link>
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		<title>Newt and Mitt After Florida: KPFK Wed. 2/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE Maybe you heard the news: Mitt beat Newt in the Florida primary last night.  But both have big problems as challengers to Obama; BETSY REED says, “It’s astonishing that a party with nearly limitless financial resources has such paltry human resources.” Betsy is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/01/31/newt-and-mitt-kpfk-wed-21/</link>
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		<title>Gail Collins on Newt and Mitt: KPFK 1/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE GAIL COLLINS, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, talks about Obama, Gingrich, and Mitt Romney, who went on a family vacation to Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car &#8212; and also about William Henry Harrison, subject [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/01/25/gail-collins-on-newt-and-mitt-kpfk-125/</link>
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		<title>When LA fought about art: LA Times op-ed 1/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we have street art, but we don&#8217;t have people fighting in the streets about art.  In 1966, the anti-war Artists&#8217; Tower of Protest on Sunset Strip provoked nightly battles for three months, as pro-war young men attacked the tower, and artists organized a defense squad.  Now it has been re-created as part of Pacific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/01/25/when-la-fought-about-art-la-times-op-ed-125/</link>
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		<title>Romney Father &amp; Son: Rick Perlstein on KPFK 1/17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE What Mitt Romney learned from his father, the liberal Republican star George Romney: RICK PERLSTEIN analyzes how the son was scarred for life by his father’s defeat in 1968. Rick now writes for Rolling Stone; he’s the author of the classics Nixonland and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/01/17/romney-father-son-rick-perlstein-on-kpfk-117/</link>
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		<title>Ten Years of Gitmo: KPFK Wed. 1/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE Ten Years of Gitmo: Today is the tenth anniversary of the Bush administration establishing Guantanamo Bay as a prison free from the legal protections provided by the Constitution, a place where torture and illegality were routine. DAVID COLE says the injustice practiced there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/01/10/ten-years-of-gitmo-kpfk-wed-111/</link>
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		<title>The UFW: What Went Wrong?  The Nation 1/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United Farm Workers was once a mighty force on the California landscape, with 50,000 members at the end of the 1970s; today the membership is around 6,000.   What happened? And to what extent was the UFW responsible for its own demise? Frank Bardacke has been thinking about that for a long time. . .  . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/01/05/the-ufw-what-went-wrong-the-nation-15/</link>
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		<title>Iowa GOP: 3/4 don&#8217;t want Romney: KPFK 1/4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN to this show online HERE &#8212; SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast  HERE Today/Wed 4-5pm on KPFK 90.7FM: In the Iowa caucus voting last night, 3/4 of Republicans didn&#8217;t want Mitt Romney, even though he&#8217;s their inevitable candidate &#8211;weak and uninspiring, in an election the GOP could otherwise win.  JOHN NICHOLS explains what happened &#8212; he&#8217;s Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2012/01/04/iowa-gop-34-dont-want-romney-kpfk-14/</link>
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		<title>Our War on Xmas: KPFK Wed. 12/28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE HERE SUBSCRIBE TO iTUNES PODCAST HERE Our war on Xmas: listening to BOB DYLAN&#8217;s Christmas album! Is this a joke — or a tragedy? SEAN WILENTZ explains — he’s official historian at the official Bob Dylan website (he also teaches history at Princeton.)  READ Sean Wilentz on Dylan’s Xmas album [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/12/27/our-war-on-xmas-kpfk-wed-1228/</link>
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		<title>Five Worst Political Books of 2011: Nation 12/21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting with Bill Clinton&#8217;s Back to Work: Clinton’s argument about “why we need smart government for a strong economy” begins at the end of his presidency in 2000, when employment was booming. But to understand what has happened since then, you need to understand what Clinton did. Then comes Chris Matthews&#8217;s Jack Kennedy, Elusive Hero &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/12/23/five-worst-political-books-of-2011-nation-12/</link>
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		<title>What if Ron Paul wins in Iowa?  KPFK Wed. 12/21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST In the upcoming Iowa caucuses, Republicans like  anti-war Ron Paul&#8211;and Democrats may vote for “Uncommitted” rather than Obama. JOHN NICHOLS explains – he blogs at TheNation.com. Also: TOM FRANK talks about the “bottomless sense of grievance” on the right today – for example, the “Team Infidel” people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/12/20/what-if-ron-paul-wins-in-iowa-kpfk-wed-1221/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Hitchens: Truthdig 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jon Wiener: You show in your book God Is Not Great how many horrible things men have done because of religion. In Belfast, Beirut, Bombay, Belgrade and Baghdad, men kill other men, and say God told them to do it.  But why blame God for the bad things that men do? Christopher Hitchens: I don’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/12/17/interview-with-hitchens-truthdig-2007/</link>
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		<title>Five Best Political Books of 2011: TheNation 12/15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A personal list, starting with Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State . . . . . . and then To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918, by Adam Hochschild. . . . . . and Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable. Posted at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/12/16/five-best-political-books-of-2011-thenation-1215/</link>
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		<title>The GOP War on Voting: KPFK Wed. 12/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican states have been changing their laws to make it harder to vote – now activists are challenging those laws, and yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder finally suggested he might enforce the laws the prohibit discrimation in voting, especially when they target minority voters – ARI BERMAN of The Nation will report. Plus: blacks and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/12/13/the-gop-war-on-voting-kpfk-wed-1214/</link>
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		<title>Obama and Jobs, Protest in China: KPFK Wed. 12-7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Manufacturing in America: 54,000 American factories have closed in the past decade.  What would it take to bring some of them back from China?  HAROLD MEYERSON reports on differing strategies – match Chinese wages; or beat the Chinese with productivity; or provide government support for manufacturing.  Harold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/12/06/obama-and-jobs-protest-in-china-kpfk-wed-12-7/</link>
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		<title>David Montgomery, 1927-2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Montgomery, one of the founders of the “New Labor History” in the United States, who inspired a generation of activists and historians, died December 2. He was 84. David lived a remarkable life: blacklisted as a union organizer in the 1950s, twenty years later he was named Farnam Professor of History at Yale. Even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/12/03/david-montgomery-1927-2011/</link>
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		<title>From OccupyLA to the streets of Cairo: KPFK 11-30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Occupy LA: 1,400 LAPD cops cleared the encampment at City Hall park in the middle of the night last night, arresting  almost 300 people.   ALAN MINSKY was there, reporting for KPFK &#8212; we&#8217;ll talk with him about the night, the Occupy movement, and of course the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/11/29/from-occupyla-to-the-streets-of-cairo-kpfk-11-30/</link>
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		<title>Berkeley Faculty Condemns Chancellor for Police Violence: Nation 11/28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Berkeley Academic Senate voted 336 to 34 on Monday afternoon to “condemn” Chancellor Robert Birgeneau for his administration’s “authorization of violent responses to nonviolent protests over the past two years,” culminating in the police attack on nonviolent Occupy Cal demonstrators on November 9. . . . . . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/11/29/berkeley-faculty-condemns-chancellor-for-police-violence-nation-1128/</link>
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		<title>Berkeley Faculty: No Confidence in Chancellor Over Campus Police Violence: Nation 11/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the Berkeley Academic Senate will vote on a resolution expressing “no confidence” in their chancellor, Robert Birgeneau, because of police violence against Occupy Cal campus activists there on November 9. The chancellor’s defense of police conduct was particularly outrageous: “It is unfortunate that some protesters chose to obstruct the police by linking arms,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/11/25/berkeley-faculty-no-confidence-in-chancellor-over-campus-police-violence-nation-1125/</link>
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		<title>All Night, All Day, Occupy USA: KPFK Wed. 11/23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The OccupyUSA live-blog at TheNation.com tracks the movement across the country and the world with updates often every 5 minutes: it’s the work of GREG MITCHELL – he has a new book out, 40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere. Also: REBECCA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/11/23/all-night-all-day-occupy-usa-kpfk-wed-1123/</link>
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		<title>Pepper Spray on Campus: A Tale of Two Videos &#8212; The Nation 11/20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two unforgettable videos flew around the world wide web on Saturday, one horrifying, the other inspiring. Everybody knows the first: black-clad cops at UC Davis shooting pepper-spray into the faces of Occupy Wall Street student demonstrators who are sitting passively on the ground with linked arms. More than two million people have watched that video on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/11/20/pepper-spray-on-campus-a-tale-of-two-videos-the-nation-1120/</link>
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		<title>The Audacity of Occupy Wall Street: KPFK 11-16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Monday night the Occupy Wall Street camp in Manhattan was destroyed by the NYPD; today the activists are back, but barred from camping overnight.  RICHARD KIM, executive editor of The Nation will comment on what Occupy has accomplished and what’s next – his report, “The Audacity of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/11/16/the-audacity-of-occupy-wall-street-kpfk-11-16/</link>
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		<title>GOP Defeats at Polls: KPFK Wed. 11/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Voters yesterday rejected right-wing overreach with an unbroken string of Democratic and progressive victories: HAROLD MEYERSON comments on the defeat, 61-39, of the Ohio law stripping public employees of collective-bargaining rights, and the defeat in Mississippi, 57-43, of a sweeping antiabortion initiative.  Harold writes for the Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/11/09/gop-defeats-at-polls-kpfk-wed-119/</link>
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		<title>Eric Hobsbawm: How to Change the World &#8212; LA Review of Books 11/4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Hobsbawm, How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism He’s Back! cried the headline in The Times of London in fall 2008 as global stock markets crashed and banks failed. The “he,” of course, was Karl Marx, who had written 160 years earlier about the periodic “crises of capitalism.” . . . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/11/04/eric-hobsbawm-how-to-change-the-world-la-review-of-books-114/</link>
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		<title>How Homeland Security Increases Your Cancer Risk: The Nation 11/2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cancer danger from the new airport security scanners–which look under a traveler’s clothing&#8211;is greater than we had feared.   &#8220;Research suggests that anywhere from six to 100 Americans could get cancer each year from the machines,&#8221;  ProPublica&#8217;s Michael Grabell says.  &#8220;Still, the TSA has repeatedly defined the scanners as &#8216;safe.&#8217;&#8221;. . . . . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/11/02/how-homeland-security-increases-your-cancer-risk-the-nation-102/</link>
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		<title>Occupy Fox News: The Nation 10/21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only in LA: On one side of Pico Blvd., the Rancho Park golf course, with joggers, dog walkers and of course, golfers; on the other, a hundred “Occupy Fox News” demonstrators outside Fox Studios, chanting “We – are – the 99 per cent!”; in between, a hundred LA cops, many with riot gear at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/10/21/occupy-fox-news-the-nation-1021/</link>
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		<title>Ry Cooder&#8217;s L.A. Stories: KPFK Wed. 10/19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Occupy Wall Street made a stunning showing over the weekend – we’ll talk about the different manifestations around Southern California with ALAN MINSKY, KPFK program director.  My personal favorite: Occupy Irvine – more than 500 people marched on Saturday.  Who would have thought? Also: It’s time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/10/18/kpfk-wed-1019-occupy-l-a-occupy-long-beach-occupy-irvine-occupy-riverside/</link>
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		<title>Hard Hats and Hippies, Together at Last: Nation 10/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After decades in which “hard hats” were described as enemies of the left, and four decades after construction workers in lower Manhattan attacked anti-war demonstrators on Wall Street, the AFL-CIO on Thursday called on its members to defend Occupy Wall Street from the NYPD as the city moved to arrest and evict protestors in Zuccotti [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/10/14/hard-hats-and-hippies-together-at-last-nation-1014/</link>
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		<title>Republicans Kill Jobs Bill: KPFK Wed. 10/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW– SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Last night Senate Republicans blocked Obama’s jobs bill, which would have taxed millionaires to fund infrastructure construction, repair schools, and rehire cops, teachers, and firefighters who have been laid off.   Meanwhile,  Occupy Wall Street grows.  JOHN NICHOLS will comment&#8211;he writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com. Big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/10/11/republicans-kill-jobs-bill-kpfk-wed-1012/</link>
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		<title>What Does Sarah Palin Want?  Money.  Nation 10/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Sarah Palin announced last week that she was not running for president, many wondered, what had she been trying to do during the last three years, when she seemed to be almost a candidate?  Now we know: she was trying to make money. . . .  continued at TheNation.com HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/10/11/what-does-sarah-palin-want-money-nation-109/</link>
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		<title>Cold War Culture Workers: Dissent Fall 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From High Noon to The Ten Commandments, from low-budget horror films like Them! to noir melodramas like Panic in the Streets, Hollywood was a key arena for the giant U-turn in American politics that took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s.  (Review of  An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/10/11/cold-war-culture-workers-dissent-92011/</link>
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		<title>Occupy LA Endorsed by City Council: Nation 10/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a move that dramatizes the political differences between Los Angeles and New York, several members of the LA City Council today declared their support for Occupy LA and introduced a resolution that will put the city officially on record as endorsing the demonstrators camped at City Hall. City Council president Eric Garcetti, who is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/10/05/occupy-la-endorsed-by-city-council-nation-105/</link>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street: The Spark &#8211; KPFK Wed. 10/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Everybody has advice for the protesters at Occupy Wall Street –What do these people want, anyway?  They need to explain their demands!  BETSY REED, executive editor of The Nation, says progressives have plenty of policy ideas.  Occupy Wall Street provides something new: a spark. Occupy L.A. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/10/05/occupy-wall-street-the-spark-kpfk-wed-105/</link>
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		<title>The Reconstruction of Iraq: That &#8220;Hearts and Minds Thing&#8221;: The Nation 9/29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They called it “rebuilding Iraq,” and Peter van Buren knows a lot about what went wrong &#8212; he’s a career State Department foreign service officer who spent a year there on a Provincial Reconstruction Team. I spoke with him recently on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles. It says here you speak Japanese, Mandarin, and some Korean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/28/the-reconstruction-of-iraq-that-hearts-and-minds-thing-the-nation-929/</link>
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		<title>A Primary Challenge to Obama?  KPFK  9/28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Ralph Nader, Cornel West, Jonathan Kozol and several others are looking for candidates to challenge Obama in the Democratic primaries next spring – JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation examines and evaluates their proposal. Also: The US effort to &#8220;Rebuild Iraq”: how about a plant producing frozen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/27/a-primary-challenge-to-obama-kpfk-9-28/</link>
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		<title>Irvine Muslim Students Convicted: The Nation 9/24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a trial that never should have taken place, ten Muslim students at UC Irvine were convicted Friday of disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador on campus last spring.. . . . . . . . Continued at TheNation.com HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/25/irvine-muslim-students-convicted-the-nation-924/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed 9/21: Preempted: Troy Davis Execution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Georgia plans to execute Troy Davis Wed. at 4:00pm Pacific &#8212; despite impressive evidence that he is not guilty, and support for him from Jimmy Carter, the former head of the FBI under Reagan, and Pope Benedict XVI.  KPFK is preempting regular programming, including our show, for a Democracy Now! live broadcast from outside the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/20/kpfk-wed-921-preempted-troy-davis-execution/</link>
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		<title>When Cops Lie: The Nation, 9/19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cops lie. Under oath, on the witness stand. “I saw him reach for a gun.” “I found the drugs in his pocket.” But what happens when juries refuse to believe their testimony? Do cops ever get in trouble for fabricating evidence or lying under oath? Do they ever get charged with perjury? . . . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/19/when-cops-lie-the-nation-919/</link>
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		<title>Should Israel Arm Kurdish Terrorists?  Nation 9/17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First came the news that advisers to Israel’s foreign minister had recommended that Israel provide arms for the Kurdish terrorist group PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party which has been fighting an armed struggle against Turkey for an autonomous Kurdistan. The idea was for Israel to punish Turkey for expelling the Israeli ambassador, after Israel refused [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/18/should-israel-arm-kurdish-terrorists-nation-917/</link>
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		<title>10th Anniversary of the War on Terror: KPFK 9/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Today is the tenth anniversary of the War on Terror – of Congress authorizing the use of military force against terrorists.  The result has been disastrous – but now several members of the House have introduced legislation that would repeal the 2001 Authorization.  JOHN NICHOLS will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/13/10th-anniversary-of-the-war-on-terror-kpfk-914/</link>
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		<title>Pearl Harbor and 9/11: A Fleeting Day of Infamy &#8212; L.A. Times 9/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you Google &#8220;Pearl Harbor and 9/11,&#8221; you get more than 4 million hits. In George W. Bush&#8216;s 9/11 interview on the National Geographic Channel last week, he said Sept. 11, 2001, eventually will be marked on calendars like Pearl Harbor Day: a day never to be forgotten by the people who lived through it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/08/pearl-harbor-and-911-a-fleeting-day-of-infamy-latimes-99/</link>
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		<title>Ry Cooder: No Banker Left Behind &#8211; KPFK Wed. 9/7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST RY COODER live in-studio talks about his new CD, “Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down.”  “There&#8217;s you, the citizen, running in circles like a headless chicken. And there they are, there they all are, herding you faster and faster through the circle maze of lies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/06/ry-cooder-no-banker-left-behind-kpfk-wed-97/</link>
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		<title>The End of the Jerry Lewis Telethon &#8212; It&#8217;s About Time: The Nation 9/2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Labor Day, for the first time in 45 years, there won’t be a Jerry Lewis telethon on TV. It will be a great day for people with disabilities. The problem with the Jerry Lewis Telethon was not that he tried to help people with muscular dystrophy. The problem was the way Jerry Lewis did it. . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/09/02/the-end-of-the-jerry-lewis-telethon-its-about-time-the-nation-92/</link>
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		<title>Rep. Karen Bass: Obama and Jobs &#8211; KPFK Wed. 8/31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST KAREN BASS started out as a community organizer in South L.A.; now she&#8217;s a member of Congress.  Today she&#8217;s at the Congressional Black Caucus Jobs Fair in L.A. &#8212; we&#8217;ll ask her about Obama and jobs, and why she voted in favor of the debt ceiling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/08/30/rep-karen-bass-obama-and-jobs-kpfk-wed-831/</link>
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		<title>KPFK 8/24, 8/17: No show/Fund Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: KPFK on Wed 8/24 &#38; 8/17 pre-empted my show for special fund drive programming. Please pledge — call 818-985-5735, or online at kpfk.org.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/08/17/kpfk-817-no-showfund-drive/</link>
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		<title>Skip Gates on Being Black: KPFK Wed. 8-10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST SKIP GATES is the Harvard professor of African American studies who had that “beer summit” at the White House with President Obama and the Cambridge cop who arrested him for breaking into his own house.  He talks about what it means to be &#8220;black&#8221; in Latin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/08/09/skip-gates-on-being-black-kpfk-wed-8-10/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Surrender: KPFK Wed. 8/3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama&#8217;s surrender to Republicans &#8220;savages programs for the lower and middle classes, while hedge fund managers and oil companies probably won’t sacrifice a cent.&#8221; JOHN NICHOLS will comment &#8212; he writes &#8220;The Beat&#8221; blog at TheNation.com. Also: from the archives: our interview with TERRY GROSS of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/08/02/republican-triumph-kpfk-wed-83/</link>
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		<title>The Trouble with the Tomato: The Nation 7/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tomato is in trouble. The tomatoes in Big Macs and Taco Bell tacos and in supermarkets, especially in the winter, all come from the same place: South Florida.  The tomato fields there are “ground zero for modern-day slavery” – that’s what the Chief Assistant US Attorney says.  And there’s one other problem: those tomatoes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/07/26/the-trouble-with-the-tomato-the-nation-727/</link>
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		<title>Mike Davis: Connecting the Dots in the Global Economy &#8211; KPFK Wed. 7/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST What Happens When Three Sputtering Economies Collide? MIKE DAVIS connects the dots between China’s bubble, the Euro’s trouble, and the unfolding disaster in Washington.  Mike wrote about it for TomDispatch.com; he teaches writing at UC Riverside. Plus: The mess in Washington: HAROLD MEYERSON looks again at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/07/26/mike-davis-connecting-the-dots-in-the-global-economy-kpfk-wed-727/</link>
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		<title>The GOP Abandons Victory over Obama: KPFK 7/20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The Republicans were winning everything in the budget debate – then they threw it all away.  We’ll have our political update from ARI BERMAN of The Nation. Plus: &#8220;Being a white man in America is not what it used to be,&#8221; says GARY YOUNGE. He asks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/07/19/the-gop-was-winning-then-they-threw-it-away-kpfk-wed-720/</link>
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		<title>Gary Shteyngart on &#8220;the near future&#8221;: Nation 7/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JW: The Village Voice called Super Sad True Love Story “the finest piece of anti-iPhone propaganda ever written.” GS: I was a person like Lenny, fairly analogue, and to research this book I hired an assistant who got me an iPhone, and got me on Facebook and Twitter. I went from somebody who didn’t want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/07/18/gary-shteyngart-on-the-near-future-nation-718/</link>
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		<title>Carmageddon in LA: The Nation 7/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my experience of 30 years of commuting on the 405 between West L.A. and Irvine, 55 miles each way, only one thing has significantly reduced traffic: the closing of the aerospace industry following its peak in 1987. . . . The one thing that reduces rush hour traffic is unemployment. Firing tens of thousands of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/07/13/carmageddon-in-la-the-nation-714/</link>
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		<title>Dems Win Wisconsin Primaries: KPFK Wed. 7/13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Yesterday Wisconsin voted in the first round of the campaign to recall Republicans in the state legislature &#8212; and all six &#8220;real&#8221; Democrats won their primaries, defeating the fake Democrats run by the Republican establishment. The big elections will be Aug. 19. JOHN NICHOLS of The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/07/12/gary-shteyngart-political-satire-kpfk-713/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Amazing Mother: KPFK Wed. 7/6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama’s Mother, the amazing Ann Dunham: she married a black man – Barack Obama Sr. &#8212; when she was 18, and then she worked with poor women in the third world for more than a decade.  JANNY SCOTT of the NY Times tells that story – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/07/05/obamas-amazing-mother-kpfk-wed-76/</link>
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		<title>Lennon: NOT a &#8220;Closet Republican&#8221;: Nation 6/29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guy named Fred Seaman is all over the conservative blogs today for a new documentary in which he claims that John Lennon was “a closet Republican” at the time he was shot. This seems unlikely. First of all, who is Fred Seaman? . . . . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE and see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/06/29/lennon-not-a-closet-republican-nation-629/</link>
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		<title>Wikileaks and National Security: KPFK 6/29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST A federal grand jury in Alexandria VA is working on the Wikileaks case and may soon bring charges against Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and 2 hackers for national security violations.  ERWIN CHEMERINSKY will comment on the terrible Espionage Act and on Obama’s record on overclassification &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/06/28/wikileaks-and-national-security-kpfk-629/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Afghan Pullout Plan: KPFK Wed. 6-22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST President Obama will announce his decision on the speed and size of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in a speech tonight at 5:00pm – our JOHN NICHOLS will provide a preview.  He’s Washington correspondent for The Nation and he writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/06/21/court-tells-women-of-wal-mart-no-kpfk-6-22/</link>
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		<title>Bad Political Art at the Venice Biennale &#8211; Dissent 6/16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American pavilion at the Venice Biennale features an upside down tank &#8212; symbol of the impotence of US imperialism &#8212; and an example of really bad political art. . . . continued at Dissent Magazine HERE. &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/06/16/bad-political-art-dissent-616/</link>
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		<title>Ai Weiwei at the Venice Bienalle: ChinaBeat 6/15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the world’s biggest art event this summer, the Venice Biennale, the world’s most famous imprisoned artist, Ai Weiwei, was not exactly neglected—but his case received virtually no official acknowledgment. . . . an unofficial contribution, “Bye Bye Ai Weiwei,” written in six-foot tall white neon letters along the Giudecca canal, was visible to all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/06/15/ai-weiwei-at-the-venice-bienalle-chinabeat-615/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6/8, 6/15: No show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for the record: my show on KPFK Wed 6/7 is cancelled &#8212; on vacation!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/06/07/kpfk-wed-67-no-show/</link>
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		<title>Anti-War: WWI, and Now: KPFK Wed 6/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The anti-war movement in WWI in Britain took a heroic stand against senseless slaughter: ADAM HOCHSCHILD tells that story in his magnificent new book To End All Wars &#8211; it was featured on page 1 of the New York Times Book Review. I&#8217;ll be in conversation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/05/31/anti-war-wwi-and-now-kpfk-wed-61/</link>
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		<title>Bob Dylan&#8217;s Birthday: KPFK Tues 5/14, 11am-1pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST It&#8217;s Bob Dylan&#8217;s 70th birthday!  I&#8217;ll be co-hosting a two-hour special, at a special time: Tues 11am-1pm, featuring Sean Wilentz, author of Dylan in America; Bob Dylan rarities &#8212; interviews on WBAI in NYC from the early sixties; highlights of ten years of my interviews about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/05/23/bob-dylans-birthday-kpfk-tues-514-11am-1pm/</link>
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		<title>John Nichols: The &#8216;S&#8217; Word&#8211;KPFK Wed. 5/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short history of an American tradition: Socialism.  JOHN NICHOLS, the Wisconsin hero who writes &#8220;The Beat&#8221; blog at TheNation.com, offers an unapologetic retort to the return of red-baiting in American political life in his new book &#8220;The &#8216;S&#8217; Word.&#8221; It is our featured thank-you gift in the KPFK fund drive for the 4 O&#8217;Clock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/05/17/john-nichols-the-s-word-kpfk-wed-518/</link>
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		<title>KPFK 5/11, 5/4: No Show &#8212; Fund Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: KPFK on Wed 5/11 &#38; 5/4 is pre-empting my show for special fund drive programming. Please pledge — call 818-985-5735, or online at kpfk.org.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/05/04/kpfk-54-no-show-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>Vicent Bugliosi: Agnosticism vs. Atheism &#8211; L.A.Times Festival of Books 5/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best-selling true crime writer and former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi says believers and atheists are both wrong about &#8220;the God Question&#8221;: the only reasonable position, he argues, is &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, and neither do you.&#8221; I&#8217;ll be talking with Bugliosi about his new book Divinity of Doubt: The God Question at the L.A. Times Festival of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/04/29/vicent-bugliosi-agnostic-against-the-atheists-l-a-times-festival-of-books-51/</link>
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		<title>BookFest Preview: KPFK Wed. 4/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The L.A. Times Festival of Books is at USC this weekend.  Our BookFest Preview show features  RUSSELL JACOBY on the roots of violence:  his book Bloodlust argues that the greatest violence is typically not aimed at &#8220;The Other&#8221; but rather occurs in Civil Wars.  his panel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/04/26/bookfest-preview-kpfk-wed-427/</link>
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		<title>Republican suicide?  KPFK Wed. 4-20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did the Republicans commit suicide with the budget they passed in the House last week?  ARI BERMAN of The Nation says Obama is clearly winning the debate on the debt and the deficit – but ignoring the problems of job creation &#8230; and the Afghan war. Also: An insurance company insider speaks out on how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/04/20/republican-suicide-kpfk-wed-4-20/</link>
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		<title>Bay of Pigs at 50: The Lessons Kennedy Never Learned &#8212; The Nation 4/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the fiftieth anniversary of the Bay of Pigs, April 17-18, 1961, when a CIA-trained army of Cuban exiles were sent by President Kennedy to overthrow Fidel Castro. Their humiliating defeat showed the world that Cubans would fight to defend their revolution, especially against an invasion sponsored by the United States. But that’s not the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/04/18/bay-of-pigs-at-50-the-lessons-kennedy-never-learned-the-nation-418/</link>
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		<title>Bob Dylan in Beijing: No Sellout. The Nation 4/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob Dylan did not sell out to the Chinese government when he performed in Beijing on April 6. The “sellout” charge was made in the New York Times on Sunday by Maureen Dowd, along with several other people.  The problem: Dylan submitted his set list to the Chinese culture ministry, according to The Guardian’s Martin Wieland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/04/14/bob-dylan-in-beijing-no-sellout-the-nation-414/</link>
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		<title>Bob Dylan in Beijing: No Sellout. KPFK Wed. 4/13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Did Bob Dylan sell out when he sang in Beijing and Saigon this week?  Maureen Dowd says yes &#8212; what Bob did is &#8220;worse than Beyonce singing for Qaddafi.&#8221;  But SEAN WILENTZ says it&#8217;s not true &#8212; Bob did not bow to government demands that he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/04/12/bob-dylan-in-beijing-no-sell-out-kpfk-wed-413/</link>
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		<title>NPR Station in L.A. Pulls Planned Parenthood Spots &#8212; The Nation 4/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of two NPR stations in the Los Angeles area, KPCC-FM, suspended its regularly-scheduled Planned Parenthood spots on Friday, in response to Republican demands that Congress eliminate federal funding for the family planning group. . . . . Contined at TheNation.com HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/04/10/npr-station-pulls-planned-parenthood-spots-the-nation-410/</link>
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		<title>L.A. Labor: The Great Exception &#8211; KPFK Wed. 4/6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HAROLD MEYERSON of The American Prospect says the labor movement in L.A. is the great exception nationally – instead of fighting defensive battles, they are winning new jobs at decent wages—mostly, union jobs in government construction projects.  Harold wrote about L.A. labor for the L.A. Times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/04/05/l-a-labor-the-great-exception-kpfk-wed-46/</link>
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		<title>Change Comes to Nixonland: L.A. Times op-ed 4/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watergate was &#8220;the ultimate stress test&#8221; for the nation, says Timothy Naftali, director of the Nixon Library. It was also a stress test for the National Archives and the Nixon Library. . . . . . . continued at the L.A. Times op-ed page HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/04/04/change-comes-to-nixonland-l-a-times-op-ed-45/</link>
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		<title>From Fukushima to Washington DC &#8211; KPFK 3/30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Nuclear power industry execs testified in Washington yesterday that we have nothing to worry about – except perhaps the fact that almost all American nuclear power plants have backup batteries that would last only half as long as those at Japan’s troubled Fukushima.  DAN HIRSCH comments: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/03/29/from-fukushima-to-washington-dc-kpfk-330/</link>
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		<title>Wisconsin&#8217;s Cronon Affair: The Power of a Simple Fact &#8212; The Nation, 3/28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than a million people teach at colleges and universities in the United States, but only one faces a Republican demand for his e-mails: William Cronon, who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. . . . What does it take to become the target of this kind of attack? . . . continued at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/03/28/wisconsins-cronon-affair-the-power-of-a-simple-fact-the-nation-328/</link>
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		<title>Liz Taylor and the Raid on Entebbe: Nation 3/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Elizabeth Taylor died, Al Jazeera English reported that her greatest role was Cleopatra. They didn’t report that she had offered herself as a hostage at Entebbe in exchange for the 100 hijack victims held by terrorists at that airport in Uganda in 1976. . . . . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/03/25/liz-taylor-and-the-raid-on-entebbe-nation-325/</link>
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		<title>Imagine No Religion: The Nation 3/24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When John Lennon sang “Imagine there’s no heaven” in 1971, rock critics called the song “utopian.” But 40 years later, researchers have found that religion is indeed disappearing in nine countries . . . . . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/03/24/imagine-no-religion-the-nation-324/</link>
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		<title>Fukushima: Thinking the Unthinkable &#8211;KPFK 3/23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST We’ve had very little reporting on what the worst human and environmental consequences might be following the nuclear disasters at Fukushima.  But, TOM ENGELHARDT says, we do have “the irradiated zone of the nuclear imagination,” where pulp fiction has dwelled on planetary disasters.  Tom edits TomDispatch.com, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/03/22/fukushima-thinking-the-unthinkable-kpfk-323/</link>
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		<title>From Fukushima to Diablo Canyon: KPFK Wed 3/16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The danger of nuclear power, from Fukushima to Diablo Canyon: DAN HIRSCH explains why the risks of nuclear power are too great.  Dan heads the Committee to Bridge the Gap, and teaches at UC Santa Cruz; we saw him on “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/03/15/from-fukushima-to-diablo-canyon-kpfk-316/</link>
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		<title>Crisis for Workers in Wisconsin: KPFK Wed 3/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST In Wisconsin tonight, Republicans voted to strip workers of collective bargain rights in a surprise coup.  JOHN NICHOLS reports live from Madison on a developing crisis. READ John&#8217;s latest piece at TheNation.com HERE.  WATCH Michael Moore&#8217;s speech in Madison HERE.  (Photo: Milwaukee workers attack scabs in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/03/08/wisconsin-la-lutte-continue-kpfk-wed-39/</link>
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		<title>30 Jewish Studies Faculty Call on DA to Drop Charges against Muslim Students: Huff Post 3/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a striking act of interfaith solidarity, 30 Jewish Studies faculty from seven campuses of the University of California have called on the Orange County district attorney to drop criminal charges against 11 Muslim students. . . . continued at Huffington Post HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/03/08/30-jewish-studies-faculty-call-on-da-to-drop-charges-against-muslim-students-huff-post-38/</link>
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		<title>Profs Paid by Qaddafi: The Nation 3/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Nye of Harvard’s Kennedy School wrote in the New Republic in 2007 that Muammar Qaddafi was interested in discussing “direct democracy.” Anthony Giddens of the London School of Economics wrote in the Guardian the same year that Libya under Qaddafi could become “the Norway of North Africa.” Benjamin Barber of Rutgers University wrote in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/03/05/profs-paid-by-qaddafi-the-nation-35/</link>
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		<title>KPFK 3/2: No show &#8211; fund drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: KPFK on Wed 3/2 is pre-empting my show for special fund drive programming. Please pledge — call 818-985-5735, or online at kpfk.org.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/02/28/kpfk-32-no-show-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>Workers of Wisconsin, Unite!  KPFK Wed. 2-23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The battle in Wisconsin, now spreading to other states, is not about cutting budgets &#8212; it&#8217;s about the fundamental right of public employees to engage in collective bargaining.  JOHN NICHOLS will report from Madison  as the unions fight for their lives against Republicans.  John of course [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/02/23/workers-of-wisconsin-unite-kpfk-wed-2-23/</link>
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		<title>The Cruelest Month: KPFK Wed. 2/16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST In Egypt, workers are having a revolutionary February.   In the United States, by contrast, February is shaping up as the cruelest month workers have known in decades, as Wisconsin Republicans go after the state&#8217;s public employee unions – that’s what HAROLD MEYERSON says &#8212; he’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/02/16/attacking-workers-rights-kpfk-wed-216/</link>
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		<title>Ramona Steps Down: The Nation 2/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ramona Ripston, who is stepping down as head of the ACLU of Southern California after almost forty years, is both a visionary who transformed the meaning of civil liberties and a dynamic and beloved figure on the LA left.  Her most significant achievement was expanding the practice of civil liberties law to include litigating for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/02/12/ramona-steps-down-the-nation-211/</link>
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		<title>100 UCI Faculty Call on D.A. to Drop Charges Against Muslim Students: HuffPost 2/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[100 faculty members at UCI, including five deans, have signed a letter to the Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas calling on him to drop criminal charges against 11 students who disrupted a speech on the UCI campus by the Israeli ambassador to the US last year. . . . . Continued at Huffington Post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/02/10/100-uci-faculty-call-on-d-a-to-drop-charges-against-muslim-students-huffpost-210/</link>
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		<title>Live from Cairo: KPFK Wed. 2/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST MARK LEVINE reports live from Cairo on the day’s events in Tahrir Square, where Tuesday’s demonstrations were the biggest ever, perhaps 200,000 people.  Mark, a historian at UC Irvine, is the author of Heavy Metal Islam: Religion, Popular Culture and Resistance in the Middle East. His [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/02/08/live-from-cairo-kpfk-wed-29/</link>
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		<title>Reagan&#8217;s Lesson for Obama: Invade Grenada.      Nation 2/7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On what would have been Ronald Reagan’s hundredth birthday, we find the past offers lessons for the present: does the United States have to fight a war when it is attacked by a ruthless group of militant Islamic fundamentalists? Reagan’s response to attacks on US forces in Beirut in 1983 suggests a way out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/02/07/reagans-lesson-for-obama-invade-grenada-nation-27/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 2/2: Pre-empted: Special Programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: my show today on KPFK is preempted for special programming: &#8220;Building a powerful left in the U.S.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/02/02/kpfk-wed-22-pre-empted-special-programming/</link>
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		<title>Obama in Manitowoc: KPFK Wed. 1/26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The day after Obama called for investment in infrastructure and cutting the corporate tax rate in his State of the Union speech, he travelled to Manitowoc, Wisconsin – our JOHN NICHOLS was there and will report.  John of course is Washington Correspondent for The Nation and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/01/25/obama-in-manitowoc-kpfk-wed-126/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;It was the gun&#8221;: Katha on KPFK Wed. 1/19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Jared Loughner&#8217;s Glock:  KATHA POLLITT says &#8220;it used to be that after a spectacular killing there would be a lot of hopeful/ rueful talk about keeping in from happening again.&#8221;  But now the Democrats have abandoned gun control &#8212; even though &#8220;it was the gun.&#8221; Katha [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/01/19/it-was-the-gun-katha-on-kpfk-wed-119/</link>
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		<title>After Arizona: KPFK Wed. 1/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HAROLD MEYERSON says the lesson of the attack on Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Arizona is that &#8220;conservatives promote a paranoid culture that makes America a dangerous land.&#8221; Harold&#8217;s new op-ed for the Washington Post cites Glenn Beck as exhibit number one. Plus: Obama goes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/01/11/after-arizona-kpfk-wed-112/</link>
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		<title>Professors with Guns: The Arizona Plan: Nation 1/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona legislature is considering a proposal to authorize the carrying of weapons on campus by faculty members. The idea is simple &#8212; in case of trouble in the classroom, somebody needs to be able to blast away at problem students. But the question arises, should all faculty members be armed? . . . continued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/01/11/professors-with-guns-the-arizona-plan-nation-111/</link>
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		<title>Abolish the Filibuster: KPFK Wed. 1/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Abolish the filibuster: JOYCE APPLEBY is one of nine historians, political scientists, and law profs sponsoring of a petition urging the senate to get rid of Rule 22 permitting the &#8220;invisible filibuster&#8221; for which they gathered 332 signers.   Joyce, professor emerita at UCLA, wrote about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2011/01/04/abolish-the-filibuster-kpfk-wed-15/</link>
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		<title>2010 Progressive Honor Roll: KPFK Wed. 12/29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The Progressive Honor Roll of 2010: JOHN NICHOLS names the names of some of our political heroes; number one is Bernie Sanders.  John is Washington Correspondent for The Nation and writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com.   &#8220;Most Valuable Online Activism&#8221;: Progressive Change Campaign Committee, HERE. Also: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/28/2010-progressive-honor-roll-kpfk-wed-1229/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Nixon Quotes of 2010: The Nation, 12/28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new batch of Nixon White House tapes and documents were released by the National Archives in 2010, putting the former president back on page one. Herewith, the top ten: 10. “The Irish can’t drink. What you always have to remember with the Irish is they get mean. Virtually every Irish I’ve known gets mean when he drinks.” &#8211;to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/27/top-ten-nixon-quotes-of-2010-the-nation-1228/</link>
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		<title>Obama in 2010: What Happened? KPFK 12/22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST For our year-in-review show, we&#8217;ll ask HAROLD MEYERSON what happened to Obama in 2010? Why did he make so many concessions to Republicans?  Harold writes op-ed columns for the Washington Post and the L.A. Times, and he&#8217;s editor-at-large of The American Prospect. Also: Islamophobia &#8212; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/21/obama-in-2010-what-happened-kpfk-1222/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 12/15: No Show &#8211; Fund Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: KPFK today is pre-empting my show for special fund drive programming.  Please pledge — call 818-985-5735, or online at kpfk.org.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/14/kpfk-wed-1215-no-show-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>John Lennon: It was 30 Years Ago Today: KPFK 12/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the 30th anniversary of Lennon&#8217;s murder, we&#8217;ll do a one-hour special featuring excerpts from Lennon&#8217;s last interview, rare clips of different versions of &#8220;Give Peace a Chance&#8221; performed live at different shows; and a chat with GREG MITCHELL, former editor of Crawddaddy (and current blogger at TheNation.com) about his meetings with Lennon in New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/08/john-lennon-it-was-30-years-ago-today-kpfk-wed-128/</link>
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		<title>The Diane Rehm Show: NPR 12/08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remembering John Lennon on the Diane Rehm Show, along with Philip Norman, author of John Lennon: A Life, and Richard Harrington, former music critic for the Washington Post: Listen HERE.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/08/the-diane-rehm-show-npr-1208/</link>
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		<title>Lennon&#8217;s Last Interview: What the 60s Showed Us: The Nation 12/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was 30 years ago today: Dec. 8, 1980, on what would turn out to be the last day of John Lennon’s life, he did an interview promoting his new album, “Double Fantasy.” He talked about the sixties: “The thing the sixties did was show us the possibility and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/07/lennons-last-interview-what-the-60s-showed-us-the-nation-128/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Imagine&#8217; and its Critics: LA Times 12/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a high school in Riverside in 1991, student Aaron Salinger wrote the lyrics to &#8220;Imagine&#8221; on the stripes of an American flag as an art project. It was Lennon&#8217;s birthday and the Persian Gulf War was underway, and Salinger and his friends carried the &#8220;Imagine&#8221; flag in an antiwar demonstration. Aaron&#8217;s mother, Sharon V. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/07/imagine-and-its-critics-la-times-128/</link>
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		<title>Lennon&#8217;s Political Legacy: CNN Sun. 12/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lennon&#8217;s legacy lives on, 30 years after his death : CNN&#8217;s  Candy Crowley interviews Jon Wiener on &#8220;State of the Nation.&#8221;  WATCH Streaming video HERE.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/06/lennons-political-legacy-cnn-sun-125/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Economy, Stupid: KPFK Wed. 12/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ROBERT REICH on Obama’s economy: the Senate has failed to pass unemployment extension, and is getting ready to approve tax cuts for the rich.  Robert Reich was secretary of labor under Bill Clinton; his new book is Aftershock: The Next Economy and America&#8217;s Future. Our Haiti [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/12/01/its-the-economy-stupid-kpfk-wed-121/</link>
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		<title>Mike Davis &amp; Daniel Ellsberg: KPFK Wed. 11-24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST MIKE DAVIS talks about CHALMERS JOHNSON, our most brilliant and acute critic of American empire, author of the award-winning Blowback and more recently The Sorrows of Empire and Dismantling the Empire. He died Saturday.  Also we’ll listen to my last interview with Chalmers. READ Tom Engelhardt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/24/mike-davis-daniel-ellsberg-kpfk-wed-11-24/</link>
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		<title>How Sarah Palin Could Beat Obama: The Nation 11/22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin could win the presidency in 2012—that’s what Frank Rich [1] said in the New York Times on Sunday—but not in a two-person head-to-head race. For Palin to beat Obama, a third-party candidate would have to run, and take votes away from Obama. And we have a potential third-party spoiler, Rich says: New York Mayor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/22/how-sarah-palin-could-beat-obama-in-2012-nation-1122/</link>
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		<title>LENNONYC: PBS American Masters 11/22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;LENNONYC&#8221; tells the story of Lennon&#8217;s move to New York City in 1971 with Yoko Ono, his anti-war activism, the Nixon Administration&#8217;s effort to deport him, and the music he made in the last nine years of his life. It features interviews with musicians who worked with Lennon, plus immigration attorney Leon Wildes, photographer Bob [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/22/lennonyc-pbs-american-masters-1122/</link>
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		<title>Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon: KPFK Wed. 11/17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the Pacifica Archives fund drive, and we&#8217;ll be featuring Pacifica audio documentaries on Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon:  for Jimi Hendrix, an amazing show featuring rare recordings and interviews with blues singer John Hammond (who befriended the young Hendrix in Greenwich Village in 1966), Chas Chandler from The Animals (who brought Hendrix to England [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/17/jimi-hendrix-jim-morrison-kpfk-wed-1117/</link>
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		<title>Bush Bombs on TV: KPFK Wed. 11-10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST George W. Bush&#8217;s book tour, interviews plugging his memoirs, has gotten low ratings on TV -- GREG MITCHELL reports on media and politics hits and misses &#8212; he writes the indispensable &#8220;Daybook&#8221; every morning at TheNation.com, and he&#8217;s the author of Campaign of the Century, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/10/bush-bombs-on-tv-kpfk-wed-11-10/</link>
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		<title>My Doonesbury Favorite: Mr. Butts: The Nation 11/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the characters in the last 40 years of Doonesbury, my personal favorite is Mr. Butts—and not just because he appeared on the cover of The Nation (Jan. 1, 1996).  Garry Trudeau has had lots of more compelling characters, but Mr. Butts in his own way was perfect: the smiling cigarette-man who was unfailingly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/09/my-favorite-doonesbury-character-mr-butts-nation-119/</link>
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		<title>Obama, Wall Street, and the Voters: Nation 11/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The election day exit polls had some good news for Obama: voters don&#8217;t blame him for &#8220;current economic problems.&#8221; But the same poll also had some really bad news for him. . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/09/obama-wall-street-and-the-voters-nation-118/</link>
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		<title>Boxer Won More Votes than 10 Tea Party Candidates: Nation 11/3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer defeated challenger Carly Fiorina by a ten-point margin on Tuesday, winning a total of 3.8 million votes, more than the combined vote total of ten Tea Party senate candidates. The Tea Party Senate candidates made big news, but they ran mostly in small states. Also, several lost. . . . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/03/boxer-more-votes-than-10-tea-party-candidates-nation-113/</link>
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		<title>The Morning After: KPFK 11/3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Our election analysis the morning after: HAROLD MEYERSON of the Washington Post looks at the Democrats&#8217; loss of working-class whites in key midwestern states; JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation says first-term presidents often suffer mid-term setbacks&#8211;the question is what Obama will learn from this one; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/03/the-morning-after-kpfk-113/</link>
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		<title>Legalizing Pot Fails in Calif.: The Nation 11/3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California’s initiative to legalize marijuana failed to win a majority at the polls Tuesday. Prop 19, which received 3.3 million votes but lost 54 percent to 46 percent, would have would have legalized possession and cultivation of marijuana and authorized cities and counties to regulate and tax commercial marijuana production and sales. . . . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/11/03/legalizing-pot-fails-in-calif-the-nation-113/</link>
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		<title>Why the Dems will win in Calif.: The Nation 11/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the votes are counted on Tuesday night in California, Democrats will easily sweep the top contests. Senator Barbara Boxer is likely to defeat challenger Carly Fiorina, 51-46 per cent (Nate Silver’s projection at 538.com), and last week’s California Field poll shows Democrat Jerry Brown ahead of Republican Meg Whitman in the gubernatorial race by 10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/31/why-the-dems-will-win-in-calif-the-nation-111/</link>
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		<title>Legal Pot: Good for the Jews?  The Nation 10/29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Californians prepare to vote Tuesday on a statewide initiative to legalize marijuana, The Jewish Journal, Los Angeles’s Jewish weekly, features a cover story on whether legal pot is good for the Jews. The answer, in brief: the rabbis are ambivalent. . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/30/legal-pot-good-for-the-jews-the-nation-1129/</link>
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		<title>How Bad for the Dems?  KPFK Wed. 10/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Six days out from the midterm elections, the punditocracy predicts massive losses for Democrats in the House.  California, however, remains the exception – Republican candidates Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina seem to face certain defeat.  What explains California’s exceptionalism?  We’ll ask HAROLD MEYERSON — he writes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/26/how-bad-for-the-dems-kpfk-wed-1027/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10-20: No Show/Fund Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for the record: my show today at KPFK is pre-empted for special fund drive programming.  Please pledge — call 818-985-5735, or online at kpfk.org.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/19/kpfk-wed-10-20-no-showfund-drive/</link>
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		<title>WikiLeaks and 9-11: The Nation 10/17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As WikiLeaks prepares to release 400,000 Iraq war documents, a former FBI agent argues that WikiLeaks could have prevented 9-11, if the website had been around in 2001.  . . . Continued at TheNation.com HERE.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/17/wikileaks-and-9-11-the-nation-1017/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Palin: Snubbed by Cal. GOP &#8211; The Nation 10/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin is coming to California this weekend, but the state’s top Republican candidates, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, don&#8217;t want to bee sen with her. . . .  The reason can be found in the new polls: most Californians don’t like Sarah Palin.  According to last week’s Field Poll, 69 percent of the state’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/15/sarah-palin-snubbed-by-cal-gop-nation-1014/</link>
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		<title>Michelle in Milwaukee: KPFK Wed. 10-13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Campaign update: Michelle Obama campaigned in Milwaukee today for endangered progressive Senator Russ Feingold &#8212; and our JOHN NICHOLS was there. He says she was terrific. John is Washington Correspondent for The Nation and writes &#8220;The Beat&#8221; blog at TheNation.com. And 84-year-old ELMORE LEONARD has just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/12/how-to-win-elections-kpfk-wed-10-13/</link>
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		<title>John Lennon&#8217;s 70th/Yoko interview: KPFK Sat. 10/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KPFK kicks off a special twelve-hour Lennon 70th birthday celebration Saturday Oct. 9 at noon, and I’ll be hosting the first hour.  We’ll be listening to my interview with Yoko last week, plus the new “Stripped Down” versions of the great songs on “Double Fantasy”— remixed to bring up Lennon’s voice and remove some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/09/lennon-70th-bdayyoko-interview-kpfk-sat-109/</link>
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		<title>Lennon Top 5: OC Weekly 10/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On what would have been John Lennon&#8217;s 70th birthday, a list of my top five Lennon solo records&#8211;and they included audio and video links to Lennon&#8217;s performances of each: Audio and video HERE. 5. &#8220;God&#8221;:  &#8220;I was the Walrus, but now I&#8217;m John&#8221; . . . 4. &#8220;Imagine&#8221;: We&#8217;ve heard it a thousand times, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/09/lennon-top-5-oc-weekly-10-9/</link>
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		<title>Bob Dylan&#8217;s Defense of Lennon: Nation 10/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you explain the value of a rock musician to the Immigration Service?  Bob Dylan tried, in his letter opposing the Nixon Administration&#8217;s move to deport John Lennon.  &#8220;John and Yoko,&#8221; Dylan wrote, &#8220;inspire and transcend and stimulate,&#8221; and thereby &#8220;help put an end to this mild dull taste of petty commercialism which is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/08/bob-dylans-defense-of-lennon-nation-108/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Terry Gross on &#8220;Fresh Air&#8221; &#8211; 10/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day before what would have been John Lennon&#8217;s 70th birthday, TERRY GROSS replayed the interview she did with me in 2000 on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Fresh Air.&#8221;  We talked about the Nixon administration&#8217;s attempt to deport Lennon in 1972 &#8212; and what the  FBI files show about that effort. Listen to streaming audio HERE.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/08/interview-with-terry-gross-on-fresh-air-107/</link>
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		<title>Lennon&#8217;s Deportation Battle: LA Times 10-8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Updike, John Cage, Boby Dylan and Tony Curtis were among those who wrote letters to the Immigration Service in 1972 arguing that John Lennon should not be deported: L.A. Times op-ed HERE; copies of letters to the INS HERE ; Bob Dylan&#8217;s handwritten letter HERE.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/08/bob-dylan-on-john-lennon-la-times-10-9/</link>
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		<title>Bob Dylan in America: KPFK Wed. 10-6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Bob Dylan in America: SEAN WILENTZ talks about Dylan’s work as a songwriter and performer and his deep roots in Amercan culture.  His new book is Bob Dylan in America – Martin Scorsese says it is “as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/10/05/bob-dylan-in-america-kpfk-wed-10-6/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Wars: Andrew Bacevich on KPFK Wed. 9/29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST America’s “Ministry of Global Policing” &#8212; ANDREW BACEVICH critiques Obama’s wars – a continuation of the policy, for 60 years, under which the US military has been ready to intervene anywhere at any time.   Bacevich&#8217;s new book is Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War. It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/09/28/obamas-wars-obamas-economy-kpfk-929/</link>
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		<title>Harry Shearer on New Orleans: KPFK Wed. 9/21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HARRY SHEARER&#8216;s new documentary  “The Big Uneasy” tells the story of the flooding of New Orleans that resulted NOT from a &#8220;natural disaster&#8221; but rather from failures of the levees &#8212; the film opens in LA on Friday at the Sunset 5  for a one-week run. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/09/21/harry-shearer-on-new-orleans-kpfk-wed-921/</link>
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		<title>Tea Party Power: KPFK Wed. 9/15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST In the Delaware Senate primary yesterday, Tea Party Republicans &#8220;ditched a seemingly certain November winner for a likely loser&#8221;&#8211;and thereby lost whatever chance the GOP had to take over the Senate.  JOHN NICHOLS will explain – he’s Washington Correspondent for The Nation, and he writes “The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/09/14/tea-partys-tuesday-tests-kpfk-wed-915/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Economy, Stupid: KPFK Wed. 9/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HAROLD MEYERSON says American workers face a &#8220;God-awful&#8221; future &#8212; &#8220;Millions have lost their jobs. Millions have had their lives put on hold or thrown into reverse.&#8221;   It&#8217;s time for a massive public works program &#8212; but is Obama&#8217;s big enough?  Harold is a columnist for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/09/07/its-the-economy-stupid-kpfk-wed-98/</link>
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		<title>Andrei Codrescu: New Orleans Now &#8211; KPFK 9/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST New Orleans now, five years after Katrina: we’ll speak with poet, novelist and essayist  ANDREI CODRESCU about what has changed there, and what hasn’t.  Andrei edits Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life; he wrote the memorable New Orleans Mon Amour;  his new book is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/08/31/andrei-codrescu-new-orleans-now-kpfk-91/</link>
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		<title>Those Florida Republicans: KPFK Wed. 8/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Primaries in Florida and Arizona Tuesday tested the Tea Party’s strength among Republicans and the power of a billionaire to win a Senate Democratic nomination.  JOHN NICHOLS reviews the results – his new post at TheNation.com is “Sex, Drugs and Bill Clinton.” Also: the &#8220;Ground Zero [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/08/24/born-in-the-usa-but-not-citizens-kpfk-wed-825/</link>
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		<title>Daniel Ellsberg: Secrets, Lies, &amp; War: KPFK Wed. 8/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST From the Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks: DANIEL ELLSBERG talks about secrets, lies, and war &#8212; from Vietnam to Afghanstan.  We will be featuring the documentary about Daniel Ellsberg, “The Most Dangerous Man in America”, on DVD as our fund drive thank-you gift this hour.  The film [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/08/17/ellsberg-secrets-lies-war-kpfk-wed-818/</link>
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		<title>L.A.&#8217;s Jobs Program: KPFK Wed. 8/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama doesn’t have a jobs program.  California doesn’t have a jobs program.  But the city of L.A. DOES have a jobs program – the only one in the country. HAROLD MEYERSON will explain – he’s an op-ed columnist for the L.A. Times and the Washington Post. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/08/10/l-a-s-jobs-program-kpfk-wed-811/</link>
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		<title>Michael Pollan &amp; his Eaters&#8217; Manifesto: KPFK 8/4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Seven little words from MICHAEL POLLAN:  “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” His number one-bestseller, out now in paperback, is IN DEFENSE OF FOOD. Michael is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley.  (originally broadcast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/08/03/michael-pollan-his-eaters-manifesto-kpfk-84/</link>
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		<title>Change Comes to Nixonland: The Nation 7/30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 17 marked the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, and the Nixon Foundation celebrated the occasion with a reunion promising &#8220;three days of incredible experiences,&#8221; including &#8220;an outdoor BBQ around the farmhouse where RN was born&#8221; and &#8220;a delightful breakfast cruise on John Wayne&#8217;s The Wild Goose.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/07/31/change-comes-to-nixonland-the-nation-730/</link>
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		<title>Terry Gross on KPFK Wed. 7/28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST TERRY GROSS of NPR’s show “Fresh Air” is heard by more than 4 million listeners — in our interview she talks about what went wrong in her interviews with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and Bill O’Reilly. Also, she answers the question, “What is the deal with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/07/27/terry-gross-on-kpfk-wed-728/</link>
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		<title>NSA Secrets: KPFK Wed. 7/21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST America’s most powerful – and most secretive – intelligence service is the National Security Agency – they’re the people who monitor cell phones and computer networks around the globe and here at home.  MATTHEW AID has been researching the NSA for a long time – and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/07/20/nsa-secrets-kpfk-wed-721/</link>
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		<title>The Muslim World and the US: KPFK Wed. 7/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST How Obama should engage the Muslim World: historian JUAN COLE says the Muslim world is not a bloc but rather is full of close allies or potential allies; Al-Qaeda is not a mass movement but rather a small political cult; US  “energy independence” is impossible — [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/07/14/the-muslim-world-and-the-us-kpfk-wed-714/</link>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s Last Chance?  KPFK Wed. 7/7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu met with Obama yesterday &#8212; AMY WILENTZ argues that if Netanyahu cannot be convinced to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians by the end of the summer, &#8220;the two-state solution may well be doomed, and eventually &#8230;  so may the state of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/07/06/americas-wars-kpfk-wed-77/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6/30: No show/fund drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: my show today at KPFK is pre-empted for special fund drive programming.  Please pledge — call 818-985-5735, or online at kpfk.org.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/06/30/kpfk-wed-630-no-showfund-drive/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6-23: No show/fund drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: my show today at KPFK is pre-empted for special fund drive programming.  Please pledge &#8212; call 818-985-5735, or online at kpfk.org.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/06/23/kpfk-wed-6-23-no-showfund-drive/</link>
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		<title>Rebecca Skloot on Henrietta Lacks: KPFK 6/16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How racism, poverty and science came together in the case of a poor black woman whose cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medical research.  Rebecca Skloot tells that story; her book is THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. We’ll be offering the book as a fund drive premium, along with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/06/15/rebecca-skloot-on-henrietta-lacks-kpfk-616/</link>
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		<title>John Waters &amp; his &#8220;Role Models&#8221;: KPFK Wed. 6/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST JOHN WATERS &#8212; filmmaker, actor, writer, mensch &#8212; will be live in-studio to talk about his new book ROLE MODELS.  It&#8217;s a self-portrait by the man who made cult classics &#8220;Hairspray,&#8221; &#8220;Pink Flamingos,&#8221; and &#8220;Cecil B. Demented&#8221; &#8211;writing about the people who have inspired him: Little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/06/09/john-waters-his-role-models-kpfk-wed-69/</link>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s Attack on Gaza Aid Ships: KPFK Wed. 6/2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Israel’s attack on the Gaza Movement’s aid ships: ROANE CAREY of The Nation asks, “What madness could have driven the Israeli government to order its navy to attack, in international waters, a flotilla of ships full of human rights activists, MPs from governments around the world, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/06/01/israels-attack-on-gaza-aid-ships-kpfk-wed-62/</link>
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		<title>Art Linkletter &amp; Nixon: Alcohol v. Pot&#8211;The Nation 5/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the difference between drinking alcohol and smoking pot? Art Linkletter explains to Richard Nixon.   Really: White House transcripts at TheNation.com HERE.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/05/27/art-linkletter-nixon-alcohol-v-potthe-nation-may-27/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Immigration Laws &amp; Sports: KPFK 5/26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Arizona’s anti-immigrant laws have sparked opposition in the world of sports.  There’s a campaign to get Major League Baseball to move the All-Star game out of Phoenix.  A lot of athletes have been great, but there’s one big exception: Lakers Coach Phil Jackson.  DAVE ZIRIN will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/05/25/arizona-immigration-laws-sports-kpfk-526/</link>
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		<title>Harold Meyerson: Election Analysis &#8211; KPFK Wed 5/19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Last night former Republican Arlen Spector was defeated in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary by Joe Sestak;  conservative Democrat Blanche Lincoln was forced into a runoff for the Arkansas Senate primary by progressive Bill Halter &#8211; HAROLD MEYERSON will explain everything; he&#8217;s editor at large of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/05/18/harold-meyerson-the-primaries-kpfk-wed-519/</link>
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		<title>Fox News &amp; Arizona&#8217;s Ethnic Studies Ban: Nation 5/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it: defend the new Arizona law that bans ethnic studies in public schools. Fox News anchor Greta van Susteren took on the task, with predictable results. . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/05/18/fox-news-ariz-ethnic-studies-ban-nation-518/</link>
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		<title>Homeboy Industries Hit by Layoffs &#8211; Nation 5/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Homeboy Industries, the legendary L.A. anti-gang institution headed by Father Greg Boyle, laid off 300 people yesterday because of a financial crisis. The organization was founded in East L.A. in 1988 at a time when hundreds of gang members were killing each other annually;  Father Greg’s slogan was “Nothing stops a bullet like a job.” . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/05/14/homeboy-industries-hit-by-layoffs-nation-514/</link>
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		<title>Father Greg Boyle on Gangsters: KPFK Wed. 5/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The legendary FATHER GREG BOYLE, Jesuit pastor of Dolores Mission in Boyle Heights starting in 1986, has made it his mission to help gang members who want to quit.  He founded Homeboy Industries in 1988.  Now he has written a wonderful book: Tattoos on the Heart: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/05/11/greg-boyle-on-gangsters-kpfk-wed-512/</link>
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		<title>Arizona and Immigrants: KPFK Wed. 5/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Are Arizona&#8217;s anti-immigrant laws going to help Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid win re-election?  In 1994, when California Republicans passed the anti-immigrant Prop. 187, Latinos started voting Democratic in overwhelming numbers. JOHN NICHOLS will comment; he&#8217;s Washington Correspondent for The Nation, and writes &#8220;The Beat&#8221; blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/05/05/arizona-and-immigrants-kpfk-wed-55/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies: The Nation 5/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona legislature has passed a bill that will end ethnic studies classes in the state, according to the state&#8217;s top education official. The bill bans classes that &#8220;promote resentment toward a race or class of people,&#8221; &#8220;are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group,&#8221; or &#8220;advocate ethnic solidarity instead of treating pupils [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/05/01/arizona-bans-ethnic-studies-the-nation-51/</link>
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		<title>Honoring Walter Mosley: The Nation 4/29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles&#8217;s Liberty Hill Foundation will honor Walter Mosley with its Upton Sinclair Award on May 20. Mosley, author of more than thirty books, is celebrated worldwide for his Easy Rawlins mysteries. Set in inner-city Los Angeles after World War II, they feature an out-of-work black war veteran who reluctantly becomes a private detective and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/04/29/honoring-walter-mosley-the-nation-429/</link>
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		<title>Going After Wall Street: KPFK Wed. 4/28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST “The Goldman Sachs scandal has done the unthinkable,” says HAROLD MEYERSON of the Washington Post op-ed page: “It&#8217;s made it possible that legislation reining in Wall Street&#8217;s casino may actually be enacted.” But the odds are still against real reform &#8211;And the problem isn&#8217;t just Republican [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/04/27/going-after-wall-street-kpfk-wed-428/</link>
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		<title>BookFest at UCLA Preview: KPFK Wed. 4/21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST L.A. Times Festival of Books Preview: DAVID ULIN, book editor of the L.A. Times, talks about BookFest highlights, including his own sessions with Dave Eggers and Elif Batuman.  BookFest schedule, info HERE. Tickets required but free from Ticketmaster: HERE. My session: “Does the American economy have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/04/20/bookfest-at-ucla-preview-kpfk-wed-421/</link>
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		<title>A Historians&#8217; Lies About Ike: The Nation 4/21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Ambrose, the best-selling historian who wrote or edited more than a dozen books about Eisenhower as general and president, based his fame in large part on what he said were his interviews with Ike – but now, eight years after Ambrose&#8217;s death, an official at the Eisenhower Library in Abeline says the interviews never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/04/20/a-historians-lies-about-ike-the-nation-419/</link>
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		<title>Orlando Figes, Historian in Trouble: The Nation, 4/20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A prominent British historian has found a new way to get in trouble: Orlando Figes, a historian of Stalin&#8217;s Russia at Birkbeck College, London, and a contributor to the New York Review, has admitted that his wife has been publishing hostile comments about rival historians at Amazon.co.uk under a pseudonym. The practice of using a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/04/20/orlando-figes-historian-in-trouble/</link>
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		<title>David Remnick on Obama: KPFK Wed. 4/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST From the Center for Obama Studies at KPFK: DAVID REMNICK, editor of The New Yorker, talks about his new book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. He’s speaking Thursday at 7:30pm at the Writers Guild Theatre, 135 S. Doheny Dr., Beverly Hills– tickets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/04/13/david-remnick-on-obama-kpfk-wed-414/</link>
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		<title>Quitting Afghanistan: KPFK Wed. 4/7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Only one State Department official has resigned in protest over our war in Afghanistan: MATTHEW HOH.  Now he has been awarded The Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling.  At a time when Afghanistan was still looked at as the &#8220;good war,&#8221; Hoh came forward, publicly and at great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/04/06/quitting-afghanistan-kpfk-wed-47/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Path: Clinton or Truman?  KPFK Wed. 3/31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama can follow the example of Bill Clinton, move to the center, and “triangulate” between Democrats and Republicans.  Or Obama can follow the example of Harry Truman and become an effective partisan and a resolute progressive &#8212; That’s what ROBERT KUTTNER says – he’s founding co-editor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/03/30/obamas-path-clinton-or-truman-kpfk-wed-331/</link>
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		<title>At Last, A Health Care Bill: KPFK Wed. 3/24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Maybe you heard the news: yesterday President Obama signed the health care bill into law &#8212; the most sweeping social legislation enacted in decades and the true end of the Age of Reagan. We’ll have comment from HAROLD MEYERSON of the Washington Post op-ed page and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/03/23/at-last-a-health-care-bill-kpfk-wed-324/</link>
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		<title>Eric Foner: &#8220;History&#8221; in Texas Schools &#8211; KPFK 3/17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ERIC FONER looks at the changes in the social studies curriculum approved by the Texas Board of Ed – and what the new standards tell us about conservatives’ vision of American history. Their favorite topics: the Confederacy, the military, and religion; topics they cut include slavery, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/03/16/eric-foner-history-in-texas-schools-kpfk-317/</link>
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		<title>Mike Davis: Borax Miners &#8211; KPFK Wed. 3/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The largest open pit mine in California is the the US Borax/Rio Tinto mine in Boron, where  the company has locked out neary 600 members of the ILWU Local 30 after workers rejected demands that they surrender any union role in the labor process. MIKE DAVIS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/03/09/mike-davis-borax-miners-kpfk-wed-310/</link>
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		<title>New Left Review at 50: Nation 3/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is hard not to be intimidated by New Left Review,&#8221; Stefan Collini wrote recently in the Guardian.  He&#8217;s right: first there is the intellectual range and analytical power of the NLR writers, and now there&#8217;s the fact that it has been publishing for fifty years.  The fiftieth anniversary issue&#8211;the 299th&#8211;reviews the magazine&#8217;s history, announces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/03/09/new-left-review-at-50-nation-35/</link>
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		<title>Three Faces of Capitalism: KPFK Wed. 3/3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The fastest-growing, most dynamic capitalist country in the history of the world is the People’s Republic of China today.  PETER HESSLER has lived in China for the last ten years as a staff writer for The New Yorker; he spent months in a development zone, hanging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/03/02/three-faces-of-capitalism-kpfk-wed-33/</link>
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		<title>Big Tobacco &amp; the Historians: Nation 2/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forty historians testify for Big Tobacco when they are sued by smokers with cancer; two testify against.  Why the disparity? A story about seduction &#8212; and intimidation &#8212; featuring charges of witness tampering, witness intimidation, and subpoenas for unfinished book manuscripts &#8212; examples of how Big Tobacco can spend virtually unlimited money when they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/02/26/big-tobacco-the-historians-nation-225/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 2/24: Fund Drive/Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: the KPFK fund drive will feature a guest host at 4pm today.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/02/23/kfpk-wed-224-fund-driveguest-host/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 2/17: Fund Drive/Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: the KPFK fund drive will feature a guest host at 4pm today.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/02/17/kfpk-wed-217-fund-driveguest-host/</link>
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		<title>Amy Wilentz: Back from Haiti &#8212; KPFK Wed. 2/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST AMY WILENTZ has returned from a week in Haiti. “the problem is this,” she writes: “will people care about Haiti the way they did about New Orleans?  for the next three or four years, until the job gets done?”   She’ll talk about lessons from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/02/10/amy-wilentz-back-from-haiti-kpfk-wed-210/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 2/3: Fund Drive/Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: the KPFK fund drive will feature a guest host today at 4pm.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/02/03/kpfk-wed-23-fund-driveguest-host/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Deficit Disaster: KPFK Wed. 1/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Guest-hosted by Alan Minsky while I was on jury duty&#8211;thank you Alan!)  Our president gives his first State of the Union speech tonight at 600pm, and apparently Obama will call for an across-the-board three-year spending freeze to placate Republicans who say the deficit is a big problem.  Question: Do ordinary people really care about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/01/26/obamas-deficit-disaster-kpfk-wed-127/</link>
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		<title>Obama Loses Massachusetts: KPFK Wed. 1/20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST It&#8217;s the first anniversary of Obama&#8217;s taking the oath of office, and the day after Obama lost the contest to replace Ted Kennedy with a Democrat.  Losing that 40th vote in the Senate is a disaster for the healthcare bill, the Democrats, the White House, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/01/19/obama-loses-massachusetts-kpfk-wed-120/</link>
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		<title>Prop. 8 On Trial: KFPK Wed. 1/13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The constitutional challenge to Prop. 8, Calfiornia’s initiative banning gay marriage, went to trial on Monday in San Francisco.   STEPHEN ROHDE will comment, he’s a constitutional lawyer, lecturer, writer and political activist. and Chair the ACLU Foundation of Southern California. Also: FDR provides the model [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/01/13/prop-8-on-trial-kfpk-wed-113/</link>
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		<title>Nixon and the Vietnam Moratorium: Nation 1/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1969, as the anti-war movement was reaching a peak, Richard Nixon&#8217;s White House staff debated what they could do to &#8220;show the little bastards&#8221; what kind of man they were up against. They were concerned about what would be the biggest antiwar demonstration in US history on Nov. 15, 1969, when half a million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/01/12/nixon-and-the-vietnam-moratorium-nation-112/</link>
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		<title>How the Healthcare Bill Will Hurt L.A.: Nation 1/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles County has more uninsured people than anyplace else in the country – three million, many of them immigrants, and many of those undocumented. If the Senate version of health bill passes, with its ban on federal coverage of non-citizens, a million people in California will be denied health insurance&#8211;the great majority of them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/01/10/how-the-healthcare-bill-hurts-l-a-nation-111/</link>
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		<title>Student Protests Push Cal. Gov. to Act: Nation 1/7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Student protests against tuition increases at the 10-campus University of California system pushed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to announce on Tuesday an initiative to guarantee that the state spends more on universities than it does on prisons. The central role of student protests is not just my theory; it&#8217;s the explanation offered by the governor&#8217;s own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/01/07/student-protests-push-cal-gov-to-act-nation-17/</link>
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		<title>Catastrophes in Afghanistan: KPFK Wed. 1/6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST In Afghanistan, a “chain of catastrophes”over the last two weeks is “raising significant questions about the viability of the Obama-McChrystal plan for the country,” JUAN COLE says – he teaches history at the U. of Michigan and writes the indispensable blog “Informed Comment.” WATCH Afghan video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/01/05/catastrophes-in-afghanistan-kpfk-wed-16/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Fight Against Secrecy: LA Times, Wed. 1/6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For a long time now there&#8217;s been too much secrecy in this city.&#8221; That&#8217;s what President Obama said on his first day in office. He was talking about the way George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had used 9/11 as a pretext for pulling a veil over many of their key policies and actions. Last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/01/05/obamas-fight-against-secrecy-la-times-16/</link>
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		<title>Fox News Scare Tactics: The Nation, 1/04</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They&#8217;ll send me to jail if I don&#8217;t sign up for Obama&#8217;s health care,&#8221; an 89-year-old woman said at my family holiday gathering last week. She was agitated and angry. &#8220;Imagine sending someone to jail – at my age!&#8221; Even the Republicans in the room rushed to reassure her: &#8220;You&#8217;re covered by Medicare. You&#8217;re already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2010/01/04/fox-news-scare-tactics-the-nation-104/</link>
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		<title>Obama in 2009: Where&#8217;s the &#8220;hope&#8221;? KPFK Wed 12/30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HAROLD MEYERSON on Obama in 2009: what happened to &#8220;Hope&#8221;? Escalation in Afghanistan, the bailout of Wall Street, and giving up on the public option, for a start.  And why isn&#8217;t he doing more to create jobs?  Harold writes for the Washington Post op-ed page and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/29/obamas-year-in-review-kpfk-wed-1230/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;War is Over!&#8221; 40 Years Later: The Nation, 12/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;War Is Over! If you want it&#8221; – a full page ad in the Sunday New York Times Dec. 27 must have puzzled many readers. The ad marked an anniversary: it was 40 years ago today that John Lennon and Yoko Ono launched their &#8220;War Is Over!&#8221; campaign, with billboards in New York, London, Hollywood, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/27/war-is-over-40-years-later-the-nation-1227/</link>
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		<title>Our War on Xmas: KPFK Wed 12/23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – TO THE PODCAST Our war on Xmas: BOB DYLAN has released a Christmas album! Is this a joke — or a tragedy? SEAN WILENTZ explains — he’s official historian at the official Bob Dylan website (he also teaches history at Princeton.)  READ Sean Wilentz on Dylan’s Xmas album HERE. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/23/our-war-on-xmas-kpfk-wed-1223/</link>
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		<title>Arguing about the Afghan War: The Nation 12/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Best Argument for the Afghan War &#8212; and What&#8217;s Wrong with It: For those of us on the left, the best argument in favor of the Afghan war is not Obama&#8217;s claim that we need to stop Al Qaeda from returning to its bases in Afghanistan. . . . The best argument is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/17/arguing-about-the-afghan-war-the-nation-1218/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 12/15: Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: today at 4 on KPFK the fund drive will feature a guest host.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/16/kpfk-wed-1215-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>Bob Dylan&#8217;s Weird Christmas Album: Nation 12/13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fans have been puzzled and troubled by Bob Dylan&#8217;s new Christmas album. To help figure out what Dylan is doing, we turned to Sean Wilentz &#8212; he&#8217;s the official historian at the official website BobDylan.com, and he also teaches American history at Princeton. He&#8217;s written many books, including &#8220;The Age of Reagan.&#8221; Q. &#8220;Christmas in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/13/bob-dylans-weird-christmas-album-nation-1213/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Jobs Program: KPFK Wed. 12/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama&#8217;s jobs program: is the effort he announced yesterday big enough?  Is it good enough?  Does anyone feel good about the American economy right now&#8211;with the 2010 elections not so far away?  Also, the Senate Dems&#8217; failure on the health care public option.   JOHN NICHOLS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/09/obamas-jobs-program-kpfk-wed-129/</link>
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		<title>Howard Zinn, &#8220;The People Speak&#8221;: Nation 12/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first time HOWARD ZINN&#8221;s now-classic book A People&#8217;s History of the United States appeared on TV was in &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221; on HBO, when Tony&#8217;s teenage son A.J. came home from school with a copy of the book and told his parents that, according to Zinn, Columbus was a slaveowner and murderer. Tony got mad, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/08/howard-zinn-the-people-speak-nation-128/</link>
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		<title>Obama and Afghanistan: KPFK Wed. 12/2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama and Afghanistan: the speech he should have given, starting &#8220;We have no partner in Afghanistan,&#8221; and ending &#8220;our troops will be brought home.&#8221;  TOM ENGELHARDT explains &#8212; he edits the indispensable blog TomDispatch. Also – the rise, and fall, of democracy – SUSAN GRIFFIN will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/01/obama-and-afghanistan-kpfk-wed-122/</link>
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		<title>From Grant Park to Afghanistan: The Nation 12/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Barack Obama gave his victory speech on election night last November, he picked Chicago&#8217;s Grant Park – the legendary site of the battle between anti-war demonstrators and Chicago cops during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. According to campaign manager David Axelrod, Obama chose Grant Park to &#8220;symbolically overcome the damage done [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/12/01/from-grant-park-to-afghanistan-the-nation-121/</link>
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		<title>Glenn Beck, Savior of the Right: KPFK Wed. 11/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST “A serious critique of Glenn Beck is almost a waste of time,” TOM FRANK says. “After all, the man has referred to himself as a ‘rodeo clown’ and a ‘recovering scumbag.’”  And yet Beck today has become the most influential man on the right.  Tom Frank [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/11/24/glenn-beck-savior-of-the-right-kpfk-wed-1125/</link>
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		<title>Gail Collins on American Women: KPFK Wed. 11/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST New York Times op-ed columnist GAIL COLLINS traces women&#8217;s progress from the fifties to the present, from &#8220;My Little Margie&#8221; to Hillary for President &#8212; and Sarah Palin for Vice President.  Gail Collins was the first woman editor of the New York Times editorial page;  Her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/11/17/gail-collins-on-women-kpfk-wed-1118/</link>
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		<title>Water on the Moon/Money for NASA: The Nation 11/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Water found on the moon,&#8221; the headlines said – water that &#8220;could be used for drinking,&#8221; the LA Times reported, possibly enough for &#8220;future astronauts to live off the land.&#8221; . . . A modest proposal: forget about sending people to the moon to drink the water there, and instead spend the $3 billion a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/11/15/water-on-the-moonmoney-for-nasa-nation-1114/</link>
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		<title>Bob Dylan&#8217;s Christmas Album: KPFK Wed. 11/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST BOB DYLAN has released a Christmas album! Is this a joke &#8212; or a tragedy? SEAN WILENTZ explains &#8212; he&#8217;s official historian at the official Bob Dylan website (he also teaches American history at Princeton.) READ Sean Wilentz on Dylan’s Xmas album HERE. LISTEN TO SAMPLES [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/11/10/barbara-ehrenreich-kpfk-wed-1011/</link>
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		<title>Election Day 2009: KPFK Wed. 11/4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST One year ago, Barack Obama was elected president. Yesterday, Republicans won some off-term elections – are voters telling us something?  JOHN NICHOLS comments; he’s Washington correspondent for The Nation, and writes &#8220;The Beat&#8221; blog at TheNation.com. The wildly popular “TIJUANA SOUND” of the 1960s, marketed by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/11/03/election-day-2009-kpfk-wed-114/</link>
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		<title>Berlin, Israel, Mexico: Three Walls.  The Nation 11/2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s being called &#8220;the most ambitious commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany&#8221;: &#8220;The Wall Project&#8221; in Los Angeles &#8212; and its political message will surprise many. Artists commissioned by the organizers have promised works that draw analogies between the Berlin Wall and the wall the Israelis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/11/02/berlin-israel-mexico-three-walls-nation-112/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Predator War: KPFK Wed 10/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The CIA’s secret Predator war: JANE MAYER of the New Yorker reports on the secret war being fought with remote controlled unmanned planes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The program has dramatically expanded under Obama.  “Nearly all the victims have remained faceless.&#8221;  Jane Mayer wrote about Obama’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/10/27/obamas-predator-war-kpfk-wed-1027/</link>
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		<title>The Torture Memos: KPFK Wed. 10/21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST How did torture become official US policy?   What arguments did the Bush Justice Dept. use to justify inhuman, cruel and degrading treatment?  And what is being done to bring to justice those responsible?  DAVID COLE looks at the torture memos released by the Justice Department.  He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/10/20/obamas-predator-war-kpfk-wed-1021/</link>
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		<title>Wall St. and the Dems &#8211; KPFK Wed. 10/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“It’s not a bill I’d vote for” – that’s what Howard Dean says about the health care bill the Senate Finance Committee passed yesterday with one Republican vote. Meanwhile, the Dems are caving on the banking bill:  HAROLD MEYERSON will comment – he’s an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, where his new piece is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/10/13/wall-st-and-the-dems-kpfk-wed-1014/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10/7: Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: today at 4 on KPFK, the fund drive will feature a guest host.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/10/06/kpfk-wed-107-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>Senators: No Public Option &#8211; KPFK Wed. 9/30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JOHN NICHOLS explains what&#8217;s next after the Senate Finance Committee deleted the public option from the health care bill the Senate will consider&#8211;despite the fact that the latest polls show 65% of the public in favor of a public option, which would allow people under 65 to buy into Medicare instead of private insurance.  John [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/09/29/senate-no-public-option-kpfk-wed-930/</link>
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		<title>UC Budget Protests Draw Thousands: The Nation 9/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday’s “Day of Action” against draconian budget cuts at the University of California campuses brought thousands of people to rallies at all ten campuses.  At UC Berkeley, 5,000 students and workers, along with many faculty members, rallied at noon.  At the same hour at UCLA, 700 students and workers and a few faculty members gathered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/09/25/uc-protests-draw-thousands-the-nation-925/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s CIA on Campus: The Nation 9/28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CIA-off-campus protests of the 1980s may need to be revived &#8212; this time addressed to President Obama.  The administration has asked Congress to establish a new &#8220;intelligence officer training program&#8221; at colleges and universities.  The proposal, buried in the 2010 intelligence authorization bill, would invite schools to apply for grants for courses that would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/09/23/obamas-cia-on-campus-the-nation-928/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed 9/23: Guest host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: today at 4 on KPFK, the fund drive will feature a guest host.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/09/23/kpfk-wed-923-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed 9-16: Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: Today at 4 on KPFK, the fund drive will feature a guest host.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/09/16/kfpk-wed-9-16-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Big Speech: KPFK Wed. 9-9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Obama speaks to the nation (and Congress) about health care tonight, he needs to insist on a big and comprehensive plan that includes a genuine public option: “Medicare for all.”  JOHN NICHOLS will talk about what we want from Obama tonight.  John is Washington correspondent for The Nation and he writes “The Beat” blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/09/08/obamas-big-speech-kpfk-wed-9-9/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Bruising August: KPFK Wed. 9/2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST FRIEDRICH ENGELS – “a foxhunting man, a womanizing, champagne-drinking capitalist” – and a lifelong revolutionary (and also collaborator of Karl Marx). Also, “far more adventurous than Marx when it came to exploring the ramifications of his and Marx’s thinking.” TRISTRAM HUNT explains – his eye-opening new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/09/01/health-care-troubles-kpfk-wed-92/</link>
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		<title>Remembering Ted Kennedy &#8211; KPFK Wed 8/26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HAROLD MEYERSON talks about Ted Kennedy&#8217;s place in American politics &#8212; &#8220;He was, as he lay dying, new again,&#8221; Harold writes at The American Prospect Online &#8212; because &#8220;Kennedy outlived the Reagan-Thatcher conservative era to which for so many years he had led the opposition.&#8221; Plus: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/08/25/iraq-the-forever-war-kpfk-wed-826/</link>
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		<title>Health Care &#8211; from LA to DC: KPFK Wed. 8/19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Two stories about health care in America: in LA, a week-long free clinic at the Forum in Inglewood brought thousands of people to camp out in the parking lot in the hopes of seeing a doctor or a dentist – dramatizing the problem of health care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/08/19/health-care-from-la-to-dc-kpfk-wed-819/</link>
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		<title>Wal-Mart&#8217;s Story: L.A. Times Sun. 8/16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bentonville, Ark., may be unknown to most Americans, but it is the center of the world for some 750 corporations that manufacture consumer goods &#8212; because Bentonville is the legendary home office of Wal-Mart, and those corporations want to sell their products to the world&#8217;s largest retailer. It&#8217;s also the largest private employer in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/08/16/wal-marts-story-la-times-sun-816/</link>
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		<title>Barbara Ehrenreich: The crime of poverty &#8211; KPFK 8/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST BARBARA EHRENREICH asks: Is it a crime in America to be poor? “You won’t be arrested for shopping in a Dollar Store,” she says, “but if you are truly, deeply, in-the-streets poor, you’re well advised not to engage in any of the biological necessities of life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/08/11/barbara-ehrenreich-kpfk-wed-812/</link>
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		<title>Is Obama&#8217;s Health Care Plan in Trouble? KPFK 8/5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Are people really turning against Obama’s health care plan? That’s what polls say.  That&#8217;s what Republicans are working on.  HAROLD MEYERSON will comment – he’s an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post.  Also: Gallup Poll shows only 5 Republican states. And  JANE MAYER of The New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/08/04/is-obamas-health-care-plan-in-trouble-kpfk-85/</link>
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		<title>Jane Mayer: &#8220;The Dark Side&#8221; &#8211; KPFK Wed. 7-29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST &#8220;The Dark Side” – that’s where Dick Cheney said we would have to go to “achieve our objectives” in the White House’s war on terror. JANE MAYER has been investigating what “the dark side” really means.  I spoke with her before a live audience at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/07/28/jane-mayer-the-dark-side-kpfk-729/</link>
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		<title>Tom Waits: KPFK Wed. 7-22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST TOM WAITS is the brilliant singer/songwriter with the growly voice and the haunting music.  Barney Hoskyns will talk about his life and music &#8211; he&#8217;s written the first bio, titled Lowside of the Road.  Playlist: &#8220;Jersey Girl,&#8221; &#8220;16 Shells from a 30 ought six,&#8221;  &#8221;I&#8217;m Big in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/07/22/tom-waits-kpfk-wed-7-22/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/15: Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record &#8212; my show today at 4pm will feature a guest host.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/07/15/kpfk-wed-715-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed 7/8: Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record: my show on KPFK at 4pm today will feature Terry McNally as guest host.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/07/08/kpfk-wed-78-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>Al Franken Wins! &#8211; KPFK Wed. 7/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The Minnesota Supreme Court has finally ruled &#8212; unanimously &#8212; that AL FRANKEN is the winner of the recount in his Nov. 3 Senate race with Republican Norm Coleman &#8212; and Coleman has conceded.  It&#8217;s all over &#8211;  Senate Democrats can seat Franken  next week, giving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/06/30/franken-wins-kpfk-wed-71/</link>
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		<title>Protest in Iran: KPFK Wed. 6/23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST What’s going on right now in Iran &#8212; what the protests tell us about the new generation of Iranians, and about the future of the Islamic Republic &#8212; and what Obama, and the American Left, should do to support democracy and oppose tyranny. MARK LeVINE will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/06/23/protest-in-iran-kpfk-wed-623/</link>
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		<title>Hawaii Prepares for N. Korean Attack: Nation 6/19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vacationing on Kauai, the westernmost of the Hawaiian islands, the only question most tourists ask is which beach to go to today – but visitors and locals alike were startled by Thursday&#8217;s news from Washington: a North Korean missile is now aimed at Hawaii, and Hawaii&#8217;s missile defenses are being fortified. Does that mean it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/06/22/hawaii-prepares-for-n-korean-attack-nation-626/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6/17: No show/fund drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for the record: I did not have a show today at 4 on KPFK &#8212; where the fund drive continues!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/06/18/kpfk-wed-617-no-showfund-drive/</link>
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		<title>Woodstock Ultimate Edition DVD: KPFK Wed. 6/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8217;3 Days of Peace &#38; Music&#8217;: that was Woodstock, summer of &#8217;69, a climactic moment of the sixties and an unforgettable concert film.  In the KPFK fund drive today, we feature a new DVD &#8220;Woodstock Ultimate Collector&#8217;s Edition&#8221; with an all-new cut of the film, plus some fabulous extras: concert footage from two great bands, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/06/09/woodstock-ultimate-edition-dvd-kpfk-wed-610/</link>
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		<title>The God Delusion: Richard Dawkins &#8211; KPFK 6/3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the KPFK fund drive we are featuring celebrated Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins &#8212; he says “there are no gods;” religion is “nonsense” and “a divisive and oppressive force.” He been called “the world’s most prominent atheist” – and when he makes his case for rationality and science, he’s witty, well-informed and wonderfully articulate. Richard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/06/03/the-god-delusion-richard-dawkins-kpfk-63/</link>
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		<title>Chemerinsky on Sotomayor: KPFK Wed. 5/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, Dean of the Law School at UC Irvine,will comment on Obama&#8217;s pick of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. He calls her &#8220;a superb choice.&#8221; Also: After the State Supreme Court’s Prop 8 ruling: Is 2010 “too soon” for another gay marriage initiative campaign? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/05/26/obama-picks-sonia-sotomayor-kpfk-wed-526/</link>
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		<title>Ungovernable California: KPFK Wed. 5/20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Yesterday’s election, in which California voters rejected five budget measures, dramatized the crisis in governing the state with the 8th largest economy in the world. HAROLD MEYERSON will comment on the popular revolt against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the legislature, which is not allowed to pass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/05/20/ungovernable-california-kpfk-wed-520/</link>
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		<title>Harvard Strike 40th Anniversary: Nation 5/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This spring is the 40th anniversary of the Harvard strike, one of the iconic moments of 1960s student protest, but &#8212; strangely &#8212; the only notice thus far has been in the &#8220;Opinion/Taste&#8221; pages of the Wall Street Journal. They&#8217;re still against it. The strikers – I was one of them (as a grad student) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/05/18/harvard-strike-40th-anniversary-nation-518/</link>
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		<title>Afghanistan and the Democrats: KPFK Wed. 5/13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Democrats in Congress are rushing to approve billions in war spending without debating heightened US involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. TOM HAYDEN comments: he wrote about “The Politics of Escalation” at TheNation.com. Also: In the fight for his health care program, Obama seems to have neutralized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/05/13/afghanistan-and-the-democrats-kpfk-wed-513/</link>
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		<title>Disaster in Dodgertown: Nation 5/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; but there is no joy in Dodgertown: mighty Manny has struck out. Manny Ramirez, the baseball superstar who led Los Angeles to a record-breaking winning streak at home this season, has been banned from baseball for 50 games. . . . continued at TheNation.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/05/11/disaster-in-dodgertown-nation-59/</link>
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		<title>Obama and the Muslim World: KPFK Wed. 5/6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST How Obama should engage the Muslim World: University of Michigan historian JUAN COLE says the Muslim world is not a new Soviet-type Bloc but rather is full of close allies or potential allies; Iran is not an implacable enemy of the U.S.; Al-Qaeda is not a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/05/05/obama-and-the-muslim-world-kpfk-wed-56/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s 100 Days: Harold Meyerson &#8211; KPFK Wed 4/29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama’s Hundred Days: maybe you heard: he’s got wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a deep recession, rising unemployment, a failed auto industry and escalating problems in health care, education, and energy. HAROLD MEYERSON will comment &#8212; he&#8217;s editor at large of The American Prospect and writes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/04/28/obamas-100-days-harold-meyerson-on-kpfk-429/</link>
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		<title>Climate in Crisis: BookFest Panel Sun. 11am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The L.A. Times Festival of Books at UCLA is back this weekend &#8212; it&#8217;s always a great event, and this year more than 100,000 people are expected.  I&#8217;ll be moderating a panel Sunday at 11am in Haines Hall 39 on &#8220;CLIMATE IN CRISIS&#8221; featuring &#8211;Stephan Faris, author of FORECAST: The Consequences of Climate Change, from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/04/25/climate-in-crisis-bookfest-panel-sun-11am/</link>
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		<title>The Soloist: Steve Lopez &#8211; KPFK Wed. 4/22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST For our Festival of Books preview show, we’ll feature LATimes columnist STEVE LOPEZ – the film of his book “THE SOLOIST” opens Friday in LA, it’s the story of a homeless violin player on skid row and the newspaper columnist who becomes friends with him – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/04/20/the-soloist-steve-lopez-kpfk-wed-422/</link>
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		<title>Andrei Codrescu&#8217;s Impractical Guide: KPFK Wed. 4/15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST “I would like to give young people solid intellectual, historical support for saying ‘screw you’” – that’s what ANDREI  CODRESCU says, he’s the poet and NPR commentator from New Orleans.  In pursuit of that goal, he has come up with “impractical guide to practical living” – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/04/14/andrei-codrescus-impractical-guide-kpfk-wed-415/</link>
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		<title>Unions Unite: KPFK Wed. 4/8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HAROLD MEYERSON reports that the presidents of the two labor federations and of the nation&#8217;s 12 largest unions &#8212; including the National Education Association, which heretofore has not belonged to any labor federation – yesterday announced the formation of the National Labor Coordinating Committee, an interim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/04/08/unions-unite-kpfk-wed-48/</link>
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		<title>Seymour Hersh: Syria Calling &#8211; KPFK Wed. 4/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Legendary investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH says Obama&#8217;s best chance for restarting the Mideast peace process is mediating talks between Israel and Syria.  Syria&#8217;s president Bashar Assad told Hersh that despite Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza, he is very interested in closing a deal on the Golan Heights.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/04/01/seymour-hersh-syria-calling-kpfk-wed-41/</link>
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		<title>Mark Rudd&#8217;s Weatherman Memoir: L.A. Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the LA Times Book Review: Mark Rudd is the guy from the Weather Underground who is not Bill Ayers. Both were leaders of the group that worked for the violent overthrow of the United States government in the 1970s, but while Ayers remains unapologetic, Rudd is full of regrets. Rudd is not Bill Ayers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/03/31/mark-rudds-weatherman-memoir/</link>
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		<title>Hunting the Mortgage Predators: KPFK Wed. 3/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Hunting the Mortgage Predators: BOBBI MURRAY will report on the mortgage-backed securities business and how it propelled the aggressive marketing of hideously risky loan &#8220;products.&#8221; Bobbi has reported on politics, economics, police reform and healthcare issues for Los Angeles magazine, The Nation and LA Weekly, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/03/25/hunting-the-mortgage-predators-kpfk-wed-325/</link>
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		<title>AIG&#8217;s &#8220;Best and Brightest&#8221;: KPFK Wed. 3/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST &#8220;We cannot attract and retain the best and brightest talent,&#8221; AIG says, unless they pay those bonuses &#8212; $165 million. Barney Frank had the best and brightest reply: on the Rachel Maddow Show Monday night, he said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to retain them.&#8221; JOHN NICHOLS will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/03/18/aigs-best-and-brightest/</link>
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		<title>Halliburton after Bush &amp; Cheney: KPFK Wed. 3/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST How a well-connected oil company revolutionized the way America makes war – and why Obama still needs them: PRATAP CHATTERJEE talks about the past and future of Halliburton and its former subsidiary KBR.  Pratap is the managing editor of CorpWatch and has written for the Financial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/03/10/halliburton-after-bush-cheney-kpfk-wed-311/</link>
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		<title>Hillary in Ramallah: KPFK Wed. 3/4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Hillary In Ramallah: Sec. of State Clinton visited Palestinian leaders on the West Bank this morning &#8212; for comment and some historical perspective, we turn to RASHID KHALIDI, he holds the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, and his new book is Sowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/03/04/kpfk-wed-34-hillary-in-ramallah/</link>
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		<title>Obama: Crisis &#8211; and Opportunity: KPFK Wed. 2/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Last night in his address to Congress Obama argued that the economic crisis requires structural shifts involving health care, energy and education reform. The Republican Party&#8217;s answer: just say &#8220;no.&#8221;  JOHN NICHOLS will comment: he&#8217;s Washington correspondent for The Nation, and he writes The Beat blog at TheNation.com. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/02/25/kpfk-wed-225-obama-crisis-and-opportunity/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Waltz with Bashir&#8221;: KPFK Wed. 2/18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST &#8220;Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story,&#8221; nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film,  is about Israeli soldiers&#8217; memories of one night in Beirut in 1982 when they stood by while Christian militia members massacred thousands of Palestinian civilians in the Sabra and Shatila [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/02/18/kpfk-wed-218-waltz-with-bashir/</link>
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		<title>The Nation Guide to The Nation: KPFK Wed. 2/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The essential guide to the left in America – to help find our kinds of places close to home and on the road. Editor RICHARD LINGEMAN will talk about the new book THE NATION GUIDE TO THE NATION: organic and slow-food restaurants, bookshop cafes, parades and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/02/11/kpfk-wed-211-the-nation-guide-to-the-nation/</link>
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		<title>The GOP Hopes for the Worst: KPFK Wed. 2/4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Dick Cheney yesterday said if there’s another terrorist attack, it will be Obama’s fault.  Rush Limbaugh says about Obama’s economic stimulus plan, “I hope he fails.”  HAROLD MEYERSON will comment – he’s editor-at-large of the American Prospect, and writes for the op-ed page of the Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/02/04/kpfk-24-gop-hopes-for-the-worst/</link>
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		<title>Obama Week One: KPFK Wed. 1/28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Our new president&#8217;s first week was a good one, with big steps on torture, Gitmo, health care, education, and ending the secrecy that charactized the Bush era &#8212; but will he succeed at repairing the economy?  Will he be able to help with foreclosures?  JOHN NICHOLS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/01/28/kfpk-wed-128-obama-week-one/</link>
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		<title>Obama, At Last: KPFK Wed. 1/21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ERIC FONER, KATHA POLLITT and HAROLD MEYERSON comment on Obama, history, and our future. Highlights of Obama&#8217;s  inaugural address:  “We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals”; and “To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/01/20/kfpk-wed-121-obama-day-one/</link>
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		<title>Bush&#8217;s Final Days: KPFK Wed. 1/14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Five days left on the Bush countdown clock; in the president’s exit interviews, he has defended his handling of Katrina, Iraq, and Gitmo.  JOHN NICHOLS will comment on Clinton replacing Condi Rice, and whether Eric Holder will investigate Bush Administration constitutional violations.   John is Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/01/13/kpfk-wed-114-bushs-final-act/</link>
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		<title>The Gaza Disaster: KPFK Wed 1/7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The Gaza disaster: MARK LeVINE comments on Israel’s invasion, now 12 days old, which has killed 660 Palestinians – while Palestinians have killed 6 Israelis.  Mark teaches Mideast history at UC Irvine, his most recent book is Heavy Metal Islam, and he’s written for the WashingtonPost.com, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2009/01/06/kpfk-wed-17-the-gaza-disaster/</link>
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		<title>Iraq, Obama, and History: KPFK Wed. 12/31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Our year-in-review show features, first, IRAQ: the Forever War. DEXTER FILKINS  has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 for the New York Times. Filkins describes “an arid, hopeless policy” in an unforgettable book: The Forever War. (originally broadcast 9/17/08) Obama and History: ERIC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/12/30/kpfk-wed-1231-iraq-obama-and-history/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed 12/24: Xmas Eve Special: Hitchens on God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The war on Christmas continues!  CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS says “Religion poisons everything.”  You say religion might not be true, but it provides comfort in the face of suffering and death?  Hitchens replies: “How contemptible.” His number one best-seller is God Is Not Great. (Originally broadcast 5/30/07.) Plus: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/12/23/wed-1224-xmas-eve-special-hitchens-on-god/</link>
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		<title>KPFK 12/17: Robert Reich: our collapsing economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Robert Reich on economics, David Corn on politics, and Juan Cole on shoe-throwing in Baghdad: ROBERT REICH was Clinton’s Secretary of Labor; now he argues that “What we most lack. . . are the things we use in common – clean air, clean water, public parks, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/12/16/kpfk-1217-robert-reich-our-collapsing-economy/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 12/10: Blagojevich, Zell and Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Corruption in Illinois, bankruptcy in Chicago: HAROLD MEYERSON of the Washington Post op-ed page comments on Governor Rod Blagojevich’s arrest for plotting to sell Obama’s senate seat, and on Sam Zell taking the Tribune Co., and the LA Times, into bankruptcy. Plus: Kafka Comes to America [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/12/09/kpfk-wed-1210-bailing-out-detroit/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 12/3: Obama: The Change We Need?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Leftists are worrying about Obama’s national security team—is this the change we need?  JOHN NICHOLS will have our Washington-in-Transition update.  John is Washington correspondent for The Nation and writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com. Peter Matthiessen won the National Book Award last week – he’s best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/12/03/kpfk-wed-123-obama-in-transition/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 11/26: Obama&#8217;s Team of Rubins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama&#8217;s economic advisors are not a &#8220;team of rivals&#8221; &#8212; they&#8217;re a team of Rubins, the same people who brought us the 1999 Clinton deregulation that produced the financial collapse.   ROBERT KUTTNER will comment – he’s co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and author [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/11/25/kpfk-wed-1126-obamas-team-of-rubins/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 11/19: Obama&#8217;s New Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama is appointing lots of Clintonians&#8211;does that means he will NOT bring us the change we need?  HAROLD MEYERSON will explain &#8212; he is op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and editor at large of The American Prospect magazine. (New Yorker illustration: Richard Thompson) TARIQ ALI [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/11/18/kpfk-wed-1119-obamas-new-deal/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 11/12: Obama&#8217;s Tasks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST JEFFREY TOOBIN talks about Obama’s tasks – and the next Supreme Court.  Jeff’s best-selling book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court is out now in paperback. He’s a staff writer for The New Yorker covering legal affairs and a CNN senior analyist. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/11/11/kfpk-wed-1112-obamas-tasks/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 11/5: Obama&#8217;s Victory &#8211; and Ours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST How we did it: HAROLD MEYERSON analyzes the campaigns, and the results.  Harold is editor at large of The American Prospect and writes for the op-ed page of the Washington Post. Also: Obama and History: ERIC FONER comments on the significance of America electing a black [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/11/04/kpfk-wed-115-obamas-victory-and-ours/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10/29: Could McCain Win?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Could McCain win? It’s not impossible:  JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation will look at the polls and the undecided voters in the swing states.  We&#8217;ll also have Your Minnesota Moment: Al Franken&#8217;s campaign to retire Senator Norm Coleman, and our new hero, El Tinklenberg, running against  Michelle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10/22: The Real Michelle Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST MICHELLE OBAMA: AMY WILENTZ explains how right-wing pundits made her into “a Black Power sistuh,&#8221; and how they raised the question: &#8220;Is she too black for America?&#8220;  In fact Michelle is a solid citizen of the black working and middle class, highly educated and motivated—and she’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10/15: The Republican Wrecking Crew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST How can we explain the incompetence, the corruption, the waste, the giveaways, the bridges to nowhere and the no-bid contracts in Washington, D.C., today?  The Republicans &#8220;have not done these awful things because they are bad conservatives,&#8221; says TOM FRANK; &#8220;they have done them because they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/10/14/kpfk-wed-1015-the-republican-wrecking-crew/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10/8: &#8220;A Nation Ruled by Swine&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST &#8220;In a nation ruled by swine,” Hunter Thompson wrote, “all pigs are upwardly mobile—and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.”  Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10/1: A Better Bailout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Bailing Out Out Wall Street: Deregulation of banking and finance was a reckless move, and   DOUG HENWOOD has some ideas about a better bailout. Doug writes for the Left Business Observer and The Nation, where his piece “Crisis of a Guilded Age” appears in the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/09/30/kpfk-wed-101-wall-street-bailout-politics/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 9/24: Wall Street Banks Deserve to Die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The Wall Street Bailout: “Wall Street is vanishing before our eyes,” HAROLD MEYERSON says, and “Wall Street&#8217;s investment banks plainly deserve to die.”  Harold is executive editor of The American Prospect and op-ed columnist for the Washington Post. Plus: Echoes of Nixon in the McCain campaign: McCain’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/09/23/kpfk-wed-924-wall-street-banks-deserve-to-die/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 9/17: The Smell of Fear on Wall Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Wall Street’s Epic of Destruction: WILLIAM GREIDER of The Nation will comment – he says “What is being swept away is the monumental arrogance of celebrated financiers, and the fraudulent gimmicks that created lots of new billionaires by selling bad paper to the world&#8217;s investors.” Iraq: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/09/16/kpfk-wed-917-wall-streets-epic-of-destruction/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 9/10: Obsessing about Sarah Palin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Tracking polls show McCain taking the lead nationally in the last few days, and the ABC/Washington Post poll shows white women favoring McCain 52-41 since he picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate.  The Obama camp points to the electoral vote polls which still show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/09/09/kpfk-wed-910-obsessing-about-sarah-palin/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 9/3: Jane Mayer on &#8220;The Dark Side&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST &#8220;The Dark Side” – that’s where Dick Cheney said we would have to go to “achieve our objectives” in the White House’s war on terror.  JANE MAYER has been investigating what “the dark side” really means.   Her conclusion: “the dark side” violated the constitution and American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/09/02/kpfk-wed-93-jane-mayer-on-the-dark-side/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Limits: Interview with Andrew Bacevich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We have presidential elections as a substitute for serious democratic politics&#8221; &#8212; that&#8217;s what Andrew Bacevich says. He&#8217;s been writing and teaching history and international relations at Boston University, after spending 23 years in the army and retiring as a colonel. What would serious democratic politics look like? First of all, Bacevich says, we need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/08/29/the-limits-of-obama/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 8/17: Obama and the Limits of Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ANDREW BACEVICH says even if Obama gets elected in November, he will disappoint us, and won’t be able to achieve his goals. That’s because the imperial presidency has eviscerated democracy; the endless wars have been a catastrophe for the body politic, and consumerism and debt are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/08/26/kpfk-817-obamas-challenges/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 8/20: Taxi to the Dark Side</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST “Taxi to the Dark Side” is THE film of the year on the Bush Adminstration and torture – it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and tells the story of a taxi driver who committed no crime but was tortured and killed in Afghanistan. “Sooner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/08/19/kfpk-wed-820-taxi-to-the-dark-side/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 8/13: Traffic Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST How traffic works, and why we drive the way do: TOM VANDERBILT has been studying the most democratic place in America, where people of every race, class, religion, and age work together closely and successfully: in traffic. Tom answers questions like “Why does the other lane [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/08/13/kpfk-wed-813-traffic-problems/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 8/4: &#8220;Guilty&#8221; in Gitmo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The first military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay has come up with a predictable verdict of &#8220;guilty&#8221; for Osama bin Laden&#8217;s driver in the first US war crimes tribunal since WWII. But Salim Ahmed Hamdan was found &#8220;not guilty&#8221; of conspiracy. The ACLU has called the trial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/08/04/kpfk-wed-84-chinas-olympic-politics/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/30: Collapse of the LA Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The LA Times laid off 150 people from the newsroom last week; the stand-alone book review was published for the last time last Sunday; this week the paper is the thinnest it&#8217;s ever been. The new owner, Sam Zell, seems to hold his employees in utter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/07/29/kpfk-wed-730-listening-to-mccain/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/23: Obama in Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST In an effort to shore up his support among Jewish voters, many of whom voted for Hillary, Obama visits Israel Tuesday and Wednesday. His schedule includes trips to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial, and Sderot, the town that is the frequent target of Hamas rocket attacks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/07/22/kpfk-wed-723-obama-in-israel/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/16: Heavy Metal Islam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Young people in the Mideast are not all religious fundamentalists. MARK LeVINE found Morroccans who loves Black Sabbath, rappers in the Gaza Strip, and a young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley&#8217;s &#8216;Redemption Song.&#8217; &#8211; Heavy metal, punk, hip-hop, and reggae are each the music of protest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/07/15/kpfk-wed-716-heavy-metal-islam/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/9: Barbara Ehrenreich: Their Land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST &#8216;If a place is truly beautiful,&#8217; BARBARA EHRENREICH says, &#8216;you can&#8217;t afford to be there.&#8217; Barbara&#8217;s new book is THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND; she&#8217;ll be reading and signing at Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont, Thursday July 10, 7:30pm. JOIN Barbara and the L.A. CLEAN Carwash [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/07/08/kpfk-wed-79-barbara-ehrenreich-their-land/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/2: Robert Scheer: Ike was Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Ike was right about the Military-Industrial Complex &#8212; that&#8217;s what ROBERT SCHEER argues. The US military budget for 2008 was $647 billion, more than 25 percent larger, in real terms, than the one for 1968, at the height of the Vietnam war. The military-industrial complex today [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/07/01/kpfk-wed-72-robert-scheer-our-military/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6/25: Stupidity in America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Politicians tell us how smart the American people are. But the evidence is overwhelming: American voters are ignorant, shortsighted and swayed by meaningless rhetoric. A Washington Post poll in 2003 found that 70 per cent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. A majority [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/06/24/kpfk-wed-626-stupidity-in-america/</link>
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		<title>Jews and Muslims at UC Irvine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wed. June 18: I&#8217;m preempted on KPFK today for the fund drive . . . . but there is more stuff to read, at TheNation.com: my new piece &#8220;Warriors for Zion&#8211;in California&#8221;: Columbia and Barnard aren&#8217;t the only campuses where right-wing Zionists have fought bitter campaigns in the name of defending Israel and Jewish students. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/06/19/jews-and-muslims-at-uc-irvine/</link>
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		<title>City of Fear: Los Angeles 1935-1965</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wed. June 11: I&#8217;m preempted on KPFK today for the fund drive . . . . but there is more stuff to read, at TheNation.com: my review of The Shifting Grounds of Race by Scott Kurashige: From 1920 to 1960, Los Angeles was the whitest and most Protestant city in the United States, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/06/13/city-of-fear/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6/4: How Hillary Hurt Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, the primaries are over. How much damage did Hillary do to the Democrats &#8212; and to Obama? &#8220;The Clintons have behaved execrably,&#8221; Bob Herbert writes in the NYTimes, &#8220;But weak-willed party leaders showed neither the courage nor the inclination to stop them from fracturing the party along gender and ethnic lines.&#8221; HAROLD MEYERSON will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/06/03/kpfk-wed-64-how-hillary-hurt-obama/</link>
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		<title>We Still Live in Nixonland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nixonland&#8221;  that&#8217;s Rick Perlstein&#8217;s term for the political world where candidates win power by mobilizing people&#8217;s resentments, anxieties and anger, where politics destroys is victims. Perlstein&#8217;s new book is Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. Jon Wiener: Do we still live in Nixonland? Rick Perlstein: Yes we do. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/05/31/nixonland-then-and-now/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 5/28: End of the Age of Reagan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The Age of Reagan: is it coming to an end? In 1964 the conservative movement seemed nearly dead. Then it manged to seize power and dominate American politics for the past 35 years. Historian SEAN WILENTZ will talk about Ronald Reagan  how his rise was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/05/27/kpfk-wed-527-the-end-of-the-age-of-reagan/</link>
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		<title>J. Edgar Hoover, Author</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J. Edgar Hoover was FBI director for forty-eight years, and he was also an author&#8211;a bestselling author. His Masters of Deceit, published in 1958 by Henry Holt, spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than 250,000 copies. In paperback it sold more than 2 million. But dealing with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/05/26/j-edgar-hoover-author/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 5/21: Arianna on Obama&#8217;s Victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ARIANNA HUFFINGTON talks about Tuesdays primaries, which finally gave Obama a majority of pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses. The big questions: Will Hillarys white supporters vote for Obama in November? And how strong a candidate will John McCain be? Arianna of course is co-founder and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/05/20/kpfk-wed-521-arianna-on-obamas-victory/</link>
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		<title>Tibet in Exile: An Interview with Pico Iyer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born in Oxford, raised in California, a resident of Japan, Pico Iyer has captured his itinerant life with books and essays that document his journeys to Nepal, Cuba, and most recently, Tibet. His new book is The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Jon Wiener: There are six million Tibetans. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/05/19/tibet-in-exile-qa-with-pico-iyer/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 5/14: Nixonland Then and Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST After Goldwaters defeat in 1964, all the pundits said the Republican right was dead. Eight years later, in 1972, Richard Nixon won 49 out of 50 states  exploiting the toxic resentments, cultural paranoia and racial hatreds of the era. Do we still live in Nixonland? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/05/13/kpfk-wed-513-nixonland-then-and-now/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 5/7: Obama&#8217;s November Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST JOHN NICHOLS comments on Tuesdays primaries in North Carolina and Indiana  and talks about Obama&#8217;s problem with Democrats. Among Clinton backers in Indiana, 33 percent say they would vote for McCain and 17 percent say they would not vote. Among Clinton supporters in North Carolina, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/05/06/kfpk-wed-57-obama-after-indiana/</link>
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		<title>Speech Patterns: An Interview with Richard Price</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After writing novels located primarily in the Bronx and New Jersey, New York-native Richard Price has written a new novel, Lush Life, that captures the vivacity of life and language in Manhattans Lower East Side. Dissents Jon Wiener (The Weatherman Temptation, spring 2007) interviewed him this month. Jon Wiener: Lush Life involves several worlds that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/05/05/speech-patterns-qa-with-richard-price/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 4/29: Obama After the Rev. Wright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Can Obama recover from the Rev. Wrights latest statements? Well ask MICHAEL KINSLEY  hes Americas leading liberal pundit  now a Time magazine columnist, he co-hosted Crossfire, wrote the TRB column for The New Republic, founded Slate.com, worked as Editorial Page Editor of the LA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/04/29/kpfk-wed-429-obama-and-the-rev-wright/</link>
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		<title>McCain&#8217;s Medical Records: Why the Delay?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mainstream media ask Obama why he doesn&#8217;t wear a flag pin, but they aren&#8217;t asking McCain why he doesn&#8217;t release his medical records. McCain, who would be the oldest man ever elected president, had surgery for melanoma, a potentially fatal skin cancer, eight years ago &#8212; the scar is still prominent on his face. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/04/28/mccains-medical-records-why-the-delay/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 4/23: Obama After Pennsylvania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The Pennsylvania primary and the presidency: HAROLD MEYERSON will answer the question, &#8220;when will it be over?&#8221;  hes executive editor of The American Prospect and an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post. Also: RICHARD PRICE has a new novel out: LUSH LIFE, about intersecting worlds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/04/22/kfpk-wed-423-pennsylvania-is-it-over-now/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 4/16: Steve Lopez: Homeless in L.A.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Homeless in L.A: one mans story: STEVE LOPEZ is the indispensable LA Times columnist who writes about life in the city. Now he tells the story of one homeless man on Skid Row who he discovered was a classical violinist, trained at Julliard. Now that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/04/15/kpfk-wed-416-steve-lopez-homeless-in-la/</link>
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		<title>Obama and the Palestinian Professors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, Barack Obama went to a lecture by Edward Said, the prominent Palestinian intellectual. Should that be page one news now? The LA Times thinks so  they ran a story on their front page on Thursday on the event, headlined &#8220;Campaign &#8217;08: Allies of Palestinians see a friend on Obama.&#8221; Obama&#8217;s attendance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/04/10/obama-and-the-palestinian-professors/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 4/9: Barbara Ehrenreich: The Truckers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Until now, BARBARA EHRENREICH says, Americans seemed to have nothing to say about their ongoing economic ruin except, &#8220;Hit me! Please, hit me again!&#8221; then on April 1, truck drivers started standing upin New Jersey, Ohio, and Illinois  challenging the high cost of diesel fuel. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/04/08/wed-49-barbara-ehrenreich-the-truckers-fight/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 4/2: Howard Zinn: The American Empire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HOWARD ZINN says the American empire has run into problems lately&#8211;but not for the first time. His classic Peoples History of the American Empire is out now as a graphic book, co-authored by cartoonist Mike Konopacki and historian Paul Buhle. It&#8217;s narrated by Howard himself and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/04/01/kpfk-wed-42-howard-zinn-the-empire/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 3/26: Preempted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show today on KFPK &#8212; preempted.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/03/27/kpfk-wed-326-preempted/</link>
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		<title>George Bush: &#8220;No Gene Kelly&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd wrote recently that George Bush has &#8220;turned into Gene Kelly,&#8221; she set off a firestorm of protest from fans of the late dancer, director and choreographer. Kelly&#8217;s widow, Patricia Ward Kelly, declared that &#8220;If Gene were in a grave, he would have turned over in it.&#8221; In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/03/21/george-bush-no-gene-kelly/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 3/18: Victor Navasky: The Iraq Experts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Its the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. For comment and analysis well feature VICTOR NAVASKY  his new book is MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, Or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak. Samples: Military Action will not last more than a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/03/18/kpfk-wed-318-victor-navasky-iraq-at-year-5/</link>
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		<title>Hillary&#8217;s Iraq Vote &#8211; Five Years Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war provides an appropriate moment to revisit Hillary Clintons argument in favor of authorizing Bushs use of force, and to contrast it with the case made at the time by Bushs opponents. In the last few years, Clinton has defended her vote by arguing that if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/03/17/hillarys-iraq-vote-five-years-later/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 3/12: Who Would Jesus Vote For?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Evangelical politics is taking a sharp, surprising turn  away from a war on liberalism and toward doing something about poverty and the environment. BOB MOSER explains  his story Who Would Jesus Vote For?&#8221; is on the cover of the new issue of The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/03/11/kpfk-wed-312-who-would-jesus-vote-for/</link>
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		<title>Peter Carey Q&amp;A: Growing Up Radical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Carey has won two Booker prizes: the first for Oscar and Lucinda, which was made into a movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett; the second for The True History of the Kelly Gang, which sold two-million copies worldwide. Now he has published his tenth novel, His Illegal Self, which tells the story of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/03/10/peter-carey-growing-up-radical/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 3/5: The Beat Goes On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Hillary won the popular vote in Texas and Ohio &#8212; but she can&#8217;t win a majority of elected delegates, no matter what happens in the remaining primaries (as Jonathan Alter has pointed out). Can we understand what happens next? Yes we can! &#8211; with help from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/03/04/kfpk-wed-35-clintonobama-in-texasohio/</link>
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		<title>Obama and the Jews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 2: Now it&#8217;s official: page one of the New York Times reported on Saturday that the Jews have a problem with Obama. The story, by Neela Banerjee (is that a Jewish name?), did not exactly say there was a &#8220;problem.&#8221; It said there was a &#8220;challenge&#8221; for Obama: &#8220;navigating&#8221; the &#8220;treacherous paths&#8221; that lead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/03/02/obama-and-the-jews/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 2/27: Samantha Power on Obama &amp; Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Samantha Power is a foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama and Pulitzer-Prize winning author of A Problem from Hell, the ground-breaking work on genocide and humanitarian intervention. She was also an early opponent of Bushs plans to invade Iraq. Well talk with her about Obama, Iraq, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/02/26/kpfk-wed-227-samantha-power-on-iraq/</link>
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		<title>Feminists Against Hillary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wed. Feb. 20: no show on KPFK today &#8212; pre-empted for the fund drive. But there is more stuff to read: &#8220;Anti-Hillary Sentiment on the Rise Among Feminists&#8221; More than 1,000 feminists have signed a statement criticizing Hillary Clinton and supporting Obama for president &#8211; evidence that Clinton&#8217;s support among women activists continues to decline. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/02/20/feminists-against-hillary/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 2/13: The Power of Nightmares</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES is the BBC documentary that has never been released in the US. It argues that much of the threat of terror is a fantasy. J. Hoberman in the Village Voice called it the most widely discussed docu agitprop since Fahrenheit 9/11, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/02/12/wed-213-the-power-of-nightmares/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 2/6: Can Obama beat Clinton?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Our day-after analysis of Clinton v. Obama on Super Tuesday: Clinton 52% Obama 42% in California; total delegates: Clinton 803, Obama 742. HAROLD MEYERSON on the Republicans: he says in today&#8217;s Washington Post, &#8220;McCain&#8217;s victories have chiefly been a triumph of biography over ideology.&#8221; Last night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/02/05/wed-26-after-california-clinton-v-obama/</link>
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		<title>Obama and Latinos: Santa Ana Ground Zero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SANTA ANA, Feb. 3: The Obama campaign, intent on taking some of the crucial Latino vote in California away from Hillary Clinton, organized a daylong door-to-door canvas on Saturday in the region&#8217;s most Spanish-speaking city just south of Disneyland. 200 volunteers showed up for a morning rally in Santa Ana before heading out for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/02/03/obama-and-latinos-santa-ana-ground-zero/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 1/30: Could McCain Beat Hillary?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Our super-Tuesday preview: polls show Hillary well ahead of Barack Obama, and McCain rising to the top among Republicans. Polls also show that voters nationally prefer McCain over Hillary right now, 46-44. We&#8217;re supposed to focus on the issues, not on the horse race; but I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/01/29/wed-130-could-mccain-beat-hillary/</link>
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		<title>If Obama is JFK, Who is Hillary?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 30: Ted Kennedy&#8217;s statement Monday that Obama was like JFK set off a storm of historical analogies. Hillary&#8217;s side fired back that she is like Bobby Kennedy&#8211;at least that&#8217;s what three of Bobby&#8217;s kids said the next day: &#8220;Like our father, Hillary has devoted her life to embracing and including those on the bottom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/01/29/if-obama-is-jfk-who-is-hillary/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 1/23: Barbara Ehrenreich: The Stimulus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Desperately Seeking Stimulus: BARBARA EHRENREICH says that the issue replacing Iraq in the election is how to get the economy engorged and throbbing again. Plus: CHALMERS JOHNSON on the bankrupt empire: The military adventurers of the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/01/22/wed-123-barbara-ehrenreich-the-stimulus/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 1/16: Hillary and Obama in Las Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HAROLD MEYERSON analyzes the Jan. 19 Nevada caucuses  he calls Las Vegas workers paradise where the 60,000-member hotel employees union, Local 226 of the Culinary Workers, has endorsed Obama. Harold is executive editor of The American Prospect and an op-ed page columnist for The Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/01/15/wed-116-hillary-and-obama-in-las-vegas/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 1/9: Hillary &amp; Obama in New Hampshire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST our day-after analysis of the Democratic and Republican primaries in New Hampshire: John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation, and John Powers, columnist for LA Magazine, will answer the big questions about Hillary v. Obama and McCain v. Romney. Also: how perverse is the New Hampshire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/01/08/wed-19-obama-v-mccain/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 1/2: Hillary&#8217;s Man Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m out of town visiting family today &#8212; at KPFK guest host Lila Garrett hosts a special Iowa caucuses preview. more stuff to read: &#8220;Hillary&#8217;s Man Problem&#8221; &#8211; my new piece at the HuffingtonPost]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2008/01/03/wed-12-hillarys-man-problem/</link>
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		<title>Wed 12/26: Writers on Strike, cont.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The writers strike continues: HOWARD RODMAN updates the issues: the significance of Letterman &#38; Leno, and Jon Stewart &#38; Stephen Colbert going back on the air in January, and of the union striking the Academy Awards broadcast. Mostly, well talk about how the writers can win. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/12/26/226/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 12/19: The Year in Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST IRAQ: American officials in Baghdad inhabit an isolated world: the Green Zone, a walled fortress filled with villas, swimming pools, and shiny new SUVs. Its ground zero for cultural blindness, neo-con fanaticism, and imperial fantasy  the place where the American effort to remake Iraq was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/12/18/wed-1219-the-year-in-review/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 12/12: The Nuclear Danger Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST We thought The Bomb might disappear with the Cold War  but instead we face the rising danger of nuclear terrorism and the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea occupying center stage in the presidential election. Well have comment and analysis from JONATHAN SCHELL  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/12/11/wed-1212-the-nuclear-danger-now/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 12/5: Arguing About Gitmo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Today the Supreme Court hears arguments in what may be the most important constitutional case of the decade: whether the men detained at Guantanamo have a right to a fair trial before a real court. ERWIN CHEMERINKSY will comment  he has been named dean of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/12/04/wed-125-arguing-about-gitmo/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 11/28: Hillary Up to Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Thanks to her sure-footedness, her rivals mistakes, and diminishing Democratic divisions, Hillary has built a commanding lead  but we havent heard from Iowa yet. Thats what HAROLD MEYERSON says &#8212; he&#8217;s an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, and he wrote the cover story for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/11/27/wed-1128-hillary-up-to-now/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 11/21: The Squandering of America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Once upon a time America was both prosperous and relatively equitable. But that economy was captured by a financial elite when Reagan became president, and the Democrats have failed to fight back. ROBERT KUTTNER argues that we need to rebuild the equalizing institutions that set limits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/11/20/wed-1121-the-squandering-of-america/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 11/14: Writers on Strike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Whats really at stake in the writers strike? HOWARD RODMAN explains the issues (hint: when Viacom fired its president Tom Freston in 2006, he received $60 million in severance pay &#8212; more than all of the DVD money paid to WGA members that year). Well also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/11/13/wed-1114-writers-on-strike/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 11/7: Paul Krugman on Hillary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST &#8220;We hope we&#8217;re about to elect FDR,&#8221; New York Times op-ed columnist PAUL KRUGMAN says, &#8220;but we might be about to elect Grover Cleveland.&#8221; He said he was referring to the front-runner, Hillary Clinton. Krugmans new book is The Conscience of a Liberal; I spoke with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/11/06/wed-117-paul-krugman-on-hillary/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 10/31: Susan Faludi on Manhood after 9/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST SUSAN FALUDI exposes they way the 9-11 attacks led to a call to restore &#8220;traditional&#8221; manhood, marriage, and maternity. &#8220;Once again,&#8221; she says, Americans &#8220;fled from self-knowledge and retreated into myth.&#8221; Susan wrote the unforgettable book BACKLASH; Her new book is The Terror Dream: Fear and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/10/31/wed-1031-susan-faludi-on-manhood-after-911/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 10/24: Mike Davis on the California Fires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The KPFK Fund Drive continues  pledge at www.kpfk.org or by calling 818-985-5735. MIKE DAVIS talks about the politics, and the ecology, of the wildfires burning today in Southern California &#8212; which have now destroyed almost 1200 homes and led to the evacuation of almost 1 million people. Mike wrote the now-legendary piece, &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/10/23/wed-1024-al-gore-drives-right-wingers-insane/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 10/17: Michael Moore&#8217;s SiCKO on DVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The KPFK Fund Drive continues &#8212; pledge at www.kpfk.org or by calling 818-985-5735. Health care may turn out to be a bigger issue in the 2008 elections than Iraq, and the case for universal health care is presented with wit and skill in MICHAEL MOOREs movie SiCKO. Kenneth Turan of the LA Times called SiCKO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/10/16/wed-1017-michael-moores-sicko-on-dvd/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 10/10: Iraq: No End in Sight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the KPFK FUND DRIVE &#8211; CALL/PLEDGE AT 818-985-5735&#8211;or at www.kpfk.org NO END IN SIGHT is the first film to chronicle the reasons behind Iraqs descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, and anarchy. George Clooney says: Watch this. Get your friends to watch it. Talk about it. Argue about it. And then call someone. Well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/10/09/wed-1010-iraq-no-end-in-sight/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 10/3: Seymour Hersh: Targeting Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Legendary investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH says the White House has changed the targets it plans to attack in Iran. Bush and Cheney have concluded that the public didnt believe their claims about Iranian nukes, so instead they have targeted the Revolutionary Guard Corps  arguing that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/10/02/wed-103-seymour-hersh-targeting-iran/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 9/26: John Dean on The Rotten Republicans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST JOHN DEAN says Republican rule has destoyed Congress, the Presidency, and the courts &#8212; and he will explain whats to be done about ignorant and apathetic American voters. Hes the guy who became counsel to the President in 1970 when he was thirty-one, and then served [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/09/25/wed-926-john-dean-the-rotten-republicans/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 9/19: Iraq Death Toll: One Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST While President Bush claims progress in Iraq, the death toll there has passed one million, according to a British study. LA Times Baghdad correspondent Tina Sussman reported on Sept. 14 that ORB, an agency that has conducted several surveys in Iraq, concluded that 1.2 million Iraqis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/09/18/wed-919-iraq-death-toll-one-million/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 9/12: Petraeus: &#8220;Stay&#8211;just a little bit longer&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Gen. Petraeus gave his long-awaited report on progress in Iraq, and his recommendation came as no surprise: in the words of the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: Stay  just a little bit longer. IAN WILLIAMS will comment  hes UN correspondent for The Nation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/09/11/wed-912-petraeus-stay-just-a-little-bit-longer/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 9/5: Bush in Al-Anbar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraqs Al-Anbar Province on Monday, part of his drive to persuade Americans we should stay in Iraq because &#8220;progress&#8221; is being made. JUAN COLE says The &#8216;good news&#8217; appears (I swear to God) to be that you can &#8220;walk&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/09/04/wed-95-inside-the-bubble-in-baghdad/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 8/29: Alberto Gonzales is Quitting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Iraq and Vietnam  last week President Bush argued that we should stay in Iraq to avoid what he called &#8220;the tragedy of Vietnam.&#8221; The president said one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America&#8217;s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/08/28/wed-829-alberto-gonzales-is-quitting/</link>
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		<title>8/22: On Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show today &#8212; I&#8217;m on vacation.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/08/22/822-on-vacation/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 8/15: Iraq by the Numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Sometimes numbers can tell a story in ways nothing else can. TOM ENGELHARDT added up some key numbers at TomDispatch.com: Number of American troops stationed in Iraq: 162,000, an all-time high. Estimated monthly cost of the Iraq War: $10 billion/month. Number of Iraqis estimated to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/08/13/wed-815-iraq-by-the-numbers/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 8/8: The 50-State Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Can Democrats win in places they abandoned to the Republicans decades ago? BOB MOSER reports from Bible-thumping, economically slumping Wilkes County, North Carolina  and the news is good. Bob wrote the Purple America cover story in the new issue of The Nation, and his reports [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/08/07/wed-88-the-50-state-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 8/1: Genocide in Iraq?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST First they said the war was justified to get rid of WMD in Iraq. Then they said war was justified to bring democracy to Iraq. Now they are saying war is justified to prevent genocide in Iraq. Well ask JUAN COLE what he thinks  he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/07/31/wed-81-genocide-in-iraq/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 7/25: Michael Moore&#8217;s &#8220;SiCKO&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The words &#8220;health care&#8221; and &#8220;comedy&#8221; aren&#8217;t usually found in the same sentence, but in MICHAEL MOORE&#8216;s new movie &#8216;SiCKO,&#8217; they go together hand in (rubber) glove. Well speak with KENNETH TURAN  hes film critic for the LA Times  and he calls SiCKO Moores [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/07/24/wed-725-michael-moores-sicko/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 7/18: Carl Bernstein on Hillary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Is Hillary a closet leftist and radical feminist? Has she been targeted by a vast right-wing conspiracy? Or will she do whatever it takes to win? Well talk with CARL BERNSTEIN about Hillarys 1960s; why she left Washington for Arkansas in 1974; why her 1993 health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/07/17/wed-718-carl-bernstein-on-hillary/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 7/11: Failures of the CIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Since its founding in 1947, the CIA has consistently failed at its primary mission: to understand the world. Instead, it has been turned into a secret police force. TIM WEINER of the New York Times has spent 20 years studying the Agency, an incapable and incoherent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/07/10/wed-711-failures-of-the-cia/</link>
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		<title>7/4: End of an Era at the LA Weekly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show today &#8212; it&#8217;s the 4th of July. More stuff to read: my new piece in The Nation, &#8220;End of an Era at the LA Weekly.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/06/30/74-end-of-an-era-at-the-la-weekly/</link>
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		<title>6/27: Iraq in Fragments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The KPFK Fund Drive continues! Today: the award-winning documentary Iraq in Fragments presents a stunning portrait of three worlds. We see the war in Baghdad through the eyes of an 11-year old boy, who has been apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; next, followers of Moqtada al-Sadr enforce Islamic law at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/06/26/627-iraq-in-fragments/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 6/20: Hitchens v. Hedges on Religion &amp; Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you want lies with that? Brutal working conditions, food poisoning, animal cruelty, low wages, plus sex and drugs in the packinghouse: all those stories are told in the film FAST FOOD NATION, out now on DVD, which will be our featured premium in the KPFK Fund Drive today. Manohla Dargis of the New York [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/06/20/wed-620-hitchens-v-hedges-on-religion/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 6/6 &amp; 6/13: No show/guest host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[no show today &#8212; I&#8217;m out of town. It&#8217;s the 40th anniversary of Israel&#8217;s Six-Day War &#8211;you can read my interview with Tom Segev about it at TheNation.com.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/06/04/wed-june-6-gore-vidal-remembers/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 5/30: Christopher Hitchens: &#8220;Religion Kills&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS says Religion poisons everything. The Old Testament is a nightmare, and the New Testament exceeds the evil of the old one. Religion doesnt make people behave better, and Eastern religions are no better than the Western ones. You say religion might not be true, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/05/28/530-christopher-hitchens-religion-kills/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 5/23: The Democrats Fold on Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Today&#8217;s show features our Washingon political update from JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation, who says the Iraq war funding bill is &#8220;not a compromise, it&#8217;s a blank check. . . . The willingness of Pelosi and Reid to advance a measure that does not include a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/05/22/wed-523-god-on-trial/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 5/16: no show &#8211; guest host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m out of town.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/05/17/wed-516-no-showguest-host/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 5/9: The LAPD&#8217;s May Day Riot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HAROLD MEYERSON talks about the LAPDs May Day riot in MacArthur Park, and the tide of troubles rising around George BushHarold is an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and executive editor of The American Prospect. Also: The Frozen Chosen: MICHAEL CHABON won the Pulitzer Prize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/05/08/wed-59-the-lapds-may-day-riot/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 5/2: Israel: A Palestinian View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ISRAEL: A PALESTINIAN VIEW. SARI NUSSEIBEH is a leading Palestinian intellectual and political figure, a long-time advocate of a two-state solution, and the PLOs chief representative in Jerusalem in 2001. He is president of Al Quds University, the only Arab university in Jerusalem. His new book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/05/01/wed-52-israel-a-palestinian-view/</link>
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		<title>Wed.  4/25: Ry Cooder: &#8220;We&#8217;ll Never Turn Back&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST RY COODER has a new album out: MAVIS STAPLES &#8211; Well Never Turn Back, reinterpretations of classic songs of the Civil Rights movement. When I listen to this music, it takes me back. It takes me back to the red clay hills of Georgia . . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/04/24/wed-425-ry-cooder-well-never-turn-back/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 4/18: The Disasterous Donald Rumsfeld</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE  SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST How DONALD RUMSFELD pushed America into military and strategic disasterand why the repercussions of his actions will linger for decades to come: ANDREW COCKBURN will explain. Hes written many books as well as articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. His [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/04/17/wed-418-the-disasterous-donald-rumsfeld/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 4/11: Mike Farrell, Actor and Activist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST M*A*S*H made MIKE FARRELL famous, and he&#8217;s used that fame to fight against the death penalty and for human rights in Latin America and the Middle East &#8212; he&#8217;s shown what a committed artist&#8217;s life can be. His new book is Just Call Me Mike: A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/04/10/wed-411-mike-farrell-activist/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 4/4: Mike Davis on the Car Bomb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST MIKE DAVIS talks about his new book Budas Wagon: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CAR BOMB. Reviewer John Leonard praised the book in Harpers for its savage sarcasm. . . As usual with Davis, this brilliant little book tells us things wed rather not hear. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/04/03/wed-44-mike-davis-on-the-car-bomb/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 3/28: No show/Protest plans in St. Paul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest host on the radio today&#8211;I&#8217;m going home to St. Paul for a visit. My home town will be the site of the 2008 Republican National Convention! Today&#8217;s news from the St. Paul Pioneer Press: &#8220;Protesters who show up for next year&#8217;s Republican National Convention in St. Paul will be welcomed with the &#8216;same respect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/03/27/wed-328-no-show-protest-plans-in-st-paul/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 3/21: The Terrorism Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8212; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Americas official reaction to terrorist threats has been more harmful than the terrorist threats themselves: Thats what John Mueller argues in his new book OVERBLOWN: How Politicans and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them. The war on terror, he shows, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/03/20/wed-321-the-terrorism-industry/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 3/14: &#8220;It&#8217;s not just Walter Reed&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8212; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The last few weeks have seen a vast outpouring of reports on mistreatment of wounded Iraq war outpatients following the Washington Posts revelations of conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Stories of neglect and substandard care have flooded in from soldiers, their family members, veterans, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/03/13/wed-314-oil-on-the-brain/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 3/7: Ry Cooder&#8217;s Radical Imagination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST RY COODERs new CD, My Name is Buddy, released today, is a parable of the radical imaginationit details the life, rambles, and political education of Buddy Red Cat. Ry is joined on the CD by Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, Van Dyke Parks, and Flaco Jiminez, among [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/03/07/wed-37-ry-cooders-radical-imagination/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 2/28: Eyewittness Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; 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 to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/02/28/wed-228-eyewittness-iraq/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 2/21: Mike Davis: A history of the car bomb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MIKE DAVIS talks about his new book Budas Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb  its our featured premium in the KPFK fund drive today. Reviewer John Leonard praised the book in the new Harpers for its &#8220;savage sarcasm. . . As usual with Davis, this brilliant little book tells us things we&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/02/20/wed-221-mike-davis-a-history-of-the-car-bomb/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 2/14: &#8220;The US vs. John Lennon&#8221; on DVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its the KPFK fund drive, today cohosting with Suzi Weissman, and featuring the new DVD, &#8220;The US vs. John Lennon,&#8221; during the hour. &#8220;The U.S. vs. John Lennon&#8221; tells the story of Lennons transformation from loveable moptop to anti-war activist, and recounts the facts about Nixon&#8217;s campaign to deport him in 1972. With Walter Cronkite, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/02/13/wed-214-the-us-vs-john-lennon-on-dvd/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 2/7: The Obama-thon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST 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 scare white [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/02/06/wed-27-chalmers-johnson-nemesis/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 1/31: Howard Zinn on America&#8217;s Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE - SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST HOWARD ZINN talks about Americas current political and ethical crisis. His new book is A Power Governments Cannot Suppress. Special event Thurs Feb. 1, 730pm: readings from Voices of a Peoples History of the US with co-author Anthony Arnove, Alfre Woodard, Rosie Perez, Elizabeth Pena, Mark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/01/30/wed-131-howard-zinn-americas-future/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 1/24: State of the Union: Grim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Last night in his State of the Union address, President Bush called for continuing war in Iraq  while his approval rating is at an all-time low, 28 per cent. (The lowest in history was Nixons, 25 per cent  right now Bush is ahead by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/01/24/wed-124-state-of-the-union-grim/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 1/17: Bohemian L.A.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST A community of artists, Communists and homosexuals co-existed from the 1920s through the 1960s in the Red Hills above Silver Lake. Here, communists cultivated their individuality, gay men developed identity politics, and both provoked a right-wing backlash. Hurewitzs new book is Bohemian Los Angeles and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/01/16/wed-117-bohemian-la/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 1/10: Barbara Ehrenreich on Collective Joy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8211; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST BARBARA EHRENREICH says &#8220;fight for your right to party!&#8221; In her new book Dancing in the Streets she talks about the human inclination for collective joy, expressed through the ages in ecstatic celebrations of feasting, costuming, and dancingand how that desire has been suppressed in modern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/01/10/wed-110-barbara-enrenreich-on-collective-joy/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 1/3: Iraq Apocalypse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Iraq Apocalypse: JUAN COLE reports on the rising tide of political violence following the grisly execution of Saddam Hussein &#8212; with Shiite observers chanting Moktada, Moktada! the name of the cleric whose death squads have made an indescriminate industry of killing Sunnis (New York Times). Juan Cole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2007/01/02/wed-13-iraq-apocalypse/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 12/27: Gerald Ford&#8217;s Legacy: Cheney &amp; Rumsfeld</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Gerald Ford died yesterday, but he lives on in two of his key appointees: Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Their impact on America today is greater than Ford&#8217;s. JOHN NICHOLS comments: he&#8217;s Washington correspondent for The Nation, and writes The Online Beat at TheNation.com. READ my piece [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/12/27/wed-1227-report-from-ramallah/</link>
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		<title>Wed 12/20: The Last Lennon File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show today, but some news: the FBI yesterday agreed to release the last ten documents from the John Lennon FBI File, which had been withheld for the last 25 years on the grounds that they were &#8220;national security&#8221; documents and that releasing them could cause &#8220;foreign military retaliation.&#8221; READ the L.A. Times story READ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/12/20/wed-1220-the-last-lennon-file/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 12/13: The U.S. v. George Bush et al.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST A 20-year prosecutor lays out the case against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and Colin Powell. The charge: conspiracy and fraud in taking the country to war. ELIZABETH de la VEGA is the author of U.S. v. George W. Bush et al. ALSO: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/12/13/wed-1213-the-us-v-george-bush-et-al/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 12/6: Politics in God&#8217;s Country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE &#8212; SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST (requires iTunes) 90 percent of Americans say they&#8217;ve never doubted the existence of God. 80 per cent say they are certain they will be called to answer for their sins on Judgment Day. But says EYAL PRESS, the same religious zeal that pushes some whites to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/12/02/wed-126-politics-in-gods-country/</link>
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		<title>Wed 11/29: Pacifica Archives Fund Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[no show today &#8212; instead tune in to hear the Pacifica Archives special &#8220;Say It Loud,&#8221; featuring the voices of Muhammad Ali, Michael Moore, Gore Vidal, Tariq Ali, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Lily Tomlin, and Malcom X. please contribute online to the Pacifica Archives &#8212; and pick a premium. My favorite: The Ballad of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/11/29/wed-1129-pacifica-archives-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 11/22: Inside the Bubble in Baghdad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST American officials in Baghdad inhabit an isolated world: the Green Zone, a walled fortress filled with villas, swimming pools, and shiny new SUVs. Its ground zero for cultural blindness, neo-con fanaticism, and imperial fantasy  the place where the American effort to remake Iraq was always doomed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/11/22/wed-1122-inside-the-bubble-in-baghdad/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 11/15: Do You Want Lies With That?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE 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.&#8221; It opens on Friday. ERIC SCHLOSSER, who wrote the book and the screenplay, will talk about how they made what Manohla Dargis of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/11/14/wed-1115-the-real-voter-suppression-story/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 11/8: What We Won</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE JOHN NICHOLS on the Democrats and the war: Congressman John Murtha says the meaning of the election is &#8220;get out of Iraq.&#8221; But that isn&#8217;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. His new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/11/07/wed-118-what-we-won-what-we-lost/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 11/1: Desperate Republicans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE How low can they go? HAROLD MEYERSON looks at the last-minute tactics of a party facing electoral disaster. &#8220;Stay the course,&#8221; he says, has been replaced by &#8220;anything goes&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;so long as it helps the Republicans cling to power. Harold is executive editor of The American Prospect and op-ed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/10/31/wed-111-the-desperate-republicans/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 10/25: Republicans Running Scared</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE It&#8217;s the ugly season of the political cycle, JOHN NICHOLS says: the time when election day looms close enough that politicians, parties and pundits are willing to utter just about any claim, any innuendo, and libel in order to sway a vote  especially the increasingly desperate Republicans. John is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/10/23/wed-1025-republicans-running-scared/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 10/18: Pre-empted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show today &#8212; the KPFK Fund Drive continues! The documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon is playing this week in LA at the Beverly Center 13, in Pasadena at Laemmles One Colorado, in Irvine at the Edwards University Town Center, and also in Laguna Niguel, Temecula, La Jolla, Santa Cruz, Las Vegas, San Francisco, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/10/18/wed-1018-pre-empted/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 10/11: The First Muslim in Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show today  preempted by the KPFK Fund Drive. Your Minnesota Moment: The first Muslim is about to be elected to Congress  hes Keith Ellison, hes black, hes a Democrat, and hes from Minneapolis: read about him in the New York Times &#8212; more info at http://www.keithellison.org/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/10/09/wed-1011-the-first-muslim-in-congress/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 10/4: Can the Democrats Win?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS PROGRAM ONLINE The Republicans are the party of extremism  war without end, torture without law, and of course tax cuts for you-know-who. But the House is up for grabs and now maybe the Senate too. Can the Democrats win? HAROLD MEYERSON has some answers: he writes for the American Prospect and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/10/03/kfpk-wed-104-can-the-democrats-win/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 9/26: Selling the Iraq War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE The selling of Bushs Iraq disaster is one of the key stories of the last half-century. DAVID CORN, Washington editor of The Nation, connects the dots between Bushs hatred of Saddam, the bitter battles between the CIA and the White House, and the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Davids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/09/26/kpfk-wed-926-selling-the-iraq-war/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 9/20: Iraq for Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE IRAQ FOR SALE: THE WAR PROFITEERS is the powerful new documentary about what happens to ordinary Americans when corporations go to war. In the film, by Robert Greenwald, soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children talk about how their lives have been shattered by profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. RICK [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/09/19/kpfk-wed-920-the-politics-of-torture/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 9/13: The U.S. vs. John Lennon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE The new documentary, &#8220;THE U.S. VS. JOHN LENNON,&#8221; which opens in L.A. Friday, tells the story of Lennons transformation from loveable moptop to anti-war activist, and recounts the facts about Nixon&#8217;s campaign to deport him in 1972. With Walter Cronkite, Gore Vidal, George McGovern, Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, and G. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/09/12/kpfk-wed-913-the-us-vs-john-lennon/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 9/6: The Next 9/11: Are We Ready?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE The fifth anniversary of 9-11 is coming up, which makes us wonder how safe we are: David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz ask ARE WE READY? Theyll talk about how 9-11 permanently altered the political, cultural, and organizational life of the country, and consider whether we are now better prepared to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/09/05/kpfk-wed-96-what-is-hezbollah/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 8-30: Andrei Codrescu on New Orleans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE On the one-year anniversary of Katrina, we turn to ANDREI CODRESCU for comment. For two decades he&#8217;s been living in and writing about his adopted city. &#8220;Katrina was only a storm,&#8221; he said recently, &#8220;but what followed was so hideous that, one year later, we can only shake our heads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/08/29/kpfk-wed-8-30-andrei-codrescu-on-new-orleans/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 8/23: Anger in the Arab World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE Anger in the Arab World: RASHID KHALIDI talks about the aftermath of Israels war in Lebanon. Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia; his new book, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, will be published in October. He wrote about Anger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/08/22/kpfk-wed-823-anger-in-the-arab-world/</link>
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		<title>Wed. 8/16: One Party Country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten of the LA Times lay out The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 2lst Century  how right-wing strategists are neutralizing the Democrats traditional advantages with Latinos, women, African-Americans and Jews &#8212; and even union members. Tom and Peter will be speaking and signing One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/08/15/kpfk-wed-816-one-party-country/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 8/9: Fiasco in Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS INTERVIEW ONLINE Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq: THOMAS RICKS of the Washington Post has written a devastating story about the incompetence and folly of the Bush administrations war. Michiko Kakutani (NY Times) called it staggeringly vivid and persuasive. LISTEN TO THIS INTERVIEW ONLINE Plus: Joe Lieberman is dead meat: HAROLD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/08/08/kpfk-wed-89-goodbye-joe-lieberman/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 8-3: Israel&#8217;s war on civilians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE Over the weekend Israel bombed Qana, killing 56 civilians, 37 of them children. Israel officially apologized but claims Hezbollah tactics are responsible for civilian deaths in Lebanon. ADAM SHATZ, literary editor of The Nation, comments. Adam wrote about Israel and Lebanon for the LA Times op-ed page Tuesday. He&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/08/01/kpfk-wed-8-3-israels-war-on-civilians/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/26: Israel in Lebanon: A Way Out?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE Israel in Lebanon: is there a way out? IAN WILLIAMS, UN Correspondent for The Nation, says the UN could help  but first George Bush has to tell Israel to stop. An analogy: imagine if, when the IRA engaged in terrorists attacks on the British, the Brits shelled and strafed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/07/25/kpfk-wed-726-israel-in-lebanon-a-way-out/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/19: Israel Goes to War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE Israel has killed over 300 Lebanese, most of them civilians, while Hezbollah rockets have killed 30 Israelis, 15 of them civilians. In Gaza, one Israeli soldier has died from his own armys fire, while Israel has killed 103 Palestinians. Israel claims this disproportionate violence will destroy Hezbollah and Hamas, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/07/19/wed-719-israels-wars/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/10: The Democrats and the War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation, talks about the Democrats and the war  and the coming contest in Connecticut, where George Bushs favorite Democratic senator, Joe Lieberman, is facing a strong challenge in the Democratic primary from anti-war progressive Ned Lamont. John writes The Online Beat at TheNation.com. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/07/10/kpfk-wed-710-the-democrats-and-the-war/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 7/5: Tom Hayden: An Exit strategy for Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SEGMENT ONLINE: Democrats want to &#8220;wave the white flag of surrender&#8221; in Iraq: thats what President Bush says. Vice President Cheney accuses the Democrats of &#8220;defeatism&#8221; in the global war on terror. And now Republicans are planning to use the war to win at the polls in November. TOM HAYDEN talks about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/07/04/kpfk-wed-75-tom-hayden-an-exit-strategy-for-iraq/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6/28: White House Hound Dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show today: the KPFK fund drive continues. More stuff to read: Jon Wiener: &#8220;White House Hound Dog Visits Graceland: What The King could tell the President&#8221; at TheNation.com/The Notion.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/06/28/kpfk-wed-628-preempted-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6-21: The US vs. John Lennon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show today &#8212; the KPFK fund drive continues. Web Extra: take a look online at the trailer for a new documentary, &#8220;The U.S. versus John Lennon&#8221; &#8212; or go to www.theUSversusJohnLennon.com. The film, which opens September 15, provides a compelling look at Lennon&#8217;s transformation from lovable mop-top to anti-war activist &#8211;and also tells the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/06/21/kpfk-wed-6-21-the-us-vs-john-lennon/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6/14: Bush in Baghdad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[no show today &#8212; it&#8217;s the KPFK fund drive. BUT there&#8217;s more stuff to read: my sardonic comment on &#8220;BUSH IN BAGHDAD&#8221; at TheNation.com. Your Minnesota Moment: go see the Robert Altman-Garrison Keillor film A Prairie Home Companion  its terrific, even if youre not from St. Paul. Ella Taylor explains why in the LA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/06/13/kpfk-wed-613-bush-in-baghdad/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 6/7: Harold Meyerson: The Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE Election Analysis with HAROLD MEYERSON: Phil Angelides will challenge Arnold in November; Jerry Brown defeated Rocky Delgadillo for the Democratic Party nomination for attorney general; and Democrat Francine Busby lost the San Diego Congressional seat vacated by Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham to a Republican. Harold is Political Editor of the LA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/06/06/kpfk-wed-67-harold-meyerson-the-elections/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 5/31: Victor Navasky: Magazines &amp; Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VICTOR NAVASKY is the renowned editor, writer, and teacher who has been at the helm of The Nation for almost thirty years, during which its circulation rose from 20,000 to nearly 200,000. He argues that, even in the age of the internet and Fox news, independent journals of opinion are vital to the health of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/05/30/kpfk-wed-531-victor-navasky-on-magazines-politics/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 5/24: American Fundamentalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bad news about right-wing Christians and their efforts to take over the country: A parallel culture has much of the heartland in the grip of a feverish religious fundamentalism. MICHELLE GOLDBERG will explain &#8212; she writes for Salon.com, and her new book is Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. Also: The downsizing of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/05/23/kpfk-wed-524-american-fundamentalism/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 5/17: preempted: Katrina special</title>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 5/10:  100 Years of Regime Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE Theres nothing really new about George W. Bush&#8217;s war to remove Saddam Hussein; for more than 100 years, presidents have been sending troops to change foreign governments they don&#8217;t like. And in almost every case, STEPHEN KINZER argues in Overthrow: America&#8217;s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/05/08/kpfk-wed-510-100-years-of-regime-change/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 5/3: Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE The US occupation is the major source of instability and suffering for the Iraqi people, says ANTHONY ARNOVE in his new book, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal. Continuing occupation is both a wildly unrealistic and a reckless strategy  and its making the world a more dangerous place. Anthony Arnove [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/05/02/kfpk-wed-53-iraq-the-logic-of-withdrawal/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 4/26: Robert Scheer:  Our Nutty President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE ROBERT SCHEER says Saddam Hussein, who did not have a nuclear weapons program and was fundamentally at odds with Bin Laden, now sits in prison, while the dictator of nukes-R-us Pakistan and the theocrats of Iran have had their power immeasurably strengthened by Bushs policies. Go figure. Actually, it would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/04/25/kpfk-wed-424-robert-scheer-our-nutty-president/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 4/19: KEVIN PHILLIPS on the REPUBLICANS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE KEVIN PHILLIPS talks about the newest stage of the Republican majority: a nightmarish vision of ideological extremism, catastrophic fiscal irresponsibility, [and] rampant greed  thats how historian Alan Brinkley described Kevins new book, American Theocracy, in the New York Times Book Review. READ Kevin Phillips online in The Nation this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/04/19/kpfk-wed-419-kevin-phillips-on-the-republicans/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 4/13: no show &#8211; guest host</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/04/11/kpfk-wed-413-no-show-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 4/5: CHALMERS JOHNSON ON EMPIRE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE CHALMERS JOHNSON on THE SORROWS OF EMPIRE: Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, Chalmers Johnson maps America&#8217;s vast empire of military bases and the world that supports them. American militarism, he shows, is bankrupting the United States, even as it creates the conditions for a new century of virulent blowback. Chalmers Johnson&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/04/04/kpfk-wed-35-chalmers-johnson-on-empire/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 3/29: MIKE DAVIS on NEW ORLEANS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE MIKE DAVIS asks, &#8220;Who is Killing New Orleans?&#8221;: A few blocks from the badly flooded and still-closed campus of Dillard University, a wind-bent street sign announces the intersection of Humanity and New Orleans. In the nighttime distance, the downtown skyscrapers on Poydras and Canal Streets are already ablaze with light, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/03/28/kpfk-wed-329-mike-davis-on-new-orleans/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 3/22: Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW 1965-1968 saw the climax of the civil rights movement and the massive escalation of the war in Vietnam as well as the tremendous growth of the anti-war movement. The intense, dizzying and heartbreaking story of those tumultuous years has now been told with unprecedented power and insight by TAYLOR BRANCH. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/03/21/kfpk-wed-322-taylor-branch-on-martin-luther-king/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 3/15: Terror: The Bush Deception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE Terror: The Bush Deception. According to the Bush administration website lifeandliberty.gov, we are winning the war on terrorism. DAVID COLE disagrees; he says Bushs disregard of fundamental principles of human rights is the most likely source of the next attack. David teaches law at Georgetown; his article Are We Safer? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/03/15/kpfk-wed-315-terror-the-bush-deception/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 3/8:  no show &#8211; guest host</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/03/08/kpfk-wed-39-no-show-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 3/1: Iraq, Iran and the Dubai Ports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE Iraq, Iran, and the Dubai Ports: IAN WILLIAMS will explain everything. Hes UN correspondent for The Nation; he writes the Deadline Pundit blog, and his most recent book is RUM: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776. . PLUS: The Republicans call it illegal immigration: Pulitzer-Prize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/02/28/kfpk-wed-31-iraq-iran-and-the-dubai-ports/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 2/15 &amp;  2/22: Pre-empted: Fund Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[support KPFK, powered by the people! call 818-985-5735 or subscribe at www.kpfk.org]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/02/15/kpfk-wed-215-222-pre-empted-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 2/8: TERRY GROSS on BILL O&#8217;REILLY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TERRY GROSS of NPRs Fresh Air is heard by more than 4 million listeners on more than 400 radio stations &#8212; she talks about what went wrong in her interviews with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and Bill OReilly. Also, she answers the question, &#8220;What is the deal with rumors that you are a lesbian?&#8221; Her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/02/07/kfpk-wed-28-terry-gross-on-hillary-clinton/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 2/1: AMOS OZ ON THE HAMAS VICTORY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AMOS OZ, the great Israeli novelist and peace activist, talks about the Hamas victory  and what it means for those who seek an end to the Israeli occupation. Amos Ozs new book is How to Cure a Fanatic. READ JON WIENER&#8217;s Q&#038;A WITH AMOS OZ at TheNation.com Plus: our post-mortem on Bushs State of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/01/30/kfpk-wed-21-amos-oz-on-the-hamas-victory/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 1/25: ANDREI CODRESCU ON NEW ORLEANS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paradise is lost: Remembering New Orleans For two decades ANDREI CODRESCU has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. Andrei is a refugee born in Transylvania who found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/01/24/kpfk-1-25-andrei-codrescu-on-new-orleans/</link>
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		<title>KPFK  1/18: MARGO JEFFERSON on MICHAEL JACKSON</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE MYSTERIES OF MICHAEL JACKSON: Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer-Prize winning writer for the New York Times, talks about the weirdness and the alleged criminality, the great music and the dancing, and the rise and fall of the one-time king of pop. Her new book is On Michael Jackson. Margo will be speaking Sunday Jan 22 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/01/17/kfpk-wed-118-margo-jefferson-on-michael-jackson/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 1/11: ROBERT SCHEER ON SAM ALITO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW SAM ALITO is sort of like ROBERT BORK: he has a long and full record of challenging liberal positions on presidential power, abortion, civil rights and control of corporations. More than any nomination in memory, his threatens to finally transform the court. ROBERT SCHEER will explain: he writes a syndicated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/01/09/robert-scheer-on-sam-alito/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 1/4: AMOS OZ ON ISRAEL AND PALESTINE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW AMOS OZ, the great Israeli peace activist and novelist, will talk about the future of the Mideast, and about his memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness  its a fantastic book about growing up in Jerusalem in the forties and fifties, and it&#8217;s out now in paperback. (archive edition, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2006/01/03/kpfk-wed-jan-4-amos-oz-on-israel-and-palestine/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 12/28: A BAD YEAR FOR GOLIATH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/12/27/kpfk-wed-1228-a-bad-year-for-goliath/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 12/21: SPYING ON AMERICANS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SEGMENT: Spying on Americans: George Bush says its 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 new article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/12/20/kpfk-wed-1221-spying-on-americans/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 12/14: Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show this week, but some recommended reading: &#8220;Remembering Gene McCarthy&#8221; (TheNation.com) &#8220;Nation Magazine Cruise Diary: The Case of the Forbidden Flambe&#8221; (HuffingtonPost.com)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/12/13/kpfk-wed-1214-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed 12/7: REMEMBERING JOHN LENNON</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW Dec. 8 is the 25th anniversary of the killing of JOHN LENNON. Well commemorate that anniversary by listening to some rare audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives documenting Lennon&#8217;s engagement with the anti-war movement of the sixties: ABBIE HOFFMAN talking about John Lennon in a 1981 interview, PETE SEEGER rembering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/12/06/kpfk-wed-127-remembering-john-lennon/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 11/30:  IRAQ &#8212; and GIRL GROUPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Girl Groups of the Sixties: LISTEN ONLINE Raw emotion, youthful energy, and teenage angst in a new 4-CD Rhino box set: One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost &#038; Found. Jon Pareles of the New York Times wrote, to hear all these long-suffering voices is to realize that feminism didn&#8217;t arrive an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/11/29/kfpk-wed-nov-30-tom-hayden-on-iraq/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 11-23: ROBERT SCHEER ON IRAQ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW IRAQ UPDATE: For the first time, Iraq&#8217;s political factions on Monday collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal of US forces, putting new pressure on the Bush White House. ROBERT SCHEER will provide comment and analysis: in his column today, at RobertScheer.com, he says &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to hand it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/11/23/kpfk-wed-11-23/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 11-15:  Guest Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No show this week, but some recommended reading: Marc Cooper writes: &#8220;This is the first Tuesday in years in which former L.A. Times national correspondent BOB SCHEER doesnt have an opinion column. He doesnt, youll remember, because the clairvoyants at the Times decided that the tens of thousands who read his column and appreciate his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/11/15/kpfk-wed-11-15-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. 11/9: Voters to Arnold: NO!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW ARNOLD&#8217;S INITIATIVES: HAROLD MEYERSON will have analysis of Tuesday&#8217;s election results, where voters rejected every one of Schwarzenegger&#8217;s ballot propositions &#8212; plus an abortion-parental consent initiative designed to get conservatives to the polls. It&#8217;s a stunning defeat for the governor. Harold is political editor of the LA Weekly, editor at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/11/07/kfpk-wed-119-the-voters-and-arnold/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 11/2: Arnold, Democracy &amp; Fascism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW: Arnold&#8217;s Initiatives: How did we get here? AMY WILENTZ will explain the background next week&#8217;s special election &#8212; she&#8217;s a contributing editor to The Nation and also writes for the New York Times and the L.A. Times &#8211; her new book is Armed Response: Coming to California in the Age [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/10/31/kpfk-wed-112-arnolds-initiatives/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10/26: It&#8217;s Plamegate Indictment Time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW: The Plamegate Indictments: We&#8217;ll have analysis from JOHN NICHOLS, Washington correspondent for The Nation. He says the issue is not simply outing a CIA agent, or lying to the special prosecutor &#8212; the issue is lying to the American people about the reasons for going to war. John writes &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/10/24/kpfk-wed-1026-frank-rich-on-fascism-in-america/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10/12 &amp; 10/19: Pre-empted: Fund Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contribute Online to KPFK &#8212; or call 818-985-5735; Volunteer Online for KPFK &#8211; or call (818) 985-2711 ex:513]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/10/12/kpfk-wed-1012-1019-pre-empted-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 10/5:  George Bush and the Supremes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW: GEORGE BUSH AND THE SUPREMES Bushs nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has left commentators on the right angry and bitter. HAROLD MEYERSON reports  he writes for the LA Weekly, The American Prospect, and the Washington Post op-ed page, where he has a terrific new piece on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/10/04/kpfk-wed-104-bush-and-the-supremes/</link>
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		<title>Radio Nation Fri 9/30: The Godless Constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW THE GODLESS CONSTITUTION: Did the Founding Fathers want America to be a Christian nation? ISAAC KRAMNICK says the Founding Fathers had no problem with a Christian people  but they were firm in their insistence on a secular government. His new book is The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/10/02/radio-nation-fri-930-the-godless-constitution/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 9/28: The Red Cross Money Pit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW THE RED CROSS MONEY PIT: The American Red Cross has raised more than $800 million for Hurricane Katrina victims. This would be justified if the organization had to pay the cost of the 300,000 people it has sheltered. But FEMA and the affected states are reimbursing the Red Cross under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/09/26/kpfk-wed-928-the-red-cross-money-pit/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. 9/21: Mike Davis, Live from New Orleans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW: MIKE DAVIS saw it coming: a year ago he warned what would happen in New Orleans: The evacuation of New Orleans in the face of Hurricane Ivan [in 2004] looked sinisterly like Strom Thurmond&#8217;s version of the Rapture. Affluent white people fled the Big Easy in their SUVs, while the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/09/20/kpfk-wed-sept-20-mike-davis-live-from-new-orleans/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Sept. 14: Is L.A. Next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW: FEMA declared in August 2001 that the three mega-disasters most likely to hit the US were (1) a terrorist attack on New York City; (2) a Category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans; and (3) a major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault. Now weve had the first two. Is L.A. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/09/13/kpfk-wed-sept-13-is-la-next/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Sept. 7: New Orleans: Sadness &amp; Anger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW: As weve followed the news from New Orleans, its been a week of sadness and anger thats been pretty overwhelming at times. Mainstream network news has been outraged by the presidents indifference to human suffering there, so we can do something else. We can ask, do you know what it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/09/06/kpfk-wed-sept-7-do-you-know-what-it-means-to-miss-new-orleans/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Aug. 31: Steal This Vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW STEAL THIS VOTE: ANDREW GUMBEL, U.S. correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, documents the simple truth: Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election.  Paul Krugman, New York Times. Gumbel tells better than anyone else the historyof votes bought, stolen, lost and litigated  because of a corrupt political [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/08/31/kpfk-wed-aug-31-steal-this-vote/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Aug. 24: Commie Girl Goes to Crawford</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW COMMIE GIRL GOES TO CRAWFORD: REBECCA SCHOENKOPF, who writes the great Commie Girl column for the OC Weekly, flew to Texas last week to visit Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey. She also got a glimpse of President Bush, but only on TV at the hotel bar: &#8220;The president looked happy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/08/25/kpfk-wed-aug-24-commie-girl-goes-to-crawford/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed Aug. 17: An Exit Strategy for Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An exit strategy for Iraq now: TOM HAYDEN explains how to do it: shift from a military model to a peace process. Tom wrote about it for the L.A. Times op-ed page on Tuesday. Gaza update: today the Israeli army moved in on Jewish settlers who are resisting the pullout, and Palestinians prepare to return [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/08/17/kpfk-wed-aug-17-an-exit-strategy-for-iraq/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Aug. 10: It&#8217;s Gaza Pullout Time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Gaza pullout time! The long-awaited, and long overdue, withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza strip begins this weekend. Is this the first step towards a broader withdrawal &#8212; or the last? ROANE CAREY will comment; he&#8217;s a senior editor at The Nation and co-editor of The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/08/09/kpfk-wed-aug-10-its-gaza-pullout-time/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed Aug. 3: A Socialist in the Senate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Socialist in the Senate? Vermont&#8217;s Socialist congressman Bernie Sanders seems set to win one of the few US Senate seats next year where no incumbent is running. JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation will explain. Also: The Bush economy: our economic mythmakers hold that technology will overturn hierarchies, and that the democratizing of information and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/08/03/kpfk-wed-aug-3-a-socialist-in-the-senate/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. July 27: The Secret History of Disco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should Roe go? KATHA POLLITT looks at the argument of Democratic Party insiders who ask whether abandoning abortion rights would win back white Catholics and evangelicals. Katha is author of Subject to Debate and a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation, was recently awarded the number 74 spot on right-wing hack Bernard Goldberg&#8217;s list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/07/26/kpfk-wed-july-27-the-secret-history-of-disco/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. July 20: Iraq &#8211; and Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Iraq war is over &#8211; and the winner is &#8212; Iran.&#8221; That&#8217;s what JUAN COLE says &#8212; he&#8217;s professor of history at Michigan, and he writes the famous &#8220;Informed Comment&#8221; blog about Iraq. Also: Bush nominated John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court; how bad is this guy? DAVID COLE will explain; he&#8217;s The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/07/19/kpfk-wed-july-20-iraq-and-iran/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. July 13: Robert Scheer on Karl Rove</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ROBERT SCHEER talks about Karl Rove&#8217;s crime: &#8220;To try to conceal the fact that the President had lied to the American public about Iraq&#8217;s weapons of mass destruction program, Rove attempted to destroy the credibility of two national security veterans and send an intimidating message to any other government officials preparing to publicly tell the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/07/12/kpfk-wed-july-13-robert-scheer-on-karl-rove/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. July 6: Quagmire in Baghdad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quagmire in Baghdad: Our Iraq war update with IAN WILLIAMS, UN Correspondent for The Nation and contributor to The Asia Times. His new book is Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776: &#8220;Rum was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present.&#8221; He also details the showdown between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/07/05/kpfk-wed-july-6/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. June 29: Bush, Schwarzenegger &amp; King Tut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HAROLD MEYERSON comments on the Bush speech defending the war Tuesday night &#8212; and on Donald Rumsfeld&#8217;s remark on Fox News Sunday that the war may go on for &#8220;eight, 10, 12 years.&#8221; Harold writes for the LA Weekly, The American Prospect, and the Washington Post op-ed page. Also: GARY INDIANA explains Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s rise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/06/28/kpfk-wed-june-29-bush-schwarzenegger-king-tut/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. June 22: guest host</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/06/28/kpfk-wed-june-22-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed June 8 &amp; 15: Preempted: Fund Drive</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/06/12/kpfk-wed-june-8-15-preempted-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>Radio Nation June 3: JOHN DEAN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Worse than Watergate&#8220;: that&#8217;s what JOHN DEAN says about the Bush White House practice of secrecy and deception. John Dean of course served as counsel to President Nixon at age 31, a job he did for a thousand days. Plus: So far this month in the Iraq insurgency, more than 450 Iraqis and dozens of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/06/01/radio-nation-june-3-john-dean/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. June 1: Utopia and the A-Bomb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[War, politics, idealism, passion, deceit, and betrayal: they all come together in the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the a-bomb and accused communist, told by KAI BIRD and MARTIN H. SHERWIN. Their book is American Prometheus: The Triumph of Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Plus: Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, nominated by Nixon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/05/31/kpfk-wed-june-1-utopia-and-the-a-bomb/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. may 25: RY COODER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW: RY COODER has a new CD: &#8220;Chavez Ravine.&#8221; It&#8217;s a story about Latino L.A. after World War II, about &#8220;cool cats,&#8221; radio, J. Edgar Hoover, and baseball &#8212; Mike Davis calls it &#8220;a magical-realist street opera celebrating the life and death of the barrio that the Dodgers killed.&#8221; Ry is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/05/24/kpfk-wed-may-25-ry-cooder/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. May 18: from L.A. to Baghdad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Antonio Villaraigosa will be L.A.&#8217;s first Latino mayor in modern times; meanwhile, back in Washington, the Republican effort to abolish the filibuster&#8211;and put lots more far-right-wing judges on the federal bench&#8211;begins today. HAROLD MEYERSON will provide comment and analysis; he writes for the LAWeekly, the American Prospect, and the Washington Post op-ed page. READ Jon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/05/17/kpfk-wed-may-18-from-la-to-baghdad/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. May 11: Preempted: L.A. Mayoral Campaign Special</title>
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		<title>KPFK Wed May 3: Surveillance, voting &amp; &#8220;Americanization&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Starbucks to the sidewalk to surfing the web, we are being watched. The power and pervasiveness of surveillance technology in America today is unnerving. Robert O&#8217;Harrow Jr. will explain: he is a reporter for the Washington Post and author of No Place to Hide. Plus: We&#8217;re still worrying about voting and vote-counting in presidential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/05/03/kpfk-wed-may-3-surveillance-voting-americanization/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Apr. 27: SARAH VOWELL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SARAH VOWELL is one of the great voices of public radio in America today for her work on This American Life. Now she&#8217;s gone on the road to find the locations of American political violence &#8212; and to ponder their lessons &#8212; in her new book Assassination Vacation. PLUS: Agribusiness in California: it&#8217;s both an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/04/27/kpfk-wed-apr-27-sarah-vowell/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Apr. 20: John Dean, Maureen Dowd, Victor Navasky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Worse than Watergate&#8220;: that&#8217;s what JOHN DEAN says about the Bush White House practice of secrecy and deception. John Dean of course served as counsel to President Nixon at age 31, a job he did for a thousand days. SEE John Dean at the BookFest at UCLA, Sat. 1130am, Korn Convocation Hall Also: MAUREEN DOWD, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/04/19/kpfk-wed-apr-20-john-dean-maureen-dowd-victor-navasky/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Apr. 13: LIKE A ROLLING STONE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time &#8212; you looked so fine: It&#8217;s the 40th anniversary of Bob Dylan&#8217;s &#8220;Like a Rolling Stone&#8221; &#8212; GREIL MARCUS will talk about the &#8220;explosion of vision and humor that forever changed pop music.&#8221; His new book is Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads. Playlist: Bob Dylan, &#8220;Like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/04/12/kpfk-wed-apr-13-like-a-rolling-stone/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Apr. 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jerusalem and Gaza, Israel and Palestine: as the Israeli government and military prepare to dismantle the Gaza settlements, the settler movement prepares for massive resistance: AMY WILENTZ will be live in-studio with our Mideast update. Her &#8220;Letter from Jerusalem&#8221; appears in the April 18 issue of The Nation. Also: Farmworkers in California history: RICHARD STEVEN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/04/05/kpfk-wed-apr-6/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Mar. 30: CALVIN TRILLIN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two segments trace some effects of the war in Iraq: &#8211; At home in Illinois: CALVIN TRILLIN reports on the family of one National Guardsman killed in Iraq: Brian Slavenas of DeKalb, Illinois. His father is a strong supporter of the war, but his mother is a long-time antiwar activist. Trillin wrote his powerful &#8220;Letter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/03/29/kpfk-wed-mar-30-calvin-trillin/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Mar. 23: BOB DYLAN&#8217;S &#8220;CHRONICLES&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KATHA POLLITT, columnist for The Nation, considers the question, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with women &#8212; this week?&#8221; Last week the complaint was that women weren&#8217;t good at science; this week they&#8217;re too timid to write op-ed columns. Also: A memoir about sexual hypocrisy and political corruption: LIPSTICK JIHAD describes an Iranian-American woman&#8217;s trip to Tehran to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/03/23/kpfk-wed-mar-23-bob-dylans-chronicles/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Mar. 16: THE IRAQ WAR ON FILM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US invaded Iraq two years ago this Saturday (Mar. 19); to observe the anniversary, we&#8217;ll talk about two films on the war: &#8220;Gunner Palace&#8221; is a wild Iraq war documentary in video-diary format, alternately gripping and surrealistic. ELLA TAYLOR of the LA Weekly calls it &#8220;sensational&#8221; &#8212; she&#8217;ll explain why. READ Ella Taylor on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/03/14/kpfk-wed-mar-16-the-iraq-war-on-film/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Mar. 9: THE CIA AND WALL STREET</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s show will open with analysis of the L.A. mayoral election results &#8211; and the future of Antonio Villaraigosa and the Latino-labor coalition &#8212; with HAROLD MEYERSON &#8212; he writes for the LA Weekly, the American Prospect, and the Washington Post op-ed page. Also: The failures of the CIA: Melissa Boyle Mahle was a CIA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/03/09/kpfk-wed-mar-9-the-cia-and-wall-street/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Mar. 2: Suburban Sweatshops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sweatshop has been reborn: at construction sites, restaurant kitchens, and private homes &#8212; where immigrant workers are paid illegally low wages and suffer staggering rates of injury. JENNIFER GORDON tells that story &#8212; she&#8217;s a MacArthur &#8220;genius&#8221; and founder of The Workplace Project, an immigrant organizing center on Long Island, NY. Barbara Ehrenreich calls [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/03/01/kpfk-wed-mar-2-suburban-sweatshops/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Feb 23: FRANK RICH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our pre-Oscar show looks at the right-wing campaign against Clint Eastwood, or &#8220;How Dirty Harry became a Commie&#8221;: New York Times columnist FRANK RICH explains. Plus a Baghdad update from JUAN COLE: he says Iraq &#8220;continues to be a godawful mess, with no real security on the major roads.&#8221; As for the elections, &#8220;they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/02/22/kpfk-wed-feb-23-frank-rich/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Feb. 9 &amp; 16: PREEMPTED: Fund Drive</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/02/09/kpfk-feb-9-16-preempted-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Feb. 2: LENNY BRUCE and THE STATE OF THE UNON</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PAUL KRASSNER &#8212; Legendary Satirist, Radical Activist, and Publisher/Editor of The Realist &#8212; talks about LENNY BRUCE. Paul has been nominated for a Grammy for his liner notes for the 6-CD Lenny Bruce box set &#8220;Let the Buyer Beware.&#8221; Paul also has been writing for The Nation (&#8220;Geezerstock: Confessions of an Aging Hippie&#8221; and has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/02/01/kpfk-feb-2-lenny-bruce-and-the-state-of-the-unon/</link>
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		<title>KPFK JAN. 26: TOM FRANK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TOM FRANK explains why so many working class and poor voters in the middle of the country &#8220;insist on re-electing the very people who are screwing them&#8221;&#8211;and what the Democrats can do about it. Tom&#8217;s best-selling book is What&#8217;s the Matter with Kansas? LISTEN TO TOM FRANK How a small group of people eliminated slavery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/01/26/kpfk-jan-26-tom-frank/</link>
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		<title>kpfk Jan. 19: Iraqi Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE IRAQI ELECTIONS: comment and analysis from JUAN COLE &#8212; he knows more about Iraqi politics than just about anyone, and writes the crucial &#8220;Informed Comment&#8221; blog. LISTEN TO JUAN COLE: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/audioblog?pid=2143 Plus: THE LIFE AND CAREER OF AN IMAGE: David Greenberg, author of the award-winning book Nixon&#8217;s Shadow, traces the transformation of Tricky Dick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/01/18/kpfk-jan-19-iraqi-elections/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Jan. 12: BARBARA EHRENREICH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BARBARA EHRENREICH has some good news: a new website that matches you with a NEW country appropriate to your personal tastes and values! It&#8217;s FleeAmerica.com. Barbara wrote the classic Nickel and Dimed: on (Not) Getting By in America, which has now sold over one million copies. Read about FleeAmerica.com in her latest column in The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/01/11/kpfk-jan-12-barbara-ehrenreich/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Jan. 5: CHRIS HEDGES ON WAR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS HEDGES on war: he says &#8220;The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.&#8221; But our embedded reporters &#8220;dine out on the myth about war and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2005/01/04/kpfk-jan-5-chris-hedges-on-war/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Dec. 29: Susan Sontag remembered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SUSAN SONTAG died yesterday &#8212; She was a towering public intellectual who had the courage to test the limits of coventional thought and to challenge both the Right and the Left. We&#8217;ll have comment from STEVE WASSERMAN, editor of the Los Angles Times Book Review. Read Steve Wasserman&#8217;s obit in the LA Times. LISTEN TO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/12/28/kpfk-wed-dec-29-susan-sontag-remembered/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Dec. 22: Guest Host</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/12/24/kpfk-wed-dec-22-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>Wed. Dec. 15: KATHA POLLITT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KATHA POLLITT, columnist for The Nation, asks &#8220;how long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right?&#8221; Answer: &#8220;About five minutes.&#8221; Katha recommends supporting the National Network of Abortion Funds, www.nnaf.org. Plus: in the wake of John Kerry&#8217;s shattering defeat, it&#8217;s once again the labor movement that has plunged itself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/12/14/wed-dec-15-katha-pollitt/</link>
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		<title>Wed. Dec. 8: AMOS OZ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AMOS OZ, the Israeli peace activist and novelist, says there is good news in the mideast: &#8220;the vast majority of the Israeli Jews and the vast majority of the Palestinian Arabs know now that in the end of the day, there is going to be a two-state solution.&#8221; His amazing new book, A Tale of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/12/08/wed-dec-8-amos-oz/</link>
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		<title>Wed. Dec. 1: Guest Host</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/12/07/wed-dec-1-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>Wed. Nov 24: Sex, Death, and Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sex is easy; love isn&#8217;t&#8221;: That&#8217;s the theme of the new film &#8220;EASY&#8221; . It opens in LA this weekend at Laemmle theaters. We&#8217;ll speak with writer-director Jane Weinstock. Watch the trailer for &#8220;Easy&#8221;: www.apple.com/trailers/independent/easy.html Death, love and liberty in the American ballad: GREIL MARCUS and SEAN WILENTZ have been listening to some classic American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/11/24/wed-nov-24-sex-death-and-hope/</link>
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		<title>Wed. Nov. 17: HOWARD ZINN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HOWARD ZINN says the argument that &#8220;Kerry won&#8221; is a diversion from the left&#8217;s real task: building the anti-war movement. His new book is Voices of a People&#8217;s History of the United States. LISTEN TO HOWARD ZINN at the Radio Nation audioblog: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/audioblog?pid=2019 plus: the Mideast after Arafat: comment and analysis from AMY WILENTZ, former [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/11/16/wed-nov-17-howard-zinn/</link>
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		<title>Wed. Nov. 10: Election fraud?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was the election stolen? Did something more foul than minor slip-ups and routine political chicanery occur? DAVID CORN of The Nation has been investigating: he concludes that those who say yes&#8211;at this point&#8211;are relying more on supposition than evidence. David Corn wrote the book The Lies of George W. Bush. Plus: historian SEAN WILENTZ says [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/11/09/wed-nov-10-election-fraud/</link>
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		<title>Wed Nov. 3: What happened?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How did Bush win? comment and analysis on last night&#8217;s disaster from ROBERT SCHEER of the L.A. Times &#8212; he co-authored The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq; HAROLD MEYERSON of the LA Weekly and the American Prosect; JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation &#8212; he wroteDick: The Man who Is President ; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/11/03/wed-nov-3-what-happened/</link>
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		<title>Wed. Oct. 27: ERIC SCHLOSSER on KPFK 4pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ERIC SCHLOSSER, author of the classic Fast Food Nation, talks about Prop. 72, requiring big companies to provide health insurance for workers &#8212; like the people who work for MacDonalds. Eric writes for the L.A. Times op-ed page and other publications. More info: www.yesonprop72.com/ Also: &#8220;Yes on 66,&#8221; the initiative to amend the Three Strikes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/10/26/wed-oct-27-eric-schlosser-on-kpfk-4pm/</link>
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		<title>Fri. Oct. 15: JOHN SAYLES on Radio Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JOHN SAYLES, award winning independent filmmaker whose films include &#8220;Return of the Secaucus Seven,&#8221; &#8220;Brother from Another Planet,&#8221; &#8220;Matewan&#8221; and &#8220;Sunshine State&#8221; &#8212; now he&#8217;s published a book of short stories, Dillinger in Hollywood Plus: JOHN NICHOLS, he writes &#8220;The Online Beat&#8221; for The Nation, talks about the campaign and Dick Cheney &#8212; his new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/10/14/fri-oct-15-john-sayles-on-radio-nation/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Oct. 6: ART SPIEGELMAN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ART SPIEGELMAN, who won the Pulitzer prize for Maus, a Holocaust story, has a new graphic book out: In the Shadow of No Towers &#8211; a Sept. 11 story that is both highly personal and intensely political. &#8220;I hadn&#8217;t anticipated that the hijackings of September 11 would themselves be hijacked by the Bush cabal that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/10/05/kpfk-wed-oct-6-art-spiegelman/</link>
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		<title>Wed. Sept. 29: FRANK RICH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FRANK RICH, who writes those great essays about politics and popular culture in the New York Times every Sunday, will talk about politics, fiction, and the new Philip Roth novel, The Plot Against America, in which a fascist is elected president of the U.S. &#8212; in 1940. Also: IAN WILLIAMS, UN Correspondent for The Nation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/09/28/wed-sept-29-frank-rich/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Sept 22: HOWARD ZINN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HOWARD ZINN talks about Kerry, Iraq, and activism &#8212; and the new film about his life, &#8220;Howard Zinn: You Can&#8217;t be Neutral on a Moving Train.&#8221; It opens in LA at the Music Hall Friday Oct. 15. &#8220;He has changed the consciousness of a generation&#8221; &#8212; Noam Chomsky. LISTEN TO HOWARD ZINN AUDIO ONLINE: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/audioblog?pid=1853 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/09/21/kpfk-wed-sept-22-howard-zinn/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Sept. 15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MARJANE SATRAPI&#8216;s comic strip memoir Persepolis described growing up in the Iran of the Ayotollas as the daughter of Marxist radicals; the book was captivating, funny and smart. Now the sequel is out: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return: it&#8217;s about her teenage years: sex, drugs, rock n roll &#8212; and a million dead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/09/14/kpfk-wed-sept-15/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Sept. 8: PAUL KRUGMAN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Kerry can do to fight Bush&#8217;s war psychology: PAUL KRUGMAN: the New York Times op-ed columnist explains. His book is The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century. Plus: American deaths in Iraq reached the 1,000 mark yesterday &#8212; and the number of Iraqis killed in the war is uncounted. ANNE GARRELS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/09/08/kpfk-wed-sept-8-paul-krugman/</link>
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		<title>Fri. Sept. 3: RADIO NATION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week in New York, as Republicans gathered in Madison Square Garden for their convention, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to say no to the Bush Agenda. Liza Featherstone was there and will report. http://alternet.org/waroniraq/15196/ Also: In Iraq the battle of Najaf is over: But who won? Ian Williams, UN Correspondent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/09/02/fri-sept-3-radio-nation/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Sept. 1: Preempted: Republican National Convention Converage</title>
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		<title>KPFK Wed Aug. 24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[11 weeks and counting: HAROLD MEYERSON of the LA Weekly and the Washington Post explains how Kerry is doing in the swing states: especially Ohio. He&#8217;s got to win Ohio. plus: ROBBIE CONAL&#8216;s art attack: America&#8217;s foremost street artist talks about about politics, power, and posters. He called his new book Artburn. And: Jews in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/08/24/kpfk-wed-aug-24/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Aug. 18: John Powers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The dollars are green. The terror level is orange. And everybody&#8217;s seeing red. Welcome to Bush World.&#8221; That&#8217;s what JOHN POWERS, columnist for the LA Weekly, says. His his hilarious and brilliant new book is Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush&#8217;s America. Also: the staggering trail of evasions and deceit behind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/08/17/kpfk-wed-aug-18-john-powers/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Aug. 11: Tom Frank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the matter with Kansas? How come they vote Republican, even though that&#8217;s against their class interests? TOM FRANK explains the funny thing about the class war in America today: it&#8217;s about culture; it should be about economics. Tom&#8217;s new book is What&#8217;s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Plus: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/08/10/kpfk-wed-aug-11-tom-frank/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Aug. 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What will it take for Kerry to beat Bush? HAROLD MEYERSON has some ideas; he writes for the LA Weekly and the Washington Post op-ed page. State Senator SHEILA KUEHL of Santa Monica reports from Sacramento on the prison guards and the new budget, and Schwartzenegger and the girly men. And SAUL LANDAU talks about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. July 28: Preempted: Democratic convention coverage</title>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. July 14 and 21: guest host</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/07/27/kpfk-wed-july-14-and-21-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. July 7: BARBARA EHRENREICH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BARBARA EHRENREICH talks about George Bush and John Kerry &#8212; she&#8217;s now writing an op-ed column for the New York Times. Her book Nickel and Dimed was on the best seller list for 86 weeks. Plus: The upcoming trial of Saddam &#8212; what kind of justice is this? IAN WILLIAMS explains &#8212; his new book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. June 30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The president and the war: HAROLD MEYERSON, op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, comments on the transfer of &#8220;sovreignty&#8221; in Baghdad &#8212; and on the new poll showing Bush at his lowest approval ratings ever. Also: the Supreme Court rules against the president on the prisoners at Guantanamo &#8212; DAVID COLE explains what rights they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/06/30/kpfk-wed-june-30/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed June 16 &amp; 23: Preempted: Fund drive</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/06/16/kpfk-wed-june-16-23-preempted-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. June 9: Guest host</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/06/10/kpfk-wed-june-9-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. June 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib and the military&#8217;s cult of masculinity: CAROL BURKE explains the toxic combination of misogyny and homophobia in military culture. Her new book is Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture. She also wrote The Nation&#8216;s cover story Kinda Fonda Jane: Why They Love to Hate Her.&#8221; Also: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. May 26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How Los Angeles re-made its Mexican Past: historian WILLIAM DEVERELL explains &#8212; his new book is Whitewashed Adobe. Mike Davis called it &#8220;a landmark in Los Angeles&#8217; difficult conversation with its past.&#8221; Plus: our Iraq update with IAN WILLIAMS, UN correspondent for The Nation; his book Deserter: George Bush&#8217;s War on Military Families, Veterans, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/05/25/kpfk-wed-may-26/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. May 19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women, men and torture in Iraq: KATHA POLLITT, columnist for The Nation, comments. Plus: REBECCA SOLNIT won the 2004 award for criticism from the National Book Critics Circle. Now she argues that despite the gathering political, environmental, and cultural gloom, we need &#8220;an imagination adequate to the possibilities.&#8221; Her new book is Hope in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/05/18/kpfk-wed-may-19/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. May 12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Israel&#8217;s Gaza pullout plan: even Israel&#8217;s defense minister calls the Israeli settlements in Gaza a &#8220;historic mistake.&#8221; But the Likud party last week voted 60-40 against the plan. This Saturday night Peace Now takes to the streets in Tel Aviv to demand &#8220;Remove the Settlements.&#8221; What&#8217;s next for Ariel Sharon? AMY WILENTZ, former Jerusalem correspondent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/05/11/kpfk-wed-may-12/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. May 5: Guest Host</title>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. Apr, 28: John Dean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JOHN DEAN says the Bush White House is &#8220;Worse than Watergate&#8221; in its secrecy and deception &#8212; a live interview about his new book. Plus: ERIC SCHLOSSER says &#8220;Make Peace with Pot.&#8221; His book Reefer Madness is out now in paperback. Also: IAN WILLIAMS, UN Correspondent for The Nation, will have commentary and analysis of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/04/26/kfpk-wed-apr-28-john-dean/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. Apr. 21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Weather Underground: BERNADINE DOHRN talks about the violent New Left group of the sixties, and the documentary that PBS is airing Tuesday April 27 at 1000pm. Plus: &#8220;In Search of Hezbollah&#8221;: ADAM SHATZ interviewed the head of the Shiite &#8220;Party of God,&#8221; admired throughout the Muslim world for its successful resistance to Israel&#8217;s occupation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. April 14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[400 George Bush says &#8220;I have a plan to end the war on terror&#8221; : HAROLD MEYERSON of the LA Weekly and the Washington Post will have political analysis. 415 &#8220;Iraq is George Bush&#8217;s Vietnam&#8221; (Ted Kennedy said that): IAN WILLIAMS of The Nation comments on the news from Falluja. 430 Working at WalMart: DAVID [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/04/14/kpfk-wed-april-14/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. April 7: Guest Host</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/04/06/kpfk-wed-april-7-guest-host/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Mar. 31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE JOHN KERRY FBI FILE: back in 1971, J. Edgar Hoover&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/03/31/kpfk-wed-mar-31/</link>
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		<title>KPFK WED. March 24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SANDRA TSING LOH was fired by KCRW for a broadcast that included a forbidden word &#8212; she talks about timidity in public radio. (She&#8217;s still doing commentaries on &#8220;Marketplace&#8221; &#8212; and moves to KPPC in June.) ALSO: The Fountain at the Center of the World , by ROBERT NEWMAN &#8212; the New York Times called [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/03/23/kpfk-wed-march-24/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. March 17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq : &#8212; a report from UC Irvine historian MARK LeVINE of Occupation Watch live in Baghdad, &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/03/16/kpfk-wed-march-17/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Mar. 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3 STRIKES/10 YEARS This week is the 10th anniversary of California&#8217;s three strikes law &#8212; and the latest evidence is that it has NOT reduced crime, as its defenders claim. Today: comment and analysis from JOE DOMANICK of USC&#8217;s Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism &#8212; he&#8217;s just published Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/03/09/kpfk-wed-mar-10/</link>
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		<title>KFPK Wed. March 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/03/03/kfpk-wed-march-3/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Feb. 25 &amp; Feb. 18: pre-empted for KPFK fund drive.</title>
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		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/02/17/kpfk-wed-feb-25-feb-18-pre-empted-for-kpfk-fund-drive/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Feb. 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[4:00: Political update from HAROLD MEYERSON &#8212; after Kerry&#8217;s latest primary victories, we ask again: Can he beat Bush in November? Read Harold in the LA Weekly and the Washington Post . 4:20: INCOHERENT EMPIRE: that&#8217;s the title of Michael Mann&#8216;s new book, where the UCLA sociologist argues that the US is better at devastating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/02/10/kpfk-wed-feb-11/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed. Feb. 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nat Turner led the bloodiest slave rebellion in American history &#8212; now, award-winning L.A. filmmaker Charles Burnett has made a fascinating one-hour film about the meanings of the Nat Turner rebellion today &#8212; the film will be broadcast Tues., Feb. 10 at 10pm on KCET. www.pbs.org/natturner Primary results: John Kerry beat the other Democrats on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/02/04/kpfk-wed-feb-4/</link>
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		<title>KPFK Wed.  Jan. 28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ELMORE LEONARD, the mystery writer whose books include Get Shorty, which was made into that great film with John Travolta as a mobster who wants to become a Hollywood producer, live in-studio, talks about his latest, Mr. Paradise. Also: KATHA POLLITT, columnist for The Nation, talks about the Democrats after New Hampshire: Katha says &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/01/28/kpfk-wed-jan-28/</link>
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		<title>Radio Nation Fri. Jan. 23, 700-800am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[7:00am: After Iowa: Can John Kerry beat George W. Bush in November? And is Howard Dean finished? Marc Cooper reports from Des Moines. (originally broadcast Jan. 21) 7:15: Nation film critic Stuart Klawans talks about two movies that indirectly illuminate the war in Iraq: &#8220;The Battle of Algiers&#8221; &#8212; Pontecorvo?s unforgettable 1966 epic of terrorism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonwiener.com/2004/01/23/radio-nation-fri-jan-23-700-800am/</link>
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