Aired: 03/31/13 I do my best to question conventional wisdom, but I had heard and repeated the fact that the US had lost its manufacturing and it was never coming back so often that I assumed it must be true. But I pick up the December 2012 issue of the Atlantic magazine…
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November 13, 2012 Podcast
Aired 11/11/12 I will reflect on Tuesday’s election with ROB JOHNSON of the INSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMIC THOUGHT and SHERLE SCHWENNINGER of NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION. Asking things like: Who does the campaign and the result say we are as a nation or a culture? Where are we likely to go from here? What does…
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Free Forum – Sunday May 12th 1pm PT – KPFK 90.7fm LA (streams kpfk.org) Saturday & Sunday May 18th & 19th 10amET - Progressive Voices Channel on TuneIn DANNY KENNEDY, ROOFTOP REVOLUTION How Solar Can Save Our Economy and PlanetFounder/President, Sungevity Free Forum Sat & Sun 10amET/7amPT The Progressive Voices Channel on TuneIn, web and mobile app Recent Podcasts:Jeremy Scahill, Dirty Wars (doc opens in June)“…a…
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February 4, 2011 Podcast
Aired 01/30/11
ROB LEMKIN, founder and director of Old Street Films, has produced and directed over 50 documentaries for BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Sky, The History Channel (US) and Arts & Entertainment. He has made several films about the history and polit…
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Aired 10/03/10
THOMAS GEOGHEGAN, a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School, is a labor lawyer with Despres, Schwartz and Geoghagen in Chicago. He has been a staff writer and contributing writer to The New Republic, and his work has appeared in many…
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Aired 07/25/10
TAD DALEY, author, APOLCALYPSE NEVER: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon Free World
TAD DALEY, J.D., Ph.D., is the Writing Fellow with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the 1985 Nobel Peace Laureate organiza…
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Aired 07/11/10
MALOU INNOCENT is a Foreign Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute, and her primary research interests include Middle East and Persian Gulf security issues and U.S. foreign policy toward Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China. Following dual Ba…
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Aired 05/30/10
We’re hearing a lot about the trouble Europe is in. The debt crisis in Greece, and perhaps Spain, Portugal, and Italy, is threatening the Euro and the European Union. What’s really going on? How did it happen? How bad is it? How will th…
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December 1, 2009 Podcast
Aired 11/22/09
NICHOLAS KRISTOF, oped columnist at the New York Times, and author with his wife, former Times editor Sheryl WuDunn, of HALF THE SKY: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide.”
Kristof grew up on a sheep and cherry farm near …
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November 9, 2009 Podcast
Aired 11/01/09
ZACHARY KARABELL argues that the economies of China and the US have melded over the past 20 years, as billions of dollars flow east from the US for Chinese-made goods and return to this country from China in exchange for IOUs.
“This me…
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