Aired: 05/05/13 In JEREMY SCAHILL’S new best-seller, DIRTY WARS, what begins as an investigation into a US night raid gone terribly wrong in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly transforms into a high-stakes global investigation into the rise of Joint Special Operations Command, the most secret and elite fighting force in U.S. history….
Aired: 04/21/13 “If it doesn’t spread, it’s dead,” is the simple consistent message of a new book, SPREADABLE MEDIA: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, that maps the changes taking place in our media environment. For all their consolidation, concentration, and money, corporations can no longer control media distribution. Millions are now…
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…
Aired 07/29/12 I talk with FREDRIK GERTTEN, whose new film BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS documents the efforts of food giant Dole to keep his previous film BANANAS from ever being seen. We’ll be joined by his attorney, LINCOLN BANDLOW. The first film told the story of Nicaraguan plantation workers successful suit in Los Angeles…
Aired 07/08/12 My guest will be NORA BATESON, and we’ll talk about AN ECOLOGY OF MIND, the wonderful documentary she’s made about her father, the late anthropologist GREGORY BATESON. He saw reality as made up of relationships and systems and had a big impact on a lot of people’s worldview in the late 60s…
Aired 03/18/12 Among the things that most people agree are in big trouble these days are the European Union and democracy in the US. I will talk with today’s guest, STEVEN HILL, about both. We have been hearing for two years about the trouble Europe is in. The debt crisis in Greece, Spain, Portugal,…
Aired 10/09/11 Politics and the media have for the most part shown themselves impotent, indifferent, or in cahoots when it comes to confronting and rolling back the takeover of the United States by the super-rich and the super-corporations. Since the days of Clinton, we’ve been reminding ourselves of the words of FDR to…
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…
Aired 08/08/11
KILL THE MESSENGER emerged from MARIA ARMOUDIAN’s studies into the causes of genocide, war, peacemaking, democratization, and the protection of human rights and the environment, while she was working on her Ph.D. at the University of So…
Aired 04/03/11
Today one of our two major political parties – nationally and in state capitols — is unwilling to consider raising taxes no matter what the circumstances. Though most of Washington’s officials and media are hysterical about the deficit…