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Wobegon Meets Alternative Radio
Garrison Keillor
An interview with the man from Lake Wobegon. Hear Keillor as you’ve never heard him before on pompous liberals, pious conservatives, NPR, PBS, talk radio and more. You won’t want to miss it. Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.
Asphalt Nation: The Paving of America
Jane Holtz Kay
The “Open Road” is part of the mystique of American culture: hit the highway in your car and travel the great, big country. There is plenty of road to drive – about two and a half million miles worth. We have more cars in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world and some of […]
The Legacy of Nuclear Weapons
Michio Kaku
The Cold War is over. The U.S. reigns supreme, yet it deploys 9,000 operational nuclear weapons. Price tag aside, the arms program has produced millions of tons of toxic and radioactive waste, massive damage to the environment and untold effects on human health. There is widespread contamination of land and water. Budget monies earmarked for […]
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
June Jordan
June Jordan talks about some of the issues the media do not cover in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For example, Israel receives billions in U.S. aid, while aid to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa totals $700 million. She explains why the Palestinians have had such difficulty in making their case in the U.S. She thinks they […]
Poetry & Politics
June Jordan
June Jordan knows well the burdens placed upon the children of immigrants. It’s part of what gave her the courage and conviction to observe the world with the unblinking eye of a reporter and relay what she experiences with the heart of a poet. Her highly political work is a deeply personal call for tolerance […]
Childhood Memories, Poetry & Palestine
June Jordan
June Jordan talks about her early life and influences growing up in New York, the daughter of immigrant parents. Her mother was from Panama and her father from Jamaica. She made money as a kid writing poetry. “I was a little hustler,” she admits. About politics she says, “There are a lot of Stalinists out […]
Freedom in the U.S.A.
June Jordan
Freedom is a wonderful concept. It is universally celebrated. People struggle, fight and die for it. But what is it exactly? In his 1941 address to Congress, Franklin D. Roosevelt articulated his vision of a world founded upon four essential freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Today, […]
Media Coverage of the Middle East
Sut Jhally
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is drenched in distortion, myths and half-truths. Basic facts about UN resolutions, the Oslo peace process and what happened at Camp David are barely known. The media have been instrumental to the Israelis in making their side of the conflict known to Americans. Israel, a U.S. ally, is far and away the […]
Bushwhacked
Molly Ivins
Special interests? Crony Capitalism? No way! Not in the Bush White House. You might consider the following developments. There have been massive tax cuts for the already super wealthy. Big drug companies and the HMOs frame health policy. Oil and gas companies design energy policy. Corporations close to Bush and Cheney get lucrative Iraq contracts. […]
Politics & the Art of Deception
Molly Ivins
Bush and Company just gave the American public the best argument yet for publicly financing campaigns. Getting cozy with the rich is nothing new to president-select George W. Bush. But even he has reached new heights in his recently unveiled tax plan, which abolishes dividend taxes on investments. This direct appeal to what he calls […]
You Got to Dance: Media & Politics
Molly Ivins
The State of U.S. Politics
Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins, nationally syndicated columnist, is one of the funniest and incisive commentators on the political scene. In this rip-roaring survey from left to right and top to bottom, she demonstrates the wit and wisdom that have made her one of America’s most popular pundits. Ivins restores hope in politics with a sense of humor […]

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