From the monthly archives:

June 2009

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June 25, 2009

Journalist Charles “Chuck” Bowden checks in from the Arizona border with Mexico, and talks about the Mexican journalist who is seeking political asylum in the US (www.motherjones.com). Be sure to listen to the final 5 minutes, as Chuck sums up the vexing problems:  if the drug trade were halted, the Mexican economy would collapse.  And [...]

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June 25, 2009

Following an expose on Scientology in a Florida newspaper (www.tampabay.com) attorney Ford Greene tells us what goes on in this secretive, autocratic “religion”.  And journalist Dahr Jamail compares the radioactive messes our government has made on US Indian reservations and in Iraq.  Dahr also talks about Iraq and Afghanistan war resisters–in and out of uniform–detailed [...]

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June 22, 2009

Podcast #4 <!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> Writer Richard Rapaport takes us back in time, when the GOP attacked health care reform as “socialized medicine”. The AMA hired Ronald Reagan and organized Operation Coffee Cup to mobilize Republican women to deliver the talking point. Dave [...]

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June 22, 2009

Podcast #4 <!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> Just a year ago, John Laird was battling Arnold Schwarzenegger over the California budget mess. The former Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee talks about the ongoing fight, and Arnold’s plans to blow up the Waste Management Board [...]

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June 22, 2009

Podcast #4 <!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds unveils the new website, 123realchange.blogspot.com and details her criticism of Newsweek’s Michael Issikoff for his failure to report important information about serious problems at the FBI’s translations office, while reporting official denials he knew were [...]

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June 22, 2009

Journalist Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation talks about the latest “terrorist plot”, just another bunch of losers egged on by a paid FBI informant. Dreyfuss also talks about his trip to Iran to cover the presidential election. www.thenation.com And Brad Friedman from BradBlog.com updates us on the ongoing legal battle over Sen. Al Franken’s election, [...]

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Podcast Show #1

June 22, 2009

Podcast #4 <!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> Journalist Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation talks about the latest “terrorist plot”, just another bunch of losers egged on by a paid FBI informant. Dreyfuss also talks about his trip to Iran to cover the presidential election. www.thenation.com [...]

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Update for the PBC 'Base"

June 7, 2009

This dispatch from your humble host is going out to all emails in our database, starting 6.7.09 June 7, 2009 Dear Friend, I’m pleased to report that the launch of my new online radio show is near.  The next time you hear from me, it will be an alert that the first program is posted [...]

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Update to Peter B.'s "Base"

June 7, 2009

This letter is going out to all PBC supporters in our database starting June 7: June 7, 2009 Dear Friend, I’m pleased to report that the launch of my new online radio show is near.  The next time you hear from me, it will be an alert that the first program is posted online.  You [...]

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