Brad Friedman of Bradblog.com and Kevin Zeese from StoptheChamber.com detail the newly exposed plan to disrupt and discredit critics of the US Chamber of Commerce. Please share this widely, and push the corporate media to cover this episode properly! Continue reading Chamber of Commerce Goons Plot Cyberwar with Chamber’s Critics!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Susan Lindauer was a US intel asset who asserts she got wind of the impending 9/11 attacks in the summer of 2001, and was jailed under the Patriot Act to keep her quiet. In this detailed interview, Lindauer describes her bizarre 5-year ordeal. Will Durst offers comments on Reagan’s 100th birthday, Continue reading Susan Lindauer’s 5-year Patriot Act Nightmare; Will Durst on Reagan’s 100th
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
PBC comments on Mubarak’s refusal to step down; Prof. Juan Cole of Univ of Michigan offers history and context to the uprising in Egypt; Darryl Perry of the Boston Tea Party opposes Patriot Act renewal. Continue reading Egypt Update Plus Backgrounder with Prof. Juan Cole; Libs and Libertarians Oppose Patriot Act Renewal
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace reports on the people power that may topple the Mubarak regime. Continue reading Special Report from the Streets of Cairo
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Your humble host has been extremely busy this week, hosting talk shows on KGO in San Francisco (click “Read the Full Article” for details and links). So here is a minipodcast to update you, along with 2 commentaries from Will Durst and Gary Chew’s review of Blue Valentine. Due to some travel plans, expect new podcasts starting February 10 with an interview with U Michigan Professor Juan Cole. Continue reading Mini-podcast: PBC Update, 2 Dursts and a Chew Review of “Blue Valentine”
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Called in to KGO on short notice, PBC comments on the State of the Union message, along with Rep. John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove), Rep. Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo) and Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Auburn) plus Rob Weissman of Public Citizen and climate change activist Randy Hayes. Lots of good comments from callers, too. Click here to go to the KGO hourly archives, select Tuesday, January 25 and the hours 7pm, 8pm and 9pm. There are lots of breaks and commercials, so use your cursor to fast forward through them. The files will only be available for one week.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Your Humble Host is sitting in for all-night host Ray Taliafero this week on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings from 1-5 am. You can listen live to that old gizmo called an AM radio at 810 on the dial, or online here, and for one week you can access the audio files from the shows here. This will reduce my sleep and my ability to deliver fresh podcasts this week, but will give you plenty to listen to if you have the time!
Progressive activism in Washington–Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee fights renewal of the Patriot Act; Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield join the fight against corporate influence in elections. Continue reading Shahid Buttar Fights Renewal of Patriot Act; Double Scoop: Ben & Jerry Fight to Reverse ‘Citizens United’
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
In the latest Boiling Frogs interview, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds, we talk to Corey Pein, an American journalist whose new website covers military contracting and war profiteering. Continue reading Boiling Frogs: Journalist Corey Pein Covers Military Contracting and War Profiteering
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Retired Congresswoman Pat Schroeder (D-CO) talks about the attempted killing of her friend Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the toxic political climate in Arizona and the nation; Truthout’s Jason Leopold returns to share his investigation into the Army’s “spiritual fitness test” and intolerance of nonbelievers; he also talks about Tom DeLay’s 3-year sentence for money laundering. Continue reading Pat Schroeder on Tucson and Right Wing Attacks; Jason Leopold on the Army’s Pressure on Atheist Soldiers
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS