Jan 25 2008
KPFK Radio has been off the air this morning due to the on-going heavy rain showers. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to back on the air as soon as possible. Meanwhile, our programming is accessible online via a live audio stream at www.kpfk.org. …
Jan 25 2008
“…the issue of “torture” is not really about interrogation techniques. It is about a pandemic of corruption that ensues when the rule of law is weakened.” — Alex Gibney, from his “Director’s Statement” for Taxi to the Darkside …
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Jan 24 2008
We’ll be in joined in studio by film maker Alex Gibney to discuss his new film, Taxi to the Darkside, just nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. The film focuses on torture in Bagram, Afghanistan, and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. And, we’ll dissect a new agreement over ceded land in Hawaii. Plus this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
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Jan 24 2008
GUEST: Sarah Posner, investigative journalist and author of “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters”
Yesterday we did the first part of an interview with investigative journalist Sarah Posner about her new book, “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters.” We learned what the so-called Word …
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Jan 24 2008
GUEST: Tim Sparapani, Senior Legislative Counsel for the ACLU
The U.S. Senate will resume debate today on legislation regarding provisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as a temporary extension is nearly over. Competing bills from the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Intelligence panel differ on what surveillance authorities should be granted the government. …
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Jan 24 2008
GUEST: Jaydee Hansen, Policy Analyst with the Center for Food Safety
The US Department of Agriculture just released a report confirming that milk and meat from animals produced through cloning is safe for human consumption and does not pose a safety risk to the global food supply. The decision is apparently based on six …
Jan 24 2008
… about the 1950 minimum wage increase
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Jan 24 2008
“…every new generation is being taught to obey its leaders’ commands to pray, to pay, to vote. No one should expect this movement to collapse, or even falter, anytime soon. Disciplined, resilient, impervious to setbacks, and determined to succeed, it will continue to make its mark American politics and the culture at large.” — Sarah Posner …
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Jan 23 2008
GUEST: Sarah Posner, investigative journalist and author of “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters”
Republicans have counted on evangelical voters to put them in office for several years now. The George W. Bush presidency in particular has embraced the religious right like no other president before him. But this …
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Jan 23 2008
GUEST: Kassie Siegel, Climate director at the Center for Biological Diversity
The US government has suppressed a scientific report ahead of the opening up of thirty million acres of the Alaskan Chukchi Sea for oil and gas projects. The study’s conclusions, based on six years of scientific work from eight Arctic nations, reportedly …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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