Greg Palast live on Liberadio(!) Monday morning

Posted by Liberadio(!) on July 16, 2006 under Uncategorized |

Monday, July 17, 7 to 9am
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Our guest on Monday morning is Greg Palast, best-selling author and award winning investigative journalist who broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election. His reports can be found in the U.K.’s Observer and BC’s Newsnight as well as in Harper’s Magazine and at GregPalast.com. He has won a record six “Project Censored” awards for reporting the news American media doesn’t want you to hear and Noam Chomsky says “He upsets all the right people.” His latest NY Times bestseller is “Armed Madhouse: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08,No Child’s Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of Class Combat in a Dying Regime.”

Must Reads
2006-07-13
“Upholding American Values at Guantanamo”, by William M. Arkin (washingtonpost.com)
Arkin notes that the war in Iraq is unwinnable. Just as important, he notes that compassion is not weakness.

2006-07-12
“It’s the Conservatism, Stupid”, by Paul Waldman (TomPaine.com)
It seems that Rove has an entire ideology using his “Don’t defend; attack!” mantra. Despite the painful failures of conservatism in the modern era, conservatives love nothing better than to attack liberals. Fortunately, we can both defend and attack.

2006-07-10
“Washington Babylon,” by Judy Bachrach (Vanity Fair)
Everything you ever wanted to know about Duke Cunningham but were lied to about when you asked.

2006-07-03
“Last Stand”, by Seymour Hersch (The New Yorker)
We were already wearing Bad Idea Jeans™ when we invaded Iraq. Now that there’s a hole in the knee, should we buy a second pair under the Iran label?