A Critical Ear

This evening sees yet another edition of the show, it being Thursday and all that. One of the topics we’ll be returning to is that of the Pentagon Pundits, and the scandal of covert propaganda that has been so under-covered in the mainstream media. The Pentagon has now released over 8,000 pages of documents related to the illegal propaganda campaign, though as the Center for Media and Democracy notes, they are “in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and dissect.” Speaking of the CMD, I should point to their weekly podcast, where in 5 minutes they cover the most important stories related to spin and propaganda - both governmental and corporate.

The subject line pretty much says it all. Bob’s in Oslo this week, so I did the show solo, drawing on various recorded pieces, including Tim Robbin’s address to the NAB. The link is to radio.indymedia.org. Also available through audioport, the WRFU site, and Radio4All.

Yesterday’s edition of the show included an extended discussion of  the Petraeus testimony, an update on the Colombian trade agreement, a brief discussion of events in Ecuador, and of former President Carter’s visit to Palestine. Available for download from WRFU or on Pacifica’s Audioport. Starting, of course, with the Interworld Radio news bulletin.

And some advance notice: next week we’ll be interviewing author Allison Hantschel about her book “Special Plans” and neo-con Douglas Feith, whose memoir is due out shortly. Send us an email with any questions you want to ask her.

You can listen to yesterday’s edition on the WRFU site. It’s also available, of course, on Audioport.This week we talked about Iran and Iraq (and interplay between the two), Afghanistan and the IMF, and trade deals in South America. A good show all around, if I say so myself. 

This week’s show is now online at Radio4All.net and on Audioport. We devote much of the show to a speech given by Stephen Kinzer in Champaign last Sunday, as part of Just Foreign Policy’s national speaking tour The Folly of Attacking Iran. I’ve posted the audio of that talk separately for those who might want to use it in their own show. Lots of stuff we weren’t able to get to today, but I’m sure we’ll cover much of it next week.

Thursday’s show went up on Audioport yesterday, and I’m in the (rather slow) process of adding it to Radio4All - updates as I have them.

This week we talked about the spying in Bolivia, FISA and telecoms immunity, the digital television switchover, the Smithfield SLAPP suit against Jobs with Justice, and much more.

Update:  the show is now up on Radio4All.