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The Cruelty of Nonlethal Weapons This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Newt Gingrich’s rise and Rod Blagojevich’s fall; why nonlethal weapons are being abused; Nomi Prins’ new novel; and millennial mishigas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preoccupied by Health and Safety This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer condemns the eviction of Occupy L.A.; the protesters police themselves; the NBA lockout ends and so does Herman Cain’s campaign, and we get a feminist analysis of the Penn State scandal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Cellphone Taxes Say About Republican Hypocrisy This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: David Lazarus tracks the cash from phone and bank fees; good news for unions; moving money out of big banks; anarchy in the USA, and “digital parasites.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Manarchy! This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Code Pink challenges Occupy movement “manarchists,” Oliver Stone talks history and Tariq Ali argues that President Obama is a continuation of President George W. Bush. Plus the winner of our protest song contest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer on Class Struggle Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK, the columnists had an in-depth discussion about the Occupy movement and the ruling class, which Hedges said is “totally divorced from what’s happening.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘The Empire of Death’ In this special Web-exclusive Halloween edition of Truthdig Radio, Howie Stier interviews art historian Paul Koudounaris, whose macabre new book explores fetishistic tombs and morbid monuments around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spiritual Side of Occupy Wall Street Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Rev. Madison Shockley made a pilgrimage to Liberty Square, Dr. Marcia Dawkins traveled to the Holy Land, Reese Erlich reported from recently bombed Turkey and we compared Obama’s jobs bill to the WPA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website There’s Something Happening Here This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: It’s all about Occupy Wall Street, which Pulitzer Prize winner and guest David Cay Johnston says is unlike any movement he’s covered. Also: voices from Occupy L.A., Nomi Prins, Scott Tucker and the NYPD arrests journalists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges on the 99 Percent This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges explain why the 99 percenters are “the best among us.” Plus: Occupy L.A., Obama’s “secure communities” and modern midwifery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juan Cole on Palestinian Statehood This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Juan Cole reports from New York on Occupy Wall Street and Palestinians at the U.N. Also: The politics of immigration; women make less than men (still), and a jury convicts the Irvine 11. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Death of Troy Davis On Wednesday’s Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK, in the hours before the execution of Troy Davis, Mike Farrell and Dave Zirin discussed what Zirin called a “legal lynching.” Also: L.A.‘s labor battle and the politics of Hollywood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Farrell on Troy Davis and Political Cowardice On this week’s episode of Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Mike Farrell on Troy Davis, the battle for Latino voters, 9/11 by the numbers and Robert Scheer on America’s record poverty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Agent Orange and Our Legacy of Chemical Warfare This week on Truthdig Radio, in collaboration with KPFK, we hear about Agent Orange and the continuing devastation from America’s chemical warfare; the Justice Department’s recent move to hold big banks accountable; the efforts of a pioneering Spanish broadcaster; and the economic outlook on jobs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dodging Missiles With Russian Smugglers This week on Truthdig Radio, in collaboration with KPFK, we hear about the dark side of international freight; the downside of DSK’s dismissal; the power of journalism, and the fall of the Soviet Union. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The FBI’s Terrorism Factory This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: How the FBI uses its 15,000 informants to sucker and seduce angry Muslims, and the effort to amend the Constitution to dehumanize corporations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Hightower and Rick Perry’s Army of God Texan populist Jim Hightower and Robert Scheer discuss Rick Perry’s entry into the presidential race while Texas Observer Editor David Mann tells us about Perry’s “army of God.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wall Street’s Dive, Syrian Tanks, London Riots and Juvie Journalism As we stare down the barrel of a double-dip recession, journalist and former investment banker William Cohan helps us make sense of the stock market and moral rot on Wall Street. Also on this week’s Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: a report from London on the U.K. riots; Robin Wright puts Syria and the other Arab uprisings in context, and “The Beat Within” gives juvenile convicts a voice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kucinich Says Obama Got the Deal He Wanted Is the president a bad negotiator, or did he get the deal he wanted all along, as Rep. Dennis Kucinich suggests? Also on this week’s Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: the phony Social Security scare, teaching Shakespeare in Iraq and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Obama Administration’s New Crackdown on Medicinal Marijuana This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: The politics of global warming; the ever more complicated fight to legalize marijuana; Robert Scheer’s debt update; the director of the new documentary “Honest Man,” and the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Grayson Tells It Like It Is This week on Truthdig Radio, in collaboration with KPFK: Alan Grayson tells us why he’s running again for Congress; wildman cartoonist Mr. Fish discusses his new book; a couple of holy men talk about biblical ignorance; and Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer talks about his latest column, “Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Christian Conspiracy to Take Over the Military This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: The man who brought down Warren Jeffs’ Mormon fundamentalist sect, the Christian conspiracy to take over the military, and the hot new children’s book “Go the Fuck to Sleep.” Plus: a progressive analysis of the debt ceiling drama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power Behind a Clean Energy Future This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: Why a battery breakthrough is the key to our clean energy future; how boosting the minimum wage could lift the economy; we check in with immigration; and Robert Scheer talks about the sinful love between the tea party and Goldman Sachs. Also: On the ground in Gaza. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innocent and Executed This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: Argentina’s bloody past and New York’s historic gay marriage moment. Also, actor and activist Mike Farrell talks about death penalty injustice. Plus, Robert and Peter Scheer celebrate (sort of) Justice Scalia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One-State Solution This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: Kids have a right to mock their teachers; Apple may be launching a preemptive strike against free speech; and the general’s son, Miko Peled, says Israelis and Palestinians must accept a one-state solution. Also, Tim DeChristopher, the hero who didn’t stand a chance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Body Baggers of Iraq On this week’s episode of Truthdig radio in collaboration with KPFK: Unconstitutionally crowded prisons, battlefield medicine, a very special segment on the Marines who collect their dead in Iraq, and just a little bit of Jesus. Plus: Reese Erlich reports from Egypt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On Manning, Fracking and Walker’s Chickens On this week’s episode of Truthdig radio in collaboration with KPFK, author Alice Walker tells tales of her beloved chickens, Scott Tucker speaks up for Bradley Manning, and Sarah Stillman reports about financial coercion in U.S. war zones. Plus: What’s all this about fracking? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Our Broken System Sends the Wrong People to Prison On this week’s episode of Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK, we investigate why so many innocent people end up in prison; find out how much various college majors really pay; look into the future of depression-chic food; and learn why Apple’s high profits threaten teachers. Plus, another special report from the cutting edge by Mr. Fish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ry Cooder vs. Wall Street On this week’s episode of Truthdig radio in collaboration with KPFK we have the legendary Ry Cooder (who brought along some songs from his new album), queer historian Michael Bronski and Marcia Dawkins on the real freedom riders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Moyers: ‘We’re Almost Out of Time’ On this week’s episode of Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: the great Bill Moyers, Nomi Prins on the scandalous IMF and Cole Miller on grass-roots philanthropy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: How the U.S. Co-Opted Human Rights On this week’s show we hear from Reagan Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb on our imperial military budget, and James Peck tells us how the U.S. co-opted human rights. And we send Reese Erlich to Cuba to find out how Raul Castro’s economic reforms are affecting the island’s world-famous music scene. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Debunking the bin Laden Torture Myth This week on Truthdig Radio, Mark Danner debunks the bin Laden torture myth; Sharon Smith gives us tips for young activists; Holger Keifel makes art out of boxing; and Chris Hedges says Osama bin Laden’s death will lead to only more terrorism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: The Great Recession, Jobs and the Royal Spectacle On this week’s show, our guests sing to Obama; deep-dive the job market; get bossy with Tina Fey; and brace us for an AT&T world. Plus, Truthdig crashes the royal wedding. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Meltdown in Our Casino Economy In this week’s episode, Marcia Dawkins talks multiracial politics; Avi Chomsky covers the immigration debate; Timothy Canova discusses the economic meltdown in our casino economy; Howie Stier investigates the Green Jello House in Hollywood; and Matthew Specktor introduces the newly launched Los Angeles Review of Books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Keep McChrystal Retired Mr. Fish survives a MoveOn house party, Sandra Postel solves the water crisis, Daniel Denvir and James Harris take stock of segregation, Narda Zacchino puts Gen. Stanley McChrystal in the dustbin of history, and Nomi Prins and Robert Scheer digest President Obama’s speech. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Power in a Union We put together a very special show on the labor movement, covering the gamut from farmworkers to teachers and even millionaire athletes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Helen Caldicott and the Terror Economy On this week’s show Helen Caldicott says “the French are ignorant” and “the English are nuts,” Dr. Alan Lockwood discusses Japan, Loretta Napoleoni calculates the terror economy, Marcia Dawkins measures misogyny and Mr. Fish finds his inner princess. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Dennis Kucinich Battles Libya Bombing On this week’s episode, Rep. Dennis Kucinich explains why he’s trying to defund military action in Libya, Ryan Quinn talks about his new novel, Howie Stier reports from the antiwar movement and Robert Scheer remembers Elizabeth Taylor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Dennis Kucinich Battles Libya Bombing On this week’s episode, Rep. Dennis Kucinich explains why he’s trying to defund military action in Libya, Ryan Quinn talks about his new novel, Howie Stier reports from the anti-war movement and Robert Scheer remembers Elizabeth Taylor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Osama bin Laden and Nuclear Meltdown In this premiere episode of our weekly radio show, former bin Laden hunter Michael Scheuer tells us why we’re losing, renowned physicist Frank N. von Hippel tells us to fear the bomb and Juan Cole says Arab protesters are looking for a New Deal. (A full transcript is available here.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Osama Bin Laden and Nuclear Meltdown In this premiere episode of our new weekly radio show, former bin Laden hunter Michael Scheuer tells us why we’re losing, renowned physicist Frank N. von Hippel tells us to fear the bomb and Juan Cole says Arab protesters are looking for a New Deal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer: Live Chat Podcast on Egypt In this video Q & A session, Robert Scheer discusses with readers his latest column, “Hey Obama, Read Wikileaks.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building a Powerful Left in the United States Robert Scheer, Chris Hedges, David Sirota, Larry Gross and Scott Tucker go looking for America’s missing movement in this special collaboration between Truthdig and Pacifica’s KPFK. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer: Live Chat Podcast on Obama’s State of the Union Speech In this video Q & A session, Robert Scheer discusses with readers his latest column, “Hogwash, Mr. President.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live Chat Podcast: Robert Scheer on Obama’s Call for Less Regulation In this live video Q & A session, Robert Scheer discussed with readers his latest column, “Obama Pulls a Clinton” . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Save the Internet, Enlist the Gays, Movies of the Year Truthdig editors, contributors and collaborators share their insights into the corporate takeover of the free and fair Internet and the repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell. Plus: Richard Schickel’s picks for the best movies of the year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truthdig Radio: Hedges, Scheer, Shockley and Prins Truthdig editors discuss WikiLeaks with Chris Hedges, the pope with the Rev. Madison Shockley and Fed revelations with Nomi Prins in this radio special for Pacifica’s KPFK. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wendell Potter on ‘Deadly Spin’ The health industry spinmaster-turned-whistle-blower says the consumer is funding the industry’s smear campaigns: “A big portion of what we spend or pay in premiums is skimmed off to operate and conduct these fear-mongering and anger-mongering campaigns.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live Chat Podcast: Robert Scheer on the Election In this live chat session, Robert Scheer responded to readers’ questions and comments about his latest column, “Payback at the Polls,” dealing with the 2010 midterm election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Woodward on ‘Obama’s Wars’ The veteran journalist talks to Truthdig’s James Harris about his new book, which zeroes in on a war-averse president struggling to impose order on chaos abroad without losing his grip on the home front. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live Chat Podcast: Robert Scheer on the Economy Robert Scheer responds to reader questions submitted live during our recurring Q&A sessions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Harris Interview With Harry Edwards: ‘The Fire This Time’ James Harris and Harry Edwards discuss President Obama and the myth of post-racial society, James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” and why now is the time to repair the black community in urban cities such as Oakland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LiveChat Podcast: Robert Scheer on Republicans’ New Image If you missed Robert Scheer discussing with readers his latest column, “The Grinches Who Stole Summer,” on the Republicans’ image, or you just want to relive the excitement, you can listen to what was discussed here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Alter: Health Care Puts Obama in FDR’s League Newsweek senior editor and columnist Jonathan Alter talks about his new book, “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” and why “Just by getting health care through ... [Barack Obama is] now standing alone with Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson in terms of domestic achievement.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Crime of Our Time Danny Schechter’s new movie, “Plunder: The Crime of Our Time,” tells the story of the economic collapse as “a crime narrative as opposed to a mistakes narrative.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kucinich Predicts Health Care Will Pass by One Vote Congressman Dennis Kucinich predicted Saturday that the health reform bill will win passage in the House on Sunday by just one vote. Kucinich likened the bill to “the political equivalent of castor oil” but said he has been working to get other holdout Democrats to vote for it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RFK and the Civil Rights Movement In this podcast, Truthdig’s Associate Editor Kasia Anderson talks with Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin, the playwrights of “RFK: The Journey to Justice,” about Bobby Kennedy’s evolution from political animal to true believer in his transformative relationship with the civil rights revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kucinich: ‘Heads They Win, Tails We Lose’ Rep. Dennis Kucinich tells us why he isn’t buckling under pressure to vote for the president’s health care reform bill (“Every plan that’s put forth by our government ends up benefiting the health insurance industry”). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All-Stars, Steroids and the Super Bowl L.A. Times columnist and Truthdig contributor Mark Heisler explains why the NBA All-Star game is no fun anymore and why overreacting sportswriters can’t forgive Mark McGwire for breaking their hearts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iBailout: Pocket Activism Nick Marroni says “My goal is to make games that have social and political relevance.” To that end he has created a satirical iPhone game called “iBailout!!” You play as the “Fed,” a robot that eats money. Just don’t let the angry mob get you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kucinich on Obama’s Escalation: Great Speech, Bad Policy The other peace candidate in the 2008 Democratic primary isn’t thrilled with the president’s order to radically escalate the war in Afghanistan, no matter if there’s an exit strategy: “What are we going to learn in 18 months that we haven’t already learned in the last eight years?” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype Is the war in Afghanistan worth the sacrifice of even one American life? Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter says, “No! ... We are allowing the battle in Afghanistan to be defined by a domestic American political imperative. There is no urgency in Afghanistan, there is urgency in Washington, D.C.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Have All the Ramparts Gone? Peter Richardson’s new book about the groundbreaking Ramparts Magazine says the rag changed America. Truthdig arts and culture editor Kasia Anderson asks the author and former Ramparts Editor Robert Scheer why its impact isn’t better remembered, and what will take its place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Torture Memos Georgetown University law professor David Cole’s new book, “The Torture Memos,” investigates how key members of the U.S. Office of Legal Counsel rewrote the law to make torture legal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Editors’ Round Table: Moore, Green Phone, Czar Trouble Truthdig editors Robert Scheer, Peter Scheer and Kasia Anderson give their takes on the week’s news, a new eco-phone and Michael Moore’s manifesto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Did All These Marchers Come From? Josh Silver from FreePress.net joined us to discuss the Glenn Beck phenomenon, Obama’s health care plan, and our country’s dependence on for-profit media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Really a Lifeline for Homeowners? John Dunbar of the Center for Public Integrity has analyzed the Obama administration’s home loan modification program, which aims to keep troubled borrowers in their homes, and finds it “highly problematic.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism Chris Hedges talks about the illusion of health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, and what he calls the “new racism” in the age of Obama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism Chris Hedges talks about the illusion of health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, and what he calls the “new racism” in the age of Obama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thom Hartmann on ‘Threshold’ The Truthdig panel talks to radio host and author Thom Hartmann about his new book, “Threshold,” the need for serious financial regulation and his trip to Darfur. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Gates Arrest, Plus ‘Hurt Locker’ Review This week the Truthdig panel talks about the racial politics behind the arrest of high-profile Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who himself said, “I was cast by him [the policeman] in a narrative and he didn’t know how to get out of it.” Also, pop culture critic Sheerly Avni gives a big thumbs up to a new and telling film about the Iraq war, “The Hurt Locker.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dennis vs. Goliath Rep. Dennis Kucinich talks about winning a big victory for health care reform, grilling Hank Paulson over the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger, and the battle against crony capitalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Internet as a Media-Altering Force and the Facebook Addiction We talk with UC Santa Cruz history professor Matthew Lassar about the FCC, how Internet has altered the media, and why college kids can’t stop checking their Facebook accounts during classroom lectures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Illuminating the Connection Between Money and Politics In this episode, we talk with Maplight.org’s executive director, Dan Newman. Maplight, which lobbies for greater transparency in government, is a nonprofit group dedicated to illuminating the connection between money and politics. Its data reveals which politicians are on the take and the source of questionable political contributions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Dramatic Rethinking of Geographic Boundaries and Economic Responsibility Paul Starobin, author of the new book “After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age,” says a dramatic rethinking of geographic boundaries and economic responsibility would greatly improve the U.S. and states like California. Starobin suggests that America’s broke, ill-governed and way-too-big nationlike state, California, might be saved, truly saved, not by an emergency federal bailout, but by a merciful carve-up into three republics that would rely on their own ingenuity in mak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall This week on the podcast: Sheerly Avni and Omar Turcios from The Beat Within, a magazine written by and for the troubled kids in juvenile prisons. Such facilities could be “recruiting grounds for crime fighting,” argues Avni, and that’s in our self-interest. “If you want to stop crime—very simple. You look at a bunch of 5-year-old kids in the ghetto. Ask yourself: ‘Do I want them to be criminals or not in 10 years? What’s that going to do to the value of my home?’ ” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breadline USA Sasha Abramsky discusses his new solution-oriented book about the millions of Americans who work 40 hours a week and still go hungry, “these forgotten communities and these forgotten families who are doing everything they’ve been told they need to do to survive and ... they’re still being pushed backward by economic forces that they really don’t control.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.S. Citizens Detained and Deported by Immigration In its zeal to crack down on illegal immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining and deporting American citizens. The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Andrew Becker talks about his investigation into this disturbing trend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Business of War Pentagon whistle-blower Karen Kwiatowski returns to the Truthdig podcast to take stock of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which she says are effectively “a government jobs program for the military and military contractors.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amy Goodman on ‘Standing Up to the Madness’ The “Democracy Now!” host talks about her book, the state of activism and why “the media are the most powerful corporations on Earth—more powerful than any bomb, more powerful than any missile.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Documenting 8 Years of Torture Mark Danner made headlines last week with his essay in The New York Review of Books on the CIA’s use of torture and a secret report from the International Committee of the Red Cross detailing such practices. Find out why he says, “Torture is for people with weak nerves.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Idealism in Short Supply President Obama has called on Americans to volunteer in their communities, but the economic meltdown makes civilian service a tough sell. In this interview, Russ Finkelstein, associate director of idealist.org, argues that “we all have something to give,” even those of us without much time and money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Helicopter That Paid for Bush’s War You may have heard about the scandalously overpriced presidential helicopters the U.S. had ordered from Italy, but did you know they may have been a payoff for forged intelligence used to sell the war in Iraq? It’s all a part of “a web of conspiracy and deceit,” says journalist Paolo Pontoniere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting to Zero John Isaacs, executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, joins the podcast with a status report on the spread of nuclear weapons. Cutting a deal with Iran and North Korea while getting the U.S. and Russia to downsize their own arsenals won’t be easy, but it may be only a matter of time—and diplomacy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping With Corporate Media The Truthdig Podcast is back and better than ever. This week the panel tackles our obsession with imperfect athletes, the first days of the Obama administration and the decline of media. Special guest Megan Tady, campaign coordinator for Free Press, joins James Harris and Josh Scheer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website �Why We Fight� Director on the American Way of War Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki speaks with Truthdig�s Kasia Anderson about his new book, whether Obama can deliver, and why the U.S. is like Elvis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama�s Treasury Secretary? Let�s Hope Not Barack Obama is rumored to favor Lawrence Summers as his treasury secretary. That�s a terrible choice, says Robert Scheer, if the president-elect is at all concerned about the financial meltdown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Election Shenanigans Preview From long lines to vote-flipping, the race to disenfranchise America�s voters is off to a depressing start. With that in mind, we spoke with leading election integrity journalist Brad Friedman of the BradBlog to get the lay of the land heading into Tuesday�s big showdown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Boyarsky on Election �08 and the Real America Fresh off a trip to small-town Ohio, Truthdig�s political reporter weighs in on the week�s news, from the Colin Powell endorsement to the battle for Pennsylvania. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Boyarsky on McCain�s Low Blows Truthdig�s chief political correspondent weighs in on the week in politics. From �pallin� around with terrorists� to Tuesday�s debate, Team McCain is �going for the gut,� but will it work? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Boyarsky on McCain�s Low Blows Truthdig�s chief political correspondent weighs in on the week in politics. From �pallin� around with terrorists� to Tuesday�s debate, Team McCain is �going for the gut,� but will it work? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer on the Bailout Bomb The Dow dropped more than 777 points on the news that the House had voted down the $700-billion bailout proposal, so why does our editor think it�s �a great moment for American democracy�? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer on the Bailout Bomb The Dow dropped more than 777 points on the news that the House had voted down the $700-billion bailout proposal, so why does our editor think it�s �a great moment for American democracy�? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer on the Economic Meltdown Truthdig�s editor in chief warns against thinking about the economic crisis as an �act of God,� saying �this is man-made� and that the individuals responsible are well known and entirely too influential in the current election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer on the Economic Meltdown Truthdig�s editor in chief warns against thinking about the economic crisis as an �act of God,� saying �this is man-made� and that the individuals responsible are well known and entirely too influential in the current election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iraq From the Inside Iraqi journalist Huda Ahmed, who has recently been granted asylum in the U.S., looks back on more than five years of war and occupation from an Iraqi perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iraq From the Inside Iraqi journalist Huda Ahmed, who has recently been granted asylum in the U.S., looks back on more than five years of war and occupation from an Iraqi perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Dean on ?Pure Goldwater? Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer interviews John Dean about �Pure Goldwater,� his new collaboration with the late senator�s son. The book is a reminder that American conservatism has drifted far from its original heading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Dean on ?Pure Goldwater? Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer interviews John Dean about �Pure Goldwater,� his new collaboration with the late senator�s son. The book is a reminder that American conservatism has drifted far from its original heading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Truthdig Interview With Naomi Klein Critics and challengers of Naomi Klein�s work had better take a close look at her latest book, �The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,� before launching their attacks. This is one writer whose research and documentation are so exhaustive that would-be detractors will not only find her analysis to be dauntingly watertight, even if they don�t share her views about the unnatural disasters enabled by free-market capitalism, but they might also discover that some of her source mate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Truthdig Interview With Naomi Klein Critics and challengers of Naomi Klein�s work had better take a close look at her latest book, �The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,� before launching their attacks. This is one writer whose research and documentation are so exhaustive that would-be detractors will not only find her analysis to be dauntingly watertight, even if they don�t share her views about the unnatural disasters enabled by free-market capitalism, but they might also discover that some of her source mate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gore Vidal on Impeachment and the Media The celebrated historian and author reads from his latest Truthdig essay, which examines Rep. Dennis Kucinich�s articles of impeachment and the lack of attention they garnered in the mainstream media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gore Vidal on Impeachment and the Media The celebrated historian and author reads from his latest Truthdig essay, which examines Rep. Dennis Kucinich�s articles of impeachment and the lack of attention they garnered in the mainstream media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joseph Stiglitz on Recession Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and co-author of �The Three Trillion Dollar War,� shares his insights into America�s economic woes and explains why things are probably going to get worse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joseph Stiglitz on Recession Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and co-author of �The Three Trillion Dollar War,� shares his insights into America�s economic woes and explains why things are probably going to get worse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State of the Race Earlier this week, Truthdig editors Robert and Peter Scheer stopped by the Michael Jackson radio show for a free-ranging discussion on politics, disaster in Burma and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State of the Race Earlier this week, Truthdig editors Robert and Peter Scheer stopped by the Michael Jackson radio show for a free-ranging discussion on politics, disaster in Burma and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Us vs. Them Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, argues for a more humane foreign policy and explains why American airstrikes in Somalia and elsewhere are about more than terrorism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Us vs. Them Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, argues for a more humane foreign policy and explains why American airstrikes in Somalia and elsewhere are about more than terrorism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The $3-Trillion War Harvard scholar Linda Bilmes speaks about her work with Joseph Stiglitz. The two former Truthdiggers of the Week have a new book and have been working hard to uncover even more hidden expenses for the war in Iraq, which they estimate will cost the taxpayers and their children trillions of dollars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rev. Wright Roundtable The Rev. Madison Shockley, who presides over a congregation of the same denomination as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, joins a panel of Truthdiggers to investigate the controversy surrounding Barack Obama�s church. How can a predominantly black church be described as separatist and hateful, Shockley asks, when it is part of an overwhelmingly white denomination? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Rebellious Republicans to Tasteless Tycoons Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer and Managing Editor Peter Scheer talk politics once again with radio icon Michael Jackson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Boyarsky on the Campaign Trail Truthdig political correspondent Bill Boyarsky weighs in on the state of the race and explains why, no matter what the pundits tell you, a showdown in Denver could be good for the Democrats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super Tuesday and Beyond The podcast is back after an extended holiday break. In this installment, Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and Managing Editor Peter Scheer chat with Los Angeles radio institution Michael Jackson about Super Tuesday and what it all means for the race ahead. The Michael Jackson show can be heard in Los Angeles on AM 1260, in San Diego on AM 540 or online at 1260.am. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Ritter on the NIE Report and War With Iran The Truthdig columnist (and WMD expert) warns that war with Iran could be inevitable, despite the National Intelligence Estimate report that says Iran dismantled its nuclear program in 2003. Bush, Ritter argues, doesn�t let facts get in the way of what he wants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lance Williams on Bonds� Indictment "Game of Shadows� co-author Lance Williams shares his thoughts on Barry Bonds� legal woes, the impact of steroids on sports and how Nancy Pelosi helped to keep him out of jail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Krugman on the �Conscience of a Liberal� New York Times columnist Paul Krugman brings his liberal conscience and economic expertise to bear on the housing crisis and sheds light on the dirty secret behind many political victories by conservatives: �The consistent source of [Republican] success has been race.� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Imaginary Weapons Truthdig speaks with Sharon Weinberger, whose book �Imaginary Weapons� looks into why the Pentagon has spent billions of dollars on fantastical weapons programs, some of which defy the laws of physics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kinky Friedman�s Ten Commandments The always entertaining Kinky Friedman, author most recently of �You Can Lead a Politician to Water, but You Can�t Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics,� tells Truthdig why the Internet is the work of Satan, why politicians are �stuck on stupid� and why God couldn�t beat the Republicans in Texas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America�s Dysfunctional Intelligence Agencies "Spying Blind� author Amy Zegart gives Truthdig a status report on America�s intelligence agencies and explains why our intelligence system is so broken and why our democracy may be to blame. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer Debates Ralph Nader Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer goes head to head with progressive icon Ralph Nader, who denies the charge that he has been a spoiler and challenges the value of the Democratic Party. Special thanks to The Nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Military-Industrial Complex Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Philip Coyle knows a thing or two about the �staggering� amounts of money the U.S. funnels into the military-industrial complex, and why it is so difficult to stanch the profiteering. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crime, Poverty and Education: It�s Not Rocket Science Truthdig regulars Sheerly Avni, James Harris and Josh Scheer put their heads together to try to figure out why the big problems that plague our communities never get solved. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top-Secret Tourism Truthdig�s James Harris and Josh Scheer speak with Harry Helms, author of �Top Secret Tourism: Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases and Other Places in the United States You�re Not Supposed to Know About,� which his critics have called a handbook for terrorists. Helms explains why his work doesn�t threaten national security and what it�s like to visit some of the most secret sites in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Have No Rights Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive and author of �You Have No Rights,� explains how our president became a �medieval king,� and why your civil liberties are in greater danger than ever. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Hedges and the Other War Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges talks about his landmark article in the Nation magazine �The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness,� the result of seven months of interviews with the troops about their experiences in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Days of Democracy Truthdig speaks with Elliot Cohen, author of �The Last Days of Democracy,� who argues that the United States is in political and cultural decline, with media and telecommunications giants engaged in �a well-organized effort to hijack America.� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Higgs on The Perils of Trading Freedom for Safety Robert Higgs author of �Neither Liberty Nor Safety� speaks with Truthdig�s James Harris and Joshua Scheer about how political opportunists and fear mongerers are gobbling up our individual liberties.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Jones on Ted Haggard and Hypocrisy The former escort who blew the whistle on Ted Haggard�s homosexuality explains why he felt morally compelled to come forward, what the fallout has been like and what he feels is the real tragedy of the situation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Forgotten War on Drugs and Election �08 Renowned sociologist Dr. Troy Duster discusses the war on drugs, race, public policy and the 2008 election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lose-Lose War Dr. Dahlia Wasfi joins Robert Scheer and James Harris to discuss the past, present and future of the Iraq war. Wasfi, who has twice visited Iraq during the occupation, says it is only a matter of time and casualties before the U.S. leaves: �It�s really simple: You bring the troops home, they stop dying there.� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Personal With AIDS and Africa Stephanie Nolen, the last Western journalist covering the AIDS beat in Africa, tells Truthdig it is unfortunate but true that the more people die, the less people care, which is why she has decided to get personal with a new book that approaches the crisis from a different perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Overseer: Rep. Henry Waxman Rep. Henry Waxman, who more than any other politician is fulfilling the Democrat�s election promise to bring good governance and oversight back to Washington, tells Truthdig about Iraq corruption, the tragedy of post-traumatic stress disorder, and why it�s only a matter of time before Congress�Republicans included�pulls the plug on the war. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Save Internet Music Internet radio has provided an eclectic and independent alternative to the mainstream hit-oriented, payola-ridden music marketplace, but industry greed now threatens to wipe out the medium.  Truthdig checks in with Frannie Wellings of Free Press to find out whether Internet radio stands a chance and what music fans can do to save it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collateral Damage and the Origins of Mother�s Day Cole Miller of NoMoreVictims.Org, a group that works to find medical sponsorships for injured Iraqi children, talks about the ignored victims of Iraq and the antiwar origins of Mother�s Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maverick Candidate Mike Gravel Elder Statesman and presidential candidate Mike Gravel�s performance in the first Democratic debate took him from off the radar to Truthdigger of the week. Naturally we just had to pick his brain. The former senator from Alaska who helped end the draft tells Truthdig why he�s running, why there are so few mavericks in politics these days and why war makes him angry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Kornacki of Unity08 The community outreach director of Unity08, the online independent party, speaks with truthdig about his organization�s vision for a third way in the coming election, why our political system is broken and how he intends to fix it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shutting Down Guantanamo Jumana Musa, advocacy director for domestic human rights and international justice at Amnesty International, speaks with Truthdig about the war on human rights, why conditions at Guantanamo have only gotten worse and why she has hope for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gore Vidal on the American Empire Gore Vidal reads from his essay, �Hail and Farewell: the End of the American Empire.� The iconic author, historian and patriot suggests that perhaps there�s a more sinister explanation for the president�s fiascos than mere incompetence: he�s out to destroy the American empire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website �Jesus Rode a Donkey� Author Linda Seger explains why Jesus had more in common with Democrats than Republicans, how Christians have been manipulated into compromising their values and what the bible really says about homosexuality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Air America Mark Green, the new president of Air America, tells Truthdig why it didn�t work, what he�s going to do to fix it and what you can expect in the future from America�s only progressive radio network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Consistent Christian: Dr. Joel Hunter Dr. Joel Hunter, author of �Right Wing, Wrong Bird,� joins the podcast this week to explain why things didn�t work out with the Christian Coalition and why global warming and poverty bother him as much as gay marriage and abortion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website J.J. Goldberg / Is It Good for the Jews? J.J. Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the venerable progressive Jewish daily the Forward, joins the podcast this week to talk about the complexity of Zionism, the misguided intentions of neoconservatism and why AIPAC isn�t quite as sinister as you might think. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website California Pioneer on Public Healthcare and More This week regular panelists James Harris and Josh Scheer are joined by California�s first gay legislator, Sheila Kuehl, for a discussion on the urgent need for public healthcare, the myths about Gov. Schwarzenegger�s plan and the details of her own proposal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Actor Mike Farrell on the Engine That Drives His Activism "M*A*S*H� star, activist and author Mike Farrell joins regular panelists James Harris and Josh Scheer to talk about his new book �Just Call Me Mike,� why it took so long for Americans to wake up to George W. Bush and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Greenwald on Fox News, the Iraq War Memorial and More Documentarian Robert Greenwald ("Outfoxed," �Iraq for Sale") joins regular panelists James Harris and Joshua Scheer to talk about Fox News� impact on the media, his effort to create an online Iraq war memorial and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Guest Cyd Zeigler on Gay Athletes, Hardaway�s Homophobia and More Special guest Cyd Zeigler Jr. of outsports.com sounds off on athletes in the closet, the myth that keeps them there and why Tim Hardaway�s homophobic tirade was a good thing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth de la Vega and the Case for Impeachment Regular panelists Robert Scheer, James Harris and Joshua Scheer are joined by special guest Elizabeth de la Vega, a federal prosecutor with more than 20 years of experience and author of the book �United States v. George W. Bush et al.,� which lays out the case against the president. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super Bowl Edition: Dave Meggysey, James Harris and Robert and Joshua Scheer Former All-America linebacker and author Dave Meggysey joins James Harris, Robert Scheer and Joshua Scheer for a discussion on the NFL�s racist history, the black coach milestone and more in this special Super Bowl edition of the Truthdig podcast.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer, James Harris and Joshua Scheer on Alternative Energy, the State of the Union and More Robert Scheer joins Truthdig contributors James Harris and Joshua Scheer for a conversation on the State of the Union, alternative energy, Nancy Pelosi, Iraq, Oakland and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer and James Harris on the Democratic Spine, MLK Day, Oakland and More Is Pelosi too soft on Bush? Is there more to Martin Luther King Day than shopping? How do you save Oakland? Plus: crossing party lines to oppose the war and more, all on this week�s podcast with Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and James Harris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer and James Harris on Escalating the War, Schwarzenegger and More Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer joins James Harris for a conversation on the Vietnamization of Iraq, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the plight of Oakland and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scheer and James Harris on Escalating the War, Schwarzenegger and More Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer joins James Harris for a conversation on the Vietnamization of Iraq, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the plight of Oakland and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Gates, �Losing� at War, Race and More Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and contributor James Harris discuss Robert Gates, the virtues of �losing� at war, race in America and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Gates, �Losing� at War, Race and More Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and contributor James Harris discuss Robert Gates, the virtues of �losing� at war, race in America and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Wiener on the New John Lennon Documentary John Lennon historian Jon Wiener discusses the the soon-to-be-released documentary �The U.S. vs. John Lennon,? which recounts President Richard Nixon?s campaign to deport the mop-topped Beatle because of his anti-war activism. Wiener connects the eerie historical parallels between Nixon?s pronouncements about Vietnam and Bush?s statements about Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich on Lebanon Congressman Dennis Kucinich and his wife, Elizabeth, discuss their recent personal peace-building initiative in Lebanon, where the congressman was the first U.S. official to tour the area and meet with the country?s leaders in the wake of its war with Israel. Truthdig editor Robert Scheer conducts the interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Fainaru-Wada on Barry Bonds, Steroids and 'Game of Shadows' Truthdig’s James Harris sits down with SF Chronicle journalist Mark Fainaru-Wada to discuss his book, “Game of Shadows,” and the leaked grand jury testimony which has gotten him in such hot water.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conversation with Chris Abani - An Interview with the PEN Award Winning Author Truthdig Publisher Zuade Kaufman sits down with Chris Abani, the author of “Graceland” at his home in Los Angeles to talk about his most recent work, ?Becoming Abigail,? a novella about a teenage Nigerian girl brought to London and forced into prostitution by relatives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Slave Side of Sunday" - James Harris Interviews Anthony Prior In his new book, “The Slave Side of Sunday,” former NFL player Anthony Prior writes about the legacy of racism in professional sports. “We are not looked at as leaders, rather, just a labor force where the money is generated. Plantation capitalism is still alive today,” he tells Truthdig contributor James Harris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gore Vidal on The Academy Awards, Sexuality and Politics In a Truthdig interview with Sheerly Avni, Gore Vidal weighs in on this year?s Academy Awards competition, Ang Lee’s“Brokeback Mountain,” and Truman Capote’s Proust complex. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harry Belafonte at Riverside Church in the 'Final Hour' Musician, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte issues a strident criticism of U.S. foreign policy at the Jan. 20 session of the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kucinich on the State of the Union Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) blasts the president’s speech in an exclusive Truthdig podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website President Jonah, Spoken by Gore Vidal Internationally acclaimed essayist, novelist and playwright Gore Vidal argues that America under Bush is evincing characteristics of the post-fall-of-Rome Dark Ages: the triumph of faith over reason, the atrophy of education and critical thinking, and integration of the state, torture and religion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Pictures: Ron Kovic Today Paralyzed from the chest down by Vietnam War wounds, and confined to a wheelchair for almost 40 years, Ron Kovic stands as a symbol of the brutality of war. He also exemplifies a man’s ability to transform such tragedy into a lifelong pursuit of peace—for himself and his country.  Listen to the audio, then come view the site’s Kovic photo gallery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Chavez's Venezuela Sharmini Peries, foreign policy advisor to Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, talks about Latin America’s most contentious leader—and thorn in Washington’s side—since Fidel Castro. Peries became advisor to President Hugo Chavez after interviewing him and members of the Venezuelan government while she was on assignment for India’s magazine Frontline in 2004.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inventing Sin: Religion and Homosexuality No matter their own scandals, religious institutions through history have a consistent scapegoat: homosexuals.  Larry Gross digs into why churches condemn gays to damnation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus: The Man, The Myth The religious right demands that we focus on Jesus this holiday season. Okay, but what do we really know about him? We turn to a religious scholar to find out. The Rev. Madison Shockley is a minister of the United Church of Christ in Carlsbad, Calif. and a regular commentator on religion, race, politics and popular culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website