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Itunescross posted on the Metroblogs Global Conspiracy It has been more than a month since CurrentTV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained by North Korean authorities on the China-North Korea border. Yet relatively little has been made public about what their status is as well as what the US government or their media... »
Archive for April, 2009
Trial That Sould be Center Stage
Monday, April 27th, 2009
“If the Corps didn’t do its job, somebody should be held responsible. Somebody’s got to answer to something.” – The words of a former Lower Ninth Ward resident who lost a daughter to the flood waters that would swallow up his entire house. The lawsuit filed... »
Stats can lie
Friday, April 24th, 2009
David Simon, creator of The Wire, was on Bill Moyers journal this past week. Before getting into the world of writing and directing television, he was a journalist in Baltimore for many years. At that job he got to watch how the police force, city government, and school system work, or perhaps we could... »
bm301 Observing Change in El Salvador
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
20 years ago Warwick Fry was in El Salvador covering the guerilla offensive at the height of a civil war. This year he returned, this time to observe elections, the results of which mean the first change in leadership for El Salvador in 20 years. He joins me on this podcast to explain what... »
Shipping Carbon Dangers
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Back in 2007, following my trip to New Orleans, I did a podcast with my friend Damian who works down there, on the topic of emission from the shipping industry. In case you missed that one, here’s the link. The basic concern that led me to do that podcast was that much of the climate... »