Weekend Schedule for Air America Radio :
Liberal Arts
Saturdays, 1pm-2pm ET
In this edition of Liberal Arts, Katherine explores the art of memoir from both ends of the economic scale with memoirists Jeannette Walls of MSNBC and the author of "The Glass Castle'' and McSweeney's editor Sean Wilsey, the author of the much acclaimed "Oh The Glory of It All." They are joined by the quirky Brooklyn pop duo One Ring Zero.
So What Else is News
Saturdays 3pm-5pm ET
More news and entertainment from host Marty Kaplan.
Ring of Fire
Saturdays 5pm-7pm ET. Rebroadcast Sundays 3pm-5pm
Chris Hedges, veteran foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is back to talk with Mike about his book War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning. A fish tale and so much more: Bobby talks with Dick Russell, author of Striper Wars, about the successful campaign to save the striped bass from commercial overfishing.
Mike talks with Arlie Hochschild, professor of sociology at the University of California Berkeley about the psychic damage and moral erosion created by the neo-con economic plan. Humorist and author Roy Blount, Jr. joins Bobby to talk about a time when "red and blue" states were known as "North and South", "Union and Confederacy". The Pap Attack: The Story of Tom DeLay and Cockroaches and "The Triumph of the Shrill" continues....this week, Ann Coulter.
The Laura Flanders Show
Saturdays and Sundays 7pm-10pm ET
Saturday: Is Cindy Sheehan the catalyst of crisis for the Bush presidency? Pat Buchanan thinks so. What about you? Lisa Gill, from Military Families Speak Out; Gold Star mom Georgia Schilz; and roving reporter, Rose Aguilar, who is touring the reddest parts of the USA - all chime in. Then a how-to on keeping Counter Culture alive, with Phil Hartman, organizer of this year's "Howl Festival" in New York City and standup storyteller Jonathan Ames.
Sunday: This was said to be a historic week in Israel and Iraq, with a Gaza withdrawl and an almost-ready constitution. But was it? What's really changed? Richard Harvey on the London subway shooting coverup. Then Kathy Kelly, from Voices in the Wilderness, on being prosecuted for aiding ordinary Iraqis while US oil companies broke the UN sanctions to sell Iraqi oil. Then, psychologist Dr. Robert Jay Lifton on uprooting superpower violence.
The Kyle Jason Show
Saturdays 10pm-Midnight ET
This Saturday night, Kyle and his crew introduce a new monthly feature, Nostalgia Night, in which an entire evening is devoted to the music, culture, and news of a particular year gone by. So slip on the mood ring, dust off the pet rock, and squeeze into those mustard yellow bell-bottoms, because our inaugural Nostalgia Night kicks off with 1975! The good news: Earth, Wind & Fire. The bad news: The Captain and Tenille.
Ecotalk
Sundays 7-8 am ET
We'll be airing programs from "The Best of EcoTalk" archives for the next few weeks. Due to popular demand we'll replay the interview with Dr. Riki Ott on her new book about the human impacts of the Exxon Valdeez disaster more than a decade later. Dr. Ott tells a chilling story of the heretofore hidden health impacts of exposure to petroleum to people and animals with repercussions for all of us.
Mother Jones Radio
Sundays 1pm-2pm ET
More investigative reporting with host Angie Coiro.
The Iraqi scientists from Saddam Hussein's nuclear and biological weapons programs posed a huge risk to international safety after Saddam's fall. So why did the Bush administration refuse to track down the scientists after the 2003 invasion of Iraq? Mother Jones reports that all but three of Saddam's top 200-some nuclear scientists are missing. Mother Jones Radio interviews Dr. Mahdi Obeidi, the "mastermind of Saddam Hussein's former nuclear centrifuge program," and the only Iraqi nuclear scientist known to have been granted refuge in the U.S. since the invasion. Joining him in this exclusive interview are David Albright, former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, and Kurt Pitzer, the author of Mother Jones' September 2005 cover story on the missing scientists.
Politically Direct
Sundays 2pm-3pm ET
It's a musical melange on Politically Direct this Sunday as David welcomes two-time Rock & Roll Hall of fame inductee Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, Stills & Nash), followed by Rock & Roll femme fatale Joan Jett (The Runaways; The Blackhearts) and her longtime musical partner, Kenny Laguna (Tommy James and the Shondels). And, for what it's worth, David says, "I love rock & roll."
Ring of Fire
Saturdays 5pm-7pm ET. Rebroadcast Sundays 3pm-5pm
Chris Hedges, veteran foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is back to talk with Mike about his book War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning. A fish tale and so much more: Bobby talks with Dick Russell, author of Striper Wars, about the successful campaign to save the striped bass from commercial overfishing.
Mike talks with Arlie Hochschild, professor of sociology at the University of California Berkeley about the psychic damage and moral erosion created by the neo-con economic plan. Humorist and author Roy Blount, Jr. joins Bobby to talk about a time when "red and blue" states were known as "North and South", "Union and Confederacy". The Pap Attack: The Story of Tom DeLay and Cockroaches and "The Triumph of the Shrill" continues....this week, Ann Coulter.
The Laura Flanders Show
Saturdays and Sundays 7pm-10pm ET
Sunday: This was said to be a historic week in Israel and Iraq, with a Gaza withdrawl and an almost-ready constitution. But was it? What's really changed? Richard Harvey on the London subway shooting coverup. Then Kathy Kelly, from Voices in the Wilderness, on being prosecuted for aiding ordinary Iraqis while US oil companies broke the UN sanctions to sell Iraqi oil. Then, psychologist Dr. Robert Jay Lifton on uprooting superpower violence.
The Revolution Starts...Now
Sundays 10pm-11pm ET
Steve Earle sits down with Kim Wilson, student of Muddy Waters and leader of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and his own Kim Wilson Band. Picks include: Muddy Waters, Little Walter, BB King, Sonny Boy Williamson, the Thunderbirds, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
On the Real
Sundays 11pm -1 am ET
Chuck D and Gia’na Garel are back live this Sunday night delivering their finest. Deborah Dickerson will be in the greenroom sharing raw thoughts about women in the black community.
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