Author Archives: Brooklyn Culture Jammers
Don’t know much about history–Stories I told you about first
Back in January, I posted a story here about the LBJ Library’s release of information about the theft of the 1968 Presidential election. Specifically, I was reporting that the information released confirmed that Richard Nixon sabotaged the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 in order to win the election. He sent information via intermediaries to the […]
This week Sex and Politics–women’s health and breast cancer
This Thursday on Sex and Politics, we’re doing a special show on health issues for women, and I’d like you to listen in. I’ll be talking to James Brophy, a Canadian researcher and co-author on a new study indicating links between breast cancer incidence and exposure to substances in plastics. While the study concentrated on […]
“We Kill 50 Civilians for every Terrorist”
I had a great Sex And Politics interview last night with Marc Saviano, a peace activist and organizer out of Kansas City, Missouri. The groups he is working with are doing important work. Trifecta Resista has made a lie out of the right-wing bromide that anti-war activists are giving President Obama a free pass. I […]
Thursday Night on WBCR is Drone Night!
Tune into WBCR‘s Sex and Politics this coming Thursday at the usual times (8 PM–10:30PM). I’ll be talking to an activist on the front lines of the protests against the Drone Strike program. He has been working with the Occupy Kansas City movement, and has also been a part of Trifecta Resista and PeaceWorksKC groups (he’s […]
Why do Conservatives use Facebook? Taxes and corporations
(publicity photograph from The Social Network, the movie about FaceBook founder Steve Zuckerberg) This is a meditation on the ‘makers, not takers’ in our society–and the scorn many Republicans heap on Mitt Romney’s famous 47%. Why do Conservatives use Facebook?.
the back-and-forth on the gun debate
A couple of weeks ago, I tried to line up the contradictions of the pro-gun lobby’s version of history. This was in reaction to two pro-gun guys being on WBCR Sex and Politics. Last night, we played host to another Second Amendment advocate, and I was able to bring out some of the more nuanced […]
Thursday on WBCR: Pipelines and fracking oh my!
This Thursday night you will find me behind the microphone on WBCR‘s Sex and Politics. The show starts at 8 PM and you can pick it up on your internets machine by going into the mywbcr site. I’ll be interviewing a representative of Sane Energy Project, which opposes the development, transport and export of shale gas. they have […]
Bradley Manning’s Awful Day–and ours
I was afraid it would come to this. On Thursday, Bradley Manning appeared in court in Fort Meade, Maryland and read a 35 page statement about his actions and motivations behind the leaking of information. Manning had been a US Army intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, and he he was increasingly disillusioned about the things […]
being cranky about the Sequester (short)
Re the Sequester as a way to ‘fix’ the Deficit: Three out of five jobs created since the Crash of 2008 pay subsistence wages. For better than a decade, we’ve been shipping jobs overseas thanks to the removal of trade tariffs (due to NAFTA and GATT and all the other agreements) and the giving of […]
My place-holder post about WBCR and Bradley Manning
Last night, we had a terrific guest on WBCR’s Sex And Politics–actress/playwright and activist Claire Lebowitz, who filled in our audience about the events at Bradley Manning’s hearing yesterday at Fort Meade, Maryland. The show will be available shortly on Podcast. And I will be putting up a longer post about this over the weekend. […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 