Saturday, June 25, 2011

John Pilger


New World Notes News
Vol. 4, No. 26 -- June 25, 2011

This week in New World Notes, radio program #173, June 28, 2011

John Pilger


Empire, Obama, and America's Last Taboo: a fine speech by the Australian documentary filmmaker and social critic John Pilger. He spoke in San Francisco in July 2009--just 6 months into the Obama administration.

The talk is about U.S. imperialism ... Obama's continuation or extension of Bush's evil policies ... Obama's record of fealty to Wall Street and the military-industrial complex ... and the failure of the Left to protest & fight back.

Pilger ends with praise for the wisdom & ethics of the majority of America's people--unlike its pundits and "leaders."

 Two illustrations by David Dees

Notes, credits, & links

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "unisex bathroom") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • July 5 -- Technology and Society, Part 1
Catch New World Notes (all times Eastern):
A-Infos Radio Project http://www.radio4all.net


2 comments:

Kim said...

Greetings;

This is a nice find: a fine summarizing which, I think, captures well the frustration of most of us who voted for President Obama.

Thanks very much for sharing this.

Kim Bailey
Unionville, CT

Kenneth Dowst said...

Kim,

Many thanks for your kind words. I only wish I had discovered that Pilger speech sooner! I just finished producing a show, for July 19, featuring commentator Glen Ford ... who takes much the same view as Pilger. I suspect that many Americans share your and my and Pilger's and Ford's feelings about Obama's actions.

Best, Ken