A Carnival of Crimes and Passion: the Future of Nuclear Energy and How It Relates to Nuclear War, a Life Dedicated to Fighting Oppression and How the Pope's Grand Inquisitor Helped the US trap Noriega in Panama
Weekly Program
Richard Falk, professor emeritus and UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, Paul Von Blum, author and professor, Jose Luis Valenzuela, Director of Los Angeles' Latino Theater Company
Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law and practice who taught at Princeton University for 40 years, and UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, on the insanity of continuing to develop nuclear energy and how this pursuit is tightly bound up with nuclear weapons and the imperialist domination of the world. Paul Von Blum, emeritus lecturer in African American Studies and Communications at UCLA, as well as a lawyer and author of many works on political art, speaks about his new memoir, A Life at the Margins: Keeping the Political Vision, and a life spent fighting against oppression and for education to know the world in order to change it. Jose Luis Valenzuela, Director of Los Angeles' Latino Theater Company and the Los Angeles Theatre Center, talks about directing Donald Freed's play, "The Devil's Advocate": how the Vatican worked with the US to orchestrate the downfall of the out-of-favor US puppet Manuel Noriega in Panama.
Michael Slate - Host and Producer Teddy Robinson - Engineer Henry Carson - Production Assistant
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