Podcast Info

This one really rocks! Writers Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor talk with PBC about the punk rock scene in San Francisco in the 1970-80′s. The no-holds-barred conversation includes explicit language, as do some of the songs you will hear. Boulware and Tudor’s new book is called Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless [...]

PDA Special Report. Here’s a special dispatch from the western conference of Progressive Democrats of America, www.pdamerica.org.  Activists from CA, OR, WA and AZ gathered to talk policy and strategy.  The meeting was hosted by the California Nurses Assn, and CNA Political Director Michael Lighty updates us on the health care reform battle, including the [...]

Sibel Edmonds ungagged! In this exclusive one on one interview,  Sibel tells the story of her hiring at the FBI, the administrative missteps and criminal behavior she became aware of, Turkey’s use of bribes and personal matters to compromise members of Congress and a top State Dept. official to advance its interests, and her revelations [...]

David Cay Johnston comments on Wall street bailouts and weak prospects for new regulation;  Prof. Joshua Clover details plans by faculty, students and employees to shut down the entire University of California statewide on September 24;  Bob Hertz of HealthCareCrusade.com shreds the Baucus proposal and advocates for us, the consumers; and PBC rants about the [...]