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The Post Enviro Show Post #4

July 10th, 2008 Posted by Enviro Show

Sooooo, what goes ’round comes around: last time our call-in guest forgot about us, this time we forgot about our call-in! (until a few hours before show time). As a result we had a VERY full show. Devra Davis, author of The Secret History of the War on Cancer, gave all of us a quick tour of the issues, especially with regard to what the corporate media and the government are not telling us. We hope to have her back to do an entire show on the subject of cancer and its causes.

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Writer’s Voice 05/01/08: Nicholson Baker’s HUMAN SMOKE

April 30th, 2008 Posted by Francesca Rheannon

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Nicholson Baker about his acclaimed new book, HUMAN SMOKE: The Beginnings of World War II; The End of Civilization.
In a departure from his usual genre, fiction, Baker turns his eye for telling detail to an examination of the cavalier disregard for the human consequences of war by leaders on all sides of the conflict. We hear about how Churchill’s warmongering and Roosevelt’s anti-Semitism exacerbated the war’s civilian toll. We also hear of the courage of a few who dared to speak against the headlong rush to battle.

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