Early morning radio listeners might’ve thought they’d tuned into the wrong station. No, they had the right one — KPFA at 94.1 FM. But yes, something was strange, weird, and even downright wrong. Listeners were hearing a pitch for improving the Military Industrial Complex, a need to build up U.S. defense industries in order to […]
The largest, most historically influential progressive non-profit radio network in America, Pacifica Radio, faces a takeover attempt by Democratic Party elements. Will Pacifica embrace the pro-war logic it was created to oppose? “I can’t imagine the New York Times, flawed as it is in many ways, would be part of some grand conspiracy to implicate Assad.” -Sonali Kolhatkar, A Syrian Speaks Out on Trump’s Latest Bombing, on Pacifica Radio’s KPFA-Northern California, KPFK-Los Angeles, and KPFT-Houston in April 2018 When Pacifica […]
Brain Fallon's in his mid-30s and he's been the picture of an up-and-comg establishment Democrat for a decade. Even before he graduated from Harvard, he had worked as a press aide in the doomed 2004 Kerry-Edwards campaign. Two years later he was the press secretary for Bob Menendez's Senate race and then went to work as the spokesman for Chuck Schumer and his Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Center.
