Arts Express Radio

Arts Express Trick Or Treat Crew Checking In... ** "Donald Trump is bad for America - but he's good for the world..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on No Kings, No Prince, and vampires, werewolves and zombies - that's Donald Trump. With connections to the State Department and NGO's, regime change, and a piece of the pie..." ** "I think your question has no answer - I will steal it from you because I think that's it!..." Filmmaker Patrick Harbinson Talks His 'Maigret' - among crime writing legend Georges Simenon's at least thirty-four big and small screen Detective Maigret manifestations across the past century - from Charles Laughton to Rowan Atkinson and Gerard Depardieu. And what all of this may have to do with Hollywood, Josephine Baker, Vietnamese takeout, class resentment - and a ratty old trench coat... Along with former soldier Harbinson's creative reflection on 'what the military taught me, how people speak to each other in moments of stress and fear, and in overwhelming boredom, and anger. It really was a lesson in voices - and hierarchies...' ** "Today I will unburden my soul - From dreams of unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face and its vast weight - an incarnate nightmare that I had no power to shake off..." Arts Express Story Hour - Stay tuned and all will be revealed... Plus...Ask a communist - the NYC mayoral election.

** "As Hollywood is crumbling - what the heck is with this new 'AI' actress..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon hanging out with the Hollywood 'Homeless Left.' With connections to Robin Williams, Jack Nicholson, Ed Asner, Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston rebel actor moments, nothing new recycled pilots and cookie cutter formulas, Paul Robeson's 'the artist as revolutionary' - and 'how many masks do I put on to get the job, so you lose that part of the artist...' ** "Youth today are just customers - I think that's what I see..." Tony Danza Talks Re-Election, Taxi - and 'instead of all the reality baloney that we watch now...' While in this chaotic, coincidental election season offscreen, the role in his latest film as the downwardly mobile dad of an equally alienated son's election do-over, confronting political corruption, excess and lunacy. Danza also revisits in conversations, his journey as an actor from working class roots through the decades, reinventing himself creatively along the way. And memories of Taxi as cab driver Tony on a sitcom 'so funny, so thought provoking, so emblematic of another time of TV - just so you know how much of a Taxi nut I am...' ** "And then came climate change - actually started a long time ago. And in fact, we find it is almost impossible to even list the vast number of extinctions..." The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind The Death Of The Dinosaurs. A Conversation With Princeton Geologist Gerta Keller - a key player in what has been called the nastiest feud in science. Part ecological detective story, part personal odyssey, Keller probes radical theory reshaping how we understand the planet's past - and with the possibility of a sixth extinction, how we might survive its future...

** That's where we are right now - as you watch the system unravel..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on piracy prosperity, pickup trucks, mafia wives, layoffs, robots, and worker economic beatdown... ** "Stanley Kubrick had the darkest sense of humor, which I loved - and we got on really well mainly because of that, actually..." Malcolm McDowell Talks The Partisan, His Rupert Murdoch in Bombshell, Dog & Bull, Alec Guiness, Nazis, World War III, Dr. Strangelove - and memories of Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange. And what in the world happened to British espionage cult figure, Krystyna Skarbeck, as portrayed in The Partisan being bossed around by McDowell's espionage chief, code named 'Trench Coat.' And Skarbeck as Churchill's favorite spy, reinvented by enamored Ian Fleming as Vesper Lynd in the Bond caper, Casino Royale - yet in real life ending up mopping floors for a living. ** "There's something creepy about it, isn't there, a very disturbing father, a belligerence in the way he's presenting himself, the viewer as a threat to his property - we don't know if Grant Wood did so seriously, or ironically as a caricature..." Hearing Art Interlude. The Canvas art essayist, Shawn Grenier, on the enigma of why famed Heartland artist Grant Wood's American Gothic became iconic. Homage or parody - 'America's struggle to find its own artistic identity, or the impossibility of American myth building...' ** "The main problem occurs at the end, which I will not give away - except to say that this is the old dramatic canard that, as French director Jean Renoir said, everyone has their reasons..." Bro On The Global Television Beat. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on the South African thriller series, Lioness. 'A Capetown caper where every household is gated, unremarked upon symbols of the disparity between the two worlds. Where one flaunts its wealth behind a layer of security - and perpetuating the Africaner fear of the black population who they've ruled over and abused for centuries...'

** "The people out there are not your enemy..." What's Going On - From the Pentagon to Portland, Chicago - mass protests in the streets. Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on the mixed messages military, Patton and George C. Scott, Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man, bobbleheads, screwdrivers and sledge hammers - and Trump's speech at the Pentagon... ** "I prefer something that's eccentric - I don't mind my eccentric persona that exists..." Crispin Glover Talks Mr. K, Orson Welles, and 'navigating within the corporate structure of the film world...' The famously referred to as both madman and genius actor engages in a kind of Kafkaesque conversation regarding Glover's enigmatic excursion through his current Tallulah directed, no exit hotel noir. And pretty much as an actor in search of his elusive, mysterious character who may or may not be Kafka - while expressing his frustration seemingly stuck in the circular cyber-corridors of IMDB, not unlike Melville's contrarian Bartleby that Glover has likewise portrayed in a movie. ** "The African heist heroine - the case of South African drama..." Bro On The Global Television Beat. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on 'cabbages versus caviar' in the crime series, Marked. With connections to The Lavender Hill Mob, The Asphalt Jungle, and Steve McQueen's Widows... ** "I think one of the points we try to make, is that while there are traditions, even traditions change. But folk music survived that..." Newport And The Great Folk Dream: A Continuing Conversation With Filmmakers Robert Gordon And Joe Lauro. And 'an American original that has been delivering legendary performances since 1959...'

** "Let's talk about James Comey - when it comes to Comey, a couple of things..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on what all of this has to do with J.P. Morgan, Epstein, the board of directors of Lockheed Martin, some paper bags of money in some alley somewhere - and 'Dante's Inferno and the different levels of madness in the two parties...' ** "Well you know, a lot of people, they tell me that they watch the show, and they get a catharsis out of it. People say like - this is the only thing that gets me through these dark times..." The Daily Show: A Conversation With Head Writer, Dan Amira. The Daily Show unmasked! Or at least who may be calling the shots behind the scenes, when it comes to writing the scathing satire that airs - and has somehow managed, along with South Park likewise at Comedy Central, to survive the current Trump censorship attacks. Unlike, say Zelensky impersonator, comic Max Komikadze, who has been added to the Ukraine Mirotvets Kill List. Responding to how and who and more, that includes the satirical sorcery involved in turning all the grim news of the day into humor, Amira delves into the challenges of being funny for audiences faced with such a broken world. And which incidentally, just won the Emmy for Best Writing for a series... ** "In the cultural and political explosion that became known as the Sixties, music was an incredible unifier, and arguably the most important cultural and political form of expression - but what culminated in Woodstock, had its precursor at the Newport Folk Festival..." Newport And The Great Folk Dream: A Conversation With filmmakers Robert Gordon and Joe Lauro. And a look back encapsulated in one memory lane recollection, 'I came in feeling I was isolated - and I left feeling there's a tremendous number of people who think like me...' ** "An even more massive French 'No' - this time joined by the combined might of the French unions..." Bro On The Global Cultural Beat: Arts Express Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe with a second wave report from the streets of Paris - a mass movement uprising against austerity, state violence and war. Along with art essayist Shawn Grenier's then and now historical perspective on one of the most iconic revolutionary depictions on canvas, from the French barricades back then...

** "You know, as a former investigator, I'll tell you this - here's what I'm thinking.." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon teams up to sort things out with LA underground filmmaker Matt Weinglass, a director with expertise on plot holes as to - who is Lance Twiggs exactly. And what does all of this have to do with the case of Charlie Kirk, backwards narratives, suspicious suspects, and lots of question marks. The duo scratch their collective heads together... ** "My dad has played iconic roles as someone quite terrifying, but that doesn't mean he is - my dad is one of the funniest people on the planet..." Charlie McDowell Talks The Summer Book, His Dad Malcolm McDowell, Dear White People - and his uncredited bully in Curb Your Enthusiasm. And why and how Glenn Close switched up playing JD Vance's feisty when not scary grandmother in Hillbilly Elegy, to the grandma in his film requesting to frolic naked through woodland, in her first nude portrayal in a movie. Along with how the rural retreat together of this family in mourning, is best expressed in the words of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda - 'If nothing saves us from death, may at least love save us from life...' ** "But how could CRW Nevinson do any of that, when this is what he witnessed on the war front - when the corpses of fellow Brits, many of them younger than him lay in the mud, tangled in barbed wire?" Hearing Art Interlude: Before/After War, The Artist And War. 'What we have here is an artist whose very art changed because of war.' An endless war meditation by Canvas essayist Shawn Grenier. And an observation by Lenin back then a century ago - 'A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends...' ** "All the news that fits, we cut - the Republican attack on public media..." Bro On The Global Cultural Beat. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on Trump's defunding of public television and radio - the sledgehammer solution. 'So what is to be done...' Plus...'They lowered the McDonald's flag half-mast at Guantanamo. Anyway, yeah. Things are dark...'

** "That's America now...because let me tell you why - that's no longer about Charlie Kirk..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on the art of figuring out what it all has to do with Trump, Fox News, the CIA, and "the ruling elite up on Wall Street sitting there watching TV - watching the working class beat and shoot themselves..." ** "It's always interesting when a landscape or a cityscape can mirror that character in the story - and that's certainly the case with 'Bang Bang' because he's in his own stage of decline..." Tim Blake Nelson Talks Bang Bang, The Lowdown. And as a continuing master of many hats that have included among his over one hundred dramatic features, Donnie Brasco, The Thin Red Line, Coen Brothers Collaborations, Hamlet, Minority Report, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities and Pinocchio, Kill The Messenger, and Captain America. Blake will discuss his no less than four current productions - among them the upcoming dramatic series The Lowdown, The Life And Death Of Wilson Shedd, and the staging of 'And Then We Were No More,' about a futuristic AI execution chamber on death row. Plus just out in release, Bang Bang, in which the actor stars as a down and out despondent Detroit ex-boxer - and in a sense his rage as a not so imaginary metaphor for the brutal face of America, and that destroyed Rust Belt economic landscape all around him. ** "It's very important to try to understand the complex underworld beneath all of the stories you see in the news - who dropped this story to this reporter, who benefits from the story being news out of the millions of things that happened in the world..." Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News. A Continuing Conversation With Author, Actvist And Civil Rights Lawyer, Alec Karakatsanis. Uncovering the multi-billion dollar police public relations operation, the corruption of criminal justice academia - and what you can do to resist copaganda... ** "Two lusty 'no's' from the French- a 'let's block everything' moment..." Arts Express Euro-Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe reportingfrom the mass rage on the streets of Paris, now called the September 10th Movement. The hotspot of the week, 'pitting elements of the left and right against Macron's police and center right coalition...'

** "Tensions are rising..." - 'that's how you know you're in a propagandized war machine...' Pacifica Host Garland Nixon breaks down the corporate media coded language. Plus, what is the Fox News threat to blow up that Russia/China pipeline all about. With connections to Air America, Facebook censorship, the CIA and putting two bullets in the head of Gary Webb - and Venezuela, and a guy at the ATM machine with a gun in my face... ** "It's a beautiful line to contemplate, The History Of Sound, the daily sounds of life that are lost. I get very emotional thinking about something like that - those people that you love, that are lost, gone..." Chris Cooper Talks The History Of Sound, Matewan - and how art saves us from life...Cooper discusses The History Of Sound's rural journey of two World War I era characters, music conservatory students, to record and preserve ballads sung on farms through the centuries. And the veteran actor as one of those men in later years, looking back on tragic moments surrounding war, love and loss - reflecting as well on his own rural blue collar roots - and regarding the intoxicating music laced through this film, how art has the power to save us from life... Cooper also revisits his first starring role in that enduring John Sayles labor uprising classic, Matewan - a militant homage to the 1920's West Virginia coal mining wars back then. ** "*In a world where narrative control is essential for ruling class dominance, one of the main weapons in the class war is media manipulation..." Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News. A Conversation With Author And Civil Rights Lawyer, Alec Karakatsanis. And what it has to do with the punishment bureaucracy, what exactly is copaganda, shoplifting versus wage theft - and fighting for 'the right to hug' in the US prison industry...

** "I'm an American, and I am not happy for a while..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon tries out his theater critic hat - that is, deciphering the European theater of the absurd.. With connections to Malcolm, Obama, Kamala and Bush; chess, the Green Goblin, and nukes; Germany pushing for a WWII revenge do-over against Russia; the clown show at the oval office - and if we can't put Ukraine in NATO, we'll put NATO in Ukraine... ** "I'm not gonna play women who are the invention of a guy..." Melissa Leo Talks The Knife, Snowden. The actress in a conversation revisiting her portrayal of investigative filmmaker Laura Poitras in Oliver Stone's Snowden - and who in the real world has been a key figure championing the NSA whistleblower now in exile, on and offscreen. Leo likewise discusses the police state, whether political or racial. And as an actress who has appeared in multiple roles on both sides of the law, from her start in Miami Vice to 21 Grams - delving into her latest portrayal as a deceptively concerned, sinister cop terrorizing a black family in The Knife. ** "The artist Philip Guston provocatively painted himself wearing the KKK hood - even calling the hooded figures self-portraits..." Painting Klansmen: The Klan on canvas. Exploring themes of violence, evil and complicity. And what it has to do with Guston's bookshop art exhibit raided by the LAPD's Red Squad back then... ** "Today we have Manchurian Candidates all over the landscape..." Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on the new 'Manchurian Candidates' - as the continued brainwashing of the US masses never actually ended since the Cold War back then, depicted in that 1962 Red Scare political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate, likewise starring Frank Sinatra - that today 'would make the Laurence Harvey character blush...'

** "If you think that the government's only plan is to come to Washington DC and to oppress the people in DC - I got news for you..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon staked out on his home turf in DC, with an update on the Feds takeover there - and what it has to do with Chicago, NYC and Venezuela... Labor Day 2025: US working class in crisis - how far we've come, how far we've yet to go. ** "So yes, we were innocent and ignorant - now no more..." Lilly: A Conversation With Patricia Clarkson. Following her starring role up against McCarthyism and CBS back then in Good Night And Good Luck, Clarkson takes on a different set of corporate and government entities - facing off as real life blue collar worker Lilly Ledbetter, against the Alabama Goodyear Tire And Rubber Plant perpetrating female discrimination - and prevailing. And not unlike her own struggles as an actress in the film world. And on this show heading into the Labor Day weekend, Clarkson discusses her character's struggle against on the job economic and sexual exploitation, resulting in her triumphant victory decades later with the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act - a triumph of a movie as well, diving into the glut of superhero saturated cinema, as a workplace screen rebel slips in... ** "Right away I realized something that my fellow sufferers failed to realize..." Action Will Be Taken: A Heinrich Boll dramatic literary presentation. A Labor Day weekend factory noir - channeling company questionnaires, telephones, coffee, eggs and toast, night shifts - and 'the body on the floor...' ** "Lately what we're seeing is other kinds of disruption, as other forces have risen to oppose the Empire -- and it's happening everywhere..." Bro On The Global Cultural Beat: In The Disruption - technology, madness, capitalism, culture - and a new kind of barbarism. Arts Express Paris Correspondent/ UK Morning Star Columnist Professor Dennis Broe probes the writings of Bernard Stiegler, the late eminent French philosopher who began his intellectual journey while imprisoned as a youth for armed bank robbery - and who committed suicide on August 5th as he suffered a terminal illness, five years ago...

** Hey, there's a genocide going on. Well, we don't have time for that - we have a guy throwing a sandwich at a cop..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on the ground from his occupied DC, diving into race, class, political theater, donuts and sandwich man... ** "I thought it was exciting to make a movie that would use the whole world as a story, that would deal with the politics of my time, with the way the world has been changed - about having some sort of reflection, discussion, conversation of the state of the world as it is in my time..." Olivier Assayas Talks Suspended Time, Carlos, And His Putin in 'Wizard Of The Kremlin...' A director who masterfully shifts between French and English productions, the personal and political, the French filmmaker could have been talking about any of his movies simultaneously. Including his current existential voyage through the covid lockdown in Suspended Time, and how and why 'it all started with Carlos' - his political thriller about the Venezuelan Marxist revolutionary who created the first ever 1970s uprising uniting Palestinians and Latin America... And the director as well of Wasp Network, touching on the struggles of the Cuban Five against US imperialism, Assayas discusses the opening next week at the Venice Film Festival, of his top secret take on Vladimir Putin in Wizard Of The Kremlin - and why he saw Jude Law as the Putin he wanted to summon to life in a movie. 'I thought that Jude has the depth to dive into the complexities of Putin - and to have someone who would not be absurd as the character of Putin...' ** "The Summit - who wants a lasting peace, and who doesn't..." Bro On The Global Cultural Beat - and what's up with the EU 'boarding a plane for a transatlantic booty call....' Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe deciphers the deep state, the Euro elite, weapons, US war hawks, fracking - and the Toronto Film Festival censoring Russia while featuring a promo plug for Israel's IDF war machine... ** "More about blueberries, plus the connection of Fukushima to the CIA, Oliver Stone, and the Governor of New York..." Return To Fukushima: A Continuing Conversation With Author And Investigative Journalist, Thomas Bass. Capturing the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Professor Bass chronicles the resilience of people navigating life amid radioactivity. From desolation to revitalization -'a survival guide to our atomic future...'

REVISED ** "Whatever you do, don't trust me, when you say I don't trust anybody around me after what've I've seen - that's good..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on long division and the politics of cats, Seinfeld, Northern slaves, rattlesnakes, Palestine - 'and people still left clinging to a system that shows you who they are, right in front of your face...' ** "These are kind of scary times, globally and nationally, and I think in a way, we can channel our fear into these movies - and let it out..." Michael Chernus Talks Birthrite, Orange Is The New Black, Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy. The actor whose body of work includes Nurse Jackie, Nashville, Dead Ringers, Spider-Man and Men In Black, discusses his ventures into horror lately - in addition to the horror of the US prison system in the real world and his eccentric portrayal in Orange Is The New Black. Plus, along with what it meant to him to play the late eminent musician activist Theodore Bikel - in the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. ** "Bass Spoke firsthand with the workers, engineers, politicians, and remaining inhabitants of Fukushima - to uncover the hidden and often distorted truth..." Return To Fukushima: A Conversation With Author And Investigative Journalist, Thomas Bass. Capturing the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Professor Bass chronicles the resilience of people navigating life amid radioactivity. From desolation to revitalization -'a survival guide to our atomic future...'

** "A great book - The Sociopath Next Door..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on what it has to do with Gaza, Algeria, US lynchings, and the Chris Smalls Israeli racial profiling while bringing food to Gaza - 'they grabbed him, choked him and beat him...the only brother around...' ** "I write about all of it - the good, the bad and the ugly..." Jim O'Heir Talks 'Stories Of Friendship, Waffles, Parks And Recreation' - and 'Edgar Allan Poe's Mystery Dinner Party,' that satirical series assembling among suspect personas, Hemingway, H.G Wells, Dostoevsky, Agatha Christie, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde, and last but not least, O'Heir as Constable Jim - portrayed by that other Jim, O'Heir...' And O'Heir, this week's guest on the show, takes a look back as well at his time on that workplace satire sitcom, Parks And Recreation - and his memoir he's written about all that... ** "So the only hope in my mind, is that Europe develops a backbone - but there are tremors..." Bro On The Global Television Beat. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe staked out over there, deciphering the EU baffling tariff surrender, connections to weapons, pipelines, Ukraine, blackmail, and whatever it is that's going down - 'with Europe bending the knee...' Plus...On this 80th anniversary August 6th of the US horrific and needless atomic bombing of Hiroshima, some 'apocalypse for the ears' reflections...poetry, literature, cinema - and a two decade forbidden film that the US Defense Department didn't want you to see...

** "You're probably going to take offense at some of the things I say - which I think is a good thing..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on reparations, genocide, psychotherapy, the gym, Jurassic Park and Tyrannosauru Rex - and demystifying the Epstein scandal and more... ** "I think that the idea of truth is being perverted in our country and around the world today. The problem is that there's a narrative that people in control wish to impose on society - and the reigning narrative is being challenged in a way that has never been challenged before..." Thomas Jane Talks Murder At Yellowstone City, Hung And Breaking Bad: And as star along with Gabriel Byrne, and producer - reconceiving the western genre as unconventional wild west police state allegory in the present time. The actor in conversations about all of that and more, including Hung and Breaking Bad as satirical noir, both reflecting the downwardly mobile low wage reality in this economically crisis ridden country... ** "The representational 19th century equivalent of Hollywood Nazis..." Broe On The Global Television Beat: Nautilus - a reimagining of Jules Vernes' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - 'a triumph of a series recalling an early naval arms race between England and Germany that led to WWI...' ** "This week I'd like to talk about Denzel Washington. Because he has a very clear headed view of how American propaganda is basically running the country..." The Five Minute Marxist: Broadcasting from the Red Star Cafe over in Red Iowa. And delving into Hollywood liberals, Israel, Gaza, Iran, media fame - 'and demystifying capitalist oppression and its brutal sisters, imperialism and colonialism..'

** "Let me tell you a true story - I don't care if you believe it or not..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on his time at Fox News, and what it has to do with the Epstein files. In other words - a hen in the Fox House. Plus, 'MAGA people apparently burning their red hats - I love to see anybody realize they've been took, they've been had, they've been hoodwinked...' ** ""You and I wouldn't be talking right now if it weren't for La Bamba - and to do what I love and be given these opportunities. Or something that actually touches people, like 'The 33' about the Chilean miners - that was a huge honor for me." Get Fast, Conjuring Ritchie Valens For La Bamba, Che, Stand And Deliver - and among the triumphant copper coal miners trapped underground in the real life survival drama, The 33: Conversations With Lou Diamond Phillips. While the Asian, white and Indigenous actor of color talks surviving racial stereotypical casting in Hollywood by well - playing all of them. Phillips also delves into getting in touch with his inner villain for Get Fast - likewise sharing thoughts about the state of the world today that may be drawing the masses to crime and chaos on screen, in figuring out the dark side of the universe at the movies - and what Gregory Peck told the actor about Phillips reminding him of Anthony Quinn. ** "You ain't seen nothing yet..." Union: A continuing conversation with investigative filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing - fighting for the first union representation ever in the nation from an Amazon workplace. While 'we'll explore strategy, the international scene - and what the possible win of Zorhan Mamdani for NYC mayor, might mean for labor...' ** I'd like to talk about Hollywood and its involvement in politics...'' The Five Minute Marxist. This week's episode...All In The Family - who is Vera Caspary, and cinematic revelations linking McCarthyism, film noir back then, metaphorical plot points intimating accusations and incriminating lists - and genocide in Gaza today. The case of the Caspary film, Laura - and the mystery underground Laura screenwriter counted among the imprisoned Hollywood Ten. Broadcasting from the art and activism Red Star Cafe in Red Iowa.

** "So here's the bottom line - what about the Epstein files... Pacifica Host Garland Nixon reporting from an undisclosed location, spilling the beans on tariffs, hostile takeovers, the tax cuts game, Jackie Chan movies - and the case of Epstein and the disappeared in DC... ** "I think that's emblematic of the '70s - at a time where they were frustrated, they didn't want other people telling them what art was..." Apocalypse Now, Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Megalopolis, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, Godfather III - A Conversation With James Mockoski: his combo film crew/collaborator on that historic Francis Ford Coppola war movie, on this 50th year anniversary of the end of the Vietnam conflict's triumphant revolutionary uprising against the US. And Mockoski's role as well, as observer and preserver of Coppola's extraordinary body of work. While playing out in Apocalypse Now ironically on location in the Philippines - the US empire's staging ground in its assault on Vietnam back then. And with connections to George Lucas, Martin Sheen, the late Dennis Hopper and Brando - and the act of peeling a potato as art... ** "We've recently been assaulted with the Jeff Bezos 50 million dollar wedding, but let's turn back the clock. Bezos sent a rocket into space - but down on the ground, Amazon warehouse workers were fed up and ready to fight back..." Union: A Conversation with investigative filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing. And fighting for the first union representation ever in the nation, from an Amazon workplace...

** "You know you're being screwed when there's a slogan - whenever you get a slogan you're being had..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on No Kings, MAGA, Hope And Change. And what it all has to do with space aliens, elves and other magical creatures; oak trees, acorns, the Huxtables and family values; genocide, nazis and Seinfeld a show about nothing - and the collapse of America... ** "What better way to keep a troublesome woman quiet, than to silence her in the ass end of the LAPD..." Ballard: Conversations With Maggie Q. The psychological crime thriller series in release this week, plummets the depths of the LAPD - where a thin line divides suspects in the world and suspected internal criminal activity from the bowels within. And starring Maggie Q as the Detective Ballard in question joined by the cast - actors John Carroll Lynch and Courtney Taylor. While involved in a disturbing look at the LAPD where, 'the way things were may not exist anymore...' Along with the action star of Nikita, Mission Impossible III, Wonder Woman and Live Free Or Die Hard, addressing her experiences as a female both on and off screen. And in particular how racial discrimination factors in for the Asian American actress, the child of a Vietnamese mother and white US soldier meeting there in the midst of the Vietnam War. And how despite being born in the US, Maggie still gets asked 'why my English is so good' - a perception of ethnic Americans of color that they will always, inevitably be seen as foreigners... ** "I don't trust any movement that's based on bad grammar - really the only successful revolutions in history, have been caused basically by starvation..." It's Time...The Five Minute Marxist - a report from Red Iowa, broadcasting out of the Red Star Cafe art and activist headquarters. And what may have to do with Trump turning up on July 4th in Iowa, where the topic was, well - leading the crowd in the booing of the left across America... ** "You could fall into a black hole - and come out in another part of the universe..." Bro On The Global Film Beat - Shifty: The Land Of Make Believe. Thought in the age of AI, a five part BBC series probing how things have changed in Britain since the de-industrialization of the '80s - and the filmmaker, 'Adam Curtis and his cronies ultimately throwing up their hands, opting for crisis theory.' With connections to why factories left Britain, Marcus Garvey, reggae, Hansel and Gretel, Cheese & Onion Crisps - and 'comic book word balloons that do little to illuminate the capitalist forces at play, past and present...'

** REVISED ** "It was nothing but a theatrical dance - but here's the truth..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on Iran, Israel and New Jersey; television telling us we need another war; vampires and werewolves on the ballot; Nuremberg, the Gulf Of Tonkin, WMDs, babies in incubators - and have you selected the good war yet... ** "They messed with the wrong granny..." Dale Dickey Talks The G, Breaking Bad, Kissyfoot - and 'an older female which is rare, tough as nails and it just had me written all over it...' The original gangster in this feminist fatale political crime thriller, Dickey moves on from her lifelong rural Colorado sublimated romance with Wes Studi in 'Love Song' to toe to toe elder fightback against mix 'n match corporate thieves, gangsters and corrupt nursing home thugs ripping off seniors. And at the same time, the actress known for Winter's Bone, Sons Of Anarchy, The X Files, True Blood, Clyde's mother in Bonnie & Clyde reboot, Sugar Free Shirley in Ugly Betty, and over 100 more screen portrayals - defiantly flaunting her elder of the tribe raw sexuality in The G. ** "Keep your holiday, your hunger, the blood in your teeth..." Reframing the 4th Of July this week in politics, passion and poetry... ** "All the world's worst people are freaking out about it..." The NYC Dem Primary Victory Of Zohran Mamdani - what's it all about and why the vicious attacks from the entrenched corporate news. Two views...With connections to media manipulation, money, the NY Times in tabloid mode - and what's going down behind closed doors...

"C'mon - Israel is nothing but a US military concept..." Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on the clowning Of Ted Cruz. Plus, Garland may have added a new word to the dictionary in the process - 'nordstreaming' the American people... ** Coast To Coast Mass Protest Coverage - from LA to Brooklyn USA... ** "My grandparents came over here in a boat - so I care a great deal about people coming here as immigrants..." Ed Begley Jr. Talks The Workplace Noir 'Don't Tell Larry,' Son Of The Invisible Man, His Over 300 Screen Characters - and the trash activist as well, staked out at the LA ground zero uprisings... Plus, his new Marlon Brando film and his bond with the late iconic actor, messing around with Peter Falk on Columbo - and how his dad Ed Begley's blue collar working class roots as factory worker, short order cook and circus clown, inspired him to become an actor. ** "So this is what democracy looks like - but as soon as I got to the rally, I got a bad feeling..." 'Cabbages And Kings' - The 'No Kings' protests: with connections to cantaloupes, radishes and carrots - and 'students sent to prison dungeons for writing op-eds...' ** "He's a perfect example of exploitative behavior - in a capitalist world frantic to create new markets to supply the never-ending avarice of late stage capitalism..." The Five Minute Marxist: Broadcasting from The Red Star Cafe art and activist headquarters over in Red Iowa. And what it has to do with the DC doomsday warmonger profiteer, Senator Lindsay Graham....

** "You know, your son has a strange way about him..." The Toxic Masculinity Family Tree: A conversation with Errol Musk. While the elder Musk attended an economic conference in Moscow, RT's Rick Sanchez engaged him in an excerpted probe regarding the enigmatically elusive Elon, for answers. And what it has to do with 'the males in our family...' ** "When I found George Carlin, it was like an explosion inside my brain. I felt the same way with Lenny Bruce, because Lenny Bruce was a guy who got arrested for talking - for talking! And I had to know why..." Seth Green Talks The Floaters, Comedy In A Broken World - and what's going down on the streets of LA. While The Floaters, opening at the Bentonville Film Festival, as an unusual summer camp satire exploring especially this traumatic moment on earth, a microcosm of what divides youth coming of age divided between conformity and rebellion - and the 'floaters' as subversive youth filled with rage and despair... Green, who in his over 225 countless roles has portrayed everyone from David Bowie, Muhammad Ali, Woodrow Wilson, 'youth at a hot dog stand' in White Man's Burden, Scott Evil in Austin Powers, 'homeless guy' in Men At Work, The X Files, The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman, Family Guy, King Kong, and a werewolf in Buffy The Vampire Slayer - also spoke his mind about what he's seen around him with the protests playing out in LA... ** "I am because of those who've come before me - for we have gone gentle into that good night too many times, who have been waiting for Godot, and been awoken by the hands that crack the whips..." Juneteenth: 'Gates Of Toil.' A poetic tribute this week of Juneteenth, written and performed by Kataalyst Alcindor. A holiday commemorating the end of slavery, when on that day back in 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas found out they were freed - but ironically over two years after the official end of US slavery... ** Now there's a lot you can say about late stage capitalism, most of it unprintable - but here's a twist that you probably didn't see coming..." UK Desk. The US Water Crisis - John Cliffords Talks Free Water...'one recyclable carton at a time.' With connections to beer, pizza, taxis, refugees, a loaf of bread, forever chemicals, the porn industry, video games - and with Coke and Pepsi as part of the problem...