Podcast #152

BP's blowout: a view from Florida's Gulf coast; Karl Rove's "biggest mistake"; FCC obscenity ban overturned. Author H.P. Albarelli, Jr. joins us from his oil-free beach just west of Tampa Bay on the Gulf coast of Florida. He talks about his recent piece for Truthout.org about the disaster, which leads to broader criticism of Obama's weak leadership on this crisis, poor appointments, and failure to bounce Bush appointees. Albarelli also talks about an outbreak of dengue fever in Key West, which is one of the locations where the CIA tested dengue as a weapon in the 1950's; he points out that the symptoms of dengue are very similar to the symptoms of people who are exposed to oil dispersant chemicals like Corexit. His powerful book about US chemical and biological warfare efforts is called A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments. His article on dengue fever will appear soon at Truthout.org PBC comments on Karl Rove's Wall St. Journal column July 15 entitled "My Biggest Mistake in the White House". Rove tries to make the case that Bush didn't lie about WMD in Iraq, with more lies. And your humble host closes with a string of obscenities that have been broadcast on TV, as an appeals court overturned the ban on "fleeting expletives". Warning: f-bombs in this podcast!