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The Peter B Collins Show
The Peter B. Collins Show covers American news and politics from the Left Coast. Veteran talk radio personality Peter B. Collins, based in San Francisco, delivers fresh interviews, commentary and analysis on a range of important topics, with views and voices you don't often find in the corporate media. Peter B. is smart, funny, well-informed, and actually listens to guests and callers. As an independent progressive, Peter B. doesn't hesitate to criticize leaders and policies he disagrees with. Grab the Peter B. Collins show for great conversations about current affairs and controversial topics--a freewheeling exchange on the issues and people who really matter.
Episodes
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Podcast #153
Child detainee challenges our kangaroo court; Obama denounces GOP as PBC cheers; Chew reviews Inception. Prof. Lisa Hajjar was at Guantanamo for a recent session of the infamous military commissions for Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was picked up in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15. Prof. Hajjar…
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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...
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Podcast #151
Gitmo, still open; an Israeli whitewash; Obama's "disgusting" policies. Andy Worthington, British journalist and author of The Guantanamo Files updates us on Guantanamo: 93 % of the prisoners Bush and Cheney called "the worst of the worst" were innocent. 60 of the 181 remaining detainees are...
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Podcast #150
Jason Leopold on BP's pattern of reckless mismanagement; PBC talks back to Tim Geithner. Leopold is a great investigative journalist and deputy managing editor at Truthout. His latest in-depth report on BP's dangerous practices in Alaska has led to the resignation of BP's CEO of Alyeska, Kevin...
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Podcast #149
Gov. Don Siegelman on Supreme Court ruling; David Swanson on sneaky House vote for war funding. Gov. Siegelman may benefit from the recent Supreme Court ruling for ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, which invalidated the "honest services" statute. The Court has since returned the Siegelman-Scrushy...
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Podcast #148
Stem Cell Clinical Trials; Commentary on Kagan Confirmation; movie review: Mother and Child. Dr. Eva Feldman of the University of Michigan has exciting news on clinical trials of stem cells on ALS (Lou Gherig's disease) patients. States like California and Michigan bypassed Bush-era restrictions…
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Podcast #147
Child sex slavery and pandering. Two well-informed writers talk about a sordid, difficult subject. Nick Bryant has just published The Franklin Scandal, which details a child pandering network run by an influential Republican from Omaha, Lawrence King. King fleeced a credit union of about $40...
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Podcast #145
Write That Book Already! Authors Sam Barry and Kathi Kamen Goldmark's new book is an entertaining and informative self-help book for writers; both have worked in publishing and have been published, and their insight and "tough love" are quite valuable. PBC invited his friend and colleague Rona...
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Podcast #142
The Internets: Social Network Bill of Rights, Legalize online gambling? Two reports on the web: first, attorney Lisa Borodkin reports from the conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy in San Jose. Borodkin and USC law professor Jack Lerner have proposed a bill of rights for social media; she...
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Podcast #134
Steven L. Pease, author of The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement. Pease, a retired CEO and venture capitalist, talks about his interest in Jewish culture that developed as he worked with many Jews in business. As a gentile, he has an outsider's appreciation for the cultural and religious...
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Podcast #133
Journalist Paul Fitzgerald on US drone attacks; Nancy Talanian on adopting refugees from Guantanamo. Fitzgerald and his wife Elizabeth Gould first covered Afghanistan for CBS in 1981, later for PBS. We talk about their latest dispatch at Boiling Frogs about the negative impact of US drone…
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Podcast #132
Outspoken Professor Francis Boyle discusses the October 2001 anthrax attacks, the technology behind the letter to Senator Daschle, and assesses the case based on his years of expertise with America's bio-weapons programs, and as an expert who was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons...
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Podcast #131
War Correspondent Anand Gopal on Afghanistan/Pakistan; Veronique Raskin on organic wines. Gopal is an independent reporter who writes for The Nation, Wall Street Journal and Christian Science Monitor. He was our guest in January regarding his reporting on American night raids and secret detention...
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Podcast #130
Moonie Paper Going Down?Journalist Robert Parry of Consortiumnews.com has filed a Special Report on financial problems at Moon's Washington Times which has been a reliable propaganda organ for the GOP for more than 20 years. John Gorenfeld also joins the conversation, author of Bad Moon Rising…
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Podcast #128
Filmmaker Laura Poitras and Prof. Roberto Rodriguez on apartheid in Arizona. Poitras is producer/director/cinematographer of new documentary The Oath which adds new information to the case of Salim Hamdan (bin Laden's driver) who spent 5.5 years at Guantanamo and tried in a military tribunal; he…
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Podcast #121
Stephen Zunes on Dems' denial of Armenian genocide; Dahr Jamail on Iraq. Zunes is Professor of Politics and Chair of Mid-Eastern Studies at University of San Francisco. He comments on a March 11 article he wrote at Huffington Post about the most recent House resolution acknowledging the Armenian...
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Podcast #120
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton on the (im)morality of wars, the new START treaty, and the sex abuse scandal in his church; PBC on the lost interview with Joe Sestak, and John Isaacs on START and nuclear disarmament. Bishop Gumbleton, retired Catholic bishop from Detroit, says the wars in Iraq and...
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Podcast #119
A pre-election report from the U.K.; Mark Fiore, creator of animated political cartoons. In the first segment, our correspondent Prof. David Coates of the Wake Forest political science dept. reports from Edinburgh, Scotland on the upcoming election for Prime Minister. Incumbent Gordon Brown of…
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Podcast #118
Bush wiretapping ruled illegal! More on CIA use of LSD and assassinations. Attorney Jon Eisenberg returns to our program to discuss his legal victory against the NSA wiretapping under Bush. Judge Vaughn Walker ruled against the government and the Obama team's legal ploys. Eisenberg explains the...
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Podcast #117
NY Times makes correction, continues misreporting on ACORN; Gov. Don Siegelman updates his fight for justice. For months, Brad Friedman of Bradblog has waged a valiant fight with top editors at the NY Times, demanding corrections to its repeated false reports about ACORN and the entrapment video...
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Podcast #111
Phyllis Bennis: Ending Afghan War; Ian Fletcher: Free Trade Doesn't Work. Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in D.C, and co-author of the new "primer": Ending the US War in Afghanistan. She explains that the war is illegal, not supported by most Americans, and appears...
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Podcast #110
Coleen Rowley, courageous whistleblower, still. Rowley is the 24-year FBI agent who exposed the Bureau's failures prior to 9/11 in the investigation of "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui, and joins Sibel Edmonds and PBC for the next installment of the Boiling Frogs series. Rowley remains…
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Podcast #109
Voices for Justice for the Palestinians, Part 2. This is the final episode of interviews from the Sabeel Conference March 5-6 in Marin County, California. Powerful voices who decry Israel's brutal domination of the West Bank and lockdown of Gaza. --Dr. Mads Gilbert, a medical doctor from Norway…
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Podcast #108
Voices for justice for the Palestinians. Part 1 of a 2 part series of interviews from activists who participated in the Sabeel Conference held March 5 and 6 in Marin County, California. Sabeel means "The Way" in Arabic, and this conference brought a range of participants from around the world.…
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Podcast #107
Air America and liberal talk radio. Former Air America host Jon Elliott joins PBC to discuss the Obama administration's recent discovery that conservative talk radio is a major obstacle to its agenda. We talk about the promising launch of Air America in 2004, and how the ever-changing lineup of...
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Podcast #106
Dr. Justin Frank puts Obama on the couch; Dr. Bill Perry on nuclear disarmament; Gary Chew on the Oscars. Dr. Frank wrote Bush On The Couch a few years ago, and is in the process of writing Obama On The Couch. He offers some interesting thoughts about Obama's excessive need for bipartisan…
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Podcast #105
Roots of CIA torture and mind control tactics; Gary Chew reviews The Ghost Writer. Dr. Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist, and author H. P. Albarelli, Jr. talk about the upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed--who we know was tortured--and the history of CIA torture and mind control programs…
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Podcast #104
Govt. murder of Fred Hampton. Author Jeffrey Haas talks about his new book, The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. Haas was an attorney for the charismatic Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, at the time of the police raid…
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Podcast #99
Prof. Juan Cole on Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Kevin Kamps on Obama's nuclear gamble. Prof. Cole teaches history at U of Michigan, and writes the Informed Comment blog, a great resource on America's wars. We talk about the draw down of US troops in Iraq and Cole is optimistic about full...
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Podcast #98
Coleen Rowley, 24-yr-FBI agent, on recent terror plots and the 9/11 Commission. This is another edition of the Boiling Frogs interview series, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds. Rowley shares with us her views on the latest spectacle surrounding the Christmas Day foiled terrorist attempt, and how it...
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Podcast #97
Alabama sleaze, hardball in hydroponics. Alabama blogger Roger Shuler returns with a report from the Deep South. He comments on Sen. Shelby's abusive hold on Obama appointments and Sen. Session's homophobic opposition to lifting Don't Ask Don't Tell. While Shelby has blocked appointments, Obama…
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Podcast #96
Kevin Zeese, activist and attorney, on Obama's ongoing efforts to woo the political right while ignoring his evaporating progressive base. On the stalled health care debate, Obama says he will look at the GOP agenda, but refuses to listen to Dr. Margaret Flowers and other single payer advocates.…
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Podcast #95
Journalist and author Chris Hedges on Obama, Afghanistan and the media. This is the next installment in the Boiling Frogs interview series, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds. Chris Hedges gives us a quick sketch of his latest book Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.…
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Podcast #94
Journalist Anand Gopal on night raids and secret prisons in Afghanistan; Robert Parry on the partisanship of Supreme Court, Inc. Gopal has covered the war in Afghanistan for the Wall street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. This interview is based on his latest report, published in The...
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Podcast #93
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed provides us with an overview of the role played by US military and intelligence practices in the creation of terrorism, particularly Al-Qaeda. This is the next edition of the Boiling Frogs interview series, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds. He tells us about the status of...
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Podcast #92
Jason Leopold on whitewash for Bybee/Yoo; Brad Friedman on O'Keefe/Breitbart scam to tamper with Sen. Landrieu's phones. Leopold is deputy managing editor at Truthout and has closely followed of the torture memos written by John Yoo and approved by Jay Bybee. The Obama Justice Dept. has watered...
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Podcast #91
Scott Horton of Harper's on Gitmo homicides; Ziad Abbas on humanitarian crisis in Gaza; PBC on the State of the Union address. Horton has done an incredible reporting job with credible eywitness accounts of the events of June 9, 2006 at the black site "Camp No" just outside the main prison camp…
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Podcast #90
Andy Worthington on Guantanamo. This is the next installment of the Boiling Frogs interview series, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds. Worthington is a leading expert on Guantanamo and provides us with an overview of America's detention center at Guantanamo Bay and the plight of 774 individuals, most…
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Podcast #89
David Cobb on Supreme Court, Inc. and nurse Deborah Berger on Haiti relief. Cobb was the 2004 Green Party presidential candidate and is a strong opponent of corporate control. He offers a clear critique of the Supreme Court's landmark decision that removes the limits on direct corporate...
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Podcast #88
Stolen election? Stolen democracy? Brad Friedman of Bradblog.com raises serious questions about the Senate election in Massachusetts and grave concerns about the pro-corporate Supreme Court decision; Joe Carson, Energy Dept. whistleblower, with a challenge to Obama and NY Times. Friedman hammers...
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Podcast #87
Daniel Ellsberg: Obama has "pissed on" our hopes. Co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds, this is the next chapter of the Boiling Frogs interview series. Dan Ellsberg provides us with his analysis of Barack Obama's presidency, shares with us what led him to cast his vote for Obama, and how and why he's…
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Podcast #86
Sasha Abramsky, Inside Obama's Brain; new study questions validity of Prop. 8 election. Abramsky writes for The Nation, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone and other publications. His book is a study of Obama's traits and is based on interviews with over 100 people who know Obama. We talk about the...
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Podcast #85
David Swanson on the imperial presidency, Kate Hanni on flyers' rights. Swanson is the tireless activist whose resume includes ACORN, Kucinich for President 2004, Democrats.com, AfterDowningStreet.org, impeachpac.org andthe lates, defundwar.org His new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial...
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Podcast #84
Russ Baker on the Bush dynasty. Baker discusses his book, Family of Secrets, the first complete historic portrait of the generations of Bushes in government, and provides us with an overview of how this dynasty shaped our politics. This is the next installment of the Boiling Frogs interview…
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Podcast #83
Yemenis trapped at Gitmo, Accountablity for BushCo? British journalist Andy Worthington is our expert on America's Gulag and wrote The Guantanamo Files. Charlotte Dennett is a journalist and lawyer; her book The People v. Bush has just been published. Worthington talks about the new hysteria...
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Podcast #82
Goodman and McGovern on CIA deaths in Afghanistan. Melvin A. Goodman is a former analyst for CIA, State Dept. and Defense and author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA. Ray McGovern started at the CIA in the 1960's and was daily briefer to Reagan. Combined, they have more...
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Podcast #81
Special Report: Gaza Freedom March. We talk to 3 Americans who joined 1400 people from around the world in Cairo, Egypt--attempting to cross into Gaza to join Palestinians in a march to remind the world of Israel's brutal assault on Gaza just a year ago. Ali Glenesk is a student at UC Berkeley…
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Podcast #80
Mark Klein on Obama's continuation of Bush's massive domestic wiretapping operations. Klein is the heroic phone technician who exposed the secret room in San Francisco where the NSA diverts all phone calls and emails in clear violation of the 4th Amendment. This is another installment in the...
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The Peter B. Collins Show covers American news and politics from the Left Coast. Veteran talk radio personality Peter B. Collins, based in San Francisco, delivers fresh interviews, commentary and analysis on a range of important topics, with views and voices you don't often find in the corporate media. Peter B. is smart, funny, well-informed, and actually listens to guests and callers. As an independent progressive, Peter B. doesn't hesitate to criticize leaders and policies he disagrees with. Grab the Peter B. Collins show for great conversations about current affairs and controversial topics--a freewheeling exchange on the issues and people who really matter.
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