Ian Masters' KPFK 90.7fm Pacifica Radio Program - 12/02/07

Ian Masters' KPFK/Pacifica Radio Program

Guests and Program Detail  
ADVANCE INFORMATION - SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Sunday 12/02/07
11am Pacific Time

IAN MASTERS Host
LOUIS VANDENBERG Producer

KPFK 90.7fm Los Angeles -- listen live in the greater Los Angeles area

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BACKGROUND BRIEFING
11am Pacific Time

Chris Hedges is a veteran war correspondent, who also writes about religion and politics.  He is the author of a number of books, including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and What Every Person Should Know about War. His latest book is Christian Fascists: The Chrisitan Right and the War on America, which will be out in paperback in January 2008.  He has written for the Christian Science Monitor and the Dallas Morning News, among many publications. He was part of the New York Times team that shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for global terrorism coverage. Mr. Hedges is a Senior Fellow at the Nation Institute, a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University.  His writing appears at The Nation and Truthdig.  He is the winner of the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

Roger Morris served on the senior staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Johnson and Nixon until resigning over the invasion of Cambodia. An award-winning investigative journalist and historian, he is the author of several books, including Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician. He is currently completing a history of U.S. policy and covert intervention in Southwest Asia, entitled Shadows of the Eagle, to be published in 2008 by Knopf.  

and on

Live From the Left Coast
12noon Pacific Time:

A Debate on Guns in America:

Paul Helmke is president of the Washington, DC-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a position he has held since July 1, 2006. He is a former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana and a former president of The United States Conference of Mayors.  The Brady Campaign is the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence.  Working with its dedicated network of Million Mom March Chapters, the Campaign is devoted to creating an America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in our communities. Their website is www.Bradycenter.org.

in debate with:

Richard Feldman was a regional political director for the National Rifle Association during its rise to power in the 1980s. In the 1990s he was chief lobbyist and spokesman for the firearm industry's national trade association. The founder of MLS Communications, a public relations and political consulting business, Mr. Feldman is also an attorney specializing in public affairs. His new book is Ricochet: Confessional of a Gun Lobbyist.

Dr. Max Neiman is currently Director of the Governance Program at the Public Policy Institute of California, based in San Francisco, which he joined in 2005.  Before that he was a professor at the University of California, Riverside in the Political Science Department.  He has authored many scholarly articles, and his most recent book is Defending Government: Why Big Government Works. He is currently working on a project focusing on California's Policy Constraints.

Guests subject to change

www.Bradycenter.orgPublic Policy Institute of California