From the Hudson to the Potomac

Lawrence Weschler discusses his latest book Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative.




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Hitting a Wall

TomDispatch founding editor Tom Engelhardt shares his reaction to the Occupy Wall Street movement and the unpredictability of popular protests.

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An Aural Occupation

This week we present a soundscape composed of clips from the protest in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district. You will hear a range of voices and modes of expression. For the best listening experience, we recommend listening through a pair of quality headphones.

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The All-American Occupation

Historian Steve Fraser talks about the current demonstrations on Wall Street and their historical precedents.

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Allende's Words for Obama

Ariel Dorfman, Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and human rights activist, talks about his latest book Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile, and his latest piece for TomDispatch, a poem in which Dorfman invokes the voice of former Chilean president Salvador Allende to offer words of advice to Barack Obama.

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Pacific Power or Pacific Partner?

John Feffer, the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about the US presence in the Pacific, the upcoming elections in East Asia, and what changes would have to take place for the United States to shift from a Pacific power to a pacific partner.



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What's in a Link?

Peter Van Buren, a long-time State Department employee, blogger, and author most recently of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People talks about how a link on his personal blog to a Wikileaks document led to him being interrogated by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and might even cost him his job.




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The West and the Rest

Pepe Escobar, a correspondent for Asia Times, TomDispatch regular, and author most recently of Obama does Globalistan, shares his reflections on the state of the global economy and what future, if any, it might have in store.




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Burial Grounds

TomDispatch founding editor Tom Engelhardt joins us for our 100th TomCast episode and reflects on the origins of TomDispatch and where we are as a country 10 years after the events of September 11, 2001.

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Grace? Yeah, I know her.

Andrew Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University and author of Washinton Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, talks about the concept of cheap grace, military spectacle, and what it would mean to truly support our troops.

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