Best Selling American Author
Previously Aired On: March 27, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Anne Rice (born October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of gothic and later religious themed books. She was born Howard Allen O’Brien. Best known for her Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematical focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.
She completed her first book, Interview with the Vampire, in 1973 and published it in 1976. This book would be the first in Rice’s popular Vampire Chronicles series, which includes 1985’s The Vampire Lestat and 1988’s The Queen of the Damned.
In 1998, after spending most of her adult life as a self-described atheist, Rice returned to her Roman Catholic faith, which she had not practiced since she was 18. In October 2005, as she reaffirmed her Catholic faith, Rice announced in a Newsweek article that she would “write only for the Lord.” She called Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, her first novel in this genre, the beginning of a trilogy that will chronicle the life of Jesus. Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt is being made into a feature film that will release in the near future.
March 27th, 2007
--Previous Guests--, Anne Rice |
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Parents of Rachel Corrie
Previously Aired On: March 13, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Rachel Corrie: Rachel Corrie was killed in the Gaza Strip in Palestine on March 16, 2003, trying to prevent the demolition of the home of a Palestinian pharmacist, his wife, and three young children.
On January 18, 2003, Corrie traveled to the Gaza Strip, where she attended two days of training in non-violent resistance and serving as human shields. Through February and March, according to ISM activists and e-mails Corrie sent to her family, she took part in a mock trial of George W. Bush; a demonstration as part of the February 15, 2003 anti-war protest against the war in Iraq, where she burned a paper U.S. flag; and helped to occupy the area around local wells, an operation designed to protect the wells and Palestinian workers from the IDF, according to the ISM.
Rachel was killed when she tried to obstruct an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Caterpillar D9 bulldozer operating in a Palestinian residential area of Rafah, next to the border with Egypt - an area the IDF had designated a security zone and which contains a network of smuggling tunnels connecting Egypt to the Palestinian side of Rafah.
Craig and Cindy Corries’ transformation into activists didn’t happen overnight. At first the couple focused on getting answers about their daughter’s death. At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised a “thorough, credible, and transparent” investigation. A few days later, the US invaded Iraq and it was months before the Corries got a response. When the investigation was finally concluded, it exonerated the soldiers of wrong doing.
Like the military families who have become increasingly critical of US policy in Iraq, the Corries have gone from looking for answers to explain their daughter’s death to helping to continue her work–and in the process gaining them some peace. “Through ourselves we can bring Rachel to life,” says Craig, “and through Rachel we can bring the people she knew and what she saw to life.”
Rachel Corrie Foundation
March 13th, 2007
--Previous Guests--, Craig & Cindy Corrie |
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Award Winning Film Director
Previously Aired On: March 20, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Laura Poitras received a Peabody Award for her last documentary, Flag Wars, (2003). Flag Wars received numerous other awards. and had its U.S. television premiere on PBS’s P.O.V. documentary series and was nominated for both a 2004 Independent Spirit Award and a 2004 Emmy Award.
Laura’s past work includes Oh Say Can You See… ? (2003), and Exact Fantasy (1995). She studied filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute and the New School. Before making films, she worked as a chef. She currently resides in New York City.
Laura’s film My Country, My Country was an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature this year. My Country, My Country creates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under US occupation. Her principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. An outspoken critic of the occupation, he is equally passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq, arguing that Sunni participation in the January 2005 elections is essential. Yet all around him, Dr. Riyadh sees only chaos, as his waiting room fills each day with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence.
Dramatically interwoven into the personal journey of Dr. Riyadh is the landscape of the US military occupation, with Australian private security contractors, American journalists and the UN officials who orchestrate the elections. Unfolding like a narrative drama, My Country, My Country follows the agonizing predicament and gradual descent of one man caught in the tragic contradictions of the US occupation of Iraq and its project to spread democracy in the Middle East.
March 10th, 2007
--Previous Guests--, Laura Poitras |
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Scholars for 9/11 Truth
Special 2-Guest Show: Dr. Greg Jenkins of Scholars For 9/11 Truth and Justice discusses aspects of 9/11 theories with Dr. James Fetzer.
Previously Aired On: March 6, 2007 - Listen to this Show!
Dr. James H. Fetzer is the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. However since mid-November of 2006, there has been a split between Fetzer and a series of other researchers and individuals, engaged in a dispute regarding some alternative theories about 9/11, including those of Judy Wood and Morgan Reynolds involving the destruction of the WTC by mini-nukes, high-energy weapons and the so-called “no-plane” theories.
A new group under the banner of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice has emerged which seems to reject the mini-nukes hypothesis and has questioned whether theories about high-energy weapons are testable. Among those is Dr. Greg Jenkins, a physicist out of the University of Maryland who will add his views and knowledge regarding this.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice
March 6th, 2007
--Previous Guests--, Greg Jenkins, James H. Fetzer |
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