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Two takes on the year in review:
REBECCA SOLNIT says it was a bad year for Goliath but not necessarily a good one for David. Thirteen months ago, she writes at TomDispatch.com, when Bush was reelected, the despondent around me seemed to think that our future was graven in stone. But in the best and worst of ways, in this wild, wild year that ends so differently than it began, it has turned out to be written in water. Her book Hope in the Dark is out now from Nation Books in a new edition.
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JOHN NICHOLS picks the most valuable progressives of 2005. John’s new book is Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy–he writes The Online Beat blog at TheNation.com.
And JEFF CHANG talks about hip-hop politics. In his new book Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation, Jeff shows how hip-hop was forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, and how it has been a generation-defining global movement.
PLAYLIST: Africa Bambaataa, “Don’t Stop – Planet Rock” (1982); Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” (1988); India Arie, “Video” (2001); Kanye West, “Diamonds from Sierra Leone” (2005).
A FINAL NOTE: Radio Nations last broadcast with host Marc Cooper on KPFK 90.7 FM will be this Friday 7-8am the program will move to Air America radio, where the Laura Flanders show will become Radio Nation with Laura Flanders heard in L.A. on KTLK 1150am Sunday nights from 8-11pm. Cooper started Radio Nation at KPFK in 1996, and the show is currently heard on more than 100 public and community stations. Coopers recent guests on Radio Nation have included Seymour Hersh, Gore Vidal, and Barbara Boxer, as well as Nation writers like David Corn and Victor Navasky. (Recently Marc has been guest hosting Left Right and Center on KCRW 89.9 FM.) So its time to say thank you to one of the greatest interviewers working in radio today — he gave me my start in show business, as a guest host on Radio Nation.
