New York’s WBAI radio station had me on for a one-hour special on September 11, 2010. Here’s how the producers of the program, Equal Time for Free Thought, describe the show:
It has been 9 years since the terrorist attacks on two cities in the US, that at least according to the ruling classes changed the world forever. Certainly, these passing years have indeed changed the lives of many. Many lives have been lost, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, American families have lost or welcomed home maimed and distraught young men and women from the Middle East, the American Left has been even more marginalized than before, despite an early, strong resistance to the Iraq invasion back in 2003, and tensions have been drawn between people of differing religions (and the non religious), not the least of these being, of course, Muslims here and abroad.
Every year since 911 particularly with the vicious and sometimes delusional attacks on President Obama fear and hatred of Muslims everywhere has grown to dangerous proportions, culminating thus far in a major protest over a proposed Muslim Center near Ground Zero, to planned Koran burnings in Florida by a Christian Pastor.
What is going on here, and can it be stopped before we have a full-fledged disaster on our hands? And can the Left find a voice in these deeply troubling times when those who seem to be heard the loudest and who have genuine concerns we on the Left share are taking their cues from the radical right?
You can listen to it right here:
Take a listen, and leave a comment!