Episode 211 with Kimya Dawson, Steve Horn, Alice Ollstein, George Lavender and Norman Solomon

Coming up on today’s show, we have a batch of interviews recorded live at the National Conference for Media Reform!

We have musician Kimya Dawson here to discuss art, activism and her new project with Aesop Rock, the Uncluded.

We have Steve Horn from DeSmogBlog back on the show to discuss how Exxon is running all aspects of the tar sands pipeline oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas.

We have Alice Ollstein and George Lavender here to talk about their journalist collective, Free Speech Radio News.

And we have the author of War Made Easy, Norman Solomon here to discuss how politicians and the press continue to spin us into war.

We'll also discuss President Barack Obama is proposing to cut the social safety net in his Grand Bargain with Republicans.

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