Anne Nelson on Shadow Nework: Media, Money and The Radical Right

Anne Nelson on Shadow Nework: Media, Money and The Radical Right

For this episode, Claudia Cragg (@claudiacragg) speaks with Anne Nelson (@anelsona), about her new book. Shadow Network:Media, Money, and The Secret Hub of the Radical Right. An award-winning author and media analyst, Nelson chronicles the astonishing history and illuminates the coalition's key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of American local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy's information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting its members control. And she reveals how the group has collaborated with the Koch brothers to outfit Radical Right organizations with state-of-the-art apps and a shared pool of captured voter data - outmaneuvering the Democratic Party in a digital arms race whose result has yet to be decided. In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve center for channeling money and mobilizing votes behind the scenes. Its secretive membership rolls represent a high-powered roster of fundamentalists, oligarchs, and their allies, from Oliver North, Ed Meese, and Tim LaHaye in the Council's early days to Kellyanne Conway, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, and the DeVos and Mercer families today.

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Human and Material Detritus at Mumbai's Deonar Waste Mountains

Human and Material Detritus at Mumbai's Deonar Waste Mountains

"'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be drawn to this harro...

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Isn't The Case For Us All To Work With Our Hands Not Stronger Than Ever Now?

Isn't The Case For Us All To Work With Our Hands Not Stronger Than Ever Now?

In this (reposted) interview, Dr. Matthew B. Crawford talks to Claudia Cragg @KGNU about 'Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good. This iconic book also explores why some jobs offer...

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COVID19, Its Possible Lab Origins and the indispensable Horseshoe Crab

Claudia Cragg (Twitter: @claudiacragg) speaks here with William Sargent about his book, Crab Wars, now out in a newly revised edtion. Surviving almost unmolested for 300 million years, the horseshoe c...

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How Ordinary People Saved a Country From Greed

How Ordinary People Saved a Country From Greed

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks with Robin Broad and @IPS_DC's John Cavanagh, authors of The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed. In a time when countless comm...

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Just Because.... Joanne Greenberg, One Of Our Most Interesting Past Guests

Just Because.... Joanne Greenberg, One Of Our Most Interesting Past Guests

No apologies. She is always just delightful. Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Joanne Greenberg (born September 24, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author who published some of h...

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M. J. Fièvre on How To Be A 'Bad Ass Black Girl' (w update to help Haiti!)

M. J. Fièvre on How To Be A 'Bad Ass Black Girl' (w update to help Haiti!)

UPDATE: For those who want to help Haiti, M.J. suggests there are two options for two different solid organizations. Ayiti Community Trust and Fokal. https://secure.givelively.org/donate/ayiti-demen/f...

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stef m. shuster On The Banning of Medical Care for Transgender Youth

stef m. shuster On The Banning of Medical Care for Transgender Youth

In the US, several states are making strong moves to ban medical treatment for transgender youth. The laws are intended to prohibit doctors from providing gender confirming hormone therapy, puberty bl...

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Now streaming on Amazon Prime, from Maria Diane Ventura, 'Your Color'

Now streaming on Amazon Prime, from Maria Diane Ventura, 'Your Color'

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Filipina American filmmaker, Maria Diane Ventura (Instagram @mariadianeventura) whose new film 'Color' (German: Deine Farbe) is streaming on Amazon Prime f...

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