Blase's Blog

FINAL COMMENTARY

It has been a privilege to speak to you during the Evening News for many years. However, KPFK has a new policy stating that programmers with an existing program will not also have a scheduled commentary.

While I do not want to interfere with your church attendance on Sundays, I do want you to know that my program, WORLD FOCUS, will continue to air every Sunday morning from 10:00 to 11:00 AM. This Sunday I am privileged to have Jeremy Scahill author of best selling, Blackwater: the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army." Jeremy is a Polk Award-winning investigative journalist.

My second guest will be Dahr Jamail, an unembedded independent journalist who reports from Iraq and who is also the author of a new book, Beyond the Green Zone. Stephen Kinzer of the New York Times calls this book, "International journalism at its best."

My commentaries for Pacifica Radio are now published in two books. The first book is called Guerrillas of Peace on the Air. These are Pacifica radio commentaries and my personal reports on International Direct Action for Justice and Peace. This book begins with commentaries from January of 1996 through April of 1998.

My second book of Pacifica commentaries is called Common Sense for the Twenty-First Century. This book includes commentaries from November of 2001 to April of 2004 and it also includes my Pacifica interviews with Chalmers Johnson, Reverend James Lawson, and Jonathan Schell.

These books are available at the Office of the Americas which has produced these Pacifica Commentaries by way of KPFK. You can reach us at 323/852-9808.

These books of Pacifica commentaries are also available at Amazon.com. My third book of Pacifica commentaries will be published in the spring of 2008. It will be titled, Civilization is Possible and will also include interviews with Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Greg Palast, and Peter Laufer.

These commentaries, while recorded during the dates mentioned, deal with topics which are truly timeless.

So, my friends, I want to thank you for listening to these commentaries during the KPFK news for these many years and ask you to tune in on Sundays at 10:00 AM to listen to my program, WORLD FOCUS.


This is Blase Bonpane.