** "The US empire will never be the same - and that's where we are..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon does the math...global crisis, predictions, propaganda and intel. Referencing drones, missiles, dummies, duds and dinosaurs - plus joysticks, fishing lines, lead balloons and gas...

** "Being a child of immigrants has definitely colored my life - they gave me a lot of grounding and shape, into sort of who I am..."

Emmanuelle Chriqui Talks A Love Like This, Cadillac Records. And raising the question with her latest feature about gender conflicts, do males and females offscreen watch movies differently as well.

The Moroccan born Mentalist, Lincoln Lawyer, and Entourage actress likewise discusses how her immigrant roots have shaped her both personally and creatively. And being part of that musical renaissance screen classic, Cadillac Records - with the celebration as well as exploitation of black music back then, out of a 1947 Chicago bar...

** "The iron dome is now pointed in the direction of reporters, the press, and anyone with a camera - making sure not that no missiles get in, but that no information gets out of Israel..."

Bro On The Global Cultural Beat - Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on gas pumps, an already compliant media suppression of information, and 'censorship's one way street on a scale that cannot be entirely hidden - or can it.' With connections to global warming and the tobacco industry, the FCC, Yeats - and The NY Times sixteen questions in search of a lie...

** "This painting is the second most popular after the Mona Lisa - a German identity icon, and Hitler's favorite..."

The Artist As Criminal - or is he...Art essayist Shawn Grenier explores the case of The Poor Poet. And what it has to do with ghetto Turkish immigrants, Herzog, who owns art - and the art museum as a temple of bourgeois culture...

Plus...Trump and fascism...stuck in the Strait of Hormuz...