** "It's like you're in a restaurant, and you can have the blue waiter or the red waiter - but the food is cooked in the same kitchen..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon joins UK politician George Galloway, a prior Pacifica host as well, in exploring fact from fiction unscramblingof the upcoming controversial US midterm electionsjust a few weeks away. And what any of this may have to do with donors, diesel prices, the US press for sale - and are the Democrats merely 'not Donald Trump'...

** "We would talk about how our phones were being tapped, it was just weird stuff on the set going on and we all had each others' backs. We all knew what we were making was something great - and I still think aboutit every day..."

Terrestrial, Judas And The Black Messiah, Coming 2 America, And His Mark Clark And Eddie Murphy - A Conversation With Jermaine Fowler. The actor and standup comedian talks about portraying Black Panther Mark Clark in Judas And The Back Messiah, who along with Panther leader Fred Hampton and other Panthers, were assassinated by the Chicago police in the middle of the night back in 1969, while they slept in their beds. And what being part of that film and that history, has meant to him to this day.

Fowler also discusses his latest film, the sci-fi noir Terrestrial, in which he struggles as a low wage worker and aspiring writer and filmmaker to 'get his work seen and voice heard.' Not unlike the real world, in which the working class is shut out of the film world, even from portraying their own class in movies. Fowler also revisits both playing and co-starring with Eddie Murphy in two different productions.

** "They are both literally life changing events, and who better than Cory Doctorow to unpack them. So let's begin..."

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Writers Corner: On 'the merger between media giants Paramount and Warner Bros, and the seemingly strange call by the CEO of Anthropic AI, for government regulation of AI. Stay tuned, and all will be revealed...

** "Disparity between the actual protests and how they are being covered, also returns to the way the original French Revolution was experienced in the bourgeois media..."

The New French Revolution - and instead the NY Times gleefully running a burning trash can...Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on location where it's all happening, at the French mass uprisings in progress.

Referencing A Tale Of Two Cities, Proudhon, Musk, students swarming the Bastille, police riot guns maiming protesters, class inequity in the schools - and the Mali-French mayor of St. Denis showing up on the picket line, courageously shielding students with his body from police violence...