** "We're getting close to the election - and Trump's getting rejected like a Cub Scout in a singles bar..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on winners and losers, gas and food, Russia and the Republicans - from the diesel crisis to mass crisis in Europe. And, 'Donald Trump who couldn't tell the truth if you waterboarded him.'

Meanwhile, 'I'm trying to eat, brother, that's all I'm trying to do is eat - so let's just make sure that old Garland can eat by making his gas at the station cheap enough so he can afford food...'

** "I had a successful career as an actor in Brazil, and in NY I was invited to meet all these rich people. And it was such a contrast to everything that was going on in the world - and I just needed to write about it, because this has nothing to do with the streets, this ain't real..."

The Immigration Crisis And A Tale Two Elections - Bernardo Barreto Talks Invisible Borders, Fascism In Brazil. And his latest film, Invisible Borders, a political thriller about ICE terrorism, immigration, incarceration - and an undocumented waitress vanishing from the NYC streets without a trace. Written, starring and produced by someone who has lived what he's talking about.

The Brazilian actor, our guest on the show, likewise has plenty to say about the upcoming Presidential election in Brazil this Sunday - and what the critical struggle to defeat fascism in that election is all about...

** "This is an ode to journalism as it might be - should be. Dedicated to those first persons who sat upright in bed at 2:35am and said - 'you know who you are...'

The Five Minute Marxist: A new episode literary excursion by Minneapolis writer and novelist Mike Palecek, banned in Canada, surviving five terms in jails and prisons for protesting against the US military - and a daring bid to break through the closed doors of power on Capitol Hill, as an Iowa Congressional candidate back in 2000. And Paleck's work distributed by CWG Press, 'a small publisher with big ideas...'

** "Steinbeck's critique of American values and the American character - and their molding by a rabid capitalism..."

Bro On The Global Cultural Beat: East Of Eden - Paradise No More...Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on the dramatic series that 'begins and ends with two wars, the Civil War and WWI, and with a Native American genocide in the middle of them - reminding us that the great events in American history often happen around that history's pattern of bloodshed.'

And Steinbeck's vision in the adapted novel of Americans as "a violent people...descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers..."

Plus...Trump TV - the revolution will not be televised...