Family of Secrets has been out for a while, but, due in good part to the corporate-owned media’s reluctance to air deep investigative journalism that takes on the powerful, it’s still one of America’s best kept secrets. That’s starting to change, and Russ is in demand now more than ever.
This week, Russ is providing intriguing context on a confluence of anniversaries and events currently taking place: the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower’s famed speech warning about the military industrial complex, the 10th anniversary of George W. Bush’s inauguration, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observation, the Arizona shootings, and more. Russ talks about Family of Secrets, and about our new nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative reporting news site, www.whowhatwhy.com
You can hear or see Russ on the following shows:
January 15
Tonight, Saturday January 15, on Coast to Coast AM with Ian Punnett, 10pm-midnight Pacific Time, 1-3am Eastern Time Sunday (Coast to Coast can be heard on a major AM radio station almost anywhere in the US. See http://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations to find a local station.
January 17 On Monday, January 17, Russ will be a guest on Thom Hartmann’s nationwide radio show. To find a local station that carries Thom’s show, see http://www.thomhartmann.com/radio/stations .
Russ will also be on Thom’s television show, carried by RT on cable and streamed on the Internet. For more on that, see http://www.thomhartmann.com/tv . You can also see Thom’s show on Free Speech TV, carried by Dish Network and DirecTV. For schedule (the show repeats throughout the day and night) see http://www.freespeech.org/free-speech-tv-schedule
Also on Monday, Russ will be a guest on RT’s own television show, available via cable, satellite, and online. RT is the Russian equivalent of CNN, with English language programming.
January 18 On Tuesday, January 18, Russ will be on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. GRITtv can be seen nationwide on Free Speech TV. FSTV is carried on Dish Network and DirecTV. For schedule (the show repeats throughout the day and night) see http://www.freespeech.org/free-speech-tv-scheduleYou can also see or hear some of Russ’s past appearances, on MSNBC with Dylan Ratigan, on Public Radio International’s The Takeaway, and other programs, at www.familyofsecrets.com
We’re just getting started! You can be part of the wave, by helping spread the word.
Russ Baker on The Takeaway, Public Radio International.
Date: Nov. 12, 2010
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After two years of laying low, former President George W. Bush came out with a bang this week, with the release of his memoir, “Decision Points.” While the world has been focusing on Bush’s take on the Iraq war, weapons of mass destruction, the use of waterboarding and Hurricane Katrina, today we want to discuss what the memoir means in the context of the Republican surge in the past election. Is the book about the pastBush administration, or is it laying the ground for another Bush generation to take back the White House in the future?
JOIN JOHN PERRY BARLOW AND AUTHOR RUSS BAKER THIS TUESDAY, 7PM, SAN FRANCISCO….
With Karl Rove’s and Laura Bush’s books out recently, and George W. Bush’s own “Decision Points” due out with much fanfare in November, this is a perfect time to learn (and not from Karl, Laura or George) what really happened in this country the past eight years. Learn how the staggering Bush epoch evolved from unexamined occurrences over the past half century, and how it is still influencing White House policy today. Learn the back story to current controversies, from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster to the continuing hostilities in the Middle East. Learn about CIA-financial-military networks and their ability to shape presidencies.
Please join award-winning investigative journalist and author Russ Baker for a talk, reading and signing of his book Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Past Fifty Years. Baker’s work has been praised by Gore Vidal, who called it one of the most important books of the decade, as well as by Dan Rather and Bill Moyers. Full of stunning major revelations, Family of Secrets will change the way you view power in America. Russ will be introduced by John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist, poet and Internet pioneer. The talk will be followed by an extended question and answer session and then a signing.
WHEN: THIS TUESDAY, JUNE 15, FROM 7-830, WHERE: Borders Books in the Stonestown Galleria, 19th Avenue at Winston Drive, San Francisco. Easy parking and public transportation.
“One of the most important books of the past ten years”—Gore Vidal
“A tour de force….Family of Secrets has made me rethink even those events I witnessed with my own eyes”—Dan Rather
“Russ Baker’s work stands out for its fierce independence, fact-based reporting, and concern for what matters most to our democracy…A lot of us look to Russ to tell us what we didn’t know”—Bill Moyers
“This is the book people will be mining for years to come”—David Margolick, Newsweek and Vanity Fair
“An investigative gem filled with juicy revelations”
--Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times