[Peace] Tonight 8-10pm on WEFT 90.1 FM

[Carl Estabrook]

    --Jeffrey St. Clair: "The Story Behind Hookergate"
    --Noam Chomsky: "Biolinguistic Explorations:
	Design, Development, Evolution"

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    Show: Digital Citizen
    Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
    Time: 8-10 PM
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Tonight on Digital Citizen we broadcast the story behind "Hookergate" (or
perhaps "Fornigate"), the bribery scandal that's already caused
resignations and imprisonment in the House of Representatives and the
Central Intelligence Agency -- and should cause much more.  Jeffrey St.
Clair, editor (with Alexander Cockburn) of the best political site on the
web, CounterPunch.org, and author of "Grand Theft Pentagon: Tales of
Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror," was in town on the
fraught date of April 19 to give a talk on the UIUC campus.  Tonight we'll
play a recording of that talk.  (Our interview with Jeff, recorded later
that night, is available at <http://www.newsfromneptune.com/>.)

In the second hour tonight, we'll hear a talk by Noam Chomsky, the leading
critic of U.S. government policy, but tonight he'll be talking about his
scientific work.  Chomsky did for the field of linguistics roughly what
Einstein did for physics -- he altered it completely.  And, unlike some
other academic specialists, he is able to explain his work in an
accessible fashion.  Tonight he will discuss language and human biology.

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DR. NO, Jeff Nicholson-Owens, founder and host of Digital Citizen, returns
from hiatus for the next "Digital Citizen," on the last day of May, so
tonight's show will be the last presented by Carl Estabrook -- who agrees
entirely with the Doctor's encomium: "Thank you so much for listening to
the show; your attention makes doing the show worthwhile."

And remember that on this day three generations ago (17 May 1918) Congress
passed -- at the urging of liberal Democrat President Woodrow Wilson --
the Sedition Act.  An amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, which the
Bush administration is trying to use to silence those who learn "official
secrets" -- the Sedition Act forbade Americans to use "disloyal, profane,
scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, flag,
or armed forces during war.  Socialist and presidential candidate Eugene
V. Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison under this law. In his 1941
book "Censorship 1917," James Mock noted that most U.S. newspapers "showed
no antipathy toward the act" and "far from opposing the measure, the
leading papers seemed actually to lead the movement in behalf of its
speedy enactment."  Although it obviously violated the Bill of Rights,
especially the First Amendment, the Sedition Act was upheld by the Supreme
Court.

    ****Digital Citizen tonight 8-10 PM on WEFT 90.1 FM****

P.S. -- An interview with Anna Baltzer, author of "Witness in Palestine:
Journal of a Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories," conducted
by Carl Estabrook and Paul Mueth, is available at
<http://www.newsfromneptune.com/#latest>.

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