January 31, 2010

Broadcast Date: 
Jan 31 2010

Conservative evangelicals in Texas are setting the standards for national K-12 textbooks; a new book on the life of investigative journalist I.F. Stone; plus Israel uses International Holocaust Remembrance Day to attack the Goldstone Report.

Episode segments
  • Texas's Textbook Standards Don't Stay in Texas
    National Politics, Christian Right

    Mariah Blake is an editor at Washington Monthly and the author, in that publication, of  Revisionaries:  How a Group of Texas Conservatives is Rewriting Your Kids’ Textbooks.


     
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Texas is in the home stretch of an every ten year process of setting standards for school textbooks. Because Texas is the second largest textbook market in the U.S. and the selection process is centralized, the state's standards become effectively national standards.  And this time, Texas's Christian right-dominated process won't be counter-balanced by California.  

  • American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F.Stone
    Arts & Culture, Literature

    D. D. Guttenplan is the author of American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone. He is the London correspondent for The Nation.  His previous book The Holocaust on Trial recounts the libel lawsuit filed by Holocaust revisionist, David Irving against the American scholar Deborah Lipstadt..

     
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    I.F.Stone, the man behind I.F.Stone's Weekly, was a Popular Front columnist, New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of Mc Carthyism and the Vietnam War, scourge of official liars and an American Radical.  He was also one of the best investigative reporters ever.

  • Israel Exploits International Holocaust Remembrance Day
    Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Anti-Semitism
    Donna Nevel is an activist with Jews Say No!
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The Israeli Government has chosen the week of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th) to launch a further attack on the Goldstone Report.