Interview with Chuck Mertz

Dear Friends:

I did an interview yesterday (April 14) with Chuck Mertz for his program, "This Is Hell" (my kind of title), on WNUR-FM in Chicago. The audio link is as follows:

http://thisishell.net/tag/morris-berman/

It's Episode #689, and the portion of it that constitutes the 47 minutes with yours truly is from 1:22 to 2:09 on the track. I should warn you that it ends rather abruptly; WNUR has been having some engineering problems, so suddenly the thing winks out in mid-discussion. But I think/hope you might enjoy it, as Chuck asked me some interesting questions, which made for a good conversation. (Nothing about deli meats, but then you can't have everything.)

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The Case of the Lost Comments

Dear Friends,

I have a feeling that this blog starts to cut off comments after the number reaches 200. I've received posts from Julian, Zosima, and Vince, hit 'Publish', and then nothing appeared. I guess the thing for me to do is start with a new post; so for now, here it is. I'm doing another interview today, so will post the link for that as soon as it comes available. In the meantime, my apologies for this little note, but I didn't want to lose any more of your letters. Another case of technology being a pain in the neck, I suppose.

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Interview with Nomi Prins on AlterNet

Check it out, amigos:

http://www.alternet.org/world/
154453/why_the_american_empire_
was_destined_to_collapse/

The C-SPAN Link (BookTV)

Dear Friends:

C-SPAN aired my Nov. 8 lecture at B&N in Los Angeles this past weekend, and (quicker than I expected) sent me the link. For those of you who missed the TV broadcast, and are having problems with insomnia, I provide this below. It's basically the same lecture I gave in Seattle four days earlier, and posted on this blog; tho the Q&A is obviously different. Anyway, enjoy!

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/WhyAmer

Second West Coast Tour

Dear Friends:

Here's the info on my schedule for Vancouver and San Francisco, coming up in a few short weeks:

March 18, 4 p.m.: People's Co-op Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
March 19, 12 noon: University of British Colombia, Woodward Hall Rm 1, Vancouver
March 22, 7 p.m.: Modern Times Bookstore, 2912 24th St. (between Alabama and Florida Streets), San Francisco

Hope to see you there!

Please also note that C-SPAN will be airing my LA lecture of Nov. 8 on Feb. 25 at 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. est, and on Feb. 26 at 6 a.m. est (see www.booktv.org for more information). They will also be supplying me with a link to the videotape later on, which I shall post on this blog.

Thank you all for your interest and support.

Wafer Summit Meeting in the DF

OK, folks: it's show time. You may remember we talked about having a Wafer Summit Meeting in Mexico City (the DF, Distrito Federal) during the weekend of April 13-16. Well, the time has come to put it on the table. I said that we would do it if we got 12 attendees. Turns out, one person has already written me that they will be coming, so we need 11 more to make it happen. If this is an absolutely definite go for you, I need to hear about it. Since I don't want to take up blog space working out the details of all this, please write me at mauricio@morrisberman.com, and we can make arrangements via email. Cut-off date is March 14, after which I'm taking off for my 2nd West Coast tour (Vancouver and San Francisco); about which, more later. As the saying goes, be there or be round. Arriba!

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