** "Unfortunate for the world but rather fortunate for our film...because it is about when you're living through dark times - how do you try to see a point in trying to make a difference, when you feel like the forces of darkness are against you.."

Steve Coogan Talks The Penguin Lessons, Dr. Strangelove. With multiple endless wars in progress around the globe, the same may be said about these two movies opening on the same day about global conflict. And starring Steve Coogan, our guest on the show, joined by Penguin Lessons director, The Full Monte's filmmaker as well, Peter Cattaneo.

And delving into The Penguin Lessons, allegorically playing out during the brutal 1976 military dictatorship in Argentina - and the simultaneous release of Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, a stage adaptation reprisal about inciting nuclear war, with the British actor portraying no less than four characters. While pointing out - 'Peter Sellers in the original movie did three, I decided to go one better just for the hell of it!'

** "If you're watching CNN or MSNBC, they're instructing you what to be angry about - so they're manufacturing that anger, that's how it works..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon and company - on the Signal scandal, corporate media recipes for rage, and the Atlantic undercover deep throat's ties to the Israeli military...

** "Trump may be bad for the US - but he's very good for CBS..."

Culture And Barbarism: Arts Express Paris Desk Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe is joined by Professor Toby Miller at our Mexico City Desk to introduce their collaborative new show - dissecting the corporate media on this episode.

And with connections to the Trump manchild, the Monroe Doctrine, drugs and guns, the reactionary creatures of the liberal media, the golden age of journalism that never was - and the show's secret recording location where 'the roof beams match Broe's hair color...'

** "Tom Keough was a tireless political and community activist who contributed his art work to many organizations - including the IWW, The War Resisters League, and Brooklynites For Peace..."

Eulogy For Tom: A personal remembrance of the painter, graphic artist and activist who just passed away...

Plus...Villains on and off screen, comparisons and contradictions...A UK Desk rebuttal regarding censorship at Repeater Books, airing last week..