** "That's America now...because let me tell you why - that's no longer about Charlie Kirk..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on the art of figuring out what it all has to do with Trump, Fox News, the CIA, and "the ruling elite up on Wall Street sitting there watching TV - watching the working class beat and shoot themselves..."

** "It's always interesting when a landscape or a cityscape can mirror that character in the story - and that's certainly the case with 'Bang Bang' because he's in his own stage of decline..."

Tim Blake Nelson Talks Bang Bang, The Lowdown. And as a continuing master of many hats that have included among his over one hundred dramatic features, Donnie Brasco, The Thin Red Line, Coen Brothers Collaborations, Hamlet, Minority Report, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities and Pinocchio, Kill The Messenger, and Captain America.

Blake will discuss his no less than four current productions - among them the upcoming dramatic series The Lowdown, The Life And Death Of Wilson Shedd, and the staging of 'And Then We Were No More,' about a futuristic AI execution chamber on death row.

Plus just out in release, Bang Bang, in which the actor stars as a down and out despondent Detroit ex-boxer - and in a sense his rage as a not so imaginary metaphor for the brutal face of America, and that destroyed Rust Belt economic landscape all around him.

** "It's very important to try to understand the complex underworld beneath all of the stories you see in the news - who dropped this story to this reporter, who benefits from the story being news out of the millions of things that happened in the world..."

Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News. A Continuing Conversation With Author, Actvist And Civil Rights Lawyer, Alec Karakatsanis. Uncovering the multi-billion dollar police public relations operation, the corruption of criminal justice academia - and what you can do to resist copaganda...

** "Two lusty 'no's' from the French- a 'let's block everything' moment..."

Arts Express Euro-Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe reportingfrom the mass rage on the streets of Paris, now called the September 10th Movement. The hotspot of the week, 'pitting elements of the left and right against Macron's police and center right coalition...'