** "I mean, there are murders, suicide, everyone having sex with the wrong person - so yeah..."

Amanda Peet Talks 'Your Friends And Neighbors.' The X Files actress who starred as FBI Agent Dakota Whitney in that strange encounters sci-fi classic show, in a conversation about her latest strange encounters, moving on to surviving suburbia's rich and infamous elite in 'Your Friends And Neighbors - and currently filming the next upcoming spring season.

Caught up in this late stage capitalism enclave of the show's self-described 'F. Scott Fitzgerald fever dream,' Peet as frustrated failed shrink Mel Cooper among them, sheds some light as to what exactly may have been transpiring - beneath the morally ambiguous, deceptive dark layers in progress throughout the series...

** "None of that worked with Iran - so let's just go bare knuckles..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon On The US 'Zenpire' and why - along with what it has to do with the art of deciphering the current chaos in the world. From sanctions and color revolutions, to Trump addiction to 'knuckle dragging brute force...'

** "A tale of two writers using AI, one yourself and the other a poor soul - who unfortunately became the Internet's main character for a few minutes..."

Book Corner: 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide To Life After.' Blogger, journalist, science fiction writer and activist Corey Doctorow, 'guilty as charged' in connection with self-flagellation, books that didn't exist, Charlie Chaplin, Lucy and Ethel on the assembly line - and 'Amazon triple warehouse injuries...'

** "Vegas, a town carved in the desert - which couldn't have existed without air conditioning..."

Pornocopia - The Sixth Harry Palmer LA Mystery. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe reads from his latest novel, set in the 1950s. Diving into the sinister underbelly of Vegas revealed, the dark side of the Hollywood dream factory and Bugsy Siegel - along with 'lunatics at the casino table and screaming in the parking lots...'

Plus...Trump monuments, ballrooms, and why are the horses gold...

And...Dennis Broe will present a free Zoom lecture on 'Porn, Gambling and The American Psyche - Why do these two obsessions at times seem to dominate contemporary discourse.' This Saturday at 2pm ET, at the link beow:
https://marxedproject.org/event/porn-gambling/