investigative reporter and author
Co-Executive Producer of the documentary Food Chains; author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food and the best-selling Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, and co-writer of the screenplay of the film based on the book; former correspondent for The Atlantic
Is it safe to transport nuclear warheads on long haul trucks? When nuclear warheads need to travel, they are loaded into old 18 wheelers and driven across the country on US highways. Drivers are underpaid and overworked. There are concerns about safety and security.
Can Big Business Improve the Plight of America's Farm Workers? Migrant workers labor under conditions that some describe as a kind of indentured servitude and, until not that long ago, the very worst of the worst offenders were the tomato farms of Immokolee, Florida. But, in 1993, tomato pickers there got together and began partnering with retailers and restaurant chains, including McDonald's and Taco Bell, to pressure growers in Florida into providing better wages and humane conditions. Now one of the nation's largest and least labor friendly corporations is joining up. Will Walmart bring this innovative program to the rest of the country? Is threatening the bottom dollar the most effective way to improve the lives of the nation's most vulnerable workers?
The Threat to America — from Our Own Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War, atomic bombs fell out of the sky over North Carolina. A missile tipped with a hydrogen bomb blew up in Arkansas. Most Americans never knew about 700 "significant" incidents that could have produced historic catastrophes — here in the US. Investigative reporter Eric Schlosser spent five years searching declassified documents to discover how often dumb luck made the difference. We talk with him. How much safer are today's weapons' systems? What are the prospects for reducing nuclear arms? Two men involved in the Damascus incident, Ronald Gray and Greg Devlin, were interviewed for " The Missileers ." That story, produced by Eric Molinsky and Bob Carlson, is part of the program UnFictional , which is produced and broadcast here at KCRW in Santa Monica.
The Threat to America — from Our Own Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War, atomic bombs fell out of the sky over North Carolina. A missile tipped with a hydrogen bomb blew up in Arkansas. Most Americans never knew about 700 "significant" incidents that could have produced historic catastrophes — here in the US. Investigative reporter Eric Schlosser spent five years searching declassified documents to discover how often dumb luck made the difference. We talk with him. How much safer are today's weapons' systems? What are the prospects for reducing nuclear arms? Two men involved in the Damascus incident, Ronald Gray and Greg Devlin, were interviewed for " The Missileers ." That story, produced by Eric Molinsky and Bob Carlson, is part of the program UnFictional , which is produced and broadcast here at KCRW in Santa Monica.
US Nuclear Weapons, Past and Future During the Cold War, atomic bombs fell out of the sky over North Carolina. A missile tipped with a hydrogen bomb blew up in Arkansas. Most Americans never knew about 700 "significant" incidents that could have produced historic catastrophes — here in the US. We talk with investigative reporter Eric Schlosser, who spent five years searching declassified documents to discover how often dumb luck made the difference. Two men involved in the Damascus incident were interviewed for The Missileers, an episode of UnFictional, a program produced and broadcast here at KCRW radio in Santa Monica. The first voice is that of Greg Devlin, a Titan II liquid fuel systems maintenance specialist. The next is Ronald Gray, who was in charge of quality control at McConnell Air Force base and asked to investigate two days after the Damascus explosion. Listen to the full story of The Missileers .
Huge Beef Recall from Chino Slaughterhouse Daniel Ugarte Navarro has been arrested at home in Pomona and charged with abusing cows at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company in Chino. That’s the packing plant that recalled 143 million pounds of beef over the weekend—everything it produced in the past two years.
Ex-FBI Director Comey tells his side of the story Today, former FBI Director James Comey came close to calling the President who fired him a liar. The White House denied the claim and called it insulting, but Republican Senators did not challenge Comey’s truthfulness. Many questions remain: did the President try to obstruct a federal investigation? Later, we’ll go behind the “velvet rope” for a look at 5-Star health care for the richest Americans.
White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.