WICKER, TOM. – Pacifica Radio Archives

And throw away the key: the Eighth Amendment and cruel and unusual punishment (Episode 9 of 13)

This is the 9th in the series of 13 episodes. This program examines the recent realization of the deplorable conditions in most prisons and suggests new alternatives – house arrest, reduced sentences, and the private ownership of prisons. This program also includes interviews with “jailhouse lawyers” and contains actuality from the Attica riots. Sponsored by…

August 24, 2025

Physicians for Social Responsibility annual meeting : highlights from 1984 / produced by Rafaello Mazza and Tina Reiman.

Speeches from the Physicians for Social Responsibility Conference about the threat of the arms race and nuclear weapons. |The costs of arms spending / Victor Sidel — The Myth of destructive advantage / H. Jack Geiger — The Administration’s view of arms control / Richard Perle — The Press and arms control / Tom Wicker…

August 24, 2025

A Time to die / by Tom Wicker ; interviewed by Jim Berland and Barbara Cady.

New York Times writer on his book, the CIA, and his observation of the Attica prison riots in 1971.|A TIME TO DIE / by Tom Wicker| interviewed by Jim Berland and Barbara Cady. – SERIES: Open journal. – New York Times writer on his book, the CIA, and his observation of the Attica prison riots…

August 24, 2025

Whose freedom next? / Tom Wicker

This is a recording of the 1972 Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Lecture “Whose freedom next?” given by Tom Wicker at Stanford University. Wicker’s talk is regarding American Civil liberties, and is followed by a question and answer period. Introduced by Lyle Nelson.

August 24, 2025

Tom Wicker on American political trends.

Wicker’s acceptance speech for the Tom Paine Award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Union.

August 24, 2025

Tom Wicker on American politics.

Time Washington Bureau chief discusses what is wrong with American foreign policy.

August 24, 2025

State power and the J.F.K. Assassination / Michael Parenti.

Talk on the many levels of the coverup concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy, particularly the role of the National government. He argues that the state perpetuates the most unspeakable crimes against its own people, the gangster nature of the state cloaked by a facade of political representation, and how the coverup exposes the…

August 24, 2025