------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:55:33 -0500 From: "NOW-Update" <NOW-Update@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: This Week on NOW: On the Ground with U.S. Troops NOW Friday, March 31, 2006 on PBS (Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html) ======================================================== This week on NOW: * Hit or Miss Just back from Hit, Iraq, Producer Brian Palmer brings us an intimate story of U.S. Marines in a life and death fight against determined insurgents. * Interview with Christian Parenti David Brancaccio interviews writer Christian Parenti about his recent trip to Afghanistan. Parenti provides an insider's view of what's really going on in America's "other war." ======================================================== "Hit or Miss" What's working and what's failing in the U.S.-led effort to battle the Iraqi insurgents? Video journalist Brian Palmer, who was recently embedded with U.S. Marines in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, gives us an uncensored, inside look at the extremely dangerous and often overwhelming job of fighting the committed insurgency. "I don't see any more good coming out of being here," Lance Corporal Damon Broussard told Palmer. "You can only make so much progress and then you have the guys hiding behind the scenes planting IEDs and stuff...You can only do so much until you friggin' slam your face into the wall so many times." ======================================================== Interview: Christian Parenti David Brancaccio interviews writer Christian Parenti about his recent trip to Afghanistan. Parenti provides an insider's view of what's really going on in America's "other war." Parenti is a correspondent for THE NATION, and the author of three books: "The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq", "The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror," and "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis." ======================================================== NOW Online Starting Friday morning, the NOW Web site will follow this week's episode with exclusive features and up-to-date information, including: * PRODUCER'S NOTEBOOK: Brian Palmer's personal account of his time in Iraq * PHOTO ESSAY: Palmer's experiences with both solders and civilians * PERSPECTIVES: Differing views from around the world on whether or not Iraq is in a state of civil war * RELATED RESOURCES: Helpful links and more information about Palmer's trip and Christian Parenti ======================================================== New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewPacifica/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/