KBOO AM News - April Fool's Edition. All Scripts by Chris Andreae.

Host Barbara Bernstein speaks with Linda Bilmes, co-author of The Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict ( W. W. Norton, 2008).

Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris. Today is a special fun-filled Membership Drive version of the show.

The Moles succumb to Obamamania!   No, not quite.  But on this show, we review the good, the bad,and the doubtful in the historic candidacy of Barack Obama.   

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1.  The Well-read Red reviews Left Press commentary on Obama.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and the National Priorities Project has released a state-by-state estimate of what the war has cost. 

For Oregon, the price tag is four-point-two (b) billion dollars already spent, and another one-point-eight (b) billion dollars budgeted. 

KBOO’s Helen Honey has more, in collaboration with the Oregon News Service:

In Portland today demonstrators conducted a Day of Action against the Iraq War, on the fifth anniversary of the war.

These demonstrations took place at three downtown sites – Terry Schrunk plaza, the World Trade Center and the Old Federal Courthouse.

Malcolm Chaddock is a member with the Veterans for Peace chapter here in Portland. He went to Maryland last week to attend the Winter Soldier hearings that took place last weekend in Springwater, Maryland.

KBOO’s Michael Ianello talked with him today about his experience there and how the testimonials have effected the movement.

This past weekend saw hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans descend upon Silver Springs, Maryland.

They were there for public hearings organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Iraq Veterans Speak: Winter Soldier Hearings aired on KBOO last Friday and to provide a recap of the event KBOO's Michael Ianello spoke with writer and co-host of the event, Aaron Glantz.

Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll be talking to Bhavia Wagner, Executive Director of Friends of Cambodia, Activist Lawyer and Asian Reporter Columnist Polo, and we’ll also hear audio from the documentary Cambodian Culture: Death Of A Sideshow: Reclaiming The Shattered Past - produced by Barbara Bernstein in 1987.

April 17^th, 1975 the Khmer Rouge marched into Phenom Phen and turned the clock back to year zero.