Political Perspectives

Victoria Brittain,  joins host Linda Olson-Osterlund to discuss her recent article titled; Guilty Until Proven Innocent: How to Pre- Convict an American Muslim  on TomDispatch. Journalist and former editor for the Guardian, Ms Brittain is the author and co-author of 2 plays... Read more

Host Paul Roland with live guests by phone: Christopher Simpson, Journalism Professor at American University in Washington, D.C. and Christopher Pyle, Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties at Mount Holyoke College. The program will focus on the vast expansion ... Read more

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Revolutionary activist, organizer and author Ahjamu Umi spoke at the Law and Disorder Conference at Portland State University earlier in May. Ahjamu Umi is an organizer for the All African Peoples' Revolutionary Party. He is also part of the Blazing Arrow Organization, whic... Read more

We hear an excerpt from Economic Update with host Richard Wolff interviewing independent journalist and writer Laura Flanders of GritTV. Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy about his recent article, "Our Twisted Politics of Grief: In the "endless war," some kinds of grief are more useful than others", wh... Read more

Paul Roland interviews Norman Stockwell of WORT radio in Madison, Wisconsin on the state of community radio in the US. With call-ins. With the financial meltdown; deregulation of the airwaves; competition from the internet, MP3 players and social media; aging listenerships ... Read more

Paul Roland interviews Darryl Cherney, Earth First! activist and producer of the documentary "Who Bombed Judi Bari?". On the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the as-yet unsolved 1990 carbombing which injured Cherney and almost killed Judi Bari, a challenge is being issue... Read more

Three-Year #1 New York Times bestselling author Rory Freedman comes to Portland to speak at Powell's Books and on KBOO about her new book Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals. Freedman's Skinny Bitch was a "diet" book about veganism. In Beg Freedman exposes hard trut... Read more

 Host Linda Olson Osterlund interviews reporter Jeremy Scahill about his new book DIRTY WARS, which is based on his years of on the ground reporting across the globe from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Somalia and Yemen where he has uncovered the scope of the CIA’s covert wars... Read more