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Every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 9-9:30am.
Every 2nd, 4th, and 5th Thursday from 9-10am.

                                                               News you're not supposed to know

Tune in at 9AM Thursdays for an anarcho-socialist viewpoint on everything from climate to imperialism and the new Jim Crow.  Press**Watch is now approaching its 30th year broadcasting on KBOO!

 

 

 

 

 

 

--By the way!  If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, ripping off the title "PressWatch" and the byline "News You're Not Supposed To Know" must be like a big sloppy and totally unwelcome kiss.  Get your own titles and bylines, folks, so that no one confuses your sloppy conformist crap with my sloppy anarcho-socialist crap.  Keep crap separated, I say.  

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Global Affairs, Government/Politics, Media, Activism, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, LGBTQ, War/Peace
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Presswatch on 01/17/19

Airs at: Thu, 01/17/2019 at 9:00am - 9:30am
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Presswatch on 01/10/19: Green New Deal

Airs at: Thu, 01/10/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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I am a White US American: I have a house and a bank account.  I am old, I live on pensions. In the morning, I get up rested, bathe and dress, and get in a generation-old car to take my spouse to work. Dear gods, I’m lucky. I got my pensions from Whiteness.  Let me explai... Read more

Presswatch on 01/03/19

Airs at: Thu, 01/03/2019 at 9:00am - 9:30am
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Press**Watch: Abolish Capitalism

Airs at: Thu, 12/27/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Let's talk among ourselves as revolutionaries.   Here are some talking points:   To abolish our systems of oppression, to build a better world, we must first be able to imagine destroying the system we live in, and we must be in the process of developing the vision of wh... Read more

Presswatch on 12/20/18

Airs at: Thu, 12/20/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
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The End of Policing

Airs at: Thu, 12/13/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Join Theresa Mitchell's weekly look at the news you're not supposed to know and her conversation with Professor Alex S. Vitale.  They'll discuss his book THE END OF POLICING How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative: Recent years have seen an exp... Read more

Press**Watch: The Holy Corpse of Bush the Elder

Airs at: Thu, 12/06/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
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When a US President dies, the corporate press (and the corporate-dependent press) move as one to use the event to reinforce the Official Myth:  We are a decent people, and our leaders are decent people.  Look, there's one of them handing some candy to another.  There may ha... Read more

Presswatch on 11/29/18

Airs at: Thu, 11/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Presswatch on 11/22/18

Airs at: Thu, 11/22/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Press**Watch: Fascism accelerates

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
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The demagogue in Chief is not cornered, but he can hear the hounds baying in distance. Now he prepares his defense.  The best defense is a good offense, so he attacks his enemies--POC, Muslims, Judaism, transgender Americans--and we hear words of disparagement against Irani... Read more