Global Affairs

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Nakba Day

Airs at: Wed, 05/15/2024 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
  Here at KBOO, we are acknowledging Nakba Day. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians that occurred during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, known as the "Nakba", or "Catastrophe". The anniversary puts the spotlight on one of the world’s... Read more

WRR: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel recommends the work of Kelly Hayes, and shares excerpts from her post "From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty"  at her newsletter Organizing My Thoughts.  You can also find her work on the Movement Memos podcast a... Read more

WRR: Hereness Against End Times Fascism

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel recommends, summarizes, and reads excerpts from the essay "The Rise of End Times Fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, published in April in The Guardian. See also Margaret Killjoy, Live Like the World is Dying and Birds Before the Storm Let’s Learn ... Read more

European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs

Airs at: Wed, 07/16/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
On this edition of Century of Lies: European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs, ESPAD for short, is the world's largest cross-national research project on adolescent substance use and other ri... Read more

World Drug Report 2025

Airs at: Wed, 07/16/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: World Drug Report 2025. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released the 2025 edition of its annual World Drug Report on June 26. Whether or not one regards the World Drug Report as a compendium of selected statistics and ... Read more

Building the World We Believe In

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on June 2, 2025 In these disturbing times as we watch democracy crumble and wonder whom the oligarchs will go after next, how do we ground ourselves in the work we need to keep doing? First they come for the immigrants, then international ... Read more

Arctic Passages

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on May 12, 2025 While many of us are worrying about how the melting polar ice caps are a warning of climate catastrophes ahead, for others melting ice is turning historical dreams of a navigable Arctic into reality and reshaping rivalries ... Read more

Global Citizen International Digest with Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Thu, 07/10/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In this episode: the war in Ukraine--Russian air strikes and Trump's upset with Putin; Netanyahu's visit to Washington; Trump resume the tariff war; and more. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 14, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Marxism and Degrowth: Joe Clement talks with local activist and anarchist scholar, Paul Messersmith-Glavin about degrowth broadly and particularly in the work of Japanese Mar... Read more

Palestine, ICE and Resistance

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On July 7th, a federal judge in Boston began hearing arguments by several academic associations in a trial that will be decided by the judge. Lawyers in the case argue that the Trump administration abused its power in arresting and pursuing deportations of pro-Palestinia... Read more