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David Korten: Toward an Ecological Civilization

Airs at: Tue, 04/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Will Rogers, a famous U.S. humorist once said, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Good advice. Wish that it were heeded when it comes to climate change. Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, says, “there's tremendous disagreement” ab... Read more

Hot Off The Press...

Airs at: Sat, 04/15/2017 at 1:15pm - Sun, 04/23/2017 at 1:15pm
Produced for This Is How We See It
Session's DOJ could possibly roll back Obama era agreements with local law enforcement agencies.  Should parents be notified of children's birth control decisions?  Momma June's weight loss surgery.  Tune in as we discuss these topics and more.    Read more

Long Live the Czar

Airs at: Sun, 04/16/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week we take a look at the likely next Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (the "Drug Czar"), US Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA). Read more

Group Opposing Lincoln County Spray Ban Gets Help from Dow Chemical

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for Evening News
A ballot measure in Lincoln County would ban the aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides. The last few years have seen a number of local and statewide agriculture reform measures face overwhelming industry opposition--for example the 2014 GMO bans in Jackson and Josep... Read more

Trump's Syria Missile Strike: Symbolic Show of Force or Prelude to Wider U.S. War?

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Radiozine
  "Let's not forget that serious questions were happening in the media as well as serious congressional oversight and investigation in the possibility of the Trump campaign being in cahoots with Russia." On April 6, President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to a... Read more

The Ada Decades

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Radiozine
  On this edition of Radiozine Dan Johnson talks to author Paula Martinac about her novel The Ada Decades. A girl from a Carolina mill family isn't supposed to strive for a career, but Ada Shook graduates from college on a scholarship and lands a plum job as a school libr... Read more

The Digital Divide for April 2017 - Julian Assange & the Vault 7 CIA Security Leak

Airs at: Fri, 04/14/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for The Digital Divide
Host Rabia Yeaman presents Julian Assange Press Conference On The CIA Vault 7 Release This is the YouTube video of the Julian Assange press conference on March 7, 2017. https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/index.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/index.html "The CIA's Engin... Read more

Episode 232: Spooky Electric, A Late-Night Prince Retrospective

Airs at: Sun, 04/16/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Back To The Egg
Prince Rogers Nelson left us on April 21, 2016. As we come up on the one-year anniversary of his death, let's celebrate his recorded output in a late-night fashion. Tune in Saturday May 7th beginning at 11:59:59pm for a 3 hour stroll through the darker side of Prince's ba... Read more

Getting to the root, cutting the weeds... and continuing to grow.

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
The inundation of increasingly compact technology is said to 'free us up' from being tied to one place, enabling us to create larger (global) communities, based on our interests and ideologies.  What we have seen though, is that this has led to the marketing and perpetuatio... Read more

Portland's Urban Native Americans

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
  Christine Dupres (Cowlitz/Cree), Ph.D. is a writer, teacher, and Native leader. She is the author of Being Cowlitz: How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity (University of Washington Press). She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of O... Read more