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Backbone Campaign: Organize to oppose tar sands pipeline

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg speaks with Bill Moyer and Jay Marx of the Backbone Campaign about their organizing efforts to oppose the tar sands pipeline from Alberta Canada to the Gulf Coast. Read more

Fukushima--what are we all breathing now? And 9/11--what really happened?

Airs at: Thu, 09/08/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
September 8, 2011 Presswatch: Theresa Mitchell with the news you're not supposed to know.  Heated oceans -- largest migration of marine species in 2 million years.  Update on the atmospheric radiactive strontium and cesium from Fukushima. Reflections on 9/11 and what really... Read more

September 14, 2011 - Evening News

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Tonight's top headlines:   A rally is scheduled this friday for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose execution date has been set for September twenty-first.   The City of Portland will enact a Fair Housing action plan based on the recent housing discrimination study.   The str... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 12th

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:   Bill Resnick speaks with John Farrell about decentralized energy production. Clayton Morgareidge reads Doug Hendwood's essay "Headless Chickens" Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review "On The Waterfront". ... Read more

Left Business Observer: Headless Chickens

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2011 at 12:00am
Clayton Morgariedge reads "Headless Chickens"  by Doug Henwood published through the Left Business Observer, which suggests that a kind of decadence or stupidity has infected the ruling-class so they fail to consider their own long-term interests, let alone everyone else's.   Read more

Labor Day Special: Participatory Economics

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2011 at 12:00am
  Robin Hahnel, Professor of Economics at Portland State University and a visiting professor at Lewis & Clark College, speaks on "Participatory Economics." Hahnel is a radical economist and political activist. Politically he considers himself a proud product of the New Left... Read more

The Shock Decade: Abe and Joe look at the 10 years of post-Sept. 11 chaos and exploitation.

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris The Shock Doctrine: Author Naomi Klein's explanation of capitalism's use of disasters -- and the numb shock that accompanies them -- to carry out radical "free market" revisions. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Guantanamo to the PATRIOT Ac... Read more

Political Perspectives on 09/07/11

Airs at: Wed, 09/07/2011 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
"Unless you change how money works, you change nothing. We live in an infinite growth economy, in other words -- a ponzi scheme. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. Those species who cannot get out of their paradigm are doomed to go extinct. Can we disengage... Read more

Would you be content with just $10 million? How about a wealth cap!

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
 Theresa Mitchell with the news you're not supposed to know takes a deeper look at the nuclear crisis at Fukishima. Radioactive steam from cracks under the ground are suggesting major earthquake damage. The molten core is still fissioning--getting hotter--suggesting a "Chin... Read more

The S&P Downgrade--insider trading? Who benefits?

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2011 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
 "Titanic Battle or Insider Trading? The S&P Downgrade and the Bilderbergers: All Part of the Plan?" Host Per Fagereng interviews Ellen Brown, author of "Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth about Our Money System and How We Can Break Free (Revised and Updated)" about her recen... Read more