Global Affairs

2030: The End of U.S. Empire

Airs at: Tue, 12/05/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

It’s most likely historians will mark the War on Terror, declared by George W. Bush in 2001, as when the U.S. went into precipitous decline. The rapid military expansion into multiple countries was classic imperial overreach. The era of the U.S. as the sole superpower is... Read more

Donna Brazile: Hacks

Airs at: Thu, 11/30/2017 at 10:00am - 10:15am

Produced for: Air Cascadia

Former head of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile joins Chris Andrae on KBOO to discuss her new book Hacks. In the fallout of the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee--and as chaos threatened to consume the party's convention--Democrats tu... Read more

'Whose Future? Our Future!'

Airs at: Tue, 11/28/2017 at 10:00am - Wed, 11/29/2017 at 10:15am

Produced for: Air Cascadia

Is Planet Earth on Death Row? Donald Trump’s America Inc.' is fueling Climate Change at a fast and furious pace. There is no such thing as 'Enough' until there really is nosuch thing as enough. Twinty-one plaintiffs, ages 9 to 20, in Juliana v. United States, filed their c... Read more

The People's Summit

Airs at: Wed, 11/29/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Over the weekend of June 9, 2017, over 4,000 activists gathered in Chicago for the People's Summit. Organizers described the Summit as a convening of organizations and individuals committed to social, racial and economic justice. Those who attended pushed forth a people'... Read more

War or Peace in Korea: Eric Sirotkin

Airs at: Tue, 11/28/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. What can you say? They are lightweights fighting in the heavyweight division while the fate of possibly millions are at risk. Two heads of state trading taunts and insults back and forth like kids in a schoolyard. Trump declared that talking... Read more

Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium: Winona LaDuke

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Special Programming: Public Affairs

In her 1998 Mario Savio Free Speech lecture, "Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium," LaDuke explores the conflict between indigenous people who live on the land and urbanized industrial society - that is, cyclical versus linear ideas of the world, and their results. ... Read more

Deportations, Ice raids, DACA & Oregon's Drivers Licencing

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Andrea Williams, the Executive Director of Causa....Oregon's Immigrant Rights Organization founded in 1995 by farmworkers, Latinos, immigrants, and allies in order to defeat ballot measures that would have negatively impacted the lives of L... Read more

JFK Assassination & the Gangster State: Michael Parenti

Airs at: Tue, 11/21/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The murder of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 is the most discussed, scrutinized and written about assassination in history. The official narrative is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Dallas and that there was "no evidence of any conspiracy, domestic ... Read more

Indian Women Biker Rebels

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Ruban Lawrence interviews Leena Biswas in India. She is part of a growing movement of women in India who are taking to two wheels in order to take their fair share of space. from the Times of India: "Leena Biswas, a doctor and also a resident of Delhi came for the bike... Read more

The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Intersections Radio

Sarika Mehta talks to author Alia Malek about her memoir The Home That Was Our Country...about Syria's history and contemporary politics through stories of her own family from the NYT: "Alia Malek’s memoir, “The Home That Was Our Country,” is one of the finest examples... Read more