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Yukiyo Kawano's threads of witness

Airs at: Fri, 02/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  What does it mean to make sense of the most horrific use of weapons of mass destruction on a civilian population, and how that effects us as human beings, much less if that specifically impacts our family tree?  For Yukiyo Kawano, this means letting ancestors interfere w... Read more

003 Nuclear Weapons and the Campaign to Abolish Them

Airs at: Mon, 02/04/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am
Produced for:  Prescription for Justice
  This episode begins with brief history of the instruments of war leading up to a discussion of the health and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons. Our guest Chuck Johnson, Nuclear Power Program Director at Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), will... Read more

A Decade of Failure

Airs at: Sun, 02/03/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs will soon hold its 62 annual session. The CND meets from March 18 through 22 in Vienna, Austria. This year should be a milestone. In 2009, member nations agreed to a political declaration with targets in drug related indicators to be reached... Read more

Presswatch on 01/24/19

Airs at: Thu, 01/24/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
On today's show, unfortunately I must begin with war warnings regarding Syria and Venezuela; I will talk briefly about the situation in Caracas today, and then I will be welcoming Strike Debt Portland to the airwaves.  Reverend Sandra Decker and others will be in the studio... Read more

Ngaio Bealum

Airs at: Sun, 01/27/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies, I'm joined by Ngaio Bealum as we discuss marijuana in California and his new YouTube show; we hear from UNODC's Angela Me as she addresses the Commission on Narcotic Drugs; and we hear the results from the 2018 Monitoring the Future Survey of y... Read more

B(A)DNews #19, January 2019

Airs at: Mon, 01/14/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 01/18/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
from A-Radio Network B(A)DNews #19 Welcome to the 19th edition of B(A)D news: angry voices from around the world a commonly produced monthly show of the anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio network, on this occasion composed by Črna Luknja, anarchist show on Radio Stude... Read more

Green New Deal: a Green Party vision

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Howie Hawkins, New York gubinatorial candidate for the Green party, about the renewed political agitation for a Green New Deal within and without the party. Read more

White Supremacy and Capitalism: twin evils

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared the trifecta of racism, militarism and capitalism as the great problem facing humanity. Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge considers two of those, capitalism and racism, and how as dominant power structures they came to be through each other Read more

Covert British Military-Smear Machine Moving into US

Airs at: Thu, 01/17/2019 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
from CONSORTIUMNEWS.COM: After mobilizing a disinformation campaign across Europe, documents show that the Integrity Initiative is now infiltrating the U.S., report Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames. A bombshell domestic spy scandal has been unfolding in Britain, after hacked ... Read more

Guantanamo; 17 Years and Still Open...ANDY WORTHINGTON

Airs at: Thu, 01/17/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Join guest host Linda Olson-Osterlund and Andy Worthington , journalist, film maker and author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison . Worthington is in the U.S. to join others protesting the 17th Anniversary on January 11t... Read more