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RALPH NADER! Citizen Action: It's Easier than We Think, Pt 2

Airs at: Tue, 09/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Overcoming adversity alone is a tough road to hoe but when you act with others it’s not as difficult. There is nothing like solidarity. There’s unity and strength in numbers. Most movements have very modest beginnings. Take women’s rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a ha... Read more

APA Compass Returns!

Airs at: Fri, 09/07/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
2018 marks 13 years of public affairs programming at KBOO for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, between the last three years of both Pacific Underground and the equally fantastic Intersections Radio, and the ten (!) years that APA Compass was on the air (2005-2015). To ... Read more

9/11 Truth Education is Good for Your Mental Health

Airs at: Fri, 09/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
  David Fura likes street fairs. It gives him an opportunity to talk with people about what happened on September 11th, 2001 and why what happened matters 17 years later. David is the founder of the Oregon 9/11 Truth Action Project, part of the larger 9/11 Truth Action Pro... Read more

Norman Finkelstein on KBOO

Airs at: Thu, 09/06/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Finkelstein on Corbyn-Mania THE CHIMERA OF BRITISH ANTI-SEMITISM, AND HOW NOT TO FIGHT IT IF IT WERE REAL By Norman G. Finkelstein*  The current hysteria engulfing the British Labour Party resolves itself into a pair of interrelated, if discrete, premises: Anti-Semitism... Read more

9/11 Unmasked: A Conversation with Elizabeth Woodworth and Graeme MacQueen about the 9/11 Consensus Panel

Airs at: Tue, 09/04/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  This is the first of a four-part series on the new book released by the 9/11 Consensus Panel, 9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation. 9/11 Unmasked is the result of a six-year investigation by an international review panel, which has provided 51 poin... Read more

American Socialist

Airs at: Fri, 08/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  On our todays show we'll take a look at the growing interest in socialism around the US. First, after the stunning primary election defeat of Joe Crowley by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, we'll turn to Rene Paradis, a leader i... Read more

Press**Watch ...let's talk SOCIALISM

Airs at: Thu, 08/30/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Naturally, the program will start with news you're not supposed to know headlines--from Left and foreign sources.  And of course This Week in Whiteness!  But we get an hour to talk... Here's a quote from Lewis Bassett's piece on Socialism in Jacobin: "Seventy percent of Am... Read more

Ralph Nader: One Person Can Make A Difference

Airs at: Wed, 08/29/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  On this week's program, we hear a speech by the legedary political activist and consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader. Nader outlines some of the most critical problems facing Americans, including exorbitant military spending, out-of-control corporations, and thousands of... Read more

America: The Farewell Tour -- A Conversation with Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/28/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  In his latest book, America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges shows how the effects of America's decline and decay affects its citizenry. As America sinks further into poverty and despotism, and as corporations and the military-industrial-media complex pirate the remainin... Read more

Stopping Fascism: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
​ One dictionary defines fascism as, “A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.” The first fascist party was founded by Mussolini in Ital... Read more