Global Affairs

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How Hitler Happened: Benjamin Hett

Airs at: Tue, 11/13/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The post-WW1 Weimar Republic in Germany was the height of European civilization. Its scientists and scholars led the world. Its Bauhaus architecture was the rage. Its arts featured such luminaries as Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Thomas Mann. Yet, out of thi... Read more

Jim Belushi

Airs at: Sun, 11/11/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century: Peter Sarosi from the Rights Reporter Foundation in Hungary addresses the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, and we speak with the actor, musician and comedian Jim Belushi, proprietor of Belushi's Farm in Eagle Point, Oregon. Read more

How to go for broke as an anti-war advocate - Scott Horton interview Part 1 - Ep 27

Airs at: Fri, 11/09/2018 at 12:00pm - Thu, 11/15/2018 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
Today, Danny and I present part 1 of our sitdown with Scott Horton, host of Anti-War Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, which is also known by its podcast name, the Scott Horton Show.  Scott has hosted Anti-War Radio since 2003 and has done several thousand interviews wi... Read more

Puerto Rico's Quiet Revolution

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, it resulted in thousands of deaths and knocked out power for nearly a year. Further, the devastation worsened a debt crisis that's crippled public services for years. So residents of already-abandoned communities were not surprise... Read more

Discussing the Largest Event on Planet Earth

Airs at: Fri, 11/09/2018 at 9:00am
  Having just returned from Iraq for Arbaeen in which over 15 million people from all over the world converged on the Holy City of Karbala, John Shuck discusses his experience and the significance of the world's largest event with Iraqi refugee and Portland resident, Hanan... Read more

The Covenants of the Prophet with the Christians of the World: A Conversation with John Andrew Morrow (ENCORE)

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Why do the powers that be try to convince us that there is a “clash of cultures” or a conflict between Islam and the West or between Islam and Christianity?   To answer that, Dr. John Andrew Morrow discusses his book, The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Chris... Read more

U.S. Interventions in the Middle East: Edward Said

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The current occupant of the White House has said, “The Middle East is a troubled place. There are a lot of bad things happening in that part of the world.” Indeed. But why is it troubled place and why are bad things happening there? There is no mention of Washington’s ro... Read more

Drug Safety Testing

Airs at: Sun, 11/04/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century: award-winning journalist and NY Times bestselling author Maia Szalavitz discusses effective treatment for opioid use disorder, and we hear from Anton Luf with the Medical University of Vienna and the "Check It" service regarding new psychoactive substa... Read more

Portland Pursues Alternative to Compliance with EPA Lead Levels

Produced for:  Evening News
In Nineteen Ninety One (1991) the United States Environmental Protection Agency published the lead and copper rule, to minimize nurotoxins in water. The rule established a maximum contaminant level goal of zero for lead in drinking water. The Portland Water Bureau has neve... Read more

Welcome to the Jungle: Pepe Escobar

Airs at: Thu, 11/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Pepe Escobar writes in a Special to Consortium News: "It’s darkness at the break of (tropical) high noon. Jean Baudrillard once defined Brazil as “the chlorophyll of our planet”. And yet a land vastly associated worldwide with the soft power of creative joie de vivre ha... Read more