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Presswatch on March 1st, 2018

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for Presswatch
Today we'll be looking at some of the great accomplishments of US society, like infecting beetles with anthrax so that Korean kids will play with them, creating double-headed kids in Iraq with depleted uranium, wiping out whole families with Hotchkiss guns, and aerosol chee... Read more

Inside Armenia: Anna Shahnazaryan

Airs at: Tue, 03/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Land-locked Armenia has had a long history but as a nation state it is rather new. Armenia declared its independence from the USSR in 1991. Left with a legacy of 70 years of Soviet rule, corruption is rampant. The adoption of neoliberalism by elites, as in other countrie... Read more

Who Let Dr. Strangelove Write the Nuclear Posture Review?

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
In 2016 while on the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump alarmed leaders throughout the world when he said during a Town Hall, that there are several scenarios in which nuclear weapons should be employed by the U.S., including against ISIS. "Somebody hits us within ... Read more

Per v. Graham

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Fight the Empire
  Per dives back in to the seemingly endless Russia-gate plus he recounts his run in with the late Billy Graham. Read more

Meltdown in the Arctic: Humanity Beware?

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
  What happens in the Arctic has an out-sized impact on the overall global climate. And right now, it's looking very, very bad.  December of last year was the warmest on record in  the Arctic, and 2018 has already set a string of records for lowest levels of Arctic sea ice... Read more

GREEN JOBS & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
Camilo Marquez, representing the Portland Climate Action Community Benefits Initiative, will discuss this local GREEN JOBS 2018 ballot initiative which trains and employs workers from marginalized communities to weatherize and solarize homes and businesses, funded by a surc... Read more

The End of Policing

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Radiozine
  Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. Vitales book The End of Policing, is an accessible study of police history as an imperial tool for social control that continues to exacerbate class and ... Read more

KBOO News Poem: Trump Shoes

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for Evening News
    A gaudy threat hangs over the Washington DC of our souls--KBOO News Poet Dan Raphael is on the scene. Read more

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  Today we spend the hour with historian, author and activist Gerald Horne and his new critically praised book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. Headlines on... Read more

The Global Rise of Authoritarian Parties

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Tom Pepinski on the global rise of authoritarianism. Tom Pepinski is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at Cornell University. He is a co-author of the recent article: Trumpism and American Democracy: History, Comparison, and the Pre... Read more