War/Peace

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Wars, wars, and more wars... How many do we need at once?

Airs at: Tue, 10/13/2009 at 12:00am
 The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe UrisToday's topic, besides the KBOO Pledge Drive, is all about the multitude of wars we are currently involved in.  This very day, we're fighting and bombing 3 different countries, one of which owns Nuclear Weap... Read more

Dahr Jamail and The Will To Resist

Airs at: Mon, 10/12/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Monday Morning RadioZine Hosted by Jay Thiemeyer Today's guest is Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond The Green Zone, and they talk about his latest book, The Will To Resist.  Read more

Author Tracy Kidder: "Strength in What Remains, A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness"

Airs at: Thu, 10/08/2009 at 12:00am
Marianne Barisonek speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder about his latest  nonfiction work: Strength in What Remains, A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness.  The book is about a young medical student named Deo who escaped genocidal civil war in Burundi i... Read more

Press**Watch: factory farmed minds

 Capitalism is the idea that human rights may be discarded by those who have funds to initiate economic activity.  It is not the same as economic activity itself, and indeed capitalism often inhibits economic activity, as when persons involved in useful work are paid a wage... Read more

Press**Watch: Iran's oil

Dedicated to the 120-400 people who will die today from the health denial industry… This is PressWatch…. A special request for members:  call in with a $40 KBOO economic stimulus if you’re already a sustaining member, take your option for a pledge premium for your total ple... Read more

The Cost of the Military Machine, Portland Police Taken to Task, and Problems with Changing the Status Quo.

Airs at: Tue, 09/29/2009 at 12:00am
 The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show  Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris  Abe wasn't here today, so Joe led the show thru 3 topics:      The extreme costs of maintaining the Military Industrial Complex      Portland Police recently paid $175,000 for Excessive Force in a police b... Read more

States Rights, The Federal Government, and the Obama Administration

Airs at: Tue, 09/22/2009 at 12:00am
 The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe UrisToday's topic is States' Rights, and how they relate to both the Federal Government and the Obama Administration.  Read more

September 21 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 This program is hosted by Clayton Morgareidge (pictured here) and deals with several areas of popular resistance to domination -- in political uprisings around the world, in courtrooms demanding restitution for medical errors, in demands for healthcare for immigrants,  and... Read more

Militarizing US

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Military recruiters invading the lives of high school students; the glorification of war on our movie screens -- Clayton Morgareidge reviews some of the ways war is being given a safer image,  drawing on articles by Danny Weil in CounterPunch, David Goodman in Mother Jone... Read more

Sarcasm versus war

A serf is a feudal subject, as you know, not quite a slave but imprisoned in a system of exploitation.  Land owners also owned the labor of the people living on the land, so if you were a serf, you had to work at certain times of the year to get in the Master's crops, and y... Read more