War/Peace

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Bill Resnick on making sense of the crisis in Ukraine

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick offers a news analysis on the political crisis in the Ukraine and its reverberation in world politics. Read more

Mark Weisbrot on Venezuela

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot about recent upheavals in Ukraine and especially in Venezuela, where the right-wing protesters lack the leverage to oust the recently elected government.   Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research in W... Read more

Radical Musicology: the politics and music of Pete Seeger

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Brad Duncan about Pete Seeger's life growing up as a "red diaper baby", his own communist politics, and vision of a liberatory praxis driven by music. This online version of their conversation contains extra material not aired live because of time con... Read more

APA Compass: Andrew Lam, author of Birds of Paradise Lost

Airs at: Fri, 02/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Award winning author and journalist Andrew Lam tells us why he cofounded New American Media, which is a coalition of thousands of ethnic media outlets.  His fiction and non-fiction writings, including "Birds of Paradise Lost", explore the interactions between the east and t... Read more

In Depth: Joe Meyer Interviews Tung Yin On the One Year Anniversary of the Trial of Mohamed Mohamud

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Joe Meyer speaks with Tung Yin, a professor at Lewis and Clark College, about last year's trial of Mohamed Mohamud, who was accused of plotting to bomb the Portland Christmas tree lighting celebration in Pioneer Square in 2010. Prof. Yin discusses the entrapment defe... Read more

American Psychological Association Drops Complaint Against Guantanamo "Torture Psychologist"

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The American Psychological Association has dropped a formal complaint against John Leso, a psychologist at the US's Guantanamo prison, who designed and oversaw torture techniques used against prisoners. KBOO's Jenka Soderberg spoke to Steven Reisner, a psychologist who is t... Read more

Drone Testing at Three Sites in Oregon

Airs at: Thu, 01/02/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The Federal Aviation Authority has named three sites in Oregon among the list of places to be used for testing drones. Robin Ryan speaks to Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, and Becky Strauss of the ACLU of Oregon... Read more

In Depth: Alan Wieder on Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Jenn Chavez interviews Alan Wieder, author of "Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid" about Nelson Mandela and his role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Read more

Nelson Mandela Dies

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid leader and first president of modern, democratic South Africa, died today at age 95.  Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 2, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts the show today featuring several takes on poverty in the US and an illuminating discussion of the prospects for war or peace in the Middle East.  To hear individual segments, follow these links. To hear the whole show, use the play button below.   More Old... Read more