An important and highly listenable exploration of the meaning of "terrorism" and the many aspects of life affected by terrorist behavior. The exploration reveals remarkable similarities in the acts and goals of Al Qaeda, The US government, the Fortune 500, and others.
Topics woven together in Part 2 include torture, gang behavior, macho sports, media bias and propaganda, multinational "trade" agreements, the US war against Afghanistan, and control of the world's oil supply. (Continued ...)
The backbone of the program is a brilliant talk professor John McMurtry gave just after 9/11 (2001). Interspersed with this are excerpts from talks by several other speakers that complement or illustrate McMurtrys points.
Robin Upton, current producer of Unwelcome Guests, assembled this collage from material broadcast over that shows 19-year history. The result is impressive, insightful, .. and also great listening.
Afterword by KD.
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "imprimatur") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
http://unwelcomeguests.net
You can download this program--in MP3 and other formats--also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/nwn609terrorthreat2192k
More details, photos, links, an archive of past shows, and other good stuff are at the show's web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.
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