Script/Transcript for program: 517 - Dirty Dealings in Media, Foreign Policy, Economics and more

FEBRUARY 21, 2015 – MW517 Welcome to Making Waves: Independent Voices for Peace & Justice, your local connection to the world produced on WSCA LP 106.1FM Portsmouth Community Radio! This is Amy Antonucci and I am happy to introduce our show to you today, February 21, 2015. Here’s what we have coming up for you: we begin with News You Need to Know uncovering US Covert Action in Ukraine. Then Between the Lines inteviews Matthew Hoh about the President's Push for Congressional War Authorization. We hear from Mumia Abu-Jamal about the beginnings of ISIS and related groups. Another Between the Lines interview tells us about Leaked Documents Revealing HSBC Bank's Dirty Dealings. Jim Hightower has some things to say about corporate crimes. Outside The Box with Larry Dansinger questions Protect and Serve. We’ll also have music and more, so stay with us. First for some news… -News You Need to Know: US Covert Action in Ukraine –10 min SONG: Special Delilvery – MC Frontalot SONG: Dignity – New Politics -Between the Lines interview: Center for International Policy's Matthew Hoh: The Failure of Military Solutions Haunts President's Push for Congressional War Authorization -Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary: Frankenstein's Monster, 2-15-2014 SONG: Phony Hat – Owen Plant 28:00mins-32:00mins: SONG: Golden Seal – Glen Velez (28 min) --- Musical Break --- LIVE: Announcements – 5 minutes -Between the Lines interview: Columbia University s Center for Sustainable International Investment Senior Fellow James S. Henry: Leaked Documents Reveal HSBC Bank's Dirty Dealings with Tax Dodgers, Drug Traffickers and Arms Dealers -Jim Hightower Commentary: Corporate crime supported by a whirligig of legal favoritism 2-25-15 -Jim Hightower Commentary: Turning human misery into corporate profits 2-23-15 SONG: Ways of the Gangsters – Jolly Bankers “And now for Outside the Box, brought to us by social justice activist Larry Dansinger with Resources for Organizing and Social Change and WERU in Blue Hill Maine." -Outside The Box with Larry Dansinger: Protect and Serve? "Thanks to our friend and Maine activist Larry Dansinger with Resources for Organizing and Social Change and WERU in Blue Hill Maine for that episode of Outside the Box.” www.resourcesforsocialchange.org/ SONG: His Hands Were in the Air – David Rovics Ending: Thanks for listening to Making Waves: Independent Voices for Peace and Justice! The Making Waves crew is: Amy Antonucci, Steve Capron, Steve Diamond, Jo Ann Paradis, & Damon Thomas. We welcome – and need! - your participation, too! Please email nhmakingwaves@yahoo.com to get involved! Our theme music is by NH women’s drum group, Tabbalat, and our ending music is Avalon by Amethystium. You can live stream our show on Saturdays 12-1 if you are not in range of the station by going to wscafm.org. Remember that WSCA is growing and hoping for your membership and your participation! Go to wscafm.org to join and learn more. Ongoing technical improvements for Making Waves need your support. Go to our website to find out how: nhmakingwaves.org Tune in next Saturday from 12-1 for our next Making Waves program. We leave you with this quote: “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.” -Martin Luther King Jr.