SHOWS 226-250
SHOWS 226-250
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This week on the program, the symbiotic relationship between wealth and poverty, and the globalization of inequal;ity - we begin with Dr Michael Parenti speaking on April 8 at Hampshire College. Parenti has written more than a dozen books on the relationship between commerce and militarism, the role of the news and entertainment media in propagandizing certain ideologies, the workings of empires, ancient and modern, the role of history in obscuring or laying bare certain basic truths about the social system, and so on. Parenti is not the only social analyst to explore these issues - but he makes things plain. India has experienced what is called "economic growth" as a result of neoliberal policies..Our next speaker, noted in Indian jounalst P. Sainath will take an in depth look at India's new "prosperity" - the widening disparity between rich and poor that we are also seeing in the US. P Sainath is the author of Everybody Loves A Good Drought as well as numerous articles on globalzation and its effects. He spoke at the University of Houston on Feb 18, 2005. Featured Speakers/Commentators: Michael Parenti, P. Sainath |
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A new United Nations report predicts dire consequences over the next 50 years from the damage done to the world's natural environment by humankind. According to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment study shows how human activities are causing environmental damage on a massive scale throughout the world, and how biodiversity, the very basis for life on Earth is declining at an alarming rate. Findings in the report were based on research from more thn 1300 experts in 95 countries. Its authors stated that over the last half century, humans have polluted or overexploited two thirds of the ecological systems on which life depends, increasing the chances of unprecedented and abrupt ecological collapses. We are altering the hospitable climate of our planet, in ways that are likely to become increasingly disastrous in the very near term. This problem, and possible solutions, are the topic if the progran this week. Featured Speakers/Commentators: Lester Brown, Art Weaver Lester Brown is the president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit interdisciplinary research organization based in Washington D.C. he us the author of Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. Art Weaver is the founder and president of Renovus Energy, in Ithaca, NY, which installs renewable energy systems. Art left a career as a physicist in order to devote himself to being part of the solution. He has said, "it is my belief that only by accepting personal responsibility for our behavior do we have a chance of avoiding enormous social upheaval and ever-worsening environmental castrophes. We must, in the words of Mohandas Ghandi, be the change we wish to see."
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Seymour Hersh
on the "Chain of Command" , Mark Manning, bearing witness to
the atrocities in Fallujah, and Robert Jensen on the choice between humanity
and empire facing Americans. |
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Maura Stephens is a longtime journalist and activist who spent 19 years at Newsweek magazine. Now an independent reporter, as well as an educator and activist, she is a member of the national Iraq Speakers Bureau and editorial and policy adviser to EPIC, the Education for Peacein Iraq Center. She also works with Life for Relief and Development to bring humanitarian aid to the people of Iraq. She is known in the Ithacaarea for her work toward peace, justice, equity, media reform, electoral reform, and citizen engagement in democracy. In this presentation, taped on March 19, 2004, Stephens shared some of the information she has gathered during her research and extensive interviews with Iraqis before the invasion and during the occupation of Iraq. |
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This weekend Americans in more than 700 cities, as well as people around the world, protested the ongoing war and occupation in Iraq - grief at loved ones lost , rage at dreams destroyed and for many, a sense of futility and desperation as the Bush/Cheney administration and their congressional allies, make war on all fronts to destroy anything that wsa good about the Uniued States, transforming it into a brave new Mordor. This week on the program you
may hear something astonishing.Not one, but two acivist scholars of worlwide
reknown, one from Asia, and one from Europe, are predicting the demise
of the American empire, a collapse by what they both call its contradictions...and
not in some distant future, but soon. The cracks are opening and spreading
in the foundation of the empire. And, from within the inner circles, comes
more confirmation of the real objectives of the Iraq war, a long held
plan of conquest, that needed only September 11, 2001 to proceed.
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Dissent against the occupation of Iraq is growing within the US Military and their families. Iraq war veterans are speaking out, using words like war crimes, genocide, and imperialism. The first guest is Lou Plummer, a veteran who has a son in the military is one of the organizers of a March 19 national anti-war mobilization in Fayetteville, NC Then we hear Jimmy Massey, former Marine recruiter and Iraq combat veteran who exposes economic conscription, the methodical lies of recruiters and the casual killing of civilians by US troops in Iraq. We end with former special forces officer Stan Goff calling on the Military Community to engage in mililtant resistance against the war machine. LOCAL ANTI-WAR EVENTS IN THE FINGER LAKES IN
ITHACA: *
A March through Downtown Ithaca.
Meet at Washington Park (between Court and Buffalo Streets at Park Place
on Ithaca’s Northside) at noon. The walk will proceed past the Vigil-a-thon
and end at The Commons. The March will be divided into three parts: first,
a solemn walk with symbols of those who have died, both *"The
Human Costs of the Iraq War: What's Next? After 2 Years of U.S. Occupation"
with Maura Stephens and George Sapio, 3-5pm, First Presbyterian Church
of Ithaca, Dodd's Hall, Corner of Cayuga and Court Sts. (enter on Court
St. door). Stephens and Sapio will give a presentation based upon their
two visits to IN
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Propenents of the market economy portray it as a relationship of exchange where a seller is given a profit incentive to meet the needs of buyers, and rgar rgus system is the best way to meet human needs. But the market is not meeting human needs, either physical needs among the billions of impoverished, nor creating the society that meets the emotional needs if even the affluent. Depression is epidemic. Feminst thinkers have been gathering to challenge the fundamental paradigm of buying and selling with the gift economy. As you will hear on the program, the gift economy is what has served human society until relatively recently in human history. And the relationing of giving, rather than trading, still governs our most important social relationships. |
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A look at the hard edge of Black history: capitalism and slavery, refellions and resistance. And political prisoners up until the present day with Mama Caleba of Rootwork and Gerald Smith of Slave Revolt Radio. And we continue with another edition of Mark Twain's "Mysterious Stranger" adapted for radio by Scooter. |
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There is a war raging everywhere on this planet. It's being waged with bombs and laws and money, by corporate investors and their government allies, in order to rule the world. Some of these warriors call this state of affairs a "fight for freedom" and some of them call it a "free market." But millions and millions call it slavery and are rising up in various ways to make a different world. This week we focus on resistance, from local to global. We'll conclude with part 3 of The Corporation, and then we'll hear how rural communties can, and are successfully standing up to corporate incursions by making laws that remove corporate "rights." Also, covert ops against independent journlists? Dennis Bernstein reports...But first, our own community is making the news this week as the Feds pursue charges against Ithaca war resisters. |
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We continue with Part 2 of The Corporation, a radio adaptation of the film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan. And, Ithaca fights for a living wage at Wal-Mart, and we conclude with another episode of "The Mysterious Stranger", Mark Twain's posthumous novella on human hypocrisy, produced for radio by Scooter. |
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Now, in the most elaborate civilization in our species' existence, we are dominated by social institutions that are not only threatening these basic necessities of life, but also doing their best to suppress action to avert calamity. This week, we look at several aspects of this pathological behavior. First, we are very pleased to bring you pert one of a three part radio adaptation of the tour de force documentary, The Corporation. In part one, the corporation as psychopath. Then a report on two former Fox Televison reporters who asking the FCC to revoke FOX's broadcast license for lying to the public, and we conclude with Mark Twain's posthumously published satire on human hypocrisy, Letters from Earth, adapted for radio. |
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What does the US invasion of Iraq, the kidnapping of a popular Haitian president by US commandos and homelessness in New York City have to do with one another? Thay are part of the military-monetary system. Antonia Juhasz, Stan Goff, Frank Morales, Bonnie Faulkner |
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What does Bush mean by "democracy?" Who is the real enemy? What are "special interests?" In this 1986 talk on "The Right Turn" Chomsky explores the ongoing efforts of American elites to suppress actual democratic participation at home and abroad. This talk focusses on American foreign policy from Vietnam to the Reagan years, and from this we can be quite clear as to the actual nature of the Bush agenda, what "Liberty" will look like. |
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This week, the final episode of the Power of Nightmares: the Rise of the Politics of Fear, and then, the real story of the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King - a plot to destroy a growing popular movement orchestrated at the highest levels of government, and involving military intelligence, the FBI, organized crime and the Memphis Police Department. This is how things really work in the belly of the beast. |
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This week. we'll take another swing at the lies that maintain the politics of fear that mask the policies of empire. In the first hour, The Power of Nightmares continues, and then we'll uncover the cover-up on 9/11 with author David Ray Griffin and investigative journalist Dennis Bernstein of Flashpoints. |
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A few years ago a popular science fiction film called The Matrix portrayed a future society run by machines who keep humans in a state of suspenended animation plugged in to a matrix, a vast computer network that causes a comatose humanity to experience a collective illusion that they are living out normal lives when in fact they have been reduced to the role of batteries whose life force is taken to power the machine society. Because of ocasional glitches in the collective illusion program, some humans are able to see through the illusion and thus break free. This film has become a meaningful metaphor to many people for our current society, the most heavily propagandized in history, where government, corporations and their media outlets present us with an Orwellian deluge of lies and irrelevancies, focussing attention away from the question of how the American state actually operates and for whose benefit. We'll begin the new year by hacking away at this matrix from a variety of angles. This week, the first of a three part documentary The Power of Nightmares, (adapted for radio) about how creating fear has become the currency of political power. Then a look at developments in the investigation of election fraud in last November, and legal challenges to Bush's purported victory |
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Corporate Globalization has been made possible by information technology and is kept viable by cheap oil and repressive regimes that maintan a desperate population whose working conditions are little better than outright slavery. As critics predicted a decade ago, the disparity between righ and poor is increasing in every nation. Mutinational corporations are positioning themselves to deal with this reality by merging, in order focus on serving the smaller pool of affluent customers. Some economists say that only one sixth of the planet's population as a customer base is needed to maintain corporate profitability, thus the others provide the labor and resources but benefit little or not all. Enter the phenomen of Oil Peak - the situation where global oil resources have reached their halfway point of depletion, and thus have become harder and more costly to extract, unable to either keep up with a rising demand, thus resulting in sharply higher prices that makes the shuttling of goods and services thousands of miles no longer so cost effective. This results in higher prices for energy and thus for goods while wages remain stagnant, and the currency weakens, causing the costs of imports to rise. Most locales no longer produce the basic commodities they need, leaving them at the mercy of multinational corporations and global economic forces. This week on the program, two approaches to economic relocaliztion with Julian Darley and Catherine Austin Fitts. |
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Our present way of life in America is not sustainable. The question is whether we can make a transition to a graceful and sustainable future society, or descend into energy warlordism. Conservation, limits to growth and consumption and the transition to renewable energy and organic agriculture are some of the necessary approaches to the peak oil discussion. This week on the program we'll the look at the role that our social relations can play in meeting these future challenges - the development of community values and cooperative practices as a tool for living well in a world of scarce resources. In the first hour of the program, fostering resource conservation through cooperation via intentional communities. In our second hour, how the people of Cuba deindustrialized in the face of sudden politically induced energy scarcity. Both of the presentations we'll hear tonight were recorded at the first US conference on peak oil and community solutions that was held in November 2004 in Yellow Springs, Ohio |
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Featured Speakers/Commentators: Wayne Madsen, Clint Curtis, James Galbraith, Naomi Kline Computer programmer comes forward to tell how a Republican Congresman comissioned him to rig the vote, the irony of the Ukraine and the open season on Iraq's assets |
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This week we continue our series of presentations from the first national conference on peak oil and community solutions held last month in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the previous weeks' programs, speakers have explained how modern industrial society has been made possible by cheap and plentiful fossil fuel energy, which from this point on will be increasingly expensive and scarce, and how this is likely to impact an economic system which is based on the false assumptions of unlimited natural resources and endless growth. And we have heard how our population, techonolgies, and expectations of bigger and better, are on a collision course with the finite resources of this planet. In this episode we'll focus on sustainable agriculture in the context of sustainable human culture, and examine our assumptions about progress, technology, and social relations in light of our ecological reality. We'll begin with a presentation from the conference on Permaculture, a design system that many believe is the perfect tool for transition to the energy descent society |
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The US political and corporate establishment began to address issues of oil scarcity as far back as the mid 20th century, and at every opportunity since then, chose the path of increasing consumption backed by overt militarism and covert neocolonial strategies involving the establishment of dictatorial puppet regimes ready to guard US access to oil, a patterm that continues in the latest round of resource wars in the middle east. In the first hour of the program, the geopolitics of oil, with Pat Murphy, in the second hour we address the possibilites of home grown energy in the form of ethanol with permaculturist David Blume. |
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Last week, 200 participants and presenters from accross the country gathered in Yellow Springs, Ohio for the first US conference on peak oil and community solutions. The focus of the conference was organizing, learning, teaching and implementing the social and technological changes needed to make the transition to a sustainable low energy society, and to take this initiative at the grassroots level, especially necessary because our so-called leaders are not realistically or humanely addressing this impending crisis. This week, the opening plenary session, as ecologist and author Richard Heinberg lays out the issues involved with Oil Peak and responses to it. The conference was organized by Community Service, a group based in Yellow Springs, Ohio, founded in 1949 by Arthur Morgan as an educational institution focused on the ideas and practices of small community and which has been a pioneer in the intentional community and cohousing movements. And to finish off the show, the suppressed history of a planned fascist coup in America. |
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We are in a fix, caught between a hammer of ecological and economic meltdown and a well organized group of Christian fascists and their neocon allies determined to impose biblical rule in America while making war on the world for its remaining resources. First on the program, American historian and man of letters, Gore Vidal, on the recent election and the theocratic assault on the American state. Then we turn to the other juggernaut on our horizon, the collapse of industrial civilation as a result of energy depletion and the choices we face, as explained by ecologist Richard Heinberg in his recent book Powerdown: options and actions for a post carbon world. |
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Updates on 9-11, government covers up its possession WTC jetliners' flight recorders, citizens file unprecedented complaint demanding criminal investigation by New York Attorney General into 9/11, and frank talk about war and atrocities from those who've been there. Featured Speakers: Chris Hedges, Dennis Stout, Jim Brown, Christopher Meyers, Steven Sherrill. |
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This week on the program we'll focus on how the corporate media system is undermining the conditions necessary for democratic governemce, and we'll hear frank talk from two public officials who have joined forces with, scholars, journalists and citizens in the media democracy movement to do something about it. We'll begin with a forum on media consolidation that took place last week at Ithaca College. Among the particpants were dissident FCC commissioner Michael Copps and Ithaca's member of Congress Maurice Hinchey who has introduced a bill that if passed would take steps to diversify media ownership and reinstitute the fairness doctrine. Then an interview with John Buchanan, author of Fixing America: Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media and the Religious Right. |
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#250 - Sun.4/17/05