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#407 -- Comic Satire for Christmas (R)
Dec. 17, 2015, 8:34 p.m.
Some brief commentary by me, five satiric songs, and an imitation Broadway "big production number." All take a comic but critical view of American hypocrisies, religiosity, commercialism, militarism, class warfare, and other Christmastime traditions. See "Notes" for playlist.
UpFront Soul #2015.50 - Hour 2- December 21-27, 2015
Dec. 17, 2015, 6:04 p.m.
It's a very soulful Christmas! We'll hear holiday favorites from Louis Armstrong and James Brown, plus new soulful songs of the season from Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Kermit Ruffins. We're stuffing your stocking with funk, soul, & jazz this year!
UpFront Soul #2015.50 - Hour 1- December 21-27, 2015
Dec. 17, 2015, 5:43 p.m.
It's a very soulful Christmas! We'll hear holiday favorites from Louis Armstrong and James Brown, plus new soulful songs of the season from Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Kermit Ruffins. We're stuffing your stocking with funk, soul, & jazz this year!
The Shortwave Report 12/18/15 Listen Globally!
Dec. 17, 2015, 5:41 p.m.
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Sputnik Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK World Radio Japan, and China Radio International.
Bashar Al-Assad Has More Popular Support than the Western-Backed "Opposition" Polls Show
Dec. 17, 2015, 4:29 p.m.
Stephen Gowans refers to 2015 ORB International poll. ORB is a research firm that works with US and British governments. This poll shows that President Assad and Iran have a majority support as a positive influence in Syria. Another ORB poll, May 2014, found that the sum of support for the opposition forces, 31%, was less than the total support for Assad and his government showing Assad best represented their interests and aspirations.
The Western Powers cannot allow for Assad to be seen as a credible and legitimate leader. So, the mainstream (and much of the "progressive") media ignore the polls that contradict their attacks against Assad.
Gowans clearly points to the reality: The US foreign policy with respect to the Mid-East must foster divisions and disunity. The last thing they want is a coalescence of some single powerful Arab Union that is strong enough to take control of its resources and markets and destiny.
Burundi: Terrorists Kill Police and Military --These Are Not Civilian Uprisings
Dec. 17, 2015, 4:22 p.m.
Phil Taylor set the background for the interview with Mr. Le Beni Tazira: There was an attempted coup in May, and this last weekend uniformed people with trucks struck at three military posts in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi. For some reason, the Canadian government and the US government decided immediately that the elected president of the country is the problem and not the terrorists. The terrorists attacked three military posts, resulting in numerous deaths. Ottawa and NY are tallying up the body count and attributing it to the army. They are trying to make it appear the dead are all civilians. If you carry out a coordinated military attack on three separate military posts, you are not civilians. If you get shot in the process, you are the first one who is not surprised. We don't need that kind of bunk coming from Ottawa but that is what is going to happen. Mr. Tazira is Burundian American, and he knows the background.
Le Beni Tazira provides an historical account of President Pierre Nkuruniza from being a professor to a becoming a popular rebel leader and the popular socialist thinking and democratically elected President of Burundi.
Syrian Army Scores Major Successes on the Ground with Russian Air Support
Dec. 17, 2015, 4:16 p.m.
While Syria wins major victories, the West remains silent but slips their officials into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for royal meeting about what to do with Syria. esp. President Bashar al Assad.
Steven Sahouni, defying the Western press silence, describes the huge Syrian military victories, esp. in the major city of Homs, where over 2000 of the terrorist militants surrendered to the Syrian Army and which is now 100 percent under Syrian government control. Homs is a strategic area, splitting Syria between north and south and providing a road for trucks from the port to the capital.
Sahouni reports on other victories in Al Arish, Douma, East Gouta, borders with Turkey.
Dec. 17, 2015, 2:41 p.m.
Global A Go-Go's three-week look at the best world music recordings of 2015; this week, the best compilations, reissues and historic recordings of the year
Dec. 17, 2015, 12:37 p.m.
You Can't Shine If You Don't Burn
Dec. 17, 2015, 8:19 a.m.
sunriseoceanbender.com
Dec. 17, 2015, 7:40 a.m.
This week we begin an audio adaption of the best film that will ever be made on Operation Gladio, Allan Francovich's famous 1992 expose. To introduce it, a 90 minute talk from Lance deHaven-Smith on State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) - a term which he thinks we should start using as a prelude to prosecuting those responsible.
Dec. 17, 2015, 6:11 a.m.
Switzerland In Sound December 17 2015
Dec. 17, 2015, 5:58 a.m.
Dec. 17, 2015, 5:35 a.m.
Sounds Irish is a weekly program coming straight from County Wicklow in Ireland, hosted by Joe Bollard, one of the elder statesmen of the Irish show band scene. Each program features a variety of Irish and Irish-related songs from many different genres, along with a healthy dose of banter from your host. Please consider adding Sounds Irish to your stations' weekly lineup of programs. All we ask is that we know where the show is being aired so that we can give mention on the program. To contact the show, it is best to send email to Joe Bollard directly at joebollard2@eircom.net
The 2-hour program is posted weekly in multiple parts for broadcasters to insert their own breaks.
La marge a CKIA 16 decembre 2015 The Cure
Dec. 17, 2015, 2:56 a.m.
Dec. 17, 2015, 2:26 a.m.
Street speaks based on his years at the Chicago Urban League and resident of Chicago. He is the former Vice President for Research and Planning and Director of Research at The Chicago Urban League (from 2000 through 2005), where he published numerous grant-funded studies including The Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Jobs and Community in Chicago, Illinois, and the Nation (October 2002) and Still Separate, Unequal: Race, Place, Policy and the State of Black Chicago (2005).
Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. Street is a regular political commentator at teleSur English and has been heard and seen in more than 70 radio and television interviews. He is the author of seven books to date: Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era(New York: Routledge, 2005); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); The Empireâs New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010); (with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Paradigm, 2011); and They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy (Paradigm, 2014)
The significance of Corbyn's Anti-war Stand
Dec. 16, 2015, 5 p.m.
International human rights and labour lawyer David Jacobs explains the manufactured controversy surrounding UK Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, which is a result of Corbyn's principled stand against British escalation of the war vs Syria.
Dec. 16, 2015, 4:53 p.m.
As the climate change talks in Paris come to an end, Back in the USSR focuses on the elephant in the room: global capitalism. All of the catastrophic effects of global warming are the result of a system based on infinite expansion and limitless accumulation and which places profit over human needs, and ultimately over human survival. Capitalism has placed the biosphere itself in jeopardy and offers no solutions to the present crisis, only massive obstacles. Climate change can only be stopped through economic planning, the rational allocation of resources based on need, and the systemic adoption of sustainable energy and technology on a vast scale that can save it. In short, socialism is the only option humanity has left. But socialism can only be implemented if capitalism and the imperialist dynamics that sustain it are overthrown. Therefore I also discuss the recent elections in Haiti and Venezuela and what they tell us about the face of imperialism today.
Dec. 16, 2015, 12:47 p.m.
Interview: Noelle Hanrahan, December 16, 2015
Dec. 16, 2015, 11:46 a.m.
Discussion of Mumia abu-Jamal's case against the Pennsylvania prison system over medical issues. Features Noelle Hanrahan of PrisonRadio.org
Dec. 16, 2015, 11:40 a.m.
The closing hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Dec. 16, 2015, 11:27 a.m.
The second hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Dec. 16, 2015, 11:14 a.m.
The third hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Dec. 16, 2015, 10:56 a.m.
The fourth hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Income Inequality: What You Can Do
Dec. 16, 2015, 10:08 a.m.
Lydia Zepeda, Prof. School of Human Ecology; Barbara Lawton, Fmr. Lt. Governor of Wisconsin; and Charlie Uphoff, Board Member of The Madison Institute.
Between the Lines for the Week Ending December 25, 2015
Dec. 16, 2015, 9:52 a.m.
Paris Summit's Carbon Reduction Agreement Not Enough to Stave off Climate Catastrophe; Local Climate Activist Prioritizes Energy Conservation Over New Natural Gas Infrastructure Climate; Amid Venezuelan Economic Crisis, Party of Hugo Chavez Loses Election and Control of Legislature
The Kelly Alexander Show December 16 2015
Dec. 16, 2015, 6:02 a.m.
COP-21 Accords and Near Term Human Extinction
Dec. 15, 2015, 10:43 p.m.
Guy McPherson discusses inevitable human extinction due to global warming with Barry Vogel
Dec. 15, 2015, 10:37 p.m.
Trial update from Shut Down A-14 protests last April 14. Josh Willis, on El Niño, what it is, and its global impact. Larry Everest, on the outrage in San Bernardino, why things like this happen, what we should be doing -- and why we should definitely not be rooting for our own rulers.
Gary Blasi talks about the great dangers, including death, facing the homeless with the coming El Niño, the worst in 100 years, and the refusal of the City of LA to mount anything serious effort in the face of it.
FCC pirate radio enforcement at lowest level since 2004 for Dec. 17, 2015
Dec. 15, 2015, 8:44 p.m.
This year, the FCC took action against the fewest pirate radio operators since 2004, with 76 percent of enforcement in New York and New Jersey.