TBR 240510 - The Rise of the Oilygarchy*

This week’s archive radio show describes the history of the formation of our current economic system — and then we reveal some career opportunities that are available to you through that economic system. Weird crazy and real. It’s time for the Thunderbolt.

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Ira Flatow— "Science Changes"

The chance to interview another interviewer is an opportunity I like to take. A chance came on September 4, 2007, when I was able to visit with Ira Flatow, the host of “Science Friday,” a part of Talk of the Nation, on NPR. We talked about some ideas and concepts he raises in his new book, “Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature.” I think that after thirty-five years as a science journalist, Ira Flatow has seen enough to know unexpected changes are in order. He refers to that at the close of the introduction to his book and writes, “After watching science do its thing for a while, you realize knowledge is really a moving target. What we know today will probably be wrong tomorrow. And science is that tool for discovery. When science tells us something, chances are that it will tell us something different a few years from now.” And that’s where Ira Flatow and I began our conversation, which was originally broadcast September 5, 2007. His website is www.iraflatow.com and the book he recommends is “The World Without Us,” by Alan Weisman.

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Episode (2024.0A.00) The Myth has Come Crashing Down, Democracy; (2024.0A.01) NOTE All Protests Intimidate; (2024.0A.02) How the 60s Protests were Legally Abolished

Class War Battlefield Podcast Episode 2024.0A.00. The Myth has Come Crashing Down, No This isn't a Democracy #Policing #Democracy #MilitaryState (COMPLETE) With Clips from Owen Jones, Democracy Now!, Guardian News, Young Turks, The Bitchuation Room, FRANCE 24 English, TRT World, Waketheherd Youtube Channel Feels like the late 60s or early 70s again, college campuses are enflamed. I want to begin across the pond (I know, what a cliché), with Rishi Sunak, and his early comments decrying the Pro-Palestinian Anti-War protests; or at least that was my intent. The comments were the catalyst for the episode’s recording but (and for longtime listeners this will be no surprise) upon hitting “record” more than just my original thoughts flowed forth from my lips. Almost lost to the modern listener, his words were telling and also a bit chilling. He instructed U.K’s Bobby-men to not only control the protests but they should police the protests. What does that mean exactly? It means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a Republicanist system. Sure, grappling with that idea is daunting but I have great news for you, previous generations have not only grappled with the idea but they’ve struggled with society and the institutions relying on your passivity, to ensure Republicanist constructs were held in check and when possible, deflated so Democracic concepts could be planted in their place. Please understand, dear reader, I do not revel in delight every time I remind you of this fact; I sometimes find myself shirking back in repulsion because I want to believe I am wrong in my assessment, but what we see now on the college campuses, mixed with what the U.K’s Prime Minister said to his Bobby’s reveals something undeniably affirming to this assertion, we don’t live in a Democracy, we live in a Republic. This is partially the theme within this episode. Class War Battlefield Podcast Episode 2024.0A.01. One Politicians Protest is Another Politicians Uncivil Act or Exercise of Democracic Right or Something Worse, Civil Unrest, NOTE All Protests Intimidate With Clips from Zeteo Youtube Channel, The American Story – U.S History Documentaries, The Rational National, Gregorjia, PBS NewsHour, Secular Talk, Democracy Now!, The Majority Report, Roland Martin Unfiltered, PBS NewsHour All Protests Intimidate! No, not cause violent destruction to human life – remember one of the rallying calls during the George Floyd Marches , “Human Life is Worth more than Property”; again, not cause violent destruction to human life, but confront power wielders, power centers and institutions of power. In confronting them, sometimes things are broken, when things are broken tempers can flair amongst those being protested against. This flaring anger can lead to a much more bitter confrontation between those who oppose the mass slaughter of Gaza (or example) and those who are fore the mass slaughter of Gaza; when this happens, intimidation can be implied by the presence of those who began the protest, though the implication would be wrong. When things aren’t broken though, intimidation can be inferred due to the Hierarchical nature of our society; this hierarchical nature has written within its codes the abuse of people according to their position to another, so long as the position held is greater than the one held by the person being abused. There is so much more to this episode then these sentences but they are the most important aspect from this episode. Like a brief discussion on how the media would prefer protesters to be from any other location on the planet than the U.S so they could simply explain away the protests as unpatriotic and subversive and what is really intimidating about these protests, that they will continue onward into the near future with no abatement, not just to protest what is happening to Gaza, but to counter or advocate for, a number of different issues most people care about. Class War Battlefield Podcast Episode 2024.0A.02. Calling these College Campus Protests Anti-Semitic is Unjustifiable, Also, How the 60s Protests were Legally Abolished With Clips from Dialogue Works Youtube Channel, Activist News Network, Valentine Roland Youtube Channel, TheEvanswashere Youtube Channel, Horses Youtube Channel, The Majority Report, Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, ThamesTv, PeriscopeFilm, Al Jazeera English, Amanpour and Company In 2011 I produced an episode, now lost, on how the Baby Boomer generation in collaboration with the Silent Generation, created the legal infrastructure to prevent the same mass protests witnessed in the 60s and 70s from happening again. I expand on this topic significantly at the start of this episode, speaking on the various “gateways” created to funnel burgeoning movements into, before they could pick up public steam. This is a segment which should be listened to closely as the ideas have been developed more thoroughly as I’ve become more familiar with what movements are and why they occur. Interestingly, during the late 90s and early 2000’s conservative media was obsessed with promoting the idea that college campuses, much like the 1960s and 1970s, were hotbeds for radicalism and liberalism (please NOTE, liberalism is not radical in anyway, it is very elitist and philosophically driven for their protections and propagation). After September 11th, this assertion made a little more sense as many universities were centers of debate over how the Bush Administration handled the hunt for those who carried out the attacks but most of the discussions were civil and non-confrontational. Next is a discussion about incrementalism, honestly this was never supposed to be in the episode, nor was my other little comment; why does incrementalism exist and why will it be gotten rid of? Incrementalism, conservative incrementalism, has led to what we are seeing now on these campuses. It is at this point that I discuss anti-Semitism and how I see it. Why I look at it as a statement of Hate that means something very specific, as well as how Dr. King helped me have a more thorough look at the Anti-Semitic concept. To Donate to CWB – (CashApp – $CWBPodcast) (Paypal – CWBPodcast); Give as little as $5 a month to help me continue to produce these regularly! Music Used in the opening, Curtis Mayfield’s Think, Brandy’s The Definition and Marvin Gaye’s Inner City Blues or Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Really Care About Us. If you have any questions, comments or concerns please contact me at vphiamer.adis.ogaarwa@outlook.com

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Mac Students Encamp to Divest

As student encampments spring up all over North America like seasonal flowers, 'Rania' from McMaster Apartheid Divest explains what students are trying to accomplish for Gaza.

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Celt In A Twist May 12 2024

A holler back to our Top 10 contemporary Celtic chart for April, with new entries from the traditions of Donegal from Altan to the entrancing futures of the Afro Celt Sound System. Plus Vishten Connexions reform and debut a winner from the album Expansion. Expand your musical horizons with Celt In A Twist!

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World Beat Canada Radio May 11 2024

The world gifts us her best spins this week! You gotta love an album that starts with a flourish and ends with a bang. We debut the closer from Bab L'Bluz' new release. Mexican-Canadian Boogat shares a Brazilian twist in a collab with Diogo Ramos from the new Del Horizonte. Cuckoo is the latest release from Toronto's Sl​avic/​Balkan/Klezmer/party Punks, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, and skate punk turned twang guitarist, Tommy Gerrero takes us Through The Mosaic. It's a lot to love from World Beat Canada Radio!

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Revealing the Myths and Realities of Israel-Palestine Struggles, and of October 7.

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with NAKBA day coming in less than a week, we return to Gaza at a time when they are experiencing what some people call a second NAKBA, and look at the cost so far from the ongoing carnage by Israel of the Palestinians on the strip. In our first half hour, we speak with Louay Alghoul, A Winnipegger with ancestry and many relatives living in Gaza about the impact of the Israel-Gaza war on his loved ones, the current genocidal rage as NAKBA 2.0 and the roots of the conflict in indigeneity. Then in our second half hour, we are joined by British journalist and film maker Richard Sanders about his recent film, October 7, exposing the truth and lies about the  Operation Al-Aqsa Flood which tragically altered the region.

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The Shortwave Report 05/10/24

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. Japan, Galloway, Cuba, and France 24. 

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Building Bridges: Starbuck Workers Union Victories were Boosted by their Joining Palestinian Protest Movement

Three years of rank-and-file Starbucks worker organizing has produced a historic union breakthrough: a commitment by the implacably anti-union company to bargain a national contract for 10,000 workers and negotiate a process for additional workers to organize. Remarkably, though, this victory came about in part because of a serendipitous boost from the Palestine justice movement. Its proof of the power"and indeed, necessity"of international working-class solidarity in taking on todays leading fights against the giants of capitalism. So, were shuffling off to Buffalo to speak with Arjae Red, a member of the Starbucks Workers United and organizer for Workers World Party who I first met on a picket line chanting no justice, no coffee during Starbucks workers ongoing fight against union busting and who set off a wildfire of unionization sweeping the American labor market " to find out how it all happened

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Major unions in US and Canada are supporting student campus occupations

No more business as usual with the rogue state of Israel.

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Cheeze Pleeze # 1037

Monks singing the oldies? Well sorta as the St Christopher's Gregorian Choir is back...you can hum along with harmonica hits and a Fake MJ "clean's it" Not the usually mess o cheeze this week...but can you really say our show is ever average?

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Episode 2024.AR.00. (Article Reaction) The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll

Class War Battlefield Podcast Episode 2024.AR.00. (Article Reaction) The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll With Clips from Owen Jones, Democracy Now!, Guardian News, Young Turks, The Bitchuation Room, FRANCE 24 English, TRT World, Waketheherd Youtube Channel I recorded this special Article Reaction about a month after I was stricken with COVID. At the time nearly 30,000 Gazans had been murdered in this illegal assault on the civilian population of Palestine; we had not yet crossed the six month mark at the time. Now, as we near the seventh month mark since the beginning of this assault, with the “official” death toll barely touching 40,000 and the supposed estimates only adding another 10 to 20,000 to that total; the stark truth hidden in the rubble needs to now be confronted, especially with a possible slaughter occurring in Rafah looming overhead. What must be confronted in the probable death toll; in this Op-ed by renowned Consumer Rights advocate Ralph Nader, a speculative figure is presented which leaves me breathless (honestly, wait to hear me try to read through this article). We could be looking at a death toll reaching far into the 100,000s, reports Mr. Nader who has some pretty interesting data to back up his assertion. I still remember feeling sick as I read through this Article, my breath constantly catching within my throat with every word I read. I hope you see the value in this episode and use its content to inform those you care about, as to why this needs to stop NOW. To Donate to CWB – (CashApp – $CWBPodcast) (Paypal – CWBPodcast); Give as little as $5 a month to help me continue to produce these regularly! Music Used in the opening, Curtis Mayfield’s Think, Brandy’s The Definition and Marvin Gaye’s Inner City Blues or Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Really Care About Us. If you have any questions, comments or concerns please contact me at vphiamer.adis.ogaarwa@outlook.com

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U of T encampment is part of a worldwide Student resistance to Gaza genocide.

Gaza is under bombardment by Israel; hospitals and universities have been destroyed, and more than 35,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed. U of T students, along with their peers worldwide, are occupying campuses and demanding an end to all cooperation with the Israeli war machine, demanding the U of T divest from Israeli companies and end partnerships with Israeli universities. To follow and support the brave and able students who are taking a stand against genocide in Gaza, follow Erin: @erinmackey

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Between the Lines for May 8, 2024

The Criminalization of Pro-Palestinian, Anti-War Student Protesters; Biden Expands ACA Health Insurance Program to DACA Recipients; Biased Cable News Gaza War Coverage Skews American Public Opinion.

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Broadcast 626

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From NYC to UCLA Students Fight Genocide in Gaza & Against Vicious Repression

Sunsara Taylor on attacks on anti-genocide protests and the 1300 arrests of students in past weeks. Next, Why is the U.S. violently repressing pro-Palestinian students on college campuses across the U.S.?, an excerpt from @BobAvakianOfficial. Also from Bob Avakian, why it is right to want revolutionary state power, and what this state power is good for, from the Bob Avakian Interviews. Finally, a special alert: Stop the execution of the artist Toomaj Salehi by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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One quick exercise to optimize your genitals for aesthetics and pleasure

This week in the Lounge, Dan is joined by Ron and Amber as they discuss the Astor Place Riot of 1849, Science news involving an Orangutan Medicine Man, Astronaut Treadmills on the Moon, and A Glitch In Gravity. In Snake Oil news they talk about some actual oil for once, before playing Fact Checkin’ Time and ending with a feel good story about beating pollution.

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This is an archival TUC Radio program on Mining in America with Larry Tuttle

Even though mines - from iron to copper to gold to minerals, such as lithium mines can be so huge that they can be seen from space - and are destructive to land and water and forests - recent proposed legislation in the US aims at expanding mining. It turns out that, ironically, the transition to a green economy with wind turbines, solar arrays, electric vehicles and battery storage requires an unprecedented increase in mining for lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, tungsten, aluminum, graphite and more. Here is an archival TUC Radio program on Mining in America. In 1995 I bought a beat up RV, put all my radio equipment in it and took off on a tour of the Western States - In the course of four years I visited mines from Arizona to Washington State and from New Mexico to Montana. This is my report from Montana, and a conversation with Larry Tuttle in Portland, Oregon, in 1997. He founded the Center for Environmental Equity. They were helping communities to prevent the establishment of mines, or find help with the environmental catastrophes they caused.

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Juan Cole: Israel, Gaza and Campus Protests, Part I

Pro-Palestinian student protests are erupting on college campuses all over the country, often resulting in aggressive responses from local law enforcement. This week on Sea Change Radio, the first half of our two-part discussion with noted Michigan University history professor and Middle East scholar, Juan Cole. We look at the Israeli attacks on Gaza, discuss the unrest it has caused on campuses around this country, and examine how the right-wing parties in both the US and Israel are trying to leverage the conflict to their own benefit.

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If Music Could Talk - May 5 2024

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Augusten Burroughs, The Early Years & global LGBTQ news!

Augusten Burroughs runs with “Scissors” to “Dry”; the United Methodist Church ends its queer prohibitions, a Mombasa court slams an anti-queer Kenyan group’s violent protests, Queensland protects gender diversity and legalizes sex work, a U.S. appeals court orders state health plans to cover gender-affirming care including surgeries, the Biden Administration restores Affordable Care Act LGBTQ anti-bias provisions, and Mississippi Republicans fumble 2 anti-trans bills. Those stories and more this week when you choose “This Way Out”, the international LGBTQ radio magazine.

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Walkuman Style #381

1. I Like Your Vibe - Funky DL 2. Byram's Groove (Cut A Rug) - Slakah The Beatchild 3. Lighten Up - Timbuktu ft. Ghettosocks and the Herbaliser 4. Tailor Made - Low Budget 5. Swing It (original version) - Bush Babees 6. Sunset - K-Rec ft. Son Doobie and Kool Kim 7. Styles - Stan Ipcus 8. Palante - Cookin Soul & Frankie 9. Flagrant Freestyle - Maestro Fresh Wes 10. Repentance - William Cata 11. New Avengers - Pushing Buttons ft. Journalist 103 and Revalation 12. Criminal Mentality - Airklipz 13. Platform - Petrovich & Kick A Dope Verse! 14. Just Say Yeah (Applause) - Mega Ran & Jermiside 15. Pressing Buttons All Day - Fortes 16. Supreme - Dan-e-o ft. Nish 17. The Subway - O'hene Savant 18. Dusk Hits - Swamp Thing & Danny Miles ft. Moka Only 19. The Truth - Procyse ft. AnonymousRay & iNTELLECT 20. Big Lebowski - Corto Pablo & Jazzquarterz 21. Wallet Phone Keys - Randy Mason 22. 36,000,000 - Shark The SOB 23. Silk - El Train

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2024 UNAC Conference - Final Plenary & Closing Remarks

The Final Plenary & Closing Remarks from the 2024 UNAC conference, held April 5 - 7 in St. Paul, MN. The conference theme was Decolonization and the Fight Against Imperialism. UNAC is the United National AntiWar Coalition.

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Episode 567: Tongues off the Toads

SUDS Episode – Buckle up, beer aficionados! We're diving into the diverse draughts of Mirror Twin Brewing, where the beers are as intriguing as their names. From the light-hearted "White Girl Wasted" to the philanthropic "Kitten Mittens," this Lexington, Kentucky brewery serves up a flight that's a rollercoaster of flavors and fun. Join us as we navigate through a lineup that's as unpredictable as a cat on mittens. Will we be left purring in satisfaction or scratching for something more? Plus, we explore an unexpected beer and bourbon pairing that might just redefine your sipping standards.

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May 4, 2024: Las tres brujas del tambor

It's a Global A Go-Go takeover of WRIR's Cause & Effect program: A 2-hour look at the music, influences and peers of La Perla, a 3-woman drum-and-voice band from Bogota Colombia bringing a 21st century feminist global perspective to traditional Afro-Colombian rhythms, and who perform live in WRIR's Studio C as part of the program

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UpFront Soul #2024.17-May 7-13, 2024 hr 1

We'll hear from Omar, the godfather of UK soul, as well as reissued soul from Rasputin's Stash and a set of Latin grooves, sending you off to the dance floor with a track from San Lazaro!

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UpFront Soul #2024.17-May 7-13, 2024 hr 1

We'll hear from Omar, the godfather of UK soul, as well as reissued soul from Rasputin's Stash and a set of Latin grooves, sending you off to the dance floor with a track from San Lazaro!

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Ambiance Congo: May 5, 2024

Congolese popular music.

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Climate Homicide

Suddenly the system recalls a guilt. A wave of records show fossil fuel executives and big corporations knew their products would cause disastrous global damage - for decades. Should they be charged with homicide? From Public Citizen David Arkush makes the case. From Rutgers, Journalism Professor Melissa Aronczyk on Greenwashing the Canadian Tar Sands. We investigate corporate propaganda. Plus 3 more AI climate songs (for Public Domain) - even the machine wants justice!

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DJH 300 Kennys

10 musicians who had Kenny as their proffessional name.

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