The Other Black Music Oct. 26, 2014

Broadcasting from WRIR-LP 97.3 FM and www.wrir.org in Richmond, Virginia USA. "The Other Black Music" broadcast Black music ignored by other Richmond stations. Soul, Zydeco, Funk, Afro-Pop, Blues and more. Every other Sunday 3-5pm EST

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'Klinghoffer' Still Draws Protests

The New York Met Opera resurrects performances of 'The Death of Klinghoffer' after 23 years and pro-Israel Americans are still up in arms. The composer, lyricist and producers maintain that there is nothing anti-Semitic about the work; music.

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Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #22 - 10-30-14

Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull. The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week

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501 - Private Profit Vs Peace, Health, Survival

News You Need to Know: ISIS War Lacks Intelligence; Between The Lines interview: Private Profit Trumps Public Health in Ebola Research; Jim Hightower: Billionaires, Farmers; NH Gazette Fortnightly Rant: Cloudy, With a Chance of Scandal, 10/17/14; Outside The Box: Binaries; music.

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CPR News, October 27, 2014

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War Report

In this edition of the In Context War Report, we explore the nature of proxy warfare, discuss examples from history and consider whether current proxy wars may result in a direct conflict between the major powers.

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#347 -- Policy Failures ... or ARE They?

With the the US again escalating its war against Iraq, many have decried the failure of US Middle-Eastern policy. But a "failure" to the majority may be a "success" to the elite, who profit from those policies. NAOMI KLEIN (2006) and MICHAEL PARENTI (2007) each argue this point, with many examples from the recent past--including Iraq. Plus a song by James McMurtry. Updated with new commentary by KD.

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1Daylite Swingtime` Oct. 26, 2014; Set #1

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`Daylite Swingtime` Oct. 26, 2014; Set #2

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#693 - Social Destabilization Tactics Post WW2

A new speaker on the show, Douglas Valentine, outlines the CIA's development of "Operation Phoenix", which helps explain how the Police State in the USA today has been so rapidly rolled out after 9-11; social destabilization techniques which the CIA tried out in Vietnam and developed in Latin America in the 1970s are being applied in Mexico and increasingly in USA itself. In our second hour, we continue with more from FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds on Gladio Operation B in Turkey, and NATO's links with high level drug trafficking.

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Steve Salaita and Ali Abunimah on Suppression of Academics

Recently a variety of university administrations have escalated clampdowns on free expression by their faculty members, in particular those who criticize Israel. In this episode we hear a discussion by Steve Salaita (recently fired by University of Illinois for speaking out) and Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada.

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Program 222

Each week I play a blend of tunes released between the early 1900's and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music from futures past.

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Program 221

Each week I play a blend of tunes released between the early 1900's and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music from futures past.

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Dilar Dirik on the Rojava Revolution, part 1

This week on The Final Straw, Bursts spoke with Dilar Dirik. Dilar is a Kurdish refugee living in Germany who's a phd candidate studying and working around issues connected with the Kurdish Women's movement and the PYD, or Democratic Union Party, in the Rojava territories within the borders of Syria. Dilar is a Kurdish refugee living in Germany who's a phd candidate studying and working around issues connected with the Kurdish Women's movement and the PYD, or Democratic Union Party, in the Rojava territories within the borders of Syria. With it's foundation in 2004, the PYD has been attempting to create a dual power situation with the government and centering on an anti-state, anti-capitalist, feminist & ecological critique stemming from the influence of the PKK's founder, Abdullah Öcalan, and his model of Democratic Confederalism. Democratic Confederalism is, in a large part, influenced strongly by the libertarian socialist philosophy of communalism, a term coined by the late Murray Bookchin. Bookchin, although not an anarchist upon his death, had been influential to certain strains of social anarchist thought since the 1960's and included elements Communalism of Left Anarchism, Marxism, Syndicalism and Radical Ecology. Following the the 2012 pullout of Syrian government forces from the northern territories, the PYD, a group aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, has held the territory as three independent cantons (Rojava, Cizre and Efrin) organized through a series of communes, councils and alternative representational structure. Primarily during this episode and the following, Dilar speaks about the methodologies of the Kurdish Women's movement in Rojava to autonomously push the PYD at large to create not just an inclusive but to attempt to center on gender balance in all functions, moving to shift things often called "women's issues" to the fore and make them issues for the movement at large. Dilar also speaks about the shift from the former national liberation struggles of the Kurdish people for inclusion in the nationstates of the middle east to an embracing of a stateless status and an attempt to invite and include as many ethnic, religious and national communities and individuals of the region into the implementation of Democratic Confederalism (that implementation is also known as Democratic Autonomy) as could be done. Their hope, as people in the larger Rojava Revolution, is to expand the model into a self-sustaining, directly democratic society in tension with the state and capitalism. The Democratic Union Party (PYD), Rojava region, the YPG (Peoples Defense Units) militia and YPJ Star (Women's Defense Units Star) have come into media headlines in the U.S. of recent because they've been some of the main actors in the defense of Kobane (the capital of Rojava) against the forces of the Islamic State In the Levant (ISIL). ISIL has been attacking the three cantons in recent months, in fact for the last 2 years prior to U.S. recognition of it's existence, and the YPG and YPJ Star have been among the groups fighting ISIL back. The press of ISIL to take the lands, weapons, slaves and wealth and to destroy heretics, continues throughout the 3 cantons despite the retaking of most of the city of Kobane. Perhaps the U.S. public hasn't learned about resistance and attempts at alternative self-organization until the Siege of Kobane because it challenges the stability of U.S. allies like Turkey, Syria and also of Iran and other countries with significant Kurdish populations in the region. In the last 2 years, many anarchists in the west have been looking on with interest on the organizing and resistance in Rojava. Recently, David Graber wrote in an op-ed for the U.K. Guardian that the PYD in Rojava fighting the ISIL parallels the Spanish Revolution of 1936 with the Rojava as the anarchists of the FAI and ISIL as the Falangists, and thus that social libertarians worldwide need to pay attention and offer support to the struggles in Rojava. Other western anarchist sources have been critical of the shortfalls of the Rojava Revolution from their ideological perspectives. We here at the Final Straw are excited to present the words of Dilar Dirik about Rojava not because the revolution is by name an anarchist project, but because it teases some boundaries between philosophies and attempts to put them into practice in the midst of a warzone and fight for their lives. This case of Rojava is interesting, but more importantly it's people, again fighting for their lives. With that said, because the PKK, which is aligned with the PYD, is on the U.S. terrorist list, it's difficult to solicit donations for them in the U.S. However, if you're in the Asheville area, on Wednesday November 5th, 2014 at the Winehaus at 86 Patton Ave, in Asheville from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. There will be music, vegetarian food and the sliding scale tickets from $20-60 will go to the Kurdish Red Crescent to offer material support for those facing assault from the Islamic State. More info can be found at http://bit.ly/aid4rojava You can find writings by Dilar at http://dilar91.blogspot.com Also, we'd like to apologize for the quality of Dilar's audio on the episode, we had a poor connection. Next week's show will be the second half of our conversation on the Rojava Revolution and Kurdish women's movement, media representation of women in Rojava and in the YPJ Star militias fighting against ISIL, if there's an overlap between anarchism and Democratic Confederalism and more. For some articles on the Rojava, check out: http://tahriricn.wordpress.com/tag/kurds/ and remain aware that the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) is a seperate movement operating in Iraq and that the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) is a movement based in Turkey. Both groups operate inside of Syria and were involved in the fight against ISIL on Mount Shengal (Sinjar in Arabic), which crosses the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Rojava. http://ideasandaction.info/2014/10/rojava-anarcho-syndicalist-perspective/ https://robertgraham.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/david-graeber-support-the-kurds-in-syria/

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Jwow: 10-26-2014

A humorous presentation by someone standing in for the Governor of Ohio on his responses to Sean Swain's allegations against Jwow in his bid for 2014 running of Ohio

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No Ebola Here

GUEST: Jeff 4 Justice https://www.youtube.com/user/jeff4justice CLICK FOR JEFF'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL TOPIC: TOP TWO PRIMARY SHAM AND (TWO GUEST FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!) GUEST: MIMI GERMAN TOPIC: ACTIVISM AND NO NUKES NORTHWEST Mimi and Helen Caldicott (one of our previous guests) No Nukes Northwest Facebook Page

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Sibel Edmonds and the Deep State Factionalized

GUEST: SIBEL EDMONDS TOPIC: THE LONE GLADIO The Lone Gladio Assassinations. Drug running. False flag ops. A shadow paramilitary global network. Synthetic wars. CIA-NATO: A darker truth. Operation Gladio Plan B: Murder. OG 68—a k a Greg McPhearson—no longer works for the company. The hunter has now become prey. He knows this beast: what created him and shattered his soul. Until Mai. When he opened the door to her three years ago, he opened what soul he had left. Yet no amount of pride or power, he discovers—too late—can ever replace one precious breath … When a sting is called off at the last minute by his FBI bosses per order of the CIA, Special Agent Ryan Marcello decides to do some digging. He calls in senior analyst Elsie Simon, expert in the Turkey-Central Asian-Caucasus nexus, to help track down the high-level target with ties to ruthless power players in a global narcotics-terrorism ring. Every lead and each new suspect brings them that much closer to home. With Elsie’s help, and at risk to their lives, the two begin their own investigating … The murdered son of a U.S. mogul leads to the hiring of Ryan and Elsie, who are used and then trapped in a byzantine scheme of retribution: of black ops within black ops, trails gone cold, kidnappings, blackmail, unexplained murders … a plot that extends from Russia and Azerbaijan to Cambodia, Vietnam, and is buried inside the Deep State. For the final mission, in a world where reality now stands on its head— “my enemy’s enemy is my enemy”—no one would be spared. The Gladio would be acting alone …

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Avoiding the Worst

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen: Fukushima continues to irradiate the Pacific. Plume reaching West Coast. Where is next American Fukushima? Diablo Canyon in California? Then Naomi Klein's new vision "This Changes Everything".

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Dave & Heidi Grove, Brian Dolinar - 10/25/14

In studio guests, Dave & Heidi Grove, recount their recent visit to Ferguson, MO and give their eyewitness report of the community standing up against police brutality. Brian Dolinar joins us in studio for the second half hour of the program to discuss the Champaign County Sherriff's recent acquisition of an MRAP.

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Ravenous

RAVENOUS (1999) It’s where we find ourselves this week as we Q this all you can eat take of early cannibal pioneering. Selected by our producer, it tells the story of Captain John Boyd (Guy Pearce), a soldier in the Mexican-American war of 1847 and his banishment to a desolated military outpost in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains after being accused of cowardice. Upon his arrival, he is greeted by a rag-tag group of soldiers manning the fort – Including A Chaplain, A drunk Doctor, A heavily medicated cook and commanding officer Hart (Jeffery Jones). One day, Colqhoun (Robert Carlyle) stumbles into their camp. The half-starved Scotsman had been traveling with a group of settlers until they were snowbound. Unable to move forward, they took refuge in a cave, where once they ran out of food, they were forced to resort to cannibalism. Colqhoun barely escaped the madness – or did he? Boyd and the soldiers hear of the old Indian legend of the Wendigo, which states a man who tastes the flesh of another steals that man’s strength, spirit and essence. His hunger, however, will become an unstoppable craving. Like a vampire, the more he eats, the more he wants, and the stronger he will become, with death the only escape from the madness. The soldiers are soon drawn into the frenzy and Boyd is soon left with the choice of eating or being eaten… We definitely sank our teeth into this one as well as our Top 3 “Hungry” characters in film.

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# 295 Most Unpopular Stories of this Month

Satirical news

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"Reframing Anti-Semitism - Alternative Jewish Perspectives"

Begin reading of "Reframing Anti-Semitism - Alternative Jewish Perspectives", an eight part anthology of essays written by Jewish authors and published by Jewish Voice for Peace (parts 4 - 8 to be read next week); music.

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The Jewish State in Question

Articles, "The Jewish State in Question", et al; music.

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The Epidemic of Congenital Birth Defects in Iraq

Organizers’ statement: As the United States begins a new Mideast intervention, we should reflect carefully on the outcomes of the most recent occupation. On 10-15-2014 at MIT, a panel of two experts presented a frightening picture of current conditions in Iraq, not normally seen in the so-called mainstream. Since the U.S. invasions and bombings starting in 1991 and 2003, congenital birth defects there have skyrocketed by a factor of seventeen. They seek more involvement by U.S. academia in support of serious investigation, accountability, and 100% remediation where possible. The U.S. has involved itself, reluctantly, in investigation and treatment … of returning U.S. soldiers who fall sick, presumably from toxics in the munitions they’ve rained on Iraqis, some at the rate of 300 bullets per victim death. But what about the Iraqis, and particularly, what about pregnant mothers and babies in Iraq? They are far more sensitive to toxics. Dr Muhsin Al-Sabbak is a practicing Iraqi obstetrician who oversees 12,000 to 14,000 births each year in one of Iraq's biggest maternal hospitals. He recounts what he has seen with his own eyes in the course of this work. His slides include some of the scariest most of us will ever see; they are posted here for download. (TIP FOR LISTENERS: Concentrate, and listen carefully! Dr Al-Sabbak speaks rapidly, with an Iraqi accent, employing many technical words.) Dr Mozhgan Savabieasfhani is an Iranian environmental toxicologist, currently teaching at University of Michigan. She provides facts, figures, and dramatic slides of her own (also posted here). The MIT Science for the People seminar series provides a platform for students, staff, and faculty to discuss ideas on how to use science to make a better world. Co-sponsors • MIT Western Hemisphere Project • South Asia Forum at MIT • Association for India's Development, MIT • MIT Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group • Massachusetts Global Action We have posted the respective slide shows at https://archive.org/details/IraqBirthDefects-141015

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Happy Birthday Sonia Sanchez

Celebrating Sonia Sanchez on her Eightieth Birthday featuring Sonia Sanchez and Jessica Care Moore, internationally renowned poet, publisher, playwright, performance artist, Now, a tribute to the beloved world renowned poet, humanitarian, scholar, and activist Sonia Sanchez on her eightieth birthday with Jessica Care Moore, and a special message to all of us from Sonia Sanchez. Poet, playwright, mother, scholar, lecturer and peace activist, Sonia Sanchez is a renowned force of nature respected in literary and activist communities all over the world and by people of all races, identities, ages and backgrounds. In 2011, Sanchez was selected as the first poet laureate of Philadelphia. She is the author of more than 20 books, and has been awarded countless awards and honors, including the 1985 American Book Award for Homegirls and Handgrenades. She is also the Poetry Society of America s 2001 Robert Frost Medalist. She was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University and she held the Laura Carnell Chair in English at the university. She came of age in NYC during the Black Arts and Black Power Movements of the 1960s and 70s. Currently based in Philadelphia, the former Harlemite is regarded as the Godmother of the Black Arts Movement. The late Maya Angelou heralded her as a lion in literature s forest. Today s poets, writers, hip-hop artists, grassroots activists, and public servants alike point to her work as their guiding light. She opened the door for everything we do, says hip-hop artist Talib Kweli.

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Inner workings of European far right secret governments: Daniele Ganser

http://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/35761/

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Bristol City Council surrounded by big business-like secrecy under Mayor Ferguson

http://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/35761/

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CPR News, October 24, 2014

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"The Not Found Era"

This RADIOLA! might be losing it.

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Rethinking the North Korean Narrative: Conversations with Kiyul Chung and Henri Feron

On this week's Global Research News Hour we interview two analysts whose views on the Country of North Korea run opposite the way the East Asian country is typically portrayed. The first guest, Kiyul Chong is a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has visited North Korea numerous times. Chung corrects typical depictions of North Korea as a human rights pariah, belligerent and dangerous military power. In the second half hour, Henri Feron, author of the May 5, 2014 article "Doom and Gloom or Economic Boom? The Myth of the “North Korean Economic Collapse” explains that the economic difficulties North Korea has been facing are exaggerated in the Western mind, that they have more to do with the sanctions imposed by foreign powers, the US in particular, and on who might benefit from this depiction of the country.

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