Latest Programs
"Goliath": Cancelling the Other Narrative
March 24, 2014, 2:11 p.m.
Continued reading of "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel", chapters 52 to 54; music, "Arabic Beat".
If Music Could Talk - MARCH 24, 2014
March 24, 2014, 8:21 a.m.
March 24, 2014, 8:02 a.m.
In this edition of the In Context War Report, we discuss the military and geo-political implications of the Ukraine crisis, the career and goals of Vladimir Putin, the Ukraineâs strategic importance and compare U.S. and Russian military capabilities.
The Motherland Influence: March 23, 2014
March 24, 2014, 5:38 a.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music.
Celebrating women singers for our Spring Fund Drive!
AMBIANCE CONGO: March 23, 2014
March 24, 2014, 5:19 a.m.
Congolese popular music. Live recordings for Spring Fund Drive.
"Spring" Jazz; 3/23/14; Set #1
March 24, 2014, 4:34 a.m.
"Spring" Jazz; Mar. 23, 2014; Set #2
March 24, 2014, 4:31 a.m.
March 23, 2014, 8:47 p.m.
Tom Clay - Detroit DJ - What The World Needs Now (Abraham,Martin and John)
Crazy Old Manâs Wisdom
Dionne Warwick - What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love
Amélie, anarchist 5E prisoner in Mexico's letter and Kristian Williams on Oscar Wilde's anarchism.
March 23, 2014, 1:41 p.m.
This episode is mostly a rebroadcast from a January 2012 episode:
"This weekâs show features an interview with Kristian Williams, author of the books, âOur Enemies in Blue,â âAmerican Methodsâ and numerous articles on policing, torture, anarchism, cartoons and much more. Kristian speaks about his in-progress book on the Anarchism of Oscar Wilde, Wildeâs experiences in prisons and his sexual politics.
Find articles by Williams on this and many other topics at www.kristianwilliams.com"
Bursts also reads from a letter by Amélie, one of the 5E Anarchist prisoners. Amélie, alongside "Chavo" and Fallon were arrested and accused of causing 70,000 pesos of damage against a Federal Transportation building and 100,000 pesos of damage against a Nissan dealership with molotov cocktails. In this letter from February 22nd from Santa Martha prison in Mexico, Amélie explains elloquently why she has not backed down from her Anarchism in order to appear contrite before the state and reformists. The letter can be found in French, English and Spanish here: http://www.sabotagemedia.anarkhia.org/2014/03/mexico-5e-letter-from-amelie/
Also out this week, the case of the Trayvon 2, two young, muslim men of color who were arrested during protests in Oakland in response to the Florida Courts acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin had their charges dropped from felony to misdemeaner. More on the updates at http://fireworksbayarea.com/newswire/trayvon-2-score-partial-victory/. Their support page can be found here: https://thetrayvon2.wordpress.com/
March 28th in Durham, NC, there'll be a benefit for Luke O'Donovan's defense fund as he attempts to pay lawyers to fight charges that could lead to 100 years in prison for his self-defense as he was being queer-bashed in Atlanta. The attack occurred in the early hours of January 1st, 2013. You can find more info on his case at http://letlukego.wordpress.com
Coming up is the 1st Annual Ida B. Wells Anti-Racist Conference in Memphis, TN on the 29th & 30th of March. The theme of this year is An Anti-Authoritarian and Anti-Capitalist Struggle Against the Mass Imprisonment of People of Color. . More info here: http://revolution-news.com/ida-b-wells-international-anti-racist-conference-march-28-30-anti-authoritarian-anti-capitalist-struggle-mass-imprisonment-poc/
Lastly, in Dickson Tennessee, the Tennessee Anti-Racist Network is calling for action against the American Rennaissance Conference which is slated to run from April 25-27, 2014 at the Montgomery Bell Park Inn. More info at http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php/en/news/us/1320-tennessee-anti-racist-network-makes-call-to-action-to-oppose-amren-2014
March 23, 2014, 12:15 p.m.
Broadcast One Hundred Ninety Five
March 23, 2014, 12:06 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a freeform exploration of music from the last century of recorded sound inclusive of music in various genres ... including folk, jazz, easy listening, world, classical, classic rock & more ... played on 78s, reel to reels, cassettes, vinyl records & even endangered and homemade cds. 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 about music & culture in the spirit of free radio
March 23, 2014, 10:55 a.m.
Up next in the Q is the (1995) Jim Jarmusch classic DEAD MAN starring Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer and a wicked posse of cameos! This exquisite noir western tells the tale of William Blake (Depp), an accountant who leaves his home in Cleveland to accept a job in the frontier town of Machine. Upon his arrival he learns that the job has already been filled. Dejectedly, he enters a nearby tavern, ultimately spending the night with a former prostitute. A violent altercation with the womanâs lover leaves Blake a murderer â as well as mortally wounded with a bullet lodged dangerously close to his heart. From there, he flees into the wilderness, where a Native American named Nobody (Farmer) mistakes Blake for the English poet William Blake and determines that he will be Blakeâs guide in his protracted passage into the spirit world while a band of ruthless hired guns are close behind. Listen to see how (and if) the five of us make sense of it all⦠Plus our top 3 movie fugitives.
March 23, 2014, 9:19 a.m.
The natural gas industry is still bleeding tons of methane into our atmosphere. The top body for American Scientists warns we must act now to prevent climate catastrophe. And an international team confirms the world food supply will be hit hard in a changing climate.
March 23, 2014, 8:28 a.m.
Anthony Enman and Brian Cleveland countdown the Top 20 of the week from earshot-online.com. We have that plus a look at entertainment news with Stephen Carlick of !exclaim magazine.
Lymph Node Institute's "Sleep" Show!
March 23, 2014, 1:58 a.m.
Shhhh... Doc Ellis and Doktor Bugbladder show their Lullaby League membership cards and proceed to scientifically lull you to into the arms of Morpheus...and what the hell, while you're out they have a few tests they'd like to run on you just for shits 'n' giggles. The good (?) Doktors pour their "special" genetically altered honey down your earholes while they discuss the whys and wherefores of stupidly vulnerable organisms who are compelled to regularly fall unconscious for hours at a time. But sleep is not solely about recharging your spent batteries...it's about getting the drop on yourself in a grudgematch from the darkside when the synapses click and your sleeping brain opens up and spews Dobbs-knows-what into your soul. Every sleep cycle is a crapshoot that carries the horrific uncertainty potential of dreams and nightmares. You either find yourself standing there in your underwear in your old 8th-grade school hallway and can't find your class...or else you're sucked into an infinite hell of psyche-searing, soul-consuming, brain-blistering madness. And you're in your underwear. Or even worse--you finally get through an unending shift at werk and go to punch out, and--hey, that's funny...the timeclock's ding sounds just like an alarm clock...
...and you wake up to find you really *are* at work.
And you're in your underwear.
03-16-14 The Legalization of Birth Control
March 22, 2014, 10:16 p.m.
471 - Ukraine, Media Limitations, Constitutional Change
March 22, 2014, 7:25 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Ukraine and CNN; Mumia Abu-Jamal: Land Grabs; Between The Lines interview: US News Coverage of Ukraine; BTL interview: US Intelligence Agencies' Lack of Accountability; BTL interview: "Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution;" Jim Hightower: Bonuses; Outside The Box: One Is Good; music.
Cornel West: The Struggle to Free Oscar Lopez Rivera
March 22, 2014, 4:19 p.m.
The Colonization of Puerto Rico & The History of African-Americans:
Same Struggle, Same Fight
and the Imperative to Free Oscar Lopez Rivera
with
. Jose Lopez, Ex. Dir. Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Chicago IL., brother of political prisoner, 70-year-old Oscar Lopez Rivera
. Dr. Cornel West, America s most renowned public intellectual, author of over 20 books and activist
. Dr. Samuel Cruz, sociologist of religion, race, Latino studies, sexuality and gender, Senior Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church.
Cornel West and Samuel Cruz are joined by Jose Lopez to continue the ground- breaking Common Ground and Common Hope: Black & Latino Dialogue of 2012 and in the aftermath of their historic trip to Puerto Rico discuss the impact of their recent talks and connect many of the most pressing moral, spiritual and political issues raised to the ongoing struggle to liberate Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican political prisoner who has been incarcerated for over 32 years. They draw on Dr. King s Letter from a Birmingham Jail written in April 1963, where he defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. Oscar Lopez Rivera has been in
prison since 1981 for seditious conspiracy, directly related to his commitment to the independence of Puerto Rico. He was not accused of causing harm or taking a life. He is the longest-held political prisoner in the history of Puerto Rico and Latin America, and among the longest-held political prisoners in the US. He is a caring community organizer; a creative, self-taught artist; a voracious reader; a brilliant thinker whose imprisonment constitutes an ongoing human rights violation
March 22, 2014, 10:31 a.m.
Continued reading from Max Blumenthal's "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel", music.
#316 -- Glenn Greenwald on NSA Spying & the Hypocrisy of the Press
March 22, 2014, 9:59 a.m.
Greenwald revealed the story of Edward Snowden and the US government's secret program of spying on every American. Here Greenwald talks about Snowden and about the government surveillance, assault on civil liberties, & hypocrisy about leaks.
And he talks about the disgraceful behavior of the US "mainstream" news media-- determined to SERVE those in power rather than to hold them accountable.
With an introduction by KD, on the US news media's unanimous Putin-bashing since before the Olympics.
March 21, 2014, 6:30 p.m.
The second of two Spring 2014 Fund Drive programs, featuring a live performance by Miramar, engineered by Richard Schellenberg, Allan Coberly and Andrew Hawes; mic manager is Lee Harris
Resisting Energy EAST: An Interview with Clayton Thomas-Mueller
March 21, 2014, 6:15 p.m.
On March 8, 2014, Indigenous land defenders and their allies gathered at Thunderbird House in WInnipeg, Manitoba to discuss strategies around resisting the TransCanada Energy East Pipeline which is proposed to transport Alberta Tar Sands Crude to points east.
IN this discussion, CKUW NEWs DIrector Michael Welch speaks with Clayton Thomas-Mueller, a prominent indigenous environmental activist and organizer about some of the challenges of defending Mother Earth in the Harper era, along with the need for solidarity across the races.
9/11 Truth in 2014: Is a Breakthrough Possible?
March 21, 2014, 5:46 p.m.
On the occasion of the Rethink 911 campaign, this week's broadcast of the Global Research News Hour once again focuses on the 9/11 attacks with a view to examining what undermines an honest examination of the truth.
University of Guelph researcher Laurie Manwell speaks on the issue of psychological resistance to embracing alternative narratives of 9/11 and other State Crimes Against Democracy.
Architect and high profile 9/11 speaker Richard Gage AIA talks about his tour across Canada, and his view about the prospects of 9/11 making a powerful political breakthrough in this country.
Ann Garrison on Victoire Ingabire
March 21, 2014, 4:46 p.m.
Anne Garrison is the winner of the International Women's Network for Democracy and Peace Prize - in honour of Victoire Ingabire, the Rwandan presidential candidate who is now in prison in Rwanda.
Ann explains how Ingabire was robbed of her rights and imprisoned. Ann also challenges popular myths about the genocide in Rwanda.
March 21, 2014, 2:35 p.m.
http://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/politics-show-with-tony-gosling-25/
Budget 2014: Housing & Energy, Britain needs a pay rise
March 21, 2014, 2:21 p.m.
http://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/politics-show-with-tony-gosling-25/
March 21, 2014, 11:05 a.m.
Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless news about war, crime, and terrorism, violence has actually been in decline over long stretches of history.
Trends that have resulted in the decline of violence.
Our evolution from hunter gatherers into settled civilizations.
The consolidation of small kingdoms and duchies into large kingdoms with centralized authority and commerce.
The emergence of Enlightenment philosophy, and it's respect for the individual.
Since World War II, violence has been suppressed, first by the overwhelming force of the two parties in the Cold War, and more recently by the American hegemony.
The general trend, even apart from the Cold War, of wars to be more infrequent, and less violent, however autocratic and anti-democratic the governments have become.
Lastly, the growth of peace and domestic societies, and with it the diminishing level of violence through small things like schoolyard fights, bullying, and picking on gays and minorities.
Steven Pinker is interviewed by Neal Conan, who is host of "Talk of the Nation" on National Public Radio. Steven Pinker is one of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind.
Source: Great Conversations: Steven Pinker and Neal Conan
Donald B. Louria talks about the loss of faith in the future.
"I fear we are now in great danger of a large percentage of the public having their hopes for the future battered, being overwhelmed by feelings of hopelessness in regard to our ability to cope with the major problems facing the society. If that occurs, there are substantial societal and individual consequences.
There will be a dramatic increase in the frequency and severity of anxiety and depression.
There will be a much greater focus on hedonism with increased risk taking and pleasure seeking, including the use of mind-altering drugs, both legal and illegal (alcohol included).
There will be little attention paid to preventing or mitigating future problems and threats; politicians, even more than now, will focus almost entirely on present issues, thereby making the future even more bleak.
The depression epidemic will have physical and other consequences with increased incidence of suicide and heart attacks, marital discord, inability to function effectively, and overeating (a well known response to depression) that will exacerbate our obesity and diabetes epidemics.
"Make no mistake about it. Loss of faith in the future is very serious business â if widespread enough, it is society threatening." ~ Donald B. Louria
Source: EcoShock Radio: DONALD B. LOURIA: LOSING FAITH IN THE FUTURE IS UNHEALTHY AND SELF-FULFILLING
Music includes Jason Boissonneault - Hollow Words Before Me, Capitol Steps - You Gotta Have Parts, Gene Autry - When The Mailman Says No Mail Today, Jimmy Cliff - We Don't Want Another Vietnam in Afghanistan, Capitol Steps - Who'll Drop a Bomb in Ramadan?, David Rovics - Strike A Blow Against The Empire, In The Dark, Capitol Steps - Everything's Coming Up Roguey, Spirit - Nature's Way, Reverend Billy - They Have Sold, Capitol Steps - Rulers Of Morality, Billy Joel - Allentown, September - Earth Wind & Fire, Machito & Mario Bauzá - Asia Minor
March 21, 2014, 11:03 a.m.
In the March 2014 Taxcast: Russia, Ukraine, Londongrad and the offshore threat to global security. Also, modern day colonialism? Niger battles France over fairer revenues for its uranium; it's official - inequality IS bad for economic growth: the IMF becomes an unlikely advocate for tax justice. And the European Parliament moves against anonymous ownership of companies by voting for public registers of beneficial owners.
March 21, 2014, 10:58 a.m.
March 20, 2014, 10:34 p.m.
Spinning a set inspired by Moogfest.com,