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The Motherland Influence: April 20, 2014
April 23, 2014, 9:29 p.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music
General Breedlove channels Strangelove
April 23, 2014, 8:53 p.m.
Rick Rozoff on NATOâs provocative stance on Ukraine
Voices for Liberation: Dissent in the Jewish Community on Israel and Palestine
April 23, 2014, 8:46 p.m.
Two of Chicagoâs leading advocates for Jewish solidarity with the struggle to end Israelâs military occupation and to ensure equality, peace, and security for both Israelis and Palestinians share readings and thoughts on what it means to be a Jew. Both talk of their path to understanding that Zionism as evolved and manifest in the State of Israel is incompatible with their understanding of Judaism. They read from their own writings as well as from works by other Jewish writers. They take questions after their readings.
AMBIANCE CONGO: April 20, 2014
April 23, 2014, 8:39 p.m.
Congolese popular music!
April 23, 2014, 4:34 p.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. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room on Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
April 23, 2014, 4:03 p.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. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room on Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
April 23, 2014, 3:55 p.m.
BONUS half-hour (happens when the guys can't stop spinning) of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room on Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
Shock Therapy - The Couch Sessions
April 23, 2014, 1:08 p.m.
A variety of personalities stops by the Shock Therapy Show to talk arts, life, faith and everything in between.
Hatem Bazian: 'Golden cage' for Palestinians?
April 23, 2014, 11:28 a.m.
Outstanding explanation of current Palestinian situation. Bazian speaks of plans by Israel, US. Europe, collaborating with Egypt, Jordan, Gulf states to offer Palestinians promises of economic opportunities, a âgolden cageâ in exchange for independence and end to apartheid; has little faith in success ot PA-Hamas unity deal; sees PAâs serving Israelâs security interests as Oslo outcome; Palestinian outlook pessimistic now, but not long term; BDS important but not enough; AIPACâs control of Congress needs to be challenged at local level; compares with anti-apartheid struggle.
Jeff Blankfort-NewsOp: PA, Ukraine, NPR, Germany
April 23, 2014, 11:04 a.m.
Blankfort reports on PAâs Abbas promising security collaboration with Israel will continue; new PA-Hamas unity deal; praises NPRâs Ari Shapiroâs brave reports from East Ukraine vs. âofficialâ lies; US role in coup is buried; German firm blamed for training Russian army; reads excerpts from support letter from 300 German intellectuals to Putin, referencing WW2âs Nazi crimes, US first strike threat to Russia; reports US frigate back in Black Sea; US troops to Eastern Europe; explains Art. 5 obligation of NATO members to militarily aid each other if attacked; Afghanistan lone example.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0244
April 23, 2014, 9:52 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
Between the Lines' for the Week Ending May 2, 2014
April 23, 2014, 9:31 a.m.
Kiev's Pursuit of NATO Membership a Major Factor in Current Ukraine Crisis; Right Wing Extremist Groups Challenging Authority of Federal Government Find GOP Allies; Mountaintop Removal Coal mining Protestersâ 5th Court Appearance in UBS Headquarters Action Case Mountaintop Removal
April 23, 2014, 9:07 a.m.
In the April 2014 Taxcast: Forget Congress! The Taxcast looks at the latest US state to take matters into its own hands and legislate against tax havens. Also: the scandal of how the Bank for International Settlements has kept offshore private wealth data to itself, the British government tries to impress its friends in Washington with a 'tough' new tax evasion offence, taxing problems in Nigeria and...how will UK Parliamentarian Lord Blencathra manage now that his $20,000 a month contract with the Cayman Islands has been terminated?
April 23, 2014, 7:12 a.m.
Before we continue our title piece, another 9-11 related piece from 2009. Author/film makers Bob Coen and Eric Nadler describe their researches into Amerithrax and the multi-billion dollar germ "defense" warfare industry. In our second hour, we continue with The New Pearl Harbor on the Pentagon and Shanksville events. We conclude with two 9/11 Commission members calling foul.
Shake Your Feet and Move Your Head
April 23, 2014, 6:04 a.m.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 11 PM to 1 AM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
La marge a CKRL 22 avril 2014 Libre vol 2
April 23, 2014, 3:04 a.m.
April 22, 2014, 9:47 p.m.
Dr. Jody Armour, author of Nigga Theory, on the realities of race, social class, and the criminalization of an entire people. Guitarist, composer and activist Wayne Kramer on "LEXINGTON," his new free jazz album. He came to prominence as guitarist for the MC5 & is co-founder of Jail Guitar Doors. Bianca Bagatourian, an experimental playwright whose works revolve around human rights and genocide, talks about her play, The Time of Our Lies, a play about the life and times of historian Howard Zinn.
April 22, 2014, 7:55 p.m.
A brief history of un-prosecuted Israeli smuggling and espionage cases
by Grant F. Smith - AND
What every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine
by Alison Weir, founder of If Americans Knew
Alison Weir and Grant Smith were the lead organizers of The National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel âSpecial Relationshipâ on March 7, 2014 at the National Press Club in Washington DC.
By strange coincidence one of the topics covered by Grant Smith became international news exactly as I was preparing his talk for broadcast on TUC Radio. On April 17th, 2014, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists released an article with the intriguing title: Did Israel steal bomb-grade uranium from the United States?â¨<http://thebulletin.org/did-israel-steal-bomb-grade-uranium-united-states7056>
The authors, Victor Gilinsky and Roger J. Mattson, had suspected that Israel, in the 1960s, stole the uranium from the Apollo, Pennsylvania, plant of NUMEC, the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. They now credit the release of classified documents in March 2014, that contain much of the proof they were looking for, to the work of researcher Grant Smith.â¨Â
â¨Grant Smith is Executive Director of the Washington DC based Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy. <http://www.irmep.org/>For the past ten years he has been investigating the role of Israel and its domestic lobby, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in influencing US Middle East policy.
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Alison Weir is president of the Council for the National Interest, created by ambassadors and former Congressmen in 1989 and executive director of If Americans Knew. <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/> Thatâs a nonprofit organization she founded when she came to the conclusion that if Americans knew the history and present reality of Palestine under Israeli occupation US foreign policy in the middle east would no longer be so one-sidedly supportive of Israel. She writes and speaks widely on Israel-Palestine, and has given talks at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, and Georgetown.
Free Radio interviews Cassandra Farrar, artist, musician
April 22, 2014, 5:08 p.m.
San Francisco Bay Area Singer Songwriter Cassandra Farrar has a new CD recorded with her band The Left Brains. Her new Video "Moving Out" is now released and is available. she is an aspiring young singer and has a large You Tube following and a bank of songs under her wing.
Altering digital history at the Ministry of Truth
April 22, 2014, 3:58 p.m.
Richard Heinberg on the Anthropocene
April 22, 2014, 3:46 p.m.
There's a scientific debate afoot in geological and environmental circles about what to call the current time period. According to the International Union of Geological Sciences, we're living in the Holocene epoch, but many believe that the term "Anthropocene" would better reflect the impact that humankind has had and is continuing to have on the planet.
This week on Sea Change Radio, we discuss the Anthropocene with Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute. Along with host Alex Wise, Heinberg looks at why the terminology debate is more than just semantics, and examines a division among environmentalists - between what he has dubbed the "Techno-Anthropocene" proponents and the "Lean Green" movement.
ME has been a 'side show', news management in Ukraine & Malaysia
April 22, 2014, 3:32 p.m.
April 22, 2014, 2:56 p.m.
This episode of GroundWire was produced by Catherine Fisher at CJLY on Sinixt ancestral territory, in Nelson, BC
Headlines:
Maritime energy association briefing shut down by Mi'kmaq women| Sula Sidnell-Greene, CKUT
Christine Hemmingway settles with Corrections BC for failing to provide adequate healthcare | Yasmeen, Prison Radio CKUT
Montreal's green spaces are being neglected and at risk of disappearing | Amelie Phillipson, CKUT
Features:
Montreal residents demonstrate against austerity following recent Quebec elections | Amelie Phillipson, CKUT
BC representative for children and youth discusses the importance of access to community and culture for Aboriginal children and her recent report titled âwhen talk trumped servicesâ| Gunargie O'Sullivan & Woody Morrison, Vancouver Co-op radio, Carly Forbes, CILU
The expiration of the Canada Health Accord and a national movement calling for a new accord | Frieda Werden, CJSF
Music by:
Buffy Sainte-Marie and Miriam Pearl
Israeli Legal System Reflects General Injustice
April 21, 2014, 5:32 p.m.
A comparison of the treatment of Palestinian and Israeli youth for the same crime; BDS victory: Earth Day Network has cut ties with settlement manufacturer SodaStream; gag order from Israeli court raises questionsâ; Rush Limbaugh Is In ruinsâ; oud music by Mavrothi T. Kontanis.
The Nightfly #2014.17 Hour 2 - April 28-May 4, 2014
April 21, 2014, 4:36 p.m.
In hour 1, we sample an ultra-rare Frank Zappa cover of "Stranded in the Jungle," originally recorded by the Jayhawks, plus Herbie Hancock's take on a Joni Mitchell classic and a track from Miles Davis' version of Porgy & Bess. In hour 2, we'll check the local surf conditions on our inland lakes & ponds, enjoy a guest appearance by the late great WERU dj Charlie Oldham, & fill the hour with classic funk, soul, & jazz.
The Nightfly #2014.17 Hour 1 - April 28-May 4, 2014
April 21, 2014, 4:18 p.m.
In hour 1, we sample an ultra-rare Frank Zappa cover of "Stranded in the Jungle," originally recorded by the Jayhawks, plus Herbie Hancock's take on a Joni Mitchell classic and a track from Miles Davis' version of Porgy & Bess. In hour 2, we'll check the local surf conditions on our inland lakes & ponds, enjoy a guest appearance by the late great WERU dj Charlie Oldham, & fill the hour with classic funk, soul, & jazz.
April 21, 2014, 4 p.m.
This week: Records from the first two decades of the 20th Century
PureLand's global radio debut + LGBT news + more!
April 21, 2014, 3:56 p.m.
PureLand sings out as "the girls they are"; early 20th century British suffragist/composer Edyth Smyth is remembered in a "Rainbow Minute"; India's top court affirms trans-people, Malta bans trans bias and okays civil unions, Ethiopia eschews Africa's trending homophobia while Zimbabwe's Mugabe reinforces it, new laws in Brunei punish consensual adult gay sex with death by stoning, and more global LGBT news.
"Goliath": The Big Quiet
April 21, 2014, 3 p.m.
Continued reading from M. Blumenthal's "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel", chapters 64 - 66; music.
Creating Government Accountability--A Grassroots Discussion on Bringing Change
April 21, 2014, 2:44 p.m.
On April 16th, 2014, I hosted a conference call on creating government accountability. There were three other people on the call: Lewis M. Shepard, a fellow Green Party member and cofounder of Cancer Action NY; Dale Pondysh, a North Country environmental activist and Daniel Flatley, a reporter for the Watertown Daily Times. There was a great feeling of people rising free of bad government and making progress toward replacing the bad government with good government on this call.
Lewis M. Shepard spoke about the failure of the United States government to protect Americans against asbestos exposure during a long period of time after it was known that asbestos exposure was causing serious harm to health. He compared government's downfall on asbestos with what is currently happening with mercury dental amalgams. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows the use of mercury amalgams when this practice has been banned elsewhere. The placement of a highly toxic neurotoxin in people's mouths goes against all common sense. Nevertheless, this practice continues because the use of mercury amalgams is a moneymaker for dentists.
Dale Pondysh shared a list of actions for which he would like to see government held accountable: wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; promoting unrest in the Ukraine; allowance of GMO products to be sold without labeling and failure to tax the most wealthy of Americans. He voiced the sentiment that this was far from what he wanted government to be doing.
I described my work of attempting to hold governmental public health entities including: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute and the New York State Department of Health accountable for their failure to warn Americans of avoidable chemical exposure cancer hazards. This work involved the publication of the Cancer Action NY report, "Disinformation Cancer Epidemic", which focused upon deceptive and incomplete public health messaging regarding dioxin exposure.
I stated my belief that legislation could serve to create government accountability. I provided details of three laws serving such a purpose. The first law would require that government employees and officials participate in on the record discussion of citizen complaints of failure to properly conduct government work. These recorded discussions would be the property of the citizen making the complaint. The recordings could be placed on the internet to raise public awareness of the work failure. The second law would establish a government office charged with investigating citizen complaints of failure to do work properly. The third law would give legal standing to any citizen wishing to file suit alleging failure of a government employee or official to properly do the work required in that position. This law would make government employees and officials personally liable for paying any penalties imposed by the court.
Daniel Flatley asked a most highly important question, why were Americans not taking action on the many problems of failed government? I answered that the people were struggling to deal with the immensity of the government failures. I stated that it was my belief that a strong social movement was growing in opposition to hydro fracking and that this movement might inspire citizen efforts to address other government failures.
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Donald L. Hassig, Director
Cancer Action NY
Cancer Action News Network
42 Green Pond Lane
Colton, NY USA 13625
315.262.2456
www.canceractionny.org