Edward Bernays and Education

Episode 83 of the Smells Like Human Spirit Podcast features Part 10 of our mini-series dissecting Edward Bernays' seminal text 'Propaganda'. In this show, the focus is placed specifically on Chapter 8 ('Propaganda for Education'), which alludes to themes of standardized testing, the dichotomy between theoretical and practical knowledge, and the general limitations of Educational systems. Did Edward Bernays' contempt for 'ordinary' people influence his views on Education? Find out in our latest episode! Subscribe to the Smells Like Human Spirit Podcast on iTunes, follow us on Twitter @smellslikepod and 'like' our Facebook page at FB.com/SmellsLikeHumanSpirit for more great shows and news!

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At The Show Episode 57: Live at the Fillmore East

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Focus Asia Pacific August 9 2013

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The Shortwave Report 08/09/13 Listen Globally!

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, the Voice of Russia, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and NHK World Radio Japan

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Should We Prohibit Genetically Engineered Babies?

Genetic engineering makes promises of a world free of genetic diseases. Parents might be able to control their offspring’s height, eye color and intelligence. But is the science of genetic engineering advanced enough? Could there be unintended consequences and new diseases that result? In the movie Gattaca, the vast majority of people were genetically engineered but those of natural birth were treated as if they were disabled people. Is the genetic engineering of babies morally wrong? Could it lead to eugenics and a stratified society where only the wealthy enjoy the benefits of genetic enhancement? Nita Farahany and Lee Silver argue against the motion. Sheldon Krimsky and Robert Winston argue for the motion. Source: NPR: Should We Prohibit Genetically Engineered Babies? Andy Worthington discusses Guantanamo with Scott Horton. Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantanamo Files and the article “Eleven Years after 9/11, Guantánamo Is a Political Prison”. Despite being long-ago cleared for release, the many Gitmo prisoners are still imprisoned. Why has Attorney General Eric Holder’s not prosecuted Bush-era torturers? Source: Scott Horton's Radio Show: 9/7/12 Andy Worthington

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Anniversary Madness

January 16, 2011 (SOAPBOX #81) - Cindy presents admirably scurrulous election satire by no less than George Carlin, and then "celebrates" two anniversaries, one famous and most healthy for our nation - but oh so hated today by the "religious right" (which is really neither) - Roe versus Wade - and the other, a truly sickening anniversary, that of the opening of Guantanamo Bay Prison, on Jan 11th, 2002. Roe versus Wade is commemorated by Somer Loen, a long-time activist for the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, or BACORR. The disgusting opening of Guantanamo Bay Prison by Matthew Daloisio of Witness Against Torture, another long standing activist against our modern Imperial "Death State" (as so eloquently designated by one of our webmaster's heroes, Arthur Silber). Cindy and Matt have an illuminating discusion about Guantanamo and its meaning for America's future. A future which we all hope will be far brighter than today's sad state of affairs.

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YOKO gets a Peace of The Action!

(SOAPBOX #80) - Cindy welcomes famous peace activist Yoko Ono. Long before there was a John and Yoko, she grew up in Japan during the end of World War II. It didn't take much more to make her a committed peace activist. It had a critical formative influence on her whole life. They discuss the historical growth of the peace movement, plus rippling effects from the dawning public recognition of just how much our "democratically elected" government lies to us. Yoko and Cindy both suffered great tragic losses in their lives. Cindy asks how she could possibly keep going and stay so strong and so positive. Yoko just anwers "It was the only thing I could do." Optimism is NEEDED. Both observe we need to "take a sad song - and make it better!"

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The BP Plague

(SOAPBOX #79) - Cindy welcomes FOUR guests (count them!) in this year-ending blowout, all discussing the ever-spreading BP Plague, still destroying our Gulf Coast. First up is Karen Mayer Hopkins. She is Treasurer of Gulf Change, an environmental group from within the Gulf Seafood Industry. Next is Mac MacKenzie, founder of NOLA Emergency Response (http://www.nolaer.org/), who purchased 3 lbs. of Gulf Shrimp and had their digestive tracts tested for contaminants. She found 193 PPM of organic matter and hydrocarbons and then corroborated that by other tests. She therefore warns us that the seafood sill isn't safe to eat. She's followed by Trisha Springstead, RN - a Medical Research Professional with a web site at morgellonsreport.com. Trish discusses the effects and biochemical results of all this ignored oil and dispersant brew. She proceeds onwards from there. Cindy completes her power play with Medical Professional, activist and organizer - Anita Stewart, who also delves into the real-world consequences of this un-acknowledged disaster.

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Anwar al Awlaki

(SOAPBOX #78) - Cindy welcomes Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has a LONG history of fighting for the victims of our official "Justice" (not) system. Check out this interview she did with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Maher Arar's case against US officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured. The Federal Bench calmly ruled that that victims of extraordinary rendition cannot sue Washington for torture suffered overseas, because Congress has not authorized such lawsuits. (See how simple that was? Yes, boyz and grrls - it's true: THE US DOES NOT TORTURE! Our "leaders" all say so.) Today, she and Cindy discuss the case of Anwar al Awlaki, a US citizen currently on the special forces "kill" list. Last Monday, the U.S. District Court agreed with the Obama Administration that U.S. Citizens can be killed without any charge; without any trial - and the District Court inexplicbly agreed. Uh, hey folks: Who amended the Constitution to delete the Fifth Amendment?

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Double Trouble

(SOAPBOX #77) - Cindy welcomes both Matt 'maximum gonzo' Taibbi and David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, the new blockbuster revelation masterpiece. The discussion moves on, through the current fake mortgage crisis. Matt Taibbi has much published material in Rolling Stone, and knows what he's talking about. David Swanson is a well established activist with a long history in the peace movement. He contributes his expert insight here, using his expertise to discuss the lies behind all wars. The discussion moves on, through the current fake mortgage crisis. Matt Taibbi has much published material in Rolling Stone, and knows what he's talking about. David Swanson is a well established activist with a long history in the peace movement. He contributes his expert insight here, using his expertise to discuss the lies behind all wars.

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Grande Dame

(SOAPBOX #76) - Cindy speaks for herself: "Dear Friends, As a path finding journalist that covered every president since JFK, Helen Thomas ended every presidential press conference with her trademark: "Thank you, Mr. President," (except for during the Bush years, when she was relegated to the back row). This Sunday, we say: "Thank you, Helen Thomas," as I chat with her about her life that has been intertwined with our history for the last five decades. She is characteristically straightforward in this interview that will first air on October 31st at 2pm Pacific at the website. If you miss it this Sunday, you can access it any time after that at the archives.

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Leo Masliah en Burundanga

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On Egypt

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Gertrude 1 (retry)

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Saturday Morning Live 13.08.03

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Interviews Common Frontiers Executive Director Raul Burbano

Common Frontiers Executive Director Raul Burbano speaks about the ongoing repression in Honduras, the upcoming delegation in November to cover the elections. And Canada's role in this repression including trade agreements that benefit Canadian mining companies.

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The Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Uncovering Ten Years of Deception

During the month of August and leading into the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Global Research News Hour presents a series of speeches challenging the government account of the 9/11 narrative. These speeches were presented at Toronto's Ryerson University as part of a tenth anniversary review of the attacks.

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Hola Eva!

(SOAPBOX #75) - Cindy sez: "We will be hosting Venezuelan / American Attorney and author Eva Golinger to talk about some recent South American events." Ms. Golinger is the author of The Chavez Code, which illuminates (using US documentation) the US's profound part in the attempted overthrow of President Hugo Chavez in 2002. We chat about the importance and the implications of Venezuela's recent parliamentary elections, and last week's coup attempt in Ecuador. We also try to answer the age old question of why does the Huffington Post hate Hugo Chavez and Venezuela so? I doubt you will find an hour on radio or tv that is packed with more relevant info than on today's Soapbox.

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Terrific Triumphant Trifecta

(SOAPBOX #74) - Cindy welcomes 3 respected guests: Count them; three! 1) Father Roy Bourgeois of the School of the Americas Watch. SOA is a notorious training school for torturers and right-wing activist coup plotters that is currently actively destabilizing democratic regimes in South America. His biography can be found here, 2) Jess Sundin, who was one of the activists raided by the FBI last week. She's a longtime antiwar activist in Minneapolis. Evidently, this was reason enough for the FBI to paint a target marker on her back. This is documented on Democracy Now! (Is our government still rivaling the old Soviet Empire as well as modern Iran for supremacy in social control ?), and finally 3) Lisa Barr, who works at Pacifica radio station WTND-FM in rural Illinois. It's been a long time since we've had 3 guests! I'm so excited.

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Independent Journalism

(SOAPBOX #73) - Cindy holds a very in-depth interview with British journalist, Robert Fisk, who has been living in the Middle East and reporting from there for decades. He is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent and has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported from the United States's attack on Afghanistan and the same country's 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. Robert FiskHe reported the Northern Ireland troubles in the 1970s, the Portuguese Revolution in 1974, the Lebanese Civil War, the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. A vernacular Arabic speaker, he is one of few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, and did so three times between 1994 and 1997. His awards include being voted International Journalist of the Year seven times. Fisk has said that journalism must, "challenge authority, all authority, especially so when governments and politicians take us to war." He has quoted with approval the Israeli journalist Amira Hass: "There is a misconception that journalists can be objective. ... What journalism is really about is to monitor power and the centres of power." He has written at length on how much of contemporary conflict has its origin, in his view, in lines drawn on maps: "After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career - in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad - watching the people within those borders burn."

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Celt In A Twist August 11 2013

Great Galician w/Carlos Nunez and Riobo,fiddles fr.Denmark,Canada&Ireland - covering the Celtic World w/ Celt In A Twist!

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Angela's Analysis

(SOAPBOX #72) - Cindy welcomes socialist, philosopher, political activist and retired professor Angela Davis. Since moving in the early 1990s from party communism to other forms of political commitment, she has identified herself as a democratic socialist. A famous revolutionary, she is the founder of a national grassroots organization committed to ending society's use of prisons and policing as an answer to social problems: Critical Resistance. Conspicuously an intellectual, she brings analytic substance to subjects she explores and discusses. Her statements on capitalism - versus socialism - versus communism are penetrating and highly enlightening. Listen to the Angela Davis interview this Sunday for a fascinating intellectual discussion about the "ISMs" of political economy. Also, she drops a bomb responding to the question "Is Obama a Socialist?"

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Remembering the Tragedy, Part 2

(SOAPBOX #71) - Cindy hosts the executive editor of the Black Agenda Report, Glen Ford. He's already had a long career as a distinguished radio host, though usually pre-recording his show prior to broadcast in order to facilitate editing & correction. (Whereas that silly Cindy has live guests.) They discuss the major recent conservative kerfluffle over the "ground zero mosque," which isn't at ground zero, and isn't a mosque either. [But what do facts have to do with it, anyway?] They're calling a single nearly microscopic piece of land by the superstitious name "hallowed ground." This "controversy" conceals white nationalism by suggesting that the whole of America is being polluted by these non-American, not-good-American influences which should never be allowed in the vicinity of the "hallowed ground" nearby. The same organization that's calling for the anti-"mosque" demo is also calling it a demo to prevent the Islamification of America. The virulent anti-white hostility aimed at the Islamic community has a far too great chance of inciting actual violence. Beyond that, a larger problem is the apologists who endorse, spread, and approve of such hatred. Such sentiments almost exactly reflect the anti-desegregation opinions widely endorsed back when the Civil Rights barricades were falling: "Why can't these unworthy-Americans just stay in their places?" It's not like there's anything new here! We "been there; done that" before!

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Remembering the Tragedy

(SOAPBOX #70) - This week our webmaster is sick, so I'm forced to do this by myself! He did manage to get the new show up and ready for you, so that much is already taken care of. As we enter September, I recall back in 2001 on the morning of September 11, when I awoke from what I feel was a precognitive dream to find that two passenger jets had flown into the World Trade Towers and two were out of communication with air traffic control. My life, your life, and indeed, everyone on this planet's life has not been the same since that terrible day. Some people's lives prospered under the "new paradigm" of global and almost total police state control and with two military invasions and occupations by the U.S. on two countries that did not attack us on 9/11/01. Most people, though, have felt the pain of war, environmental decay and economic depravity that have been imposed by the U.S. Empire. This week on the Soapbox, (beginning Sunday at 2PM PDST) my guest is Bob McIlvaine whose son Bobby perished in the lobby of Tower Two on that morning (in an explosion, hmmm) and Bob gives a passionate, well-informed and intense evaluation of that day--and a touching remembrance of his son.

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Anti-War

(SOAPBOX #69) - Cindy chats on Liberty Radio with Scott Horton of Antiwar.com, a site devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and followed by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents alike, as well as by many on the Right who agree with the opposition to imperialism. This is not just an idea from the political left. In 1952, Garet Garrett, one of the last of the Old Right "isolationists," said it well: "Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other." But the Empire's carnage continues. Real people, real individuals - dying for nothing. They are our friends and our neighbors. It's not a movie scene we're talking about here. One of my goals is to personalize these wars. Obama declared the Iraq war over and said "we're going to call the troops that are there something other than combat troops so we can keep combat troops there." Well, at least he's being honest about what a liar he is

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The Vinyl Underground July 31st 2013

Eclectic mixture of great music - with spotlights on soundtrack work by Jessie Jamz Ozeata and a feature on Halifax's Sloan

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Deju Vu--Yet Again.

(SOAPBOX #68) - Cindy sez: "Greetings! This Sunday, (August 22nd) at 2 pm PST, I hope you tune into Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox to hear my fascinating and informative interview with legendary whistle blower and activist, Daniel Ellsberg. Daniel and I will be chatting about; the Wikileaks controversy, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan--an info packed show, for sure. With millions of bits of disinformation and propaganda flying around our airwaves this past week, Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox continues to be a light shining through the lies.

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Former LAPD Officer Michael Ruppert answers listener q's!

Michael Ruppert is a former LAPD narcotics investigator, whistleblower, and author who is perhaps best known for being the subject of the 2009 documentary ‘Collapse’. Following Michael's well-received appearance on the Smells Like Human Spirit Podcast back in Episode 53, he returned to the show to answer listener questions. Enjoy! Subscribe to the Smells Like Human Spirit Podcast on iTunes, follow us on Twitter @smellslikepod and 'like' our Facebook page at FB.com/SmellsLikeHumanSpirit for more great shows and news!

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