Temir Porras

Cindy welcomes Temir Porras, Venezuela's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, in charge of the Middle East and Asia. In today's world, Venezuela and its popularly beloved President, Hugo Chavez, are tarred as a "communist dictatorship" because of robber-class fears that his good example could give others ideas, too. (Where would the world be if we let people realize that Hugo Chavez is beloved precisely BECAUSE he takes good care of all his people - not just the wealthy and powerful few.) The National Endowment for Democracy is a Washington D.C-based non-profit, funded by the U.S. national budget to subvert real democracy wherever it threatens to stay established. In particular they spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money every year in Venezuela to delegitmatize and destabilize Chavez's democratically elected government. The U.S. media, showing all their characteristic perspicacity and integrity, faithfully all spout this same "party line" and forbid any alternative view. But not Cindy. Today, with this absolutely marvelous interview, she gives us all some deeper insight into the realities of life and viewpoint in Chavez's "communist dictatorship" - while back at home in "the freest nation on earth" our President keeps us safe by killing us - if we're suspects - and all without any namby-pamby trials

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TODOS SOMOS AMERICANOS

(SOAPBOX #53) - Those words mean "We are ALL Americans." Today is the day! Cindy says a warm "hello" to Pacifica Radio, starting with this interview with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, in honor of exactly that sentiment! Cindy's request to interview President Hugo Chavez Frias of Venezuela was finally granted on March 2nd, when Cindy and two photographers were down in Montevideo, Uruguay with President Chavez for the inauguration of the new left-ish president and freedom fighter, Jose Mujica. Eva Golinger (Venezuelan-American attorney and author) was the translator.

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Coleen Rowley, FBI Whistleblower

(SOAPBOX #52) - Cindy hosts Minneapolis FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley. Ms. Rowley unleashed a firestorm with her Congressional testimony about pre 9/11 leads to Zacarias Moussaoui that were quashed by the FBI. She had originally documented these in a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller. Every administration since Reagan's has chased after rollbacks in the civil liberties and curbs on police power wrought in the '60s and '70s by the civil rights movement, the Warren Court and post-Watergate reformers. So of course the imperial President of our National Security State chose to spin Ms. Rowley's revelations creatively: "We have to err on the side of sacrificing freedoms and empowering police agencies, however marginal the gains in domestic security. The stakes are too high to do otherwise." Now Ms. Rowley had just shown that the old powers of domestic surveillance are totally good enough - if the FBI is doing its job. But why waste a "golden opportunity" like this one? So instead of ending infighting between the FBI, the CIA and NSA - we got the Patriot Act and National Security Letters. Yet we only started there: We also got indefinite warantless detention, unprosecuted torture (by those on a high-enough level), and a President who keeps us safe by killing American citizen suspects - without trials! (It's sure good we're "the freeest nation on earth!")

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Broadcast One Hundred Thirty Six

Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech, DIY, freeform exploration of music from the last century of recorded sound and music in all genres ... including 78s, reel to reels, cassettes, vinyl records and even endangered cds. Each week I play an ecclectic blend of tunes released between 1900 (more or less) and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music and culture in the spirit of free radio

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Higher Achievement Richmond

Higher Achievement is an organization that provides academic enrichment and advancement programs for middle school students in Pittsburgh PA, Baltimore MD, Washington D.C. and here in Richmond. They work in tight collaboration with Richmond Public Schools at Henderson Middle School and Boushall Middle School and came to Richmond as part of the “Middle School Renaissance” initiative. Middle School is the "make it or break it" time for a child's academic future because it determines what opportunities they will have throughout High School and for college preparation. Higher Achievement Scholars can begin in 5th grade and continue through Middle School; the program aims to set children on the college track by 9th grade. And Inspire Indeed also welcomes a 7th grader in the Higher Achievement Academy! For more information, visit http://www.higherachievement.org.

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Jazz Jazz Jazz

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John Pilger

(SOAPBOX #51) - Once again, Cindy still ♥s the Pacifica Network and will begin uploading her new half-hour format interview show to the Pacifica affiliate, starting with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on March 14th. However, today Cindy hosts famous and prolific Austrailian journalist John Pilger. John has a highly relevant and informative blog at www.johnpilger.com. Cindy and John have a deep and particularly insightful conversation, touching on Barack Obama's actual rightwing orientation (contrasted with his characterization by the corporate media as a "socialist"), to the suppression of "forbidden" un-authorized viewpoints.

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A Time for Change

(SOAPBOX #50) - For this Valentine's Day, Cindy ♥s the Pacifica Network. She anounces she is going to start uploading her brand-new half-hour format interview show to the Pacifica affiliate, starting with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on March 14th. Today marks her first new format show, and today she welcomes Glen Greenwald to discuss our President's newly revealed program of arbitrary extra-judicial killing (executions) of American citizens. Please tune in and hear the latest.

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Helen Caldicott: Nuclear Power, Radiation & Our Health, Part ONE of TWO

The keynote presentation at a public forum in Taipei, Taiwan, on July 7, 2013. The organizer was an antinuclear alliance of mothers called Mom Loves Taiwan. They are campaigning to prevent the opening of yet another nuclear power plant on that small island and invited Dr. Helen Caldicott to help inform the public and the media. This is a brief and concise talk covering the nature of power plants accidents, the different forms of radiation released, and how exactly radiation acts on human cells and causes cancer.

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Russell Means=Activism

(SOAPBOX #49) - Cindy welcomes legendary American Indiam activist Russell Means for a most illuminating conversation covering historical social systems, their matriarchal versus patriarchal organizations, today's single party rule through our entrenched and ruling unified Demopublican Party, and the ongoing attempt to preserve native American legacy today. As Cindy promised him, we offer this link to the Republic of Lakotah website. Visit it! Cindy also hosts Debra Sweet, National Director of World Can't Wait, to discuss the guilty verdict recently returned against Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. Please tune in and hear the latest.

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Blast from the Past

(SOAPBOX #48 - Cindy says farewell to beloved and revered Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010), an inspiring and influentual American historian, author, activist, playwright, intellectual and Professor of Political Science at Boston University from 1964 to 1988. He was interviewed on this show by guest-host Cynthia McKinney on September 27, 2009. His trenchant insights are especially valuable now following the attempted health care reform melt-down and the planned "budget freeze" on help for the people - but no budget freeze on help for the war industry. Cindy replays the interview. She also hosts Betty Ann Peltier, sister of designated (and innocent) scapegoat Leonard Peltier, convected for the deaths of two FBI agents at Wounded Knee in 1975. (At one time it was widely known that the FBI never proved Leonard was even at Wounded Knee when the agents died.) Please tune in and let us inform you.

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Stop the Killing

(SOAPBOX #47 - Cindy welcomes Robert R. Bryan, defense attorney representing Mumia_Abu-Jamal. He has been described as "perhaps the best known Death-Row prisoner in the world," and his sentence is still one of the most debated today. On Friday, 1/15/10, the US Supreme Court was to hear Pennsylvania's effort to execute Mumia, so arguments are still going on. Please tune in and let Cindy and Robert update you.

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After Haiti

(SOAPBOX #46 - Cindy welcomes Matt Gonzalez and Larry Pinkney. Both have substantive and insightful viewpoints highly relevant to today's most burning issues, especially after President (Presto) Change O'Bama appointed none other than that that great expert exterminator master of disaster (relief) George W. Bush to provide a second disaster expert relief to the impoverished black nation of Haiti, in the same memorable manner in which he aided poor black residents of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina!

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Years of Resistance

(SOAPBOX #45 - Cindy issues it in, welcoming renowned Attorney and Writer Eva Golinger. Eva is a Venezuelan-American attorney from New York, living in Caracas, Venezuela. If you can spare the time, you might want to take a look at her blog: "Postcards from the Revolution." Wow! Does she have a spotlight to throw on the secret scurrying of the CIA in Venezuela, or what? (Sort of like cockroaches, they desperately want to escape that light!)

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After Oslo

(SOAPBOX #44 - Cindy welcomes David Swanson. David is a long-time peace activist, a founder of "After Downing Street", and author of a famous new book on Undoing the Imperial Presidency. They discuss the ongoing failures of current policy, alternatives and plans for 2010. Especially after the recent spate of dissapointments by Presznit (Presto) Change-O!

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Peaceful Sunday

(SOAPBOX #43 - Cindy welcomes Kevin Zeese, who represents both Voters for Peace AND Peace of the Action. They talk mostly about Peace of the Action. In addition, Cindy also welcomes Ralph Lopez, who brings forward a realistic, real world approach to creating peace and stability for the Afghan people. Of course, because his idea is creative, workable, and equitable - it has the profound disadvantage of not feeding the American War Industry with an endless supply of bodies and loot. (Beware of this sinister plot: it MUST be un-American!) So it will only interest wimps and wussies who hate killing and want a safe future for our children in this world! (What loosers!)

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Sunday Came on Friday

(SOAPBOX #42 - Sunday on Friday? Well; sort of. (This was one very special week.) Actually, the week was especially special because the Sunday show (from 11/29) actually was up and ready on Friday, November 27th - at noon. (OK folks; if Sunday can come on Friday - why can't 2:00 PM happen at noon? Remember, I already explained: "This is one very special week!") Cindy interviews, live on her microphone, awesome and sagacious, once Green Party, and once independent POTUS (President Of the United States) Candidate, our most famous National Safety Raider: the one-and-only, most honorable, Ralph Nader! All rhetoric aside, folks - Soapbox is thrilled and deeply honored to have such a distinguished guest. This too is a very special Soapbox!

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worldbeatcanada radio august 9 2013

Kobo Town convo fr.Folk Fest, new Cat Empire,Elastic Bond,Kobayashi+Fatal Mambo cover Mungo Jerry-summertime global to go!

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Downtown grocery desert

Scott Price speaks to Robert Galston about downtown infrastructure and grocery stores.

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Gertrude Part 2

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Whose Winnipeg

Examining concerns about the way Winnipeg allocates public lands. Thomas McLeon, Ron Mazor, Brian Kelsey, and Richard Milrum speak about these concerns.

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Revelations

In which I play out all the alternate unreleased versions of John Lennon's take on the political world of 1968, through his song Revolution, the b-side of the best selling record the Beatles ever released. This show is about setting the scene, laying the context, in which John created this profound confection of politics, sexuality, and dreams, and which is the most far out music the Beatles ever made as a band.

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Interview with radio legend, Bob Fass of WBAI FM.

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If Music Could Talk - Aug 4, 2013 - Music from Bahamas, and a few other places

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Rock O'Clock - August 5 2013

Eric's Trip - "Master" Howl - "From Hell" Scientists of Sound - "PONTIAC" The Peter Parkers - "Kill The Economy" Heat and Lights - "A Part You Can't Play" The Port City All Stars - "Downtown Is Alright" The Heavy Blinkers - "Everything Is Magic" Wayne Hansen - "Song for Samson" Reversing Falls - "Pyramid Scheme" Still Life Still x Zulu Winter - "Era" Hashimoto - "Sidewalk Support Group" Bon Iver - "Towers" Grand Analog - "The Great Rhyme Dropper ft Shad" The High Dials - "Your Eyes Are a Door" Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Pink Slime" Monomyth - "Voodoo Crack" Rae Spoon - "I Want"

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Earthbeat odd stories

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0207

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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Jeff Halper commentaries

ICAHD's director Dr. Jeff Halper comments on Secretary of State John Kerry's mission to nudge the "peace process", and an outline of his proposed path to a viable outcome for Israeli's and Palestinians; Hungarian folk music.

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The Motherland Influence Aug.4, 2013

Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.

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The Other Black Music Aug. 4, 2013

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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