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Aug. 8, 2013, 2:37 p.m.
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Saturday Morning Live 13.08.03
Aug. 7, 2013, 11:50 p.m.
Interviews Common Frontiers Executive Director Raul Burbano
Aug. 7, 2013, 9:38 p.m.
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.
The Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Uncovering Ten Years of Deception
Aug. 7, 2013, 8:44 p.m.
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.
Aug. 7, 2013, 7:08 p.m.
(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.
Aug. 7, 2013, 6:59 p.m.
(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.
Aug. 7, 2013, 6:49 p.m.
(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 IranâIraq 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."
Celt In A Twist August 11 2013
Aug. 7, 2013, 6:42 p.m.
Great Galician w/Carlos Nunez and Riobo,fiddles fr.Denmark,Canada&Ireland - covering the Celtic World w/ Celt In A Twist!
Aug. 7, 2013, 6:41 p.m.
(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?"
Remembering the Tragedy, Part 2
Aug. 7, 2013, 6:33 p.m.
(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!
Aug. 7, 2013, 6:23 p.m.
(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.
Aug. 7, 2013, 6:07 p.m.
(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
The Vinyl Underground July 31st 2013
Aug. 7, 2013, 6 p.m.
Eclectic mixture of great music - with spotlights on soundtrack work by Jessie Jamz Ozeata and a feature on Halifax's Sloan
Aug. 7, 2013, 5:59 p.m.
(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.
Former LAPD Officer Michael Ruppert answers listener q's!
Aug. 7, 2013, 4:26 p.m.
Michael Ruppert is a former LAPD narcotics investigator, whistleblower, and author who is perhaps best known for being the subject of the 2009 documentary âCollapseâ. 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!
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Places & Things Radio Show Pt 1
Aug. 7, 2013, 4:14 p.m.
One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
Places & Things Radio Show Pt 2
Aug. 7, 2013, 3:06 p.m.
One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
Places & Things Radio Show Pt 3
Aug. 7, 2013, 2:21 p.m.
One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
Aug. 7, 2013, 2:06 p.m.
(SOAPBOX #67) - Cindy welcomes Tommy Chong to chat with him about legalization/decriminalization of marijuana, and the use of hemp for plastics and fuel. Tommy Chong is a marijuana activist, and a supporter of marijuana legalization and medical use of marijuana. (Only I really must apologize for something here, boyz and grrls: This episode's name is a blatant rip-off of Jane Hamsher's most outstanding and desperately needed Marijuana Legalization campaign.) We also speak with a San Francisco pot activist, Mesha Monge-Irizarry, who will talk about these issues from a local standpoint. Former Soapbox guest Ralph Lopez offers his EXPLOSIVE observations: He notes that the Wikileaks soldier who found the rocket launcher at the scene (last week's guest, Ethan McCord) says "No Attack Was Imminent." McCord discussed these observations in last week's interview. The massacre video showed 12 men, including two Reuters newsmen, standing on a street corner before being fired upon with the Apache's 30mm cannon, resulting in what appears to be unprovoked murder. The video caused an international outcry after it was leaked to the media by the government watchdog Wikileaks. The presence of the rocket launcher that McCord found was seized upon by defenders of the attack as proof that the attack was justified, and offered as evidence of an impending ambush. There's only one problem: Ethan McCord says "It ain't so!" Click here to read Ralph's article and listen to the interview. Today's discussion asks "Why is our nation jumping so rabidly on the Save Drug Cartel Profits bandwagon?" I mean, come on. Haven't we already tried prohibition, back in the 1920s & 1930s? Do we really need to guarantee the continuance of drug related carnage, exactly as bootlegging profits fed Prohibition carnage back then? It looks like we will need to use the power of NO to stop rewarding drug cartels with Marijuana profits and generate some desperately needed State revenue.
Aug. 7, 2013, 1:54 p.m.
(SOAPBOX #66) - Cindy interviews Ethan McCord, who became an unfortunate star of the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" video, seen in the video carrying the wounded children from the bullet riddled van and Jud Newborn, PhD, co-author of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, a companion volume to the recent Oscar-nominated German film, "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days." (There's a fascinating PDF Afterword to the book available here.) As the recent and newest Wikileaks revelations fade into undeserved obscurity - accepted and ignored by what was once an anti-war community - I feel I need to yell "WAKE UP" once again. So we've elected a new wearer of the Imperial Purple (mainly by virtue of NOT being George W. Bush). That doesn't mean we can go back to sleep, and just wait for our problems to get fixed. The murder of civilians hasn't stopped, the looting of our nation's wealth by corporate arms-merchants hasn't stopped, and the criminalization of dissent proceeds apace. As Hans Scholl (Sophie's brother) wrote in his diary after his first arrest by the Gestapo in 1937: "If you tear our hearts from our bodies, you yourselves will burn to death for it." Well people: America is also tearing the hearts of innocents out of their bodies. Wikileaks confirms it. Everybody knows it. Do you think we will be rewarded for it? What do you expect from a democracy, anyway? Come on folks: Democracy is what we have when our masters tell us what's right, and then we just do it. Only a fool would think that it has something to do with what we the people want. Our democratically elected "fearless leaders" all say so. I'm sure they must be right. Today's discussion delves once more into the power of NO, and how to say it.
Aug. 7, 2013, 1:42 p.m.
(SOAPBOX #65) - Cindy interviews ELaine Brower of World Can't Wait and Sustainable Orphanages for Haitian Youth, Matthis Chiroux of Iraq Vets Against the War, and Bobby Whittenberg of Under the Hood Cafe in Killeen, Tx. Cindy sez: "Hope you enjoy this week's show as I chat with Elaine, Matthis and Bobby about how to make a difference - one person at a time, if we have to." Today the latest Wikileaks revelation fades into ho-hum obscurity, accepted and passively ignored by what was once an anti-war community - back before our national empire's war crimes were enshrined by our Nobel Peace-Prize laureate, who became a progressive darling simply by virtue of NOT being George W. Bush. Of course, the murder of civilians hasn't stopped, the looting of our nation's wealth by corporate arms-merchants hasn't stopped, and the criminalization of dissent proceeds apace. But what do you want in a democracy, anyway? Come on folks: Democracy is what we have when the masters tell us what's right and we do it. Only fools would think it has something to do with what we the people want. Today's discussion examines the power of NO and how to say it.
Places & Things Radio Show Pt 4
Aug. 7, 2013, 1:36 p.m.
One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
Stop Civil Wrongs - by strong Civil Rights!
Aug. 7, 2013, 1:27 p.m.
(SOAPBOX #64) - Cindy interviews legendary Civil Rights Attorney John Burris, a renowned and accomplished civil rights lawyer who has prevailed in some of the most notorious cases of police misconduct and civil rights violations in recent history. He was Rodney King's co-counsel in his civil trial against the LA PD, and Oscar Grant's mother's lawyer. If you've been in a cave the last few weeks you may not remember that Oscar Grant is the young African-American males shot in the back and killed by an Oakland police officer while laying helpless, face down on the ground. Mr Grant's killer was found guilty of "involuntary homicide," a slap on the wrist for this well-documented needless killing. Still, as John and Cindy first note, the most amazing thing about this is that a police killing of an unarmed, restrained victim actually went to trial at all. Mr. Burris remarked that in this era of police misconduct against African-American males, the verdict could have been the best that could be hoped for. THE MOST IMPORTANT BIT OF SENSE they contribute here is simply this: Don't just "accept" these trevesties of justice and decency. KEEP FIGHTING! Their discussion examines today's "Police State" now being imposed on the black community. Cindy and John have lots to talk about - and it's all good listening!
Aug. 7, 2013, 1:13 p.m.
(SOAPBOX #63) - Cindy interviews a noted woman of conscience, Ann Wright, former Army Colonel, Foreign Diplomat, and Anti-war Activist. Ann was in a small boat, just astern of the Mavi Marmara in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - from which vantage point she closely observed the unprovoked Israeli attack on an unarmed mercy ship in International waters. Colonel Wright is an old friend of Cindy's; having helped her organize and operate Camp Casey during Cindy's famous mission to Crawford, Texas in 2005. (You remember: back when President Bush demonstrated to the whole world he was afraid to meet with her.) Today, we have a brand-new President, bringing brand new changes. Since that brand-new President still wants more sacrifices (of other mothers' children) for that noble cause, Cindy still wants to know what that "noble cause" might be. (Is that too hard to comprehend?) Certainly, the President of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth cannot be scared to explain to one mother just why grinding her once-living precious baby into just another corpse was a noble act, can he? After all, it's not like it's something he doesn't do every day. Every day he send out the children of other mothers to be turned into corpses, - or, if they're lucky, to grind the children of Iraqi or Afghan mothers into corpses instead. By now we've had two Presidents tell us "this is noble." Is it too much to ask the current wearer of Imperial purple just why it's noble to turn children into corpses? We're dying to hear your explanation. Cindy and Ann Wright have lots to discuss; it's all good listening!
Aug. 7, 2013, 1:13 p.m.
All samples heard actually aired on broadcast Radio. Yes, really.
Places & Things Radio Show Pt 5
Aug. 7, 2013, 12:37 p.m.
One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
KR Weekly News Special Report 8 7 13
Aug. 7, 2013, 12:29 p.m.
"Climate change occurring 10 times faster than at any time in past 65 million years"
Aug. 7, 2013, 11:36 a.m.
This RADIOLA! suggests that there's not enough room in Denial for all of us to live there.
