#659 - Countering Intelligence 2

This week we continue our look at the secret state with the help of Scott Noble's latest film, Counter Intelligence on the out of control apparatus of "national security services". The focus this week is on drug trafficking and False Flag operations. We supplement the adaptation with some classic Michael Ruppert on the narco-connection to US politics, Mark Crispin Miller on the phrase "conspiracy theory" and a speaker on the FSB and the Ryazan Apartment bombing of 1999.

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8/7/13 edition

the only new music i have for your audio-seeking ears is stuff from a new richmond metal band called hoboknife, which i will be playing some time in the 2nd hour of the show! we will start off with another track from skinny puppy's weapon! ...and just for you richmond (and the world!), the all-knowing and all-seeing frankie, aka oblivious man (just kidding!), will be joining us in the studio! ***upcoming event***: vaxsination: i am not mentioning this on the air, but i'm djing at fallout on wednesday, august 14th, 10 pm-2 am. there is no cover to get in...if you like the dog germs music, then you will probably like the vaxsination music! hope to see you all there! upcoming shows: low on sanity vs. synthetic nightmare w/machine chop inc. on thursday, august 15th @ fallout, richmond, va cemetery boys, human services, opt out, asylum xiii, proceed the eye on friday, august 30th @ stone house lounge, norfolk, va velvet acid christ, the twilight garden, and venal flesh on tuesday, october 8th @ fallout, richmond, va nine inch nails on friday, october 18th @ verizon center, washington, d.c.

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Art of the French Impressionists

Radio Curious visits with Melissa Buron, art historian and curator of the French Impressionist exhibit, Impressionists on the Water, currently at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California. 

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08-04-13 Surviving Hate & Hurt

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Yell Fire! The Conviction of Bradley Manning, A Future of Fire for the Forests of the West and the Abortion Rights Freedom Riders Keep On Rolling

Sweet on the Bradley Manning Trial, the character of the trial, the outrage of the verdict, and the worldwide support for his courageous and honorable actions. Davidson on his most recent article, "The Great Burning: How Wildfires Are Threatening the West." the result of climate change and Tea Party Politics. Taylor reports from Fargo, North Dakota, the latest stop of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride.

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The Milk Man Returneth

Josh from Mother's Milk fills in for the Haberdasher with a sexy-time theme. Much fun was had by all.

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Radicals Take on Prisons

Sin Barras-Without Bars - a look at fighting the oppression going on in our prisons. The Prison Hunger Strike in California, as well as various tactics for forming coalitions and reaching the People.

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KR Weekly News In Review 6 Aug. 2013

New jobs disproportionately low-pay or part-time

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Broadcast One Hundred Thirty Seven

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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Ambassador

(SOAPBOX #62) - Cindy brings us a most illuminating Requiem for the antiwar movement. Also, this Sunday (July 11th) she features Edward L. Peck, a one-time Deputy Director of Covert Intelligence Programs and retired career diplomat who served thirty-two-years in the U.S. Foreign Service, from 1956 until 1989. He's had a few "bumpy rides" - for example when he objected to invading Iraq prior to our March 2003 invasion, asking "when you take out Saddam Hussein, what happens after that? We don't have a clue. Nobody knows, but it's probably going to be bad." Not exactly fitting my pre-existing image of a career Foreign Service diplomat, he seems to be a real person - with a real heart! (So who screwed up by letting someone with a working conscience into our Foreign Service? How un-American!) He certainly offers a unique perspective on our international affairs. Most recently, he was in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and told of it here. They have much to talk about; it's all good listening!

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Bad Boy

(SOAPBOX #61) - Cindy returns! She welcomes that most famous ex-Weatherman poster boy of opposition to war: Bill Ayers - beloved by all launderies who wash out conservative underwear; if only for creating so many stains for them to eradicate. Today Dr. Bill Ayers is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the author of "To Teach: The Journey, In Comics," which uses the comic book format to reach out to teachers. He truly is a highly innovative expert in education, with lots to say - although not always conformist in content. Cindy and Dr. Ayers discuss some of those non-conformist thoughts in a perfectly delightful interview. They put opposition to this "war" into the historical context of the Vietnam war, and come away with the conclusion that we must build a real, living, anti-war movement in our country, and discuss how. The key is people's consciousness. And the way to build that? Talk to people. Cindy and Bill discuss the rhythm of resistance. They have much to discuss, and plenty worth listening to.

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Major Parties Only: A Love Story

(SOAPBOX #59) - Come on: what loyal American doesn't love the suppression of unpatriotic dissent? Cindy hosts the surprising president of Free and Equal Elections, Christina Tobin, currently the Libertarian Candidate for Secretary of State in California. She is a long-time opponent of restrictive legal requirements making it difficult for Independent and Third Party candidates to place their names on the ballot. Also, she's a mortal enemy of California's notorious Proposition 14. (Ralph Nader, leading advocate for third-party candidate and full voter rights, stated, "Unless defeated, Proposition 14 would establish a two-party tyranny that prevents other candidate choices for California voters from the November election ballot. In short, Proposition 14 wants to shut you up if you disagree with the arrogant, big two-party politicians." Such an approach is especially interesting when you consider the fact that, as we've often pointed out here, the supposed Left-Right opposition is only a stage act, as faked as "Professional Wrestling" - pure Kabuki Theater designed to distract the public from becoming aware of the fact that both sides identically serve exactly the same masters. (Here, we call those masters our "robber class," the secret and hidden true Emperors of America.)

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Shifting Sands

(SOAPBOX #58) - Cindy welcomes author/editor Osie Adelfang of an anthology, telling a story best capsulized as "Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation." Now this is significant, because Osie was raised as a Jewish Israeli girl in the USA, and was nourished with the "official" propaganda story of Jewish emigration into an empty land and their subsequent victimization by Arab predators. This "official" line somehow failed to tell Jewish children of the fact the land was already occupied - by Palestinians. Osie had quite a journey to come to understand what she really knew, what she really didn't know, and what she "knew" that just wasn't so! She was so alone. Even today, the "official" rendition of current events within Israel doesn't include inconvenient facts, like the recent worldwide Gaza freedom march. It was a *bleeping* difficult transformation, for all who did undergo it. It was a principal motivation for her book, so the book holds many poignant, meaningful stories. Osie and Cindy discuss much personally meaningful detail, and tell marvelous stories. The process of revising what you've always believed to be the "facts" of your life is always the most poignant of human experiences. Especially the mythology of "A land without a people for a people without a land" was especially difficult to confront and rectify. Osie tells Cindy of her own experiences.

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Behind the Media Curtain

(SOAPBOX #57) - Cindy talks with Eva Golinger, an Venezuelan-American attorney from New York living in Caracas, Venezuela since 2005 and author of The Chàvez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela, by Olive Branch Press, 2006, as well as of several other highly impressive documents. She and Cindy have both seen Venezuela from within Chavez's alleged "dictatorship." Both very much like it. It has indeed come to our attention that as Noam Chomsky famously remarked, "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media." Well, our tightly controlled U.S. media absolutely forbids any realistic view of life in Chavez's Venezuuela today. Only here at Cindy's web site we are NOT "uniform and obedient," just as the Venezuelan media isn't "uniform and obedient" either. Read the documentation. You'll see. Eva and Cindy both want to give you at least a tiny glimpse of the view from behind that curtained window! Perhaps you might start by reading Eva's penetrating insight into U.S. supported efforts to delegitimatize and destabilize and destroy the democracy that is Venezuela today, as noted in her most excellent capsule document. Or you could read her most revealing interview.

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Courageous Insight

(SOAPBOX #56) - Cindy's guest is the very famous Daniel Ellsberg, affectionately remembered for his historical opposition to Richard Nixon and to the war in Vietnam. In today's current and highly disturbing times, his insight offers a brilliant perspective for analyzing current developments. Both Dr. Ellsberg and Cindy share close and personal experience of tragic destructions wrought through U.S. promotion of an imperial war. When he was asked what he thought about Western Civilization, Mohandas K. Gandhi replied "I think it would be a good idea." That is exactly the sense in which requests about their opinions of a War to promote the American Empire would promote an answer of: "A very bad idea!"

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Criminalized Dissent

(SOAPBOX #55) - Cindy welcomes three friends who were "guests" of our Gubbermint for 50 chilling hours during the opening of Camp Out in protest of our ever-surging Nobel Peace Prize Lauriate's addiction to: - to surging, (thereby killing lots of our soldiers, along with innocent Af-Pak civilians.) This week's show is about criminalization of protest and dissent. Cindy's guests are three Gubbermint "guests" who got arrested with her on March 20th: Elaine Brower, Jon Gold, and Matthis Chiroux. Elaine is with the World Can't Wait (WCW) and Military Families Speak Out (MFSO). Jon is an active 9/11 Truther, from way back. Matthis is an active war resister and member of Iraq Veterans Against the the War (IVAW). All three thought that D.C. officialdom this time was starting to get much nastier in repressing dissent than "back in the good ole days" - but all felt they had clearly done the right thing, and they all were happy for having made that choice.

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#283 -- Dog Day Afternoon at the Movies (R)

Three short documentary films on fossil fuels, pollution, and the environment: 1. "300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds" by the Post Carbon Institute (Richard Heinberg) 2. "The Story of Cap & Trade" by Annie Leonard 3. "The Story of Electronics" by Annie Leonard This is a rerun of NWN #178 (August 2, 2011)

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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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