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Obama vs King ; The Mali Endgame
Jan. 25, 2013, 4:49 a.m.
This installment of the Global Research News Hour features Author and academic Jared
Ball on Obama's record in power and how it violates rather than realizes Martin Luther King's
dream. We also hear Michel Chossudovsky analyse the situation in Mali and how it speaks
of a campaign by the us to recolonize former French colonies.
Dennis Geyer and the Byrd of Paradise (Part 3/3) 19-jan-2013
Jan. 24, 2013, 10:39 p.m.
Dennis Geyer plays in Lisa Kindred's band. Lisa's website is
www.lisakindred.com/
Dennis may be reached at
dwgeyer@yahoo.com
Please contact Byrd about any broadcast questions.
Dennis Geyer and the Byrd of Paradise with an interview with Queen Ida (Part 2/3) 19-jan-2013
Jan. 24, 2013, 10:29 p.m.
Queen Ida was kind enough to talk with Byrd and Dennis in this segment of Blues with a Feeling.
Dennis Geyer plays in Lisa Kindred's band. Lisa's website is
www.lisakindred.com/
dwgeyer@yahoo.com
Dennis Geyer and Jim Liban with the Byrd of Paradise (Part 1/3) 19-jan-2013
Jan. 24, 2013, 10:19 p.m.
Jim Liban's biography page is:
http://americanbluesband.com/bio_jim.html
Dennis Geyer plays in Lisa Kindred's band. Lisa's website is
www.lisakindred.com/
His email address is:
dwgeyer@yahoo.com
Jan. 24, 2013, 8:54 p.m.
UNSEEN LEGION RADIO - Hosted by the InaSoulbianz airs 9pm-midnight PST every Tuesday on www.killradio.org
#256 -- Global Crises and the End of Growth (Part 1)
Jan. 24, 2013, 8:46 p.m.
In Part 1 of this interesting speech, Heinberg discusses our intersecting global crises. These are the end of cheap energy, runaway global debt, and climate change. Then he identifies an underlying cause of all three crises--an economic system that demands and depends on constant, compounding GROWTH. But such growth cannot continue much longer on a finite planet. . . .
(Next week: imagining--and planning for--a low-growth or no-growth future. It might not be so bad, after all.)
Focus Asia Pacific January 25 2013
Jan. 24, 2013, 8:39 p.m.
University of Victoria urged to divest from energy sector
Jan. 24, 2013, 8:32 p.m.
The University of Victoria has high-profile climate and environmental scientists on faculty. Yet, the university invests pension funds in Enbridge and some of the tar sandsâ biggest players. The Wilderness Committee is urging UVic to divest the millions of dollars it has tar sands, oil and gas companies. Torrance Coste is Vancouver Island Campaigner for the Wilderness Committee and a UVic graduate.
Law firms behind growing number of lawsuits brought by corporations against countries
Jan. 24, 2013, 8:01 p.m.
A recent report says that lawyers in Europe are drumming up business for their own firms by encouraging foreign investors to sue countries over changes in regulations. One example in the report is a lawsuit by tobacco giant Phillip Morris against Australia and Uruguay for increasing the size of warning on packs of cigarettes. Pia Eberhardt is with the Corporate Europe Observatory, which produced the report.
Jan. 24, 2013, 7:23 p.m.
Larry Pinkney (Black Panther, author, activist) of the Black Commentator is welcomed back to the Soapbox for the 5th year in a row to access Obama's performance, or lack thereof. Brother Larry also inspires us for the way forward.
The Shortwave Report 01/25/13 Listen Globally!
Jan. 24, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
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. NHK Japan, the Voice of Russia, Spanish National Radio, and Radio Havana Cuba.
Democratic Fascism in Occupied Palestine (01.24.2013)
Jan. 24, 2013, 6:29 p.m.
Journalist David Sheen joins 4th World Radyo to discuss the recent elections in the State of Israel/Occupied Palestine and what this means to Indigenous Arab Palestinians, African immigrants and to the ever-changing politics of the region.
David Sheen is a reporter and content editor at Haaretz.com.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Sheen has blogged online since he first moved to Israel in 1999. He has authored award-winning blogs on ecological sustainability and social justice.
Sheen also directed the short film The Red Pill and the feature film First Earth, and was a featured speaker at TEDxJohannesburg in 2010.
Please visit: davidsheen.com
At The Show Episode 32: Ladies Sing The Blues, a tribute to Janis Joplin
Jan. 24, 2013, 5:32 p.m.
Jan. 24, 2013, 4:44 p.m.
âI believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.â - Steve Martin
Potluck Breakfast is live on Weds from 8am-11amPST on www.killradio.org (thru itunes, Sonos, and the like). You can download it or stream it on demand at bit.ly/PLBpod
Covered a wide swathe today. Lots of action.
Jan. 24, 2013, 3:20 p.m.
I grew up with guns and I have even been a weapons wrangler on sets, but I call the NRA out for hypocrisy since they refuse to HELP make guns safer and they refuse to HELP keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people. So this is about that hypocrisy and what to do.
Jan. 24, 2013, 1:32 p.m.
Jan. 24, 2013, 9:06 a.m.
Take a trip to Mercury Falls Wednesday nights from 9-11 EST. Join Melissa every week to hear innovative music in an exploration of Avant Garde, Contemporary Classical, Cinematic, Digital Hardcore, Ethereal, Experimental, Krautrock, Modern Psychadelic, No Wave, Soundscapes, Spacescapes...and some things that defy being classified.
African Justice or Judas (01.22.2013)
Jan. 23, 2013, 10:32 p.m.
TheAngryindian thinks outloud about the injustice of social classes and African invisibility and Rep. Of Ireland human rights activist Darcy Delaprosser speaks with an activist working to help free a possibly innocent man on death row.
The Motherland Influence Jan. 20, 2013
Jan. 23, 2013, 7:29 p.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.
WSQT Report on Inauguration protests and direct action
Jan. 23, 2013, 7:20 p.m.
The second inauguratiom of Barrack Obama, unlike the first one, did not go unopposed by protesters ranging from anti-drone activists to environmentalists to anarchists. Barrack Obama ran on an antiwar platfrom, yet he has stepped up the murderous use of armed drones in country after country. He promised to close Guantanimo Bay in early 2009. Today, not only is Guantanimo Bay still open, but new legislation allows indefinate detention even of American "citizens."
Action against the hypocrisy of Barrack Obama's action began the night before the inauguration with a march through the streets by what a report in Anarchist News estimated at 75 anarchist protesters. During the march, unknown fighters smashed windows at a Hooters, notorious for gender discrimination and discrimination on the basis of personal appeareance in hiring. A branch of TD Bank had their glass doors destroyed. I guess they live in a glass house and must have thrown one too many stones! An ATM belonging to another financial institution was also destroyed.
Although the anarchist march took place in the middle of one of the most extreme security buildups you ever see inside the borders of the US, all the marchers and all of the fighters escaped.
On the morning of Jan 21, as Obama was being sworn in or preparing for it, antiwar protesters gathered in Malcolm X Park under a fleet of mock Reaper drones on stands holding them in the air. At least one of the drones had been rolled all the way from Baltimore in a multiday "drone walk" against Obama's drone murders in so many countries. When the protesters marched to K street, some wrangled the drones while others carried bundles symbolizing babies and small children killed by Obama's drone murders.
One speaker at the "Arc of Justice" rally before the march went so far as to denounce Obama's hypocrisy in calling for gun control while using drones as his personal firearms to kill whoever he wants:
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When the "Arc Of Justice" march reached K street, the drones were put on display next to all those old, worn-out uparmored HUMVEES the National Guard was using to block off streets.
Next up was a noon march from McPherson Square to the bag search and grope checkpoints near the Inaugural parade route. Marchers staged a short sit-in in front of a checkpoint at 7th
street rather than let groping cops "touch their junk!"
You just heard protesters sarcastically chanting "four more wars" near the inauguration.
From the checkpoint marchers proceeded to the seige walls around the parade route at 6th st before suddenly disengaging to join with the Idle No More solidarity drum circle at Dupont Circle. Idle No More is a rapidly growing First Nations/Native American movement to resist Canadian attempts to take away Native land on the "reserves" and sell it to tar sands miners and other industries for "budget" and development reasons.
On the evening of Jan 21, things weren't done by any means. One of the main Inaugural balls was the Commander in Chief's Ball at the Washington Convention Center. Obama was supposed to be the star of the show, but Code Pink and Vermin Supreme upstaged him, protesting drones and the US security state at the bag and grope checkpoints:
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That in a nutshell, is why antiwar protesters descended on Obama's second inauguration after foolishly giving him a pass last time around. Environmentalists fear he will turn around and approve the Earth-despoiling Keystone XL tar sands pipeline now that he no longer has to worry about re-election. He's already approved construction of the Texas segment of it! Occupy activists, antiwar activists, and environmentalist activists alike have all learned the hard way that any "hope and change" will have come from the streets, because it sure as hell isn't coming from a White House built on stolen Indigenous land!
Rock And Also The Roll Show Pt 1
Jan. 23, 2013, 5:59 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, Youtube, Blogspot, Twitter, Soundcloud, Reverb Nation, Last Fm, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
Rock And Also The Roll Show Pt 2
Jan. 23, 2013, 4:55 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, Youtube, Blogspot, Twitter, Soundcloud, Reverb Nation, Last Fm, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
Rock And Also The Roll Show Pt 3
Jan. 23, 2013, 4:19 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, Youtube, Blogspot, Twitter, Soundcloud, Reverb Nation, Last Fm, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
Jan. 23, 2013, 2:42 p.m.
Full version of the episode
Rock And Also The Roll Show Pt 4
Jan. 23, 2013, 1:52 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, Youtube, Blogspot, Twitter, Soundcloud, Reverb Nation, Last Fm, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
Jan. 23, 2013, 1:31 p.m.
Even though the German playwright, poet, director and theoretician of the stage was persecuted by the Nazi's, and then forced to leave his exile home in the US when he was accused of being a communist, he did become a major influence on visual and performance artists such as Jean Luc Godard, Robert Wilson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Augusto Boal, Pina Bausch, Dario Fo and many others.
His most famous plays, the Threepenny Opera and the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny were just two of over sixty plays. During the war years, Brecht became a prominent writer of the "Literature in Exile". He expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements in his most often performed plays: Mother Courage, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, and the Life of Galileo that he revised after the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of his most searing, funny, frightening and historically accurate plays against Hitler is the The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The play presented all major Nazis, as well as their supporters, masked as members of a Mafia operation. The play followed precisely the stages of the Nazi's seizure of power and posed the most important question: Could Hitler's rise have been stopped?
Ronald Wright: 'Progress' & Climate Change
Jan. 23, 2013, 1:28 p.m.
Wright speaks of urgency to deal with climate change and publicâs mental roadblocks to do so; of inherent downside in all civilizations, their exploitation of nature, leading to collapse; of foolish trust in modernity and capitalist solutions; of inability to make do with less; of uncontrolled population growth with widening gap between rich and poor; of decimation of indigenous Americans through imported diseases in 500 year run that fed industrialization and Western coffers; how addiction to social media eliminates reflection time in societies demanding instant gratification..
Jeff Blankfort: News & Opinions
Jan. 23, 2013, 1:07 p.m.
Blankfort speaks of guest, Ronald Wright; of Israeli elections, of Washington Postâs pro-Israel neocon positions re Obama v Netanyahu, Jerusalem E1settlements, Chuck Hagle; of Hagelâs recanting to Schumer, Boxer, AIPAC, ADL and AJC; on NPRâs exclusively Zionist panel on upcoming âNational Conversation on Israel-US Future;â of dead US commandos in Mali; of Libyan weapons being used by anti-government forces in Algeria and Syria.
Jan. 23, 2013, 12:25 p.m.
End-of-year roundup of the Richmond arts community that was in 2012 -- and that could be in 2013
Women's Reproductive Rights in Virginia
Jan. 23, 2013, 11:54 a.m.
The General Assembly kicked off its 2013 session last week, and there are again more efforts to further chip away at choice and negatively impact Virginia womenâs access to affordable comprehensive health care. On the flip side, the extreme nature of last yearâs legislation helped to galvanize and organize pro-choice voices, and forces are aligning to ensure that women in Virginia regain access to full reproductive rights. Two experts in this field are joining Inspire Indeed to talk about the opportunities to make a difference on the issues related to womenâs rights, including next weekâs Rally at the Capitol to mark the 40th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision. Today's episode features Tarina Keene, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia and founder and chair of the Virginia Coalition to Protect Womenâs Health, and also Kathy Greenier, Director of the Patricia M. Arnold Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia.