Mad Science Mad Pride with Bradley Lewis

What is the mad movement's best response to science? How is mad pride different from gay pride? Do we want to become equal with "normal" people -- or challenge the idea of normal itself? What about suffering and the risk of romanticizing madness? Icarus Project organizer, psychiatrist, and theorist Bradley Lewis, author of Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: Birth of Postpsychiatry, discusses the identity politics of madness. www.theicarusproject.net, www.nyu.edu/gallatin/about/bios/bradley_lewis.html

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The Happy Station Show On The Road Aug 14, 2010

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Paxil On Trial with Alison Bass

When GlaxoSmithKline was caught lying about the risks of its blockbuster anti-depressant Paxil, it set off ongoing investigations. How did New York state take on one of the world's most powerful companies? Was NY Governor Eliot Spitzer driven out by his corporate enemies? Pulitzer-nominated Boston Globe journalist Alison Bass, author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, A Whistleblower, And A Bestselling Antidepressant On Trial, discusses legal battles to clean up drug company corruption, including pay-offs to the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. www.alison-bass.com/

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Beyond Belief with Tamasin Knight

How do we respond to bizarre beliefs like CIA brain chips, abduction by aliens, hearing voices, spirit possession, or telepathy? Is respect for a different reality "colluding" with a delusion? Or is there meaning in madness? Medical doctor Tamasin Knight was hospitalized for delusions, and went on to write the practical guidebook Beyond Belief: Alternative Ways of Working with Delusions, Obsessions and Unusual Experiences, available as a free download at www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/books/beyond-belief.pdf.

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Conscience of Psychiatry with Peter Breggin

What do modern psychiatric drug treatments have in common with lobotomy? Is informed consent possible when patients' judgment is impaired by medication? Should psych drugs be banned? For more than 50 years Dr. Peter Breggin has been a leading crusader against psychiatric abuse, Big Pharma, and medication dangers. His latest book is The Conscience of Psychiatry: The Reform Work of Peter R. Breggin, MD. www.breggin.com

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August 12 2010 Kootenay Co-op Radio - Music

beats, dubstep, drum and bass, hip hop, roots and more Thursday at 10pm-12 PST & kootenaycoopradio.com

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Hidani Ditmars on Iraq

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Throwng junkballs at Dan Lungren

Interview with Mark w. Bradley who tell of his 2005 encounter with Congressman Dan Lungren and their discussion of Social Security

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Greta Berlin on the Gaza Flotilla

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Friday Word of Mouth Radio August 13, 2010

First Half: News & Updates; Prisoner's Justice; Interview: Stefan Christoff interviews author & University professor Norman Girvan about CARIFORUM, the 'Free Trade' agreement forced on the Caribbean nations by the European Economic Union. For more info, go to Norman Girvan's web site: http://www.normangirvan.info/ Second Half: Long-time antipoverty activist Gaetan Heroux gives a fascinating history of resistance by the unemployed around the time of the depression of the 30's. Much of what we hear resounds loudly today as we enter the worst economic decline since then, and the repression (and resistance!) related by Gaetan sound familiar to those following the repression recently during the G20, giving cause for inspiration.

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Massive storms in DC driven by climate change?

In DC, we've had a heat wave-and three massive thunderstorm events leading to week-long power outages, plus similar outages from the winter blizzards. Moscow is even worse, with heat, drought-and foul air from massive wildfires. Is all DC's climate-driven weather a force turning off the very infrastructure that creates the climate change by turning off the electricity?

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WSQT August 13 broadcast

Pirate Radio song Station ID WSQT Palestine Today for Aug 12 War Update:Fighting continues in Iraq, Afhgan Army offensive bogs down Desertion Song (clip) Alleged "Wikileaker" Solidarity rally at Quantico Marine Barracks What if Army ads had health warnings? Between the Lines on CIA assassination of US citizens Station ID WSQT PROMO: Protest the School of the Americas Nov at Ft Benning, Ga Mapuche hunger striker solidarity raly at Chilean Embassy in DC Jim Graham makes fool of self Between the Lines: Google, Verizon try to kill net neutrality Station ID WSQT GMO song (clip) Big storms as evidence of global warming Between the Lines: Anti-MTR candidate for Byrd's Wva Senate seat BP anti-commercial

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Épisode 14 - La bataille de Barcelone

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Épisode 13 - La mort de Durruti

Ce feuilleton est basé sur les mémoires qu'Antoine Gimenez, milicien du groupe international de la colonne Durruti, a écrit au milieu des années 1970.

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Épisode 12 - L'affaire Ruano

Ce feuilleton est basé sur les mémoires qu'Antoine Gimenez, milicien du groupe international de la colonne Durruti, a écrit au milieu des années 1970.

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#128 -- Class, Health, & Health Care

In this installment, Canadian health-care activist Susan Rosenthal, MD, discusses (1) the horrors of working-class life in England during the Industrial Revolution (ca. 1845), (2) the problems with Canada's "single-payer" health-care system, (3) how the profit motive and computers have brought us "assembly-line medicine," and (4) the successful health-care reforms established in Chile, under Allende, in the 1970s. From our telephone conversation of July 2.

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episode182 - august 13, 2010

"you don't have to come & confess - we're looking for you, we're gonna find you" on episode182 of media monarchy featuring viral videos & media/memes w/ steven slater, antoine dodson, matthew simmons, ted stevens & a cast of thousands - a heavy newspurge w/ nuke clouds, megafarms, brawls & limited drawdowns + the latest alternative news from new world next week, cyber/spacewar & food world order, tight music from arcade fire and tons more...

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Best of Flashpoints 08-13-2010

This week on the Best of Flashpoints - an update on the troubling case of the Scott Sisters who're serving two life sentences for an 11 dollar robbery - Flashpoints' marks the three year anniversary of the kidnapping and disappearance of Hatian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine; An in-depth interview with the Founding Director of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for Self Determination on her presentation to the United Nations regarding the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program - and more

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new world next week - aug12: food 'safety', net neutrality, take this job & shove it!

This week on the New World Next Week we cover: corporate lobbying for "food safety"; the Google-Verizon deal to end net neutrality; and the take this job and shove it meme, brought to you by the corporate media.

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13Aug10 Gulf War Syndrome & DU with Joanne Baker

Comprehensive look at the evil use of Depleted Uranium shells and other weapons by British Armed Forces, particularly in Iraq.

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#512 - Rethinking Climate Wars & Geoengineering

This week we take two contrasting views of the issue of climate change. Firstly, a speech by Gwynne Dyer from 2009 entitled "Climate wars". Secondly, a classic from the 1970's by visionary US Ecologist Murray Bookchin, on the need to rethink the human relationship to nature, and the numerical bias in Western science.

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13Aug10 Candidate to run Britain's biggest union Jerry Hicks & Tracy Worcester

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The Tragic Destiny of Suburbs (E)

In his 2005 book The Long Emergency, author James Howard Kunstler describes a future in which suburbia meets what he calls “a tragic destiny.” Detroit is helping us see some of the details of that destiny. (Encore; originally posted March 10, 2009.)

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Interview with Jennifer Jajeh

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Iran Update

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Prisons and Political Prisoners: A Look at Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson, Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party

In this show, Dave and Kabir discuss the growing prison system, prisoners of conscience, and the struggle for prisoners justice. We also play an interview recorded earlier in the day with Tom Big Warrior of the Red Heart Warrior Society and Rising Sun Press, which is the publisher of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP). Tom discusses with BASICS correspondent Nadeen El-Kassem the extremely repressive conditions faced by the NABPP Minister of Defense Kevin Rashid Johnson at the Red Onion State Super-Max Prison in Virginia.

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Breakfast Blend Friday w/ Phil D.

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Leave No Star Unturned

The Sunrise Ocean Bender sets sail every Friday morning, 3 – 6 a.m., to find something for your ears, and something for your head … From psych to prog to pop and whatever tributary we can find on the way … and right back around again. There might be a map, but the destination is up for grabs. If it all goes right, we may just get lost. Meet me at the muster station … there’s no better way to start your freakend.

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Obama v Obama

Furious about the Obama diss to the Left, erosion of our rights, tailspin in Afghanistan, and on and on and on ....

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It's Your Health

Karen Ager, author of Enemy Within: A memoir of strength, determination & acceptance. This book is the story of one woman's courage to fight a disease that has riddled her body since her teens and her determination to live a normal life.

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