Classics and Beyond 1918

A diverse program of Classical music.

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Persian Peril: Brinkmanship in the Post-INF Era

This week's Global Research News Hour, marking the last of the season, will concentrate on the controversial foreign policy decisions made by U.S. President Trump. Topics of discussion include Trump's currents military and economic threats toward Iran, his pull-out from the INF treaty, the factors influencing US policy generally, and the prospects for a peaceful outcome in the Persian Gulf. Guests include Scott Ritter, former Marine Intelligence officer and former Chief UN Weapons inspector in Iraq, and Bruce Gagnon, Secretary/Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

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Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #263 - 6-29-19

Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull. The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week

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Trump's Reelection is Built on Immigrant-Bashing

The Centerfold of Trumps Reelection Campaign is About Ginning Up Hate & the Politics of Xenophobia! with Muzaffar Chishti, Director of the Migration Policy Institute at New York University School of Law, whose work focuses on U.S. immigration policy at the federal, state, and local levels; the intersection of labor and immigration law; immigration enforcement; civil liberties; and immigrant integration, former Director of the Immigration Project of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees (UNITE). and Tom Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), which, next year, will celebrate more than 50 years promoting the civil rights of all Latinos living in the United States. Prior to that he served as counsel to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, where he helped to lead the legislative effort to change the governance of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the effect of was to take the City a step closer to securing a quality education for all students in Los Angeles. According to Trump's latest tweet, his assault on immigrant families is postponed for two weeks. Nevertheless we must be mindful that Trump asserted that ICE agents would conduct a mass roundup of 2,000 migrant families, being called the family op that have received deportation orders, an operation that was purported to begin with predawn raids in 10 major U.S. cities , including Houston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and other major immigration destinations. Trumps own Acting DHS secretary Kevin McAleenan has warned that an indiscriminate operation to arrest migrants in their homes and at work sites risks separating children from their parents in cases where the children are at day care, summer camp or friends houses. He also has maintained that ICE should not devote major resources to carrying out a mass interior sweep while telling lawmakers it needs emergency funding to address the crisis at the U.S. border. But, Trump has been in direct communication with acting ICE director Mark Morgan and other ICE officials, circumventing McAleenan. ICE officials said the agency was planning to use hotel rooms as temporary staging areas to detain parents and children until all the members of a family are together and ready for deportation. Officials also acknowledge that they might arrest individuals they cannot immediately deport " known as collateral arrests " and likely will release those people with ankle monitoring devices. Meanwhile, as news of the looming raids reached the Democratic-run cities on the ICE list, local and state officials blasted the Trump administration and said they would not provide police support. LAPD Chief Michel Moore said that ICE has 140 targets in the area. The Department however is not participating or assisting in any of these enforcement actions, the LAPD said. New York Attorney General Letitia James assailed Trumps plan for mass deportation raids, saying that the presidents use of migrant families and asylum seekers as political punching bags is a despicable act of racism and xenophobia that is antithetical to our basic human values. This is an immoral and unconscionable act by a president and an administration hell bent on dividing our country, and, as New Yorks top law enforcement officer, I can assure New Yorkers we will do everything in our power to fight back against these inhumane policies, James said in a statement.

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To FInd Another One

Label / Radio / sunriseoceanbender.com / Sunrise Ocean Bender airs in the flesh Thursdays 9-11pm EST on WRIR 97.3 FM, Richmond, Virginia / wrir.org. Downloads are for rebroadcast on other non-profit radio stations.

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TB 190628 Idiots,Imbeciles,and Morons 2X

This week’s archive radio show starts off celebrating our return to Free Radio Olympia. Then Ken Nordine introduces the Thunderbolt crew before we differentiate the biggest difference between black people and white people. We expose evil plots to turn us all into Zuckers, we sing an ode to the mothers of our world, and we reveal a face of Muammar Qaddafi that is probably very unfamiliar to you. For the feature piece we expose government sterilization programs that were very popular back in the day. Cringeworthy anecdotes of pusillanimous perfidy mixed with lame metaphors. Listen at your own risk.

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UpFront Soul #2019.26-July 1-7 h2

We'll hear Beyonce's version of Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as the Black National Anthem, & spin Jimi Hendrix's soul-stirring rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. We'll mark the passing of New Orleans legend and rock & roll pioneer Dave Bartholomew, go to a Sensi Party with Eek-A-Mouse, and hear the latest from Mavis Staples, Sugaray Rayford, and Meklit.

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UpFront Soul #2019.26-July 1-7 h1

We'll hear Beyonce's version of Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as the Black National Anthem, & spin Jimi Hendrix's soul-stirring rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. We'll mark the passing of New Orleans legend and rock & roll pioneer Dave Bartholomew, go to a Sensi Party with Eek-A-Mouse, and hear the latest from Mavis Staples, Sugaray Rayford, and Meklit.

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The Shortwave Report 06/28/19 Listen Globally!

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. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and NHK Japan.

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Manning The Console

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Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 128 Split Personality

An original radio theatre show each week, with most sounds culled from the previous week, about a fictional, theatrical presidency. Contradictions tell the story, with songs, skits, and clips from political news shows and late-night comedy routines. The definition of "radio theatre" is stretched here, with an updated Dickie Goodman and/or Richard Foreman-meets-mashup style sometimes, and a more straightforward take other weeks. Currently airing on 30 or 40 stations around the world, the network has ordered another 15 episodes, but there are threats of cancellation. Anyone who would like to work on a production, or have their work air in this timeslot, should contact info@wgxc.org.

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Ishmael Reed Revisits the Racist Hysteria Concerning the "Central Park Five"

When there was a tide of hatred demanding death for the wrongfully accused "Central Park Five," Ishmael Reed and not a lot of others fought back, demanding evidence and a fair trial. Now the truth is out, and many years later there have been few apologies. Reed names some of those who need to come clean. Further, with the Broadway show "Hamilton," once again the myth-machine is in high gear. Hamilton is falsely portrayed as an "abolitionist" and a poor boy who made good. Fact is, he married money and dealt in slaves. Reed has a play out that exposes one of the worst of the "founding fathers."

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Cheeze Pleeze # 783

A whole show dedicated to a master of the novelty record for over 5 decades-Ray Stevens!

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Stephen Landrigan - Rory Stewart built 'viceroy's style mansion' on donor money in Kabul

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Jazz Progressions 1917

An eclectic hour of modern Jazz.

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EXCLUSIVE! Grant Smith on How Robt. Mueller Stifled Niger Uranium Inquiry

Grant Smith elaborates on his May 20th post on www.irpep.org, “”Lesson from FBI’s ‘Niger Uranium Forgeries’ File: There will be no consequences for twisting intelligence to attack Iran,” based on his obtaining, through FOIA, and analyzing the 640 pages of FBI records In which he describes as then FBI director, Robert Mueller, who, as a special counsel, oversaw the Russiagate investigation of Trump associates, stifled efforts to investigate possible Washington (obviously neocon) links to the forgery of documents ostensibly from Niger purporting to have offered to sell and ship 500 tons of yellow cake uranium that could only have been used in the production of nuclear weapons. The documents had not been scheduled for release until 2018. Despite the determination by the International Atomic Energy Agency that, without question, the documents were forgeries, Pres. Bush had gone on the air with his State of the Union Address telling the public that the purchase of the Niger yellow cake was a fact and that it validated the White House Claim that Iraq was engaged in the building of weapons of mass destruction and this demanded a US military response. On March 14, 2003, six days before the invasion, Sen. John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV, Vice-Chair of the Senate Com. on Foreign Relations, and chair of the Senate Select Com. on Intelligence, sent a letter to Mueller, NEVER BEFORE RELEASED (which can be viewed at www.irmep.org), noting that the IAEA had determined that the Niger documents were forgeries, calling on the FBI director to investigate, “at a minimum to help allay concerns that the US Intelligence Community, or other elements of the US government, were involved in the creation of these documents in order to build support for the Administration’s policies.” The released documents reveal that the Washington Field Office of the FBI did not receive the senator’s letter until Sept. 13 of 2004, 551 days later, as Mueller had elected to ignore Rockefeller’s request and focus attention on Italy where the magazine, Panorama, had received the forged documents, quite likely with the assistance of veteran neocon Michael Ledeen who has publicly advocated changing US traditional policy in the Middle East into one of “chaos.” Whatever role the White House neocons, Wolfowitz, Feith or Libby may have played in this was never examined. (Elisabetta Burba, a Panorama reporter, went to the US embassy in Rome to authenticate the documents, but Panorama never reproduced them as authentic in an article as was apparently desired by Rocco Martino, the go-between who wanted money for them. Panorama later debunked them as forgeries and wrote about them as a "hoax") Smith also compared the lack of media coverage of the neocon role in the Iraq war with the absence of any mention in today’s media of the role the major Jewish organizations such as AIPAC, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, the American Jewish Committee, and the ADL, have played in pushing the crisis in Iran to its current point. In the latter part of the interview, Smith speaks about the first US free trade agreement between Israel and the US in 1985 when an agent of the Israeli government stole a file containing critical documents of the major US industries and organizations that had opposed the agreement. Smith explains how the agreement has been an economic disaster for the US but that after Trump looked at the results and seemed ready to do something about it, he apparently changed his mind.

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Jeff Blankfort on Iran, Hiding Zio Role, Bankers' Biden

On today’s program I begin with contrasting the response to Iran’s shooting down the US drone with that following the shooting down by the USS Vincennes of Iran Flight 655, a passenger plane in 1988, killing all of its 290 passengers for which the US paid reparations but never apologized, but awarded its captain with the Legion of Merit. In between, I refer to today’s guest, Grant Smith, who will be interviewed about liberal Democrat hero stifling investigation of neocon involvement in Niger yellowcake uranium fraud used to justify Iraq war. I then argue that the US has been waging war on the people of Iran since the CIA engineered coup in 1953 when Mohammad Mosadeggh nationalized its oil, setting in motion a financial embargo and regime change plan similar to Trump’s today, culminating in Reagan arranging to keep US embassy hostages in Tehran until after he is sworn into office. After mentioning the US media blackout on reports of Israel and Israel Lobby’s involvement in regime change agenda, I cite interview of Joe Lieberman on Israeli Army Radio in which he criticizes Trump for not bombing Iran while advocating other targets. I conclude with report on Joe Biden having been the champion of the banks and credit card companies when he was a senator from Delaware that has more chartered corporations than people and point out that he clearly appears to be the DNC choice for president.

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The Corporate Tax Haven Index: fixing the world's broken tax system

In this month’s June 2019 podcast we look at the new Corporate Tax Haven Index released by the Tax Justice Network. What does it tell us about the global economy and the international tax system? And how can we fix it? We also look at how India is pushing the G20 into action on global tax rules – if they don’t act it will implement its own rules.

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The Ominous Parallels - 10

Finishing up the chapter Culture of Hatred

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Free the #Freeway9 - Anti-Trump Protesters on Trial in LA. Plus WW II Internment Camp Survivors Protest Caging of Central American Refugees

In 2017, 8 members of Refuse Fascism and the Revolution Club blocked the 101 Freeway twice with a 50ft banner which read Trump/Pence Regime Must Go. 5 are on trial now at the Metro Court. We'll hear voices from a rally demanding Free the Freeway 9! We'll also hear part of an interview with Satsuki Ina, who was born in a maximum security concentration camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. She recently spoke at a protest of a child detention center at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

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2019-06-21 - Oshkimaadziig camp and the National Indigenous Peoples Day blockade of Awenda Park.

An interview with John Hawke, an Indigenous man from the Beausoleil First Nation and long time activist, who on June 21st, 2019 - a day the Canadian state has proclaimed to be National Indigenous Peoples day - set up a blockade outside the entrance to Awenda provincial park north of Midland in Ontario.

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American Drone Neutralized

Zafar Bangash describes the circumstances surrounding the shooting down of a U.S. RQ-4 Global Hawk drone that was violating international law.

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Richard Grossman: Dismantling Corporations - Archive Part TWO of TWO

Richard Grossman said: “.. corporations don’t have rights. Rights are for people. Corporations only have privileges, and only those that we the people bestow on them.” In a nutshell that was the essence of his research and teaching. Grossman said that we need to remember that the American revolution was fought less against the King but against the crown corporations, the Hudsons Bay and East India Corporations. In his work with POCLAD, the Project on Corporations, Law and Democracy and CELDF, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund he drove home the point that corporations are chartered by sovereign people. He said that based on that sovereignty people have the right to take that charter away and revoke corporate person-hood. His lasting legacy are the Democracy Schools that continue to be taught across the country, and a pamphlet: Taking Care of Business, that describes the process of de-chartering corporations. http://www.ratical.org/corporations/TCoB.html Two important projects that Richard Grossman initiated in the last months of his life do not receive enough notice. He presented, at the August 2011 Green Fest in New York City, the draft of a law to not just regulate or limit the practice of Fracking but to formally criminalize the procedure in an amendment to the penal code. And he formalized as draft, just 4 weeks before he died in 2011, an Act To Criminalize Chartered, Incorporated Business Entities as a class. <http://www.tucradio.org/GrossmanActToCriminalize.html> If he were alive today to witness the ever magnified acts of corporations in drug overdose deaths, food, soil and water poisoning, mining, preventing action on climate change and control of all phases of the democratic process he would have finalized that draft. As the folk singer Utah Phillip said: “The earth is not dying, she is being killed. And those who are killing her have addresses and names.” Richard Grossman was recorded by Maria Gilardin in Washington DC on May 11 at the 1996 Teach-In organized by the International Forum on Globalization.

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Judi Bari - Conversation with an Earth First! Leader

Until the mid-1990s, the Redwood Industry dominated much of North Coast economy. In the mid-1990s, due to a number of circumstances particularly involving Pacific Lumber Company and Charles Hurwitz, industry advocates collided with environmentalists in a final hurrah. Few figures among the environmentalists carry as much name-recognition and power as did Judi Bari. In this program, recorded in March of 1995 at the height of the conflict, Judi Bari and I discussed the position of Earth First! Judi Bari recommends “J. Edgar Hoover,” by Kurt Gentry. Originally Broadcast: March 27, 1995

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning

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The Motherland Influence: June 23, 2019

African, Latin & Caribbean music

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Ambiance Congo: June 23, 2019

Congolese popular music

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Moran's Politics + Pre-Pride Pictures + global LGBTQ news!

A grassroots Guatemalan lesbian-feminist takes off the gloves; characters and rabble-rousers pave the way to Stonewall; LGBTQ asylum-seekers are forced back into a queer-bashing Kenyan refugee camp, Malaysia’s P.M. spurns marriage equality, a top U.S. homophobe to take “religious freedom” plans global, the latest Gallup Poll reveals pro and con opinions on U.S. trans rights, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

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Episode 181 - Love a Good Roach

Joe is in a fun loop-de-loop and Anthony has his fingers fanatically on the controls. Why is everything sticky around here? Hey, come laugh with or at us, tune in to our live show every Monday night at 8pm eastern at http://www.chiampa.org DWOTS: previous word: rectilinear - today’s word: semen (ph yeah)

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James Hoggan: Politics in Polite Company

Has this ever happened to you: You are talking with a friend or family member, and as the topic moves to politics, things start to get a little heated. You make what you think are excellent points, based on data, logic, and what you fervently believe to be the absolute truth. Yet, when the debate concludes, somehow neither of you has budged an inch, and no one leaves any wiser. Perhaps this is why we are instructed to "never discuss politics in polite company." This week on Sea Change Radio, we are talking about bridging the divide, with James Hoggan, an author and the co-founder of Desmog Blog. Hopefully, the next time the subject of impeachment or the Democratic nominee of your choice arises, the debate can be spirited, productive, and maybe even polite.

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