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Jan. 9, 2019, 8:45 p.m.
Women of the Sahara Desert; a version excursion into Anthea & Donna's Uptown Top Ranking; chicha from deep in the Peruvian selva; Salif Keita returns to his Afro-pop roots; and the Daktaris, straight outta Nigeria, or maybe Brooklyn
Jan. 9, 2019, 6:46 p.m.
These little piggies go on the show this week for our pig special....and daffy reveals a little known talent she has from growing up on the commune.
Stonehenge to Glastonbury & beyond: the rise and fall of the Peace Convoy - part 1 of 2
Jan. 9, 2019, 2:48 p.m.
Danny Sjursen: Exposes Liberal Hypocrisy, Foreign Policy Failures
Jan. 9, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
Today I spoke with US Army Major Danny Sjursen about two of his most recent articles for TomDispatch and republished on other sites that deal with one of the most critical problems facing the country today; that in their intense hatred of President Trump, the liberals of the Democratic party and the media that supports it have abandoned all semblance of critical thinking and have far outdistanced the Republican hawks in their support for Washingtonâs enduring wars, a position that has historical antecedents on the issues of war and peace that are unflattering to the party.
The articles and their links: âThe âAdultsâ in the Room Are the Problem.â https://www.thenation.com/article/the-adults-in-the-room-are-the-problem/ and
âHypocrisy Without Bounds: The Tragedy of Liberal Foreign Policy,â published online on January 8: https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2019/01/07/hypocrisy-without-bounds-the-tragedy-of-liberal-foreign-policy/
âIf anyone else were president,â he writes and elaborates, âthe âliberalsâ would be celebrating. After all, pulling American soldiers out of a couple of failing, endless wars seems like a âwinâ for progressives,â and he goes on from there to demonstrate the current apparently limitless hypocrisy of the Democrats which can spell defeat for them in 2020 if they donât get their heads on straight and push into the shadows, the onetime âbaby boomersâ like Joe Biden who can only spell disaster for the party if chosen as their candidate.
Sjursen expresses his astonishment at the ease in which individuals on the liberal left who would ordinarily be expected to be against Americaâs unjust wars, embrace the generals who have encouraged and led them as âthe adults in the roomâ who they have been counting on to restrain President Trump from doing something crazy which, in this instance, appears to be withdrawing US troops from Syria and Afghanistan.
After listening to Sjursen and reading his articles which I consider a MUST, one must ask, âWho are the crazy ones?
Jeff Blankfort:News/Op:Senate v. BDS, China & Israel, Bolton
Jan. 9, 2019, 1:02 p.m.
I begin todayâs program by referring to the first bill introduced in the new Senate session by Marco Rubio, S. 1, which includes a number of items benefiting Israel, his being the Combatting BDS Act that would make it illegal and subject to fine any US business that refuses to do business with Israel, being more or less similar to anti BDS laws that have been passed in 26 states.
Because of the government shutdown, the Democrats, even those who will support the bill, have vowed not to vote on anything until the government re-opens.
I then mention how Palestinian American congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, is being called anti-Semitic by the Jewish political establishment for suggesting that the senators supporting the bill should study the US constitution which was construed by said Jews as an accusation of âdual loyalty.â She had said no such thing, but that was clearly the case, assuming they had any loyalty to the US in the first place.
What has not been mentioned in the media is that the bill would also make into law the $38 billion arms gift to Israel that was approved by Obama in 2016. Such codifying would make it difficult if not impossible for any other president over the next decade to tamper with it. I suggest this is desired by Israel so it wonât be penalized by Washington for its actions in the international arena which the White House wouldnât find pleasing.
One example of that is a deal that has been made with Israel and a Chinese company whose major owner is the Chinese government to take over and run the port of Haifa for 25 years, beginning in 2021. The US Navy which has routinely used the port to dock and participate in joint exercises with the Israeli navy is not pleased with the deal. The story has only been reported in the Israeli press which also noted that John Bolton had raised the issue with Netanyahu.
I then go into some aspects of Boltonâs background establishing him, quite openly, as an Israeli agent.
From there I go to a quote from Mike Pompeo on US goals for Iran, democratic freedoms, then point out that this year will mark the 65th anniversary of the CIA organized coup against Iranâs democratically government and point out it was more devastating for Iran than Pearl Harbor or 911 were for the US.
Finally, I report that the US government shutdown might halt funding of the Palestinian Authorityâs security forces that collaborate with Israel and the unintentional pitfall of the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act that was passed last Fall by voice vote in both houses which would allow US citizens to sue any entity that receives aid from the US if one of its members harms a US citizen. The USG is trying to find a way to change it to keep the PA from continuing its collaboration with Israel.
Jan. 9, 2019, 10:32 a.m.
The opening hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ark; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; many others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room the band, and other acts on the RWR Label on iTunes & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series above for full archive.
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Jan. 9, 2019, 10:16 a.m.
The second hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ark; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room the band, and other acts on the RWR Label on iTunes & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series above for full archive.
Jan. 9, 2019, 10:02 a.m.
The third hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ark; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room the band, and other acts on the RWR Label on iTunes & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series above for full archive.
Jan. 9, 2019, 9:45 a.m.
The closing hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room the band, and other acts on the RWR Label on iTunes & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series above for full archive.
Between the Lines for January 9, 2019
Jan. 9, 2019, 8:53 a.m.
Trump's Border Wall Government Shutdown: A Tragedy not a Crisis â Border Wall Shutdown, A Hostage Crisis, not National Security Crisis⦠Trump takes Government Workers Hostage to Demand Border Wall Funding; Democratic House Proposes HR1: Voting Rights, Campaign Finance and Ethics Reform Bill; Parking Issues focus of Sustainable Public Transportation and Urban Planning
Catherine Homsey: Conscious Shopping
Jan. 9, 2019, 8:15 a.m.
The average US resident heads out to the grocery store 1.6 times a week, and over the course of a year uses well over 1,000 plastic shopping bags there - bags which, on average, are used for a mere 15 minutes but will stick around on the earth for hundreds of years. This weekâs guest on Sea Change Radio, Catherine Homsey, is fed up with the status quo and has changed her food shopping habits to better reflect her values. She gives us insight into the plastic habit of food retailers, talks about what to do about it, and tells us of her particular annoyance with Trader Joeâs, the popular grocer that was once her favorite.
Jan. 9, 2019, 7:07 a.m.
Letter No. 3 is Cato's message to his countrymen and women that the Constitution would make the Colonies homogenous.
He alludes to the recent Shays' Rebellion in Massachusetts.
Cato contrasts the climate, temperaments and motivations of the Northern and Southern states.
Cato likens the psychology of the citizenry to an example of basic physics.
Cato makes the argument that the young Confederation is far too vast to be ruled by a centralized authority, and that the people's independence will be now threatened even more than during the recent revolution.
PCJ Radio International December 30 2018 to January 4 2019
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Jan. 8, 2019, 9:09 p.m.
Bob Avakian The Five StopsâWhy This System Can't Be Reformed, From "Why We Need an Actual Revolution, And How We Can Really Make Revolution." As 2019 began, the prison at Guantánamo Bay marked a shameful milestone. January 1 was the 6,200th day of operations at the prison. The 17th anniversary of its opening is on January 11. We'll speak with Andy Worthington about Guantanamo and the people imprisoned there
Ray McGovern - RussiaGate: The Absence of Evidence? (Part ONE of TWO)
Jan. 8, 2019, 6:19 p.m.
The material for this program literally landed on my doorstep with a personal challenge - would TUC radio and you who have listened over time be open to hearing arguments that there is no evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections?
Given the speaker, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who I met and recorded before, beginning with the opposition to the war on Iraq; and given the expertise of the group of colleagues around him, the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, VIPS; and given that this group expressed their doubts about Russian interference already in December of 2016; and given that no major TV or print media have given them a voice - I picked up the challenge and am giving Ray McGovern and his colleagues this space and time and hope that you might find his arguments and evidence as intriguing as I did.
Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. His duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the Presidentâs Daily Brief to Ronald Reaganâs security advisers from 1981 to 1985.
In January 2003, McGovern co-created Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose how intelligence was being falsified to âjustifyâ war on Iraq. VIPS remains active to this day.
McGovern was recorded on August 4, 2018 at the Common Good Cafe in Seattle, WA. Thanks to KODX-LP FM radio for the recording.
A Fightback is Growing Against GM Plant Closings in US and Canada
Jan. 8, 2019, 5:39 p.m.
GM announced plant closings in the US and Canada this past December. Autoworkers on both sides of the border and their wider communities responded with anger and organized protest. In this New Year, real plans are emerging from the affected plants and their affiliates. Slogans such as, "Seize the Plant, Save the Planet" and "Make Detroit/Oshawa the engine for a green new deal."
The companies have taken drastic, callous steps to protect their profits. Now it is time for workers to think big and take dramatic steps to protect their jobs and improve their wages and conditions. Electric cars, perhaps?
Your Life is Their Toy - Part 17
Jan. 8, 2019, 1:58 p.m.
Health and life are man's most precious possessions; and anxiety to preserve them is natural. It is not surprising, therefore, that they have been exploited since time immemorial. Every age has had its charlatans, quacks and medicine men.
Much in the same measure as social organization has attained its highest pitch in the present era, the exploitation of health and life today has reached its zenith. Never before in history has there arisen such an extensive conspiracy about the problem of public health of entire nations, involving well-organized, opposing political and commercial groups.
The consequence of this welter of exploitation is the sacrifice of human comfort, happiness, health and life.
--Emanuel Josephson, 1941, "Your Life is Their Toy."
Dr. Bill Fry - Psychology of Humor
Jan. 8, 2019, 10:23 a.m.
Our guest in this program was Dr. William Fry, a psychiatrist who has done extensive research in the field of humor. We discussed the psychology and genetics of humor. Much of Dr. Fryâs research has concentrated on Cocoa, the gorilla, and we discussed that as well. This program was originally broadcast in March of 1992, when Radio Curious was called Government, Politics and Ideas.
Originally Broadcast: March 2, 1992
The Haberdasher's Year In Music - Live
Jan. 8, 2019, 7:33 a.m.
Time Again Radio is normally hosted by Zak Vincent and it airs Monday nights from 11 PM to 1 AM on WRIR. A late show for the fellas and ladies who are looking to get their folk, old time, country blues, jug band, ragtime and jazz fixes for the weekend.
Jan. 8, 2019, 7:19 a.m.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
Weekday World, January 8, 2019
Jan. 8, 2019, 1:22 a.m.
The US War on China's Economic Model
Jan. 7, 2019, 7:52 p.m.
The United States, a much-vaunted imperial power and economic powerhouse, can't take the heat: it can't compete with China's advances in technology and industry. So what to do? Hobble and obstruct is the new plan, and the ultimate step is military intimidation, even war.
Of course, as Stephen reminds us, the United States always falsified its own 'free-market' success story by hiding the fact the public has paid all the bills for research and development, while turning over the benefits to private companies (who reap the profits). What is looming into view is the superior development model of China, which shares the benefits.
Episode 161 - Bitch Slapping the Bionic Penis
Jan. 7, 2019, 6:07 p.m.
Hey everyone! Welcome to the first show of 2019! Woo hoo, from cat poop to bionic penises. We're starting the year off right! We get geeky, we get sneaky! Listen live every Monday night at 8pm, EDT Tune in at http://www.chiampa.info
The Motherland Influence: January 6, 2019
Jan. 7, 2019, 6:06 p.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music
Ambiance Congo: January 6, 2019
Jan. 7, 2019, 6:01 p.m.
Congolese popular music
Tipton's Jazz + Label Tools + global LGBTQ news!
Jan. 7, 2019, 5:53 p.m.
The secret life of a gender-bending jazz giant; Do labels help or hurt us? Same-gender couples in Japan and Hong Kong challenge marriage inequality, Austria rings in the New Year with lesbian wedding bells, Jamaicaâs major queer rights HQ burns down, Pakistanâs first Trans Pride marchers push for progress on legal reforms, Canada coins a 50-year commemoration of sex law repeal, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!
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Jan. 7, 2019, 3:36 p.m.
Josh Ruebner, Policy Director at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, is followed by Lamis Deek, Palestinian civil rights attorney in New York City.
We see this repression in a myriad number of forms. For example, Trump's cutoff of the U.S. share of UNWRA funding; ending bilateral "humanitarian" assistance from AID; closure of the PLO office in Washington DC; transfer of the U.S. Embassy from TelAviv to Jerusalem; and the dissolution of the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem. Ruebner explains why this last slam may be the most significant of all. Ms. Deek expresses her admiration of the Palestinian protesters at the Gaza apartheid fence. They continue protesting in spite of a continuous rain of death-dealing US-made dumdum bullets, all approved by the Trump administration.
But first: Having failed to pass its unconstitutional anti-BDS legislation in the open, the Israel Lobby and its allies in Congress are conniving surreptitiously to have it added to the must-pass congressional omnibus spending bill, where it will get no debate. [Post-show note: it appears that this "must-pass" bill, whether poisoned this way or not, did NOT pass when it "must," thus triggering Trump's notorious government shutdown.]
The ACLU has seen an updated version being considered for inclusion in the spending bill. While Capitol Hill offices claim the First Amendment concerns have been resolved, this is nonsense. Knowingly supporting BDS could result in criminal financial penalties of up to $1 million. Were this legislation to pass and survive review by the new Supreme Court, federal officials would have yet another new weapon at their disposal to chill and punish activity supporting the rights of Palestinians.