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Reviewing the Most Significant Stories of 2018 and Projections for 2019
Jan. 4, 2019, 11:24 a.m.
This week's Global Research News Hour debuts in 2019 with a special look at key stories from the past year and what they portend for 2019.
Andy Lee Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored, speaks to some of the key themes running through the top 25 most censored stories of the past year, and this year's CENSORED 2019 compendium. Dr. Jack Rasmus, a political economist and instructor at St. Maryâs College in California, assesses the fundamentals underlying the global economy and the key events from 2018 affecting those fundamentals. Rick Rozoff, journalist, anti-war activist and manager of the STOP NATO list-serve, takes a look at the geostrategic developments in 2018 on the world stage and what they indicate about near future military conflicts.
Finally, Dmitry Orlov brings us his end of year take on the ongoing collapse of the US Empire in the context of Russia's military capability, the global energy map, and climate change impacts.
UpFront Soul #2019.01-January 7-13 hr 1
Jan. 4, 2019, 7:03 a.m.
We'll warm up with the Ohio Players' cover of Summertime, get even warmer with Nina Simone's "Go to Hell," and Cry Like a Baby with the late, great Aretha Franklin.
I Met Myself Sideways on a One Way Street
Jan. 4, 2019, 4:19 a.m.
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.
Sounds From the Global Village 1816
Jan. 4, 2019, 3:16 a.m.
Segment One
A Ochun by Brenda Navarrete
CD: Mi Mundo (Alma)
The Shore of Gruinard by Sileas
CD: Beating Harps (Green Linnet)
Li Nssak Nssah by Moulay Ahmed El Hassani
CD: Atlas Electric (Hive Mind)
Segment Two
Skaros by Kitsos Harisiadis
CD: Lament in a Deep Style (Third Man)
Song of Realization by Choying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts
CD: Selwa (Six Degrees)
Kanou by The World Kora Trio
CD: Korazon (Passe Minuit)
Segment Three
Konsyans by Tradisyon Ka
CD: Gwo Ka: Music of Guadaloupe, West Indies (Soul Jazz)
Sulgostow by WoWaKin
CD: Kraj Za Miastem (Baba Studio)
Ai Doostan by The Afghan Ensemble
CD: Songs of Afghanistan (ARC)
Weekday World, January 4, 2019
Jan. 4, 2019, 1:35 a.m.
Jan. 4, 2019, 1:34 a.m.
The Shortwave Report 01/04/19 Listen Globally!
Jan. 3, 2019, 4:29 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. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and NHK Japan.
Jan. 3, 2019, 4:24 p.m.
Excerpts from Democracy Now, The Mind's Ear, Donald Drumpf Theatre, Twit Wit Radio, and Up Front. Music from Buzzcocks, Chumbawamba, Bad Voltage, The Crystal Method and Dr. Israel
TB 190104 History Will Remember
Jan. 3, 2019, 2:45 p.m.
This weekâs radio show starts off by revealing the numerous and odious manners that censorship sucks. We pose a philosophical question, and we compare Donald Trump to Mike Pence before the feature piece once again describes apartheid and genocide in Palestine.
Serious issues. Irreverent delivery.
Welcome to the Thunderbolt.
Not Your Regularly Scheduled Program
Jan. 3, 2019, 12:37 p.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. 3, 2019, 12:20 p.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
Jan. 3, 2019, 9:29 a.m.
It's stressful; it's expensive; ir's bad for the environment; it's bad for the soul; and it's VERY hard to get rid of. No, not the Trump Administration (or bedbugs): I'm referring to clutter.
We explore the problem with true confessions by me, an article by Erica Layne, remarks by environmentalist Lloyd Alter, and music by Chumbawamba.
Jan. 3, 2019, 3:46 a.m.
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.
Weekday World, January 3, 2019
Jan. 2, 2019, 11:59 p.m.
Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 103 Mexico is Going to Pay for the Wall
Jan. 2, 2019, 8:26 p.m.
Donald Drumpf Theatre Volume 103 Mexico Is Going To Pay For The Wall. This week our hero tries to pass off the check. The show is uploaded Thursdays, though anonymous sources say it may be canceled soon.
Jan. 2, 2019, 7:22 p.m.
Global A Go-Go's favorite recordings of 2018, part 3 of 3: the best of the rest -- the top singles, great tracks from EPs and LPs, everything I couldn't fit on the last two weeks' shows
Jan. 2, 2019, 6:01 p.m.
We spotlight the Del Rubio triplets, who are warped, warped and weird in one package, a veteran actor with decades of horror and Scifi credits, croons country, and grab a beer and pretzel, it's oompah time! and it isn't Oktoberfest!
INTERVIEW: Denis Moncada, FM of Nicaragua
Jan. 2, 2019, 1:12 p.m.
After the failure last year of yet another attempt to incite a coup in Nicaragua, the US is now attempting to use the Organization of American States to seek the removal of the elected government there. Article 20 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter authorizes consideration of the internal affairs of another member nation only "in the event of an unconstitutional alteration of the constitutional regime that seriously impairs the democratic order in a member state."
Nicaragua's sitting government was duly elected in open elections under international monitoring. All reports were that the elections were free and fair. The President in the last past election (2016) won by a majority of more than 72%. The National Assembly shows similarly strong support (65+%) for the majority Sandinistas (FSLN). The constitutional order remains in effect.
Nevertheless, this past December 28th, the US - through the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro - requested an urgent meeting of the Permanent Council with the purpose of acting under Article 20 of the Democratic Charter against Nicaragua, claiming that there has been an alteration of the constitutional order.
We discussed the matter with the Foreign Minister of Nicargua, Denis Moncada, via Skype from Managua, Wednesday.
Interviewer: Don DeBar
Sonic Cafe #119/The Importance Of Staying In The GROOVE
Jan. 2, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
Thatâs Richard âGrooveâ Holmes⦠keepinâ it in the Groove⦠with Grooveâs Groove⦠here at the Sonic Café. Hey welcome, Iâm Scott Clark and this is episode 119. This time the Sonic Café tackles the important topic of helping you find your groove, and more importantly, staying in that groove, once you get there. Our totally groovy music mix is pulled from 53 years, including cuts from ZZ Top, Propeller Heads, The Troggs, Maynard Ferguson, Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists, the Blues Brothers, and of course many more. Weâll also check in with comedian Joe Zimmerman. Joeâs got the inside track on a groovy new way to order your pizza with Papa Johnâs new advanced pizza order option⦠guaranteed to keep you at the head of the line. How groovy is that? Huh? All that plus a big Sonic Café welcome to Taco Town, our newest sponsor⦠featuring the all new pizza, crepe, pancake, chili bag⦠a taco thatâs bigger than your head. Sounds delicious. All this time as we get you in the groove⦠and keep you there. From that little café on the coast where we always lay down the deepest grooves⦠weâre the Sonic Café.
Between The Lines - Jan. 2, 2019
Jan. 2, 2019, 10:01 a.m.
Sentencing Project's Marc Mauer: Federal Criminal Justice Reform First Step Act is Not Enough; author Felicia Kornbluh: Punitive 1990s Welfare Reform Due for Overhaul; Workers' Project 's Tom Lewandowski: Labor Movement Needs to Focus on Organizing Not Elections
Jan. 2, 2019, 8:19 a.m.
Segment One
Symphony for Improvisers by Don Cherry
I. Symphony for Improvisers
II. Nu Creative Love
III. What's Not Serious
IV. Infant Happiness
CD: Symphony for Improvisers (Blue Note)
Segment Two
Abandon by Construction
CD: Centreline Theory (Leo)
As If by The Soft Machine
CD: Fifth (Columbia)
To the Old World (Thank You for the Use of Your Body. Goodbye) by Robert Wyatt
CD: The End of an Ear (Columbia)
Segment Three
Out There by Eric Dolphy
CD: Out There (New Jazz/OJC)
He Me by Vic Juris
CD: Remembering Eric Dolphy (Steeplechase)
Jan. 2, 2019, 5:59 a.m.
Weekday World, January 2, 2019
Jan. 1, 2019, 11:37 p.m.
Commentary December 24th, 2018
Jan. 1, 2019, 9:59 p.m.
Phil Taylor and Phil Conlon comment on the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis, and also the Five Eyes.
Jan. 1, 2019, 7:53 p.m.
The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother
Ever wondered what it would be like to have an identical twinâhow alike would you be to that person? How much of an individual would you be? Saul Diskin and his identical twin brother Marty grew up together in New York City where Saul and Marty were inseparable. As adults, they began to live separate lives, Saul in Phoenix and Marty near Boston. In 1991, Marty, who had suffered from leukemia for 20 years, needed a bone marrow transplant, which he received from Saul. In his extraordinarily intimate book, âThe End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother,â Saul Diskin chronicles the rich relationship beginning with their early childhood and ending well past Martyâs death in 1997, shortly before their 63rd birthday.
Saul Diskin recommends âEntwined Lives,â by Nancy Segal and âCosmology and Creation: The Spiritual Significance of Contemporary Cosmologyâ by Paul Brockelman.
Originally Broadcast: September 22, 2001
Jan. 1, 2019, 6:47 p.m.
In part 3, The Holy See is mentioned.
More of âHologram of Liberty.â
Excerpts from âNo Treasonâ by James Martin.
Sandy Hook and reflexive legislation. If the
Second Amendment is supposed to be a right,
why isnât it, really?
The Gaspee Affair - an early false flag?
What of the Butterfly Effect? One
Charles A. Beard wrote a book that earned
the enmity of elites in the early 20th Century.
Why?
How wealthy were the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention? What about George
Washington, how much was he worth?
Just how ironclad is our Bill of Rights?
A pertinent discussion of Sir Thomas More,
The Devil and The Law.
Conclusion and agreement to reconvene.
PCJ Radio International December 23 to December 31 2018
Jan. 1, 2019, 6:21 p.m.
Ignacio Chapela: The Story of Corn (TWO of TWO)
Jan. 1, 2019, 5:25 p.m.
The contamination of the cradle of corn with genetically engineered seeds -
Ignacio Chapela from the University of California, Berkeley discovered that genetically modified corn had contaminated the cradle of corn in the remote mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. The Zapotecan Indians have cultivated corn there for over 10,000 years.
In Part TWO Chapela questions why a biotech company can take out a patent on a living seed after making minor changes in the DNA. He also warns of horizontal gene transfer whereby an engineered gene from one organism may enter the genome of another species, including humans.
Ignacio Chapela is now (2018) associate professor of microbial ecology at UC, Berkeley.
Oscar Brown Jr. - his art, his music, his politics and his passion
Jan. 1, 2019, 3:53 p.m.
Oscar Brown Jr. talks about his life, his music, his poetry and his politics from his start as one of the first Black radio hosts to the influence of Paul Robeson and his life as one of the premier songwriters and performers in the country
Jan. 1, 2019, 11:59 a.m.
Sara Flounders joins the program to discuss her popular article, "Why the U.S. Threatens China." It has taken on greater relevance in the context of Canada's arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.
The 'trade war' isn't simply about trade: it's about the larger issue of the United States trying to contain China's overall economic rise.
China wasn't supposed to succeed. It was supposed to be a giant sweatshop to sew t-shirts and assemble iPhones. Now, because of socialist planning, it is thwarting U.S. attempts at subjugation, and building a rapport with others who have been colonized and exploited.
The U.S. is unable to compete economically with China in many sectors. Flounders describes how in its ongoing attempt to 'pivot to Asia,' America is leveraging its military advantage to put pressure on China.