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Sept. 26, 2018, 2:52 p.m.
Jeff Blankfort:News/Op:Russia, Iran, Russia v. Israel?
Sept. 26, 2018, 1:37 p.m.
I began by discussing last week's special section in NY Times devoted to Russian subversion of our elections, pointing out the serious omission the Ukraine coup and the lie in about Russia invading Ukraine in search for new bogeyman and new Cold War. I explain reasons for Putin wanting to damage Clinton and later, with reference to Kavanaugh hearing, how her âstanding byâ her sexual predator husband and vilifying his victims cost her the women's vote,
I then read from Mairead Maguire's powerful essay against the demonization of Russia and the crimes of NATO and the potential of war, followed by noting Trump's comments in the UN on Iran and the more bellicose by John Bolton at another forum in NY the same day, threatening all sanction breakers with âterrible consequences and Pompeo's bewilderment at Europe's attempt to find ways to trade with Iran and avoid sanctions.
I finish with update on Russia blaming Israel for the shooting down of Russian reconnaissance plane by Syrian anti-aircraft missile and Russian military's unhappiness with Putin's attempt to explain it as a mistake.
Diana Johnstone on The REAL Russian Interference in US
Sept. 26, 2018, 1:31 p.m.
I begin by referring to Diana Johnstone's article for Consortium News about the REAL Russian interference in US politics in the person of oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Bill Browder and how the oligarchs obtained their wealth in the Yeltsin era and manipulated Washington and Congress to support them with legislation and sanctions against Russia such as the Magnitsky Act in which he was able to transform Browderâs crooked accountant into a âhuman rights âmartyr when he died from neglect in a Russian prison.
She relates the history of Khodorkovskyâs rise from being a Soviet apparatchik to the be multibillionaire owner of Lukos oil and his arrest when he was planning to sell parts of it to Exxon and Chevron, which was his springboard to becoming a hero in the US Congress.
When Putin tried to reign in the activities if the oligarchs, they had the option of fleeing to Israel (all were Jewish-JB) where they had no fear of extradition and their money was welcomed,
Johnstone points out the US is only too happy wo welcome interference in US political life when it comes from scoundrels and gangsters, in groups and individuals, who seek US backing in their efforts to overthrow their governments, in a word, traitors, and cites, most immediately, the MEK, Mujahedeen-e-Khalq , formally listed as a terrorist group by State, now embraced by the likes of Rudy Giuliani.
The points of her article and her comments are if Putin is interfering in the US system it is protect him from the US efforts to overthrow his government and return to the corrupt era when Yeltsin was Washingtonâs puppet and that the clash between the US and Russia is not one of competing ideologies as we saw in the Cold War, but of Putinâs view of a multipolar world as opposed to the US view of American world domination. And much more.
Sept. 26, 2018, 11:04 a.m.
Our show might bug you a bit this week, as we present another bug special, with music that's related to the hip bug scene (well, we think it's hip right?) and some interest facts about insects...keep the bug spray away from the radio though, they won't come through the speaker! We hope anyway.
Sept. 26, 2018, 5:32 a.m.
Tonight we are going to hear some excerpts from Behrouz Boochaniâs book No Friend But the Mountains.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was reading it and basically couldnât put it down. Well during this time also I have been chatting with radio producer Ros Elliot who embarked on a mission to transfer segments of the book onto radio.
With the permission of the author she recorded Leo Gortz reading some segments from the book.
Having read the book, fast because I wanted to absorb the whole story⦠hearing these readings was a totally different experience. So thanks very much Ros for taking on this project.
Right now you can hear it for yourself, the book starting out with Behrouz leaving Indonesia by boat. A small boat embarking on a journey over a huge sea.
Weekday World, September 26, 2018
Sept. 26, 2018, 1:55 a.m.
Sept. 25, 2018, 8:37 p.m.
 Alan Mills, executive director of Uptown People's Law Center, on their lawsuit against Illinois prisons that have censored Blood in the Water, by historian Heather Ann Thompson about the 1971 Attica prison uprising. "The Penalty," a new documentary, takes on the horror of the death penalty through three different perspectives. These stories woven together form a powerful statement on the terrible societal impact of state-sponsored murder.Â
Celebrating Ten Years of Sea Change Radio, Pt. 1
Sept. 25, 2018, 5:44 p.m.
It's been ten years since Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon launched Sea Change Radio in Western Massachusetts. To celebrate this past decade of broadcasts, we're looking back at some of the best moments and interviews. This week, we've dug up some highlights from the first five years of the show, featuring guests as diverse and dynamic as Wangari Maathai, Barney Frank, Frances Moore Lappé, Ken Burns, Van Jones, John Perry Barlow and Ralph Steadman.
Sept. 25, 2018, 5:32 p.m.
Jeremy Corbyn with Yanis Varoufakis (ONE of TWO)
Sept. 25, 2018, 5:14 p.m.
A Conversation at the Edinburgh Book Festival, August 20, 2018
Once a year a tented village goes up in the heart of Edinburgh for the annual Book Festival. The best attended events of 2018 were political panels on how to curb the power of corporations and banks; and the parallel fights for public education and health, and the resistance against privatization across Europe and the Americas.
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician. He was a Syriza member of the Hellenic Parliament and served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015. He resigned in protest over the imposition of structural adjustment and bailout loans on the Greek people.
Varoufakis has since appeared in numerous debates, lectures, and interviews. In February 2016, he co-founded the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), and subsequently backed a Remain in the European Union vote in the UK's Brexit referendum of 2016.
Jeremy Corbyn is a leader of the British Labour Party and of the Opposition in Parliament since 2015. He was first elected MP for Islington North in 1983. Corbyn identifies as a democratic socialist.
He advocates reversing austerity cuts to public services and welfare funding made since 2010; and proposes re-nationalization of public utilities and the railways. An anti-war and anti-nuclear campaigner since his youth, he broadly supports non-interventionism and unilateral nuclear disarmament.
In the snap 2017 general election, Labour (under Corbyn) again finished as the second largest party in parliament, and increased their share of the popular vote to 40%. That increase in vote share was the largest in a single general election since 1945.
Corbyn and Varoufakis were recorded on August 20, 2018 at the Edinburgh Book Festival.
PCJ Radio International September 17 to September 24 2018
Sept. 25, 2018, 4:37 p.m.
Dalton, Joan — Dogs in Juvenile Hall
Sept. 25, 2018, 4:26 p.m.
I once had the good fortune of seeing âIf Animals Could Talk,â a movie made by Jane Goodall. A segment was about The MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn, Oregon. The boys incarcerated there have committed serious criminal offenses; some of them are given an opportunity to train dogs, develop relationships with the dogs and in doing so learn responsibility, patience and respect for other living creatures. There is a zero recidivism rate among the juvenile inmates who spend time training dogs at MacLaren.
Sept. 25, 2018, 1:13 p.m.
The Anti-Federalists - Part Fourteen
Sept. 25, 2018, 1:08 p.m.
Centinel's Letter no. 14 is a first in that he quotes at length a firsthand witness to the Federalists' sleight-of-hand. Luther Martin, a participant in the Constitutional Convention, is appalled at the Founding Jugglers' brazen and cynical power grab. At great risk to himself, he sounds a detailed alarm and warns his fellow countrymen of the perfidy occurring right under their noses. Centinel's prescient warnings portend today's Federal Leviathan.
Concerns about the direct election of Senators, ultimately realized by the Seventeenth Amendment, are touched upon. In lieu of a direct taxation upon the people, Martin proposes taxing the States only in event of delinquency, but his idea is rejected. Simply put, the now-fledgling Congress will ultimately tax everything (and everyone) under the Sun after forcibly corralling the States into one whole. Worse, Congress will be subject to virtually no checks or balances.
Sept. 25, 2018, 7:44 a.m.
Sept. 25, 2018, 6:15 a.m.
Weekday World, September 25, 2018
Sept. 24, 2018, 10:29 p.m.
Justice for Laquan McDonald - Convict Jason Van Dyke
Sept. 24, 2018, 8:56 p.m.
Chicago has a long history of systemic racism, police abuse and institutionalized torture to get mostly Black and Latino youth to confess to crimes they did not commit. Both the State and the City of Chicago admitted that in 2015 legislation following years of community organizing and activism.
https://peopleslawoffice.com/issues-and-cases/chicago-police-torture/
The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has been organizing, educating and fighting for justice and an end to police impunity for 45 years.
Frank Chapman, field organizer for Stop Police Crimes, the campaign of CAARPR that will see an elected civilian board in control of policing in Chicago, gives an over view on how that campaign created the political space to have the cop that shot Laquan McDonald 16 times, prosecuted for 1st Degree Murder; no small accomplishment when the Mayor and the States Attorney and City Council were involved in a coverup to hide video evidence that the official narrative of the shooting was a lie.
One of the awardees was Jamie Kalven, investigative reporter
from the Invisible Institute, who doggedly followed up on a tip that video of the shooting existed, and that it contradicted the "official" story of the police. Officers on the scene, lied in their official reports of the shooting and were caught in the act of destroying video evidence from the security camera of a fast food restaurant that captured the shooting. Kalven speaks to the significance of this moment in the long struggle for justice and human rights in Chicago and it historical antecedent.
Episode 149 - Driving High Past the Nude Neighbors
Sept. 24, 2018, 6:19 p.m.
Hey, Joe and Anthony had a broadcast day for sure. They whipped up the energy for laughs and crazy news stories to keep things flowing. Ezel called in with a hot new recipe for clay people. Want more wacky? Tune in every Monday night 8pm eastern time www.chiampa.info
Emmy's Night Out + global LGBTQ News!
Sept. 24, 2018, 4:39 p.m.
Honors and admonitions queer the Emmys; Trinidad & Tobagoâs High Court alters sex laws to sidestep repeal, a Romanian referendum seeks to solidify hetero only marriage, Hong Kong acquiesces on spousal visas equality, Incheonâs first-ever Pride march is marred by malevolent protestors, Serbiaâs criticized lesbian P.M. joins Belgrade Pride, Bert and Ernieâs rumored romance is rekindled by a gay âSesame Streetâ writer, and more global LGBTQ news!
Sept. 24, 2018, 2:18 p.m.
Sept. 24, 2018, 10:05 a.m.
(1.) Whoodeeni - De La Soul ft. 2Chainz
(2.) May Day remix - Truth Enola
(3.) Vacant Rhymes - Modill ft. Dave
(4.) Breakadawn - De La Soul
(5.) Certified - Ghetto Concept
(6.) Mr Megahustle - Moka Only ft. PlugTwo
(7.) Da Chune Up - that Brotha Lokey ft. DieRek
(8.) Potholes In My Lawn - De La Soul
(9.) In The Woods - De La Soul ft. Shortie No Mass
(10.) Turning Me Off - Young RJ ft. De La Soul
(11.) B-Side To Hollywood - Camp Lo ft. Dove
(12.) Dark Side (Bugseed remix) - Muneshine ft. Ghettosocks (Twin Peaks)
(13.) Stand Up - Solar C
(14.) Itzsoweeze (HOT) - De La Soul
(15.) Birds Of A Feather - Black Sheep ft. Q-Tip, Mike G and Dave
(16.) Shang Tsung - Made Wade
(17.) Chess Game Of Life - Es
(18.) Clear Day - The Last Emperor ft. Masta Ace and Dave
(19.) Aurum - Full Circle
(20.) The Flame Thrower - DJ EnYouTee ft. Starvin B
(21.) Too Ambitious - Lee Reed
(22.) Rock Co. Kane Flow - De La Soul ft. MF Doom
(23.) Avertissement, Sugar Pie - Pro-V
Sept. 24, 2018, 7:32 a.m.
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Sept. 24, 2018, 6:35 a.m.
Swing It Again; 9/23/18; set 1
Sept. 24, 2018, 4:37 a.m.
Swing It Again; 9/23/18; set 2
Sept. 24, 2018, 4:35 a.m.
Episode 2018.05. Isolated Family Loneliness, A Precursor to School Violence
Sept. 24, 2018, 2:43 a.m.
If the liver fails the body, the body without proper intervention will cease operating, then die a very discomforting death. If the heart fails, ceasing operation is death. The pancreas, or kidney, operation declines but death is more easily stayed. In a society, the individual is a cell attached to a unit called a family. One family alone is likable to a tissue or collection of cells; placed with similarly cultured and specified cells, youâll get an organ. Yet that organ, itself is not a stand alone functionary of the body. The Heart, Kidney, Pancreas, Liver, Intestines, Colon and all other bodily functionaries have within themselves organs. When these inner-structures, organs, are encased by a separating membrane with working circulatory systems, setting themselves apart from other similarly structured functionaries, we call them Organs. In a society, the first is a community â that is the inner organ structure, in America this might also be considered a county. Each state is similar to the functionary or Organ within the body. In a society if one family is afflcted with a disease which deveastes its entire line, the whole barely notices just like if one tissue in an inner organ is damaged, the body acknowledges the problem subtly but continues on without much interruption. However if the disease afflicts multiple inner organs across multiple organs, then the body will itself become afflicted by disease. We have entered a period in time when such afflictions, isolated to a few communities have produced outcomes which cost lives in school buildings.
Weekday World, September 24, 2018
Sept. 23, 2018, 11:18 p.m.
Sept. 23, 2018, 7:34 p.m.
While nations dither on climate, Jodie Van Horn of Sierra Club reports on cities switching to renewable energy. Lifetime activist Campbell Plowden on the real way to save the Amazon rainforest - the "lungs of the planet".
Trumpocalypse Now: Hurricane Flo
Sept. 23, 2018, 5:52 p.m.
HERE is the show about the CLIMATE driven impacts of Hurricane Flo on NC, the Poor, and our water. Plus, we FEAR the TRUMP PRESIDENCY, Kava-nah, and the Russians are hiding in plane sight.