National Security and Individual Freedom

This is a series based on a speech given at Harvard across April 27 and 28, 1955, by John Lord O’Brian, whose government service on behalf of the people is impressive, and one need only search his name to get a sense about the issues he felt most deeply. But no issue could have moved him more than the one to which he spoke at Harvard as part of the institution’s venerated Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties Of the Citizen. Although it would have saddened him to find that his worst fears had been realized, O’Brian warned of the government’s use of terror or the threat of terror to induce its citizenry to relinquish its liberties for the specious promise of security. And here we are.

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Mark Hertsgaard on the Global Climate Action Summit

Last week in San Francisco, scientists, thought leaders, politicians and celebrities all gathered for the Global Climate Action Summit. Mark Hertsgaard covered the summit for The Nation magazine and is here on Sea Change Radio to provide us with his insights and takeaways from the event. Hertsgaard explains the summit’s mission, discusses his interview with outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown, and unpacks why it is that some environmental activists decided to protest the summit.

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Celebrating Victoire's Release

The spokesperson for the FDU-Inkingi, Justin Bahunga, celebrates the release of Victoire Ingabire.

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Prof. Peter Wadhams: (TWO of TWO) Arctic Amplification, Climate Change, and Global Warming

Fossil fuel emissions caused the melting of Arctic ice. Now the Arctic in turn is accelerating global warming instead of cooling the planet because the disappearance or thinning of the ice sheet in the Arctic summer has many serious consequences. This ice sheet covered the top of the world and touched the coast lines of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia for 100.000 years. In only 30 years the retreat from the coast lines during the Arctic summer accelerated and an ice free Arctic in September may occur by 2020. And the Arctic winter is no longer cold enough to restore ice levels. In this extraordinary comprehensive lecture that Prof. Wadhams gave in Milano, Italy, in May 2025, he lists seven major areas in which the Arctic influences climate change. In the previous program by TUC Radio Wadhams explained the consequences of the shrinking and thinning sea ice. In this program (Part TWO) Wadhams explains the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, the loss of snow, the multi-national study on the recent discovery of methane releases from permafrost and shallow water, the link between sea ice loss and extreme weather events, and the deflections of two great global air and water currents, the Jet stream and the thermohaline circulation. Prof. Peter Wadhams is the UK’s most experienced sea ice scientist and was Director of the Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge from 1987 to 1992 and Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge from 1992 to 2015. He has made more than 50 expeditions to both polar regions. His most recent book is A Farewell to Ice.

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Stu's Faves # 11

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

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Norman Finkelstein on professing sympathy for "both sides" (Israel and Gaza)

Today we feature Norman Finkelstein, political scientist, author, professor and activist, speaking on Gaza, where he has done an enormous amount of research and writing on the systematic Israeli massacre of the Gazan population. He also sharply criticizes the media and especially the major human rights organizations, which have been numbed and to some extent neutralized by the Israeli propaganda machine. Professor Finkelstein reviews the dismal history of these organizations' cowardice and timidity as regards Israel's continuing war crimes against Gaza. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International bow to Isreal, avoiding terms like "war crimes" or "crimes against humanity." When expressing sympathy, it's for "both sides" even when the ratio of aggression is 1500 to 1, which is often. The crowning heartbreak was when Richard Goldstone mysteriously recanted his factually accurate, well documented, damning, report to the UN. Quoting Richard Falk: "You can't report truthfully on Israel without facing its wrath." (Ed. note: Finkelstein's focus was Gaza. It should be understood that those same shamefully corrupted human rights organizations have paired with Israel to aggressively promote U.S. "regime change" operations in Syria and elsewhere.)

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PCJ Radio International September 10 to September 16 2018

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Episode 148 - Back from Summer Break 2018

Wow, well, after a long three week break Joe and Anthony were back at with allergies and all to give a most humorous good time, especially when Smartacus Called.. and then Ezel Mackadoo called in too! Crazy listen every Monday night at 8pm NY Time

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Queer Ballrooms, Books, and Ballads + global LGBTQ News!

Dancing queers compete for ballroom glory; a gay singer’s comeback champions at-risk youth; two novels reveal Middle Eastern life through gay voices; an India-inspired celebrity challenges Singapore’s anti-gay sex law, Romanians to vote on constitutionally banning civil marriage for same-gender couples, Australia’s Senate condemns “conversion therapy,” and more global LGBTQ news!

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Radio Free Radical

Offering you the very best of alternative, independent political / social justice championing / status quo-challenging audio media live-streamed from our website (radiofreeradical.org) and NOW IN MP3 HERE ON RADIO4ALL! 12 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING IN JUST THREE FILES! It's all yours!

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If Music Could Talk - July 29 2018

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If Music Could Talk - July 22 2018

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All That Jazz; 9/16/18; set 1

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All That Jazz; 9/16/18/; set 2

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The Motherland Influence: September 16, 2018

African, Latin & Caribbean music.

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Ambiance Congo: September 16, 2018

Congolese popular music

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#550 -- Sugar: The Bitter Truth, Part 1 (R)

Robert Lustig is a physician (pediatric endocrinologist) and medical researcher. In this engaging and wide-ranging talk, he identifies the most important cause of America's epidemic of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary disease, liver disease, and metabolic disorder. The culprit is sugar, specifically fructose. . . . (Continued under "Credits.")

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0474

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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Episode 2018.04. Assessing the Planning Capabilities of the Higher Class

Let us imagine for a moment, you are a student in a class or more appropriately, a school lasting for 10 years. Each year represents a specific stage in the evolutionary process of not only yourself but the functioning of the school. You, along with 10 others are selected to “manage” the school for the rest of the students. How are you selected – by birthright. Most students don’t know your name but still revere you and see you as Godlike because your power over them. You inherit the school from your parents who didn’t necessarily take care of it, embroiling it in various conflicts with other schools, letting its structures sag and deteriorate all while penalizing the students who attended and worked there with heavier taxes while all the while decreasing the services and classes available to them. When you inherit the school, sort of, your parents are still there, guiding you and watching over your shoulders, you inherit a fiscal mess and social decay. Not wanting to partways with their stolen, (my mistake) plundered and looted riches; your parents advise you to “stay the coarse” which you do, yet soon after your ascendence, the public doesn’t stay theirs, a moment your parents admit they were ready for. They hand you the keys to a massive surveillance apparatus, a machine you instantly use only to find it makes things worse – what would you do. The planning machine is broken, the elites fear what is to come, with fear comes over reaction.

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SHAPE (Self Help for African People through Education) Trivia for 49 Years!

SHAPE in Houston- Self Help for African People through Education Meeting of The Elders Institute of Wisdom

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S2

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Boom Bap Soul Mix Vol. 58 (*clean)

(1.) On Da Rise - BlabberMouf (2.) Sam Cooke & Marvin Gaye - Blue Lab Beats ft. Kojey Radical & Tiana Major9 (3.) 1nce Again - (K Le Maestro remix) - A Tribe Called Quest (4.) String Bean - Moka Only (5.) Melody Spells - Man Of Booom (6.) Cupid - Kaidi Tatham ft. Uhmeer (7.) Interlude - El (8.) Keep Up Wimmi - Zio (9.) Build Together - Teknical Developments.IS & Figub Brazlevic ft. Bad FX, Tesla Alset and Educut (10.) Open Trails - Solar C ft. Best Kept (11.) Natural Woman - Kaiit (12.) Stronger Than Me - DJ Jazzy Jeff ft. Rhymefest and Dayne Jordan (13.) Raposa - Astro Mega (14.) Indefinite - Alcynoos (15.) Never Surrender - Figub Brazlevic (16.) Flava In Ya Ear (Tall Black Guy remix) - Craig Mack ft. Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes (17.) You - Suff Daddy (18.) Isleham Swamp - Dirty D*ke (19.) Kraut im Papier - (instrumental version) - Dexter (20.) Pretty Dreamer - Point 5 (21.) 079 - Summer Sons ft. Charlie Tappin (22.) Vhs - Calvin Valentine ft. Illa J (23.) Night Riders (9th Wonder remix) - Boot Camp Click ft. Aaliyah (24.) life on mars - b0nds (25.) A Different Light - The Perceptionists (26.) Sunrise - Evil Needle

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Radio Climate Shock

Forget about giant machines to suck out carbon. If you worry about the climate, you have to save tropical rainforests. We talk with the doyen of forest activism, Frances Seymour from the World Resources Institute. But first, one of the top American climate scientists, Dr. Jonathan Overpeck on science that warns the whole world will be reclothed in unpredictable ways as the climate goes out of control. How do we know? It has happened before, when the world warmed 5 degrees Centigrade. I'm Alex, and this is Radio Climate Shock.

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S1

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How the Pope legitimized the theft of land from Naive Peoples

This talk explains the origins of the Doctorine of Discovery. This is the legal basis that was used to justify the theft of non Christian people’s lands by the authorization of the Pope. This doctrine is called a Papal Bull. Spanish Sovereigns agreed to finance Christopher Columbus but how would they finance the trip? In 1492 they were able to overwhelm the last Muslim community in Grenada and expropriate their property. Also they decided to expel the Jews. While Columbus was in a port in Western Spain getting ready to make his trip to the Americas literally next to him are ships full of Jews whose property has like the Muslims been taken by the crown and they use that wealth stolen from these people in order to finance his trip.

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Mazin Qumsiyeh on Mayhem vs. Sanity in Western Asia Why Palestine is still the issue

This week our Palestinian voice is that of our old friend Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, who never fails to challenge us with the depth of his political analysis. Today we feature Mazin speaking to the Jerusalem Fund in Washington, DC on May 22, 2018. His subject: “Mayhem vs. Sanity in Western Asia…Why Palestine is still the issue.” In this extraordinarily wide-ranging speech, Mazin observes that almost every nation in the world is a colonizer or colonized, depending on whether it has nuclear weapons. He views the entire 8000-year history of homo sapiens as a mere click away from ending. This is neither the first nor the last time you'll hear Mazin's wisdom on This Week In Palestine. Mazin is an MD geneticist who taught at Duke and Yale Universities before returning to his home in Beit Sahour, Palestine where he continues to teach at Bethlehem University and Birzeit University. He is also the founder and director of the growing Museum of Natural History at Bethlehem University. It's clearly a labor of love, for which he accepts no pay.

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Upbeat Music Hour Show 101

Golden Oldies (70s, 80s, 90s)

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The NATO social-democrats

The U.S. is going through an emotional meltdown about people who might be meddling in their affairs. At the same time, we read in the NYT that U.S. officials have met several times with Venezuelan army officers that are described as "renegades" over whether or not a military coup should occur against Maduro. Yves Engler describes the activities of the "Lima Group" that plans Venezuela's destabilization via funding opposition forces and information warfare. Canada's social-democratic party, the NDP, has either remained silent or overtly supported the U.S./Canadian attempts to overthrow a social-democratic government. At the same time, who is paying attention to the soft coup in Brazil against popular president Lula? Not the NDP. Engler explains that the NDP largely follows the corporate media in determining its foreign policy. That's a reason why it no longer follows its own doctrinal policy to get out of NATO. Engler details long history of pro-militarist positions upheld by the NDP. He also discusses George Grant's role in promoting a kind of liberal Canadian nationalism that ends up supporting empire. The missionary language of "doing good" in the world always leads to buying more ships and planes in order to spread Canadian goodness throughout the world. In this way, Canada is a willing "sub-partner" in U.S. exceptionalism.

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2018-09-07 - Undercover Outed in Hamilton, #PrisonStrike2018, and Why environmental justice activists should fight fascists

An infiltrator is outed in the Hamilton activist scene and environmental justice organisers are urged to join and expand the fight against fascists forces at home and abroad. Also some #PrisonStrike and #PrisonRadio audio.

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Israel-Palestine: The Humanitarian Consequences of an Occupation

This week's Global Research News Hour returns to the Israel-Paestine conflict. Guest Suha Jarrar, researcher with the Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq, provides an overview of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, with a special emphasis on climate change impacts and settler-colonialism. Larry Commodore, an Indigenous activist from the Soowahlie community of the Stó:lō Nation, near Vancouver, talks about the abuse he and his fellow passengers aboard a Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla ship after it was intercepted by Israeli forces. Lawyer, journalist, and Palestine solidarity activist examines Canada's unique role in aiding and abetting Israel's violations of international law, and measures that could be taken to hold in the Middle Eastern country and Canadian officials to account.

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