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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Stu's Faves # 12 with Helen and Special Guest - Wallace Dietz - EOTC 80s Edition

Under represented underground music from 1975 to 1999, the end of the century. What led to, and followed Songs from the Big Hair. All the great punk from the late 70s, the Ramones, Dolls, early hip hop, and underground R&B of the mid-late70s, new wave through the 80s, and 90s, with Madchester, grunge, new jack swing, 90s techno, to the beginning of trance.

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Jazz Moods; 6/23/19; set 1

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Jazz Moods; 6/23/19; set 2

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interviews Grahame Russell from Rights Action (Migrant Caravan)

Host Sylvia Richardson interviews Grahame Russell He is Co-Director of Rights Action, a Canadian/US organization which funds community struggles, build alliances and partnerships between groups, writes articles and reports, coordinates speaking tours and delegations, accompanies threatened activists, and identifies and pressures agencies responsible for human rights and environmental harms. They speak about the 10th year anniversary of the Honduran Coup and the origins of the current migrant caravans coming to the US, what two things we can do to address this crisis and hold our governments and corporations accountable.

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Lake Air 1919

An hour of smooth relaxing music.

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Climate Change Has Come

Ice melt in the Himalayas has doubled just since the year 2000. We get the latest from Dr. Summer Rupper. In the Arctic, Greenland is melting making sea level rise a stunning 80% over previous estimates. It is all part of the biggest single impact of climate change on civilization: rising seas. Oceanographer and rising seas expert John Englander will be our feature interview.

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0514

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning

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#590 -- George Carlin Memorial - Part 2

On the 11th anniversary of his death we celebrate the political and cultural satire of the great comedian George Carlin. We focus on the last two decades of Carlin's long career--by which time his political views had moved well to the left of center. Carlin is one of the most astute critics of capitalism, imperialism, and American arrogance--and certainly the funniest. He died on June 22, 2008. This week's sketches: 1. They own you / the class system 2. Airport security / germs / parents 3. The Book Club 4. American B.S. / children

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Trumpocalypse Now: Orange Elvis

Here is the show spotlighting the Rump 2020 kickoff campaign, from deep in hot sticky rump country Orlando, like sweaty quaaluded n vodka Elvis, and all the crowd favorites, with help from Colbert and Kimmel, Fiore, and we even get into a little fun with some Tornado UFOs!

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Upstate Radio Theatre 1919

An hour of old time radio.

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Trump saves the world with second thoughts on illegal Iran strikes

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2019/06/20/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-153/

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Secret committees: Bristol mayoral system a 'dictatorship' and Labour group don't know what their mayor is doing

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2019/06/20/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-153/

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Sudanese revolutionary anthem - from the streets of Khartoum

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American Airlines Mechanics Are Threatening the Bloodiest, Ugliest Battle in Labor History

American Airlines Mechanics Are Threatening the Bloodiest, Ugliest Battle in Labor History with John Samuelsen, President, Transport Workers Union Mechanics at American Airlines are threatening to strike if a new contract isnt negotiated, and the union president has declared that employees are prepared for the dispute to erupt. TWU president John Samuelsen confronted American Airlines president Robert Isom and told him that the union was prepared to strike. I stand here to tell you"in front of this whole room, in front of everybody, anybody whos listening"that youre not going to get what you want, said Samuelsen. If this erupts into the bloodiest, ugliest battle that the United States labor movement ever saw, thats whats going to happen. Youre already profitable enough. Samuelsen also told Isom that workers are desperately trying to avoid whats called a self-help situation under the Railway Labor Act. That means the company would be able to force employees into a contract without union approval if the government condones it. If we ever get to a point where theres self-help, we are going to engage in an absolutely vicious strike action against American Airlines to the likes of which youve never seen, said Samuelsen. Not organized by airline people, but organized by a guy that came out of the New York City subway system thats well inclined to strike power, and who understands that the only way to challenge power is to aggressively take it to them. Were going to shut this place down.

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If Music Could Talk - April 7 2019 - Fund Drive (edited) w/ Jay, Max, and Prabir

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