The Motherland Influence: February 4, 2018

African, Latin & Caribbean music

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CPR News, February 5, 2018

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Ambiance Congo: February 4, 2018

Congolese popular music

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Martian Gardens Episode 920 Hour 3

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Martian Gardens Episode 920 Hour 2

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Martian Gardens Episode 920 Hour 1

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Fresh New Sounds; 2/4/18; set 1

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Fresh New Sounds; 2/4/18; set 2

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Weekday World, February 5, 2018

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0442

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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Weather Bomb

Following another record year of "natural" catastrophes, Canadian climate scientist and You tube activist Paul Beckwith works over our tenuous situation with host Alex Smith.

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The Vietnam War and the Whitewashing of History

On this episode of Back in the USSR, me and a very special guest are going to talk about the Vietnam War. Why? Because here at Back in the USSR we are very sensitive to the distortion and re-writing of history by the powers that be, and that’s exactly what’s been going on with how the Vietnam War has been portrayed in Western media. And while this certainly isn’t new, some very blatant examples have emerged recently, including a PBS documentary series which we’re going to talk about, that effectively whitewashes what was in fact one of the most horrendous and terrifying atrocities ever committed by an imperial power against a Third World nation in modern history. Tonight, we set the record straight.

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S2

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S1

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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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Let's Have Homecoming - Episode 22

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PCJ Radio International January 30 to February 4 2018

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SE Asia roundup: 'Hong Kong's Private Eye' editor Gui Minhai arrested in mainland China

Bookmark this brilliant analysis of the criminal elite tax evasion schemes that will have to go if our indebted, enslaved world is to get lighter to walk on https://financialsecrecyindex.com/ Theresa May silent during visit on China's arrest of 'Hong Kong political publisher Gui Minhai, author of salacious books on China’s poitical elite. Public discussion of the rivalries/private lives of top Communist Party officials is strictly prohibited in China http://thediplomat.com/2018/02/the-strange-and-sad-case-of-gui-minhai/ Former Associated Press journalist Robert Parry, who was smeared by Google as 'fake news' has died One of the world's greatest investigative journalists just passed away. RIP Robert Parry, who exposed the Iran-Contra CIA drug running scandal in the 1980s, then got permanently blacklisted by the corporate #FakeNews media, who have ignored his passing https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/28/robert-parrys-legacy-and-the-future-of-consortiumnews/ Contra-Cocaine and October Surprise Parallel to the illegal arms shipments to Iran during those days was a cocaine trafficking operation by the Nicaraguan contras and a willingness by the Reagan administration and the CIA to turn a blind eye to these activities. This, despite the fact that cocaine was flooding into the United States while Ronald Reagan was proclaiming a “war on drugs,” and a crack cocaine epidemic was devastating communities across the country. Bob and his colleague Brian Barger were the first journalists to report on this story in late 1985, which became known as the contra-cocaine scandal, and became the subject of a congressional investigation led by then-Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) in 1986. Continuing to pursue leads relating to Iran-Contra during a period in the late 80s when most of Washington was moving on from the scandal, Bob discovered that there was more to the story than commonly understood. He learned that the roots of the illegal arm shipments to Iran stretched back further than previously known – all the way back to the 1980 presidential campaign. That electoral contest between incumbent Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan had come to be largely dominated by the hostage crisis in Iran, with 52 Americans being held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The Iranian hostage crisis, along with the ailing economy, came to define a perception of an America in decline, with former Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan promising a new start for the country, a restoration of its status as a “shining city on a hill.” The hostages were released in Tehran moments after Reagan was sworn in as president in Washington on January 20, 1981. Despite suspicions for years that there had been some sort of quid pro quo between the Reagan campaign and the Iranians, it wasn’t until Bob uncovered a trove of documents in a House office building basement in 1994 that the evidence became overwhelming that the Reagan campaign had interfered with the Carter administration’s efforts to free the hostages prior to the 1980 election. Their release sooner – what Carter hoped would be his “October Surprise” – could have given him the boost needed to win. Examining these documents and being already well-versed on this story – having previously travelled three continents pursuing the investigation for a PBS Frontline documentary – Bob became increasingly convinced that the Reagan campaign had in fact sabotaged Carter’s hostage negotiations, possibly committing an act of treason in an effort to make sure that 52 American citizens continued to be held in a harrowing hostage situation until after Reagan secured the election. Needless to say, this was an inconvenient story at a time – in the mid-1990s – when the national media had long since moved on from the Reagan scandals and were obsessing over new scandals, mostly related to President Bill Clinton’s sex life and failed real estate deals. Washington also wasn’t particularly interested in challenging the Reagan legacy, which at that time was beginning to solidify into a kind of mythology, with campaigns underway to name buildings and airports after the former president. At times, Bob had doubts about his career decisions and the stories he was pursuing. As he wrote in Trick or Treason, a book outlining his investigation into the October Surprise Mystery, this search for historical truth can be painful and seemingly thankless. “Many times,” he wrote, “I had regretted accepting Frontline’s assignment in 1990. I faulted myself for risking my future in mainstream journalism. After all, that is where the decent-paying jobs are. I had jeopardized my ability to support my four children out of an old-fashioned sense of duty, a regard for an unwritten code that expects reporters to take almost any assignment.” Nevertheless, Bob continued his efforts to tell the full story behind both the Iran-Contra scandal and the origins of the Reagan-Bush era, ultimately leading to two things: him being pushed out of the mainstream media, and the launching of www.Consortiumnews.com

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"Wall Streets Think Tank" - CFR Decides To Let the Earth Burn

Interview with historian Laurence Shoup about his recent book “Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014”. Shoup explains how the CFR has influenced U.S. Government policy on behalf of it's Capitalist Class and Corporate members from it's beginning, following the First World War, until present. The CFR is dominated by oil corporations, banks and oligarchs with investments in energy and petrochemicals. Beginning in 1990 the CFR initiated a series of studies to determine their role in the ecological crisis and climate change resulting from its members business model and the production and consumption of fossil fuels. In Chapter 8, “Fiddling While the Earth Slowly Burns: The Council and The Ecological Crisis, 1990-2014,” he reveals that the CFR studies show that “....solving the ecological crisis meant questioning the future use of fossil fuels and capitalism itself,....” By 2014 they concluded that their business interests depended on accelerating fossil fuel production, while promoting “adaptation” to the extreme weather events that trapping more energy in the Earth's atmosphere would result in. Shoup offers alternatives to the CFR's “...continuing injustice and ecocide” and speaks of what might be done.

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#518 -- Things Fall Apart (R)

The economy ... American political democracy ... the climate ... the whole ecosystem--all seem to be collapsing at once. In a poem of 1920, W.B. Yeats noted, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." The show features a great routine on the very subject by GEORGE CARLIN (early 1990s), music by JAMES McMURTRY ("Ruins of the Realm"), Yeats's poem, and somewhat-humorous reflections by K.D.

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Trumps Sneaky Tips Theft

Say No to Trumps Sneaky Tip Theft with Saru Jayaraman, President, Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United The Trump Department of Labor, backed by the National Restaurant Association, is moving quickly to push a new rule that will make tips the property of restaurant owners rather than workers. It recently proposed rolling back a rule that protects workers in tipped industries, including restaurant servers and bartenders, from having their tips taken away by their employers. Under the proposal, federal law would allow restaurant owners who pay their wait staff and bartenders as little as $7.25/hour to confiscate and pocket all of the tips left by customers, without having to disclose to patrons what happens to the tips. Tips account for over half of these workers income which even together still adds up to poverty wages. More than $5.8 billion dollars will be transferred from workers to bosses under this proposal. Nearly 80 percent of the tips that would be stolen by the employers would come from female tipped workers. Many women who work for tips already face harassment and discrimination at work, and this rule adds insult to injury

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Is the EU & UK mimicing US privatisation models... suicidal?

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Bristol General Hospital sold off for luxury housing by UHB trust chair John Savage

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Dr. Bill Pelz - Historian, Educator, Activist - A Life Remembered

Memorial to Celebrate the life of Bill Pelz. Like Howard Zinn Pelz recognized the agency of ordinary people in effecting historical events. He was of, and an advocate for, the working class. Featured speakers followed in part 2 by comments from attendees. Featured speakers: Doris L. Garraway, Adrienne Butler, Rob Bunting, Eric Schuster, Heather Barnes & Sarah Rothschild, Alexander Pantsov, Antonio Ramirez and Lenny Kaufman. PA audio dropped out for part of Eric Schuster's remarks. Audio from the two video presentations was not fed to the PA and lost to my recording. Pelz speaking at OUL on German working class resistance to World War I: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/94050 Additional talks by Bill Pelz can be found at the Open University of the Left youtube channel.

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This Week in Radio News: 20180206

The week in radio news about radio waves. Stories about the airwaves, radio art, and more. We report about the entire spectrum, not just AM and FM, but also television, the internet, CB radio, baby monitors, and more. All the radio waves.

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Celt In A Twist February 4 2018

From a Minstrel In Moray from Bruce Coughlan to a Valentine from Jim Moray - plenty of Celtic sweetness in between from Celt In A Twist!

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worldbeatcanada radio february 3 2018

Fresh for February: retro-cool mambo fr. Orquesta Akokan, another Troker exclusive first + new Monophonics and Ramon Taranco.

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Revoke Corporate Charters:Corporate Three Strikes Law

California's Corporate 3 strikes Law revokes charters of abusive corporations. Interview with a guy who snuck a banana tree into the 2003 WTO

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Seized at 3am and unjustly imprisoned: Israel's blatant abuse of Palestinian children, and a bill in Congress to end it

Today we talk about the plight of Palestinian children who, on a daily basis, are abused by the Israeli military and the Israeli military court system. Increasingly, stories of the midnight arrests of children, such as Ahed Tamimi, and the stories of their detentions are being published by the western media. The issue has become so visible and extreme that a bill, HR 4391 Promoting Human Rights By Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act has been introduced into the US House of Representatives by Rep. Betty McCollum of MN, and so far there have been 19 Members of Congress sign on as a co-sponsor, but only one from Massachusetts, Rep. Jim McGovern. The bill states: Given that the Israeli Government receives billions of dollars in assistance from the United States, Congress must work to ensure that American taxpayer dollars never support Israel’s military detention or abuse of Palestinian children. The legislation requires that the Secretary of State certify that American funds do not support Israel’s military detention, interrogation, abuse, or ill treatment of Palestinian children. No member of Congress with any concern for children or justice, or just plain human decency, who sees what is going on with these kids, should have any problem signing on as co-sponsor of this legislation…it really should not be a controversial bill, yet only one Massachusetts Congressman, Rep. McGovern has signed on, not Rep. Clark, nor Capuano, Keating, Tsongas, Kennedy, Lynch, Moulton, or Neal, none. Yet all of them present themselves as great civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights advocates, and supporters of children’s rights. What happens to these children who get arrested and detained by the Israeli soldiers? How are they treated, what do they go through? That is what you are about to find out. Our feature presentation is a recording of a conversation with Ivan Karakashian, who works with Defense for Children International Palestine. He met with a group from the Boston area who were visiting Palestine through the GRALTA Foundation. Here is that conversation.

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CPR News, February 2, 2018

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