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July 17, 2018, 11:20 a.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
July 17, 2018, 3:45 a.m.
International Solidarity Blocks Israel's Removal of Bedouin Village
July 17, 2018, 2:51 a.m.
Phil interviews Michaela Lavis, a student at Ryerson University who was arrested recently in a protest in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine where she stood in front of Israeli bulldozers intent on destroying a Bedouin village.
As a result of the protest, the Israeli supreme court put a stay on the village's demolition. Lavis urges Canadians to lobby MPs on behalf of Palestine, and to urge the leader of the Canadian mission to Palestine, Douglas Proudfoot, to attend at the village to observe the Israeli violation of international law, as did the representatives of the European Union who funded the school in the village.
"Bent Over Backwards"
July 16, 2018, 11:50 p.m.
The Mind's Ear Program #26: "Bent Over Backwards"
On February 24th, 2018, Ernestus Jiminy Chald premiered an entire radio program aired in reverse entitled âAbout Face" on Free Radio Santa Cruz. Many listeners were perplexed by this, with some even sending in emails under the assumption that âAbout Faceâ was run backwards by mistake. This was, obviously, not the case, as the program was intended to be listened to backwards. After receiving so many questions about this program, Chald decided he would air it again, only this time he reversed the reversed program, so that listeners were given the chance to hear this backwards broadcast forwards for the first time ever. Thus "Bent Over Backwards" was born.
Tune in to The Mind's Ear every Saturday night at 9 p.m. (PST) and every Sunday night at 7 p.m. (PST) on Free Radio Santa Cruz (101.3 FM).
"Things You Can't Do On the Radio"
July 16, 2018, 11:18 p.m.
The Mind's Ear Program #25: "Things You Can't Do On the Radio"
Tune in to The Mind's Ear every Saturday night at 9 p.m. (PST) and every Sunday night at 7 p.m. (PST) on Free Radio Santa Cruz (101.3 FM).
For more information, visit www.themindsear.com and www.freakradio.org
John Mearsheimer on the gradual weakening of the massive Israel Lobby ...
July 16, 2018, 8:14 p.m.
Our feature presentation today is a speech given at the spring conference of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) by Professor John Mearsheimer. It is an assessment of the gradually waning power of the massive Israeli Lobby today. Mearsheimer is author, with Stephen Walt, of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Harvard, 2007). He is introduced by WRMEA's Janet McMahon.
Go to criticalstudies.org/john-mearsheimer-what-has-changed-since-publication-of-the-israel-lobby-and-what-the-new-administration-can-do-differently/ for a full transcript of this April 2017 talk.
Before this, we start with a brief report from The Real News Network: an interview with German Reporter Shir Hever, who has studied the use of Israeli weaponry along its so-called "border" with Gaza. "Dumdum" bullets, prohibited since World War I, fired at short range from special high-powered sniper guns, are suddenly OK for Israeli attacks on protesters within Gaza. Dumdum bullets explode as they enter the victim's body, tearing flesh and deliberately causing massive wounds. How dare they protest! So far, over a hundred protesters murdered in cold blood and thousands gravely injured.
Episode 141 - Armless Nudist Pokemon
July 16, 2018, 6:17 p.m.
Wow, another great show for the masses to laugh at, or with, or something. What's with the naked and nude themes lately? Tune in and find out every monday night at 8pm eastern http://www.chiampa.info
The Kavanaugh Crisis + global LGBTQ news + more!
July 16, 2018, 5:34 p.m.
Queers confront the U.S. high court crisis; Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo âswansâ dance through a âRainbow Minuteâ; oral arguments against Indiaâs sodomy law sound good, another gay pair is flogged in Aceh despite government assurances to the contrary, Australiaâs Uniting Church agrees to unite queer couples, Trump siphons HIV/AIDS funds for immigrant âbaby jailsâ, a pre-teen Illinois lesbian plans her hometownâs first Pride parade, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!
Khitam Edelbi, Palestinian Expressive Therapist, describes her work in the West Bank
July 16, 2018, 2:14 p.m.
Today we hear we hear an exclusive presentation by Palestinian Expressive Therapist, Khitam Edelbi. Khitam is completing her PhD through Lesley University, while actively conducting an expressive therapy program she created in the West Bank of Palestine. While in Cambridge this summer doing her academic course work, Khitam spoke at a fund raiser, describing her program, and we were there to record it. It begins with an introduction by Susan Jacoby.
As Khitam explains, her expressive therapy program is directed at the children in Palestine who are victimized on a daily basis by sadistic Israeli soldiers, checkpoints, house demolitions, and other forms of Israel's wall-to-wall racism, brutality, and dehumanization. Of course Khitam's expressive therapy program doesn't stop any of that. What it does do is give those children a sense of dignity, self-worth, and resilience. Indirectly, it could lead to an uprising strong enough to make Israelis accountable for their outrageous criminal behavior.
Indian Troops Must be Withdrawn
July 16, 2018, 1:41 p.m.
At the request of India and with the agreement of Pakistan, the UN Security Council was asked to propose a settlement over the disputed territory of Kashmir. The resulting formula agreed upon by the UNSC was for the removal of troops and a vote by the people of Kashmir on whether they wished to be part of India or Pakistan.
The Indian government delayed and then reneged, leaving the region with "unfinished business". Today there is popular peaceful-but-determined resistance to Indian rule.
July 16, 2018, 10:38 a.m.
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Martian Gardens Episode 938 Hour 3
July 16, 2018, 10:16 a.m.
Martian Gardens Episode 938 Hour 2
July 16, 2018, 10:08 a.m.
Martian Gardens Episode 938 Hour 1
July 16, 2018, 9:59 a.m.
Levels Adjustment on Our Side of the Barricades
July 16, 2018, 8:59 a.m.
Most of the first episode of Our Side of the Barricades
July 16, 2018, 8:39 a.m.
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July 16, 2018, 7:36 a.m.
July 16, 2018, 1:02 a.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0465
July 15, 2018, 4:58 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
Bolivarian Venezuela: In Defiance of the US Empire
July 15, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
Dr. Lee Artz presents: Bolivarian Venezuela in Defiance of the US Empire
Nicolas Maduro was reelected President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on May 20, 2018. Maduro received a landslide 67.7% of the total vote cast. His nearest challenger received about 21%. This result occurred despite a unrelenting disinformation and sanctions campaign in the country. This campaign was conducted by the United States-OAS- and internal Venezuelan opposition. The deceit of the US government here has not been lost on observers who have noted that the United States government has been attacking Russia at the very same time for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US elections while the United States has been working overtime to delegitimize and disrupt the just completed Venezuelan elections.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has served as an inspiration for much of the struggling peopleâs of the world. Since 2015, the US has unleashed illegal sanctions on Venezuela as a form of economic warfare. These sanctions are illegal under international law because they impose a collective punishment upon the Venezuelan people for the actions of their government.
Now we learn that the President of the United States has raised the question of the invasion of Venezuela. Polling has indicated that the vast majority of Venezuelans are against sanctions and any outside military intervention. The poor and formally dispossessed also have nothing too lose by resisting any attempted right wing takeover of Venezuela. The international community must also reject any outside interference in Venezuela.(program)
Contrary to US government,corporate and oligarchic imaging,
the toilet paper crisis would be over, overnight, if the suppliers delivered the goods they have been hording and the US Treasury stopped blocking money transfers.
The wealthy neighborhoods have no shortages.
"Make the economy scream" then President Nixon told Secretary of State Kissinger as they plotted to overthrow Chile's socialist government and impose a Catholic fascist dictator; someone they and US corporations felt comfortable
working with; shared values.
War criminals continue to occupy the White House and sociopaths the highest positions of US government, finance and the Council on Foreign Relations. The crisis for them that needs addressing is not a dictatorship, but the participatory democracy that the Bolivarian Constitution establish when it replaced the two party "democracy" that worked solely to protect the wealth of Venezuela's elites and US corporations.
Dr. Arts talk unwraps the distorted narriative provided by the NYT et al , about Venezuela and what it has accomplished over the past 20 years. He calls on us to support its historic accomplishments, and in spite of mistakes made along the way defend its historic achievement of empowering its citizens to shape the conditions of their own lives.
#541 -- The Three Global Crises: How Should We Respond? (1) (R)
July 15, 2018, 12:22 p.m.
A well-researched and eye-opening talk by activist Vincent Emanuele. He explores the three crises that are making the world--at best--highly unstable. Then he suggests some steps that the people can take to make our uncertain future as livable as possible.
Since neither government nor business is likely to do anything positive about these crises, useful responses will have to come from the grassroots.
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El Nino Storms the World (replay)
July 15, 2018, 11:12 a.m.
Will the Pacific ocean change-up called El Nino startle the world? Now predicted for winter 2018, it's time for this Radio Ecoshock show on El Nino, the fear and the facts, first broadcast in 2014. Ends with backyard farmer Luke Kimmel and his green bag of tips.
The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S2
July 15, 2018, 9:20 a.m.
The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S1
July 15, 2018, 7:18 a.m.
Central American Migrants and America's Bloody Hands
July 14, 2018, 9:12 p.m.
Back in the USSR explores the roots of the US government's present policy toward Central American migrants and how brutal imperialism, unrestrained capitalism, and systemic racism came together to produce atrocities such as the current mass imprisonment of children, the horrific abuse of minors in detention, and the viciously traumatic separation of thousands of families.
July 14, 2018, 6:46 p.m.
Here is the show where confronts 250,000 protesters in UK, with the new Liar Liar song by Captin SKA, Space force, "i'm Pablo" in detention, and other summer fun...
Right Takes Over Supreme Court: Democracy in Chains
July 14, 2018, 5:27 p.m.
Right Wing Takeover of the Supreme Court: Democracy in Chains: the Deep History of the Radical Right s Stealth Plan for America
with
Nancy MacLean, Author and Professor, History & Public Policy at Duke University
The Janus Supreme Court decision in June and our current struggle over Trump s pick for the Supreme Court vacancy, are only the most recent manifestations of the Right s decades long game plan to not only unravel the New Deal of the 1930's & the civil rights revolution of the 1960' but beyond that to establish property rights over democratic rights as the basis for our government..
Prof. MacLean traces this counter evolution's 60 year plan to eliminate unions, suppress voting rights, privatize public education, and stop action on climate change. Their agenda is not just to alter specific legislation or court decisions or who gets elected but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic
governance by voter suppression and gerrymandering along with instituting
Constitutional and judicial changes.
Behind today s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. Billionaires launched this movement with the aid of an academic and
intellectual elite. And leading this charge was multi-billionaire Charles Koch and Professor James McGill Buchanan who forged his ideas about government in a last gasp attempt to preserve the Southern white elite s power.
Prof. Buchanan and Charles Koch developed a diabolical, plan to undermine the ability of the majority to use its numbers to level the playing field between the rich and powerful and the rest of us. Now their strategy is bearing a poisonous fruit. which we must understand to effectively fight back.
July 13, 2018, 6:52 p.m.
Living In The Past - Jethro Tull
July 13, 2018, 6:11 p.m.