August 30, 2017

New releases and reissues from across Latin America; a deep dive into South African bubblegum; English folk-rock from the 60s to today; new music from Gogol Bordello and more gypsy punk

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Sonic Cafe #51 - The Most Cowbell... Guaranteed!

It’s the Sonic Café. The radio program that brings you the most cowbell… guaranteed. Hey, welcome to episode 51. I’m your host Scott Clark. We’ve got a great mix lined up for you this time, covering over fifty years of head phone friendly music, comedy and pop culture. Listen for tunes from Billie Holiday, Boz Scaggs, Brand X the B-52s and more. Plus classic Blue Note jazz from Freddie Hubbard’s 1961 Ready for Freddie release… then from our continuing education department… listen for a quick German language lesson from legendary DJ Rick Dees … and finally… Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your younger self ever ran into your older self? Well we’ve got the answer for you in a little thing we call Eastwood vs. Eastwood… where young Clint Eastwood meets up with old Clint Eastwood on his front lawn. Wow! Eclectic, intelligent music, comedy, pop culture and more … all straight ahead on the only radio program guaranteed to cure your fever for cowbell. We’re the Sonic Café.

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CPR News, August 31, 2017

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If Music Could Talk - Aug 27 2017

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Anti-Fascist Resistance and the Struggle to Defend Human Rights in #Charlottesville and #OccupiedPalestine // @TheAngryindian Speaks with US Attorney Stanley Cohen

The United States is facing a serious, sociopolitical crisis of national identity following the right-wing terrorist killing of anti-fascist/anti-racism activist Ms. Heather Heyer during a neo-Nazi #UniteTheRight event held in Charlottesville, Virginia USA. And the tacit support such organisations are receiving from the Trump administration; the US Justice Department; the Republican Party; police officials and their supporters is sending a message of hate and division across the nation and across the world. Even the creator of ‘Argumentum ad Nazium, reductio ad Hitlerum’, or, ‘Godwin’s Law’, writer Mike Godwin, says: 'It's OK to call Charlottesville white supremacists Nazis' while the US president argues that there are ‘Good People’ amongst the far-right, neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan members that heavily populate his narrow-minded support base and those who wilfully participated in the pro-fascist, domestic terrorist activities that occurred in Charlottesville. To help dissect this exceedingly complex subject, FWR host @TheAngryindian speaks with North American attorney-at-law Stanley Cohen, a well-known – if not infamous – political figure recognised for his legal work defending many US progressive movements; social justice activists and human rights/anti-colonial causes occurring in North America and Occupied Palestine. Raised in an orthodox Jewish family and shaped by a formal Hebrew education, Mr. Cohen has legally represented members of the Hamas (Gaza Strip); Hezbollah (Lebanon) and Assad (Syria) governments; provided consul to relatives of Osama Bin Laden (Saudi Arabia) and to the American-born sheikh, Abdul Rahman Yasin, said to have engineered the World Trade Center attack of 1993. Aside from defending notorious world actors, a number of other, lesser-recognised clients closer to home have also used his services, such as the Legal Aid Society; VISTA (volunteer services); the Winnebago, Omaha and Santee Sioux Nations and he has worked alongside prominent, pro-People attorneys such as (the late) William Kunstler and (the late) Lynne Stewart. As quoted in an article by Jessica Schulberg for the newrepublic, Mr. Cohen calls it an honor to be voted the “world’s number one self-hating Jew”, and on FWR he discusses unpopular subjects such as: the rise of fascism in the United States under the Trump administration; the silence of the Zionist movement regarding racialism and Judeophobia within the Trump White House; Rojava and the question of Kurdish independence and western apathy; American Exceptionalism; Homophobia, Sexism and Feminism within the Arab and Muslim Worlds and how this paradox relates to the US taxpayer-funded state of de facto Apartheid within Israel/Occupied Palestine and the questionable, undue pressure human rights activists in the US and Canada face when addressing Indigenous/First Nations; Afro-American and Native Palestinian issues. This discussion is exceptional for Mr. Cohen’s debunking of false (and racist) allegations suggesting that the US ‘created’ Islamic extremist groups in Western Asia and explains why the American left-wing needs to get its act together. EXTRAS: Educational PSA’s and ‘Stalin Wasn't Stallin' by Robert Wyatt round out the programme. All this and much more on, 4WR. The official internet radio broadcast of the Aboriginal Press News Service/ANG

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Cheeze Pleeze # 688

The Cincinatti Dancing Pigs? their CD was never opened...until we found it in a thrift store! baseball star's cutting records but I suppose you can't say that when they say only one or two lines but we'll say it and bingo obsessed people, are..well, obsessed!

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Ali Abunimah writes on politicians awakening to the truth about Congress's anti-BDS bill

We begin today by reading from an article by Ali Abunimah at Electronic Intifada. He reports that the Israel Lobby's facade of "fighting antisemitism" by enacting draconian penalties for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activity has finally begun to break down. The U.S. constitution, with Senator Elizabeth Warren at its side, seems to have gotten in the way. As first reported by E.I. in April, the Israel Anti-Boycott Act is the most draconian of the dozens of bills introduced in state and federal legislatures in recent years in an attempt to curb the growth of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights. The powerful Israel lobby group AIPAC has made the bill one of its top legislative priorities. As Josh Ruebner of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights explains, “the bill would impose fines of up to $1 million and criminal penalties of up to 20 years in prison against any US person, including individuals, whose actions further a boycott of Israel or of Israeli settlement products called for by an international governmental organization.” Ruebner adds: “It would even criminalize the requesting or furnishing of information about such a boycott. The bill would also deny government loans through the Export-Import Bank to firms that refuse to do business with corporations based in or operating out of Israeli settlements in occupied territory, which are illegal under international law.” Despite her reputation as a firebrand progressive, Senator Warren has never been courageous on the question of Palestinian rights. Nothing symbolized her fear better than when she was caught on video hurrying away from a question about Israel’s assault on Gaza three years ago that killed more than 2,200 Palestinians. Warren, along with fellow progressive stalwart Bernie Sanders, joined every other member of the Senate in signing a letter in April reaffirming key lobby talking points that Israel is being unfairly picked on by efforts at the UN to hold it accountable. Her opposition to BDS means she continues to stand against a nonviolent movement for equal rights by a people subjected to decades of Israeli occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid enabled largely by US military and political support. But Warren’s willingness to oppose this bill reflects the ongoing challenge to Democratic Party leaders from a base that is far more supportive of Palestinian rights. Moving on, we feature a conversation with Khitam Edelbi, a remarkable Palestinian educator who is pioneering an effort to promote the use of a unique approach to therapy, called Expressive Therapy, in a society that experiences constant trauma living under Israeli military occupation. She lives in East Jerusalem, but grew up in the Acca area of Israel as part of the 20% of the Israeli population who are Palestinian Arabs. You will hear her story, and will hear about how she is using expressive therapies to help her people cope with the stress of living under military occupation.

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Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 33

Donald Drumpf Theatre: Vol. 33 I Beg Your Pardon. This week, the pardoning begins. An original radio theatre show each week, with most sounds culled from the previous week, about a fictional, theatrical presidency. Contradictions tell the story, with songs, skits, and clips from political news shows and late-night comedy routines. The definition of "radio theatre" is stretched here, with an updated Dickie Goodman and/or Richard Foreman-meets-mashup style sometimes, and a more straightforward take other weeks. Currently, the network has ordered another 15 episodes, but there are threats of cancellation. Anyone who would like to contribute to the show, should contact info@wgxc.org.

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Between the Lines for the Week Ending September 8, 2017

Texas Flood Linked with Extreme Weather Patterns Long Predicted by Climate Change Research; Trump Suspends Study of Health Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining; NAFTA Re-Negotiation Must Prioritize Labor, Environmental and Human Rights

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CPR News, August 30, 2017

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A Visit with Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass

Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Chautauqua scholars Sally Wagner & Charles Pace who portray Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass. The two friends were leaders in the fight for the rights of women and blacks in the 1800's.

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What's at Stake in the World Today: Trevor Timm, Trump and Freedom of the Press; Matt Ruskin, "Crown Heights"; David Freeman, Charlottesville

Trevor Timm talks about the Trump regime and attacks on the press, including Jeff Sessions' recent threats against journalists and their sources. Matt Ruskin on "Crown Heights," a film about the case of Colin Warner, a young Black man framed by police for murder and locked up for 20 years. David Freeman was part of Congregate C'Ville, a group of mainly clergy who courageously confronted the Nazis in Charlottesville on August 12. We'll talk about why he says there are ONLY two sides.

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Forgotten History of the War on Korea (ONE of ONE)

The extraordinary threat issued by Donald Trump to bring fire and fury on North Korea has been pushed into the background by the events of Charlottesville and the flooding of Houston. But the firing of Steve Bannon brought Korea back into focus. Blankfort and Ahn say that Bannon was not fired for his right- wing nationalism but because he objected to any use of force to resolve Washington’s conflict with North Korea and supported the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea as part of a deal to defuse the current crisis. The great late folk singer and story teller Utah Phillips said that being drafted and stationed in Korea changed his life. He saw a country that had been utterly devastated - worse than any before or after. He told us how he became an activist at a meeting in the Unitarian Fellowship Hall in Berkeley in May of 2004. Jeff Blankfort is a veteran, much traveled journalist and photographer. Since 2001, he has hosted Takes on the World, a twice monthly program on international affairs for KZYX public radio for Mendocino County in Northern California. Blankfort studied history at UCLA in the 1950s, and was one of 14 students out of 14,000, who protested the Korean War. He recently did an in depth research on the origin of the war and invited Christine Ahn to be the guest on his program on August 23, 2017. Christine Ahn is co-founder of the Korea Policy Institute (KPI), the National Campaign to End the Korean War and a columnist with the Institute for Policy Studies. She has appeared on Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Democracy Now!, NBC’s Today Show, NPR, and The Takeaway.

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Daniel Kammen Spells Relief I-M-P-E-A-C-H

Recently, in response to the 45th president's shameful mishandling of the incidents in Charlottesville, Virgina, UC Berkeley Energy Professor Daniel Kammen resigned as a State Dept.  Science Envoy. His resignation letter picked up national attention -- in part because the first letter of each paragraph spelled out the word "IMPEACH." This week on Sea Change Radio, we hear from Prof. Kammen, learn more about his role of special envoy, how it changed under the current administration, and some of the reasons why he felt the need to leave the post. Then, we reach back to our 2015 discussion with Prof. Kammen and hear about the strides that are being made to provide electricity to the 20% of the world's population that doesn't currently have access to it.

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CPR News, August 29, 2017

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The Mixed Tape - August 29, 2017

Brian Cleveland plays a selection of new Canadian music. This week's episode features tracks from Faith Healer, Pierre Kwenders, Hermetic, Jon Cohen Experimental, moon:and:six, and more.

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Gateway Records - Down The Rabbit Hole We Go

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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AUGUST 23, 2017 - ORCHESTRATED PROTESTS

In this interview Wayne Madsen's book "SOROS: Quantum of Chaos is discussed including a discussion of the organizations that Soros funds and the color revolutions. Cheryl also addresses the groups funded by Soros that participated in the Charlottesville, VA protests in August and other related anomalies.

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AUGUST 16, 2017 - MEDIA WARS

The Media is discussed - a must hear.

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JULY 25, 2017 - 9-11 SUSPECTS

James Corbett discusses some real 9/11 Suspects - in this case - Rudy Guliani and Phillip Zelikow.

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Episode 101 - The Episode After

Joe is buzzy on wine, but he got a neat new cueing program so he can feel more flexible now! Anthony has some concerns about his Florida Naked News Stories.. as where are all the naked criminal people? Well it seems one of them is in Chicago. Why don't you tune in every Monday night to hear us live 8pm eastern / 7pm central at http://listen.chiampa.info

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The Rise of the #NeutralNegro: Self-Hating Afro-Americans and the Lyrical Lynching of Black America

The #NeutralNegro in North America is the focus of this Indigenist, spoken-word political analysis by @TheAngryindian (primarily) in response to a Twitter post by a Black American conservative arguing in a reply to @MarcACaputo after the neo-Nazi terrorist attack in #Charlottesville, Virginia USA that: Democrat policies since 60's have greatly suppressed Black progress. I welcome a Nazi govt, if ALL Americans treated EQUAL under the LAW. – Courtney West, (@girlfeliz1) Black conservatism in the United States under the jaundiced oculus of German/Scottish-American Eurosettler Donald J. Trump is one thing, actively supporting and promoting German Nazism – a political philosophy that officially defines all African Peoples as unnecessary, ‘sub-human’ entities – is quite another. Whether one is of Indigenous; Jewish; of African descent or not, Nazi philosophy – social/political/economic – is anti-human at its base. It is a negative, anti-social system of marginalisation; social implosion and eventually, the genocide of the ‘unwanted’. Despite this, some Black Americans, American Indians and Spanish-speaking Native Peoples from Latin América agree with ‘giving Hitler a chance’ and proudly lend their moral support to the White Supremacists of the ‘alt-Right’. They make a point of condemning anti-fascist and anti-racist protesters as ‘dangerous’, anti-White radicals seeking to ‘destroy Israel’ with secret funding from George Soros. In essence, these are Black Folks (House Negroes) regurgitating far-right talking-points explicitly designed to confuse the general public into a state of hyperdiffusionism through a process identified as: ‘non-linear warfare’. In other words, it is no surprise that Black American conservatives are performing their historical role as apologisers and moral attendants to Eurosettler power and class-constraints. What is new is the shift towards an American African, neoconservative penchant for actively endorsing racialist political ideologies, such as an Americanised version of German Nazism, and worse, their passionate defence of far-right rhetoric; terrorism and the civil and political rights of anti-African, Nativist Eurosettler movements.

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Why "Butch Is Not a Dirty Word" + global queer news!

Why "Butch Is Not a Dirty Word"; India’s High Court privacy rights ruling signals sodomy law repeal, Finland retains its infertility rule for legal gender change, trans U.S. troops enlist in lawsuits to fight Trump’s service ban, Australia’s plebiscite on love predictably descends into hate, Ugandan activists defiantly celebrate Pride underground, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

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Upstate Radio Theatre 1712

Old Time Radio show. http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com

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CPR News, August 28, 2017

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Tearing Down the Monuments of Oppression

There is a movement in the U.S. to tear down the monuments of oppression. Phil Taylor and Norman Otis Richmond discuss this movement, and how much America has lost as a result of systemic bigotry against black people. They also talk about Dick Gregory's career, and the salience of his statement that Black Americans have developed a callus from the beatings and racism that they have endured. Later, the conversation turns to the shortcomings of the film "Detroit" - why is it necessary to blame "both sides?" Norman Otis Richmond also expressed support for Colin Kaepernick.

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61 - Argentina

Journey Without Maps brings you vintage, rare, and underground global music from uncharted sonic territories. Every week, I unearth a new musical landscape: African soul & funk, Latin rhythms, eastern European electronica, Middle East psychedelic, Asian surf rock … and more.

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Sweet Taste of Jazz; 8/27/17; set 1

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Sweet Taste of Jazz; 8/27/17; set 2

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Sudden Heat (replay)

Dr. Robert Kopp explains why humans die in heat waves, and why that will get worse as climate change develops. Then the incredible Dr. Jeremy Leggett on "Winning the Carbon War" Plus climate music from Melody Sheep

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