!earshot 20 - March 17, 2017

Anthony Enman & Brian Cleveland count down the Top 20 albums charting across Canada this week from earshot-online.com, chat with Like A Motorcycle, take a look at music news with Stephen Carlick of Exclaim!, and much more.

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The Mixed Tape - March 14, 2017

Brian Cleveland and Tom O'Connell play selections from their favourite albums of 2016.

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Sonic Cafe #28 - It's Spy Guyz!

It’s the Sonic Café. I’m your host Scott Clark. Welcome to episode 28. This time the Sonic Café goes undercover to find and destroy evil wherever it may be. The world’s last line of defense… It’s Spy Guyz on the Sonic Café. Listen for our all time top five James Bond movie theme songs … along with trailers from America’s response to the OO7 British invasion from Our Man Flint and Matt Helm. Plus a soundtrack of cool tunes that will vanquish the bad guys wherever they may be… all straight ahead on Spy Guyz… here at the Sonic Café.

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CPR News, March 16, 2017

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SOCIALISM OR BUSH

GUEST: GLORIA LA RIVA TOPIC: SOCIALISM AND LEFT-WING POLITICS GLORIA AT RECENT PROTEST IN SF FROM WIKIPEDIA Gloria Estela La Riva (born August 13, 1954) is an American activist associated most recently with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and in California with the Peace and Freedom Party, and previously with the Workers World Party. She was the PSL's 2008 presidential candidate, La Riva ran as the PSL's presidential candidate in the 2016 race, with Eugene Puryear and Dennis J. Banks as her running mate.

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OVOC 7 - A Conversation with Drone Resister Ed Kinane

Drone resister Ed Kinane had just been found not guilty of all charges related to his participation in the "Big Books" action at Hancock Air Base in Syracuse, NY. Also includes a short talk by former drone operator Christopher Aaron.

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La marge a CKIA 15 mars 2017 Irlande (U2 - Cranberries - Damien Rice)

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Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 9

Volume 9 of Donald Drumpf Theatre talks Russian healthcare and microwave ovens. A make-believe listen to what might happen if a reality television star became the leader of the free world. The show features news clips and songs cut in a way similar to Dickie Goodman, with a Richard Foreman-meets-mashup style. Contributions are welcome to info@wgxc.org.

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March 15, 2017

Ethiopian rockers; Malian divas; sounds of Central Africa; touring the Caribbean; Gamelan Raga Kusuma live in WRIR's Studio C, celebrating their tenth anniversary in advance of their concert Sunday night at the Grace Street Theater

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Reggae Explorations #083

Hosted by Mike Roots, “Reggae Explorations” on Wednesdays from 1:00p to 3:00 PM, is WAPJ’s longest running show, having its start (as “Positive Vibrations”) at the station’s inception in March of 1997. On “Reggae Explorations” you’ll hear a mix of tracks from newer and lesser known artists, classic tunes, and deeper cuts than you would normally hear elsewhere. In addition, you’ll be treated to the “Motherland Track of the Week”, a “Lovers Rock Set” and even the occasional “surprise” selection. Mike Roots is a reggae artist and reviewer, and brings an inside perspective with interesting facts to enhance the listening experience. Tune in to “Reggae Explorations” for your weekly excursion into the world of strictly conscious, roots and culture, reggae music.

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Rebel Daiz- Report Back on the Venezuelan Revolution

Just back from Venezuela, G1 and RodStarz speak of what they saw and what inspired them. They are introduced by Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza. The brothers give the back story of their 10 year relationship with the Venezuelan revolution starting when President Hugo Chavez visited the South Bronx and offered free heating oil to the people in the poorest Congressional District in the United States; but also the site of Hip Hop resistance to the environmental racism that made that community the dumping ground for the regions toxins and garbage. They speak of the role of Hip Hop and cultural production in building revolutionary resilience to the US war on the Bolivarian revolution and the need for a new media model that enables communication verses the corporate indoctrination that leaves only consumers who are vulnerable to manipulation by imposed shortages of basic goods.

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Upbeat Music Hour Show 36

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

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Upbeat Music Hour Show 35

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

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Cheeze Pleeze # 663

Tiny Tim and a children's album? Say what you will, he's still better then Pee Wee doing one, some gassy 50s songs, and you find out why we wanna play a REALLY sad and cliche filled country song.

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Robert Parry on Maddow, Liberal Media, Adopt Neocon Agenda

Jeff Blankfort speaks with Parry about his most recent articles, “The Politics Behind Russia-gate” and “When Disinformation is Truth,” in which he lays into the liberal media for abandoning journalistic professionalism and ethics to hop upon the neocon bandwagon in going after Russia for interfering in the US election without waiting for or presenting evidence that it actually occurred. Using MSNBC's Rachel Maddow as an example, he points out that her McCarthy-style Russia bashing has been terrific for the network's ratings, while warning that using this as a device to get Trump impeached could lead not just to an escalation of the new Cold War but the launching of a hot one which would be the war that would end all wars and the world as we know it. Parry recounts how before he and his colleague Brian Barger broke the stories about Iran-Contra and the drug trafficking associated with it back in the 1980s, they assembled the evidence to back up what they wrote. By contrast, liberals in the media like Maddow or the New Yorker editor David Remnick, accept the intelligence agencies general conclusions about Russian interference in the presidential election without presenting or demanding facts despite the DNI's James Clapper's admission that there was no evidence showing collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians. Kagan also points out that while none of the experts in the US gave Trump a chance to win the White House, it was unlikely that Putin and the Russians would be any more knowledgeable on the subject and that while Putin may have quietly preferred a Trump victory, the last thing he needed was to be seen as pushing for it. He concludes that it is preferable for those who supported Clinton to blame Putin and the Russians for Trump's victory than examine what the Democrats did wrong by the nature of her campaign as well as making her the candidate in the first place.

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Jeff Blankfort: News/Op:Anti-Putin Hysteria, Israel-Palestine Farce

Blankfort revisits previous commentary, noting how US orchestrated coup in Ukraine and DNC sabotaging of Sanders’ campaign have been erased by liberals who have adopted anti-Russian line of the PNAC neocons that illustrates their intellectual dishonesty. As example he quotes from New Yorker article, “Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War,” in which Victoria Nuland’s “Fuck the EU” comment to US Ukraine ambassador Geoff Pyatt in tapped conversation is cited as example of Russia’s playing dirty, ignoring part of conversation in which Nuland tells Pyatt who should be the next Ukraine prime minister and that's who it turned out to be. Even the BBC's Jonathan Marcus, who he quotes, thought that more important. He then quotes from article by neocon guru and PNAC co-founder Robert Kagan on Republicans being soft on Russia and calling, like the liberals, for a special investigation of Russia's election meddling. He then recounts history of PNAC's role in fabricating false intelligence on Iraq WMD's to justify the war. Next Blankfort examines world's longest running farce, the Israel-Palestine “peace process” beginning with the background of David Friedman, Trump's bankruptcy lawyer and uber Zionist as ambassadorial appointment to Israel and the money he has given and raised for right wing Jewish settlement, Beit El, and does the same for Trump son-in-law Jared Kershner. He then cites a NPR report on another Trump lawyer, Jason Greenblatt's meeting with Mahmoud Abbas and exposes Abbas's history as a traitor, beginning with the Oslo Agreement and the role of the Palestinian Authority in suppressing Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation, claiming that his and Arafat's betrayal at Oslo and agreeing to allow Israel to occupy 60% of the West Bank is unmatched in the history of people's struggles.

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Between the Lines for the Week Ending March 24, 2017

CBO: GOP Health Plan will Cause 24 million Americans to Lose their Health Insurance; Native Nations Rise Protest Demands Respect for Sovereignty and Culture, L. A. Kauffman, organizer, strategist, journalist, and observer of US Radical politics

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CPR News, March 15, 2017

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CPR News, March 14, 2017

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Prof. Jim White: Sea level rise and the melting of sea ice and glaciers (TWO of TWO)

Dr. Jim White turns his attention to ice. The accelerated melting of the Arctic sea ice and the ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica. Concentrations of carbon dioxide - after water vapor the most important greenhouse gas - are measured in parts per million. The organization 350 dot org expresses in its name that - to be safe from catastrophic climate change - we should not go over 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. However in late 2016 the measurements at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, went over 400 ppm for the first time in modern history. (And on March 9, 2017 the reading was 405 ppm) When a visionary scientist, Charles Keeling, began daily readings for CO2 concentration from Mauna Loa in 1958, the concentrations were only 318 ppm. And the pre-industrial age "normal" was 280 ppm. Hundreds of weather stations around the world are now recoding CO2 concentrations and they all show the same accelerating trend - going up. Dr. Jim White teaches at the University of Colorado. He specializes in Global change, paleoclimate dynamics, and the human impact on climate. As a paleoclimate scientist Dr. White addresses those who belittle the effect of warming. He says that in earth history " On average every degree of temp change is about 20 meters of sea level. That is a huge number." Professor Jim White spoke at the annual Weather and Climate Summit to an audience of weather-casters and meteorologists from the U.S. and Canada. They met in Breckenridge, Colorado, from January 8 to 12, 2017.

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The Hammer is Dropping, What Are You Going to Do? Margaret Regan, Roundups and Deportations of Immigrants; Sunsara Taylor, Trump and the War on Women

Margaret Regan on Trump, and the Beginning of Mass Deportations. Rule changes announced by Trump have put made 11 million undocumented immigrants targets for roundups and deportations. Regan is a longtime journalist & the author of Detained and Deported.Sunsara Taylor: Trump and the War on Women. The fascist Trump/Pence regime has already begun to carry out their threats against women's rights and women's lives. Taylor is a writer for Revolution/revcom.us, and initiator of Refuse Fascism.

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Did Canada's Foreign Minister Dis-inform Everyone About Her Grandad's Work With the Nazis?

In May 2015 Chrystia Freeland wrote “My maternal grandparents fled western Ukraine after Hitler and Stalin signed their non-aggression pact in 1939.” But, according to the records of the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum and the Alberta Archives the Foreign Minister’s grandfather, Michael Chomiak, in 1939 her grandfather became the editor of a Nazi directed Ukrainian language paper, Krakiviski Visti. The press and offices of the paper had been confiscated from Moshe Kafner, who was taken to Bezec and murdered. On March 6th, Ms. Freeland, Canada’s Foreign Minister, was asked about the matter and she said look out for Russian “disinformation.” Lo-and-behold the mainstream media accepted that. But not everyone. And now more voices are asking, could the Minister answer the question? It is no reflection on her if granddad was a collaborator, but it might be if she won’t say.

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Professor Vincent Intondi: connecting racial injustice, nuclear injustice, and imperial injustice

Professor Vincent Intondi recently spoke at Boston Public Library on the subject of connecting racial injustice, nuclear injustice, and imperial injustice. His recent book is "African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement" (Stanford University Press, 2015). Intondi spoke very, very rapidly! That's why we decided to add an 80%-speed version, which you can choose here. Here is Amazon's summary of the book: Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have generally ignored African Americans when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first citizens to protest Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now for the first time, African Americans Against the Bomb tells the compelling story of those black activists who fought for nuclear disarmament by connecting the nuclear issue with the fight for racial equality. Intondi shows that from early on, blacks in America saw the use of atomic bombs as a racial issue, asking why such enormous resources were being spent building nuclear arms instead of being used to improve impoverished communities. Black activists' fears that race played a role in the decision to deploy atomic bombs only increased when the U.S. threatened to use nuclear weapons in Korea in the 1950s and Vietnam a decade later. For black leftists in Popular Front groups, the nuclear issue was connected to colonialism: the U.S. obtained uranium from the Belgian controlled Congo and the French tested their nuclear weapons in the Sahara. By expanding traditional research in the history of the nuclear disarmament movement to look at black liberals, clergy, artists, musicians, and civil rights leaders, Intondi reveals the links between the black freedom movement in America and issues of global peace. From Langston Hughes through Lorraine Hansberry to President Obama, African Americans Against the Bomb offers an eye-opening account of the continuous involvement of African Americans who recognized that the rise of nuclear weapons was a threat to the civil rights of all people.

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Little Robbers - The Motels

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Cynthia's Midnight Oil Show for March 13|14

Beware the Ides of March: Listen to Cynthia's Midnight Oil and find out what Operation Gladio, WikiLeaks's Vault 7, and The Pilgrims have to do with your future!

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High & Dry: Talking Groundwater

With drought-stricken California enjoying its wettest winter in decades, it can be easy to forget that water scarcity is among the globe's most deadly threats. This week on Sea Change Radio, we discuss groundwater with Bill and Rosemarie Alley, the authors of "High and Dry: Meeting the Challenges of the World’s Growing Dependence on Groundwater." They take us on a journey around the world and back in time to examine how humans scheme for and squander earth's most precious resource. We talk about wildcatting for water in the 19th century, India's water management quandary, and some of Saudi Arabia's more imprudent water policies.

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Ridin' Shotgun

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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Wilkerson, Isabel - America's Great Migration, Part 1 (Archive)

In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedom and a better life. Our guest is Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson (http://isabelwilkerson.com/), author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.” Her book tells the untold experiences of the African-Americans who fled the south over three generations.

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New President, Old Policies: America's Provocative War Games At North Korea's Border

While Western media sound alarms and shriek that Putin might have soldiers to protect Russia’s borders with Ukraine, none of the same media find anything wrong with Washington having explicit and publicly-discussed plans to attack North Korea and “decapitate” its leadership. Nor do we hear any concern from Ottawa or other Western capitals about enormous, 300,000 man, military war rehearsals aimed at the government of North Korea. Gowans has dealt with this dangerous business in recent articles, and explains what’s at stake on the Taylor Report.

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The Motherland Influence March 12, 2017

African, Latin & Caribbean Music

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