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UpFront Soul #2017.12 - hour 1- March 20-26, 2017
March 17, 2017, 7:51 a.m.
We'll hear new music from Nicole Willis and Rasheed Ali, check out some Indigenous sounds from Prolific the Rapper and A Tribe Called Red, and celebrate soul with Dyke & the Blazers.
March 17, 2017, 6:53 a.m.
TB 170317 The Thing About Russia
March 17, 2017, 3:37 a.m.
We start off this weekâs Thunderbolt radio program with a lighthearted contemplation of the end of the world!
Then, in celebration, we take our listeners out to a free performance at the Security Theater, featuring a small army of very bored marshals â and set in the truly exotic locale of a Potemkin checkpoint that is located in an airport near you!
We then return to our âend of the worldâ meme by describing the nature of the foxes that the Rump is putting in charge of our public henhouses.
Then â for the grand exclusive explosive incendiary conclusion to this explosive incendiary episode of this explosive and incendiary radio program, the Thunderbolt exposes the context of Russia in their role as Americaâs both old and newest bogeyman de jour for the New American Century! (Hey! You canât just leave a bunch of unemployed soldiers laying around!)
To quote that explosive and incendiary (if somewhat hackneyed) radio program: At the Thunderbolt we are truly non-partisan! We trash EVERYONE!
Listen at your own riskâ¦
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pkwxeuyw5czn977/TB%20170317%20The%20Thing%20About%20Russia.mp3?dl=0
March 17, 2017, 2:51 a.m.
sunriseoceanbender.com
Sunrise Ocean Bender airs in the flesh Thursdays 9-11pm EST on WRIR 97.3 FM, Richmond, Virginia. Downloads are for rebroadcast on other non-profit radio stations. wrir.org
Earth First! Update - 16 Mar, 2017
March 16, 2017, 8:28 p.m.
Radical, No Compromise Environmental News with an emphasis on Biodiversity and Direct Action
Out of the Woods - Show #363 - 3-25-17
March 16, 2017, 4:11 p.m.
This version of the program is divided into 6 segments so broadcasters who desire to use this content can insert your station info, etc. The segments vary in length.
Out of the Woods is an earthy, wires and wood, mostly acoustic program featuring some of the best new and established artists from the worlds of folk, bluegrass, singer-songwriters, alt.country, Americana, classic country, old-time, Celtic, and everything that falls in between. The show is an unpredictable mix flowing like a river between moods, often with an edge or in a melancholy minor key. On occasion, Out of the Woods features interviews and live in-studio performances with national and international touring musicians. Past guests have included artists such as Bela Fleck, Si Kahn, Brown Bird, Dana Robinson, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Kate MacLeod, Bill Bourne, Karl Shiflett, Rachel Bissex, Darryl Purpose, Bow Thayer, Cosy Sheridan and many others. Out of the Woods grew out of Jon 'Chip' Colcord's former acoustic programs, The Song Swap and Music For The Mountain, separate folk and bluegrass programs which aired in New Hampshire during the 1990s. As a child, Colcord grew up a ravenous music fan with an ear for both rock and folk. All of these influences converge on Out of the Woods to bring you a mix which is as much on the edge as it is down home. Folk music with a rock 'n' roll soul
The Shortwave Report 03/17/17 Listen Globally!
March 16, 2017, 4:11 p.m.
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, NHK World Radio Japan, and Sputnik Radio.
Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #147 - 3-24-17
March 16, 2017, 4:09 p.m.
Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull.
The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week
March 16, 2017, 4:05 p.m.
Sounds Irish is a weekly program coming straight from County Wicklow in Ireland, hosted by Joe Bollard, one of the elder statesmen of the Irish show band scene. Each program features a variety of Irish and Irish-related songs from many different genres, along with a healthy dose of banter from your host. Please consider adding Sounds Irish to your stations' weekly lineup of programs. All we ask is that we know where the show is being aired so that we can give mention on the program. To contact the show, it is best to send email to Joe Bollard directly at everton274@sky.com
The 2-hour program is posted weekly in multiple parts for broadcasters to insert their own breaks.
March 16, 2017, 2:39 p.m.
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.
The Mixed Tape - March 14, 2017
March 16, 2017, 2:27 p.m.
Brian Cleveland and Tom O'Connell play selections from their favourite albums of 2016.
Sonic Cafe #28 - It's Spy Guyz!
March 16, 2017, 12:21 p.m.
Itâs the Sonic Café. Iâm 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 worldâs last line of defense⦠Itâs Spy Guyz on the Sonic Café. Listen for our all time top five James Bond movie theme songs ⦠along with trailers from Americaâs 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.
March 16, 2017, 12:05 p.m.
March 16, 2017, 7:34 a.m.
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.
La marge a CKIA 15 mars 2017 Irlande (U2 - Cranberries - Damien Rice)
March 16, 2017, 2:40 a.m.
March 16, 2017, 12:29 a.m.
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.
March 15, 2017, 9:58 p.m.
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
March 15, 2017, 9:51 p.m.
Hosted by Mike Roots, âReggae Explorationsâ on Wednesdays from 1:00p to 3:00 PM, is WAPJâs longest running show, having its start (as âPositive Vibrationsâ) at the stationâs inception in March of 1997.
On âReggae Explorationsâ youâll hear a mix of tracks from newer and lesser known artists, classic tunes, and deeper cuts than you would normally hear elsewhere. In addition, youâll be treated to the âMotherland Track of the Weekâ, a âLovers Rock Setâ and even the occasional âsurpriseâ 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 âReggae Explorationsâ for your weekly excursion into the world of strictly conscious, roots and culture, reggae music.
Rebel Daiz- Report Back on the Venezuelan Revolution
March 15, 2017, 8:28 p.m.
Just back from Venezuela, G1 and RodStarz speak of what they saw and what inspired them. They are introduced by Jesús RodrÃguez-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.
March 15, 2017, 7:03 p.m.
Golden Oldies (70s, 80s,90s)
March 15, 2017, 6:58 p.m.
Golden oldies (70s, 80s, 90s)
March 15, 2017, 5:51 p.m.
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.
Robert Parry on Maddow, Liberal Media, Adopt Neocon Agenda
March 15, 2017, 12:14 p.m.
Jeff Blankfort speaks with Parry about his most recent articles, âThe Politics Behind Russia-gateâ and âWhen Disinformation is Truth,â 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.
Jeff Blankfort: News/Op:Anti-Putin Hysteria, Israel-Palestine Farce
March 15, 2017, 11:46 a.m.
Blankfort revisits previous commentary, noting how US orchestrated coup in Ukraine and DNC sabotaging of Sandersâ 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, âTrump, Putin, and the New Cold War,â in which Victoria Nulandâs âFuck the EUâ comment to US Ukraine ambassador Geoff Pyatt in tapped conversation is cited as example of Russiaâs 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 âpeace processâ 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.
Between the Lines for the Week Ending March 24, 2017
March 15, 2017, 10:02 a.m.
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
March 15, 2017, 7:42 a.m.
March 15, 2017, 6:44 a.m.
Prof. Jim White: Sea level rise and the melting of sea ice and glaciers (TWO of TWO)
March 14, 2017, 8:42 p.m.
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.
March 14, 2017, 8:39 p.m.
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.
Did Canada's Foreign Minister Dis-inform Everyone About Her Grandad's Work With the Nazis?
March 14, 2017, 8:10 p.m.
In May 2015 Chrystia Freeland wrote âMy maternal grandparents fled western Ukraine after Hitler and Stalin signed their non-aggression pact in 1939.â But, according to the records of the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum and the Alberta Archives the Foreign Ministerâs 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, Canadaâs Foreign Minister, was asked about the matter and she said look out for Russian âdisinformation.â 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 wonât say.