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Blowing the whistle on the U.S. drone program
July 21, 2016, 2:33 p.m.
Christopher Aaron worked for the CIA on the U.S. drone program. After a while, he began realizing how wrong it is and quit. Finally, he gathered up his courage and began speaking out publicly, despite little or no protection under the Whistleblower Protection Act.
In a program titled Drones: Killing Innocents and Stoking War, he spoke 5-5-2016 at the Cambridge Public Library, Central Square Branch (Cambridge, MA). He took care to avoid revealing so-called classified information. Nonetheless the story Christopher tells is riveting, and it clearly calls for action.
July 21, 2016, 12:02 p.m.
UpFront Soul #2016.30 - Hour 2- July 25-31, 2016
July 21, 2016, 6:13 a.m.
We'll hear new soul from Tanika Charles and Charles Bradley, ask for "Mercy" with the Cannonball Adderly Quintet, and "Make 'Em Bounce" with Jimmy B.
UpFront Soul #2016.30 - Hour 1- July 25-31, 2016
July 21, 2016, 5:51 a.m.
We'll hear new soul from Tanika Charles and Charles Bradley, ask for "Mercy" with the Cannonball Adderly Quintet, and "Make 'Em Bounce" with Jimmy B.
Interview with Cynthia McKinney, July 20, 2016
July 21, 2016, 4:42 a.m.
July 21, 2016, 2:51 a.m.
Produced and presented by @Naomi_Fowler for the Tax Justice Network. Also available on iTunes.
Earth First! Update - 21 July, 2016
July 20, 2016, 11:28 p.m.
Radical, No Compromise Environmental News with an emphasis on Biodiversity and Direct Action
July 20, 2016, 10:28 p.m.
New music by Greece's Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis; the ultra-danceable sounds of Haiti; a conversation with Marlysse Simmons, Laura Ann Singh and Rei Alvarez of Miramar
Jazz For The Asking May July 19 2016
July 20, 2016, 9:45 p.m.
July 20, 2016, 6:34 p.m.
Our Hosts lucked into a free hotel night stay and decided to host the show from the hot tub! We profile Frankie Yankovic, and we play interesting version of the Mission Impossible Theme, while the mysterious Ramon plays havoc with Snarfdude's patience.....such is life!
At NSA Menwith Hill discussing US's UK occupation on the hottest day of the year
July 20, 2016, 4:12 p.m.
July 20, 2016, 1:29 p.m.
Press Conference - Police Accountability through Civilian Control
July 20, 2016, 10:08 a.m.
Alderman Carlos Rosa of the 35th Ward announces his support for the Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) Ordinance that would place control of the Chicago Police Department under an elected board of civilians with the power to end police impunity, re-write the police rule book, submit CPD's budget to the City Council and approve contracts with the police unions. Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance to End Racist and Political Oppression and CPAC organizer speaks about the campaign. He is followed by Reverend Catherine Brown who was terrorized at gun point by two Chicago police and Mark Clements who as a juvenile was tortured into a false confession during the years that Commander John Burge was torturing blacks into confessing to capital crimes. Clements raises the failure of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to protect children under its supervision from police sexual misconduct and torture
and calls for an extension of the Statue of Limitations, as was done for children abused by Catholic priests, to allow victims now coming forward to obtain justice.
Between the Lines for the Week Ending July 29, 2016
July 20, 2016, 7 a.m.
Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate, Environment and Consumer Protections; Sanders and his supporters push the Democratic Party to Adopt Medicare-for-All in Party Platform; Federal Appeals Court Upholds FCC's Net Neutrality Rules, Protecting an Open Internet
Between the Lines for the Week Ending July 29, 2016
July 20, 2016, 7 a.m.
Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate, Environment and Consumer Protections; Sanders and his supporters push the Democratic Party to Adopt Medicare-for-All in Party Platform; Federal Appeals Court Upholds FCC's Net Neutrality Rules, Protecting an Open Internet
Between the Lines for the Week Ending July 29, 2016
July 20, 2016, 7 a.m.
Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate, Environment and Consumer Protections; Sanders and his supporters push the Democratic Party to Adopt Medicare-for-All in Party Platform; Federal Appeals Court Upholds FCC's Net Neutrality Rules, Protecting an Open Internet
July 20, 2016, 6:42 a.m.
Bangash talks about Fethullah Gulen and some of the other key figures who were likely involved in the effort to seize power from President Erdogan of Turkey. Clearly the Turkish leadership is now in a political dilemma. Erdogan has demanded the US turn over Gulen but the US shows no intention to do so. And the suspicion is that the US and Saudi Arabia want to get rid of Erdogan, who has shown a willingness to get along with Russia and perhaps ânormalizeâ relations with Syria. The stakes are very high, but it should not be long before we know which direction the Turkish leader will take.
July 19, 2016, 10:19 p.m.
Rafa & Amina on the protests at the Republican Convention, & taking out "Time To Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution, Message from the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA" Carl Dix on murders by police, why they're happening, the movement against them, and how revolution could end them. Is there value to voting? Can voting stop fascism? from âRevolution and Religion: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion, a Dialogue between Cornel West and Bob Avakian.â
If Music Could Talk - July 17, 2016
July 19, 2016, 7:56 p.m.
If Music Could Talk - July 10, 2016
July 19, 2016, 7:46 p.m.
GroundWire | BLM Toronto and US solidarity, detention hunger strike, Lakatos family PR
July 19, 2016, 5:55 p.m.
This episode of GroundWire was produced on traditional territory of the Mohawk people at CKUT radio in Montreal, hosted by Elliott Lobel.
Headline:
Tent city in Vancouver's east side to decry lack of affordable housing | Aaron Lakoff, CKUT
Negotiations between Canada Post and CUP-W | Greg McDougall, EquitableEducation.ca
Resistance to proposed mega-dam project Site C in Northern BC | Aaron Lakoff, CKUT
Features:
Public meeting of the Ontario governmentâs Anti-Racism Directorate | Alannah Johnson, GroundWire
Response from Black communities in Montreal to the recent police killings of Black men in the USA | Geneva Gleason, CKUT
Lakatos family escaping anti-Roma discrimination and violence in Hungary still await response to their PR application | Janna Bryson, CKUT
Immigration detainees launch hunger strike to #EndIndefiniteDetention | Mina Ramos, CFRU
Community Radio Report
FreeRadioOnMyPhone.ca campaign asks telecommunications companies to enable FM receivers in smartphones | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah
Headlines this week were written by Aaron Lakoff.
We thank all our contributors, as well as Aaron Lakoff, Carly Forbes, and Gretchen King.
July 19, 2016, 4:18 p.m.
Radio Curious revisits a conversation about torture with Dr. Steven Miles, author of "Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror," which exposes the silence of doctors, nurses and medics in cases of torture and physical abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
July 19, 2016, 4:09 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.
The Mixed Tape - July 19, 2016
July 19, 2016, 7:50 a.m.
Brian Cleveland plays a selection of new Canadian music. This week's episode features tracks from Moths & Locusts, Dye Pack, Fossil Cliffs, Motherhood, Brave Radar, and more.
July 19, 2016, 7:05 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 19, 2016, 5:57 a.m.
Terrorists are a useful tool for the United States
July 19, 2016, 5:26 a.m.
Stephen Gowans talks about the history of U.S. funding of terrorist Islamic groups, from the war in Afghanistan against the pro-Soviet Afghan socialist government, to the current U.S. attempt for regime change in Syria, the last secular Arab nationalist government in the Middle East.
Are we getting smarter or dumber, or both?
July 19, 2016, 4:58 a.m.
According to the "Flynn Effect" humans are getting smarter and smarter. We know more than we ever did and score higher on IQ tests than our parents. But the number of geniuses is falling, as is mental speed, as measured by response-tests. What gives? Dr. Michael Woodley, interviewed here by Frank Salter, finds evidence that the English were smarter 100 years ago than they are today, based on response-test data collected from 1904. Dr Woodley concludes that our genetic potential is falling, perhaps due to the relaxation of Darwinian selection over the last century.
Who's Counting - Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics (TWO of TWO)- ARCHIVE
July 18, 2016, 8:01 p.m.
The film, "Who's Counting" traces Marilyn Waring's quest to explore how the fate of women and of the earth are irrevocably tied up with the deadly pursuit of economic growth. This film was a secret favorite for those who looked for an intelligent explanation of the connection between economics and war. Marilyn Waring was only 22 when she was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament. Re-elected three times she soon became chair of the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee, the sole budget, appropriations, and public accounts committee of Parliament.
This segment is about war. Under the GDP accounting system war is the biggest growth industry of all. When John Maynard Keynes and Richard Stone invented the GDP formula during WWII they explicitly designed is as a system of: "how to pay for the war". This British system was imposed on the world in 1953. No country may be a member of the UN, deal with the IMF or World Bank unless they do their national accounting based on the GDP"
And some say that unlimited growth along with globalization has driven the wars and environmental destruction of the past 60 plus years. In spite of the magnitude of the problem with Growth and GDP accounting there is an encouraging aspect. If a global system can be designed by two economists, Mr. Keynes and M. Stone, and if it can get imposed - not so long ago - in 1953 - it is possible and necessary to design a different system and set a date for change in the near future.
JULY 27, 2016 - MICHAEL PARENTI ON CONSPIRACIES
July 18, 2016, 7:12 p.m.
This is a replay of the speech that Michael Parenti gave at the Understanding Deep Politics conference in May of 2010 in Santa Cruz, California. He discusses conspiracies.