Latest Programs
BDS update, Israel's intrusion in the Negev, the AIPAC conference, and more
April 14, 2016, 3:53 p.m.
We start with an encouraging report of successes of the BDS campaign. A variety of corporations doing business with Israel have decided to take it elsewhere, including G4S and Veolia. A leading France-based Israeli businessman recently told the Israeli media that the growing strength of the BDS movement means that most major European companies now avoid investing in Israel.
Our feature presentation is by Nadia Ben Youssef, the US representative of the Human Rights organization and legal center, Adalah. Adalah means justice in Arabic and is based in Haifa. She speaks about the attempts by Adalah to save a Bedouin village in the Negev of Israel, a village named Um Al-Harran, which has been in existence since the early 1950âs. Now Israel has decided to level Um Al Harran to build a much larger, exclusively Jewish town that will be named just Harran. The Negev is huge and mostly unpopulated, yet Israel continues itâs purging of Bedouin villages by choosing this particular site for a new Jewish town, rather than building on much available vacant space.
Nadia gave this presentation at Tufts University. She is introduced by Tufts anthropology professor, Amahl Bishara.
Finally, we hear a quick interview of an amazing Palestinian journalist, author, and playwrite, Rula Jebreal, conducted by Max Blumenthal. Rula speaks about the AIPAC Conference, the Arab Spring, and the bias of the US media.
The Syrian Government is winning the fight against foreign sponsored barbarians
April 14, 2016, 12:52 p.m.
Zafar Bangash explains the importance of the victory of the Syrian army at Palmyra, a World Heritage Site. The Americans and their allies were in skies of Syria when the ISIS terrorists crossed the desert unmolested to capture and ruin the historic city. Today with the help of Russian airpower the terrorists have been driven out and the US, Saudis, and UK are exposed by their silence, exposed as âsilent partnersâ of the barbarians.
April 14, 2016, 12:46 p.m.
Toppers Goes Inside the Computer!
April 14, 2016, 11:22 a.m.
Your host Gil is miniaturized and placed inside a Windows 10 computer to experience what this fascinating technology is like from the inside.
April 14, 2016, 10:05 a.m.
La marge a CKIA 13 avril 2016 Vilain Pingouin - Zebulon - Les Colocs
April 14, 2016, 9:07 a.m.
April 13, 2016, 11:30 p.m.
April 13, 2016, 8:47 p.m.
Rumput & Friends live in WRIR's Studio C, playing Indonesian-Appalachian string band music in advance of their Shadow Ballads performance at the University of Richmond on April 16 and subsequent tour; engineer is Richard Schellenberg
April 13, 2016, 5:33 p.m.
We remember that terribly campy cartoon from the 60s "The Mighty Hercules" (and that ****** newton the centaur!) find out what skating rink music was like with when someone plays their organ, and that ariel song, is just....well......annoying......which is why we'll play it
Are banks or politicians really in charge? Anastasia Nesvetailova City University
April 13, 2016, 4:01 p.m.
The Motherland Influence: April 10, 2016
April 13, 2016, 1:21 p.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music.
Barbara Nimri Aziz: Media Suppresses Palmyra Victory
April 13, 2016, 1:08 p.m.
Former WBAI radio host, anthropologist and journalist, Barbara Nimri Aziz, expands on her article in CounterPunch 4/6/16), âSyriaâs Impossible Victoryâ and asks why Syriaâs victory over ISIS in Palmyra was downplayed and not celebrated by Western media. She deplores Americansâ lack of curiosity about Middle East countries and effects of US policies, particularly of the poat-1991 sanctions against Iraq which she witnessed and wrote about in âSwimming Up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with Iraqâ (Univ. of Florida, 2007).
Jeff Blankfort: NewsOp:Syria, Panama, Gabbard, Hebron
April 13, 2016, 12:59 p.m.
Blankfort speaks of media downplaying Syrian/Russian victory over ISIS at Palmyra; of Cameron and Poroshenko caught up in Panama scandal while media seeks to smear Putin who wasnât named; how Public Citizen predicted Panama outcome when it opposed free trade agreement pushed by Obama and Clinton and opposed by Sanders in 2009; cites explanation how trade deficit assists US in enforcing its foreign policy, sanctions, etc., on US once again killing Afghan civilians and lying about it; hear Tulsi Gabbard back Sanders; eye witness report of murder of Palestinian by Israeli soldier in Hebron and support for soldier by majority of Israeli Jews.
Gaza From the Inside: Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis
April 13, 2016, 12:13 p.m.
Dr. Wajjeh Abu Zarefah is a Palestinian journalist for NBC News based in Gaza. He has also reported for other news organizations, including ABC Australia and Franceâs TF1. He lectures in two universities in Gaza and has been a resident fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. He
departed Chicago for Gaza in mid May.
Maureen Clare Murphy is the Chicago-based managing editor of the Electronic Intifada website and the author of many articles on the critical situation in Gaza. Her writing appears in the anthology Gaza Unsilenced, published by Just World Books.
Both speakers represent informed voices on the situation in Gaza. Dr. Abu Zarefah speaks from his multiple roles: husband and father to twin boys, journalist for NBC, repeatedly targeted by Israeli missiles and university academic, specializing in political analysis. He recounts daily life experiences: contemplating college for his sons, cooking over wood fire because cooking gas is not to be found, the uncertainty of access to drinking water and how their lives are ruled by a lack of electricity. Social, cultural and commercial life are badly effected by the destruction of Gaza's infrastructure and Israel's interference with recovery. Children and adults suffer from PTSD following the viciousness of Israeli aggression. The Israeli 8 year blockade created extreme shortages of the most basic items but following Israel's most recent attack's intentional destruction of Gaza's electrical plant, factories, farms, dairies, drinking water system, sewer treatment plant and hospitals during the 51 day attack that Israel initiated on July 8, 2014, Gaza will soon be uninhabitable according to the UN. He calls for an end to the occupation and the return of some normalcy to their lives. He screened several video clips. One, an aerial view of a marathon run through Gaza's urban landscape which a few months later the Israelis reduced to unrecognizable rubble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbSk5KEXtQw
The other, an Israeli video clip, shows Israeli tanks firing high explosive shells into a civilian community, reducing it to rubble. That clip is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oDxVsIUJXQ
April 13, 2016, 12:11 p.m.
100% FEMCON with some hot topics mixed in!
Between the Lines for the Week Ending April 22, 2016
April 13, 2016, 10:26 a.m.
Panama Papers Reveal Drop in the Bucket of Trillions in Hidden Global Wealth; Climate Change: Itâs Worse Than You Thought; Margrete Strand Rangnes, Executive Vice President, Public Citizen
April 13, 2016, 9:23 a.m.
The opening hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
April 13, 2016, 9:04 a.m.
The second section (cut short) 45 minutes of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
April 13, 2016, 8:45 a.m.
The third hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
April 13, 2016, 8:31 a.m.
The fourth hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
April 13, 2016, 7:57 a.m.
April 13, 2016, 7:49 a.m.
The Kelly Alexander Show April 13, 2016
April 13, 2016, 7:41 a.m.
Jazz For The Asking April 12 2016
April 13, 2016, 7:32 a.m.
APRIL 13,2016 - MEDIA CORRUPTION, WHY THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED
April 13, 2016, 5:33 a.m.
Today we discuss the controlled, corporate, complicit, corrupt and compromised media and listen to 3 insiders talk about CIA penetration of the media in the US and abroad, the new astroturf (fake grassroots organizations) and how countries pay the major media outlets to provide positive coverage, and how propaganda is used to take us to war. Really worth listening to.
APRIL 6, 2016 - MLK & the TRIAL THE MEDIA FORGOT TO COVER
April 13, 2016, 5:16 a.m.
Cheryl discusses the 1999 trial brought by the King family with Attorney William Pepper, and shares articles and the speech given by William Pepper in 2007 at a 9/11 conference in Hartford, CT. The corporate media prohibited their reporters from covering the trial and to this day have not covered the outcome - that James Earl Ray was innocent and that it was carried out by a conspiracy, yes, an actual conspiracy. Listen to find out who was involved in that conspiracy.
April 12, 2016, 7:20 p.m.
Robert Meeropol, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, talks about the framing and execution of his parents during the McCarthy era, and the current campaign to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. Kay Buck, Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, talks about the scope and impact of human trafficking around the world, and in the US as well. Bob Avakian, The Oppression of Women: Bound Up With This System, a Driving Force for Revolution, from BA Speaks: Revolution - Nothing Less!
Zoe Weil: Sustainable Education
April 12, 2016, 6:39 p.m.
Whatâs the purpose of schooling? Reading, writing and ârithmetic, right? Well, our guest today begs to differ. Zoe Weil, author and the founder of the Institute for Humane Education, argues that the obligation of education is to cultivate a generation of âsolutionariesâ â kind, just, and socially conscious people who will protect the environment and promote human rights. We talk about her new book, The World Becomes What We Teach, and touch upon educational equity issues like implicit bias, summer learning loss, the resurgence of school segregation, and how Common Core fits into her vision for meaningful change.
Chernobyl 30 Years Later: Lucas Hixson's Diary
April 12, 2016, 6:11 p.m.
In September 2015 a next generation nuclear field engineer from Chicago went to Chernobyl to join the 3,500 workers on site. They are completing the largest movable structure humans have ever built: Tall enough to enclose the Statue of Liberty and wide enough to cover the exploded Unit Four of the Chernobyl power plant including the sarcophagus that was built over the plant in 1986.
Bechtel corporation, the lead contractor, says the $1.3 billion confinement structure will keep water out and radioactive dust and debris in â for at least a century. Radiation levels in some locations are still high enough to cause premature failure of structural materials. The gigantic arch had to be built away from the destroyed power plant because of the high radiation levels. Plans are to move the structure in place later in 2016.
Lucas Hixson kept a diary and took photos of his 10 days at Chernobyl. He wants us to hear his story in honor of the workers who risk their health today to prevent the spread of the enormous debris field that will remain at Chernobyl forever.
Lucas Hixson spoke at De Paul University, Chicago, at an event set up by Dave Kraft from the Nuclear Energy Information Service. Dave and NEIS want us to remember that, unlike all other kinds of accidents nuclear disasters continue to âkeep on givingâ. As one Russian doctor put it at the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl, "The accident is over. The catastrophe is just beginning." Such is the case with Fukushima as well.
Lucas Hixson publishes studies of operating and decommissioned nuclear power stations and nuclear weapons facilities across the United States. He also is the managing editor for Enformable Nuclear News, one of the top nuclear industry news services.
Victoire Ingabire endangered by change in prison status
April 12, 2016, 1:24 p.m.
This year there were three recipients of the Victoire award: Fred Holt of Norway; Annake Verbaekan of Holland; and Patrick Mbeko of Montreal. The awards presented in Belgium reflect the growing international movement to win the release of the human rights fighter, Victoire Ingabire. In the interview Marcelline Nduwamungu provided new and troubling information about the prison conditions under which Victoire is held. We need to redouble our efforts to ensure her safety, her release, and her return to public life in Rwanda.