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March 24, 2016, 7:39 a.m.
Despite chummy meetings in Washington between Obama and Trudeau and international agreements to reduce global warming, there is very little real progress being made. David Barsamian argues that the struggle to preserve the environment must stay clear of leadership photo-ops and symbolic gestures.
The Kelly Alexander Show March 23 2016
March 24, 2016, 6:11 a.m.
March 23, 2016, 8:12 p.m.
Three generations of Malian divas; Asian garage and psych from the 60s and 70s, including a track from my WRIR colleague Carl Hamm's new album; what's new in desert blues; Latin roots electronica
(Repeat) Classified Woman: A Conversation with Sibel Edmonds
March 23, 2016, 5:49 p.m.
Sibel Edmonds is a former FBI language specialist turned whistleblower. She is the editor of the Boiling Frogs Post and Founder-DIrector of the US-based National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. She is the recipient of the 2006 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, and the author of two books including her memoir "Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story" and a work of fiction: "The Lone Gladio"
In this week's interview, conducted by Global Research News Hour contributor Jonathan Wilson, Edmonds discusses how she became "the most classified woman in America," as well as how sensitive information gets contained, the rise of Islamic Terror as "Gladio B" and her assesment of the trouble-spots likely to emerge in coming months.
March 23, 2016, 5:28 p.m.
Popcorn and Hula Hoops! there's a combo you'll likely only hear here! In the mood for moog? we'll help! And Snarf discovers a secret Daffy has been holding back from him for years!
March 23, 2016, 3:33 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.
Jean Bricmont on Western Origin of Brussels ISIS Attacks
March 23, 2016, 12:45 p.m.
Bricmont speaks of how the terror attacks in Brussels, like those in Paris, are the result of Western governments using violent Islamist groups to overthrow regimes in the Middle East and North Africa that are not to their liking, with the support of much of the European Left; how support for the notion of âhumanitarian intervention,â has led to the destabilization of Europe, Britain's Stop the War campaign being the exception. He compares Trump's public approach to Israel with those of his Republican opponents and Clinton, his praise for Israel at AIPAC notwithstanding, and points out that by publicly saying that he would be âneutralâ between Israelis and Palestinians in negotiations, and not paying any political price, whatever else his positions might be, demagogue and all, he has shattered a long held âtruismâ about US politics, that absolute loyalty to Israel on the part of US politicians is a sine quo non of being successful on the US political scene.
March 23, 2016, 12:30 p.m.
Is the US president really serious about tackling corruption in the finance sector? Are the presidential candidates? Now they can prove it. Bank Whistleblowers United tell us how they can restore the rule of law to Wall Street and avoid the next financial crisis in 60 days without any new legislation. Plus: why a wave of tax amnesties is likely to sweep across the world (how does 1% tax and immunity from prosecution sound?) and what the very first transparency data on banks exposes about how they do business.
Jeff Blankfort: News/Op: Hillary at AIPAC & Her Syrian Role
March 23, 2016, 12:12 p.m.
Blankfort speaks about AIPAC related events in Washington, beginning with IRMEP/WRMEA conference at National Press Club, covered by CSPAN, and Wash. Post, anti-AIPAC protest Sunday, ignored by media, and AIPAC's attendance busting annual conference, featuring an 8.33 segment of Hillary Clinton' half hour speech, pledging her love to Israel along lines that have made her a neocon favorite, attacking BDS and threatening Iran; then he reads declassified 2012 email from Clinton released by Wikileaks, calling for regime change in Syria; concludes with report of today's meeting of US Regents to vote on UC position conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
Between the Lines for the Week Ending April 1, 2016
March 23, 2016, 11:39 a.m.
Ratings and Profit "Trump" Journalism, As Big Media Gives "The Donald" Billions in Free Airtime; "Donald Trump is Part of America's Dark Fascist Tradition," Scholar Says," UCONN Scholar Says; New Documentary Film on Climate Change Supports Communities Combating Fossil Fuel Expansion
Kait McIntyre - Some History of the Struggle
March 23, 2016, 10:12 a.m.
Short presentation of the history of the holiday, its origins in
the US after women struck for better conditions, and its original founding in Europe as International Working Woman's Day.
What happened to the "working" in the recognition of what women contribute to society is explained through a class and Capitalist analysis. She recounts some of the historic workers
struggles that centered in Chicago which connect to today's defense for Rasmea and to the awardees recognized at the event.
March 23, 2016, 8:22 a.m.
March 23, 2016, 8:09 a.m.
Code Blue's Debut LP
Post-primary wrap with Professor Anthony Monteiro
March 23, 2016, 7:29 a.m.
Radio journalist Don DeBar discusses this past Tuesday's primary results with author and activist Professor Anthony Monteiro
TheAngryindian comments on negative, bourgeois Afro-American attitudes towards Bernie Sanders
March 23, 2016, 6:57 a.m.
A 4thWorldRadyo: PROMO / BRIEF - @TheAngryindian comments on the negative, class-sensitive and bourgeois Afro-American attitudes being directed towards #BernieSanders during the Election 2016 cycle.
March 23, 2016, 6:24 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
Lead In the Blood: Dangers And How To Protect
March 23, 2016, 1:18 a.m.
Approximately 500,000 children in the United States between the ages of one and five suffer from lead poisoning as a result of lead in their blood above the level for which public health action is recommended.
No safe blood lead level in children has been identified and lead exposure can affect nearly every system in the body. Because lead exposure often occurs with no obvious symptoms, it frequently goes unrecognized. This results in short and long term adverse consequences in the exposed children and to society in general.
The level of lead in the blood of children is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is Dr. Martha E. Richmond, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of Environmental Science, at Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.Dr. Richmond s work has centered on lead poisoning in children and involves assessment of environmental regulation to effectively protect public health, including the effectiveness of regulations for air pollutants, and protection of children against lead toxicity.
When Dr. Richmond visited by phone from her home near Boston, Massachusetts, on October 19, 2014, she began with a description of the issues surrounding lead poisoning.
The book Dr. Martha Richmond recommends is "Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children", by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.
March 22, 2016, 6:46 p.m.
Hector Villagra on tens of 1000s of children deported with no right to counsel, to countries that the US has helped turn into dangerous, violent places. Bob Avakian, âWhy do people come here from all over the world?â Writer and director, Robert Allan Ackerman, and actors Kazumi Aihara and Miho Ando from âBlood,â a play about the struggle to expose US corporations knowingly selling AIDS-tainted blood to Japan, with the knowledge of Japanese health officials.
MIT Team Turning Fumes Into Fuel
March 22, 2016, 6:29 p.m.
You know that sick feeling when you look at a smokestack belching noxious gases into the air? Well, what if you knew that the gas waste coming from that smokestack was getting turned into a usable, liquid fuel? That's the technology that an MIT professor, Gregory Stephanopoulos, and his colleagues are working on and so far, the results have been quite promising. This week on Sea Change Radio, we learn more about this ground-breaking technology from Prof. Stephanopoulos and the promise that it holds. Then, we hear from entrepreneur Todd Thorner about independent power producers and the potential of home battery storage technology.
Michael Parenti: Cuba, the Spanish American War and the Rise of US Imperialism
March 22, 2016, 5:06 p.m.
s President Obama became the first sitting US President in almost 90 years to visit Cuba he took the same stage where Calvin Coolidge in 1928 lectured the Cubans on democracy. The US then controlled Cuban national and foreign politics and the Cuban economy and had done so since the end of the Spanish American War in 1898. The US had refused to end the military occupation of Cuba unless Cuba changed its constitution and ceded its sovereignty to the US.
The infamous Platt Amendment of 1901 gave the U.S. the right to intervene unilaterally in Cuban affairs and included a clause that eventually led to the perpetual lease of Guantanamo Bay.
All this was in force when Coolidge took the stage in 1928. Nevertheless he lectured the Cubans on democracy and said about the United States: "Our most sacred trust has been, and is, the establishment and expansion of the spirit of democracy."
Now, in 2016, I can't think of a better program to revisit than the extraordinary lecture by Dr. Michael Parenti on the Spanish American War. US media and politicians are still lecturing Cuba on democracy and very few commentators are looking back at the history among the two countries. Meanwhile President Raul Castro asked Obama during his visit for the return of Guantanamo Bay.
Michael Parenti uses the history of the Spanish American War to answer several very intriguing questions. Who first expressed the desire to annex the island of Cuba â and when? The early African American emancipation movement inside the US was critical of US plans to attack Cuba. Why, their leaders asked, was the US government concerned about Spanish repression of the rights of Cubans while the repression of African Americans within the US was ignored. Some said the Negro needs freedom just as much as the Cubans.
Why did the US attack the Philippines when it was Cuba that they wanted to take over? Why did the US give verbal support to the Cuban liberation movements against Spain while selling weapons to Spain to fight the poplar movement? The Spanish American War was an important turning point in the transition of the US to an imperial power and many of the forces at work are eerily contemporary.
Michael Parenti is among our leading progressive political analysts. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1962 and has taught at colleges in the US and abroad. Parenti lost his access to tenure when he was arrested and seriously beaten in a protest against the war on Vietnam.
March 22, 2016, 12:22 p.m.
Women's Boat to Gaza to challenge illegal blockade
March 22, 2016, 11:31 a.m.
Palestinian women have been at the center of the struggle against Israelâs blockade of Gaza.
With an all-woman crew and notable women from the international movement in solidarity with the people of Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition will sail into Gazaâs territorial waters in Oct of this year. Wendy Goldsmith calls on everyone to support the mission. â...we stand with these brave and resilient women...and let them know they are not alone.â
Jazz For The Asking March 22 2016
March 22, 2016, 9:58 a.m.
March 21, 2016, 9:31 p.m.
Rasmea Odeh speaks about the struggle of working woman, "demanding equality and other social rights such as shorter work hours, better pay, voting rights, and an end to child labor."
The awards are named for Chicagoâs iconic Palestinian community leader, Rasmea Odeh, who recently won an important victory in court.
Rasmea has been targeted by a Federal prosecutor who supports Israeli aggression and expansion in Occupied Palestine. The prosecutor has used his office to disrupt the increasingly successful BDS movement, called to bring Israel into compliance with International Law and Human Rights, to heel to use Hillary Clinton's language, through the nonviolent and Constitutionally protected use of the boycott; a First Amendment Right that supporters of Israeli expansion and ethnic cleansing are trying to suppress through
State Legislatures.
Rasmea gave the key note speech at the event following a short silence in recognition of the murder by Honduran government agents of Berta Caceres, the Environmental and Human Rights activists murdered just days prior to the event.
March 21, 2016, 7:59 p.m.
DJ Premier in Deep Concentration - Gang Starr
Friend Or Foe - Jay-Z
War Games - O.C. ft. Organized Konfusion
The Aura - Skyzoo & Torae
Stick to ya Gunz - M.O.P. ft. Kool G Rap
Boom - Royce da 5'9
The Best Part - J-Live
It Just Don't Stop - Big Shug
You - Evidence
Premier's X-Ecution - The X-Ecutioners ft. DJ Premier
Mathematics - Mos Def
The Piece Maker -Tony Touch ft. Gang Starr
A Part of My Life - Bump Knuckles
F.A.Y.B.A.N. - Screwball
The Frustrated N***a - Jeru the Damaja
Clockwork - Dilated Peoples
Real Hip Hop (instrumental) - Das EFX
Celebrating Audre+NYC St. Pat's Parade history+LGBT news!
March 21, 2016, 7:20 p.m.
People's poets praise "Sister Outsiderâ; Queer Irish come home to the Big Apple; the Australian government guts its Safe Schools anti-bullying program, Botswana's ban on an LGBT advocacy group is overruled, Kansas lawmakers approve anti-queer campus bias, a Vatican pan makes "Weekend" sizzle at the Italian box office, and more global LGBT news!
March 21, 2016, 3:16 p.m.
An hour of Old Time Radio. http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Interview with Dr. Devra Davis : "Disconnect", EMF & Cellphone Radiation
March 21, 2016, 2:09 p.m.
Dr. Devra Davis is interviewed about some of the issues raised in her recent book, "Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family", and her work on brain cancer and children. Her book details the negative health effects of EMF and RF exposure that the ubiquitous adoption of cellphones and WiFi computers is causing the general public.
Wide ranging interview about research that shows negative effects: infertility, blood brain barrier permeability, adolescent dementia and cancer due to the biological effects of low power Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and Radio Frequency (RF) Radiation; stuff that industry warns us about in the fine print some where, maybe. She is also the author of "When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution" and "The Secret History of the War on Cancer" .
Known not only for her popular writing on the effects of industrial pollution on human health, but also for her many scientific articles, she writes I think, in the style of Rachel Carson to whom others have compared her; both for the rigor of her science and for her work in taking on industry "experts" whose collective track record, if I lump them into a group, has been to protect their employers financial interests over that of the public health. Though no insurance company will write coverage for damage to humans caused by cell phones and related technology, Dr. Davis believes that cell phones and computers can be used safely and through her writing and foundation's web site offers access to the science that backs up her concerns and suggestions on what to do.
Toward the end of the interview Dr. Davis mentions the growing science behind the benefits of being in Nature. I end the interview with an ad from Nature-RX.
March 21, 2016, 11:47 a.m.
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March 21, 2016, 10:11 a.m.