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Dan Leahy and Kari Koch on the Economic Meltdown

Airs at: Tue, 06/02/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 Once again Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein takes on the economic meltdown and today she has help navigating this maelstrom from Dan Leahy, professor of Labor Studies at the Evergreen State College. Dan sorts through the financial mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus that has shak... Read more

Fight the Empire

  Every first and third Wednesday from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM.      Connecting history with the latest world events We live in an empire that began 500 years ago with the European conquest of the Americas. This program looks at how the empire permeates our lives.   What ar... Read more

Political Perspectives on 5/28/09

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Hosted by Marianne Barisonek, The Bhopal Survivors Tour 2009... The guests are activist Satinath Sarangi (Satyu), who has been working in Bhopal for the past 25 years, and Safreen Khan, one of the survivors of the disaster. The Union Carbide Chemical Disaster in Bhopal, In... Read more

Community Calendar Tues May 26

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Community Calendar
  KBOO COMMUNITY CALENDAR TUESDAY May 26 2009 This is the community calendar for Tuesday May 26 2009       To make a food co-op grow in Lents, come to the Lents Grocery Co-op Community Meeting tonight, Tuesday May 26, at 6 p.m., at Lents Seventh-day Adventist Church, 8835 ... Read more

John R. Talbott, author of "The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street"

Airs at: Sun, 05/17/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with John R. Talbott, former investment banker for Goldman Sachs and Visiting Scholar at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. His new book is "The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street." Talbott will talk about the lies and the truth of... Read more

Obama's Suitmaker to be liquidated

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  The saga of Barack Obama’s suitmaker has become a symbol for labor rights activists around the country who are concerned about the misuse of government bailout funds. KBOO’s Chloe Paisley has more:   Read more

Dubya, Hammer of God

May 18, 2009 Remember, back in those nightmare years surrounding the initial invasion and occupation of Iraq? Remember when we would speculate, half in jest, that Dubya was an unhinged, end-times, Book-of-Revelation, whackjob war leader? That he was, ha-ha, doing God's work... Read more

The Forbidden Photos

May 18, 2009 Here are the photos your president doesn't want you to see. The photos are too large for me to upload -- just go have a look. -A   Read more

Ramona Africa: What the Corporate Media Didn’t Tell You about May 13, 1985!

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2009 at 5:00pm
What the Corporate Media Didn’t Tell You about May 13, 1985!   The sole adult survivor of the May 13, 1985 massacre of 11 members of the MOVE organization is Ramona Africa. The the City of Philadelphia and the FBI and  dropped a C4 bomb on MOVE’s 6221 Osage Avenue home in W... Read more

Mumia Abu-Jamal on His Birthday

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2009 at 5:00pm
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a renowned journalist from Philadelphia who has been inprisoned since 1981.   Mumia  has been on death row since 1983 tried and convicted for allegedly shooting Daniel Faulkner a Philadelphia police officer.  Because of his his award - winning reporting ... Read more