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US - Saudi War Crimes Against Yemen

Airs at: Fri, 03/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
  [The scheduled guest was Kevin Barrett. After a coordinated call in and smear campaign by Rose City Antifa, KBOO staff and administration forbade me from interviewing him the evening before the show was to air live. This is very unfortunate in my opinion as the accusatio... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 5, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Thom Becker hosts and we hear-- Two organizers discuss plans and purposes for the International Women's Day March and Strike happening in Portland on Thursday, March 8. Bill Resnick and Joe Clement fill us in on the West Virginia Teachers' Strike and its significance. T... Read more

Mental Health Support for Palestinians

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with psychiatrist Elizabeth Berger about psychological dynamics of living under Israeli occupation for Palestinian children, and some of the links between human rights and mental health.  Berger is a child psychiatrist living in New York City and on the steeri... Read more

Presswatch on March 1st, 2018

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Today we'll be looking at some of the great accomplishments of US society, like infecting beetles with anthrax so that Korean kids will play with them, creating double-headed kids in Iraq with depleted uranium, wiping out whole families with Hotchkiss guns, and aerosol chee... Read more

Inside Armenia: Anna Shahnazaryan

Airs at: Tue, 03/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Land-locked Armenia has had a long history but as a nation state it is rather new. Armenia declared its independence from the USSR in 1991. Left with a legacy of 70 years of Soviet rule, corruption is rampant. The adoption of neoliberalism by elites, as in other countrie... Read more

Who Let Dr. Strangelove Write the Nuclear Posture Review?

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In 2016 while on the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump alarmed leaders throughout the world when he said during a Town Hall, that there are several scenarios in which nuclear weapons should be employed by the U.S., including against ISIS. "Somebody hits us within ... Read more

Per v. Graham

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per dives back in to the seemingly endless Russia-gate plus he recounts his run in with the late Billy Graham. Read more

Meltdown in the Arctic: Humanity Beware?

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  What happens in the Arctic has an out-sized impact on the overall global climate. And right now, it's looking very, very bad.  December of last year was the warmest on record in  the Arctic, and 2018 has already set a string of records for lowest levels of Arctic sea ice... Read more

GREEN JOBS & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Camilo Marquez, representing the Portland Climate Action Community Benefits Initiative, will discuss this local GREEN JOBS 2018 ballot initiative which trains and employs workers from marginalized communities to weatherize and solarize homes and businesses, funded by a surc... Read more

The End of Policing

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. Vitales book The End of Policing, is an accessible study of police history as an imperial tool for social control that continues to exacerbate class and ... Read more