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Captain Ahab & U.S. Empire: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The demonic Captain Ahab in Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick represents a quest for power and domination that is a death wish. Hubris will doom Ahab and his Pequod crew, all perish except for Ishmael. Is there a larger lesson to be learned? Is the United States much di... Read more

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  In 2008 the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only twenty-two percent of white people in the United States believe that racism is a major societal problem. On the surface, it may seem to be in decline. However, the evidence of... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 18

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  The Politics of Living
August 1, 2018   The Politics of Living – August 1, 2018 - 30 minute show   Content Contributors: Rachelle Schmid (Conversations With Elders) Dennise Kowalcyzk (Portland 2003 protests audio) Kristin Thiel (The She Ra Solution) M L lauri (Let's Stop For A Minute) Vicky... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Julie Whipple

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the crash of United Airlines Flight 173, in an empty lot near the corner of Portland’s Northeast 157th Avenue and East Burnside, just about 9 miles from where we are now in our KBOO studios. Our News In Depth guest Julie Whipple n... Read more

Clinging to Collusion: Joe Lauria

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per welcomes journalist Joe Lauria from ConsortiumNews.com where he wrote: "Charges against 12 Russian intelligence agents for allegedly hacking emails from the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential election were announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Frid... Read more

The Green Burial Guidebook by Elizabeth Fournier

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
  Emily Young talks to author Elizabeth Fournier about her new book The Green Burial Guidebook. Funeral expenses in the United States average more than $10,000. And every year conventional funerals bury millions of tons of wood, concrete, and metals, as well as million... Read more

Talking with Cameron Whitten, new interim ED of Portland's Q Center.

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll by talking with Caermon Whitten, activist and organizer, about the Q Center and his role as new iterim ED. The Q Center has needs! including raising funds for some building repair. The Q Center also hosts programming related to GLBTQ community needs.   After, we'... Read more

Democracy: Michael Parenti

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Discussions about democracy probably start in Athens about 2500 years ago. A truism is society is democratic to the extent that its citizens play a meaningful role in managing public affairs. Democracy is located within the capitalist economic system infamous for prod... Read more

Makani Themba on Russia-Phobia, Police Brutality & the Kidnapping of Immigrant Children

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital Makani Themba on Russia-phobia, police brutality, the kidnapping of immigrant children and the movie 'Sorry to Bother You'...Gerald Horne on the BRICS Summit..Headlines on the Youth Climate March, #RedforFeds federal worke... Read more

Journalism....Truth or Propaganda: Jeremy Scahill

Airs at: Tue, 07/24/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
​ "An informed democracy will behave in a responsible fashion," said Jefferson. And what happens to democracy when one of the major pillars of information, journalism is under attack from the highest office in the land? We live in an era where the president openly singl... Read more