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Inauguration Day Special Coverage

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
  VOICES OF A NATION: A CALL TO ACTION: Reports from protests, rallies, walk-outs across the country and around the world, including: Austin, Chicago, Denver, Lansing, London, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco and the local communities of Pacifica affiliates around the coun... Read more

Drop the Military Industrial Complex

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Marvin and Angie discuss US militarism around the world, and how the next 4 years may affect the lives of veterans and their family members.  Veteran's Voice Radio Show with Northwest Veterans for Peace deals with matters of war and peace. They deal with veterans health ... Read more

INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT: Matt Taibbi on Presswatch

Airs at: Thu, 01/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
  “Trained for decades to be little more than good consumers, we had become a nation of reality shoppers, mixing and matching news items to fit our own self-created identities. We rejoiced in the idea that reality was not an absolute but a choice.” —Matt Taibbi, from INSAN... Read more

Trump, the CIA & Russia

Airs at: Thu, 01/19/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per Fagereng takes your calls to discuss the reported connections between the President Elect and Russia via a leaked intelligence dossier.  The US media, in lock-step, has been ramping up the rhetoric of Russian hacking.  Per discusses the dangers of pushing the two nat... Read more

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Obama Break with Netanyahu's Settler Expansion Too Little, Too Late; Trump and his Cabinet Nominees Pose a Grave Threat to Civil Liberties; Rising ocean temperatures due to climate change are bleaching & killing many of Earths vital coral reefs. Featuring Richard Silver... Read more

THE GRID

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present. It's not just that the grid has grown old and is now in dire need of basic repair. Today, as we invest great hope in new energy sources--solar, wind,... Read more

Seeking Peace on Earth: A PEACE TALKS RADIO Special

Airs at: Fri, 01/06/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Water World
  Water World is off....instead we present Peace Talks Radio's annual compendium of highlights from the past year's programs including reducing political polarization, the neuroscience of peacemaking, how meditative practices help school kids, the humanitarian work of Doct... Read more

The Largest Methanol Refinery in the World

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As this year draws to a painful close, amidst all the political debris, we can look back at some major environmental successes. Communities across the Pacific Northwest have stopped proposals to build coal terminals in Washington and Oregon, a giant methanol refinery in Tac... Read more

Black Power at 50 in D.C.

Airs at: Thu, 12/29/2016 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Part 4 of our series, Black Power: 50 Years in DC, Nineteen Sixty-Six to Two Thousand Sixteen, marking the half century anniversary of the call for Black Power in this country in 1966. Today, a wide-ranging conversation with educator and activist Tom Porter about his vie... Read more

Ralph Nader on Political Perspectives

Airs at: Wed, 12/28/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  On this week's program, we hear a speech by Ralph Nader, recorded in Berkeley CA this past October, and hosted by Mickey Huff. Nader spoke on some of the themes from his latest book, "Breaking Through Power," and explained his proposal for a public-interest lobbying orga... Read more