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Planet Earth in Hospice? (Part 2)

Airs at: Fri, 01/12/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am

Produced for: Valley Views

I was absolutely captivated by Richard’s article, “Are We Doomed?” Despite the dire tone of this article I was delighted to see it because I thought finally, someone was saying things I’d thought for the past 30 years. Someone is telling the truth! Here is my persona... Read more

Planet Earth in Hospice? (Part 1)

Airs at: Fri, 01/05/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am

Produced for: Valley Views

I was absolutely captivated by Richard’s article, “Are We Doomed?” Despite the dire tone of this article I was delighted to see it because I thought finally, someone was saying things I’d thought for the past 30 years. Someone is telling the truth! Here is my persona... Read more

Sex4Sale: Episode 6, Sex Trafficking

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Produced for: Evening News

KBOO news talks with FBI Agent Denise Biehen, US Dept. of Justice Attorney Scott Kerin and Undercover Agent A and Officer Chris Lindsay of the Portland Police Bureau to understand sex traffing in the Portland area. We focus on the crime, how it's defined and reported and w... Read more

Sex4Sale Episode 6: Sex Trafficking

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm

KBOO news talks with FBI Agent Denise Biehen, US Dept. of Justice Attorney Scott Kerin and Undercover Agent A and Officer Chris Lindsay of the Portland Police Bureau to understand sex traffing in the Portland area. We focus on the crime, how it's defined and reported and w... Read more

A Guide to What We Don't Know about the Universe

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson have co-authored We Have No Idea: A Guide to The Unknown Universe. Jorge Cham is the creator of PHD Comics and Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at the University of California Irvine. In this book they explain everything we DON'T kno... Read more

Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s have gone from quietly farming to organizing daily protests and blockades to stop THAAD. THAAD is part of a missile defense system that... Read more

Permanent Warrantless Spying Before Congress This Week

Airs at: Fri, 12/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Beloved Community

Les Jamieson will be live with John Shuck Friday morning from 9-10 on The Beloved Community to discuss Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that is set to expire on Dec. 31st, 2017. This is the language which allows for warrantless spying on all A... Read more

2030: The End of U.S. Empire

Airs at: Tue, 12/05/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

It’s most likely historians will mark the War on Terror, declared by George W. Bush in 2001, as when the U.S. went into precipitous decline. The rapid military expansion into multiple countries was classic imperial overreach. The era of the U.S. as the sole superpower is... Read more

Donna Brazile: Hacks

Airs at: Thu, 11/30/2017 at 10:00am - 10:15am

Produced for: Air Cascadia

Former head of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile joins Chris Andrae on KBOO to discuss her new book Hacks. In the fallout of the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee--and as chaos threatened to consume the party's convention--Democrats tu... Read more

'Whose Future? Our Future!'

Airs at: Tue, 11/28/2017 at 10:00am - Wed, 11/29/2017 at 10:15am

Produced for: Air Cascadia

Is Planet Earth on Death Row? Donald Trump’s America Inc.' is fueling Climate Change at a fast and furious pace. There is no such thing as 'Enough' until there really is nosuch thing as enough. Twinty-one plaintiffs, ages 9 to 20, in Juliana v. United States, filed their c... Read more