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The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 25, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this membership drive edition and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick and Jennifer Tovar conclude their two-part discussion of the success of community clean energy production in California. 2. The Left and The Law: Jeff Sessions comes to Portland to talk against S... Read more

Winona LaDuke: FIRST DAUGHTER AND THE BLACK SNAKE

Airs at: Wed, 09/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Paul Roland is joined by Winona LaDuke and filmmaker Keri Pickett to discuss the new film First Daughter and the Black Snake, screening on Thursday, Sept 28th at 7:00 pm at the Hollywood Theatre. The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to... Read more

The Pitfalls of 'Buy American'

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This past April 2017 Donald Trump signed an executive order to Buy American and Hire American resurrecting an historically ineffective and divisive program to bring much need US industry jobs back to American workers. Denise Morris shares a collection of thoughts from Dana ... Read more

The Arrival: Trump's Travel and Refugee Ban

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  Leading up to the US Supreme Court hearing on Trump's travel ban, we'll hear about the orders impact on people from affected, Muslim-majority countries, and how advocacy groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations are responding. On this edition of Making Conta... Read more

Continuous Imposing of Sanctions to North Korea

Airs at: Thu, 09/21/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Despite the continuous threats from North Korea, President Trump plans to impose more sanctions onto the small country. The executive order allowing for further sanctions would enhance the Treasury Department's authority to target individuals or businesses that deal with a ... Read more

Graeme MacQueen, 9/11: The Pentagon's B Movie

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
This is my fourth episode in my series on 9/11. Most will dismiss this as a conspiracy theory as the CIA and its obedient media have instructed us. But some will open their minds and face the evidence. Opening minds is what we do on Progressive Spirit. Already in this seri... Read more

In the Shadows of the American Century

Airs at: Thu, 09/21/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  The Rise and Decline of US Global Power Per Fagereng welcomes Alfred McCoy to KBOO.  Alfred McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. McCoy has been recognized as "one of the world’s leading historians of Southeast Asia and a... Read more

Greg Palast on CROSSCHECK!

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome KBOO's favorite muckraking investigative journalist...Greg Palast. Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian and now in Rolling Stone Magazine. (It was Palast who uncovered how ... Read more

House of Hope: Waldorf-inspired school in Palestine

Airs at: Fri, 09/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  One Land Many Voices
Manar Wahhab Vosgueritchian is a Palestinian peace worker and co-founder of House of Hope, an elementary school and community center in the West Bank village of Bethany/ Al-Eizariya. Manar provides art and music therapy to young Palestinian students at House of Hope, most o... Read more

Rébellion en France

Airs at: Wed, 09/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Today, we get an update on a growing rebellion in France against center right President Macrons attack against labor unions and what is left of Frances welfare state. On the ground in France, we get the latest from Stphane Enjalran, national secretary and spokesperson fo... Read more