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Earth's Greatest Enemy, with Abby Martin

Airs at: Wed, 03/27/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Independent journalist and documentarian Abby Martin discusses Earth's Greatest Enemy, an upcoming feature length documentary that examines one of the largest polluters and contributors to global climate change in the world: the United States military,l and why the milit... Read more

The Global Citizen - Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Tue, 03/19/2024 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Today's topic: The TikTok Controversy Read more

#CND67 Part One

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: #CND67 Part One. On this edition of Century of Lies, Part One of our coverage of the Sixty-Seventh Session of the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs. We hear from Luis Gilberto Murillo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia; Camilo Eduardo Um... Read more

Through The Policy Loophole

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Through the Policy Loophole. Drugs, like so many other things, were much simpler in the Twentieth Century. On this month’s Free Culture Radio, host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with Alyssa Harlow, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cl... Read more

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: The Times They Are A-Changin’. Vice President Kamala Harris meets at the White House with marijuana legalization advocates. Plus, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs holds its Sixty-Seventh Session in Vienna, Austria. We hear from Volker ... Read more

The Great Unraveling, or the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown, with Richard Heinberg

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Today's guest, Richard Heinberg, is senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, a think tank based in Corvallis, Oregon, which provides information and analysis on climate change, energy scarcity, and other issues related to sustainability and long term community resilie... Read more

The Global Citizen International Digest

Airs at: Thu, 03/14/2024 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Tonight's main topics: Humanitarian aid to Gaza; China's new budget; crisis in Haiti; US isolationism Read more

The Global Citizen - Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Tue, 03/12/2024 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Today's commentary:  Pres. Biden said he told Israeli PM Netanyahu, ‘You and I are going to have a come-to-Jesus meeting.’ That would be long overdue, and should mean the President will finally tell Netanyahu that Israel either facilitates humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaz... Read more

A Portland Nurse in Gaza

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2024 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
As part of International Women’s Day, we bring you this talk by Maxine Fookson, a Portland-based pediatric nurse and anti-Zionist Jew, who has traveled to Gaza three times as a healthcare worker. This talk was given at Portland State University in February 2024. Read more

Jamilah Bourdon on Community Organizing, Revolution, Music and Cuddly Bunnies

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
  Our guest today is former KBOO programmer Jamilah Bourdon of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party, and so much more.  We'll be talking about revolutionary theory, principles of community organizing, and the role of animals in the struggle. We’ll be going into de... Read more