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The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate: Ray McGovern

Airs at: Thu, 01/18/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  In a new article posted on ConsortiumNews.com Ray McGovern writes: "Russia-gate is becoming FBI-gate, thanks to the official release of unguarded text messages between loose-lipped FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and his garrulous girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lis... Read more

Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income

Airs at: Tue, 01/16/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United states, the wealth gap between rich and poor was already very wide. The top 10% of families -- those who had at least $942,000 -- held 76% of total wealth. The average amount of wealth in this group was $... Read more

Propaganda, Facts & Fake News: Julian Assange

Airs at: Tue, 01/16/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Jonathan Haewood, John Pilger & Julian Assange - Propaganda, Facts & Fake News, Part I & II We live in an era of fake news. Fabricated reports go viral on social media. Totally false stories are concocted then tweeted and retweeted. Fantastical theories and wild claims ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 15, 2018

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick will host this Martin Luther King day and we will hear: California fires, floods, mudslides, loss of life. But California will recover.  Probably not Puerto Rico and many undeveloped countries  Ballot Measure 101: What are the issues? S -- t-hole countries: ... Read more

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Path To Nonviolence

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Two women with very close ties to Martin Luther King Jr. reflect on how King developed into one of the great moral and political philosophers of the 20th century and how his philosophies might still guide the world through troubled times today. Dr. Dorothy Cotton was the... Read more

Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

Airs at: Wed, 01/10/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  The Black Panther Party was formed by community college students in Oakland California in 1966, the year after Malcolm-X was murdered in New York City. Its original name was the Black Panther Party For Self Defense. The Black Panther Party set an example by its community... Read more

Jordan, Palestine, Israel & the U.S.: Rami Barhoush

Airs at: Tue, 01/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Jordan’s borders were drawn by British imperial cartographers after WW1. It was then called Trans-Jordan and sparsely populated. Today, it has a large Palestinian population, many of them refugees from the naqba, catastrophe, of 1948 and the 1967 war. In recent years it ... Read more

Commentary: Trump Tweets

Airs at: Fri, 01/05/2018 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    Donald Trump is addicted to Twitter. Hardly a day goes by when he doesn’t use the social media tool to announce policy, attack his latest foe or pat himself on the back. And the media hangs on his every Tweet. But should we? KBOO’s Ray Bodwell has these thoughts. Read more

Court Confirms Constitutionality of Portland Fossil Fuel Zoning Rules

Airs at: Fri, 01/05/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
On January 4th, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed, in large part, a Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) decision that undermined Portland’s landmark fossil fuel terminal zoning amendments, passed unanimously by the city council in December 2016. The court ruled that Portla... Read more

Warmongering against North Korea

Airs at: Fri, 01/05/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
  This is a re-broadcast of Positvely Revolting from July 7th, 2017    Lyn and guest co-host Linda Olsen Osterlund will be talking with Christine Hong Associate Professor at USC Santa Cruz and executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, about her piece "The Long,... Read more