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The Politics of PTSD

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Is PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) a useful concept  for thinking about how people deal with a society saturated in violence?   What is gained by using it to treat soldiers suffering from the results of battle mayhem?  Can it be extended  to understand women in abusi... Read more

The Yes Men Fix The World

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Host Linda Olson Osterlund speaks with one of the Yes Men. The Yes Men often pose as powerful people as a form of protest.  Their new movie “The Yes Men Fix the World” is showing at Cinema 21 this week. Read more

November 16 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 This show is hosted by Tom Becker (pictured here), and covers this variety of topics:  What has to happen to include jobs in the economic recovery (it's not happening now); a new film about Hip Hop culture spanning the distance between Portland and Sierra Leone;  how stori... Read more

Psychiatry and the Military at Fort Hood

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Reponding to the recent shootings at Fort Hood, Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Maureen Katz talks with the Old Mole's Jan Haaken about how the military uses psychiatry, and how the media portray PTSD and mental illness among  soldiers and mental health workers.   Who carri... Read more

John Perkins and Hoodwinked Live in Studio

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2009 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Author and former "economic hit man" John Perkins joins Abe and Joe for a look behind the mirror at the coporations who have made America into history's first truly global empire. Perkins examines why global financial markets collapsed, ... Read more

Dr. John Prados: How Afghanistan Compares to Vietnam

Airs at: Mon, 11/09/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Dr. John Prados, a prominent analyst at the National Security Archive and author of numerous books including the recent one, VIETNAM: THE HISTORY OF AN UNWINNABLE WAR, 1945-1975. Dr. Prados will discuss Vietnam and how it comp... Read more

Jeff Sharlet; The Christian Crusade to Convert the US Military

Airs at: Thu, 11/12/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor to harpers Magazine, joins host Lilnda Olson-Osterlund to talk about a Small but powerful movement of evangelist Christians concentrated in the Officer Corps who are committed to converting the US Military. Sharlet's May 2009 cover story fo... Read more

Liz Grover Visits Afghanistan to Bust Through Media Stereotypes

Airs at: Wed, 11/11/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Host Kayse Jama talks with local resident Liz Grover about her experiences living and working in Kabul, with the goal of busting through western media sterotypes about Afghanistan and its people.  " . . in the midst of war, I went to Afghanistan with one hundred dollars to ... Read more

Wayne Karlin and Wandering Souls: Journeys With The Dead And The Living In Viet Nam

Airs at: Wed, 11/11/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Crystal Leighty hosts this Veteran's Day Talk Radio Show with guest Wayne Karlin, author of "Wandering Souls," the story of a Vietnam veteran who returned to Vietnam to face the family of a man he killed. Read more

Wake Up and Smell The Boot Polish

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2009 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Today, Joe is by himself, and he opens the show with a reading of an article from August of 1993 that was printed in a small independent rag called PDXS.  The article was entitled "Wake Up And Smell The Boot Polish," and warned us of a pe... Read more