Global Affairs

Meltdown in the Arctic: Humanity Beware?

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

What happens in the Arctic has an out-sized impact on the overall global climate. And right now, it's looking very, very bad. December of last year was the warmest on record in the Arctic, and 2018 has already set a string of records for lowest levels of Arctic sea ice... Read more

GREEN JOBS & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Camilo Marquez, representing the Portland Climate Action Community Benefits Initiative, will discuss this local GREEN JOBS 2018 ballot initiative which trains and employs workers from marginalized communities to weatherize and solarize homes and businesses, funded by a surc... Read more

The End of Policing

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. Vitales book The End of Policing, is an accessible study of police history as an imperial tool for social control that continues to exacerbate class and ... Read more

KBOO News Poem: Trump Shoes

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

A gaudy threat hangs over the Washington DC of our souls--KBOO News Poet Dan Raphael is on the scene. Read more

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Today we spend the hour with historian, author and activist Gerald Horne and his new critically praised book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. Headlines on... Read more

The Global Rise of Authoritarian Parties

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Tom Pepinski on the global rise of authoritarianism. Tom Pepinski is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at Cornell University. He is a co-author of the recent article: Trumpism and American Democracy: History, Comparison, and the Pre... Read more

Trump - The Age of Mendacity: David Cay Johnston

Airs at: Tue, 02/13/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

An ultra-rich New York real estate tycoon and celebrity TV star is the 45th president of the United States. He puts America First by ignoring the world and pulling out of the Paris climate accord, undermining the Iran deal and recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. H... Read more

Richard Gage AIA, The Activist Architect

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911truth) now has nearly three thousand professional engineers and architects calling for a new investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers on 9/11. Founder of AE911Truth, Richard Gage, AIA talks ab... Read more

Cryptocurrency and Capital Controls in Greece

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Breaking Protocol: Which came first-- coin or the ledger? In either case, physical currency or a tally of debts and payments have been the two primary forms of money used throughout history. Today, physical cash is increasingly being replaced with cashless systems includ... Read more

Against the looting of Africa: Patrick Bond

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Fight the Empire

Fight the Empire's Per Fagereng welcomes Patrick Bond, professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand Wits School of Governance. His research interests include political economy, environment, social policy, and geopolitics. Bond writes in The Chan... Read more