Global Affairs

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O Heavenly Grid: The Burning Question

Airs at: Thu, 12/01/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  Our opening prayer O Heaveny Grid is from the Firesign Theatre - dedicated to the late and deceased COP27 climate conference held in Egypt this month. Katrin Ganswindt from the German enviromental group Urgewald reports oil, gas, and coal companies have announced expansi... Read more

Your Inner Tree

Airs at: Wed, 11/30/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  Declining biodiversity is a problem as fraught as climate change. Loss of habitat, monoculture crops, and the damming of waterways all lead to massive species extinction. They tear at life's delicate web, and threaten a balance established by four billion years of evolut... Read more

Society of the Sports Spectacle, with Jules Boykoff

Airs at: Wed, 11/30/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    With the global mega-event, football (aka soccer)'s World Cup, in full swing, we take the opportunity to have as today's guest, Jules Boycoff, local author who has written widely on the business and politics of sport. A one-time member of the U.S. men's under-23 natio... Read more

The End of the World as We Know It

Airs at: Wed, 11/23/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Different generations have very different perspectives on how the world looks and feels. A global climate crisis, dysfunctional government and media, too many choices, changing perspectives on race, religion and sexuality. Is it the end of the world as we know it, or has... Read more

Climate Change in an Island Nation / Climate Talk vs. Climate Action

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Project Censored
  Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week's program. While the COP27 climate conference was underway, she spoke with Khadeeja Naseem, a cabinet minister from the Maldive Islands; the Maldives are one of the countries most endangered by sea-level rise. Their conversation included... Read more

How To Handle COP27: Despair, Panic & Cunning

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  The investor class is not just callous and probably criminal. They seem to have no idea what Justice means. The nations and tribal people of the global south, struggling with drought, floods, fires, mudslides, sea-rise, aka Climate Chaos... are in Egypt calling out to t... Read more

War and Pestilence

Airs at: Wed, 11/23/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Pestilence and War. Professor Jennifer J. Carroll, PhD, MPH, a medical anthropologist, research scientist, and subject matter expert on substance use and public health, speaks about the Global Impacts of War and Covid-19. Read more

COP27 in a Police State

Airs at: Thu, 11/17/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Code Pink Radio
  The COP27 UN Climate Meeting is happening in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, now: November 6 to November 18, 2022. A climate summit is more urgent than ever. So, why are activists across the world protesting it? Join CODEPINK radio and special guests, including Sharif Abdel Kou... Read more

Why Is the Arctic Suddenly Burning?

Airs at: Thu, 11/17/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  Guest Dr. David Gaveau on newly seen Arctic feedback. Alex rants on COP27 Climate Conference. Al Gore's COP27 opening remarks: we are failing - and no one believes we will do anything to stop emissions.    11-11-2022     Read more

A Forest Lets Out the Liberators in Jails

Airs at: Wed, 11/16/2022 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  Brittney Griner and Alaa Abd el-Fattah speak to us in this Earth Riot, and two women from New Zealand follow up: India and Leila. My attempt to translate the Earth's language is guided by these special teachers. First, I try to leap over Trump's wall, where I have been t... Read more