Global Affairs

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Covert British Military-Smear Machine Moving into US

Airs at: Thu, 01/17/2019 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Fight the Empire
from CONSORTIUMNEWS.COM: After mobilizing a disinformation campaign across Europe, documents show that the Integrity Initiative is now infiltrating the U.S., report Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames. A bombshell domestic spy scandal has been unfolding in Britain, after hacked ... Read more

Guantanamo; 17 Years and Still Open...ANDY WORTHINGTON

Airs at: Thu, 01/17/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Join guest host Linda Olson-Osterlund and Andy Worthington , journalist, film maker and author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison . Worthington is in the U.S. to join others protesting the 17th Anniversary on January 11t... Read more

The Dream of Revolution: Robin Kelley

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  In some ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered twice. First by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis and then by killing his revolutionary message. Today, King is largely remembered with special holiday sales. His vision of radical revolution muted. He posed a special t... Read more

PlayWrite: Social Transformation Through Drama

Airs at: Wed, 01/16/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for The RadioActivist
Lisa Loving and Suzanne LaGrande interview Bruce Livingston, Executive Director of PlayWrite, Coach/actor Victor Mack and playwright Jaclyn, from Mt. Scott LC High School.  PlayWrite brings professional coaches and actors together with youth to write and direct their own ch... Read more

US Interference in Central America and the Southern Border Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks to James Phillips about what the mainstream corporate media has been missing in its narrative about Central America by examining the U.S. role behind protests in Nicaragua and migrants fleeing Honduras. Phillips recently retired as Affiliate Professor ... Read more

Preventing Nuclear Apocalypse

Airs at: Tue, 01/08/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  You may know Apocalypse as a Marvel Comics supervillain. It is a word of Greek origin, meaning the catastrophic final destruction of the world. The use of nuclear weapons would be apocalyptic. It is difficult to imagine extinction. Understandably, most people would rathe... Read more

Jason Lutes - Berlin

Airs at: Thu, 01/10/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Jason Lutes is a dogged comics storyteller.  His previous graphic novel Jar of Fools was serialized for years in Seattle's Stranger newspaper before being collected in book form.  Now comes the 600-page magnum opus Berlin, a sprawling tale of urban struggle in Germany du... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 7, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole and we hear about: Dismantling the Police: Bill Resnick and Kristian Williams continue their discussion of the militarization of police and the rise of the antifas and alt right. Community Celebrates Swearing-in of JoAnn... Read more

War with Russia: From Putin and Ukraine To Trump and Russiagate

Airs at: Thu, 01/03/2019 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Fight the Empire
  Per Fagereng welcomes Professor Stephen F. Cohen to Fight the Empire to talk about his new book War with Russia: From Putin and Ukraine To Trump and Russiagate. Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United St... Read more

How Fascism Works: Jason Stanley

Airs at: Tue, 01/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
​ What is fascism? Michael Parenti, author and historian says, “Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the ... Read more