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Long Live the Czar

Airs at: Sun, 04/16/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week we take a look at the likely next Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (the "Drug Czar"), US Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA). Read more

Group Opposing Lincoln County Spray Ban Gets Help from Dow Chemical

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A ballot measure in Lincoln County would ban the aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides. The last few years have seen a number of local and statewide agriculture reform measures face overwhelming industry opposition--for example the 2014 GMO bans in Jackson and Josep... Read more

Trump's Syria Missile Strike: Symbolic Show of Force or Prelude to Wider U.S. War?

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  "Let's not forget that serious questions were happening in the media as well as serious congressional oversight and investigation in the possibility of the Trump campaign being in cahoots with Russia." On April 6, President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to a... Read more

Getting to the root, cutting the weeds... and continuing to grow.

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
The inundation of increasingly compact technology is said to 'free us up' from being tied to one place, enabling us to create larger (global) communities, based on our interests and ideologies.  What we have seen though, is that this has led to the marketing and perpetuatio... Read more

Trauma Informed Equity Work: Healing through Reconnection

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  from Training for Transformation: "The polarization of law enforcement and community members deepens as our nation continues  to erupt into national protests and states of emergency in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, South Carolina, Florida and Chicago after a... Read more

William Pepper on the Assassination of MLK

Airs at: Wed, 04/12/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  With the 49th anniversary of the MLK assassination recently past, Mickey Huff and guest co-host Kenn Burrows welcome attorney and author William Pepper to the program. Pepper discusses his latest book, "The Plot to Kill King," much of it based on evidence unavailable at ... Read more

The Fight for Free Speech on Campus: Geoffrey Stone

Airs at: Tue, 04/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The political landscape is increasingly intolerant of opposing views. Campuses are sometimes a battleground. Author Charles Murray was shouted down and prevented from speaking at Middlebury. Condoleezza Rice declined to speak at Rutgers because of protests. Ex-Breitbart ... Read more

Court Case Tackles Infiltration of Activists in WA

Airs at: Thu, 04/06/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In the case of Panagacos v Towery, US Army Force Protection Division employees at Fort Lewis in Washington State have appealed a state order. The order denies motions to dismiss 1st and 4th Amendment claims brought against them by Olympia-area activists. The activists say ... Read more

Non-Violent Protest Under Attack

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome Alycee Lane from The Article 20 Network to KBOO.   Alycee is an Oakland, California-based writer and author of Coming in From the Cold, a blog exploring political issues through the prism of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence. ... Read more

Beyond TrumpCare to Medicare for All

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator of Labor for Single Payer Health Care. Dudzic contends that the states are creating models for Medicare for All, that could provide every U.S. resident with higher quality care at less cost and with better outcomes t... Read more