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Inauguration Protests - Portland and across the country

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Special extended news program focusing on the protests taking place against the Inauguration of Donald Trump. 5pm: Special Headlines 5:15pm: Bread and Roses Presidential Protest Narrative 5:25pm: Miriam Widman in D.C. reporting 5:45pm: Love and Resist- Corvallis 6:00pm: ... Read more

Inauguration Day Special Coverage

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
  VOICES OF A NATION: A CALL TO ACTION: Reports from protests, rallies, walk-outs across the country and around the world, including: Austin, Chicago, Denver, Lansing, London, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco and the local communities of Pacifica affiliates around the coun... Read more

Drop the Military Industrial Complex

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Marvin and Angie discuss US militarism around the world, and how the next 4 years may affect the lives of veterans and their family members.  Veteran's Voice Radio Show with Northwest Veterans for Peace deals with matters of war and peace. They deal with veterans health ... Read more

INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT: Matt Taibbi on Presswatch

Airs at: Thu, 01/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
  “Trained for decades to be little more than good consumers, we had become a nation of reality shoppers, mixing and matching news items to fit our own self-created identities. We rejoiced in the idea that reality was not an absolute but a choice.” —Matt Taibbi, from INSAN... Read more

Hunger Myths, Meat Addiction, Vodka for Women

Airs at: Wed, 01/18/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
  On this episode we'll hear from Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet and, most recently, World Hunger: 10 Myths, an update to the classic originally written in 1986. She gets to the root causes of hunger around the world, debunking common myths that kee... Read more

Brian Covert on the Press and the CIA

Airs at: Wed, 01/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Peter and Mickey spend the hour with journalist and media scholar Brian Covert, discussing the too-close relationship between the CIA and U.S. media, as well as other issues, including the Obama Administration "pivot" toward Asia.  Brian Covert is an independent journal... Read more

Trump, the CIA & Russia

Airs at: Thu, 01/19/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per Fagereng takes your calls to discuss the reported connections between the President Elect and Russia via a leaked intelligence dossier.  The US media, in lock-step, has been ramping up the rhetoric of Russian hacking.  Per discusses the dangers of pushing the two nat... Read more

Reheating the Cold War: Stephen Cohen

Airs at: Tue, 01/17/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Stephen Cohen, regarded as one of the foremost experts on Russia, is professor emeritus of Russian studies, history, and politics at NYU and Princeton. He is a Nation contributing editor and author of many books including Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinis... Read more

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AND THE GRASSROOTS CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2017 at 8:00am - 8:30am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th 1963, Martin Luther King Jr delivered one of the most famous speeches of all time. But it nearly didnt happen. On this special edition of Making Contact for MLK Day, Gary Younge, author of The Speech talks about Martin L... Read more

Edward Snowden - The Graphic Biography

Airs at: Thu, 01/12/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this encore episode from October 2015, political cartoonist and international troublemaker Ted Rall returns to the KBOO studios with his graphic biography of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  Drawing from Ted's conversations with Snowden's own ACLU attorney as well a... Read more