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Human Rights and Reform at the UN

Airs at: Wed, 03/22/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and Reform at the UN. The sixty-sixth session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs was March 13 through 17 in Vienna, Austria. At this year’s session, the voices of people from the global south, of indigenous people from all over... Read more

A Forest Journey

Airs at: Mon, 03/27/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In his 1989 book A Forest Journey, John Perlin shows how an abundance (or scarcity) of wood has greatly shaped the culture, demographics, economy, politics, and technology of societies over the millennia. Until our dependence on fossil fuels, wood was the principal fuel and... Read more

Human Rights and Decolonization

Airs at: Wed, 03/15/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and Decolonization. The Sixty-Sixth Session of the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs meets in Vienna, Austria from March 13-17 this year. We hear powerful statements on decolonization and human rights from Bolivian Vice President D... Read more

One Brilliant Flame

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joy Castro is a great writer of historical fiction. One Brilliant Flame is a story about Cuba’s fight for independence from Spain, and the role that Key West played in that struggle. With a fiercely feminist side to it, the reader is introduced to the many cigar factories i... Read more

Per Fagereng (1934-2023)

Airs at: Wed, 03/01/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Per Fagereng, host of Fight The Empire, in conversation with John Shuck, of the Beloved Community show. They discuss Per's book Jack Maloney's Century, as well as politics of the day, oil, the environment, among other topics, and they receive a few callers in the second ... Read more

Drug Checking and Safe Supply

Airs at: Wed, 03/01/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Drug Checking and Safe Supply. We hear from Professor Mal McLeod with the Australian National University’s College of Science on delivering the CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service. Plus we hear from Dylan Griffith, founder of the Kootenay ... Read more

The Black Alliance for Peace, anti-imperialism and U.S. geopolitics (with a radical Black perspective on the Ukraine war)

Airs at: Wed, 03/01/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Founded in April 2017 by a handful of African/Black organizations in the United States, with Ajamu Baraka at its helm, the Black Alliance for Peace is attempting to re-develop the Black Radical Tradition's anti-imperialist position. The goal is to help build the African/... Read more

Mainstream culture can't show you proper cosmology

Airs at: Fri, 02/24/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
  Join Ender Black as we go down the rabbit hole of proper cosmology. Yes, proper cosmology.      cosmology [noun] cos·​mol·​o·​gy |   käz-ˈmä-lə-jē  plural: cosmologies a): a branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of the universe b): a theory or doctrine d... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 27, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Gun Control Remains Elusive: Calls for legislative action in response to the endless waves of mass shootings in the US tend to target access to weapons for mentally disturbed people ... Read more

Zapatistas

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
We haven’t heard much about the EZLN of southern Mexico recently, but they’ve been active. In this episode of Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond updates us and reminds us of their unique mode of struggle. Norm is joined by two distinguished actors to present dramatic r... Read more