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Noam Chomsky: UTOPIA

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  In the darkest of times we have to imagine that a world of equality and environmental and social justice is possible. Are we dreamers? Not practical? Out of touch with reality? Perhaps. But throughout history it has been small groups of visionary activists who ignite the... Read more

John Waters' Christmas

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  For the holiday season, we chat with notorious filmmaker John Waters, who's bringing his annual Christmas show to Portland once again.  Waters has spent the past half-century directing such transgressive films as Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, and Serial Mom, and is also the... Read more

Robert Parry on Fight the Empire

Airs at: Thu, 12/15/2016 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  "now the defeated Democrats and some anti-Trump neoconservatives in the Republican Party are jumping up and down about how Russia supposedly tainted the election by revealing information about the Democrats and the Clinton campaign. Though there appears to be no hard ev... Read more

Hot Topics

Airs at: Fri, 12/09/2016 at 8:15pm
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
Trump begins the process of picking his cabinet and has selected Ben Carson as Secretary of HUD. Who is Steve Bannon and why are people nervous that he is Trump's Sr. Advisor? Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein demands a vote recount in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin an... Read more

The Cultural Legacy of the Black Panther Party

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Fifty years ago, the United States was in a period of tremendous social upheaval and cultural change. The Civil Rights Movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King had resulted in new federal legislation outlawing discriminatory laws, but police brutality and economic inequali... Read more

FLASHPOINTS with Dennis Bernstein

Airs at: Fri, 12/09/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on Flashpoints: Will the South Korean parliament vote to impeach their president: we'll have a special update with Flashpoints regional correspondent Kay Jay Noh: then we spend the rest of the hour hearing some free speech from activist Medea Benjamin. Read more

Robert Jensen, Plain Radical

Airs at: Mon, 12/19/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas.  He returns to Progressive Spirit to discuss his book, Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully.  He calls this book a "polemical memoir" in that it is a s... Read more

Pedal Power Fueling Standing Rock

Airs at: Wed, 12/07/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Bike Show
This Wednesday we'll be speaking with Portland activist Mike Cobb about how bikes are keeping the Standing Rock Protest powered and connected to media live from Standing Rock. Also joining will be Energy Bikes from NYC who are also on site. We'll look at why alternative pow... Read more

Flashpoints: "Fake" News Black List

Airs at: Thu, 12/01/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on Flashpoints: A new anonymous red squad to police independent journalists, points a finger at Counterpunch, Consortium News, Truth Out and dozens of other so called phony new websites. Read more

Fake News

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Fake news has been in the news a lot of late. Fake news does not imply highly biased opinion pieces but deals in absolute factual lies.  The motivations to do so range from the strictly monetary to political subterfuge. Either way, cynicism about what is true and what is no... Read more