War/Peace

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The Pentagon, Hollywood, Climate Change, and An Appeal for Democracy

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Professor of Philosophy at Columbia, Phillip Kitcher, talks with host John Shuck about how if human beings hope to survive the looming climate catastrophes, we will need to talk it out, one to one, in families, neighborhoods, and social gatherings. The power of grassr... Read more

Dennis Banks & Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  Dennis Banks left on his final Journey Dennis Banks is remembered for having organized, with AIM in a coalition of 8 indigenous nations, the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties. They converged on Washington, DC, with 500 followers to protest Indian living conditions and los... Read more

Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium: Winona LaDuke

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  In her 1998 Mario Savio Free Speech lecture, "Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium," LaDuke explores the conflict between indigenous people who live on the land and urbanized industrial society - that is, cyclical versus linear ideas of the world, and their result... Read more

The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
  Sarika Mehta talks to author Alia Malek about her memoir The Home That Was Our Country...about Syria's history and contemporary politics through stories of her own family from the NYT: "Alia Malek’s memoir, “The Home That Was Our Country,” is one of the finest examp... Read more

The Broken Country

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  The Broken Country is a book-length essay on cultural trauma and the inter-generational legacies of war. In 2012, a young Vietnamese man named Kiet Thanh Ly walked into a downtown Salt Lake City megastore, purchased a knife, and began stabbing white male passersby in ... Read more

The inside story of the Saudi night of long knives

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  from Asia Times: "The House of Saud’s King Salman devises an high-powered “anti-corruption” commission and appoints his son, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, a.k.a. MBS, as chairman. Right on cue, the commission detains 11 House of Saud princes, four current minist... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 13, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Mole, and we hear-- 1. Christian Appy explains what's missing from the Ken Burns Vietnam documentary. 2. Preview of an upcoming panel about the fight for reproductive justice in Oregon. 3. Marge Piercy's poem "I Am Wrestling... Read more

"I Am Wrestling with Despair"

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Old Mole's Frann Michel reads Marge Piercy's poem "I Am Wrestling with Despair" about the malice of men, militaristic and misogynous. It appeared in the November, 2017 issue of Monthly Review. Read more

Ken Burns and Vietnam

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier talks with Christian Appy, professor of history at the Univ. Massachusetts, and author of numerous publications about the Cold War and the American war in Vietnam, including the recent American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. Appy com... Read more

The Costs of War

Airs at: Wed, 11/15/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. They use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and t... Read more