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PROGRAM Tom Greco
Observers believe
that this single measure has the potential of bringing together tens of
millions of people who have realized that our bank-run debt-based
monetary system lies at the center of the financial crisis. The
question is of course - how are these tens of millions going to find
out that there is such legislation being developed? For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part ONE of this program click HERE For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part TWO of this program click HERE Code A33iCD To order a 58 minute CD click here $10.00 code A331DVD: To order a film on DVD click here: $16.00
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Peter Dale Scott, author
of “Drugs Oil, and War” and “Cocaine Politics:
Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America” is one of the most
respected researchers on the use of drugs in the strategies of the CIA
and in US foreign policy. <http://www.peterdalescott.net/>
He says that the
unprecedented increase in
Afghani opium production in the last 5 years could never have happened
without outside support. While Afghanistan is
being ravaged by heroin and many farmers are
forced to grow for very little profit the real gains of drug production
are made by large political players and on the international market.
Even though Afghanistan now supplies over 90% of the world’s heroin,
the Afghan portion of the global heroin network, in dollar terms, is
financially minute compared to what is earned elsewhere. According to
the UN, the ultimate value in world markets in 2007 of Afghanistan’s $4
billion opium crop was about $110 billion. For a broadcast quality mp3 version
of Part ONE of this program click HERE
Peter Dale Scott
David Korten
THE CERES
COMMUNITY PROJECT ITHACA COMMUNITY MONEY A history of the ITHACA HOURS community currency During the Great Depression when banks were closed so they could be audited - over 400 currencies called SCRIPT were used in the US to buy food and services. When the banks reopened, sometimes several months later, SCRIPT was replaced with the federal currency. Since the beginning of the financial crisis a resurgence of interest in alternative money systems has led to many new initiatives. A new website in the US called mainstreetcash.org is giving an overview over a huge number of community currencies and computer based trading systems with space for comment and discussion. Featured on that web site are the Ithaca Hours, the oldest printed paper currency in the US. Founded in 1991 by Paul Glover it has been in continuous use, it's popularity rising and diminishing with fluctuations in the overall economy. Each paper bill is a small piece of art and a commentary on the federal currency. At the top it says: IN ITHACA WE TRUST. - rather than In God We Trust. The currency is issued for the town of Ithaca and the surrounding farms - which means that the money will benefit local exchanges and local jobs and can never go away as it does when we take dollars to WalMart. I'm inviting you to re-visit with me one of the most important journeys I have taken as radio reporter, my 1995 visit to Ithaca. Paul Glover, who founded Ithaca Hours in 1991 is still doing community currency work. I spoke to him in March of 2009 to update the information in this program. His web site is http://www.paulglover.org For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part ONE click HERE For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part TWO click HERE Code C405CDCD To order a 58 minute CD click here: $10.00
Marilyn Waring Paul Grignon
For a broadcast quality mp3 version
of
Part ONE click HERE Peter Dale Scott This is also the only
recording of a very unusual event. The
San
Francisco Republican Round Table crossed party lines and invited Peter
Dale Scott. Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor of
Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest books
are: The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America,
published in 2007 by the University of California Press, and The War
Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War, published in 2008
by the Mary Ferrell Foundation Press. His website is
<http://www.peterdalescott.net>
James
Hansen, NASA: Tell President Obama About Coal River Mountain
WAR ON GAZA An
interview with journalist Jeffrey Blankfort On
January 29, 2009, Jeffrey Blankfort interviewed Prof. John Mearsheimer
on his radio program on KZYX, Takes
on the World. HERE is the 39
minute unedited interview. Edward Said: PALESTINE AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS This is a special tribute on the anniversary of the death of Edward Said who died on September 25, 2003. Friends say that he knew that his life was coming to an end when he gave this legacy address on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Said was born in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish State. By 1950 his extended family had all fled Jerusalem for Cairo. Like hundreds of thousands of Palestinians they were displaced by the Jewish state that had been established two years earlier. PART ONE - 29 min. PART TWO - 29 min. code A227CD: To order a CD click here: $10.00 Norman Finkelstein BEYOND CHUTZPAH “Beyond Chutzpah is the most comprehensive and well documented work of its kind. Rational and unemotional, it is one of the harshest texts about the daily practices of Israel's occupation and colonization of the Palestinian territories.” Baruch Kimmerling, professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. PART ONE - 29 min. PART TWO - 29 min. Code A277CD To order a one hour CD click here: $10.00 Ilan Pappe |
Paul Grignon
MONEY AS DEBT
An independent movie on the question "Where does money come from?"
already has had a huge two year success with well over 2 million
viewers on the internet. Now it is seeing another surge of interest
because it also explains some of the underpinnings of the current
financial crisis.
Money as Debt by the Canadian Paul Grignon makes the case that only a
small part of our money is created by the government mint that prints
or coins it. The vast majority of money is created by banks whenever a
loan or mortgage is made. Banks, which are private institutions, are
given enormous power to make and manage money and it is well worth
today, in light of the crash of so many banks, to look at the monetary
system.
The web site of the film is: http://www.moneyasdebt.net
Thanks to Paul Grignon for making his film available.
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Annie Machon
BEYOND THE WAR ON TERROR
When Annie Machon studied classics at Cambridge University she was recruited by MI5, the British equivalent of the FBI. Machon spent 6 years as an operative against so-called political subversives.
While working for MI5 she and her then partner and colleague David Shayler discovered illegalities and outright crimes committed by their colleagues - both in MI5 and MI6, the British equivalent to the CIA. They ranged from illegal surveillance of labor politicians, and illegal phone tabs, to direct funding of Al Qaeda and false flag operations.
In the mid nineties, when Shayler was the head of the Lybian section at MI5 he worked with the corresponding section in MI6. He learned about their plot to assassinate Colonel Muammar Qaddafi. The plot was funded by MI6 and carried out. Several people were killed, most of them local residents who simply watched the convoy go by. Qaddafi was not hurt.
The assassination plot was the turning point for Machon and Shayler. They resigned from the agency and became whistle blowers. They hoped to initiate a parliamentary investigation into MI5 and MI6 to shed light on the increasing power of spy agencies and the growing immunity of what they call the Secret State. They say that after 9/11 the power of the Secret Sate is being enlarged everywhere and even a change in administration does not appear to roll back that power - not just in Britain, but apparently in the US as well.
While Shayler and Machon were fighting to reign in the MI5 and MI6 they encountered another, even larger complex of lies and secrets. The false information that led to Britain joining the war on Iraq. They joined the peace movement in hopes to alert others to learn from their example and mistrust the information on weapons of mass destruction coming out of the US CIA. Machon explains why she joined the 9/11 truth movement and how many vibrant groups in Europe and Russia are now campaigning for an independent - potentially international - new investigation of the events of 9/11.
Annie Machon was recorded on September 22, 2008 at the College of Marin in Kentfield, CA, by Ken Jenkins and Hummux.
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Peter Dale Scott
SAVING AMERICAN POLITICS FROM THE PRESENT TWO-PARTY SYSTEM
The disparity of income and wealth in this
country was increased by the
first round of bank bail-outs. On Jan. 27, 2009, in front of an
audience of Republicans, Scott explained in great detail the necessity
to construct future bail-outs to diminish that gap for the sake of
democracy. This is a lucid analysis and a well researched guideline for
all who want to influence future financial policies.
This is also the only recording of a very unusual event. The San
Francisco Republican Round Table crossed party lines and invited Peter
Dale Scott. Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor of
Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest books
are: The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America,
published in 2007 by the University of California Press, and The War
Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War, published in 2008
by the Mary Ferrell Foundation Press. His website is
<http://www.peterdalescott.net>
The Republican Round Table meets in a SF hotel. About 60 members, some
with recognizable names, came to hear him. The only media in attendance
were TUC Radio and, as guest, the former Ramparts editor Warren Hinkle
accompanied by his basset hound.
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Fred Morse
SUN ENGINES AND CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER (CSP)
A brief history of a
carbon free technology that
could produce enough electricity to replace coal. CSP was pioneered by
US engineers in the late 19th century and lost out to oil and
coal.
President Nixon asked Fred Morse whether solar energy made sense for
America. His answer was "definitely yes". Fred Morse went on to manage
solar energy in the Department of Energy for Presidents Carter and
Reagan until 1989 when the programs were dismantled. Today Morse is the
senior advisor for US operations for the Spanish firm Abengoa. They
operate in over 70 countries and specialize in solar and bio-energy.
Abengoa is trying to build the world's largest CSP plant near Phoenix,
AZ. Coal and nuclear are lobbying hard to retain the lion's share of
loan guarantees in the new stimulus package. (
The interview with Morse was recorded on 2008-08-26 in San Francisco/
Washington DC by phone.)
NOTES:
Our foremost climatologist, NASA's James Hansen, has demonstrated that
our only hope of getting our atmosphere back to a safe level - below
350 parts per million CO2 - lies in stopping the use of coal to
generate electricity.
Hansen points out that policy devices such as emissions reduction
targets and cap-and-trade schemes simply will not work because there is
already too much CO2 in the air. Much of the carbon dioxide given off
by Robert Stephenson’s “Rocket” locomotive in 1829 is still in the
atmosphere. Around 20% will still be present in thousands of years. If
carbon dioxide continues to be released, even at the reduced rates now
proposed, the amounts that remain will continue to build up. With
present-day levels already posing real dangers, today’s policies of
emissions reduction and carbon trading represent merely a slightly
slower road to climate apocalypse. The lesson, Hansen argues, is that
the bulk of the Earth’s remaining fossil fuels must be left untouched.
Thanks to Ken Butti and John Perlin whose book: A Golden Thread
describes 2500 years of solar architecture and technology. Also to my
friend Alex C. who first made me aware of CSP - a technology that has
been made to lose out against oil and coal for decades - and that now
needs it's day in the sun.
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Arjun Makhjijani and David Freeman
IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING BACK?
- and do we need a police state to live with it?
Pres. Obama's energy
secretary, Steven Chu, says he will streamline loan guarantees to build
nuclear and coal fired power plants. This puts nuclear power on the
watch list for the Obama administration.
This program features one of the great orators and elders of the anti
nuclear movement. David Freeman shut down 8 of their 14 reactors while
heading the Tennessee Valley Authority under Pres. Carter. He calls
nuclear a failed technology and says that, in the age of terrorism, we
need a police state to guard those Trojan horses.
Preceding Freeman's comment you will hear from Dr. Arjun Makhijani. He
holds a degree in engineering from the University of California,
Berkeley, where he worked on plasma physics and controlled nuclear
fusion. He is the principal editor and co-author of NUCLEAR WASTELANDS,
the first global assessment of the effects of nuclear weapons
production. He addresses the issues of nuclear proliferation and why
nuclear technologies have spread in spite of the efforts, begun in the
early 1960s to dismantle the existing weapons stockpiles.
Both speakers were attending a November 2005 conference organized by
Dr. Helen Caldicott to deter the Bush administration from building new
nuclear power plants. This is an updated version as a reminder to the
current administration.
This program contains a chilling quote from Sen. Obama indicating that
he is aware of the problems associated with nuclear power. (Source: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxl2cVFTLw>
"I don't think there is anything that we inevitably dislike about
nuclear power - we just dislike the fact that it might blow up and
irradiate us and kill us."
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ON ISRAEL'S WAR ON GAZA
I am interrupting my mini-series
against nuclear power to present this one hour history of Gaza and
analysis of the refusal of the US political elites to bring an end to
the war. Traditionally
any program critical of Israel has caused my program, on some
stations, to be
taken off the air or moved to a bad night-time slot. Please resist
pressure from those who refuse an open debate on Israel and watch for
TUC Radio and let me know if it disappears.
An interview with journalist Jeffrey Blankfort
ISRAEL'S WAR ON GAZA
On January 8 and 9, 2009 the US Senate and House passed resolutions
overwhelmingly supporting Israel’s offensive in Gaza. This in the face
of growing condemnation of the war on Gaza from another overwhelming
majority in the United Nations General Assembly, and in the face of
popular outcry not just in Muslim countries but in major cities
throughout Europe as well as in the US and Canada.
There is a general consensus that the US is the only country that can
bring about a cease fire - given the fact that it is Israel's strongest
ally and financier. Yet the governing bodies and political elites in
the US remain near unanimous in their support for Israel's actions even
though they are increasingly isolated in world opinion.
This interview covers four topics: the elections that led to the
victory of Hamas in Gaza, the question of who broke the cease fire, and
the so called coup by Hamas which was instead a failed coup against
Hamas by US trained Fatah fighters. (See: Vanity
Fair) Part two of the interview is
dedicated to the most critical issue, the power of the Israel Lobby,
its influence in taking the US into the war on Iraq and maintaining
support for Israel in Senate and House.
Jeffrey Blankfort is a journalist, former editor of the Middle East
Labor Bulletin, and host of "Takes on the World", a twice monthly radio
program on foreign affairs on KZYX radio in Northern California. He has
reported from Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel since 1970.
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Nuclear
waste and routine releases from nuclear reactors
IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING BACK?
When the anti nuclear campaigner
Dr. Helen Caldicott called on leading
scientists and policy makers to debunk the claims that nuclear power
plants needed to be built to halt climate change, she was aiming at the
Bush administration. It now appears that plans to bring back nuclear
power are bipartisan and not restricted to the US either. So it is time
to revisit the arguments and remember the passionate campaigns of the
60s and 70s that stopped the building of new nuclear power plants in
the US and even raised hopes for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The first speaker, Rep. Ed Markey,
Mass, said that the 1979 accident at
Three Mile Island was the beginning of the end of nuclear power in the
US. Within a year Markey, Helen Caldicott and others introduced the
nuclear freeze resolution into the House of Representatives. Sen.
Kennedy introduced it into the Senate. They made the linkage between
nuclear weapons, nuclear power and nuclear proliferation, a linkage
that still exists today.
Proponents of nuclear power claim
that nuclear plants are emission
free. That is not true. All nuclear power plants release radioactive
substances into air and water during their day to day operations. Kay
Drey is a member of the board of directors of Beyond Nuclear. She
has worked for 30 years to protect the public, workers and the
environment from the hazards of nuclear power and radioactive waste. In
1996 she chaired a statewide campaign in Missouri, her home state, that
led to the cancellation of a nuclear reactor then under construction.
She also led the successful campaign against the construction of a
permanent disposal bunker at the St. Louis Airport for uranium and
thorium wastes generated during the production of atomic weapons in the
1940s and ‘50s.
Kay Drey and Ed Markey spoke at a
two day conference in November 2005
called by the internationally known anti nuclear campaigner Helen
Caldicott to deter the Bush administration from funding new nuclear
power plants. I am bringing back the highlight of that November 2005
conference since nuclear power projects are still part of the energy
mix.
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Please go to the original two
hour series with these and other
speakers for more facts and analysis of what is euphemistically called
the "nuclear renaissance".
IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING
BACK?
A four-part mini-series based on a
briefing, on November 7 and 8, 2005, organized by Dr. Helen Caldicott.
Harold Pinter died in London on December 24, 2008. This is a re-mastered, carefully edited version of the original 46 minute speech.
Pinter was too ill to travel to Stockholm to accept the Nobel Prize. This is a 2005 studio recording of a powerful voice, struggling to be heard.
The video was played at the ceremony and distributed world-wide via the internet and other independent media.
Not even the BBC dared play it during daytime.
Harold Pinter
ART, TRUTH & POLITICS
When Harold Pinter won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, he used his acceptance speech on December 7 to launch a blistering attack on George Bush and the British government, and a challenge to the conscience of people to not stand by in the face of Bush's crimes.
Harold Pinter was born in October 1930 in East London. He was a playwright, director, actor, poet and political activist. He has written twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, and twenty-one screenplays including The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Handmaid's Tale, a chilling expose of what life would be like for women under a Christian fascist regime in America.
Pinter's interest in politics was a very public one. His biographer Michael Billington said: "Pinter remains, to his credit, a permanent public nuisance, a questioner of accepted truths, both in life and art." Pinter was an outspoken endorser of the call The World Can't Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime.
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture.html
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HELEN CALDICOTT
Nuclear Power is not the Answer
Grand Round
lecture by the Australian
pediatrician, anti nuclear
campaigner, and Nobel Prize nominee Dr. Helen Caldicott at Oakland
Children's Hospital, CA. This is a personal and passionate appeal to
doctors to inform the public and politicians about the proven effects
of radiation that the medical profession has studied and treated for so
long.
Helen Caldicott covers radiation
dangers from each stage of the nuclear
fuel chain, from uranium mining, depleted uranium, to the fissioning of
the fuel rods inside the nuclear reactor. She talks about Alpha and
Gamma rays, isotopes, half lives and which parts of the human body are
affected by various forms of radiation.
This is a response to the
international effort to bring back nuclear
power under the guise of holding off climate change. Helen Caldicott
explains that nuclear power is not emission free, it is dangerous in
all it's phases, and expensive. Unlike renewable wind and solar energy
nuclear power will not come on line fast enough to make a difference, a
difference that is needed now, not in 15 years.
For over 35 years Helen Caldicott
has led the international efforts to
educate the public about the dangers of nuclear power and weapons and
has been named one of the most influential women of the 20th century by
the Smithsonian Institute. She has written numerous books, among them
Nuclear Power is not the Answer (2006)and War in Heaven: The Arms Race
in Outer Space (2007) Helen Caldicott has begun producing a free,
weekly one hour radio program entitled: If You Love This Planet. Her
site is <http://www.ifyoulovethisplanet.org>
In September 2008 Helen
Caldicott did a phone interview with her
friend and colleague, Dr. Kate Hudson, chair of the CND, the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament. The CND, active since 1958, is making a
renewed and very well received effort to remove nuclear weapons from
Britain and to stop the recent plans to build new nuclear power plants.
Kate Hudson is a long time peace activist and the chair of the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament in England. She is also Head of Social and
Policy Studies at London South Bank University and edits the journal
Contemporary Politics. She has written several books including:
CND -
Now More Than Ever: The Story of a Peace Movement
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ROBERT FISK
The Age of the Warrior
Fisk is Britain’s most celebrated
foreign correspondent and has been
named International Journalist of the Year seven times. He is currently
the Middle East correspondent for The Independent of London and has
covered eleven major wars in over three decades. He lives in Beirut and
was one of only two journalists who had the courage to remain there
through the duration of the Lebanese civil war. I filmed him at his
most recent, rare, visit to the US as he spoke in front of a capacity
audience in Berkeley, CA. He was greeted with a standing ovation.
Anybody writing on current events
or making policy decisions for the
Middle East needs to take Fisk's analysis into account. Fisk argues for
an immediate troop withdrawal, both from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Age of the Warrior, his most
recent book, is a collection of essays
from his paper, The Independent. Robert Fisk's previous books include
Pity the Nation and The Great War for Civilization. He spoke at a
benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance in Berkeley, CA, on
September 25, 2008. Fisk is a captivating speaker who supports his
arguments with reports from war zones where few dare to tread and a
wealth of historic examples.
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Part TWO click HERE
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Contrary Notions
City Light books in San Francisco's North Beach was filled to capacity for the book party of Michael Parenti's most recent work: Contrary Notions. This is a rich selection from the writings of a life time on history, empire, wealth, class power, ideology and much more. Parenti goes where few political analysts dare to go and - with acerbic wit - makes transparent how he arrives at his conclusions. This excerpt of his 45 minute talk addresses taboo subjects such as the murder of the town of New Orleans and 9/11.
This is a highly professional recording by Brightpath Video of Parenti in an intimate book store setting on January 22, 2008.
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MICHAEL PARENTI
The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State
When Oliver Stone’s movie JFK opened in
December
1991 a huge PR campaign was mobilized against the film. Even
progressives spoke out. Noam Chomsky wrote in support of the Warren
Commission's findings – in contrast Michael Parenti gave one of his
highly acclaimed talks criticizing the lone assassin theory. The bitter
questions that haunted defenders and critics alike was whether
government agencies of a democratic country would do such a thing as
assassinate an elected President.
In this talk Michael Parenti turns to that question first – he
examines, in part one, what he calls “the gangster nature of the
state.” In part two he goes over details of the assassination and
critiques The Nation, The Progressive, Chomsky and Cockburn. He spoke
in Berkeley, CA, on the 30th anniversary of the JFK assassination.
This is one of many "standing ovations" talks by Parenti. The master
for this program was lost and this appears to be the only copy of the
original recording.
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Michael Parenti
DIVERSITY
AND ORTHODOXY IN THE NEWS MEDIA
This August
28, 2008 analysis of the media is Parenti's most up-to-date
contribution. He gave the keynote speech for the Modern Media
Censorship lectures by Project Censored. Each year Project Censored <http://www.projectcensored.org/>
gives awards
for the most censored news stories of the year. Parenti lists important
criteria by which to judge media bias, ranging from ownership to
labeling, false objectivity and sensationalism, omission, outright lies
and the denial of causality with the famous theory of "stuff happens".
Michael Parenti has written an lectured on the mainstream media for
decades. His key book on the topic is "Inventing Reality - The politics
of the News Media."
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Michael Parenti
CAPITALISM'S APOCALYPSE
Why the rich can't save anybody - not even themselves
Parenti predicted the financial
crisis and said that giant corporate
capitalism - by it's very nature - is an apocalyptic system. When
unregulated the built in elements of ever increased growth may well
bring the whole system down. And he described the growing national debt
not as a tragic mistake but as a means to shift ever more money from
the tax payers to the financial institutions in the form of interest
payments. This speech is an analysis of the many structural flaws of a
capitalist system that puts it on a permanent collision course with
democracy.
Recorded on August 23, 2008 at the
closing reception for Maria
Gilardin's ART SHOW.
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SPECIAL
Alexander Cockburn
On the financial crisis and the 2008
elections
I recorded the political journalist, editor of CounterPunch, long time
observer of the American political scene, writer for the Nation and
author of many books in the Northern California coastal town of Fort
Bragg. Cockburn had come down from Petrolia in Humboldt County to give
a pithy, provocative assessment of the presidential candidates. There
is not enough time to place this speech into radio distribution before
the November 4 deadline - but i want to do my best to get his opinions
on the financial crisis and the candidates McCain and Obama to the
widest possible audience via the internet and this web site. Here are
three sound files:
On the FINANCIAL CRISIS (4:30)
On McCAIN (3:47)
On OBAMA (9:18)
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Michael Parenti: CONSPIRACY &
CLASS POWER
One of Parenti's most influential archival speeches
This is an in-depth analysis of the modern state
and the exercise of power behind the scenes. The speech is also an
important historic document. Given in 1993 it issues a warning of the
use of deception to justify going to war. The speech also explains the
expansion of the deregulated free market that would lead to a financial
crisis as we see it today.
The speech on Conspiracy and Class Power was lost for several years and
only recently discovered in the collection of a listener in
Seattle.
Michael Parenti spoke before an overflow audience in Berkeley, CA
Michael Parenti is an internationally known author and lecturer. He
received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 1962 and is one of
the nation's leading progressive political thinkers. His highly
informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range
of audiences in North America and abroad.
His books include Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, The
Assassination of Julius Caesar, History as Mystery, and Contrary
Notions.
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NOTE: THIS IS THE LAST OF TUC Radio's BEST OF SUMMER PROGRAMS.
AMAZINGLY TIMELY AND HOPEFUL - GIVEN THE RECENT ECONOMIC NEWS.
Bill McKibben on DEEP ECONOMY
A talk and conversation with Michael Pollan
Bill McKibben’s book: ‘The End of Nature’ is
regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change.
Published in 1989, it has been printed in more than 20 languages.
He has since written on localization, alternative energy, and the risks
associated with human genetic engineering. In his most recent book:
‘Deep Economy: The
Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future’ he envisions a transition
to local-scale enterprise.
McKibben and his family live in Vermont. He is a scholar in residence
at Middlebury College where he launched the campaign: stepitup2007,
demanding that global warming pollution be cut 80 percent by 2050.
McKibben spoke in Berkeley in March 2007. The church was
filled to capacity with an enthusiastic crowd. He was joined
on stage by a colleague and fellow author, Michael Pollan, author of
“The Omnivore's Dilemma”, and “Botany of
Desire”.
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Dr. Lonnie Thompson
ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE AND OUR FUTURE
Dr. Thompson issues a warning that the
mountain glaciers he knows and loves are melting ever more dramatically
just within the year of 2007. He is the leading expert on glaciers with
30 years of on location research.
Dr. Lonnie Thompson saw one of the first
ice cores that was recovered from a glacier when he was in graduate
school. He was fascinated by the amount of data on earth history, past
climate and world changing events that can be
read from these ice cores and made the exploration of ice his life's
work. He now teaches in the Department of Geological Sciences and is
Senior Research Scientists at the Byrd Polar Center at Ohio State
University.
In three decades he has explored most of the mountain glaciers of this
world, has learned their history going back tens of thousands of years
via the ice cores he and his team drilled at altitudes that no
helicopter can reach. He came to San Francisco in early December 2007
to issue this warning.
Thompson was the honored speaker at the December 2007 meeting of the
American Geophysical Union. The hotel where Dr. Thompson spoke recorded
the event for the AGU. This is the only other
audio or visual record of this amazing talk.
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Edward Said:
PALESTINE AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
This is a special tribute on the anniversary of
the death of Edward Said who died
on September 25, 2003. Friends say that he knew that
his life was coming to an end when he gave this legacy address on the
eve of the invasion of Iraq.
Professor Said was known as both a scholar
of
modern literature and an expert on Middle Eastern politics. Educated at
Princeton and Harvard he taught at Columbia. His books, which
have been translated into 36 languages, include: Covering Islam, and
The Politics of
Dispossession. He was born in Palestine before the founding of the
Jewish State. By 1950 his extended family had all fled Jerusalem for
Cairo. Like hundreds of thousands of Palestinians they were displaced
by the Jewish state that had been established two years earlier.
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Richard Grossman
WHEN INJUSTICE IS LEGAL
WHAT DO THE ABOLITIONISTS
TEACH US ABOUT CHALLENGING CORPORATE RULE
Grossman describes how corporations usurped
many of the rights that are properly due to human beings and have
become the dominant institutions or our time – and how that dominance
needs to be challenged in the constitutional arena.
He proposes how to bring about the changes in self-governance, be it
energy, agriculture, transportation, peace or environmental protection
by directly challenging the law.
Richard Grossman is co-founder of CELDF, the Community Legal Defense
Fund. CELDF was formed to provide free and affordable legal services to
community-based groups and local governments working to protect their
quality of life and the natural environment. They help mount campaigns
that challenge the legal clout of corporations to overrule decisions
made by citizens for their communities and for a sustainable future.
<http://www.celdf.org/>
He spoke at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, in November 2006.
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Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy
Alex Carey said that the people of the
US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long
propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining
democracy and destroying the unions. The
20th century, he wrote, is marked by three historic developments: the
growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of
corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from
democracy. Carey’s unique view of US history goes back to World War I
and ends with the Reagan era.
Noam Chomsky dedicated his book “Manufacturing
Consent” to the memory of Alex Carey. Chomsky says that the Australian
sociologist would have written the definitive history of propaganda in
the US, had he lived to complete his work. This is a fairly complex
production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material.
The program has been used by writers and students of history and
propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk
out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the
University of Illinois Press in 1995.
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John Nichols
THE IMPEACHMENT OF BUSH AND
CHENEY
This is a repeat of Nichols' popular November
2006 talk, a contribution to the renewed debate on impeachment.
The acclaimed author, Washington correspondent
for the Nation, and media critic John Nichols wrote a book entitled: The
Genius of Impeachment. The
author Studs Terkel said about this book: "Never within my
memory has the case for impeachment of Bush and his equally crooked
confederates been so clearly and fervently offered as John Nichols has
done in this book. They are after all our public SERVANTS who have
rifled our savings, bled our young, and challenged our sanity. And
Nichols has given us the history, the language and the arguments we
will need to do so."
John Nichols had come to San Francisco
just before the November 2006 election to urge the group of friends who
had gathered to meet him that the real political work was to begin on
the day after the election. And that work would be – he suggested - to
bring about the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
Recorded by Maria Gilardin in San Francisco, November 1, 2006.
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SPECIAL - given the
continued threats of attacks on IRAN
Daniel Ellsberg
THE THREAT OF WAR ON IRAN
When Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon
Papers in 1971 they revealed the US Government's lies about the war on
Vietnam. 35 years later Ellsberg received the Right Livelihood Award,
the so-called alternative Nobel Price, for “… dedicating his life to
inspiring others to follow his example.”
For the last 6 years Ellsberg
has campaigned against the exercise of executive power
by the Bush administration. He calls for action to end such
Presidential violation of the constitution and to prevent an expansion
of
the war in the Middle East and an attack on Iran. He urges government
insiders to come up with the new set of Pentagon papers, to act now and
not wait until they write their memoirs. The American public needs to
see the current attack plans on Iran in order to prevent a terrible
expansion of the war in the Middle East.
He voices criticism of the new democratic congress and their support –
with few exceptions - of the Kyl/Lieberman amendment of Sept. 2007.
This bill designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a
terrorist organization. Opponents of the amendment are saying that it
could be used by Bush to attack Iran.
Daniel Ellsberg spoke on December 18, 2007, at the Republican Round
Table in a downtown
hotel in San Francisco.
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Restoring a Forest
- with fire and love
Dennis Martinez
Church and military records show that in the
early 19th century California's forests were not "wild" but carefully
tended. The catastrophic wildfires of today were extremely rare. Dennis
Martinez talks about Indian forest practice and restoration.
The forest at the Mountain Grove Center For
New Education, near Glendale in SW Oregon was clear-cut in the 1930s
and 40s. It has come back thick, young, and dark. When Indians cared
for the land the old growth incense cedars and chinquapins were spaced
widely, plants thrived on the sun-lit forest floor, and animals found
shelter and food. Dennis Martinez knows about Indian forest practice
and was restoring this land when I interviewed him in 1996.
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Jeremy Scahill
BLACKWATER
In San Francisco, at the start of his book
tour, Scahill gave an eloquent and fact filled one hour overview of the
main points: Blackwater is the most powerful force in privatized war
fought for profit by unaccountable corporations. Don't miss it!
Scahill's book, Blackwater, made the New York Times bestseller list
when it was first published. The updated paperback edition came out in
June 2008. Scahill is correspondent for Democracy Now! and a
writer for the Nation.
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Michael Parenti
STOP the Pesticide Spray of the Bay Area
Parenti weighs in on the Apple Moth eradication
What do Homeland Security and FEMA have to do with the California
Department of Food and Agriculture's plans to spray the San Francisco
Bay Area with pesticides? Is this more dangerous to us and rights than
to the light brown apple moth?
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
UTAH PHILLIPS
Utah talks about his life
and how he became an activist
Utah Phillips died on May
23, 2008 in Nevada City. His passing generated a flood
of letters and news stories from across the country. In this 2004
program he talks about the events that shaped his life. You can see
why he is remembered with such admiration and love.
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The Day the WTO Stood
Still
A TUC Radio Archives program
SUMMARY: Mass
media claim that food insecurity, climate change, environmental
degradation are natural processes. We say that the global economic
system is at fault. Voices calling for the re-design of
NAFTA & WTO are getting louder.
At this crucial moment it is worth remembering that the rules of the game were changed with the founding of the World Trade Organization in 1995. The first challenge to the WTO occurred in Seattle in 1999. This program from the TUC Radio archives brings you some of the visionary voices who foresaw the consequences that we are facing today. Then they were lone voices. Today a growing movement is calling for a radical re-design of trade rules. A new poll from the Pew Research Center finds that a majority of Americans now oppose trade agreements such as NAFTA and the WTO. In the 2006 election 37 congressional challengers replaced NAFTA-supporting incumbents.
The International Forum on Globalization, the IFG, helped organize the resistance to the WTO leading up to Seattle and beyond. The speakers in this program are affiliated with the IFG:
Maude Barlow is national chair of the Council of Canadians, Canada's largest public advocacy organization, and founder of the Blue Planet Project. She was one of the first activists to call attention to the fact that a handful of corporations are gaining control of water world wide. She has co-authored an international bestseller Blue Gold. Her newest book: The Blue Covenant, was published in 2008.
Jose Bové is a goat farmer from the South of France and member of the Confédération Paysanne. He had become aware of the power of the WTO when trade sanctions were imposed on French cheese, including his own roquefort. He went on to become a folk hero in France for opposing MacDonalds and genetically modified seeds. He ran in the first round of presidential elections in 2007, garnering almost 1/2 million votes.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho is a geneticist, biophysicist and director of the non profit Institute of Science in Society. With more than 30 years of research and teaching in biochemistry, evolution, and molecular genetics, she has become an eloquent critic of genetic engineering. Mae-Wan Ho has authored or co-authored 10 books, such as The Rainbow and the Worm, the Physics of Organisms, Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare?, and: Living with the Fluid Genome.
The Indian physicist and ecologist Vandana Shiva founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, in 1982. She co-founded Navdanya to promote biodiversity conservation, organic farming, the rights of farmers, and the process of seed saving. Shiva has participated in the movements to save the forests (Chipko) to prevent the flooding of land by hydro projects, and the impositions of genetically modified seeds. Shiva's books include Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest, Monocultures of the Mind, and Water Wars. Her many awards include the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel Peace Prize."
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A guide to Congress and the press
David Ray Griffin's most recent book: 9/11 Contradictions, was published in March 2008. The book, and this speech, take a new approach to finding the truth about the events of 9/11. It focuses entirely on contradictory statements made by members of the Bush administration, government departments and agencies, and the 9/11 Commission. All the statements examined by Griffin are official cla