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Richard
Grossman
DISMANTLING CORPORATIONS
Remembering Richards work and life
30 second PROMO for Part ONE
click
HERE
30 second PROMO for Part TWO click HERE
Richard
Grossman
said:
"..
corporations
don’t
have
rights.
Rights
are
for
people.
Corporations
only
have
privileges,
and
only
those
that
we
the
people
bestow
on
them."
In
a
nutshell
that
was
the
essence
of
his
research
and
teaching
for
the
last
20
years.
Richard
died
of
melanoma
on
November
22nd,
2011,
at
a
hospital
in
New
York
City,
where
he
was
born
sixty-eight
years
earlier.
Ralph
Nader called him the “preeminent historian of corporations” and a
new, inspiring reading of history was his special gift. Richard said
that the American revolution was fought less against the crown but
against the crown corporations. And he believed that it's time to
remember that fight and assert sovereignty of the people over the
corporate state and ask: Why should the many be governed by the few?"
In the last 15 years he had been an important member of POCLAD, the
Project on Corporations, Law and Democracy and CELDF, the Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund. His lasting legacy are the Democracy
Schools that continue to be taught across the country, and a pamphlet:
Taking Care of Business describes the process of de-chartering
corporations. <http://www.ratical.org/corporations/TCoB.html>
Two
important projects that Richard Grossman initiated in the last
months of his life do not receive enough notice in the obituaries about
his work: Upstate New York, where he lived in a small town, is in the
cross hairs of natural gas exploration and hydrofracking. Richard
Grossman became active in the Sovereign People's Action Network (SPAN).
He presented, at the August 2011 Green Fest in New York City, the draft
of a law to not just regulate or limit the practice but to formally
criminalize the procedure in an amendment to the penal code. <http://corporatecrimereporter.com/documents/fracking.pdf>
The
second legacy of Richard Grossman's work that he formalized as
draft just 4 weeks before he died is An
Act
To
Criminalize
Chartered,
Incorporated
Business
Entities as
a class.<GrossmanActToCriminalize.html>
Several
Obituaries
refer
to
that
Act
by
name
without
offering
a
link
to
the
text.
It
seems
as
if
those
who
want
to
remember
Richard
shy
away
from
presenting
his
most
radical
proposal.
But
Richard
himself
wanted
it
to
be
seen.
It
is
his
contribution
to
the
Occupy
movement.
The second segment
begins with an intriguing archival speech on the history of
corporations that TUC Radio recorded in Washington DC. at the 1996
Teach-In organized by the International Forum on Globalization. The
segment ends with two important projects Grossman worked on just before
his death: A law to criminalize hydro-fracking and corporations as a
class or group.
In the Preface to
his 1993 pamphlet, Taking Care of Business, Richard Grossman wrote:
"Corporations cause harm every day. Why do their harms go unchecked?
How can they dictate what we produce, how we work, what we eat, drink
and breathe? How did a self-governing people let this come to pass? -
Corporations were not supposed to reign in the United States."
This is a
re-broadcast of the first in a two hour tribute to this passionate
and erudite
man, beginning with this recording of a 1995 presentation to a planning
meeting with the members of the International Forum on Globalization.
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a
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Feminist Theology and
Women in the Muslim World
Dr. Riffat Hassan
For International Women's Month
30 second Preview/Promo for Part ONE click HERE
30 second Preview/Promo for Part TWO click HERE
Dr.
Riffat Hassan, born in Pakistan and educated in England, taught
theology in the US. Her feminist friends in Pakistan realized that they
needed a theological argument to oppose anti woman legislation and
asked her to help. She became, in the mid 1980s, the first trained
theologian to take on, at personal risk, the misreading of the Koran
with the explicit goal to help women's liberation.
Recorded
on
April
1, 1993, at
UC Berkeley, this is a two
part
program that begins with an moving account of her personal journey and
ends with a painstakingly researched account of the
story of Adam and Eve common to Islam, Christianity and Judaism. This
myth has been used to declare women secondary, subservient to men, and
sinful. As it turns out this is not the original story.
Part TWO ends
with an
interview with Riffat Hassan about her radical and inspiring
re-interpretation of the significance of Eve's acceptance of the apple.
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Prof. Jim White
How to respond to climate change deniers
and Consequences of sea level rise
TWO programs
30
second
Preview/Promo
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30
second
Preview/Promo
for Part TWO click HERE
When
the
Weather
and
Climate
Summit
was
established
in 1985 the goal was to
bring together weather-casters and meteorologists from the U.S. and
Canada with scientists and researchers. Their annual summit of 2017 was
held in Breckenridge, Colorado, from January 8 to 12. One of the many
topics at the summit was to prepare for the incoming Trump
administration that was to include outspoken climate change deniers.
Dr. Jim White
teaches at the University of Colorado. He specializes in Global change,
paleoclimate dynamics, and the human impact on climate.
In a very
entertaining and easy to understand way he addressed the five topics
climate change deniers most often bring up:
2. How can we insignificant humans change the climate?
3. How can something like CO2 that is in such low
concentrations have such an impact – and by the way isn’t CO2 good for
plants.
4. We have seen about 1 degree of warming – why worry
about such a small change.
5. I heard there was no warming recently for several
years – does that prove climate change is not happening.
Dr. Jim White begins with the question
1. Are we going to make the world uninhabitable for
humans and other species
In Part TWO Dr. Jim
White turns his attention to ice. The accelerated melting of the Arctic
sea ice and the ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica.
Concentrations of
carbon dioxide - after water vapor the most important greenhouse gas -
are measured in parts per million. The organization 350 dot org
expresses in its name that - to be safe from catastrophic climate
change - we should not go over 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere.
However in late 2016 the measurements at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, went over
400 ppm for the first time in modern history. (And on March 9, 2017 the
reading was 405 ppm)
When a visionary
scientist, Charles Keeling, began daily readings for CO2 concentration
from Mauna Loa in 1958, the concentrations were only 318 ppm. And the
pre-industrial age "normal" was 280 ppm. Hundreds of weather stations
around the world are now recoding CO2 concentrations and they all show
the same accelerating trend - going up.
For a
broadcast quality
mp3 version of Part ONE click HERE
For a
broadcast quality
mp3 version of Part TWO click HERE
Michael Parenti
Theocracy VS. Democracy - The Political Uses of Religion
One selfcontained 29
minute program
30
second
Preview/Promo
Part ONE click HERE
Michael Parenti says that democracy can't
survive under
religious rule
– whatever that religion may be. Parenti's warning in this archival
recording is as timely and urgently expressed as it was when this
speech was first given during the second term of the Reagan
administration. This talk is also very funny. Parenti explains how God
may be considered as a "founding father" and why Woody Allen calls him
an underachiever. It is easy to extend this timeless analysis to the
present circumstances.
With roots in a working class Italian district of New York and a Ph.D.
in political science from Yale Michael Parenti has become an
internationally known writer and lecturer. He is the author of twenty
books.
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Michael Parenti
Fascism, The False Revolution
Archival, updated to reflect Trump admin.
30
second
Preview/Promo
Part ONE click HERE
30
second
Preview/Promo
Part TWO click HERE
A talk given by the
political analyst and author Michael Parenti in 1995 sounds almost as
if it was given in 2017 in the context of European and US elections. In
his 50 plus years of lecturing at major universities Parenti returned
to the important connection between capitalism and fascism many times.
Actually over 32,000 times if you believe the search engines.
Fascism, as Mussolini said "..should be more properly called
corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." And
history, as told by Michael Parenti, shows that in all fascist
societies, be it Italy, Germany, Japan, Spain, and into the present,
corporate power increased. And that gain in power such as tax cuts,
deregulation, subsidies for extraction of oil and minerals involves a
loss of power, rights, environmental and workplace protection and wages
for those who work for a living.
Parenti, who grew up in an Italian-American working-class family in NY
City and earned his PhD. in political science from Yale, was familiar
with Benito Mussolini from childhood on. Some members of his working
class family admired Mussolini, others were ready to fight Fascism in
WWII. Parenti was not even a teen when the war was begun. 5 1/2 decades
later he begins this lecture about the false revolution of Fascism with
a brief history of the beginnings of the origins of Fascism in Italy
and Germany.
Michael Parenti received his PhD in political science from Yale. He is
the author of 23 books and many more articles. His works have been
translated into at least eighteen languages.
This talk was given to a standing room only audience of 1,200 in
Berkeley, CA, on September 23, 1995.
For a
broadcast quality
mp3 version click HERE
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broadcast quality
mp3 version click HERE
Michael
Parenti, The Supremely Political Court
Archival, updated to reflect Trump admin.
One self-contained 29 minute program
30
second
Preview/Promo
click HERE
In
February, 2017 the name of Michael Parenti and references to his 23
books and countless lectures are flooding the Internet. It appears that
his writings on history, the demise of US democracy, capitalism and the
rule of the one percent, fascism, patriotism and US First-ism that span
the decades from the late 1960s to 2014 were meant to be read and used
today.
And Parenti shows how the Supreme Court began to give powers to the
President in matters of foreign policy and national security that
neither Congress nor the constitution had granted. He said: “...
by Judicial Fiat the President could now do whatever he wanted in the
absence of specific legislative prohibitions.”
As of the date of
this recording it still remains to be seen how the executive order
issued by Donald Trump on January 27 barring citizens from seven Muslim
majority countries from entering the US for 90 days, all refugees for
120 days and indefinitely preventing refugees from Syria from coming to
the US will be decided by the current Supreme Court of 2017. Given the
analysis made by Michael Parenti 20 years ago the outcome is uncertain.
For a
broadcast quality
mp3 version click HERE
What climate
change data can tell us about
the emergence and spread of diseases
Dr. Howard Frumkin
One self-contained 29 minute program
30
second
Preview/Promo
click HERE
On
January 24, 2017, Marketplace, the American Public Media radio program,
reported that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) abruptly canceled a
long scheduled three day Climate Change Summit that was set to take
place in February in Atlanta.
On the same day Breitbart News - formerly run by the senior Trump
advisor Steve Bannon, wrote: The CDC cancellation of their climate
change event "is unquestionably a result of the Trump Effect: the
CDC is one of many US federal agencies which have been
forced rapidly to adjust their priorities.... the CDC's job
is to protect public health and safety through the control
and prevention of disease... What does climate change have to do with
this? Nothing. ... The evidence that man-made climate change is
damaging to human health is at best flimsy, at worst fabricated."
Professor Howard Frumkin is one of the senior scientists prevented from
speaking when the CDC conference was canceled. He specializes in Public
Health and Climate Change and was a former director of the National
Center for Environmental Health at the CDC. He is now professor of
environmental and occupational health sciences at the University
of Washington and served as Dean of the School of Public Health.
Two days after the CDC announced that they were canceling their Climate
Change Summit a response emerged from a coalition of public health
scientists, NGOs and non-profits. Scientific American wrote - quote -
"The conference is now back on — but not at the CDC. Former Vice Pres.
Al Gore will instead convene the event on February 16 at the nonprofit
Carter Center in Atlanta." Dr. Frumkin will host the alternate
conference. <https://www.climaterealityproject.org/health>
This TUC Radio program features a very recent (November 17, 2016) talk
by Dr. Frumkin entitled: What climate change data can tell us about the
emergence and spread of diseases. An informative and engaging appeal to
take climate change into account in matters of public health.
High spirited, with a good sense of humor, Frumkin explains how climate
change affects the whole spectrum of concerns of public health. He
shows how Public Health has already paid attention and responded to the
impact of climate change on heat-waves, extreme weather events, air
quality, food production and displacement of peoples. And he explains
how climate change affects a large number of diseases that may be
accelerated or moved into areas previously free from them, such as
Malaria, Encephalitis, Hantavirus, Rift Valley Fever, West Nile Virus,
Cholera and harmful algae blooms in warming waters and more.
For a broadcast quality
mp3 version click HERE
Naomi Klein:
Change the System, not the Climate
One self-contained 29 minute program
30
second
Preview/Promo
click HERE
Naomi
Klein
is
best
known
for
her
book:
This
Changes
Everything,
Capitalism
versus
the
Climate.
She
wrote:
... it’s not about carbon—it’s about
capitalism... [and] we can seize this existential crisis to transform
our failed economic system and build something radically better.
An important
document towards building a better future is the Leap Manifesto. <https://leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-manifesto/>
It
calls
for
a
restructuring
of
the
Canadian
economy
and
an
end
to
the
use
of
fossil fuels. The Leap Manifesto was initiated in the spring of
2015 at a two-day meeting in Toronto. Among those who wrote it were
representatives from Canada’s Indigenous rights, social and food
justice, environmental, faith-based and labor movements. And Naomi
Klein gives a summary of the manifesto in this program.
Naomi Klein was recorded at the Grand Conference: Change the System,
not the Climate! in August 2016 in Montreal, Canada. Link to the film
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDXjVIdLnA>
For a broadcast quality
mp3 version click HERE
The Story of
Aaron Swartz
A film on radio production
The Internet's Own Boy by Brian Knappenberger
SPECIAL re-issue on the fourth anniversary of Aaron's death
30
second
Preview/Promo
click HERE
This
program
is
based
on
the
soundtrack
of
the
2014
movie:
The
Internet's
Own
Boy:
The
Story
of
Aaron
Swartz.
His death at age 26 on January 11,
2013 made the internet light up with grief and also anger at a judicial
system that haunted and hunted him. He was facing 35 years in prison
and $1 million in fines for bulk-downloading from a site, JSTOR, that
was freely available to Massachusetts Institute of Technology students.
"Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online
communities in which he was a celebrity" said director, Brian
Knappenberger. "This is the story of programming prodigy and
information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in development of
the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his
fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was his groundbreaking
work in social justice and political organizing combined with his
aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two
year legal battle with the Federal Government. It was a battle that
ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26."
The life and work of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden and Aaron
Swartz are related around the question what the internet can be in our
lives: an instrument of surveillance or of social change. And as the
future of the internet and net neutrality and the role of the FCC all
hang in the balance again in 2017 the extraordinary life and ideas of
Aaron Swartz are worth remembering.
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Ice Core Climate
Records of the World
Prof. Lonnie Thompson
ONE self contained 29 min. program
30 second Preview/Promo click HERE
Lonnie
Thompson is University Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University
in the School of Earth Sciences and the Byrd Polar Research Center. He
is the leading paleo-scientist who drilled and preserved ice cores from
high mountain glaciers while others focussed on Greenland and
Antarctica.
In 1952 the Danish geophysicist Willi Dansgaard made a discovery that
opened up a completely new field of research. He found that the amount
of heavy oxygen isotopes in rain correlates with the temperature at the
location where the precipitation was formed. But more important in
preparation for debates with climate change deniers is the record of
CO2 that is also preserved in the ice cores. The correlation of
temperature rise and decrease with increasing and decreasing CO2 and
methane content have become one of the most important proofs for
climate change. Ice cores also show the recent extraordinary increase
in the amount of CO2 since the industrial revolution and the ever
escalating burning of fossil fuels.
Today ice core records exist going back 800,000 years for Antarctica
and 123,000 years for Greenland. They show that never in those 800,000
years have the concentrations of CO2 been as high and rising as rapidly
as today.
Thompson was undeterred by the doubts expressed by his teachers and
mentors. Willi Dansgaard told him that human beings were physically
unable to do ice core drilling at altitudes of 18,000 plus feet, that
no equipment existed that could be brought to the tops of the inland
glaciers and that it would be extremely difficult to get the ice cores
down the mountain before they melted.
Thompson and his team built a solar powered ice core drill and have now
retrieved cores in 16 countries on 61 expeditions. This collection is
priceless because nobody will ever be able to duplicate his work
because over 90% of the glaciers he worked on are melting.
Lonnie Thompson was interviewed by the University of Queensland,
Australia, Making Sense of Climate Change Denial project. They are an
international team presenting interviews on their YouTube channel that
bring information to the public to help deal with the arguments of the
climate change deniers.
For a broadcast quality mp3
version click HERE
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Dr. Lonnie
Thompson
Melting
of the High Mountain Glaciers of the World
Abrupt
Climate Change and Our Future
ONE self contained 29 min. program
30 second Preview/Promo click HERE
This
is a re-broadcast and partial update of one of the most appreciated and
also rare programs by TUC. This program will be followed by two updates
with Dr. Thompson.
Thompson issues a warning that the mountain glaciers he knows and
loves are melting ever more dramatically within the last twenty years.
He is the leading expert on glaciers with 30 years of on location
research.
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 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. Recorded 12/12/2007
The melting
of the world's glaciers is an unfolding emergency. This archival
program was updated in December 2009 using the following information:
Dr. Lonnie Thompson's most recent research on Mount Kilimanjaro was
published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS
(11/3/09)
<http://www.pnas.org/content/106/47/19743.full?sid=4051f11f-1c2f-4182-98be-e2dddd593820>
Dr. James Hansen
sent out an e-ail on Dec. 12 announcing the publication of the
following paper: Survival of
Tibetan Glaciers: New PNAS paper on black soot & Himalayan
glaciers is available at <http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/07/0910444106.full.pdf+html>
A NASA
press release on this work is expected in mid-December.
Jim
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Press Conference from the Norwegian
Young Sea ICE Expedition - N-ICE2015
ONE self contained 29 min. program
30 second Preview/Promo click HERE
In the winter of 2015, an ice-bound
Norwegian research vessel drifted with the shrinking Arctic ice for
half a year while an international team of 70 scientists worked to
better understand the effects of rising temperatures and changing sea
ice.
It was the first wintertime Arctic Sea ice
experiment to study the thinning ice pack. Data from submarines since
1958 and from satellites since 1972 had already shown that the frozen
area in the Arctic is diminishing, the ice is getting thinner, multi
year solid old ice is disappearing and the Arctic ocean is warming.
However nobody had stayed with the ice for 6 months.
Since 1928 the Norwegian Polar Institute has done scientific research,
mapping and environmental monitoring in the Arctic and the Antarctic.
Today it operates under the Ministry of Climate and Environment.
This program presents three of the 70
scientists who spent time on board of the ship:
Mats Granskog was the Chief Scientist on this expedition. He is Sea Ice
Scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute.
Von Patrick Walden comes
from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington
State University. Amelie Meyer, is Oceanographer at the Norwegian Polar
Institute.
The program ends with a short Q/A section.
The film of the press conference is here
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq-d6RjPjoQ>
For a broadcast quality mp3 version click HERE
How does the melting Arctic affect
the rest of the world?
NOAA's Arctic Report Card 2016
ONE self contained 29 min. program
30 second Preview/Promo click HERE
The Arctic is now warming twice as fast as
the global average. That's the finding in the 11th Arctic Report Card
released on December 13, 2016, at the annual American Geophysical Union
meeting in San Francisco. NOAA’s Arctic Research Program Director,
Jeremy Mathis, said about the year 2016: “Rarely have we seen the
Arctic show a clearer, stronger or more pronounced signal of persistent
warming and its cascading effects on the environment than this year.”
The Arctic Report Card, by a team of 61 scientists from 11 nations,
lists the many ways in which the warming Arctic affects sea level rise,
ocean and air circulation as well as weather in the Northern Hemisphere
and beyond.
The warming Arctic oceans lead to melting of permafrost on land and
affect the Greenland ice sheet. A surprise for scientists was that a
warming Arctic also changes the ocean currents in the Northern
Hemisphere and even the wind currents.
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has
presented Arctic Report Cards for 10 years. The American Geophysical
Union (AGU) is an organization of geophysicists from 144 countries.
Geophysical sciences involve atmospheric and ocean sciences, as well as
earth and space.
At the AGU on December 13, 2016, in San Francisco there was standing
room only for the press conference that revealed the peer reviewed
assessment of the Arctic Report Card 2016. NOAA Arctic Research Program
Director Jeremy Mathis presented alongside Don Perovich, Adjunct
Professor of Engineering, at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth
College, lead editor for the sea ice essay; and Marco Tedesco,
Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New
York, and the lead editor for the Greenland ice essay.
For a broadcast quality mp3 version click HERE
Faster Than Forecast: The story ice
tells about climate change
Professor Jason Box
ONE self contained 29 min. program
30 second Preview/Promo click HERE
At years' end 2016 denial of climate
change is being promoted at the highest level of the incoming Trump
administration in the US. This in spite of the fact that even the
coldest parts of planet earth are now warming at an unprecedented rate.
Professor Jason Box is one of the world’s
experts on the Greenland ice sheet. He is professor in glaciology at
the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. He moved to Denmark to
be closer to the one field of study that he is dedicated to with a kind
of passion and sense of responsibility that is unusual for a tenured
Professor. While working at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio
State University from 2002-2012 he began field work on the Greenland
ice and has made over 20 expeditions since 1994.
He spent more than one year on Greenland
ice as a result of these expeditions, was for five consecutive years
(2008-2012) the lead author of the Greenland section of NOAA’s annual
State of the Climate report, and was a contributing author to the
IPCC’s fourth assessment report. Jason Box is even known in popular
science through his participation in the movie Chasing Ice.
Film maker James Balog said that the mission of Chasing Ice was to
change history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet.
With a team of helpers, Balog began deploying time-lapse cameras across
Greenland and the Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s
melting glaciers.
In early October 2016 Prof. Jason Box gave
a talk in Copenhagen at the opening of a lecture series called Science
and Cocktails. The organizers wanted him to explain the physical causes
of the melting of the ice sheet and why the current computer models
fail to explain the quite frightening acceleration of the Greenland
melt.
He was recorded on Oct. 8, 2016.
Credit: Science&Cocktails, Copenhagen
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Winona LaDuke on Standing Rock
The test of civil society
ONE self contained 29 min. program
30 second Preview/Promo click HERE
On her way home from one of many visits to
Standing Rock, the Native American activist and author Winona LaDuke
stopped in Chicago and gave a talk at the Newberry Library to a
standing room only audience.
Winona LaDuke lives on the White Earth reservation in northern
Minnesota, and is working on climate change, renewable energy, and
environmental justice. She is the founder of the White Earth Land
Recovery Project, and Program Director of Honor the Earth.
Winona LaDuke's talk in Chicago was framed
by her clear headed assessment of the extraordinary risk that the
fracking oil boom and the network of pipelines pose to our survival she
offered examples how to break free from our addiction to fossil fuels.
Winona LaDuke says that "this is a test of civil society. The question
is where we are all going and how it's going to work out."
Recorded on November 10, 2016. Credit
Newberry Library and Dale Lehman for the recording
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Standing Rock Water Protectors are
receiving eviction orders
The US Army Corps of Engineers and the North Dakota governor
issue 10 day notices to Oceti Sakowin camp
ONE self contained 29 min. program
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This program is being recorded on November
29, 2016, less than a week before a December 5 deadline set by the Army
Corps of Engineers as well as the Governor of North Dakota to vacate
the several thousand inhabitants of Oceti Sakowin the most significant
camp of the water protectors at Standing Rock.
The Standing Rock protests began in the Spring of 2016 in reaction to
the construction of Energy Transfer corporation's Dakota Access
pipeline. It is designed to carry oil extracted by fracking. The
pipeline would run from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to
southern Illinois, crossing beneath the Missouri and Mississippi
rivers, as well as part of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Indian
reservation.
In spite of media silence or outright lies the camps gained
recognition, material support and visits by indigenous peoples from
across the world as well as environmentalists and quite a few well
known celebrities. Amazingly such divers and fluid populations
continue to form close unity over the principle of non violence, that
water is life and a resurgence of the recognition of indigenous
sovereignty.
One day after the eviction notice from the Army Corps of Engineers was
received a press conference was held in the Oceti Sakowin camp. I took
the audio from two of several films that were streamed live to social
media. Behind the makeshift outdoor table for the conference you can
see the huge, several thousand people strong camp, stretching far
towards the surrounding mountains.
You will hear seven different voices from youth to elder from activist
to spiritual leader. The wind is blowing, surveillance drones are
overhead even the sound of a helicopter makes it at one time a little
hard to understand. But please stay with it.
As I'm recording this on November 29 groups from across the country are
now traveling to Standing Rock for support, and as witnesses -
including a group of 1,500 veterans who had made their travel plans
weeks ago and refused to back off. They want to be human shields. But
whatever will happen on eviction date the dreams and hopes and opinions
of those whose voices you will hear now will not be extinguished.
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Captain Paul Watson: When the Oceans Die We Die
ONE self contained 29 min. program
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When Captain Paul Watson - co-founder of
the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society returned from exile in France,
TUC radio broadcast an interview with him that surpassed in downloads
all programs of 2016 except for one. So here is an update on occasion
of the beginning of the Japanese whale hunt in the Southern Ocean.
Sea Shepherd is an international non-profit, marine wildlife
conservation organization. Their 1977 founding mission is to end the
destruction of habitat and the slaughter of wildlife in the world's
oceans. Their decades long practice of aggressive non-violence has led
to charges of piracy. However Sea Shepherd's legal team defends the
organization's right to enforce international conservation laws in
neutral waters.
Courts in many jurisdictions have sided with Sea Shepherd - with the
notable exception of the US 9th District Court. The US court sided in
2012 with Japanese Whalers and ordered Watson to stay away from the
whaling fleet. Even though in March 2014 the International Court of
Justice ruled that the Japanese whaling program was not, as claimed,
for scientific purposes, and ordered Japan to cease operations, the US
District Court is standing by its ruling. On August 23, 2016, a
preliminary injunction, which prevents Sea Shepherd's US branch from
disrupting Japanese whaling operations in the Southern Ocean, became
permanent.
However Sea Shepherd is an international organization and the
Australian branch is not bound by the US 9th District Court ruling.
Australia in fact has declared Japan's hunt in the Southern Ocean Whale
Sanctuary to be illegal.
As this program goes out in late November 2016 Sea Shepherd Australia
is outfitting their most recently added vessel, the Ocean Warrior, to
confront Japanese whalers who already left Japan on November 18, 2016.
While still in exile in Paris in January of 2016 Paul Watson was
interviewed by Aurélie Aimé who is part of the Chou Brave
TV collective. They touched on remembrance, vision, ideas, climate
change, children, ecology, diversity and interdependence and even food
and above all why exactly we humans will die when the oceans die.
They spoke in a coffee house with some music in the background.
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
ARCHIVE for
Standing Rock: Military Response
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the
United States
- TWO Parts
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30 second Preview/Promo for Part TWO click HERE
This first part of the
program brings you
Dunbar-Ortiz' description of North America before invasion, the
emergence of the US concept of a chosen people, the development of the
role of the US military as a force for genocide that seamlessly
transitioned into the US foreign wars, the role of militias, a brief
history of AIM, the American Indian Movement, and the consequences of
the Gold Rush in California.
During
Q&A Dunbar-Ortiz was asked about an earlier book by her. The Great
Sioux Nation, published in 1977, came out of the 1974 Wounded Knee
trials where Dunbar-Ortiz was an expert witness.
Her answer evoked
the history of the armed takeover of Wounded Knee by the American
Indian Movement and the 71-day siege by federal forces that encircled
them. Also the memory of the 1890 massacre of Wounded Knee of Lakota
women, children and elders. Several hundred Native American were
arrested and stood trial in one of the most remarkable proceedings in
judicial history. U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom presided and
allowed testimony by traditional medicine people and Lakota chiefs.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz prepared a history of the once Great Sioux Nation
from the court records.
The
late great Howard Zinn, author of the now world famous book: A People's
History of the United States, was her friend and he played a role in
convincing Beacon Press to commission and publish An Indigenous
Peoples' History of the United States.
Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz
grew
up
in
rural
Oklahoma,
the
daughter
of
a
tenant
farmer
and
part-Indian
mother.
She
holds
a
Ph.D.
in
history
and
has
been
an
activist
in the international Indigenous movement for more than four
decades.
Dunbar-Ortiz is the author
or editor of
eight other books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land
Tenure in New Mexico; The Great Sioux Nation; Red Dirt: Growing Up
Okie, and Blood on the Border: Memoir of the Contra War. She lives in
San Francisco.
I recorded Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Dec. 4, 2014, at
Green Apple, one of the last used bookstores in San Francisco. Her book
had been published two months earlier.
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Ralph
Nader
"Breaking
Through Power
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part ONE click HERE
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part TWO click HERE
This
talk
was
recorded
by
me
on
October
18,
2016,
at
City
Lights
Books
in
San
Francisco
-
just
three
weeks
before
election
day.
Nader
talked
about
his
new
book
- published by City Lights under the title "Breaking
Through Power - it's easier than we think". From the advance
reviews we knew that he was not going to advocate for any party, blue,
red or green - in spite of his own former affiliation with the Green
Party - and not even for Sanders in particular. He has a specific plan
how to take power ourselves and apply it directly to Congress without
the mediation or intervention of any party.
Part
two
of
this
program
begins
with
a
summary
of
Nader's
strategy
for
breaking
through
power:
Congress,
he
said,
is
the
center
of
power.
We
need
to
focus
razor
like on individual members. Organizing from the
grassroots in each district we agree on specific demands that are
supported widely - even nationally - and then presented in person to
these members.
Nader suggests opening year round offices in each congressional
district to represent the people full time. There would be about 2,000
people in these offices in each district, made up of volunteers and
paid staff. Nader's plan also includes a small staff of full time
lobbyists in Washington who will follow up on the local demands,
including offering sample legislation. They monitor success and failure
by members of Congress to obey the wishes of their constituents.
A third important element of direct democracy is the People's Summons.
Instead of patiently waiting for the Congress member to let the
constituents know when he or she is available for coffee and questions
in the district matters are reversed. This new grassroots democratic
movement, via their local offices, comes up with concrete demands and
sends a polite summons to the Congress member to appear at a town hall
meeting organized by the constituents and to be prepared to answer
questions and take direction.
In the second part of his talk Nader gives advice how to take back the
media and he lists accomplishments by small groups and individuals who
have over time made all the important gains in this country: the end of
slavery, civil rights, labor rights, the vote for women, the populist
farmers rebellion against the banks and railroads and more.
"Breaking Through Power - it's easier than we think" was
published in the Fall of 2016 in the Open Media Series by City Light
Publishers. Nader credits City Lights editor Greg Ruggiero for having
requested that he write this book as a tool for political action.
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Julia Whitty
For Love and Protection of the Deep Ocean - in TWO parts
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I met Julia Whitty in August
2010 after her investigation of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster. This is
an updated program of a memorable evening triggered by the August 2016
release of the movie: Deepwater Horizon that makes no mention of the
ecological consequences.
In a small Northern California town
where she lives she was giving a reading from her book: Deep Blue Home,
An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. That book had been described as:
"breathtakingly learned and lyrical, written with humor, reverence and
curiosity."
Julia Whitty is a diver, former nature
documentary filmmaker, author and environmental correspondent for
Mother Jones. She explained why the deep ocean is the foundation of
life for the upper layer of the sunlit sea. Many whales, dolphins,
seals, sea turtles, sharks, manta rays, and smaller predatory fish are
nocturnal hunters, dependent on the movements of a vast community of
organisms that live in the deep ocean. That community is known only
since the 1920s as the Deep Scattering Layer. And this Deep Scattering
Layer that rises and falls with day and night and that is visited by
the creatures of the sunlit sea is threatened by oil spills.
Part ONE: I begin this program with a
reading by Julia Whitty from Deep Blue Home followed by her comments on
the BP oil spill. The reading is introducing the Deep Scattering Layer
in an indirect way. A whale is sinking to the bottom of the sea and
that journey from sun to twilight to perpetual darkness introduces you
to the creatures of another world.
You
can reach Julia Whitty
here: <julia.whitty.googlepages.com>
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Sea
Shepherd
Ocean
Protectors
- Captain Paul Watson
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Paul
Watson
was
cofounder
of
Greenpeace
and
led
the
campaigns
against
the
slaughter
of
baby
seals
in
the
late
seventies.
When
Patrick
Moore
became
president
of
Greenpeace
Canada
he
halted
direct
action
and
forced
Watson
out.
Today
Patrick
Moore
is
a
spokesperson
for
Monsanto
and
the
nuclear
industry.
Paul Watson never stopped his involvement in direct action. After his
ouster from Greenpeace he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society. (SSCS) It's an international non-profit, marine wildlife
conservation organization. Their mission is to end the destruction of
habitat and the slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans.
Paul Watson is both praised and criticized for Sea Shepherd's practice
of aggressive non-violence. He says that some laws and conventions
exist to protect the oceans and their inhabitants. However these laws
are very rarely enforced. He and his legal team make the case that
non-governmental private organizations, such as Sea Shepherd, have the
right to enforce international conservation laws in neutral waters.
Sea Shepherd crews have arrested poachers, removed illegal fishing nets
and chased vessels back into their home ports. They document their
actions and collect and preserve evidence, turning that material over
to authorities for prosecution. There are now many examples of Sea
Shepherd assisting small nations that have no navy or coast guard to
confront the international vessels that plunder their territorial
waters.
Here are excerpts from a wide ranging interview with Paul Watson, done
in France on June 22, 2016. Thanks to the French organization
Thinkerview for the audio of their film "Paul Watson Talks Climate".
You can see the 45 min. version on YouTube on the channel of Climate
State. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HVIUTCm2o>
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Arctic
Amplification,
Climate
Change, and Global Warming - New Challenges from
the Top of the World
Professor Peter Wadhams
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30 second Preview/Promo of
Part TWO click HERE
With increasing urgency Wadhams is calling attention to the
disappearing sea ice of the Arctic. In his most recent book, A Farewell
to Ice, he writes: “Our planet has changed color. Today, from space,
the top of the world in the northern summer looks blue instead of
white. We have created an ocean where there was once an ice sheet.”
In a lecture in Milan, Italy, in May 2015, Peter Wadhams explained how
the melting of the Arctic affects the rest of the world. He listed
seven major areas, among them sea level rise, emission of methane, and
extreme weather events that we already experience.
Peter
Wadhams is the UK's most experienced sea ice scientist. He has made
more than 50 expeditions to both polar regions, working from ice camps,
icebreakers, and aircraft. He made six submerged voyages to the North
Pole on Royal Navy submarines. Wadhams' research group in Cambridge has
been the only UK group with the capacity to carry out field work on sea
ice.
In Part ONE
Wadhams explains the consequences of the shrinking and thinning sea ice.
In Part TWO he covers the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, the loss
of snow, the multi-national study on the recent discovery of methane
releases from permafrost and shallow water, the link between sea ice
loss and extreme weather events, and the deflections of two great
global air and water currents, the Jet stream and the thermohaline
circulation.
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Michael Parenti
Superpatriotism and the
Importance of Being Number One
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This talk examines how hype, fear and mindless flag waving supplant
informed debate and commitment to
democracy and justice. (ONE self contained program)
What does it
mean to love one's country? Why is it so important to be number one? In
this sharp and funny speech MP dissects the uses of patriotism. - That
was the introduction to a Michael Parenti talk given in 1988, at the
end of the Reagan administration. That talk became a TUC Radio program
and 2004 book published by City Lights.
Now, in 2016, so many years later slogans such as: America First,
America the Greatest Country on Earth are having a powerful come back.
Resistance to Superpatriotism - even if it is simply remaining seated
during the national anthem at a sports event, can draw a hateful
response from those who Parenti was concerned about a generation ago.
Michael Parenti received his PhD in political science from Yale.
He is the author of 23 books and many more articles. His works have
been translated into at least eighteen languages.
He grew up
in an Italian-American working-class family in NY City. His PhD. from
Yale would have guaranteed him a career in academia. He knowingly gave
up that chance when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam and was
arrested. He decided to become an independent author, lecturer and
activist and has taught in the US and abroad.
Credit: Thanks to KGNU Radio, Boulder, CO, and the Michael Parenti
audio collection
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
Sustainable Development and Deep Decarbonization
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How the world lost a quarter century in the quest to
get to zero carbon emissions, protect biodiversity, alleviate poverty
and bring about sustainability for all.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world renowned professor of
economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor,
bestselling author and syndicated columnist. His monthly newspaper
columns appear in more than 100 countries.
He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet
Prize. That’s the global prize for environmental leadership. The New
York Times called him “probably the most important economist in the
world.”
Sachs was appointed University Professor at Columbia
University in 2016, and also serves as Professor of Sustainable
Development, and of Health Policy and Management at Columbia. Prior to
joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years as a professor at
Harvard.
Professor Sachs
spoke on June 1, 2016, at the Technical University Berlin.
Thanks to
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The Dublin Interview
with Professor Kevin Anderson
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TWO
At the
Paris Climate Talks in 2015 195 countries made pledges how to keep
global warming under 2 degrees Celsius - or even better 1.5 degrees.
However there is very little information as to how or if at all - these
pledges are being honored.
Kevin
Anderson is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of
Manchester, and Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research.
In March
2016 he came for a whirl wind speaking tour of Ireland and sat down for
an interview in Dublin with John Gibbons from the National Trust for
Ireland. Gibbons calls Anderson one of the world’s best known and most
influential – and outspoken – climate specialists.
Here is
the first part of his one hour no holds barred exceedingly well
researched analysis, ranging from CO2 emissions in agriculture, his
opinion on the million dollar question: is a 2 degree Celsius
temperature rise unavoidable - and what if we were to go to 4 degrees?
Anderson also unpacks the false promise of green growth.
In part TWO: This
conclusion of the one hour interview covers Anderson's intriguing
proposal for carbon rationing; the fifth great extinction; the
miserably small amount of money offered to the non-industrialized
countries in the global climate fund; and it poses a provocative
challenge to all of us: Are we choosing climate disaster or are we
choosing a way out that requires courage and dramatic changes to the
way we live? Because given the reality of our time and the clear state
of science, says Kevin Anderson, this is the decision we are making now
- not in 5 or 10 or 20 years. If we continue CO2 emissions as we do now
it will be too late - possibly as early as in 5 years. Watch the
extraordinary fil this poram is based on <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck_Ev8oqBh0>
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Project
for the New American Century (PNAC)
A reading from the document by Mime
Troupe
founder R.G. Davis
Introduced by poet Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
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Part
ONE
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TWO30 second
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The paper
was commissioned by
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul
Wolfowitz and others in the year 2000, before any of them were in
government. The think tank, the Project for the New American Century,
produced a blueprint for a system of world-wide US military dominance
and intervention. The document remained secret until 2002 when it was
discovered by the Scottish Sunday Herald.
The
program opens with the peace poem: "Speak Out" by Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, features General John Allen's endorsement of Hillary
Clinton for president with Bernie Sanders supporters shouting "no more
war"; and ends with a reading by SF Mime Troupe founder R.G. Davis from
the bone chilling neo-con plan for US global military dominance.
The document has become important today because Robert Kagan was
appointed as an adviser by Hillary Clinton when she became Secretary of
State. Clinton also hired Kagan's wife, Victoria Nuland, as her
spokesperson. Nuland had previously served as a top aide to Vice
President Cheney. Victoria Nuland, by her own admission, was personally
involved in the recent regime change in Ukraine. In February 2016,
Kagan gave Clinton his formal endorsement for President. Both are
expected to take on important roles in a Hillary Clinton administration.
LINKS:
“Superpowers Don’t Get to Retire: What Our Tired Country Still Owes the
World.” by Robert Kagan
https://newrepublic.com/article/117859/allure-normalcy-what-america-still-owes-world
PNAC TEXT IS HERE:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
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TUC
Radio Archive Special for Hiroshima Day 2016
Arjun Makhijani
FROM PEARL HARBOR TO HIROSHIMA
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Part
ONE
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Part
TWO
Disarmament is more
urgently needed now
that nuclear weapons have spread far beyond the original weapons states
and there are even voices in Japan's parliament today that call for
nuclear weapons. And Makhijani shows that we can only find the path
back from the abyss if we are clear and honest about how nuclear
weapons were invented and first used. And there is much information in
this talk that has been shunned or kept secret.
In
common
history
Pearl
Harbor
and
Hiroshima
represent
the
beginning
and
the
end
events
of
World
War
II
suggesting
that
the
attack
on
Pearl
Harbor
forced
the
US
into
war
and
the
bombing
of
Hiroshima
saved
the
lives
of
up
to
one
million
US
soldiers
who
might
have
been
killed
in
an
invasion
of
Japan.
With
help
from
long
ignored
or
classified
information
Arjun
Makhijani
re-analyzes
both
events.
This
talk,
given
to
Nuke
Free
Now
in
August
2012
near
the
Los
Alamos
Weapons
Lab,
presents
thought
provoking
information
about
why
and
how
nuclear
weapons
were
developed
and
who
really
was
in
control
of
their
use.
Questions raised are: Why was the US fleet moved from San Diego to
Pearl Harbor? Does the Japanese attack have anything to do with the US
oil embargo? What were the original goals of the Manhattan Project and
why and when were they changed? And who was in charge of this secret
program when even the US Vice President or the generals responsible for
WWII did not know?
Makhijani, originally from Mumbai, India, holds a Ph.D. in engineering
with focus on nuclear fusion from the University of California,
Berkeley. He has written books and articles on the nuclear fuel cycle,
weapons production, testing, workers' exposure to radiation and nuclear
waste. He also wrote the ground breaking book: Carbon-Free and
Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, the first analysis of a
transition to a U.S. economy based completely on renewable energy.
Makhijani is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental
Research, the website is IEER.org and has three decades of activism for
disarmament.
Listeners are invited to post comments on Makhijani's Blog on the
IEER.org web site at
<http://ieer.org/disarmament/from-pearl-harbor-to-hiroshima/>
Arjun Makhijani spoke on August 4, 2012 at the Nuke Free Now Conference
in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Thanks to KEXP, Seattle, program host Mike McCormick for giving me the
audio for this program.
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Marilyn Waring
SEX, LIES AND GLOBAL ECONOMICS
- a classic from the film on radio archives of TUC Radio
July 2016 UPDATE
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The gross domestic
product, the GDP,
allegedly is an indicator of the
well being of a society. Since powerful forces in banking and public
policy are driving attempts to increase growth to solve the financial
crisis it is important to listen to the critics of growth.
The GDP
formula was invented by John Maynard Keynes who wrote a
pamphlet during World War II entitled: The British National Income and
How to Pay for the War. In 1953 that Keynesian set of rules was imposed
on everybody. The rules are called The United Nations System of
National Accounts. All countries must use them or they will not be
allowed to be a member of the UN, or deal with the World Bank and IMF.
These unquestioned rules have been used to make public policy for the
last 61 years.
Marilyn
Waring says that the GDP system counts only cash transactions
in the market. In other words it recognizes no value other than money.
This means there is no value to peace to the preservation of the
environment, and no value to unpaid work. This system leaves out half
the population of the planet and the planet itself.
Marilyn
Waring's work and intriguing life is described in a documentary
film by Terre Nash. I'm bringing back the soundtrack of this film to
support a debate on changing the current National Income Accounting
using the GDP.
Marilyn
Waring is an author, former member of the New Zealand
Parliament, and goat farmer. She is Professor of Public Policy at AUT
University in Auckland, New Zealand. The film is available on line at
the website of the National Film Board of Canada <http://www.nfb.ca/>
Thanks to
Terre Nash for making this film available.
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of
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The Earth Wants YOU!
Bill Talen
30sec Preview/Promo is HERE
Reverend
Billy
in
his
smart
white
suit
and
Elvis
Presley
hairdo
is
preaching
the
stop
shopping
gospel
while
standing
knee
deep
in
the
rising
floods
of
climate
change.
That's
the
photo
on
the
cover
of
his
recent
book
by
City
Lights:
The
Earth
Wants
YOU,
a
motivational
handbook
meant
to
inspire
its
readers
to
challenge
the
consumerism
that
is
killing
our
planet.
Bill
Talen moved from San Francisco to New York City in the early nineties
after many years in Bay Area Theater and performance art. There he
began preaching on street corners in Times Square in front of Disney
stores and advertising bill boards. His solo appearances soon attracted
crowds and sympathizers and the Church of Stop Shopping was born. That
Church of Stop Shopping now has several thousand members and a
professional highly acclaimed multicultural choir.
On April
26, 2016, New York based Reverend Billy came as far west as he could
possibly go and gave a performance slash reading at the Gallery
Bookshop in the village of Mendocino. He introduced his new book: The
Earth Wants YOU! as both, a celebration of life and an indictment of
the forces of destruction.
Talen is
the author of several books including "What Would Jesus Buy" and "What
Should I Do If Reverend Billy is in My Store".
Much more
information is on the web site of the Church of Stop Shopping at
www.revbilly.com/
City
lights books are at
www.citylights.com/
A447 For a broadcast quality mp3 file click HERE
American Nuremberg
- The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial
for Post-9/11 War Crimes
an interview with Rebecca Gordon
30sec Preview/Promo is HERE
To
this day the people of the United States have no accounting of what has
been done in our names in the so-called war on terror. But we are left
with ongoing misery for literally millions of people, destabilized
regions in the Middle East, South East Asia, North Africa and blow-back
and spill over into Europe. And it is extraordinary how a small group
of political leaders could have created such ongoing expanding
devastation and has not been held responsible in any way.
Rebecca
Gordon writes that for the sake of the victims of the war on terror we
need real accountability for American war criminals. Her book, American
Nuremberg, published by Hot Books at Skyhorse, NY-City, went into
distribution in April 2016.
Rebecca
Gordon teaches philosophy at the University of San Francisco. Her prior
book: Mainstreaming Torture, was based on her PhD thesis in Ethics and
Social Theory from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA.
Rebecca
Gordon was interviewed by activist, photographer and radio host Jeffrey
Blankfort on June 22, 2016. My thanks go out to my friends Rebecca and
Jeffrey and to KZYX radio in Philo, CA, for this extraordinary
interview.
A446 For a broadcast quality mp3 version of this program click HERE
'The End of Water
As We Know It'
with Argonne National Lab
Scientist Dr. Seth Darling
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for
Part
ONE
30sec Preview/Promo
for
Part
TWO
Even though water is
most vital for survival the status of depletion or contamination is not
well known to the public and there are very few mechanisms in place
world wide for water protection and access to water as a human right.
In this
May 18, 2016, talk valuable information is introduced to support and
inspire local efforts. Dr. Darling updates statistics about the water
embedded in certain products. He also makes an
interesting connection between energy production and water and
surprises us with research that shows how the energy industry withdraws
200 billion gallons of water per day in the US alone.
Seth
Darling is a Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a Fellow at
the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of
Chicago. He is the co-author, with Douglas L Sisterson, of the
2014 book: How to Change Minds about our Changing Climate.
He spoke
at the International House - University of Chicago.
Thanks to
Dale Lehman from WZRD Radio in Chicago for this recording.
A445 For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part ONE click HERE
A445 For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part TWO click HERE
Robert Fisk on the Armenian Holocaust
UPDATED ARCHIVE: The ongoing controversy about the Armenian Genocide
30sec Preview/Promo
When on
June 2nd, 2016, the German Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a
resolution declaring the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915
a genocide, the Turkish government angrily denounced the vote as “null
and void,”. And Prime Minister Erdogan called his ambassador in
Germany back to Ankara for consultations. Fear spread among German
political leaders that Erdogan might retaliate and unleash tens
of thousands of refugees that Turkey currently hosts.
Robert
Fisk is the award-winning Middle East correspondent of the London
Independent. He has reported from the Middle East since 1976, speaks
arabic and lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
Fisk
wrote on June 2, 2016 in the Independent that Germany now joined France
and Russia and at least 18 other nations who accept the Armenian
genocide as a fact of history, along with Pope Francis – with the US
remaining the sole major exception.
Fisk was
the only journalist who pointed out that the refugees and migrants, who
Europe tried to keep out of come, in many cases, from the very towns
and deserts in which the Turks committed their acts of horror against
the Armenians 101 years ago.
Fisk
writes that "The skulls and bones of Armenians still lie in the sands
south of the Turkish border which Isis now controls; and when al-Nusrah
captured parts of Deir ez-Zor, they blew up the Armenian cathedral of
the Syrian city, took the bones of genocide victims from the vaults and
scattered them in the streets." end quote.
In the
context of these events here is a talk that Robert Fisk gave to
Armenian Americans in San Francisco in 2001 on the 85th anniversary of
the Armenian Holocaust - as he chooses to define it. He had just been
attacked in the media for using that word.
Robert
Fisk spoke before the Armenian National Committee in San Francisco in
March 2001.
A297 For a broadcast quality mp3 version click HERE
Climate Change is Here - Now What?
Professor Bill Collins (ONE of TWO)
30second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
30second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
The
Berkeley Lab, short for: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, overlooks the
campus of the University of California, Berkeley. They conduct
scientific research on behalf of the US Department of Energy, and are
managed and operated by the University of California.
In
September 2015 the Berkeley Lab established the Climate and Ecosystem
Sciences Division. The mission of the new Division is to understand,
predict, and advance stewardship of the Earth’s Climate and Ecosystems.
They pay attention to water, energy, and agriculture.
The Director for the
new Climate and Ecosystem Science Division is Dr. Bill Collins. He is
an internationally recognized expert in climate modeling and climate
change science and also serves as director of the Climate Readiness
Institute, a new multi-campus initiative to prepare the San Francisco
Bay Area for climate change.
The
Berkeley Lab conducts public events to introduce their staff and
research issues and answer questions from the audience. On March 24,
2016 they held the event: Climate Change is Here - Now What? Jeff Miller is head
of public affairs at Berkeley Lab. He brought Professor Collins on
stage for an extensive interview about climate change, how we know it,
and what we can do about it.
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Palestine is Still the Issue (ONE of TWO)
by Israeli Historian Prof. Ilan Pappé
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Part
ONE
30secondPreview/Promo
Part
TWO
NOTE:
Since
tempers can flare on any issue critical of Israel you may want to
precede this program with a disclaimer that the opinions offered here a
that of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect those of the
station, it's staff or board of directors.
I do hope
that you will play this important program but also want to be sure that
you know that you may draw criticism. Maria Gilardin
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Prof. Ilan Pappé is the best known member of Israel's generation
of "new historians" who have been rewriting the history of Israel's
founding in 1948. Thanks to the declassification of British and Israeli
documents in the 1980s Pappé has dedicated himself to exposing
the truths behind the long established myths around what Israel calls
its war of independence in 1948. That war led to the ethnic cleansing
of three quarters of a million Palestinians and the destruction of over
500 of their villages in what is now Israel.
That's described in
Pappé's seminal book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,
published in 2006 while he was chair of the Institute for Palestinian
and Israeli Studies at Haifa University. The publication led to
personal attacks on him in the Israeli Knesset and in Israel's
academia. After threats on his person, Pappé left Israel in 2008
and was welcomed at the University of Exeter in Britain. There he is
currently the director of the university's European Center for
Palestine Studies.
Pappé says
that reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis in a future peace
process must be based on an investigation of war crimes committed by
Israel in 1948. Pappé supports the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions) movement for an economic and political boycott of Israel. He
believes boycotts are justified because quote: "they can move us
forward along the only remaining viable and non-violent road to saving
both Palestinians and Israelis from an impending catastrophe."
At the
time of partition, the Jewish population owned less than 6% of
Palestine. When Israel declared its "independence," in 1948 it came
into existence on 78 percent of historic Palestine, a percentage it has
steadily increased in subsequent years, a process that continues today.
Today 40% of the Palestinian West Bank is off-limits to Palestinians.
This May
2016 speech by Ilan Pappé explains his positions including his
remedy. Since Israel has already annexed almost all of Palestine, there
is no longer an option for a two state solution. Pappé says the
solution is One State for all its inhabitants and he lays out some of
the basics.
Ilan Pappé spoke on May 2, 2016, at the First
Congregational Church in Berkeley, CA. He was the keynote speaker at
the anniversary celebration of the Middle East Children's Alliance,
MECA, a nonprofit humanitarian aid organization based in Berkeley, CA.
Since 1988 MECA has provided more that $21 million in food, medicine,
medical supplies, and clothes, as well as books, toys and school
supplies to children and families in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon. It
can be found on line at <mecaforpeace.org>
A443 For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part ONE click HERE
A443 For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part TWO click HERE
Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson on
The Unforgiving Math for Staying Under 2 Degrees
30 second Preview/Promo,
Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
Much was
made of the April 22, 2016, signing of the Climate Treaty negotiated in
Paris last December. At the ceremony in New York UN Secretary General
Ban-Ki-moon said that we are in a race against time, and that the
window for the goal set in Paris for keeping global temperate rise well
below two degrees Celsius, let alone 1.5 degrees, is “rapidly closing.”
During the
negotiations in Paris in December 2015 some scientists had already
warned that even a 2 degrees Celsius limit in temperature would be
almost impossible to maintain unless we were to make significant
changes within the next 5 years. Kevin Anderson is one extraordinary
and important voice among them.
Anderson is
Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester.
He has recently finished a two-year position as Director of the Tyndall
Centre, the UK’s leading academic climate change research
organization.
Anderson was
interviewed in Paris during the COP21 conference by Kevin Caners, radio
producer with his blog The Elephant.
A442 For a broadcast quality
mp3 version of Part ONE click HERE
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The Atomic Age
Humans and Other Living Beings Come Last
Professor Norma Field
30 second Preview/Promo
In all
the memories recorded about the nuclear technologies and the disasters
of our time the fate of humans exposed to radiation comes last. That
was the leading concept of a Fukushima/Chernobyl anniversary talk by
Norma Field. She hopes to rescue humans and other living things from
oblivion and from the real harm inflicted upon them now and into the
future.
Some
argue that Norma Field risked her academic standing as professor of
East Asian studies at the University of Chicago by not only teaching
Premodern Japanese Poetry and Prose, and Women Studies, but also by
being public and vocal in her indictment of nuclear weapons and nuclear
power.
Born in
Tokyo in 1947 to a Japanese mother and American serviceman father she
was in a unique position to understand each one of her cultures with
curiosity as well as distance. Norma Field is the author of many books,
among them: In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: A Portrait of Japan at
Century's End (1993) and From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of
Postwar Tokyo (1997).
She was
recorded by Dale Lehman, WZRD, on March 20, 2016 at De Paul University,
Chicago. Find the full talk as recorded by Dale here: <http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/85823>
A441 For a broadcast quality mp3 version
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Chernobyl 30 Years Later
Lucas Hixson's Diary
Anniversary Date: April 26, 1986
30 second Preview/Promo
In
September 2015 a next generation nuclear field engineer from Chicago
went to Chernobyl to join the 3,500 workers on site. They are
completing the largest movable structure humans have ever built: Tall
enough to enclose the Statue of Liberty and wide enough to cover the
exploded Unit Four of the Chernobyl power plant including the
sarcophagus that was built over the plant in 1986.
Bechtel
corporation, the lead contractor, says the $1.3 billion confinement
structure will keep water out and radioactive dust and
debris in — for at least a century. Radiation levels in some
locations are still high enough to cause premature failure of
structural materials. The gigantic arch had to be built away from the
destroyed power plant because of the high radiation levels. Plans are
to move the structure in place later in 2016.
Lucas
Hixson kept a diary and took photos of his 10 days at Chernobyl. He
wants us to hear his story in honor of the workers who risk their
health today to prevent the spread of the enormous debris field that
will remain at Chernobyl forever.
Lucas
Hixson spoke at De Paul University, Chicago, at an event set up by Dave
Kraft from the Nuclear Energy Information Service. <http://www.neis.org> Dave and NEIS
want us to remember that, unlike all other kinds of accidents nuclear
disasters continue to “keep on giving”. As one Russian doctor put it at
the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl, "The accident is over. The
catastrophe is just beginning." Such is the case with Fukushima as well.
Lucas
Hixson publishes studies of operating and decommissioned nuclear power
stations and nuclear weapons facilities across the United States. He
also is the managing editor for Enformable Nuclear News, one of the top
nuclear industry news services. <http://enformable.com/>
<http://enformable.com/2015/09/experiencing-the-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-nearly-30-years-later/>
Date
Recorded: 2016-03-20
Credit:
Dale Lehman from WZRD radio, Chicago, recorded this moving and
important event.
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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
"Israel's Influence: Good or Bad for America?"
30 secondPreview/Promo
Against the
background of an increasingly more urgent debate over the sources of
conflict in the Middle East, the growth of ISIS, the refugee crisis,
and the role of the US armed interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria;
this question takes on great importance: Who is setting Middle East
policy in the US? These and other topics were addressed at the National
Press Club in Washington, DC, on March 18, 2016, at the conference on
Israel's Influence.
Retired Colonel
Lawrence Wilkerson is the highest ranking US foreign policy whistle
blowers to date. He was Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of
Staff from 2002-05 during the fateful time of the US war on Iraq.
Before coming to the
State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During
that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College
(1987-1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and Director and Deputy
Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia
(1993-97).
He is
currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Public
Policy at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
As early as 2007
Wilkerson stated in a Dutch documentary that AIPAC, the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, was highly influential in the Bush
Administration's decision to go to war in Iraq. He also states that
"ever since 1948 Israel has been a foreign and security policy
problem."
A440 For a broadcast quality
mp3 version of this program click HERE
Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald on Privacy and
Surveillance
Excerpt from the March 25, 2016, event at the University of Arizona
30second Preview/Promo
Edward Snowden, Glen
Greenwald, and Noam Chomsky were exploring the urgent topic of privacy
in todays surveillance state at the event entitled: "Conversation on
Privacy".
NSA
whistle-blower Edward Snowden was participating by video-stream from
Russia. The excerpts in this program focus on him and Glen Greenwald.
Greenwald is best known as having met with Edward Snowden on his way
into exile in Hong Kong in 2013. He received the documents that Snowden
had taken in order to prove the extraordinary depth of government
spying that Snowden had observed while employed by the CIA and as
contractor for the NSA.
Greenwald
was a columnist for the British Guardian and is now founding editor of
the Intercept and a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC and Democracy Now.
This
program deals with the resurgence of a Free Speech movement,
constitutional rights in the age of surveillance, the right and even
responsibility to alert the public about wrongdoing, the expansion of
powers and privileges the government is claiming; and the point of view
that rights to privacy exist to protect the minority against the
majority.
A439 For a broadcast quality
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Michael Parenti
Cuba, the Spanish American War and the Rise of US Imperialism
Updated as essential backstory
for Obama's visit to Cuba
30second Preview/Promo
As
President Obama became the first sitting US President in almost 90
years to visit Cuba he took the same stage where Calvin Coolidge in
1928 lectured the Cubans on democracy. The US then controlled Cuban
national and foreign politics and the Cuban economy and had done so
since the end of the Spanish American War in 1898. The US had refused
to end the military occupation of Cuba unless Cuba changed its
constitution and ceded its sovereignty to the US.
The
infamous Platt Amendment of 1901 gave the U.S. the right to intervene
unilaterally in Cuban affairs and included a clause that eventually led
to the perpetual lease of Guantanamo Bay.
All this
was in force when Coolidge took the stage in 1928. Nevertheless he
lectured the Cubans on democracy and said about the United States: "Our
most sacred trust has been, and is, the establishment and expansion of
the spirit of democracy."
Now, in
2016, I can't think of a better program to revisit than the
extraordinary lecture by Dr. Michael Parenti on the Spanish American
War. US media and politicians are still lecturing Cuba on democracy and
very few commentators are looking back at the history among the two
countries. Meanwhile President Raul Castro asked Obama during his visit
for the return of Guantanamo Bay.
Michael
Parenti uses the history of the Spanish American War to answer several
very intriguing questions. Who first expressed the desire to annex the
island of Cuba – and when? The early African American emancipation
movement inside the US was critical of US plans to attack Cuba. Why,
their leaders asked, was the US government concerned about Spanish
repression of the rights of Cubans while the repression of African
Americans within the US was ignored. Some said the Negro needs freedom
just as much as the Cubans.
Why did
the US attack the Philippines when it was Cuba that they wanted to take
over? Why did the US give verbal support to the Cuban liberation
movements against Spain while selling weapons to Spain to fight the
poplar movement? The Spanish American War was an important turning
point in the transition of the US to an imperial power and many of the
forces at work are eerily contemporary.
Michael
Parenti is among our leading progressive political analysts. He
received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1962
and has taught at colleges in the US and abroad. Parenti lost his
access to tenure when he was arrested and seriously beaten in a protest
against the war on Vietnam.
<http://www.michaelparenti.org/>
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Arnie Gundersen
Visits the Refugees of Fukushima
30second Preview/Promo
After the explosions
and melt-down of the Fukushima Nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011,
160,000 people were evacuated. Five years later almost 100,000 of them
are still living in refugee housing because their homes, land and towns
are still too radioactive for life. The current Abe government of Japan
has begun a campaign to end the refugee crisis by a variety of
measures: by changing the radiation standards and telling the exiled
that it is now safe to go home, by ending disaster payments as well as
cost of living allowances unless they return to the broken down ghost
towns or relocate to other parts of Japan.
In
several cases Arnie Gundersen was the first outsider who came to visit
these refugee colonies scattered across Japan. Their personal stories
hold a kind of truth and significance that no official statements can
convey.
What
Arnie Gundersen had to offer the refugees in return is 45 years of
experience. He was a licensed reactor operator who taught reactor
physics, and served as a senior vice president for the nuclear
industry. He became a whistle blower in 1990 and lost his job and even
his home.
This
program presents part of his diary on his moving and heartbreaking
meetings with refugees. Arnie Gundersen by phone from Japan recorded in
March 2016 by the crew at Fairewinds.org.
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a
broadcast
quality
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version
of
this
program
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Silent Summer - Professor Timothy Mousseau
What happens to the lives of birds, insects and plants in the
radiation zones around Chernobyl and Fukushima?
30second Preview/Promo
Tim Mousseau is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of
South Carolina. For 15 years he and his scientific collaborator Anders
Moller from the University of Paris, Sud, have done research in the
most contaminated areas of Chernobyl. When Fukushima Daiichi exploded
they began field work there as well. They study birds, insects,
microbes, and plants at over 1,000 sites, creating the most diligent
inventories of each study area and returning year after year. They
found significantly increased rates of genetic damage in proportion to
the level of exposure to radioactive contaminants.
This is an update given on September 2, 2015, at Point Reyes Station,
California. Programmers at the radio station KWMR and the Ecological
Options Network, EON, in Bolinas had invited him to give a talk.
Mousseau's website is http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/Mousseau/Mousseau.html
Credit:
Many thanks to Bing Gong and Mary Beth Brangan for the recording. The
full audio file is on http://postcarbon.podomatic.com/
A438 For a broadcast quality mp3
version of this program click HERE
A
Conversation
with
Maggie
and
Arnie
Gundersen
From
Fairewinds
Energy
Education
30second Preview/Promo
The Gundersens came to
California for a speaking tour at the end of 2015 and offered to meet
me in the afternoon before giving a Fukushima update at the Point Reyes
Dance Palace. Both worked in the nuclear industry, Maggie in public
information, Arnie as an engineer and executive. He was fired from
Nuclear Energy Services in 1990.
I started by asking them a question that had troubled me for a long
time - given that Arnie Gundersen is one of only a handful of whistle
blowers. How early did people in the nuclear industry become aware that
they were dealing with a monstrously dangerous technology?
Arnie and
Maggie Gundersen are a
close team in the nuclear education work they are now doing. Their work
is posted on their web site Fairewinds dot org as videos and pod-casts
as well as blog posts on current events, expert witness reports on
nuclear safety issues, a book list, media coverage and much more.
For a broadcast quality
mp3 version of
this program click HERE
(This is ONE self contained
program - not a two part program)
Fukushima,
Five
Years
Later
Arnie
Gundersen
30 second Preview/Promo
As of February 2016
Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates is on a one month speaking
tour of Japan to assess the status of the cleanup. He arrives at a
crucial moment. Even though polls show that at least 70% of Japanese do
not want the nuclear power plants reopened that were shut down 5 years
ago, the Abe government is determined to put many of them back on line
and has begun the process. And to make things worse the Japanese
government is planning to burn plutonium mixed with uranium in their
aging reactors, a practice that has been abandoned in the US due to the
high risk.
This program includes a phone
report from the ghost towns around Fukushima and an in depth analysis
of the collusion between the electric power industry, banks and
government in Japan
In 2008 Gundersen's wife
Maggie formed the non-profit Fairewinds Energy Education. Their website
features videos and pod-casts as well as blog posts on current events,
expert witness reports on nuclear safety issues, a book list, media
coverage and much more. <http://www.fairewinds.org/>
As a young man Arnie
Gundersen believed in the promise of nuclear power. He was a licensed
reactor operator and managed and coordinated projects at 70 nuclear
power plants in the US. However he became increasingly more aware
of the high risks while at the same time observing serious safety
breaches. He spoke out and became a whistle blower. After 20 years as
nuclear engineer and executive, Gundersen was fired from his job in
1990.
A436 For a broadcast quality mp3
version click HERE
Arnie Gundersen
WHAT DID THEY KNOW, WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?
30 second Preview/Promo
On the 5th
anniversary of the Fukushima disaster the new Japanese State Secrets
Law enacted in 2014 limits information and threatens journalists with
jail time. And even Western media make it appear as if the worst has
passed.
Acknowledging
the reality of this accident with global consequences at least 100
years into the future is not only frightening for just plain folk but
would be economically devastating to the energy corporations. When
former nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen was asked by his family in
early 2011 where the next nuclear power plant accident would take place
he said he was unable to say where but that he was convinced that it
would be a Mark I or II General Electric design. Three weeks later the
Fukushima Daiichi Mark I reactors melted down.
Almost 1/4 of
the so called “fleet” of nuclear reactors in the US are of that same
design at Fukushima Daiichi. If you live in New York City, Boston,
Minneapolis, Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago or Wilmington, you are
threatened by one or more of these vulnerable Mark I or II reactors.
Only one of them has been closed since Fukushima. The Vermont Yankee in
southern Vermont was shut down on December 29, 2014.
The reason
Arnie Gundersen is so familiar with this design is that he was an
engineer on the Millstone Mark I reactor and a nuclear insider until he
was fired in 1990 for pointing out security flaws. Today he publishes
on the web site Fairewinds dot org.
Here is a
speech he gave at the Fukushima Symposium 2013 that is as brilliantly
up to date today as it was then. The two day event on March 11 and 12,
2013 was organized by The Helen Caldicott Foundation and cosponsored by
Physicians for Social Responsibility. It was held at the New York
Academy of Medicine, in New York City.
A379 For a broadcast quality mp3
version click HERE
When the FBI Knocks on the
Door
How the peace movement resisted FBI infiltration and accusations of
terrorism
30 second Preview/Promo
The largest deployment of FBI agents for
a political case since the Counterintelligence Programs against the
Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panthers, the American Indian
Movement, and the Young Lords occurred on September 24, 2010. In
a joint, national operation the FBI targeted homes and offices of
people who had organized rallies against the post 9/11 wars. This
time the accusation was "providing material support to foreign
terrorist organizations". In the end this giant and expensive FBI
operation did not yield a single charge.
However the 2010 raids and the confiscated materials were used against
two prominent activists who were affiliated with the peace movement:
the Brown Berets co-founder Carlos Montez, and the Palestinian American
Rasmea Odeh, leader in the Chicago Arab American community.
Odeh was targeted in 2013 by the immigration officials for having left
off her immigration application a fact that the whole world and the US
State Department knew: in 1969 she had been tortured into a false
confession by the Israeli army and spent time in prison. Now, in the
early months of 2016 a response is expected from the Circuit Court to
her appeal on a conviction for this so-called lie to 18 months in
prison and deportation. Odeh is currently out on bail.
In early January 2016 at the Third
Unitarian Church, Chicago, Joe Losbaker brought the community up to
date on the solidarity movement for Rasmea Odeh. Angela Davis, Danny
Glover and the founders of Black Lives Matter have come out in Odeh's
support.
Joe Losbaker is chief steward and member of the executive board of
Local 73 SEIU in Chicago. He begins the story on the day the FBI came
to his door in September 2010. The meeting was recorded by Dale Lehman
on January 10, 2016 and produced by TUC Radio in anticipation of the
response by the Circuit Court to Rasmea Odeh's appeal of her conviction
to prison and deportation. For updates and background information go to
http://www.stopfbi.net/
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BUSH Radio, Cape
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South Africa's First Community Radio Station
30 second Preview/Promo
Noam Chomsky praised the
vitality and professionalism of South Africa's
most influential community station. This is an intriguing look into the
day to day operations of the station that defined how radio is done and
trained staff for 80+ stations. When you visit Bush Radio in Cape Town
any Saturday morning you find children as young as 6 years doing their
own programming. Weekdays the news department presents local news on
the air, in writing as blog, including photos and video.
Denied a license
under
the old Apartheid regime, Bush Radio went on
the air illegally in 1993. Two broadcasters were arrested and the
equipment confiscated. After the historic elections of 1994 the first
broadcast licenses issued by the Mandela government were specifically
for community broadcasters. In June of 1995 Bush Radio received its
license to broadcast. Bush Radio played a huge role in defining the
laws and practice of community radio in South Africa. Over the last
eight years they trained approximately 500 people to operate a radio
station. Almost every one of the over 250 radio stations in existence
in
South Africa today employs at least one person trained at Bush Radio.
In the summer of 2009 Brenda
Leonard, the Bush Radio administrator,
went on a US tour of public radio stations. I met her in San Francisco
and asked her to tell me about the day to day operations of Bush Radio.
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World Radio Day 2016:
Live Coverage of the Napa Earthquake in California
One 29 minute self contained special
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World Radio Day is an international
annual celebration of radio, why we love it and why we need it today
more than ever. Their February 2016 events are focused on emergency
broadcasts. Here is a TUC Radio special documentary for the occasion.
This is part of the story of a community that has built their station
in response to a devastating fire in their own signal area at the Point
Reyes Peninsula - determined to be ready for the next emergency. KWMR
in Point Reyes Station has been on the air since 1995 with a rich
offering of music and public affairs. But - more than most other
community radio stations - they have built infrastructure, trained
staff and volunteers specifically to respond to emergencies. They
coordinate with all the local emergency services to be able to help in
times of need.
At 3:20 am on a Sunday morning in August 2014 a 6.0 earthquake hit Napa
County, less than an hour north of San Francisco. At least 15,000
residents lost power and most of them also lost the use of cell phones
and internet. With many cell phones now reduced to an expensive
flashlight people located their radio - and heard only pre-programmed
music from all commercial stations - with one exception, KWMR, a small,
non-commercial, community radio station far away from the epicenter.
You will hear some of the call-ins to the station that were recorded
that night and an interview with the station engineer Richard Dillman.
Alert for radio stations: This is an inspiring model and blueprint for
any radio station considering building an emergency response system in
their signal area.
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The Devil's Chessboard:
Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
30 second Preview/Promo
for
Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
for
Part
TWO
30 second
Preview/Promo for
Part THREE
A conversation between the author, David Talbot, and
Deep State analyst Peter Dale Scott.
In Talbot's extraordinary new book, "The Devil's Chessboard", he
explores Allen Dulles’ decade as the director of the CIA. With new
material and never before heard interviews David Talbot shows that
Dulles saw himself as above the law, manipulating and subverting
American presidents. Talbot outlines how Allen Dulles pursued his
personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his
friends and clients.
In Part ONE Talbot and Scott cover Dulles' collusion with
Nazi-controlled cartels and German war criminals; and how he targeted
foreign leaders for assassination and removed, for example in Iran,
nationalist governments not in line with his political aims.
In Part TWO
of their conversation Scott and Talbot begin with the aftermath of WWII
where the future of war time intelligence services, and the future
relations to the USSR and what became the Cold War, are being decided.
Part THREE
is a lively Q/A focused on how to undo the power of the Surveillance
State
This is an
amazing conversation at the 160+ year old Mechanics
Institute library in San Francisco in front of an audience of well
known writers and activists, including Daniel Ellsberg. Laura Sheppard
is the Director of Events at the Mechanics Institute. She introduced
the speakers.
Recorded on December 2, 2015.
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In Memory of John Trudell
What it
means to be a Human Being
TUC Radio Archives
29
second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
When John Trudell died on December 8,
2015, many were at a loss how to explain in a few words what he meant
to them: Santee Sioux poet, philosopher, musician and warrior came to
mind and the commercial media added his roles in films and the films
made about him.
Trudell grew up on and around
the Santee Sioux reservation near Omaha,
Nebraska. In 1969 he participated in the Indians of All Tribes
occupation of Alcatraz. From 1973 to 1979 her served as national
chairman of the American Indian Movement. The government response to
A.I.M. was swift Trudell said, "They waged a war against us. They
hunted us down. They killed, jailed, destroyed by any means necessary."
One
of AIM’s greatest accomplishments on Trudell’s watch was drawing
attention to the US government policy of Tribal Termionation and the
eventual rollback of Termination and the Restoration of tribal rights
and some Native lands. AIM walked The Longest Walk from California to
DC and occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) headquarters
building. While there, AIM activists discovered secret plans to
terminate even more tribes and went public.
Of
course government agencies and the FBI became dedicated to ending the
nascent Native American movement. To this day it remains unclear who
inside AIM was used by the FBI and what the effects of the FBI’s
defamation campaigns against certain members of AIM were. John Trudell
personally became a target of the FBI. In their amazing 17,000-page FBI
dossier on him, the reported that they feared his verbal skill the
most. “Articulate” appears repeatedly.
In 1979 that war took a
terrible personal toll on John Trudell. On
February 11, 1979 he led a march to the FBI headquarters in Washington
D.C. Approximately 12 hours later a fire "of suspicious origin" burned
down Trudell's home on the Shoshone Paiute reservation in Nevada,
killing his wife Tina, their three children, and Tina's mother.
Devastated by the loss of his family, Trudell withdrew from the world;
"writing words" became his way "to keep some sanity" and continue to
survive.
Trudell spoke in March 2001
in San Francisco at a benefit for the U'wa
and their resistance to oil drilling on their ancestral land in
Colombia - a struggle that continues till today.
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Vandana Shiva
Soil Not Oil
30 second Preview/Promo
for
Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
for
Part TWO
This
is
the keynote speech by the Indian physicist, ecologist, seed
collector, anti GMO and Monsanto campaigner, teacher of organic
agriculture, author and founder of many vibrant organizations. In a
life spanning local action and international politics, academic
teaching and gardening alongside her rural neighbors Vandana Shiva has
become an inspiration to many.
Her books include: Stolen Harvest, Earth Democracy, Biopiracy, the
plunder of nature and knowledge, Water Wars, and Soil Not Oil. This
book, first published in 2007, has become influential beyond it's
initial success because it addresses the most urgent issue of our time:
Climate change.
As we are becoming more aware that industrial agriculture is a major
cause of greenhouse gas emissions that bring about climate change -
Vandana Shiva and others are now making the case that restoring the
soil, and recovering organic agriculture around the world can not only
dramatically limit climate change but even has the capacity to
sequester carbon back into the soil, that has already been emitted into
the air .
In September 2015 a two day conference took place in Richmond, CA, to
discuss this timely potential in much detail. In honor of Vandana Shiva
the organization and conference were named Soil Not Oil and she was
asked to give the keynote address.
Recorded in Richmond, CA, September 4, 2015. Thanks to the Soil Not Oil
Cosalotion snd their excellent video at
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3syIKl9A6o>
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James G. Anderson
Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard
Interview on Climate Change
30 second Preview/Promo
Professor James Anderson did much of the research resolving the mystery
of which industrial chemicals destroyed the ozone layer over
Antarctica. The urgent need to deal with deadly UV radiation led to the
signing of the Montreal Protocol in 1989.
Now,
almost
30
years
later,
Anderson
is
doing
ozone
research
again.
This
time
over
the
continental
US.
Harvard
Magazine
said
as
early
as
2012
that
Atmospheric
Chemists
report
a
serious
and
wholly
unexpected
risk
of
ozone
loss
over
the
United
States
in
summer.
And
Anderson
explains
how
climate
change
is
a
factor
in
this
new
phenomenon.
He
also
answers
basic
questions
about
the
interconnectedness
of
climate
systems,
the
fallacy
of
global
average
temperatures,
how
living
and
teaching
in
Boston/at
Harvard
influenced
his
views
on
climate
change
and
much
more.
The
interview
was
posted
on
YouTube
on
July
21,
2015.
Here
is
the
link:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12P76EYQJ8>
Thanks
to
Dale
Lehman
from
WZRD
Radio,
Chicago,
for
discovering
the
video
and
sharing
this
link.
And
many
thanks
to
the
unidentified
student
who
did
this
excellent
interview!
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Our Renewable Future
With Richard Heinberg
30 second Preview/Promo
for
Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
for
Part
TWO
On a cool November Sunday the hall of the Little
Lake Grange in Willits, CA, filled with members and supporters of WELL
- Willits Economic Localization. 11 years earlier many of them had come
to hear Richard Heinberg after reading his book The Party’s Over: Oil,
War & the Fate of Industrial Societies.
The 2004
Canadian documentary, The End of Suburbia, featured an interview with
Heinberg and became an inspiration here as well as for the emerging
international Transition Town movement.
Arguing that modern life as we know it will end as oil reserves begin
running out and climate change does not allow us to burn the rest, the
Transition Town Movement focuses on the interrelated issues of energy
and economy and all the positive projects of local self reliance that
are already under way.
Richard
Heinberg's talk on “Our Renewable Future” is set among all the
frightening news about accelerating climate change. However his message
was serious but positive. He asks how our daily life will change as we
fully embrace the era of renewable energy? How will we need to shift
the ways we use energy - offering both opportunities and challenges.
In Part TWO
Heinberg prsents his three level plan for the transition to renewable
energy. He is touching on food production, transportation, housing,
manufacturing, steel and cement construction mining, the internet and
much more. He calls this the economic transformation for the remainder
of our life time. He was recorded and filmed by TUC Radio at the Little
Lake Grange in the small former logging town of Willits, CA, on
November 15, 2015.
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War,
Peace
&
Climate
Change
Professor
Michael
Klare
Part
ONE:
30 second Preview/Promo
Part TWO: 30 second Preview/Promo
This is the record of a
meeting of the minds between an organization, Peace Action, that has
worked for over 50 years on the abolition of nuclear weapons and war,
and an activist professor. Michael Klare has written and taught on U.S.
military policy, international peace and security affairs, the global
arms trade, and global resource politics.
The question on everybody's mind that night was - how are war and
climate change related - And how can we find ways of addressing that
dual danger by working on strategies of resolving both.
After his talk Professor Klare answered
questions for almost an hour in an animated give and take.
In Part TWO are the best exchanges in the Q/A on climate and war; and
why the Defense Department takes climate change very seriously; that
the Navy prepares to lose their bases around the world to sea level
rise, and why the conservative government of England is upset at their
powerful Governor of the Bank of England. He said publicly that fossil
fuels pose a rising risk to banking and insurance. Also included is an
fascinating exchange over Jared Diamond's book Collapse, and how it
might apply to us today.
Michael Klare is Five College professor of peace and world security
studies and a prolific author. The titles of just the last three of his
books clearly delineate his expertise and purpose. They are: Resource
Wars (2001), Blood and Oil (2004), and The Race for What's Left (2012)
Michael Klare was recorded by Dale Lehman on October 24, 2015 at the
annual dinner of the Chicago Area Peace Action.
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Ricarda Winkelmann:
The Melting of Antarctica
30 second Preview/Promo
A fairly unknown scientist - at least by US standards - took the lime
light in major media in the US in September 2015. The New York Times -
and also Democracy Now - quoted her this way:
“To be blunt: If we burn it all, we melt it all,” said Ricarda
Winkelmann, the lead author of a paper entitled: "Combustion of
available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic
Ice Sheet." It was published on September 11, 2015, in the journal
Science Advances.
Winkelmann is Juniorprofessor of Climate System Analysis at
the prestigious Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in
Germany. Her research areas are Anthropogenic climate change; Tipping
elements; Antarctic ice dynamics and Sea-level rise.
The New York Times summed up the article: "Burning all the
world’s deposits of coal, oil and natural gas would raise the
temperature enough to melt the entire ice sheet covering Antarctica,
driving the level of the sea up by more than 160 feet, scientists
reported Friday."
This radio program is a summary of the September article as
well as two presentations that Professor Winkelmann gave at the Our
Common Future under Climate Change gave. She spoke in Paris on July 8,
2015, on: "Early Warning for Thresholds and Tipping Points in the Earth
System" and "Landscapes of our Common Future"
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Obama’s
Geopolitical Strategy for Containing China
An interview with Professor Alfred McCoy
30 second Preview/Promo
From time to time TUC Radio presents programs produced by other people.
The interview of Professor Alfred McCoy by my neighbor and fellow
broadcaster Jeff Blankfort at KZYX was such an extraordinary revealing
piece on US Imperial history that it drew an instant surprised response.
The historian Professor McCoy is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, the
Philippines, Southeast Asia; global drug trafficking; and CIA covert
operations.
He teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his September
2015 piece in Tom Dispatch “Grandmaster of the Great Game: Obama's
Geopolitical Strategy for Containing China,” stands in total contrast
to the current views of media pundits as well as the Republican party.
They see Obama as weak, clueless, and indecisive in matters of foreign
policy. McCoy provocatively places Obama among the limited number of
presidents and public figures whose geopolitical skills - if he is
allowed to succeed - will have transformed America’s global role.
In this interview McCoy takes listeners from Halford Mackinder, father
of geopolitics and “heartland” theory, to Elihu Root to Brzezinski to
Obama’s efforts to interrupt China’s global ambitions and maintain US
global hegemony. He also puts into this geopolitical perspective
Obama's recent efforts to reach out to Burma, Iran and Cuba.
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Interviews of
Professor Peter Wadhams, Glaciologist at Cambridge, UK
ONE: Our Time is
Running Out - The Arctic Sea Ice is Going!
TWO: An interview by blogger Nick Breeze
Part ONE: 30
second Preview/Promo
Part TWO: 30
second Preview/Promo
Peter
Wadhams
is Professor of Ocean Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK. With
over 40 years of research on Arctic sea ice, icebergs and polar
oceanography, he is considered one of the leading experts in his field.
Recently Wadhams has gone public on an additional danger related to the
loss of sea ice. The Arctic summer ends in September and observations
show a tendency of shrinking ice followed by a dramatic lack of
re-growth of ice during the subsequent Arctic winter. Wadhams has made
studies from submarines that show that the new ice is thin and slushy
and easily broken up by winds. An ice free Arctic in September would
accelerate the already occurring methane releases from the permafrost
land areas and the shallow waters along the continental shelves.
Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
Part ONE: Professor Peter
Wadhams gave me permission to adapt for radio an
interview he gave to Judy Sole on May 15, 2015. Judy Sole is founding
the University of Earth in South Africa.
Part
TWO: Only days
before professor Wadhams set off on his September 2015 research voyage
to the Arctic the UK blogger Nick Breeze did an interview with him,
asking him about the latest data on the disappearing Arctic sea ice. We
had just heard on the news that the sea ice minimum at the end of the
Arctic summer was the fourth lowest on record. It stands at about half
of the ice that used to cover the same area. Wadhams also comments on
methane releases, the Polar Vortex, the Jet Stream and the already
apparent effects on weather, including anomalous droughts, ice and
storms.
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Vandana Shiva's
Celebration of Gandhi's Home Rule
TWO Parts
30
second Preview/Promo
30
second Preview/Promo
Dr.
Vandana
Shiva
is
a
philosopher,
environmental
activist
and eco feminist. She is
the co- founder and director of the Navdanya Research Foundation and
the author of numerous books including, Soil Not Oil, Environmental
Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis, and Stolen Harvest, The Hijacking
of the Global Food Supply.
It was
an
extraordinary
experience to hear her speak in the
standing room only Little Lake Valley Grange in a very small former
logging town in Northern California. Willits maintains one of the
earliest successful economic Localization Projects. Vandana Shiva had
been invited by the Charter Project of
Mendocino. If the voters approve, Mendocino would be joining Counties
such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Santa Clara and San
Mateo and become a Charter County. The local goal is to form a
community controlled Public Bank, patterned after the Bank of North
Dakota.
Her
speech
is
an
indictment
of
industrial
agriculture
-
much
of
it
based
on
her
research
into
the
Green
Revolution
and
her
work
with
the
Indian
government
and
the
UN.
Monsanto claims that
Glyphosate can't harm humans because we do not
have the shikimate pathway that plants and bacteria have. Shiva says
what they ignore - or deliberately not tell us - is that the human body
is made up of 600 trillion cells - most of which are bacteria. Many of
the trillions of bacteria in our bodies and especially inside our gut
are affected by the Roundup Ready GMOs we eat. She points to new
disease epidemics with
the highest numbers in the
USA. They may be related to the early introduction and wide
distribution of GMOs and the two associated toxins, Bt and Roundup.
Research in Shiva's Navdanya
Foundation shows that wherever Bt crops or
Glyphosate are used the soils and pollinators are seriously affected.
She also warns that more and more
countries are creating laws that
criminalize the age old practice of saving and exchanging of seeds.
Shiva praises the efforts of
localization and encourages everybody not
to give up our relationships to nature and each other that are based on
love and care.
Recorded on Serptember 7, 2015 in Willits, CA.
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RISING
SEA
LEVELS
The Causes, the Data and a Look into the Future
30
second Preview/Promo
NASA, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has over 20 years of
data on sea level rise in the oceans of the world. They give regular
public updates and you will hear from four of their scientists who
reported in a teleconference on August 26, 2015.
Sea level rise, NASA scientists say, is already occurring. The
open question is just how quickly the seas will rise in the future. The
consequences of global sea level rise could be more serious than the
worst-case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models and the
IPCC, which don't fully account for the accelerating breakup of ice
sheets and glaciers.
With:
-- Michael Freilich, director of NASA's Earth Science Division
-- Steve Nerem, lead for NASA's Sea Level Change Team at the University
of Colorado at Boulder
-- Eric Rignot, glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine
and JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
-- Josh Willis, oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, JPL, California
The link of that NASA conference on Sea Level Science is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDdNxb2xVBU
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Interview with
Professor Eric Rignot
Repeat of June 2014 Broadcast
NASA
glaciologist
with
JPL,
Pasadena,
and
Professor
of
Earth
System
Science at the University
of
California, Irvine
30
second Preview/Promo
The world was shocked in May 2014 when
NASA announced that parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be
in an irreversible decline. That area holds 4 feet of sea level rise.
This rebroadcast prepares for an update of the melting - one year
later. Eric Rignot is one of the lead scientists in this project. I
called him on May 23, 2014 to find out how the teams arrived at these
data:
A new study by
Professor Eric Rignot and researchers at NASA and the University of
California, Irvine, presented in May, 2014, finds a rapidly melting
section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an
irreversible state of decline.
The Amundsen Sea Embayment
with its five glaciers is one of the hardest
to reach areas of West Antarctica. The advent of over-flights by
airplanes and now observation from satellites was a game changer for
research, says Professor Rignot.
This is an interview about
the current technology of observation, and
the way in which results on glacier thickness, movement, temperature,
and contact line with warming ocean waters are mapped. Professor Rignot
is among the leaders in the new field of remote sensing
technologies. He pioneered advances in radar interferometry.
This phone interview, held on
May 23, 2014, addresses the questions how
NASA and the European Space Agency, along with scientists, are
collecting data from space, not just from airplanes.
Important links:
<http://www.ess.uci.edu/group/erignot/opportunities>
<http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_News>
<http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2014/03/Pine_Island_retreat>
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/mission/index.html#.U4v7pUu9ZPc>
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WITNESS
TO
THE
MELTING
OF
THE
GREENLAND
ICE
An Inuit elder speaks
30
second Preview/Promo
Recorded in a tent during a rainstorm
by Cien Fuegos in July, 2007
in the Valley of the Ancients on Greenland.
During construction of the ceremonial fire pit for the
2008 second circumpolar meeting, an Inuit elder allowed his one on one
conversation to be recorded. This is a moving and wise comment on our
common future. In his carefully chosen expression in English lies the
urgency in which he attempts to reach out to the Western
"Civilizations" - urging us to understand the Inuit plight while at the
same time grasping that our own survival is at stake as well. Movingly
he also expresses his fears and at times despair to reach us in the
West before it is too late for us all.
When I first heard his voice in 2007 I wished I could move radio
stations to play this recording every day to show that voices like his
can reach us and inspire us to recognize our common future. But even
though there is enough water bound up in the melting Greenland ice
sheet to raise sea level by 21 feet and drown the cities of London and
New York this program had a limited distribution. That's why I decided
to play his appeal again.
In 2008, one year after he was recorded, Greenland had the greatest ice
losses ever to that date, three times the amount that Ithluk had
observed. scientists then feared that Greenland had reached the tipping
point. Jason Box, associate professor of geography at Ohio State Byrd
Polar Research Center, said after the 2008 numbers were compiled QUOTE
That loss of ice translates into global sea level rises of potentially
up to 6 feet by 2100.
Now, in 2015, as I'm sending Ithluk's voice out for the third time,
another tragedy has just occurred that should be a wake-up call. In mid
August 2015 the largest section of ice so far broke off the front of
the Jakobshaven Glacier in Greenland. According to the European Space
Agency, the new iceberg is so huge, that its total ice could
“cover the whole of Manhattan Island by a layer of ice almost 1,000
feet thick.
Greenland is the world's second largest ice body, and melting of its
ice sheet contributes about 40% of current sea level rise. According to
a new study published in August 2015 in the Journal of Glaciology, in
the first part of the 21st century, glaciers are melting faster than at
any point in the last 165 years-- and possibly any point in recorded
history.
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BEST of TUC -
anniversary of the Hurricane.
This story never made the national media.
HURRICANE KATRINA
and
the War on the Poor
PREVENTED - AT GUNPOINT - FROM RESCUING THEMSELVES AND OTHERS
Eyewitness report from
two S.F. paramedics,
Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Larry Bradshaw
30 second Preview/Promo
After being turned away from shelters they and a large group of African
Americans try and walk to safety. Gretna Sheriffs block the Greater New
Orleans Bridge across the Mississippi and shoot over their heads when
they try to leave the flooded city. Later their temporary shelter is
destroyed by a helicopter, a police officer, gun drawn, threatens them
in a furious rage and takes away their food and water. Just before
night he forces the group to flee into the night of a 'shoot to kill'
curfew in New Orleans.
When they finally get picked up they, and thousands of others, sit in a
dirty cage at the New Orleans airport, again without food and water,
forced to wait for the George W. Bush photo opportunity to end. As they
arrive in San Antonio they are made to stand on a dark tarmac and are
subjected to a dog sniffing ordeal. This and more in a 24 minute
interview with Lorrie Beth and Larry by Maria Gilardin recorded on
Sept. 9, 2005.
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Our Common Future Under Climate Change
From the July 7-10 conference held in Paris
Part THREE - Professor Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate
Change at the University of Manchester, UK
Part FOUR - The Climate Deception Dossiers
Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate
Disinformation
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30 second Preview/Promo Part
FOUR
TUC Radio is focusing on climate change in preparation of the Climate
Summit coming up in Paris from November 30 to December 11, 2015 (COP 21)
In the early
days of July, 2015, over 100 countries sent 2000 delegates to Paris to
discuss the physical, economic and social aspects of climate change.
The conference hoped to inspire ambition for a global climate treaty
later this year in December at the COP 21 Climate Conference, also in
Paris.
http://www.commonfuture-paris2015.org/
Part THREE: Professor Anderson says
that we need to immediately begin a drastic scale down of carbon
emissions to prevent a collapse of the climate system. The Copenhagen
Accord of 2010 stated that the increase in global temperature needs to
be held below 2 degrees Celsius in order to avoid dangerous climate
change. Anderson says that by postponing carbon reduction we are
already on our way to a 4 degree Celsius warming.
In advanced
economies, a reduction of emissions of between 80-95% from the 1990
baseline is needed, according to a Tyndall Centre working paper. And as
much as half of the world’s proven reserves of all fossil fuels will
need to be left in the ground if we are to avoid the worst effects of
climate change.
Among the 2000 delegates who came to Paris in July 2015 to discuss the
physical, economic and social aspects of climate change was Kevin
Anderson. He is professor of energy and climate change at the
University of Manchester, UK.
This meeting was held in preparation for the COP meeting, also in Paris
in December 2015, at which, finally, a global binding agreement on
emissions needs to be signed and implemented. Kevin Anderson's talk in
Paris received a lot of attention. However the organizers did not
include it among the posts on their web-site. Anderson's voice is
crucial for his expertise and his courage to express unpopular
opinions. This is an in depth interview by Mike Coe, UK, produced in
January 2015. See it on YouTube at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW-8ea8LWG8>
Part FOUR: In July 2015 the Union of Concerned Scientists
published the Climate Deception Dossiers. After years of research,
whistle-blowing and Freedom of Information Requests a truly sordid
picture emerges of fossil fuel corporations internally admitting that
climate change is real while at the same time spending millions of
dollars to buy scientists who say climate change is a hoax. These
bought-off scientists and politicians make statements such as: the sun
makes things warmer, not humans or CO2 - and anyway CO2 is good for you
and agriculture.
The Deception Dossiers
report the theft of letterheads of reputable organizations such as the
NAACP and the American Association of University Women. Forged letters
that were mailed to members of Congress, claiming to be from
non-profits that advocate for the well-being of women, minorities,
children, seniors, and veterans, and urging defeat of legislation to
protect the climate or undermining efforts at international climate
treaties.
The Deception Dossiers show
how millions of dollars are still being used on advertising campaigns
to spread misinformation and to fund efforts of organization such as
ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Prominent among the Climate Deception organizations is the Heartland
Institute They are openly facing off against the Inter Governmental
Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, by having created their own
organization in 2013. It is the NON-Governmental Panel on Climate
Change, the NIPCC.
The Heartland's most recent
salvo was an attack on Pope Francis and his appeal in the Encyclical to
halt climate change. The program is interspersed with excerpts of news
items from FOX and Rush Limbaugh that are being circulated via the
Heartland Institute web site. <http://www.ucsusa.org>
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From the July 7-10 conference held in Paris
Part ONE - French Ministers Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (Education) and
Ségolène Royal (Ecology, Sustainable Development and
Energy) with a guest appearance of Jon Stewart and climate change
deniers on the
Daily Show
Part TWO - Hans Joachim Schellnhuber - Prof. of Theoretical Physics and
participant in the Papal Encyclical
30 second Preview/Promo
Part ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
TUC Radio is focusing on climate change in preparation of the Climate
Summit coming up in Paris from November 30 to December 11, 2015 (COP 21)
In the early
days of July, 2015, over 100 countries sent 2000 delegates to Paris to
discuss the physical, economic and social aspects of climate change.
The conference hoped to inspire ambition for a global climate treaty
later this year in December at the COP 21 Climate Conference, also in
Paris.
http://www.commonfuture-paris2015.org/
Part ONE: Some prominent
conference speakers stated matter of factly that we need
not just reduce but actually end the carbon based economy that relies
on oil, coal and gas - and we have to do it within the next two decades
– which is probably the greatest challenge humanity ever faced. So
countries have agreed that Paris in 2015 is the time and place to
finally sign an international treaty requiring all nations to begin
reducing carbon emissions.
The French
president Francois Hollande had planned to open the conference - but he
was busy in meetings over the debt crisis in Greece. In his place two
very interesting women gave the keynotes. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is the
Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Research. She was born in
1977 in Morocco in a village near Nador. Previously she was minister of
Women's Rights.
Ségolène Royal is a prominent member of the French
Socialist Party and the Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development
and Energy. She is a former member of the National Assembly and has
held several ministerial positions.
Their concept
of the science of climate change stands in extraordinary contrast to
the the discourse within the US Congress where climate change deniers
still hold forth. I was reminded of Jon Stewart's Daily show right
after the huge Climate March in NYC in September 2014. This Daily Show
clip resents climate change deniers in the US House of Representatives
Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
Part TWO: Professor Hans Joachim
Schellnhuber
Schellnhuber expressed the urgency and the scale of the problem we have
to solve: In order to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius we
need to bring about the end of the carbon economy over the next 20 or
30 years. Otherwise we have not the slightest chance of avoiding
dangerous climate change.
Schellnhuber says that we live in a deadly economy that destroys the
world and are currently making the choice whether to live instead in an
economy that is protecting creation. And even if we cannot change the
supply side immediately due to the power of corporations we can begin
by changing demand through a global social movement as envisioned by
the Pope, and by divestment. It's not poverty that destroys the
environment but it is wealth, consumption and waste.
Hans Joachim
Schellnhuber, AKA John Schellnhuber, most recently came to world
attention as a leading scientific adviser to Pope Francis. He was
chosen to be one among only four speakers at the presentation of the
Pope's global warming encyclical on June 17, 2015. A segment of
Schellnhuber's presentation at the Vatican can be heard at the end of
this program.
Part of the
credentials that brought Schellnhuber to the attention of the Pope may
have included: his doctorate degree in Theoretical Physics, and his
role as Chief Government Adviser on Climate and Related Issues during
Germany's EU Council Presidency and G8 Presidency.
Schellnhuber is climate adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
founder and director of the respected Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research (PIK). He is Professor for Theoretical Physics at the
University of Potsdam and heads the European Commission’s Global Change
Advisory Group and the advisory board of the European Climate
Foundation.
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Sandor
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WILD FERMENTATION
Redemption of the much maligned bacteria that are essential to life
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Part ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part TWO
Rounding out the programs by Paul Stamets and Jack
Gilbert, it is my pleasure to repeat a talk by Sandor Katz and his
eloquent redemption of the much maligned bacteria and microorganisms
without which life would not be possible.
The original
broadcast was in February 2013.When Sandor Katz escaped from NY City
and joined a rural
off the
electric grid community in Tennessee a little over two decades ago he
knew very little about growing vegetables and even less about
fermenting them. His amazing development as teacher and author of two
books: Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation, was fueled by
fond memories of pickles he relished as a kid in NYC, love for the
nourishing power of good foods, and his deep interest in the culture,
art and history of fermentation. His great appeal as a teacher and
speaker also lies in his direct and honest approach to life. He is
openly gay and living with AIDS and is convinced of the healing power
of food.
The 2012 Heirloom Seed Expo, an annual event at the height of the
harvest season in Santa Rosa, CA, brought together the dedicated food
activists with their organized resistance to genetically modified foods
and the steadfast farmers who have been protecting our common
inheritance in seeds and plants.
Recorded 9/13/2012
The website for Sandor Katz is: <http://www.wildfermentation.com/>
A
recipe
for
sauerkraut
is HERE
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Bacteria
and You: A Love Story with Dr. Jack Gilbert
Gilbert teaches at Argonne National Lab. and the University of Chicago
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Part
ONE
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for
Part
TWO
Dr. Jack Gilbert is on a
mission to induce love, understanding and respect for bacteria. He has
formidable academic credential with the Argonne National Lab. He is the
group leader for Microbial Ecology in the Biosciences Division, and
manages the Earth Microbiome Project. That's an ongoing effort to
characterize the microbial diversity of our planet. And he is an
Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the
University of Chicago, and the Associate Director of the Institute for
Genomic and Systems Biology.
In this one hour lecture given in June
2015 in Chicago Dr. Jack Gilbert explains that we are unable to survive
without the trillions of bacterial cells inside and on our bodies. He
describes how they influence our health and how the way we live and eat
in return influences the microbiome. He also discusses recent research
into the relationship of our microbiome with diseases such as
Alzheimer’s, autism and cancer.
This talk was recorded by Dale Lehman (WZRD), at the International
House
in Chicago on June 5, 2015.
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Mushrooms, Bees, and Saving the World (ONE of TWO)
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ONE
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Part
TWO
More than any other
scientist practicing today, Paul Stamets has dedicated himself to the
life of fungi and that of their underground support system, the
mycelium. Stamets says that the mycelia are soil magicians that give
rise not just to mushrooms but form an integral part of the forest
ecosystem. The mycelia are disassemblers, creating the debris fields
that then feed their fungal descendants. They also show purpose in
choosing microbial allies, and Stamets believes they are part of the
earth’s natural internet that is in constant bio-molecular
communication, governing the ecosystem. <http://www.fungi.com/>
In Part TWO Stamets begins with the
story of the rarest mushroom in the Pacific Old Growth forest, the
Agarikon; and how the Department of Health bio-defense program had to
acknowledge the extraordinary healing power of that mushroom. That's
followed by a groundbreaking recently concluded analysis of the deaths
of honey bees and what can be done about it.
Paul Stamets is a frequent guest at the
Bioneer conferences and TED talks. But the so-called conventional
scientists appreciate his work as well. That includes medical research
into cancer as well as the University of Illinois-Chicago's Institute
for Tuberculosis Research and the Department of Health and Human
Services' biodefense program.
Paul Stamets spoke at Town Hall, Seattle, on May 4, 2015, to an
overflow audience.
Recorded by Mike McCormick, host of Mind Over Matters on KEXP radio in
Seattle, WA.
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ABOLISH
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Part ONE:
International
Campaigns to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Ray Acheson and Tim Wright
Part TWO: The Nuclear Divestment Movement
Susi Snyder: Don't Bank on the Bomb
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ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part TWO
Part
ONE:
The overwhelming majority
of nations on this earth are strongly opposed to nuclear weapons. They
know that if those weapons were to be used they would affect everybody
on earth. They do not understand that we have successful negotiations
to ban chemical weapons, land mines and cluster bombs but have not
banned the most dangerous weapons ever.
Even though the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been in force since
1970 and even though more countries joined than any other disarmament
agreement the treaty has failed in many ways. The idea had been that:
“the NPT non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear
weapons and the NPT nuclear-weapon states in exchange agree ... to
pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their
nuclear arsenals."
However under the NPT the number of nuclear weapons states has
increased and, instead of dismantling their arsenals completely the
most powerful among them are upgrading their weapons and carrier
systems.
In response a new international grassroots movement has emerged to
abolish nuclear weapons and you will hear from the key staff of two
vibrant organizations. Ray Acheson is Director of Reaching Critical
Will. <http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/>That's
the
disarmament
program
of
the
Women’s
International
League
for
Peace
and
Freedom
(WILPF),
the
oldest
women’s
peace
organization
in
the
world.
Tim Wright is the Campaign Director of ICAN, the International Campaign
to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. ICAN <http://www.icanw.org/>
is
already
active
in
95
countries
with
the
goal
of
forming
a
treaty
banning
nuclear
weapons
since
any
use
of
nuclear
weapons
would
cause
catastrophic
humanitarian
and
environmental
harm.
Part
TWO:
Don't Bank on the Bomb
PAX Christie is the international Catholic Peace Movement based in the
Netherlands. Their project, Don't Bank on the Bomb, identified 411
banks, pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers in 31
countries with substantial investments in corporations that produce
nuclear weapons. <http://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/>
Don't
Bank on the Bomb works with ICAN,
the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Together they
are organizing appeals to financial institutions to stop investing in
the nuclear arms industry, because any use of nuclear weapons violates
international law and has catastrophic humanitarian consequences.
Susi Snyder is the nuclear disarmament program manager for PAX and the
author of the annual Don't Bank on the Bomb reports. She spoke at the
Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction on March 1st,
2015 in New York. The Symposium was organized by the Australian
physician and anti nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott.
Snyder was introduced by her friend and colleague Ray Acheson, Director
of Reaching Critical Will. That's the disarmament program of the
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Recorded on March 1,
2015, at the Symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction,
New York.
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THE
DYNAMICS
OF
POSSIBLE
NUCLEAR
EXTINCTION
Part FIVE -
Bruce Gagnon: The Militarization of Space and Nuclear War
Part SIX -
Mike Lofgren on the Deep State
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for
Part FIVE Militarization of Space
30 second Preview/Promo
for
Part
SIX
Deep
State
This TUC
special series is timed to run parallel to the May 2015 Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty conference at the UN in New York City. Since
its adoption in 1968, the NPT has become a critical mechanism to
achieve nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament goals.
At the end of February 2015
the Australian physician and anti-nuclear
campaigner, Dr. Helen Caldicott, organized a two day symposium to cover
the many aspects of possible nuclear extinction.
Part FIVE: Bruce Gagnon - The
Danger of Militarization of Space and Nuclear War
Bruce Gagnon is the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons
and Nuclear Power in Space. That's an international organization he
co-founded in 1992. It has an unbroken record of education and activism
on a rarely covered topic, the Weaponization of Space. <http://www.space4peace.org>
As
vice
president
of
a
Young
Republican
Club
in
Florida,
Gagnon
volunteered
in
Richard
Nixon’s
1968
presidential
campaign.
His
change
in
consciousness
began
with
a
small
group
of
Vietnam
War
protesters
who
stood
outside
an
Air
Force
base
in
California
where
he
was
stationed.
Gagnon's new life began with the United Farm-workers; he organized
fruit pickers in Florida. For 15 years he coordinated the Florida
Coalition for Peace and Justice. In 1987 he organized the largest peace
protest in Florida's history. Over 5,000 people marched on Cape
Canaveral in opposition to the first flight test of the Trident II
nuclear missile.
Bruce
Gagnon
was
one
of
the
speakers
at
the
two
day
symposium
on
the
Dynamics
of
Possible
Nuclear
Extinction
organized
by
the
anti
nuclear
campaigner
and
physician
Dr.
Helen
Caldicott.
He
spoke
on
February
28,
2015,
in
New
York
City.
Thanks
to
Mike
McCormick
for
a
clip
from
an
interview
he
did
with
Bruce
Gagnon
on
KEXP
radio
in
Seattle
in
January
2015.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LiANhfZNe8>
Part
SIX: Mike Lofgren - The Merger of Corporations and the US Government as
an Underlying Cause of the Current Nuclear Situation
When
Mike
Lofgren
gave
his
talk
he
rightfully
began
by
saying
that
this
was
going
to
be
something
completely
different.
He
pointed
to
the
Deep
State
and
the
merger
of
US
corporations
and
the
government
as
causes
for
the
danger
of
a
nuclear
war
in
our
time.
Mike Lofgren is a former congressional staff member who served on both
the prestigious House and Senate budget committees. He retired in 2011
and began writing about his experiences. His initial article as a
private citizen, Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative
Who Left the Cult, received over a million views on Truthout.com.
Lofgren expanded on that article in his book, The Party Is Over: How
Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class
Got Shafted.
Since then, he has written numerous articles published in The
Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Huffington
Post, and other publications. <http://www.mikelofgren.net/>
This program contains a short clip of a Bill Moyers' interview in 2014.
<http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/>
A year after that
interview Mike Lofgren
took the stage at the NY Academy of Medicine. He was one of the 20 plus
speakers at the two day symposium on the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear
Extinction organized by the anti nuclear campaigner and physician Dr.
Helen Caldicott.
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THE
DYNAMICS
OF
POSSIBLE
NUCLEAR
EXTINCTION
Part THREE -
MIT Physicist Max Tegmark on Accidental Nuclear War
Part FOUR -
Nuclear Winter with Alan Robock
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Accidental
War
30 second Preview/Promo
for Nuclear Winter
This
TUC
special series is timed to run parallel to the May 2015 Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty conference at the UN in New York City. Since
its adoption in 1968, the NPT has become a critical mechanism to
achieve nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament goals.
At the end of February 2015
the Australian physician and anti-nuclear
campaigner, Dr. Helen Caldicott, organized a two day symposium to cover
the many aspects of possible nuclear extinction.
Part THREE: On the
Danger of
Accidental Nulcear War
A year earlier she had read
statements of highly acclaimed physicists,
including Nobel Laureate Stephen Hawking, and MIT physicist and
cosmologist Max Tegmark. They had specifically warned of the potential
for accidental nuclear war through computer glitches as well as the
tendency to automate more and more functions with the use of artificial
intelligence. Stephen Hawking was unable to attend the Symposium but
Max Tegmark gave this speech.
Max Tegmark is the author
“Our Mathematical Universe” and co-founder of
the Future of Life Institute.
Part FOUR:
Nuclear Famine and
Nuclear Winter
Ever since the astrophysicist
Carl Sagan coined the term of nuclear
winter in 1983 an additional global risk of nuclear war became evident.
Even a limited nuclear exchange would pose a grave danger to all life.
If it was not by nuclear blast, fire and radiation - it would be by
nuclear winter. High altitude dust clouds that spread through the
stratosphere can block the sun for years and even decades and threaten
the global ecology and with it the sources of food.
Professor Alan Robock had
been a participant in the scientific debates
of the 1980. He praises the reduction in numbers of nuclear weapons but
reminds us that "the environmental threat of nuclear war has not gone
away." "The world faces the prospect of a smaller, but still
catastrophic, nuclear conflict." Robock writes, "there are now nine
nuclear-weapons states. Use of a fraction of the global nuclear arsenal
by anyone, from the superpowers to India versus Pakistan, still
presents the largest potential environmental danger to the planet by
humans.
Alan Robock teaches in the
Department of Environmental Sciences at
Rutgers University. He is an IPCC lead author, and was a member of the
organization when it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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THE DYNAMICS OF
POSSIBLE NUCLEAR EXTINCTION
Part ONE - Artificial
Intelligence
Part TWO - Noam Chomsky
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Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
for
Part
TWO
The anti nuclear campaigner
and physician Dr. Helen Caldicott organized
a two day symposium in February 2015 with an international panel of
leading experts in disarmament, political science, existential risk,
anthropology, medicine, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence.
They addressed the risk of accidental nuclear war, recently proven
facts about a global nuclear winter that can be caused by the
unleashing of just a few nuclear weapons, the expanding militarization
of space, the power and pathology of the US military industrial
complex, privatization of the US nuclear weapons labs, nuclear war
crimes in the Marshall Islands, as well as two of the vibrant movements
to abolish nuclear weapons, a divestment effort under the title Don't
Bank On The Bomb as well as ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons.
In this
Part ONE of a mini series
the risk of artificial intelligence
is addressed with audio clips from MIT physicist Max Tegmark and Tesla
and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The bulk of the program references writing by
Stephen Hawking, Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell,
and Tegmark and Frank Wilczek, both physics professors at M.I.T. They
see Artificial Intelligence and its use in military and technological
projects as a grave danger to human survival.
Helen Caldicott and Max Tegmark
were recorded by Pacifica
Radio on February 28, 2015, at the The New York Academy of Medicine,
New York City, NY
Part
TWO: In his 2013 book,
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe, Noam Chomsky warned that we
are facing "two problems for our species’ survival — nuclear war and
environmental catastrophe." Up to this point in history problems caused
by humans were regional. However just in the last few decades climate
change and nuclear war have become a threat to all life.
Chomsky was born in
Philadelphia in 1928. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania
where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955. In 1967 he gained
public attention for his vocal opposition to U.S. involvement in the
war on Vietnam and was arrested several times. He was appointed
Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 -
where he is now Professor emeritus. He became famous as a radical
intellectual with the publication of his book, Manufacturing
Consent, in 1988. Chomsky has written and lectured widely
on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary
issues, international affairs and US foreign policy.
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Robert
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Looking back at the 100 Year Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
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Interviewing the last exiled survivors
of the 1915 genocide before they died in old folk homes in Beirut,
Lebanon, where Robert Fisk lives, he has acted more like a historian
than a journalist. As the Middle East correspondent for the London
Independent, Fisk travelled to massacre sites, compiled lists of
victims, as well as of officials who planned the extermination of
Armenians in the Ottoman empire. He also identified the rare supporters
who refused orders to kill, often at risk of their own lives.
In this 2001 talk to Armenian Americans in San Francisco Fisk presented
some of that history and proposed an extraordinary plan to break the
silence. Now, almost 15 years later, not much has changed and his
account is as urgent as before. To this day Turkey denies that this was
government planned genocide in spite of the orders by Talat Pasha, the
Ottoman interior minister, and Fisk calls that "close to a criminal
lie".
But - for the first time in 100 years - Turks within Turkey outnumbered
Armenians in large public events to demand recognition of the facts of
their past that will define how to move into the future. In 2015 Fisk
traveled to Turkey to report on Armenians from around the world coming
to Turkey and recalling the genocide of their ancestors. All setting an
example how to begin a conversation about genocide that defines the
history and the present of many other countries, foremost among them
the US and the Genocide of Native Americans.
Robert Fisk, author and Middle East correspondent of the London
Independent, spoke before the Armenian National Committee in San
Francisco in March 2001. Thanks to Jeffrey Blankfort for the recording.
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From TUC Radio's
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Iain Boal: THE BEGINNING OF THE NUCLEAR AGE
Enrico
Fermi
and
Henry
Moore
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Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
for
Part
TWO
Part ONE:
Did the nuclear age begin at Alamogordo, in Hiroshima, or with Fermi's
experiment? Fermi set off the first nuclear chain reaction in
the middle of Chicago in 1942, risking a first China Syndrome. With
the help of a Chicago street gang he built an unshielded graphite pile
with uranium pellets and control rods tacked to a two by four. His
experiment led to the building of
the plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Iain Boal is a
historian of technology and author of Resisting
the
Virtual
Life (City Lights Books) and The
Green
Machine, a history of the
bicycle, by Notting Hill Editions, 2011.
Part TWO:
Enrico Fermi's experiment, setting off the first nuclear chain
reaction, provided the blueprint for the plutonium bomb. In his
commemoration of this little known event that changed the world, the
historian of technology, Iain Boal, describes the mindset of the early
nuclear scientists who began releasing the most long lived toxic
substances on earth. He also sketches the beginning of resistance
to nuclear weapons in SDS and CND.
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Howard
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The Occupation of The United States
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Howard Zinn spoke about
the United States as occupied territory. He said that political and
ideological power have been seized by a small group of radical
anti-democratic ideologues. They have pursued an illegal,
unconstitutional effort in their disastrous drive to solidify their
reactionary agenda.
In Part TWO Zinn began by analyzing the
ideology specific to the Unites States: We are number One, the epitome
of liberty and democracy. Americans are not supposed to challenge the
idea that started way back with the Massachusetts Bay "City on a Hill".
Combined these ideas have made the US into a global interventionist
power.
Zinn made an eloquent appeal to end all wars and cited a poem by Marge
Piercy as inspiration for connecting in expanding circles of solidarity
and mutual support to bring about that change.
Howard Zinn was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and
activist. He taught political science at Boston University and wrote
more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A
People's History of the United States. Zinn died suddenly in January
2010. He was about to give two major talks in Santa Monica, CA.
He grew up in Brooklyn in a
working-class, immigrant household. At 18 he became a shipyard worker
and then joined the Air Force and flew bombing missions during World
War II. These experiences helped shape his opposition to war and his
strong belief in the importance of knowing history.
Zinn spoke on October 17, 2006, for
NOWAR, the Northwestern University Peace Project. Thanks to Dale Lehman
at WZRD for the recording. Zinn's website is <http://howardzinn.org/>
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Thermonuclear Monarchy - Prof. Elaine Scarry
Choosing Between Democracy and Doom
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Noam Chomsky said about the book Thermonuclear Monarchy:
“That we have escaped disaster so far is a near miracle. (Elaine)
Scarry’s remarkable contribution should inspire us to abolish this
colossal folly.”
Elaine Scarry is Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at
Harvard. Her most recent book: Thermonuclear Monarchy, reminds us that
one man, the President of the United States, has the power to end life
for every one else by setting off nuclear weapons. Richard Nixon told
reporters in 1974, “I can go into my office and pick up the telephone,
and in 25 minutes 70 million people will be dead.”
Professor Scarry says that this violates our constitutional rights,
undermines the social contract, and is fundamentally at odds with the
deliberative principles of democracy. And she offers a new line of
arguments and strategy for the nuclear disarmament movement.
At a time when the risk of nuclear war between the US and Russia around
the conflict in Ukraine comes to world wide attention, the status of
the nuclear weapons arsenals, and the question of who has the power to
set them off becomes an existential question for all.
Elaine Scarry spoke on January 11, 2015, at the Wellington Ave. Church,
Chicago, Illinois, by invitation of Chicago Area Peace Action. Thanks
to Dale Lehman for the recording.
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How
the
West
Caused
the
Crisis
in
Ukraine
Part ONE: John Mearsheimer
Part TWO: Rick Rozoff
Part THREE: John Mearsheimer Q&A
Part FOUR: 3 Minutes to Midnight
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In January 2015
Evanston Neighbors for
Peace organized
an event with two eminent speakers, John Mearsheimer, Professor at the
University of Chicago and Rick Rozoff the foremost investigator of
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Part ONE: Mearsheimer
spoke about the origins of the crisis
and how to avert the ever heightening risk of war between the United
States and Russia. He gave an update of his acclaimed article in the
magazine Foreign Affairs: How the West Caused the Ukraine Crisis.
John
Mearsheimer
is
Professor
of
Political
Science
and
the
co-director
of
the
Program
on
International
Security
Policy
at
the
University
of
Chicago.
Part
TWO:
Rick Rozoff On The Role of NATO
It is widely acknowledged that the expansion eastward of NATO - the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization - is a major provocation of Russia
and a huge and under-reported factor in the origins and the conduct of
the war in Ukraine.
Few
investigative
journalists
follow
the
day
to
day
politics
of
NATO
-
that
are
directed
largely
by
the
US
-
as
closely
as
Rick
Rozoff.
He
is
the
manager
of
the
organization
Stop
NATO
International
and
has
been
an
active
opponent
of
war,
militarism
and
intervention
for
over
40
years.
He
writes
on
the
threat
of
international
militarization,
especially
on
the
globalization
of
NATO.
Rozoff
blogs
at https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/
Part
THREE: Prof. John Mearsheimer with Q and A. Mearsheimer states
emphatically that in the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine
crisis is blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. But this
account is wrong says Mearsheimer: The United States and its European
allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis.
Questions
in
this
Q
&
A
period
range
from
who
engineered
the
February
2014
Coup
in
Ukraine,
to
what
role
the
Neo-Nazis
play.
Part
FOUR:
3 Minutes to Midnight on the Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by atomic scientists who had
participated in the Manhattan Project. They were in shock by the impact
of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1945 they founded the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in order to alert people to the
dangers of nuclear weapons and the need to abolish them. Over the 70
years since then the Bulletin has published without interruption and
has welcomed other scientists who are working on nuclear power and
climate change to join them and more precisely describe the existential
risk humanity is facing. (Thanks to the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists for the audio.) <http://thebulletin.org>
Thanks
to
Dale
Lehman
for
his
January
10,
201,
recording
of
parts
One
through
Three.
He
is
a
member
of
the
group
Evanston
Neighbors
for
Peace
that
organized
the
event
and
news
director
at
WZRD
radio
in
Chicago.
See
this
issue
of
Foreign
Affairs:
<http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141769/john-j-mearsheimer/why-the-ukraine-crisis-is-the-wests-fault>
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Peter Dale Scott
The American Deep State
Wall Street, Big Oil and the Attack on U.S. Democracy
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Professor Peter Dale Scott is a Canadian-born former
diplomat, and retired Professor of Literature at the University of
California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books and articles on
state terrorism, surveillance, drug-dealing by the CIA, and political
assassinations.
His most
recent book, The American Deep State, October 2014 by Rowman &
Littlefield, makes a compelling case for a hidden “deep state” that
influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. The deep state is
a second order of government, behind the public or constitutional
state, that has grown considerably stronger since World War II. Peter
Dale Scott cites convincing evidence that the deep state is partly
institutionalized in non-accountable intelligence agencies like the CIA
and NSA, but it also includes private corporations like Booz Allen
Hamilton and SAIC, to which 70 percent of intelligence budgets are
outsourced. Behind these public and private institutions is the
traditional influence of Wall Street bankers and lawyers, allied with
international oil companies beyond the reach of domestic law.
Peter Dale Scott gives the outline of this argument in Part ONE of this
program - followed by the recording of a lively Q/A session. I recorded
this talk on November 9, 2014, in the poetry room upstairs at City
Lights bookstore and publishing house in San Francisco. Peter
Maravelis, the events coordinator for City Lights, gave the
introduction to Party ONE.
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Gasland
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(one 29 minute special)
A celebration of the December 2014 ban on
Fracking in New York State
This program is also produced
with
gratitude in memory of Prof. Theo Colborn, author of Our Stolen Future.
Her
research into the risks associated with the chemicals used in fracking
played a huge part in that victory. She died, age 87, three days before
the ban was announced.
On
Wednesday, December 17, 2014, a victory made the news: The state of New
York banned fracking for natural gas. After activists demanded that the
health effects of fracking be studied, a two year investigation by the
state's own commission confirmed what the movement had been saying all
along, that fracking cannot be done safely. The acting Commissioner of
Health for New York State even said he would not let his family live in
an area that is being fracked.
New York
became the first state with proven oil and gas reserves to announce
that it will ban fracking. It was a day for the history books and one
that would never have happened if it weren’t for basically everyone.
People
from Colorado, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, Arkansas and other
fracking-plagued states sounded the alarm and educated New Yorkers
about the coming threat. Scientists uncovered the evidence of
fracking’s dangers. Lawyers discovered that New York towns had the
right to ban fracking and defended that right in court.
This
program contains material of a 2010 TUC Radio broadcast in
collaboration with hydro-power radio WJFF in the Catskills and
programmer Fred Pecora. He gave me his interviews of the founding
members of Damascus Citizens.org, that I combined with a presentation
by Theo Colborn.
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Radio
ARCHIVES:
Ward Churchill
A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDE
Holocaust and
Denial in the Americas
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Now that Thanksgiving is
behind us we may be more open to an unflinching look at genocide and
denial in America. Churchill compares the treatment of North American
Indians to historical instances of genocide by the Khmer Rouge in
Cambodia, Turks against Armenians, as well as Nazis against the Poles
and Jews. With one important difference. This genocide is unparalleled
in term of the size of population and in the way it was sustained
through time.
In the
first of two parts Churchill sets out to prove that the numbers of how
many Indians lived North of the Rio Grande were cooked - not one
but about fifteen million. Part TWO ends with an extraordinary
statement on the importance of knowing history: "We got an entire
society here that, with its own collaboration, quells certain knowledge
that would disrupt its very convenient scenarios of what it wants to be
by denying what it has been... And so we punch holes into the
domes of false reality that have been constructed to shield the society
from an understanding of itself. All this in order to get to the
subliminal circumstances which can motivate people to tangibly,
finally, oppose the order of things that we encounter in such a way as
they can be transformed. I think the key to the whole of America lies
right here – in its refusal to understand itself is the key to it's
refusal ultimately to change itself. And change is that which we most
desperately need."
The
program begins with a brief update on very recent news (September 2012)
on
Churchill's losing fight to return to his teaching job as professor of
ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Helen Caldicott
Part TWO with Stephen Cohen
The Ukraine Crisis, Is Nuclear Conflict Likely?
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On October 8, 2014, the life long antinuclear
campaigner and author Helen Caldicott addressed the National Press
Club Newsmakers in Washington, DC. She said that the United States and
Russia are dangerously close to stumbling into a war over Ukraine that
could go nuclear and kill millions of people in a single day. <http://www.helencaldicott.com/>
Over the last eight months, since Russia annexed Crimea in response to
the Western-orchestrated coup in Kiev, there have been almost 40
incidents involving Western and Russian air and naval forces. That's
according to a report issued by the London-based, European Leadership
Network on November 10, 2014. The report said that “to perpetuate a
volatile standoff between a nuclear armed state and a nuclear armed
alliance is risky at best." (and) "could prove catastrophic at worst."
<http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/>
The group's
findings added weight to comments made by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last
leader of the Soviet Union. Speaking before the Brandenburg Gate on the
25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev said:
“Bloodshed in Europe and the Middle East against the backdrop of a
breakdown in dialogue between the major powers is of enormous
concern...The world is on the brink of a new Cold War ..Some are even
saying that it’s already begun.” <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29966852>
The
second part of this program includes Stephen Cohen. On October 10,
2014, the eminent scholar of Russian Studies from Princeton, gave an
extensive interview to Sophie Shevardnadze on RT. (Formerly called
Russia Today, this is the Russian cable and satellite TV channel that
is aimed at an international audience). This program begins with clips
from that interview. Stephen Cohen says we are in a new Cold War with
the added danger of a nuclear confrontation. Cohen gives an erudite
critique of the current sanctions and the US led NATO expansion
Eastward that has destabilized Europe.
Then we return to Helen
Caldicott's
appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, that was
covered in Part ONE of this program. Following her talk on The Ukraine
Crisis, Is Nuclear Conflict Likely? she answered questions from the
Press. As you will hear in this segment some of the problems with media
coverage and the reasons for the news black-out on this topic are due
to the lack of information or bias among journalists.
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Naomi Klein
This Changes Everything
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On her web site Naomi Klein says: Forget
everything you think you know about global warming. The really
inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism.
The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to
transform our failed economic system and build something radically
better. <http://www.naomiklein.org/>
On October 17,
2014, in a small town in Northern California a grassroots coalition
almost filled the 1,000 people capacity Veterans Building to hear Naomi
Klein speak about her 2014 book, This Changes Everything. The North Bay
Organizing Project <http://northbayop.org/>
is
a
coalition
of
18
labor,
immigrant
rights,
faith
based,
union,
Living
Wage,
education,
and
environmental
organizations.
The Canadian writer Naomi Klein first received world-wide attention
with her book: No Logo, that went on to become an international
bestseller. Her book The Shock Doctrine, is a critical analysis of the
history of neoliberal economics.
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Vandana Shiva:
Genetically Engineered Food and the Militarization of Agriculture
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Dr. Vandana Shiva, trained in Physics with a
dissertation on Quantum Theory; born in Dehradun, India, the daughter
of a forest conservator and a farmer, is one of the great ecologists of
our time. She has written over 20 books, including Water Wars:
Pollution, Profits, and Privatization; Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature
and Knowledge; Monocultures of the Mind; and The Violence of the Green
Revolution.
Vandana Shiva
has challenged for decades GMO corporations such as Monsanto, large
hydro dam builders, and governments, including her own, on issues of
agriculture, genetic engineering, deforestation, abuses of science and
technology, and globalization. She has started a movement from her
birthplace in the foothills of the Himalayas and is dedicating her life
and creative energy and huge knowledge to what may seem the most humble
of tasks, the protection of the seed and the practice of non chemical,
non-pesticide and absolutely non genetic modified agriculture.
Navdanya means
nine crops. They represent India's collective source of food security.
She founded the organization Navdanya in 1991 and it has grown into a
national movement. The main aim of the Navdanya's biodiversity
conservation program is to support local farmers, rescue and conserve
crops and plants that are being pushed to extinction and make them
available through direct distribution. They are fighting the theft of
people's knowledge by biopiracy and protect food rights in the face of
globalization. Navdanya has helped set up 110 seed banks across
India.<http://www.navdanya.org/><http://seedfreedom.in/>
During her
September 2013 visit to the US Shiva spoke in several places. This is
the only recording of her talk, on September 10, to a small group at
the Institute of Noetic Sciences in the mountains north of Petaluma,
CA. IONS was founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell.
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Shut Down Diablo
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Harvey Wasserman, Rochelle Becker and David Lochbaum
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TWO
The former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
inspector for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Dr. Michael Peck,
wrote a statement held secret by the NRC until recently that seismic
and tsunami issues at the plant are so serious that Diablo Canyon
needs to shut down until they are fixed. The NRC and the owner, Pacific
Gas and Electric, disagree in their September 10, 2014, statements.
Mark Satorius, the NRC’s executive director for operations said that
there were no immediate seismic issues at Diablo Canyon, located on the
ocean near San Luis Obispo, California.
Seismic issues
are not the only problems. David Lochbaum makes the case that Diablo
Canyon has never complied with fire safety standards. And Rochelle
Becker covers a fundamental problem with Diablo Canyon's fish killing
so-called Once Through Cooling system.
Harvey Wasserman <http://www.nukefree.org/>
discusses
with
two
anti
nuclear
experts,
Rochelle
Becker
and
David
Lochbaum,
why
the
plant
is
operating
today.
Harvey
Wasserman
is
both
an
anti
nuclear
campaigner
of
40
plus
years
and
an
advocate
for
a
solar
future.
He
says
that
we
must
and
can
build
the
green
powered
earth
before
the
next
nuclear
meltdown.
Rochelle
Becker
is
the
co-founder
of
the
Alliance
for
Nuclear
Responsibility
<http://a4nr.org/>and
David
Lochbaum
is
an
engineer
who
worked
for
17
years
in
nuclear
power
plants
and
now
heads
the
Nuclear
Safety
Project
of
the
Union
of
Concerned
Scientists.
<http://www.ucsusa.org/>
This is a reciprocal program exchange between Harvey Wasserman, TUC
Radio and the Progressive Radio Network where parts of this program
were broadcast on September 6, 2014.
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Professor David Keith
A Case for Climate Engineering
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Harvard Climate Scientist David Keith makes the
case that global warming and CO2 pollution have become so severe that
dramatic measures have to be researched immediately and applied by
2020. He is suggesting spraying particles from airplanes into the
stratosphere to create a haze that will reduce solar radiation.
He names
possible substances, including aluminum. However, his material of
choice is sulfuric acid because it mimics volcanic explosions. He
admits that such global intervention will damage the life protecting
ozone layer, cause droughts and floods and will do nothing to resolve
the expanding damage to the planet by still rising CO2 emissions.
He says that
we need to artificially cool the earth because we are too slow to cut
back on CO2 pollution. And that once begun, the spraying of aerosols
cannot be stopped for the next 50 years because that in itself would be
a dramatic shock to the world.
Professor
Keith denies that real live experimentation of spraying from airplanes
is occurring – in spite of the observations of so-called chemtrails all
over the world. He does however admit that spraying from airplanes is
easy and inexpensive - all you need is an airfield and a couple of
planes – and that such activity would be very difficult to detect.
This and more
is written up in his book: A Case for Climate Engineering, published in
October 2013 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The prestigious
Boston Review gave the book a release event that was videotaped. And
the audio for this radio program comes from their web site. <http://bostonreview.net/blog/david-keith-video-case-climate-engineering>
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Poisoning
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Sky
Geoengineering with Chemtrails
A community investigates and fights back
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On July 15, 2014, residents of Shasta County in
remote Northern California took unprecedented action before their Board
of Supervisors. They were giving testimony on a phenomenon of recent
years: the appearance of lingering white trails in the sky above, that
join to create a haze; and on their discovery that after these hazings
rain, snow and surface water in ponds contain toxic chemicals, among
them aluminum. They brought the issue before the Shasta County
Supervisors as a matter of public health and an issue of citizen's
right to know.
Residents submitted test data from California licensed labs showing the
presence of aluminum, barium and strontium in snow and rainwater after
hazing events. They brought in copies of patents used by the military
and private contractors that list the identical ingredients for use in
weather modification.
The list of speakers at the Supervisor meeting was impressive. It
included former US Air Force pilots, former employees of Fish and
Wildlife and the USDA, farmers, doctors and nurses concerned about the
toxic effects of aluminum. There was even a guest from Spain who
testified about efforts in the European Union to investigate the toxins
in the new international Solar Radiation Management programs. The
totally unregulated SRM programs promote spraying in the atmosphere to
mitigate climate change by cutting back on the amount of sun that
strikes the ground.
Thanks to the Shasta County Board of Supervisors for the audio for this
radio program.
Links:
PUBLIC LAW 105–85—NOV. 18, 1997. 105th Congress <http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/olc/docs/1998NDAA.pdf>
<http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/>
<http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/lv0hd2/david-keith>
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Harvey Wasserman
From Fukushima to Solartopia!
How the Green-Powered Earth Revolution can defeat
King Cong: Coal, Oil, Nukes and Gas
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Only someone who worked tirelessly to defeat
nuclear power for over 40 years and has not stopped to this day –
someone who lived and built a renewable energy utopia for the same 40
years - can take the frightening topic of Fukushima and give energy for
a way out. Harvey Wasserman says that we are in the fight for our
lives. We must and can build the green powered earth before the next
nuclear meltdown. In this Hiroshima Day 2014 speech he lays out how it
can be done.
Harvey
Wasserman
lived
on
an
organic
farm
in
Massachusetts
when
he
and
his
community
prevented
a
nuclear
power
plant
from
being
built
in
the
Montague
Valley
in
1973.
In
1976
he
helped
organize
the Clamshell
Alliance, which staged the first mass demonstrations against the
Seabrook nuclear plant. In 1979 he co-organized the Musicians United
for Safe Energy (MUSE) concerts in Madison Square Garden. In 1994 he
spoke for Greenpeace to 350,000 fans at Woodstock 2.
Harvey
Wasserman
has
worked
with
Bonnie
Raitt
,
Jackson
Browne,
and
Graham
Nash
since
the
late
1970s.
They
founded NukeFree.org
in 2007 with
Wasserman as editor and stopped a proposed $50 billion loan guarantee
package meant to finance new nuclear reactor construction.
To
this
day
Wasserman
has
investigated
the
nuclear
industry
and
their
meltdowns,
from
Harrisburg
to
Chernobyl
and
Fukushima.
At
the
same
time
he
taught
history
at
two
Ohio
colleges
and
has
helped
in
successful
campaigns to save a local wildlife refuge, shut a central Ohio
trash-burning power plant, stop a regional radioactive waste dump and
ban McDonald's from the town of Bexley.
Harvey
Wasserman
is
writing
articles
for
CounterPunch,
the
Huffington
Post
and
the
New
York
Times.
He
is
the
author
and
co-author
of
a
dozen
books
on
nuclear,
history,
war
and
peace
and
renewable
energy.
Wasserman’s SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH is the first utopian
visioning of a planet free from fossil and nuclear fuels. His web site http://solartopia.org/ is the best
link to his on line activities and his weekly radio show on PRN: The
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show.
I
recorded
Harvey
Wasserman
in
the
venerable
meeting
hall
of
the
Unitarian
Universalists
Fellowship
in
Berkeley,
CA,
on
Hiroshima
Day,
August
6,
2014.
Cecile
Pineda,
the
Mexican
American
author
of
Devil’s
Tango,
How
I
learned the Fukushima Step by Step, gave him an
eloquent introduction.
For
a
broadcast quality mp3 version of Part ONE click HERE
For
a
broadcast quality mp3 version of Part TWO click HERE
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Citizen Koch
A film on radio production
Interview of co-director Tia Lessin by Christina Aanestad
30 second Preview/Promo
Filmmakers Tia Lessen and Carl Deal
worked with Michael Moore on Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine,
and made a movie, Trouble the Water, on the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina. They made plans to deal with money in politics and the
Citizens United Supreme Court decision when in early 2011 a grassroots
rebellion began in Wisconsin.
The newly elected governor Scott Walker, deeply funded by money from
the Koch brothers, had proposed eliminating bargaining rights for
public employees. Tia Lessen and Carl Deal captured - over several
months - one of the most inspiring social movements of our time and the
first large scale rebellion against money in politics. The images of
teachers, nurses and fire fighters occupying the State House, one on
one conversations with participants in the protests - many of them
Republicans who reject the extremism of the Tea Party, and the coverage
of the recall campaign that collected almost a million signatures - all
that makes up the heart of the movie.
Sadly though Walker's high financed rise to power and the even better
funded defeat of the recall movement stand at the beginning and end of
the movie as warning that the power of money over politics must be
broken. This movie is a contribution to that end.
Independent radio journalist and producer, Christina Aanestad spoke
with Tia Lessen at the opening of her film in San Francisco at the
Opera Plaza Cinemas. It was a packed house and they spoke in the lobby
of the theater amongst late arrivals of movie goers and a popcorn
stand. Recorded 6/27/2014.
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No
More Destruction of Historic Indian Villages (TWO
of TWO)
The
American
Indian Spirit Run calls Attention to Caltrans and
Global Construction Corporations
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
ONE
Some people
call this the David and Goliath story, Native Americans, farmers,
environmentalists, school teachers and students, a sizable minority in
a small former logging town of under 5,000 inhabitants in Northern
California stand up against one of the most powerful agencies in any
state, Caltrans, the California Department of Transportation. And
against the multinational corporation behind Caltrans, Hochtief and its
subsidiary Flatiron. Why Caltrans had to go across the ocean to hand
taxpayer money to a freeway builder is a mystery. Unless you believe
that only the corporation that built the Autobahn for Adolph Hitler has
the credentials to do this very difficult job.
The $210 million plus
freeway bypass around Willits, CA, goes through 86 acres of federally
protected wetlands and across five Salmon streams and its 6 mile
stretch requires building overpasses, a one mile viaduct, rerouting
streams, and draining this ancient seasonal wetland.
In
spite
of
arbitrary
arrests
of
journalists
and
never
before
seen
extraction
of
tree
sitters
at
gun
point
an
effort
was
maintained
to
appeal
to
regulatory
agencies,
use
the
courts
to
stop
or
at
least
reduce
the
impact
of
the
construction.
Agencies
issued
warnings
to
Caltrans,
however
mysteriously
-
or
maybe
not
-
someone
in
the
background
was
always
able
to
persuade
the
State
Senator,
the
local
congressman,
the
agencies
to
not
follow
up.
What
caused
a
sudden
turn
of
events
is
unclear.
On
Friday,
June
20,
the
Army
Corps
of
Engineers
(ACE)
suspended
the
permit
for
the
Caltrans
Willits
Bypass.
The
Corps
of
Engineers
regulate
impacts
on
federally
protected
wetlands.
Six days later AIM came to town. The American Indian Movement has an
ongoing presence since it's founding in 1968. AIM West out of the Bay
Area conducts annual Spirit Runs and this year, 2014, the run
culminated in Willits in support of the Little Lake Pomo whose
archeological sites had been destroyed by the Bypass contractors. The
Spirit Runners were welcomed by about 250 members and supporters of
Save Our Little Lake Valley. And under the tall shade trees of the City
Park we shared a meal and heard speeches and listen to songs with the
huge AIM drum in the middle of the circle.
More info and photos at <http://www.savelittlelakevalley.org/>
Speakers in the order of
appearance:
Edwina Lincoln, Round Valley Indian Reservation
Priscilla Hunter, former Tribal Chair of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo
Indians
Will Parrish, journalist
Ellen Drell, co-founder of the Willits Environmental Center
Madge Strong, Willits City Council woman
ending with a joint speech by Priscilla Hunter and Pauline Girvin,
consultant to the Coyote Band of Pomo Indians
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Yumi
Kikuchi and Fukushima Kids, Hawaii (ONE
of ONE)
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
ONE
On June 11, 2014, a group of friends
on the Mendocino coast met to welcome Yumi
Kikuchi. She and her husband co-founded Fukushima Kids, Hawaii. Since
children are most vulnerable to radiation Yumi and her husband Gen are
bringing them, and even their mothers when they are very young, to
Hawaii for healing periods of three or more weeks.
Yumi has for over 20 years worked on campaigns against nuclear power
plants with Dr. Helen Caldicott and the artist and activist Mayumi
Oda. That's why she and her her husband immediately after the
Fukushima accident decided to take their own children off her farm 150
miles from the Fukushima reactors. Even on her way out of Japan via
Okinawa, Yumi brought over 260 pregnant women out of
Fukushima.
Once in Hawaii she began organizing for housing and a new farm to help
children from Fukushima. They spend free vacations to recover from the
impact of daily doses of radiation. Her husband Gen Morita is a
traditional Japanese healer who specializes in restring immune systems.
You can find more information, including a couple of You-tube film on
the website of <http://www.fukushimakidshawaii.com>
Many
thanks
to
Harevey
Wasserman,
author
of
Solartopia,
for
the
recent
statistics
on
thryroid
disease
and
cancer
in
Fukushima
children
from
his
interview
with
Joe
Mangano,
Director
of
the
Radiation
and
Public
Health
Project.
For
more
information
go
to
his
web
site
<http://www.nukefree.org>
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No
More Destruction of Historic Indian Villages (ONE
of TWO)
Voices
of
Native
American
activists
Priscilla
Hunter
and
Edwina
Lincoln,
followed by journalist Will Parrish, poet Mary Korte, singer Gypsy
Thorn,
and environmentalist Karen Pickett
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
ONE
An over 20
year resistance to a 6 mile four lane freeway bypass through protected
wetlands in Northern California took an important turn. A meeting
was held in June 2014 between Native American tribal leaders who see
their ancient village sites bulldozed - and environmentalists who for
so long had worked in vain to stop or at least downsize the project by
lawsuits, appeals to politicians and to the agencies empowered to
prevent wetland and salmon stream destruction.
The
gathering
was
held
on
June
8,
2014,
across
from
the
so-called
Northern
Interchange
in
full
view
of
the
wasteland
that
was
once
verdant
marshes
and
ash
groves.
Even
though
Caltrans
had
been
given
archeological
maps
of
the
14
Little
Lake
Pomo
trading
posts
and
villages
sites
within
their
construction
area,
and
even
though
Caltrans
by
law
has
to
comply
with
various
state
and
federal
historic
preservation
laws,
Caltrans
erased
the
entire
village
of
Yami
in
September
of
2013.
They
notified
the
local
Sherwood
tribe
after
they
had
bulldozed
the
topsoil,
drilled
1,500
wick-drains
into
the
village
site
and
had
already
covered
it
with
three
feet
of
dirt.
Representatives
from
Mendocino
Indian
Tribes
who
are
descendants
of
the
Little
Lake
Pomo
finally
were
given
consultation
meetings
with
the
Caltrans
archeologist.
Former
Tribal
Chairwoman
Priscilla
Hunter
said
they
had
two
demands:
Reduce
the
size
of
the
Northern
Interchange
to
protect
30
acres
of
wetlands
and
archeological
sites
and
enforce
protection
for
the
many
additional
sites
on
land
that
Caltrans
now
owns
and
plans
to
build
ponds
on
to
create
artificial
wetlands
as
substitute
for
the
ones
they
are
destroying.
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The loss of West
Antarctic
Glaciers
appears unstoppable
An Interview with Professor Chris Rapley
Program
FOUR
of
FOUR
Professor
of
Climate
Science,
University
College
London
Former
Director,
British
Antarctic
Survey
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
FOUR
When NASA, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, announced at a press
conference on May 12, 2014, that the loss of the West Antarctic
glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment appears unstoppable I asked
Professor Chris Rapley for his comments. As former Director of the
British Antarctic Survey it had been his job and expertise to know all
aspects of Antarctic research.
Born and educated in Britain, Rapley became an international scientist.
40 years ago he began a six year term with NASA’s Solar Maximum
Mission. Then he lectured at the Department of Space and Climate
Physics of University College London from 1981 to 1987 and became
Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
(IGBP) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1994.
The IGBP helps identify and assess risks posed to society and
ecosystems by climate change.
After
almost
ten
years
as
Director
of
the
British
Antarctic
Survey
Professor
Chris
Rapley
accepted
the
job
as
Director
of
the
Science
Museum
in
London.
He
had
become
more
and
more
engaged
with
the
question
how
to
communicate
the
scientific
facts
of
climate
change
and
counteract
the
overwhelming
financial
power
of
the
climate
change
deniers.
They
are
preventing
urgently
needed
action
in
face
of
a
clear
and
present
danger.
Rapley
moved
back
to
University
College
London
as
Professor
of
Climate
Science
and
has
spent
the
last
couple
of
years
working
with
neuroscientists,
psycho-sociologists
and
science
policy
people
on
the
psychology
of
climate
dismissal,
the
communication
of
climate
science,
and
the
interaction
of
climate
science
and
policy.
I spoke to Professor Rapley by phone on May 23, 2014.
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Interview with
Professor Eric Rignot
Program
THREE
of
FOUR
NASA
glaciologist
with
JPL,
Pasadena,
and
Professor
of
Earth
System
Science
at the University of
California, Irvine
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
THREE
A new study by
Professor Eric Rignot and researchers at NASA and the University of
California, Irvine, presented in May, 2014, finds a rapidly melting
section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an
irreversible state of decline.
The Amundsen Sea Embayment
with its five glaciers is one of the hardest
to reach areas of West Antarctica. The advent of over-flights by
airplanes and now observation from satellites was a game changer for
research, says Professor Rignot.
This is an interview about
the current technology of observation, and
the way in which results on glacier thickness, movement, temperature,
and contact line with warming ocean waters are mapped. Professor Rignot
is among the leaders in the new field of remote sensing
technologies. He pioneered advances in radar interferometry.
This phone interview, held on
May 23, 2014, addresses the questions how
NASA and the European Space Agency, along with scientists, are
collecting data from space, not just from airplanes.
Important links:
<http://www.ess.uci.edu/group/erignot/opportunities>
<http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_News>
<http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2014/03/Pine_Island_retreat>
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/mission/index.html#.U4v7pUu9ZPc>
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Eric Rignot - Presentation at NASA Press Conference
Program
TWO
of
FOUR
NASA glaciologist with JPL, Pasadena, and Professor of
Earth System Science
at the University of California, Irvine
Program TWO of FOUR
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
TWO
A new study
presented by Professor Eric Rignot and researchers at NASA and the
University of California, Irvine, presented in May, 2014, finds a
rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be
in an irreversible state of decline. The Pine Island, Thwaites, and
four other glaciers contain enough ice to raise global sea level by 4
feet and they are melting faster than most scientists had expected.
These new findings, we are told, will require an upward revision to
current predictions of sea level rise.
The NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot who is also Professor of Earth System
Science at the University of California, Irvine, incorporated four
decades of research and, on May 12, 2014, presented results by him and
his team that are based on real observations by satellites and field
work, not computer models.
After the paper on the loss of West Antarctic glaciers was vetted and
accepted for publication NASA, the National Aeronautic and Space
Administration, organized an on-line press conference. In this program
you will hear excerpts from the audio with introductions by NASA
officials and presentations by scientist, questions from the media and
answers.
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Chris Rapley
former Director, British Antarctic Survey
Program ONE of FOUR
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
ONE
A new study by
researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, presented
on May 12, 2014, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic
Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with
nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea.
<http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/may/nasa-uci-study-indicates-loss-of-west-antarctic-glaciers-appears-unstoppable/>The
Pine
Island,
Thwaites,
Haynes,
Pope,
Smith,
and
Kohler
glaciers
discharge
ever
more
rapidly
into
the
Amundsen
Sea.
And
even
though
the
Amundsen
Sea
Embayment
is
a
very
small
area
of
the
continent
of
Antarctica
these
glaciers
contain
enough
ice
to
raise
global
sea
level
by
4
feet
and
they
are
melting
faster
than
most
scientists
had
expected.
These
findings,
we
are
told,
will
require
an
upward
revision
to
current
predictions
of
sea
level
rise.
A world trying
to understand the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet now needs to
turn its attention to a frozen continent at the bottom of the globe
that seemed too far away and too massively frozen to be of
concern.
The
glaciologist Eric Rignot at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
California, and the University of California, Irvine, followed decades
of research and theory to explain how and why the West Antarctic Ice
Sheet is inherently vulnerable. The late arrival of satellite
observation in addition to airplane overflights have allowed them to
see and quantify what exactly is happening at the base of the glaciers
and their so-called grounding lines where the ice sheet is attached to
a bed of rock or soil below sea level.
Professor
Chris Rapley, who is famous for his inspired and intelligent
descriptions of Antarctica, was the Director of the British Antarctic
Survey when I interviewed him in 2005. He had warned of the loss of the
West Antarctic glaciers in a 2005 keynote speech and an interview with
TUC Radio.
His lucid explanation of the history of exploration and the function of
Antarctica and the global circulation of water and his deep
understanding of the processes of melting are the perfect introduction
to the new findings by Professor Eric Rignot in the upcoming program by
TUC Radio.
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Salmon and Sovereignty
Caleen
Sisk, Chief of the Winnemem Wintu
on ceremony, broken treaties, corporate theft and
the relationship between salmon and water
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
TWO
In
1941
Winnemem
Wintu
land
that
would
be
flooded
by
Lake
Shasta
had
been
taken
under
three
provisions.
The
Wintu
were
to
receive
“like
land”
to
that
they
had
lost,
a
cemetery
to
re-bury
their
dead
and
money
to
rebuild.
By
2014,
none
of
the
promises
had
been
fulfilled.
And
worse.
In
1986
the
Wintu
also
were
excluded
from
federal
recognition
as
a
bonified
Indian
tribe.
As the
Winnemem Wintu began fighting for the compensation of their losses as
well as federal recognition a new threat emerged. Plans to raise the
Shasta Dam are well underway and such a dam raise would submerge
another 1.5 miles of the McCloud river including the ceremonial
sites that the Wintu have used for thousands of years.
Today the
Winnemem Wintu are among the most eloquent opponents of the project to
raise the Shasta Dam and also the strongest supporters of the return of
the salmon that used to run so thick in the McCloud, Sacramento and Pit
Rivers that horses were afraid to wade through the churning waters.
The Winnemem Wintu are taking on the most powerful institutions of the
day: From the corporations that buy and control water, the
Agribusinesses that bribe politicians for access to water and the
current state agencies and government that want to dramatically
increase the water transfer from Northern California to the deserts of
the South by building the Delta Twin Tunnels. The current 2013/14
drought is being used to sell the project to the public – who will have
to pay for it. However that water is already earmarked for agribusiness
and for the oil companies that want to use it for fracking.
I met and
recorded Caleen Sisk, the chief of the Winnemem Wintu, on April 19,
2014, at a Ukiah, CA, meeting on SALMON AND SOVEREIGNTY: Indigenous
perspectives on water and cultural survival in California Contact: <http://www.winnememwintu.us/>
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The
U.S.-Israel Special Relationship
HERE
ARE ALL FOUR PROGRAMS OF THIS MINI-SERIES -
BEGINNING WITH PART ONE AND STEPHEN WALT -
SCROLL DOWN FOR
THE MOST RECENTLY PRODUCED PART FOUR WITH MEMBERS OF THE CIA
The
U.S.-Israel Special
Relationship-Part ONE
Keynote: Stephen Walt
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
ONE
The National Summit to Reassess the
U.S.-Israel “Special Relationship,” was held March 7, 2014 at
the National Press Club in Washington, DC. It was the most high
profile, public response and critique to-date of AIPAC, the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, Israel’s foremost US Lobby, whose
mission is to quote “urge(s) all members of Congress to support Israel
through foreign aid, government partnerships, (and) joint
anti-terrorism efforts.”
Just days
earlier, from March 1st through 3rd, AIPAC had held its annual policy
conference in our nation’s capital, celebrating the US Special
Relationship with Israel. According to AIPAC’s web site more than half
of the Senate, a third of the House of Representatives and countless
Israeli and American policymakers were among the 14,000 attendees.
In face of
that long established relationship granted by the US to no other
country, the organizers of the “The National Summit to Reassess the
U.S.-Israel ‘Special Relationship’” hoped to open the door to an
informed and inclusive national discussion about what they consider the
pitfalls of this “special relationship” with Israel. They said that
quote “it is long past time for this critical national conversation to
occur and for the American public to have a voice in U.S. foreign
policies.” (Stated in the May 14 volume of the Washington Report.)
The National
Summit was the result of a full year of preparation by staff of the
magazine, Washington Report, in cooperation with the Institute for
Research:Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep), the Council for the National
Interest (CNI) and If Americans Knew (IAK).
Speakers included some
long term former intelligence officers, among them Phil Giraldi, Paul
Pillar and Ray McGovern. "Spike" Bowman, a specialist in national
security affairs, gave intriguing background on the Jonathan Pollard
spy affair. Former elected representatives included Cynthia McKinney,
speaking via video, and Paul Findley from Illinois; and the panel of
journalists and academics included Gareth Porter, John Quigley and
Stephen Walt, co-author with John J. Mearsheimer of their seminal book:
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Stephen Walt
was the keynote speaker at the National Summit and he spoke on: The
"special relationship" and what has changed since publication of book,
The Israel Lobby. Walt is Professor of International Affairs at
Harvard, Kennedy School of Government. He previously taught at
Princeton University and the University of Chicago. He has served as a
consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval
Analyses, and the National Defense University. He is the co-author,
with John J. Mearsheimer of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.
<http://www.natsummit.org>
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The U.S.-Israel Special
Relationship-Part TWO
Gareth Porter on Iran
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
TWO
The historian, investigative
journalist, and author Gareth Porter specializes in U.S. national
security policy. He was one of the speakers on Panel 2 at the National
Summit: “Does Israel and its lobby exercise too much influence on U.S.
decisions to wage war in the Middle East?”
His talk on
the "manufactured crisis" and drive for U.S./Israel military actions
against Iran was seen by many as an expose of government malfeasance -
going as far back as the George Herbert Walker Bush and Clinton
administrations and maintained through Bush Junior and the Obama White
House.
Porter researched for his book, the Manufactured Crisis: The Untold
Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, published in February 2014, what he
calls the false evidence that Iran had a nuclear weapons program. In
his book and this talk Porter shows that the documents used to prove
the existence of the weapons program were fabricated and that those who
presented the evidence, as well as other intelligence agencies such as
the German BND knew that they came from sources that could not be
trusted.
Gareth Porter
is the author of five books. He writes regularly for Inter Press
Service, Salon.com, the Nation, Truthout, the Huffington Post, and
Counterpunch.
Porter's work goes back to the time of the war on Vietnam. He was an
anti-war activist and served as Saigon Bureau Chief for Dispatch News
Service International from 1970-1971, and later as co-director of the
Indochina Resource Center.
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The U.S.-Israel Special
Relationship-Part THREE
A brief history of un-prosecuted Israeli smuggling and espionage
cases by Grant F. Smith - AND
What every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine
by Alison Weir, founder of If Americans Knew
30 second Preview/Promo
for Part THREE
Alison Weir and Grant Smith were the lead organizers of The National
Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel “Special Relationship” on March 7,
2014 at the National Press Club in Washington DC.
By strange
coincidence one of the topics covered by Grant Smith became
international news exactly as I was preparing his talk for broadcast on
TUC Radio. On April 17th, 2014, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
released an article with the intriguing title: Did Israel steal
bomb-grade uranium from the United States?
<http://thebulletin.org/did-israel-steal-bomb-grade-uranium-united-states7056>
The authors,
Victor Gilinsky and Roger J. Mattson, had suspected that Israel, in the
1960s, stole the uranium from the Apollo, Pennsylvania, plant of NUMEC,
the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. They now credit the
release of classified documents in March 2014, that contain much of the
proof they were looking for, to the work of researcher Grant Smith.
Grant Smith is Executive Director of the Washington DC based Institute
for Research: Middle Eastern Policy. <http://www.irmep.org/>For
the
past
ten
years
he
has
been
investigating
the
role
of
Israel
and
its
domestic
lobby,
AIPAC,
the
American
Israel
Public
Affairs
Committee,
in
influencing
US
Middle
East
policy.
Alison Weir is
president of the Council for the National Interest, created by
ambassadors and former Congressmen in 1989 and executive director of If
Americans Knew. <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/>
That’s
a
nonprofit
organization
she
founded
when
she
came
to
the
conclusion
that
if
Americans
knew
the
history
and
present
reality
of
Palestine
under
Israeli
occupation
US
foreign
policy
in
the
middle
east
would
no
longer
be
so
one-sidedly
supportive
of
Israel.
She
writes
and
speaks
widely
on
Israel-Palestine,
and
has
given
talks
at
Harvard,
Yale,
Stanford,
Berkeley,
and
Georgetown.
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The U.S.-Israel Special
Relationship-Part FOUR
The U.S.-Israel Special Relationship - Is Israel really a U.S. ally?
Three retired members of the CIA present their answers.
30 second Preview/Promo
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Three former high level CIA employees were the speakers on the last
panel of the one day summit at the National Press Club in Washington
DC. held on March 7, 2014. Paul Pillar, Ray McGovern and Philip Giraldi
addressed the question: Is Israel really a U.S. ally?
Professor Paul Pillar retired in 2005 from a 28-year career in the CIA.
His last position was National Intelligence Officer for the Near East
and South Asia. He was Executive Assistant to Director of Central
Intelligence William Webster. He studied at Oxford and Princeton and is
now a non-resident senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for
Security Studies.
Ray McGovern is the retired CIA officer turned political activist. In
his 27 years with the CIA McGovern chaired National Intelligence
Estimates and prepared the President's Daily Brief. When he retired he
received the Intelligence Commendation Medal. He returned the medal in
2006 in protest at the CIA's involvement in torture.
Philip Giraldi is a former counter-terrorism specialist and military
intelligence officer who worked for 18 years for the CIA in Turkey,
Italy, Germany, and Spain. He may be the most high profile ex CIA
person on the panel, having appeared on Good Morning America, MSNBC,
National Public Radio, the BBC, FOX News, al-Jazeera, 60 Minutes and
many more.
This is the last of a four part series of reports from The National
Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel “Special Relationship.” For all
speeches of that day in video, audio or transcript go to the web site
of the national summit at <www.natsummit.org>
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Testing the Waters -
Our Radioactive Ocean and
What is Radioactivity
Three years after Fukushima
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Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo for
Part
TWO
In
an
age
when
the
ocean
currents
are
as
well
mapped
as
river
systems
on
land
there
has
never
been
any
doubt
that
radiation
flowing
into
the
ocean
at
Fukushima
would
eventually
arrive
at
the
west
coast
of
North
America
on
the
Kuroshio
Current.
It
was
just
a
question
of
time
and
what
the
risks
might
be
once
they
arrived.
Canada was going to be the canary in the coal mine. The Kuroshio
Current arrives there first and then branches down along the coast of
the US. In February 2014 the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
reported at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Hawaii
that they detected the radioactive signal as early as June of 2013.
Ken Buesseler from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in
Massachusetts, whose initiative and fundraising sent a research vessel
into the waters off Fukushima only 12 weeks after the accident in 2011,
has made an appeal to federal institutions to take on the monitoring of
water off the West Coast. He made proposals to NOAA, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to the EPA, to the Department
of Energy, to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and even NIST, the
National Institute for Standards and Technology. They all declined,
stating that this was not their responsibility.
The testing that has begun in February/March 2014 is a combination of
crowd sourcing and academic work. Woods Hole does water testing along
the Canadian and US west coast and scientists at San Diego State
University in conjunction with the Applied Nuclear Physics program at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have begun testing kelp for
cesium 134 and 137, the signature isotopes of the Fukushima accident.
They all rely on dedicated volunteer efforts to help fund and collect
kelp and water samples. The results will be published on their
respective web sites under Our Radioactive Ocean and Kelpwatch 2014.
http://www.ourradioactiveocean.org/
http://kelpwatch.berkeley.edu/
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Helen
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Nuclear Power, Radiation & Our Health
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ENCORE for
International Women's History Month and Fukushima 3rd Anniversary
This is the keynote
presentation at a public forum in Taipei,
Taiwan, on July 7, 2013. The organizer was an antinuclear alliance of
mothers called Mom Loves Taiwan. They are campaigning to prevent the
opening of yet another nuclear power plant on that small island and
invited Dr. Helen Caldicott to help inform the public and the media.
This is a brief and concise
talk covering the nature of power plants
accidents, the different forms of radiation released, and how exactly
radiation acts on the human cells and causes cancer. In Part TWO
Caldicott explains how radioactive iodine, strontium and plutonium
affect the body; and why the body and placenta mistake plutonium for
iron and strontium for calcium and embed them in our organs, bones and
the fetus. Caldicott also covers the latest studies on birds in the
Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones by biologist Timothy Mousseau.
There are very few people
currently alive who have given as much time
and effort to the whole complex of the nuclear nightmare, as Helen
Caldicott. Beginning in 1971 with atmospheric bomb testing to nuclear
war to nuclear power to nuclear weapons in space, and to climate
change. In 1971 Caldicott played a major public role in Australia’s
opposition to French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific. Four
years later she worked with the Australian trade unions to educate
their members about the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle, with
a particular focus on uranium mining. At the end of the
nineteen-seventies Helen Caldicott gave up a profession she loves, that
of a medical doctor, and a career that could have given her a
comfortable life. In 1978 Helen Caldicott left her position teaching
pediatrics at Harvard Medical School to fully immerse herself in
nuclear disarmament and joined those who were ending the cold war.
Caldicott formed several
important organizations in her over four
decades of activism. A lasting contribution was her co-founding
Physicians for Social Responsibility. The international umbrella group:
International Physicians for the Preventions of Nuclear War won the
Noble Peace Prize in 1985. The Smithsonian has named her one of the
most influential women of the 20th Century. She is the author of
several books, among them Nuclear
Madness, If You Love This Planet, The New Nuclear Danger and Nuclear Power is Not
the Answer.
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The Safe Food
Movement VS Agrochemical Giants
Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta and More
With Vandana Shiva (Navdanya in India)
and Andy Kimbrell (Center
for Food Safety)
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30 second Preview/Promo
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TWO
Campaigns for
labeling genetically engineered food have swept the US from California
to Washington and on to Connecticut, Maine, and Alaska, Oregon and
Vermont. Actually by January 2014, according to the Center for Food
Safety, 26 states had introduced mandatory labeling legislation. People
who participated in these campaigns realized with surprise and shock
that they were fighting for a right that is already guaranteed in 64
other countries, including all the industrial democracies that we
compare ourselves to.
The other shocking discovery was that such a simple and obvious demand,
the right to know what food we put into our bodies was challenged
wherever it was about to be codified via ballot proposals or state
legislation by a powerful and extremely well funded lobby. Foremost
among them of course the agrochemical corporations such as Monsanto,
Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF and junk food manufacturers such as
Kraft Foods, Pepsico and Coca Cola.
Now, at the beginning of the year 2014 these corporations and their
lobbyists in Washington and their trade associations, among them the
Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), have moved their campaigns up
by a huge quantitative leap. Instead of fighting pro labeling
legislation state by state they are formulating legislation at the
federal level outlawing any state's right to label GMOs.
Simultaneously an international trade agreement, the Trans Pacific
Partnership, that is currently being negotiated, apparently includes
language, written by biotech corporations, outlawing GMO labeling for
all eleven member states of the TPP. That includes the US, Canada,
Mexico, China, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, and Japan.
Vandana Shiva and Andy Kimbrell, who have dedicated their lives to
alerting us to the danger of genetic engineering came to California in
the Fall of 2013 to explain the hidden history of the corporate
experimentation with life.
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Black History Special
Fred Gray
CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY FOR ROSA PARKS AND MARTIN LUTHER KING
ONE self contained program
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This is a rare
recording of a man who remained in the background.
Without him the civil rights movement might have taken a different turn.
When Fred Gray's friend Rosa Parks was
arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance on a
Montgomery bus, 26-year-old Martin Luther King, was chosen to lead the
Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his--and the
movement's--lawyer. Gray's legal victory in the federal courts ended
the boycott 381 days later.
In this program Fred Gray tells his story. He grew up in
Montgomery, Alabama, and had to leave the state to finish his education
because blacks could not then attend Alabama law schools. He returned
to his hometown in 1954 and became one of two black lawyers in the
city. His first case was that of the 15 year old Claudette Colvin. Nine
months before Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat on the
Montgomery bus, Claudette did the same. Fred Gray won scores of civil
rights cases in education, voting rights, transportation, and health.
He represented the Freedom Riders, the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers,
and the victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Recorded at the Republican Roundtable in San Francisco, July
2009. It was a Republican, Peter Buxtun, who blew the whistle on
the Tuskegee study. Poor black sharecroppers were led to believe they
were being treated, while in reality the study recorded the progression
of untreated Syphilis. Buxtun is now the events coordinator for the
Republican Roundtable, TUC Radio was there by invitation.
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ITHACA COMMUNITY MONEY
A radio
documentary
on the ITHACA HOURS community currency
UPDATE
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Part ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part TWO
During the Great Depression, when banks were closed so
they
could be audited, over 400 currencies called SCRIP were used in the US
to buy food and services. When the banks reopened, sometimes several
months later, SCRIP 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.
The Ithaca Hours are the oldest printed paper currency in the US.
Founded in 1991 by Paul Glover Hours have been in continuous use, their
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, NY. Paul
Glover, who founded Ithaca Hours in 1991, is still doing community
currency work. I spoke to him in February of 2014 to update the
information in this program. His web site is http://www.paulglover.org
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Rethinking Money
How new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity
with Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne
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Part TWO
Recorded in the early days of January 2014, the
focus, with some urgency, is on the prospects for war This is a new
book by the former Belgian central banker, fund manager and now
university professor Bernard Lietaer and the journalist Jacqui Dunne.
Published in 2013 the book is the most up to date international
overview over complementary currencies and alternative systems of
credit. The diversity of these systems is quite staggering, examples
come for Poland, Brazil, Japan, the US and even the center of all
banking, as some see it, Switzerland. But what they all have in common
is their response to and critique of the current system of banking and
money management.
Edgar Cahn, the creator of one such complementary system, Time Banking,
legal scholar and speech writer to Robert F. Kennedy summed up the
purpose of the book on Rethinking Money:
"Lietaer and Dunne explain how and why our monetary system fails to put
supply and demand together, subsidizes and promotes intolerable and
unnecessary disparities of well-being, entrenches unearned privilege,
undermines democracy, creates boom-and-bust cycles, and rewards
unsustainable, destructive growth... they provide a guided tour to an
array of actual alternatives like time banking and complementary
currencies to create a sustainable, more equitable monetary ecosystem.”
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The Prospects of War in 2014
Professor Francis Boyle, interviewed by Jeff Blankfort
(one 29 minute program only)
Recorded in the early days of January 2014, the
focus, with some urgency, is on the prospects for war in 2014.
University of Illinois College of Law Professor Francis Boyle, well
known teacher of Constitutional Law, attorney and engaged critic of
U.S. Foreign Affairs, was interviewed on January 8 by Takes on the
World Radio host Jeff Blankfort. Jeff Blankfort is a veteran journalist
and commentator on the Middle East.
Flash-point one is Iran. While negotiations are currently (January
2014) under way to lift sanctions a bill, S. 1881, has been introduced
in the US Senate (Dec. 2013), over President Obama's objections, that
could bring these efforts to an end. Even worse, S. 1881 has language
imbedded that would force the US to go to war on the side of Israel if
Israel were to decide - unilaterally - to attack Iran. To follow the
process in the Senate go to <http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/senate-bill/1881>
Francis Boyle writes that "Today on the 100th anniversary of the
outbreak of World War I, the serial imperial aggressions ... by
the Republican Bush Jr. administration and then the Democratic Obama
administration are now threatening to set off World War III." Boyle
lists the flash-points Syria, Libya, Lebanon, along with the ongoing
attempt to destabilize Iran. In the controversy between Japan and China
over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands the US has declared that it is bound by
treaty to intervene on Japan's side. These and more issues are
addressed in this interview originally broadcast on KZYX radio.
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Tom Greco
THE END OF MONEY AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION
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Tom Greco
demystifies money and banking and explains the destructive power of the
current financial system. He challenges us to recognize that our dreams
of a sane, just and ecologically sound future can become reality only
if we change the way in which money is created and used.
Tom Greco was recorded at the beginning of his lecture tour for his
most recent book: THE END OF MONEY AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION. A
former engineer and college professor, Greco has written on monetary
and financial innovation for over 30 years. Earlier books include: New Money for Healthy Communities
and Money and Debt, A Solution to
the Global Crisis. His web sites are <http://beyondmoney.net/> and <
http://www.reinventingmoney.com>
Kelly Durkin and I recorded him at IONS in Petaluma, CA, on May 5, 2009.
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This
film is an excellent document of his presentation. Greco allowed me to
incorporate the slide show that he specifically made for this
presentation. Seeing and sharing this films sends you well on your way
to set up credit clearing and community currency in your community. For
more details then consult his book.
Ellen Brown
BYPASSING WALL STREET
A Public Bank for Mendocino County
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30 second Preview/Promo
Part TWO
Efforts are under way
in one of the smaller counties of California, 100 miles north of San
Francisco, to set up a local public county bank. Mendocino might be the
first in the US since the early nineteen hundreds unless the city of
San Francisco, where plans are well developed to create such a bank,
beats Mendocino to the punch.
Such a public bank would be authorized to remove the county's funds
from the commercial bank that now manages the deposits. The County Bank
would be able to use the same credit system that private banks use -
which means access to the current 0.25% interest rate instead of the
going rate of 5 to 8% or more. Such a private bank would partner, not
compete, with the local community banks and credit unions.
One successful public bank already exist in the US. It is the Bank of
North Dakota, founded by farmers in 1919 as protection from Wall
Street. Ellen Brown includes much of their history and inspiring
current successful practice in her talk.
Ellen Brown is one of the preeminent proponents of public banking. She
is a lawyer, well known author and President of the Public
Banking Institute that keeps a highly informative web site at <PublicBankingInstitute.org>.
Ellen
Brown's
best
known
recent
books
are
her
analysis
of
the
Federal
Reserve,
entitled
The
Web
of
Debt
and
her
2013
book:
The
Public
Bank
Solution.
Ellen Brown was recorded on December 14, 2013, at the Little Lake
Grange in Willits, CA.
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Paul Grignon
MONEY AS DEBT
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An independent movie
on the question "Where does money come from?" became the most
successful film on banking on the internet and was praised by notables
like Catherine Austin Fitts, David Korten, Hazel Henderson, and Tom
Greco. With over 2 million downloads between 2006 and 2009 and
translated into 20 languages, the film has remained to this date one of
the extraordinary teaching tools and inspiration for the monetary
reform movement. This program is an update of TUC Radio's 2009 Film on
Radio version.
Even though Grignon has since produced two sequels that deal with
bailouts, and stimulus packages, and how to create a nurturing economy,
this first film remains a must see in the opinion of Korten, Greco,
Elizabeth Kucinich, and that of many influential monetary reform
organizations. Indeed the film has become more important today as the
question of how to prevent another banking bailout remains unanswered.
In part one of this double program Paul Grignon makes the case that
only a very small part of our money supply is created by the
government. 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 governments in most
countries borrow the money for their operations from bank and have the
taxpayers pay the interest.
Among the unforgettable quotes included in the film is this one by
Congressman Wright Patman “I have never yet had anyone who could,
through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government
borrowing the use of its own money... I believe the time will come when
people will demand that this be changed...(and) when they will actually
blame you and me and everyone else connected with the Congress for
sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to
continue.” Patman was chair of the US House Committee on Banking
and Currency from 1965 to 1975, the year before he died.
The web site of the film is: http://www.moneyasdebt.net
Thanks to Paul Grignon for
making his film available.
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Joan Mellen - A Farewell to Justice
Jim Garrison, John F. Kennedy's Assassination, and the Case That Should
Have Changed History
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The re-broadcast of this program with Temple University
Professor Joan Mellen is timed to coincide with the immediate aftermath
of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Now we know that
even in November 2013 the vast majority of mainstream media still name
Oswald the lone assassin and still discredit Oliver Stone, whose 1991
Movie JFK features Garrison’s investigation of the assassination.
Oliver Stone, in November 2013, defended his film, JFK. He said to his
attackers on CNN: "There's nothing in the movie that I would go back
on," and: “even more evidence supports my case now." Joan Mellen agrees
with Oliver Stone and supports the film. But she takes it all one step
further: Mellen said in a lecture at Rider University on November 2,
2013. “From revealing the truth about the Kennedy assassination, …
despite the CIA’s efforts to say otherwise, Oliver Stone’s film went on
to become a historical event in its own right."
She explains how JFK awakened so profound a response in the millions
who saw the film, that people demanded that the still classified
records be revealed. Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 and five million
documents, photos, films, audio recordings and physical objects were
released. They are now housed at the National Archives in College Park,
MD. “The releases kept coming into the millennium” Mellen says but
“ground to a halt under the Obama government.” <http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/>
Biographer Joan Mellen met Garrison in 1969. His relentless search for
the truth about who killed President Kennedy made a deep impression on
her. In 1997, five years after Garrison’s death, Mellen started to work
on the story of his life. Her biography turned into a new investigation
of the assassination itself.
Joan Mellen is professor of English and creative writing at Temple
University in Philadelphia. She is the author of 22 books, ranging from
film criticism to fiction, Latin American studies and biography. The
website for the book is: <http://www.joanmellen.net/>
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Michael Parenti
THE JFK ASSASSINATION AND THE GANGSTER NATURE OF THE STATE
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ONE
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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 and
supporting Oliver Stone. 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 on
November 22, 1993.
This is a "standing ovation" talk 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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FAMILY OF SECRETS
An interview with the author, Russ Baker
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ONE
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Gore Vidal called Baker's book
about the Bush Dynasty and America's
invisible government one of the most important books of the past ten
years. In Family of Secrets Baker asks the obvious, but unanswered
question, how can "such a clan occupy the presidency or vice presidency
of the US for 20 of the past 28 years" with yet another Bush, Jeb Bush
waiting in the wings. Family of Secrets reads and was conceived as a
detective story, based on more than 500 interviews and thousands of
documents, backed up by more than a 1000 footnotes. And even though the
book uncovers a secret political life for all Bushes it is much more
than a family expose. In this interview Russ Baker describes the powers
behind the scenes, with examples from the CIA, oil and banking, and how
these institutions are created by, and make use of people like the Bush
family.
Russ Baker is an
investigative journalist and has written for The
New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington
Post, and served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism
Review, and is the founder of <http://whowhatwhy.com/>,
a
nonpartisan,
nonprofit
investigative
news
organization.
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Global
Seed
Companies:
Who
Owns
What
And why are multinational chemical companies in control?
Professor Philip Howard
(One
29min. program)
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According to Philip Howard there were over 10,000 seed
companies in the US in the 1970s, by 1998 there were only 1,500 left.
This is a fascinating, fact filled report of how an ever smaller group
of chemical companies, foremost Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta have
taken over a majority share of the world seed supply in a very short
period of time. And they are not only dealing in basic grains and
genetic engineering of corn and soy, but have already successfully
acquired fruits and vegetables seed companies and hybrid seed
stock.
Genetic
engineering, the patenting of seeds, sanctioned by Supreme Court and
global trade jurisdiction now make the saving of an increasingly larger
part of the world seed inheritance illegal. Of great concern is the
movement on the part of these global corporations to also make illegal
the replanting of their growing stockpile of non- engineered and hybrid
seeds. And Howard explains how that is done.
Dr. Phil
Howard teaches courses in Community, Food and Agriculture at Michigan
State University and is one of the leading researchers into "food
systems", tracing the journey of food from farming, processing and
distribution to our plates at home.
<https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/seedindustry.html>
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Edward Said
PALESTINE AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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TWO
This
is Said’s last major speech on Palestine, the war on Iraq and the Bush
administration. On September 25, 2003, a message made its way around
the world.
Edward Said, Palestinian American, world famous professor of English
and
Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and fearless defender of
the
Palestinian cause had died of leukemia in New York City, far from the
city of
Jerusalem where he was born in 1935.
In
1948 Said and his family were forced to leave Palestine for Cairo when
the
newly founded state of Israel took their ancestral home. Later Said
came to the
US, studied at Princeton and Harvard and went on to teach at Yale and
Columbia.
He was not only a renowned academic but also an eloquent spokesperson
for
Palestinian rights and sovereignty.
Said begins with comments on
the Bush administration and the war on Iraq and continues with a report
on Gaza, still under military occupation. He also refers to the first
and second Intifada, the beginning of the building of the Separation
Wall; and the divestment and boycott campaign in the US. All events are
important historic dates and eerily contemporary. Said ends with a very
personal description of the healing collaboration between him and the
Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim. The youth orchestra that they
founded together in 1999 still forms in 2012.
Said
was recorded at UC Berkeley in February of 2003 – his last public
address
before his death seven months later. He leaves behind a treasure of
writings including his most influential book,
Orientalism (1978), an examination of the way the West perceives the
Islamic
world; as well as books inspired by his passionate advocacy of the
Palestinian
cause, including The Question of Palestine, (1979), Covering Islam
(1981), After
the Last Sky (1986), Blaming the Victims (1988), and Culture and
Imperialism
(1993).
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A $300 Million Freeway Bypass Built on Wetlands
- and on a Lie
From TUC Radio's Going Home series
(One
29min. program)
30 second Preview/Promo
A freeway bypass is being built around the small
Northern California town of Willits. Even network TV is recognizing
that it will destroy precious wetlands and is grossly expensive and
overbuilt with a capacity for 5,000 vehicles per hour while top traffic
around Willits is only 8,000 a day. The breaking news around which this
story is built is the discovery that the California Department of
Transportation, Caltrans, lied in their permit application to inflate
the need for four instead of two lanes.
An effort is currently under way to halt construction and bring back a
two lane design for the Northern Interchange, where the bypass meets up
with the old two lane highway 101. In contrast to what Caltrans is
already attempting to build and de-water, a two lane interchange would
only destroy 25% of the wetlands.
This story plays itself out all across the US and derives some of its
importance by considerations of climate change, CO2 emissions and the
goal to reduce instead of facilitate traffic.
The program opens with quotes from ABC News <http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=9200564>
and
presents
the
voices
of
environmentalists,
ranch
owners,
and
a
Willits
engineer
and
a
city
planner.<http://www.savelittlelakevalley.org>
An analysis of traffic counts is here: How CalTrans sold the Willits
Bypass <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEiAu9LXiYo>
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How Many Reasons for an Attack
on Syria?
An interview with Middle East analyst Jeffrey Blankfort
(One
29min. program)
30 second Preview/Promo
Recorded on September 8, 2013,
before the, then planned, congressional votes.
This interview covers the vote in the UK Parliament, the critics of the
preparation for war at home and abroad, Israel’s position, the role of
the Saudis in fomenting military actions at a time when demonstrations
in Syria were still peaceful, and the role of Hezbollah.
Blankfort
refers to the long list of incidents where the US used chemical weapons
in Vietnam and Iraq and supplied them or condoned their use. He also
comments on constitutional issues around the War Powers Act which
limits the President’s discretion to launch a war.
Jeff Blankfort
is a journalist, photographer and radio host of Takes on the World, a
program on international affairs on public radio KZYX in Northern
California. He is the former editor of the Middle East Labor Bulletin.
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Alex
Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy
The 20th century, said Carey, 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 wrote 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. And, in his
manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that
history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era.
Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the
McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign
against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to
power.
John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky
dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC
Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every
two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still
unknown.
Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only
the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at
this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie
Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's
analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide.
Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda
project up to date.
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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29 second PROMO for Part TWO
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James
McGreen
The
Future of Electric Cars
From TUC Radio’s Going Home
series
(One 29min. program)
30 second Preview/Promo
McGreen and friends built a prototype for an electric
vehicle that is not a car, that is not yet in mass production, that is
assembled from parts used by early VW, electronics from Silicon Valley,
lithium batteries from China, and a motor invented by Nicola Tesla in
the 1890s. A vehicle design that raises an important question about the
future of electric transport. Is the automobile as we know it really
the only model for personal electric vehicles? Are there lighter,
simpler solutions that use less power but might remain impossible if
traffic is dominated by cars that weigh 3,000 lbs and more and shoot
along at murderous speeds?
McGreen, is the principal inventor of Switch Vehicle <http://switchvehicles.com/>,
an electric three wheel motorcycle, an open crash cage design with up
to four seats. Adaptable with a loading deck to carry equipment, or as
many as 12 people for off road use, it is highway legal and easily
reaches 55 miles per hour. The smallest available battery pack gives it
a a range of about 50 miles.
McGreen is motivated by his concern and detailed knowledge of the
danger of climate change. He has acted on his beliefs as an engineer
since the early 1990s. First he pioneered electric bicycle design and
production, then he became known as the inventor of the Zappy, a two
wheeled electric scooter. He lost his company ZAP in a takeover by the
board of directors and now is developing this simple open Switch
vehicle that he hopes will be copied here and abroad.
This talk was recorded in his workshop in Sebastopol, CA, on May 17,
2013. The program is part of TUC Radio's Going Home series - presenting
Northern California inventors, visionaries and caretakers.
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Alfred W. McCoy
The
Making of the US Surveillance State
(One 29min. program)
30 second Preview/Promo
In July 2013 an article appeared on line in
TomDispatch that gave an up to date and chilling analysis of the
unprecedented powers of the US Surveillance state. It’s author,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor of history Alfred McCoy,
credits Edward Snowden for having revealed today’s reality. And McCoy
adds his perspective of the intriguing history that led up to this
point - and he makes a few predictions as to what to expect in the near
future. That article in TomDispatch caught the attention of radio host,
writer and Middle East expert Jeff Blankfort who allows me to broadcast
the highlights of his interview with Professor McCoy.
McCoy studied Southeast Asian history at Yale University before coming
to Madison. In 1971 he was commissioned to write a book on the opium
trade in Laos and discovered that the French equivalent to the CIA had
financed its covert operations from the control of the Indochina drug
trade. He also found evidence that after the US replaced the French the
CIA took over the drug trade. Not surprisingly the CIA tried to block
publication of the book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. But
after three English editions and translation into nine foreign
languages, this study is now regarded as the “classic” work on the
global drug traffic.
Professor Alfred W. McCoy is the author of: The Politics Of Heroin (in
1972) and A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to
the War on Terror (published in 2006) A film based in part on that
book, "Taxi to the Darkside," won the Oscar for Best Documentary
Feature in 2008. McCoy’s latest study of this topic, Torture and
Impunity (Madison, 2012), explores the political and cultural dynamics
of America’s post 9/11 debate over interrogation.This program was first
aired on July 24, 2013 at KZYX Radio in Philo, CA.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175724/
http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/mccoy.htm
The 35 minute version is here: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/69998
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Paul Cienfuegos
The
Emergence of the COMMUNITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
(One 29min. program)
30 second Preview/Promo
A grassroots movement to defend local communities from
corporations is celebrating 16 years of successes. The new COMMUNITY
RIGHTS MOVEMENT created binding ordinances that prevent hydraulic
fracking, industrial hog-farms, water withdrawals by giant bottling
plants, corporate mining, and so on - with many more projects under way.
The non-profit law firm that is supporting the movement is CELDF, the
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. <http://www.celdf.org/>Paul
Cienfuegos works closely with CELDF's attorneys and he is teaching
workshops to inspire communities to set and defend their own local
ordinances.
I recorded Cienfuegos on July 1, 2013 at the Little Lake Grange in
Willits, California. Cienfuegos is a workshop leader, lecturer and
writer. <http://paulcienfuegos.com/>
He
has
devoted
most
of
his
adult
life
to
social
change
work,
including
nuclear
power,
nuclear
disarmament,
ancient
forest
protection,
water
protection
and
more.
He
was
trained
by
CELDF
and
is
now
working
closely
with
their
legal
experts,
teaching
workshops
to
inspire
communities
to
set
and
defend
their
own
local
rules.
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Paul Cienfuegos
Community Rights VS Corporate
Rights
A program in two parts
30 second Preview/Promo
Part ONE
30 second Preview/Promo Part TWO
Two decisions transferring power to corporations have
captured the
imagination and a great deal of nationwide resistance. The 2010 Supreme
Court ruling allowing unlimited spending on political campaigns and the
much older decision conferring person-hood on corporations.
Paul Cienfuegos adds the part of the story that's shrouded in secrecy -
disclosing the many other decisions that make corporations so powerful
today. And he shows a way out that is successfully practiced by the
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund <http://www.celdf.org/>. CELDF, by
the summer of
2013, has helped 150 communities in 9 states to ban corporate fracking,
corporate mining, corporate water withdrawal for bottling, urban sewage
sludge dumping on farm land, and unsustainable energy production.
In the second
part of his talk Cienfuegos describes the corporate rights conferred by
two states: New Jersey and Delaware. And he covers in depth the
original decision giving person-hood to corporations and the many
consequences that followed by expanding the privileges based on that
decision.
Paul
Cienfuegos is a workshop leader, lecturer and writer. <http://paulcienfuegos.com/>
He has
devoted most of his adult life to social change work, including nuclear
power, nuclear disarmament, ancient forest protection, water protection
and more. He was trained by CELDF and is now working closely with their
legal experts, teaching workshops to inspire communities to set and
defend their own local rules.
Cienfuegos came to Willits, California, to present a short version of
his two day workshop. This is part one of his one hour opening history
lesson, given on July 1, 2013.
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Resistance
to
the
Willits
Bypass
– direct action and civil disobedience
From TUC Radio’s Going Home series
30 second Preview/Promo
On January 18, 2013 the British Guardian reported that tree sitters had
gone up to stop a road project they say “will be expensive, unnecessary
and ineffective at tackling congestion and cut through beautiful
wetlands” in the south of England.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/jan/18/road-building-protesters-victory-hastings>
Ten days later and unaware of each other, in Northern California, tree
sitters went up in the former logging town of Willits, protesting a
four lane bypass that will be expensive, unnecessary and
ineffective at tackling congestion and cut through the treasured
wetland of Little Lake Valley. Both groups are part of a growing effort
to scale down fossil fueled construction and transportation in a global
effort to reverse climate change.
The escalation to direct action in Willits comes after a quarter
century of efforts to use the regulatory agencies, the Environmental
Impact Report, and the mitigation process to prevent or at least
downscale the project. The Willits Environmental Center was a major
contributor to the Bypass actually dying twice, first in 2007 when
bond-funding was denied, then in 2011 when the Army Corps of Engineers
refused to give Caltrans, the CA Department of Transportation, their
permit to destroy the wetlands and headwaters of five salmon streams.
When behind the scenes congressional pressure forced the beginning of
work on the Bypass in March 2013, legal action to stop that work was
initiated and denied. Finally the Willits Environmental Center, the
Sierra Club and others sued under the clean water act. As of this
recording on July 1st, 2013, the case has been heard but not yet
decided. <http://www.savelittlelakevalley.org>
Meanwhile Willits saw the removal of tree sitters at gun point by the
CHP, the California Highway Patrol. Caltrans has cut several groves of
trees and graded a four lane wide swath through the wetlands. And the
efforts to save the Little Lake Valley continue in face of the
heartbreaking environmental destruction. And the question is raised:
Why are all this sacrifices necessary? Caltrans claims that the traffic
crossing Willits was and will be so heavy that only a four lane bypass
will handle it.
However, due the wonders of modern surveillance Caltrans offers the
strongest proof against their argument on their own web site. A traffic
camera one mile north of the town of Willits once every hour posts a
picture of traffic conditions on the current two lane highway 101. It
is extremely rare that you see more than two vehicles in that image. By
Caltrans own traffic studies there is, and has not been, any heavy
traffic north of Willits for the last 20 years. <http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist1/d1tmc/1_cam.php?cam=27>
You will hear from Ellen Drell, co-founder of the Willits Environmental
Center, who has tried to influence or stop the work with legal methods
and two activists, the journalist Will Parrish, as of July first under
arrest for having occupied construction equipment and the young farmer
and goat herder Amanda Senseman who did a tree sit in a Ponderosa Pine
for 65 days. Recorded on June 13, 2013 at the Methodist Church in Ukiah.
An analysis of traffic counts is here: How CalTrans sold the Willits
Bypass <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEiAu9LXiYo>
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poet Laureate
On Poetry and City Culture, 1998
30 second Preview/Promo
In October 1998 Lawrence Ferlinghetti became the first poet laureate of
the city of San Francisco. Major Brown said he got the idea during a
visit to the city of Seoul, South Korea. He had been asked when the
city Poet Laureate would be giving his annual talk. A decision had to
be made very fast to create the office and, as City Librarian Regina
Minudri said, picking Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a no-brainer. She
introduced him as a literary legend, a voice of dissent, and an
internationally acclaimed writer, artist, bookseller and publisher.
Ferlinghetti is known to everybody in North Beach from his walks from
his modest second floor flat to his roll-top desk in the publishing
office of City Lights. On his desk he finds as many request to sign
petitions as manuscripts for publication, and he obliges many and even
walks on picket lines.
As this recording is broadcast again for the first time 15 years later
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, now in his nineties, is active and engaged as
ever. He has had major exhibitions of his paintings and drawings -
including a 60 year retrospective in Rome in 2010. And he wrote ten
more books since then including Americus: Part I (New Directions, 2004)
Poetry as Insurgent Art (New Directions, 2007) And Time of Useful
Consciousness, published in the Fall of 2012. One poem in this most
recent work quotes the title of this radio show. Time of Useful
Consciousness, so close to the description of civilization moving to
its brink, eventually was chosen to be the title of the book. The
bookstore, City Lights, that he co-founded 60 years ago, celebrated
it's birthday on June 23, 2013.
This is the first re-broadcast of a program that ran once in 1999.
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Rebecca
Solnit, HOLLOW CITY
The destruction of San Francisco in the late 1990s
28 second Preview/Promo
A new generation of writers Rebecca Solnit, Mike Davis, and Gray
Brechin are intriguing us into seeing our familiar surroundings with
new eyes. They also offer a different perspective on the radical
transformation that development and venture capital have brought to so
many cities. San Francisco, formerly famous for taking a travelers
heart away, is now reaching for the soul and the wallet. A dot com boom
combined with the growing biotechnology industry have driven housing
prices up and residents and local small businesses out.
Rebecca Solnit says she wrote Hollow City in a hurry to document the
beauty and rich culture that was being destroyed, and to inspire the
growing movement of resistance. The publisher Verso said about the book
that it shows that wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as
poverty.
This is the first re-broadcast of a program that ran once in 2010.
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Interview
of
urban
historian
Mike
Davis
From the City of Quartz to San Francisco
30 second Preview/Promo
This program takes you back to the year 2000, it is the third of TUC
Radio's four part series on the fate of California cities and the
forces that shape them. When Davis spoke in San Francisco he was
already widely known as author of Beyond
Blade
Runner:
Urban
Control,
The
Ecology
of
Fear;
Prisoners
of
the
American
Dream; and City of
Quartz, Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.
This conversation between Mike Davis and the editor of the SF Bay
Guardian, Tim Redmond, was recorded at a benefit for the SF
Anti-Eviction Coalition. Standing room only audience had come to see
the man who had taught Los Angelinos to see their city with new eyes.
In his book, the City of Quartz, Davis recalls the citrus groves and
cooperative farms of the turn of the century that were replaced with
unregulated urban growth driven by a blade runner style capitalism.
Unearthing the forces that now shape cities Davis says that Los
Angeles, San Francisco and other American cities might share a common
future and that we all might share a common strategy to protect the
places we need and care for.
Mike Davis had come to San Francisco at a very difficult time. A wave
of gentrification had begun in 1997. An investment boom, driven by the
nearby Silicon Valley Computer Industry, had already raised rents to
the highest of any major American city. Official statistics reported
seven evictions per day. At the same time a vibrant grassroots movement
emerged that used direct action, political organizing, art and music to
oppose the pro development policies of San Francisco's major and city
administration. The evicted, soon to be evicted and those who were
determined never to be evicted made up the audience in this benefit.
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Gray Brechin
Imperial San Francisco
Part One: The Underground History of the Gold Rush
Part Two: The Quest for Water
30 second Preview/Promo Part ONE
30 second Preview/Promo Part TWO
This is part of the history of a
city, grown from 16 houses on sand
dunes in 1850 to the largest city on the Pacific in only 15 years. The
book, Imperial San Francisco by Dr. Gray Brechin, is one of the few
examples of a scholarly dissertation that describes history in a new
way and becomes a very popular book. Imperial San Francisco brings to
light the huge sacrifices extracted by the surrounding land by any city
from Babylon to the Italian city states to the instant cities of North
America. Brechin says that he tried to answer the question he posed
himself: was it worth it - and what was it worth for whom.
Part One
focuses on the Gold Rush and the early conflicts between mining and
farming. San Francisco grew due to the convergence of
people and gold/capital. However the city needed another essential
ingredient to maintain growth: water. In Part Two Brechin describes how
water was important not only for people and fire protection, but for
industry and to give value to dry land that had been bought up by real
estate speculators. As the first wave of destruction of Northern
California was bought about by gold mining, the second wave was caused
by the quest for water, the damming of rivers, and the flooding of land
for reservoirs, even inside the protected space of Yosemite National
Park.
Gray Brechin
received a B.A. in history and geography, a M.A. in art history, and a
Ph.D. in geography from the University of California at Berkeley. He
worked during the 1980s as journalist and TV producer in San Francisco.
Brechin is currently visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Department of
Geography and works on the Living New Deal Project and the history of
the Great Depression. Brechin recommends two books by his mentor, the
late Lewis Mumford: The City in
History (1961) and The
Pentagon of Power (1970). This
interview
was
recorded
in
2000
and
is
being
re-broadcast
here
for
the
first
time.
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FUKUSHIMA
SYMPOSIUM
New York Academy of Medicine, NYC
March 11 and 12, 2013
A TUC Radio MINI-SERIES
Akio Matsumura
What did the World Learn from the Fukushima Accident?
30 second Preview/Promo
This is the last of a ten part program series covering the most recent
and complex status of the ecological and medical consequences of
the Fukushima catastrophe - as well as the very important details of
engineering in nuclear power technology. The information was presented
at the two day Fukushima Symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine
in March 2013. The overwhelming conclusion was that the Fukushima
accident is by no means over and another earthquake or tsunami might
cause the reactor fuel to ignite.
I'm ending the series with a voice from Japan. I first heard from the
diplomat Akio Matsumura in 2011 <http://akiomatsumura.com/>when
he
launched
his
ongoing
attempt
to
engage
international
organizations
and
the
governments
of
countries
most
affected
to
oversee,
or
even
take
over
the
work
now
done
by
the
owner
TEPCO.
As
a
private
corporation
in
charge
of
the
cleanup
TEPCO
is
clearly
overwhelmed
by
the
task
and
also
has
no
credentials
for
handling
it
responsibly.
They
mismanaged
Fukushima
Daiichi
while
it
was
running.
TEPCO
says
it
will
take
40
years
to
secure
the
site.
The
IAEA,
at
an
April
2013
visit,
said
that
estimate
was
too
low
and
the
damaged
infrastructure
would
not
last
that
long.
To illuminate the urgency of the task to get the cleanup under control,
Matsumura points to reactor number 4. Remember the images of that
building with the roof torn off, and fires burning inside? The entire
structure is leaning, the damaged frame is missing large parts of the
outer walls. Inside of what remains of Unit 4, 100 feet above ground,
hangs the 1,670 ton fuel pool filled with irradiated fuel rods. You
heard from fuel pool expert Bob Alvarez in this series. He says that if
an earthquake causes the pool to crack and drain there could be a
radiological fire that might re-ignite the other parts of Fukushima
Daiichi.
Here are important links:
<http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/>
The link to streaming video is at:
<http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf#>
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Ken Buesseler
Fukushima Ocean Impacts
30 second Preview/Promo
Ken Buesseler is Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution <http://www.whoi.edu/>
on
Cape
Cod.
He
specializes
in
natural
and
man-made
radionuclides
in
the
ocean.
First
he
worked
on
fallout
from
atmospheric
nuclear
weapons
testing,
then
on
the
impacts
of
the
Chernobyl
explosion
on
the
Black
Sea.
Most
recently
he
examined
radionuclide
contaminants
in
the
Pacific
ocean
after
the
melt
downs
of
the
Fukushima
Daiichi
nuclear
power
plants.
Within weeks of the accident Buesseler managed to charter and equip a
research vessel that arrived off the coast of Japan in June of 2011 to
take the first ocean measurements. And you are about to hear his report
from that scientific venture and his follow-up.
The most shocking result in those first weeks was that the level of
radioactive Cesium in the water off Fukushima had risen from 1 1/2 Bq
per cubic meter to 15 and later to an unprecedented 100 million Bq per
cubic meter.
The research team also found that - even though the levels of
radioactive isotopes have come down in the past year they did not
return to pre accident levels. Buesseler says it also shows that there
is a constant inflow of new radioactivity from the ruined nuclear plant
itself and also from the ground water and rivers that flow into the
ocean through the contaminated land of the Fukushima province. As of
March 2013 radiation in water near the plant was still a thousand time
higher than it once was.
Ken Buesseler was recorded by Pacifica Radio on March 11, 2013, at the
two day Fukushima Symposium, organized by the Helen Caldicott
Foundation, and co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Here are important links:
<http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/>
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Joseph Mangano
Post Fukushima Increases in Thyroid disease in Newborns
on the West Coast of the USA
30 second Preview/Promo
On March 7, 2013, an article was published in the Open Journal of
Pediatrics <http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=28599>.
Co-written
by
Joseph
Mangano
and
Dr.
Jeanette
Sherman
it
stated
that
in
the
first
15
weeks,
after
the
fallout
from
Japan
arrived
in
the
US,
the
number
of
newborns
with
Hypothyroid
disease
increased
by
28%
on
the
West
Coast
while
declining
by
3%
in
the
rest
of
the
country.
Mangano
presented
this
report
on
March
12,
2013,
at
the
Fukushima
Symposium
at
the
New
York
Academy
of
Medicine
in
New
York
City.
Mangano is the Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health
Project. <http://www.radiation.org/>He
is
a
public
health
administrator
and
researcher.
The Fukushima
Symposium presented two days of medicine, environmental science and
nuclear engineering related to the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. The
two day event was organized by The Helen Caldicott Foundation and
cosponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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Wladimir Wertelecki
Congenital Malformations in the Ukraine and the Chernobyl Accident
30 second Preview/Promo
When Wladimir Wertelecki took the podium at the Fukushima Symposium in
New York City he clearly stated that he was presenting breaking news.
As this program goes to broadcast in May, 2013, two month after his
talk, no major media and no international agency have taken up this
report.
Wertelecki presented the results of OMNI-Net Ukraine's Congenital
Malformations Monitoring Program; the results of ten years of
scientific study of birth defects of children and their possible
relation to ionizing radiation. Since 2000 OMNI-Net scientists have
conducted research of the Rivne, Polissia region just north-west of the
exploded Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
They found statistically higher than normal incidents of the most
heartbreaking birth defects: NTD, Neural Tube Defects of the brain or
spinal cord; Anencephaly, where most of the brain and skull do not
develop; Microcephaly, a condition in which the circumference of the
head and the brain size are smaller than normal.
The data are collected under strict scientific protocols. They are
based on a population registry of every baby born in the last ten years
with 15,000 measurements; as well as whole body radiation counts that
include pregnant women, with a data base of 20,000.
Wladimir Wertelecki was born in Poland in 1936. He trained in
pediatrics at Washington University and in Clinical Genetics at the
Harvard School of Medicine. From 1968 to 1970 he served as a Senior
Surgeon of the United States Public Health Service. From 1974 to 2010
he was chair of the department of medical genetics at the University of
South Alabama. Now retired he is dedicated to contributing to a clearer
scientific and public understanding of the global impacts of the
Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
He was recorded on March 12, 2013 at the New York Academy of Medicine.
The Fukushima Symposium presented two days of medicine, environmental
science and nuclear engineering related to the disaster at Fukushima
Daiichi. The Helen Caldicott Foundation organized the event, which was
cosponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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Timothy Mousseau
Chernobyl, Fukushima and Other Hot Places
Biological Implications
30 second Preview/Promo
When the biologist, Professor Tim Mousseau, concluded this talk by
showing heartbreaking pictures of the birds of Chernobyl and their
tumors and birth defects, the physician and anti nuclear campaigner Dr.
Helen Caldicott stepped up to the podium to thank him.
She said: "I want to pay homage to Tim Mousseau, who with his
colleagues is actually endangering his life by going into extremely
high radioactive areas doing pioneering work, which is going to change
the concept of radiation exposure to humans. What is happening to the
animals, the insects and the plants is going to happen to us."
Mousseau is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of
South Carolina. For 13 years he and his scientific collaborator Anders
Moller from the University of Paris, Sud, have done research in the
most contaminated areas of Chernobyl. When Fukushima Daiichi exploded
they began field work there as well. They study birds, insects,
microbes, and plants at over 1,000 sites, creating the most diligent
inventories of each study area and returning year after year. They
found significantly increased rates of genetic damage in direct
proportion to the level of exposure to radioactive contaminants.
Tim Mousseau spoke on March 11, 2013, on the second anniversary of the
Fukushima Daiichi explosions at a Symposium at the New York Academy of
Medicine. The two day meeting was organized by Dr. Helen Caldicott's
Foundation, at nuclear free planet dot org, and co-sponsored by
Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Here are important links:
<http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/Mousseau/Mousseau.html>
<http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/>
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Cindy Folkers and Mary Olson
Post-Fukushima Food Monitoring
and: Gender Matters in the Atomic Age
30 second Preview/Promo
Cindy Folkers specializes in radiation impacts on health. She works
with Beyond Nuclear. They call attention to the connections between
nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to
safeguard our future. Two weeks after Folkers gave this talk, Beyond
Nuclear, in coalition with other groups, filed a petition with the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to drastically reduce the amount of
radioactive cesium permitted in food, from an unreasonable 1200 Bq/kg,
to 5 Bq/kg. In post-Chernobyl Belarus, at just 11 Bq/kg of internal
cesium contamination children can be susceptible to heart problems. At
50 Bq/kg, children can start having permanent tissue damage.
Mary Olson is
Southeast Regional Director of NIRS, the Nuclear Information and
Resource Services. She speaks on: Gender Matters in the Atomic Age. In
2011 Mary Olson published a briefing paper on the fact that Women as a
group suffer significantly more from the impact of ionizing radiation
than do men. There is a dramatic fifty-percent greater incidence of
cancer and fifty-percent greater rate of death from cancer among women,
compared to the effects of the same radiation dose level to men.
Mary Olson and
Cindy Folkers spoke at the Fukushima Symposium, organized by the Helen
Caldicott Foundation and o-sponsored by Physicians for Social
Responsibility, held in NY City on March 12, 2013.
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Steven Starr
Massive Radiation Contamination of Japan with Radioactive Cesium
30 second Preview/Promo
Steven Starr says: "Long lived radio-nuclides such as Cesium 137 are
something new to us as a species. Although they are invisible to our
senses they are millions of times more poisonous than most of the
common poisons we are familiar with. They emit radiation, invisible
forms of matter and energy, that we might compare to fire. It's
not a fire that can be scattered of suffocated because it burns at the
atomic level, it comes from the disintegration of single atoms".
Starr gives an update as to what people in Japan are facing now and
into the future. He explains how Cesium 137 is created in the Nuclear
Power Plant and how it disperses and continues to move. How it enters
the body, mainly via contaminated food, and bio-accumulates in humans,
plants and animals. He refers to studies of the Chernobyl disaster and
lists the organs affected and the diseases caused by Cesium 137. He
takes issue with regulations that set unacceptably low exposure
standards and ignore the added danger from Cesium 137 that lodges
inside the body and creates a long active source of exposure.
Starr is Senior Scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility,
and Clinical Laboratory Science Program Director at the University of
Missouri. He was recorded on March 11, 2013 at the New York Academy of
Medicine. The Fukushima Symposium presented two days of medicine,
environmental science and nuclear engineering related to the disaster
at Fukushima Daiichi. The Helen Caldicott Foundation organized the
event, cosponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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David Freeman
My Experience with Nuclear Power
29 second Preview/Promo
Freeman served in Chief Executive positions at the largest power
authorities in the world, including New York Power Authority, the TVA
in Tennessee Valley, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
In spite of, or maybe really because of, being the consummate insider
in energy production, Freeman is one of the most brilliant, funny and
knowledgeable critics of fossil fuels and nuclear power. Freeman closed
down 8 nuclear reactor projects during his tenure as Chief Executive at
the TVA, and one more when he was General Manager of the Sacramento
Municipal Utilities District in California.
His 2007 book: Winning our Energy Independence, describes in detail the
urgent need of weaning the U.S. from what he calls the "three poisons"
-- coal, oil, and nuclear. He believes that energy and climate pose the
greatest threats America has ever faced and this is our opportunity to
resolve all aspects of that crisis at once: In this book he lays out
how renewable energy can replace oil, coal as well as nuclear.
David Freeman spoke at the Fukushima symposium in NYC on the second
anniversary of the accident on March 12, 2013. The two day event was
organized by The Helen Caldicott Foundation and cosponsored by
Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Freeman spoke on March 12, 2013 at the Fukushima Symposium, held at the
New York Academy of Medicine, New York City. The two day event with
speakers from across the world was a project of The Helen Caldicott
Foundation, cosponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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Bob Alvarez
SPENT FUEL POOLS AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE
30 second Preview/Promo
Bob Alvarez, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies became
the focus of intense character assassination by the nuclear industry
when he wrote in April 2012: Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster than
Chernobyl and a Warning Sign for the U.S. He explained: "The
radioactive inventory of all the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in
spent fuel pools at Fukushima is far greater and even more problematic
than the molten reactor cores."
"Spent" fuel is a misnomer, far from being harmless, irradiated fuel
remains too radioactive to handle for 5 years and thermally and
radiologically dangerous way beyond that period. When the US government
was looking for permanent storage for high level waste, which includes
fuel rods, they were looking for a site that would remain safe for at
least 100,000 years. Not surprisingly they found none, and had to
recognize that Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was not safe either.
The US Government Accountability Office considers spent fuel one of the
most hazardous substances on the earth. Nevertheless the NRC allows
nuclear plant operators to keep fuel rods past the 5 year mark in ever
more densely packed fuel pools in unreinforced building that resemble a
WalMart or car dealership.
Alvarez urges us to learn from the lessons at Fukushima. The same type
nuclear power plant, The General Electric Mark I and II with dangerous
fuel pools situated on the top of the buildings, are in use in the US.
Alvarez demands that fuel be removed from the pools and placed in dry
storage in caskets or casks. A suggestion the nuclear industry resists
because it is cheaper to keep the fuel rods in the pools.
Alvarez spoke on March 12, 2013 at the Fukushima Symposium, held at the
New York Academy of Medicine, New York City. The two day event with
speakers from across the world was a project of The Helen Caldicott
Foundation, cosponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Here are important links:
<http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/>
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Arnie Gundersen
WHAT DID THEY KNOW, WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?
30 second Preview/Promo
Gundersen argues that the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan
began in 1965, inside the US, with General Electric and the engineers
who designed the site plan and architecture for the Mark I reactor at
Fukushima. He also points the finger at the US Atomic Energy Commission
that permitted a flawed design to be licensed and built.
Gundersen
holds an MA in nuclear engineering and once worked for the nuclear
industry. He was an expert witness on the Three Mile Island partial
melt-down, and more recently on the serious safety risks at the Vermont
Yankee and California's San Onofre reactors. He and his website at
Fairewinds Energy Education <www.fairewinds.org/> became well
known and respected after the Fukushima accident for his often weekly
updated reports.
Gundersen was
recorded by Pacifica Radio at the Fukushima Symposium in New York City
on March 11, 2013. On the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear
disaster, scientists and researchers met in NY City to cover the vast
field of nuclear construction and safety, and the range of radioactive
isotopes that continue to be emitted at Fukushima. They presented
studies on the impact of radiation on human health, our food, on plants
and marine life. And they explained the mechanisms by which radiation
will continue to disperse, literally across the world while at the same
time bio-accumulating in plants, living beings and soils. The two day
event was organized by The Helen Caldicott Foundation and cosponsored
by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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Gary Nabhan
THE FUTURE OF ORCHARDS IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
30 second Preview/Promo
Farmers are not debating weather climate change is real or not, they
are dealing with it already. At the 2012 Heirloom Seed Expo the
co-founder of the local food movement, ethnobotanist and tender of a 6
acre orchard in Arizona, Gary Nabhan, made a wise and moving appeal to
value the vast contribution orchards can make to mitigating climate
change and resisting the impact of drought and heat.
Gary Nabhan, in 2011, made the Utne reader list of 30 people who made
the world a better place to live. As teacher in academia and author of
over 25 books, he inspired a new generation to understand the link
between bio-diversity and cultural diversity. Many of them now dream of
becoming farmers to make a difference with their lives. But few will
succeed since land is so hard to find and finance. However there is a
bright future in the intriguing task of tending and beginning new
orchards on small acreage.
In his 2012 talk Nabhan gave credit to the seed saver movement that he
co-founded. At the same time he made an eloquent case for the vitality
and resilience of fruit trees and the pleasure of re-discovering long
forgotten varieties in abandoned orchards.
The website for Gary Nabhan is
<http://www.garynabhan.com>
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Cathrine
Sneed
THE GARDEN PROJECT IN SAN FRANCISCO
30 second Preview/Promo
When prisoners in the San Francisco County Jail asked to
remain in jail beyond their release date, prison authorities, Sheriff
Hennessy, and Cathrine Sneed who started the gardening program that
prisoners did not want to leave, - all realized that they had created a
success, a model, or a mystery.
Cathrine Sneed credits John Steinbeck. In Grapes of Wrath he writes
that there is hope, even in abject poverty, as long as the connection
to the land can be restored.
The way in
which she has connected land, the growing of organic food, and the
resolution to hunger, addiction, unhealthy food, and crime, has become
a model not just for prisons, but for society at large.
The 1992 Garden Project just celebrated its 30th anniversary. It
started inside the County jail ten years earlier - but Cathrine Sneed
moved the project beyond the prison walls to connect with released
prisoners and then with youth before they even became involved with the
Law. And that is the important difference to prison garden project
elsewhere. Most of them remain isolated behind prison walls and
released prisoners have no easy way to connect with land and food.
I first met
Cathrine Sneed at the annual Eco Farm conference in Asilomar, CA in
1998. She had been asked to give the opening night address to organic
farmers and gardeners. This is a rebroadcast of that event.
The website for The Garden Project is
<http://www.gardenproject.org>
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Sandor
Katz
WILD FERMENTATION
30 second Preview/Promo
Part ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part TWO
When Sandor Katz escaped from NY City and joined a rural
off the
electric grid community in Tennessee a little over two decades ago he
knew very little about growing vegetables and even less about
fermenting them. His amazing development as teacher and author of two
books: Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation, was fueled by
fond memories of pickles he relished as a kid in NYC, love for the
nourishing power of good foods, and his deep interest in the culture,
art and history of fermentation. His great appeal as a teacher and
speaker also lies in his direct and honest approach to life. He is
openly gay and living with AIDS and is convinced of the healing power
of food.
The 2012 Heirloom Seed Expo, an annual event at the height of the
harvest season in Santa Rosa, CA, brought together the dedicated food
activists with their organized resistance to genetically modified foods
and the steadfast farmers who have been protecting our common
inheritance in seeds and plants. In my recent TUC radio programs I have
focused on those who make the case that much of current industrial food
ranges from "bad for you" to deadly. Here it is my pleasure to present
to you Sandor Katz and his eloquent redemption of the much maligned
bacteria and microorganisms without which life would not be possible.
Recorded 9/13/2012
The website for Sandor Katz is: <http://www.wildfermentation.com/>
A
recipe
for
sauerkraut
is
HERE
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Seniors for Peace
Happy Tenth Anniversary!
THE
ORIGIN OF THE LONGEST
CONTINUOUS PEACE RALLY IN THE BAY AREA
30 second Preview/Promo
We remember the huge demonstrations against the war on Iraq in 2003. Of
those hundreds of thousands who came out for peace across the world
mostly films, photos and very fond memories survive. But one group,
maybe the most unlikely of all, the Seniors for Peace in Mill Valley,
CA, just kept going. For ten years now this year, 2013, every
Friday at 4 pm rain or shine, they spend an hour at the intersection of
Miller and Camino Alto with hand drums, guitar, harmonica, fiddle and
banners for peace. That in spite of the need of some to use a
wheelchair or walker since their average age is now 86 and many are in
their nineties.
And that’s not all. They have 144 dues paying members. They expanded
their peace work into campaigns for Afghanistan, Haiti, and tsunami
relief, and they address local wage and housing issues as well as
global warming. Most recently they voted to donate $100 to the Marin
County district attorney's gun buy-back program.
This is the
recording of their second ever rally in 2003. Many of those original
members have found their personal peace during the last ten years and
only their eloquent voices survive. But as Freda Engel, now 93, told
me: “We have a wonderful crop of youngsters in their 80s who are taking
our places”.
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Tribute to the Playwright and Poet on his 115th
Birthday
on February 10, 2013
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BERTOLT BRECHT!
One self contained
29 minute program
29 second Preview/Promo
Even though the German playwright, poet,
director and theoretician of the stage was persecuted by the Nazi's,
and then forced to leave his exile home in the US when he was accused
of being a communist, he did become a major influence on visual and
performance artists such as Jean Luc Godard, Robert Wilson, Rainer
Werner Fassbinder, Augusto Boal, Pina Bausch, Dario Fo and many others.
His
most
famous
plays,
the Threepenny
Opera and the Rise and Fall
of the City of Mahagonny were just two of over sixty plays.
During the war years, Brecht became a prominent writer of the
"Literature in Exile". He expressed his opposition to the National
Socialist and Fascist movements in his most often performed plays: Mother Courage, The Good Person of
Szechwan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich,
and
the
Life of Galileo that
he revised after the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. One of his most searing, funny, frightening and historically
accurate plays against Hitler is the The
Resistible
Rise
of
Arturo
Ui. The play presented all major
Nazis, as well as their supporters, masked as members of a Mafia
operation. The play followed precisely the stages of the Nazi's seizure
of power and posed the most important question: Could Hitler's rise
have been stopped?
On
Brecht's
100ds
birthday
the
Royal
National
Theatre
from
London,
under
their
first
formidable
woman
director
Di
Trevis,
gave
a
performance
in
his
honor
in
San
Francisco.
They
presented
songs,
and
read
from
poetry
and
plays.
I
was
given
permission
to
record
the
songs
during
the
dress
rehearsal
and
include
them
in
this
broadcast.
They
are,
in
order
of
appearance: Song of the SA Man, The
Seven Deadly Sins, To a Portable Radio, The Ballad of the "Jewish
Whore" Marie Sanders, To Those Born Later, Hollywood Elegy, The Moldau,
and Everything or Nothing.
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Stephen Schneider Tribute
A QUARTER CENTURY OF
UNHEEDED WARNINGS
30 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
Topics:
IPCC
warning,
1,000
year
temperature
record,
CO2
now
20%
higher
than
in
last
half
million
years
and
vision
of
a
cooperative
world.
When
the
Stanford
Professor
Stephen
Schneider
died
on
a
return
flight
from
a
climate
conference
in
Sweden
in
2010
the
world
lost
one
the
great
and
courageous
climate
scientists.
He
and
Prof.
James
Hansen
risked
their
careers
by
researching
and
publishing
on
climate
change
since
the
1980s
and
the
world
would
be
a
very
different
place
today
had
their
warnings
been
heeded
instead
of
denied
and
disparaged.
This conversation was recorded in March 2001 in the garden of
Schneider’s home near the Stanford Campus. He had just returned from
his work with the IPCC. Thousands of scientists are making
contributions that are reviewed by the IPCC and then must be approved
line by line by all 120 plus member nations. Governments such as the
US, China, Saudi Arabia often exercise their veto rights over final
publication.
The
2001
IPCC
report
was
the
strongest
so
far
and
Schneider
was
commenting
on
the
proof
of
warming
in
the
movements
of
plants,
animals
and
ice.
He
explains
how
temperature
records
are
established
over
1,000
year
time
period
and
how
the
last
100
years
show
an
increase
that
is
off
the
charts.
He
ends
with
his
vision
of
a
cooperative
world
–
the
only
way
the
climate
crisis
can
be
resolved.
Schneider
gave
the
opening
address
at
the
"Avoiding
Dangerous
Climate
Change"
conference
at
the
Hadley
Centre
in
England
on
February
1,
2005.
At
the
request
of
the
British
government
200
scientists
convened
to
counter
the
refusal
of
the
US
administration
to
acknowledge
the
urgency
of
the
problems
related
to
climate
change.
Data
on
the
accelerated
melting
of
the
Greenland
and
Antarctic
ice
sheets,
and
the
possible
collapse
of
the
Gulf
Stream
caused
the
greatest
concerns,
but
were
not
covered
in
the
US
commercial
media.
Dr.
Stephen
Schneider
was
professor
in
the
Biological
Sciences
Department
at
Stanford
University
and
former
Department
Director
at
the
National
Center
for
Atmospheric
Research,
Boulder,
Colorado.
Schneider
was
also
Coordinating
Lead
Author
for
the
Intergovernmental
Panel
on
Climate
Change
Assessment
Reports.
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Stephen Schneider and James Hansen
GLOBAL WARMING - A QUARTER CENTURY OF
UNHEEDED WARNINGS
Remembrance of
the late Dr. Stephen Schneider and Hansen Award in his name
30 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
Topics:
CO2
now
20%
higher
than
in
last
half
million
years;
rate
of
CO2
increase
higher
than
in
geologic
time,
extreme
weather,
carbon
pricing
and
equity.
Schneider’s name came up in December 2012 when the “Stephen Schneider
Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communications” was given to NASA
Climatologist James Hansen. The ceremony by Climate ONE at the
Commonwealth Club in San Francisco united the two men who had been
colleagues and friends for decades.
In TUC radio’s last program you heard Hansen’s acceptance speech. This
– by extension is my credit to Schneider whose name on the press
coverage of the award came up only as a quote: “a Stanford professor
who died”. Nothing about his very unique and holistic view based on his
expertise in biology and atmospheric science, his ability to describe
how climate and life evolved together – and how that process is falling
apart as humans are disturbing the earth. And nothing about his work
with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and his co-share of
the Nobel Price with the IPCC.
I interviewed Stephen Schneider three times and consider each recording
a treasure. Here today is my first meeting with Schneider in his office
at Stanford in 1998. At that time he was the only scientist I could
find who was willing to talk candidly on the record on climate change.
Dr. Stephen Schneider was professor in the Biological Sciences
Department at Stanford University and former Department Director at the
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. Schneider
was also Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (2007). Schneider’s research
included modeling of the atmosphere, climate change, and "the
relationship of biological systems to global climate change. Schneider
is the author of (2009) Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle
to Save the Earth's Climate; (1989) "Global Warming, are we entering
the Greenhouse Century"; (1997) "Laboratory Earth " and with Randi
Londer (1984) "The Co-evolution of Climate and Life" and, as co-author
with Michael D. Mastrandrea (October 2010): "Preparing for Climate
Change."
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James Hansen
CALL TO ACTION – LEAVE COAL IN THE
GROUND AND PUT A PRICE ON CARBON -
ONE self-contained 29 program
26 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
Topics:
Superstorm
Sandy,
carbon
pricing
VS
cap
and
trade.
Dr. James Hansen heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and
is Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Earth Institute. He is
one the first climate scientists to issue an urgent warning on climate
change and has been embattled ever since – and stood his ground. Now, a
quarter century later he speaks, campaigns, and issues scientific
papers with an ever growing group of concerned scientists from across
the world. He works with Bill McKibben on the campaign against the
Keystone XL Pipeline, joined in civil disobedience and was arrested.
Hansen has very clear ideas as to what needs to be done politically to
face the immediate danger of climate change.
On December 4, 2012 Hansen received the Stephen Schneider Award for
Climate Science Communication at the Commonwealth Club of California in
San Francisco. Schneider was Professor of Environmental Biology and
Global Change at Stanford University and a major contributor to the
IPCC. Many thanks to the Club for allowing me to use their recording.
Find the full
one hour plus recording of this speech and the award ceremony at:
<http://www.commonwealthclub.org/media/podcast>
You
can
reach
Professor
Hansen
at
<http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/> Filing lawsuits against the
government on behalf of our children
<http://ourchildrenstrust.org>
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Michael
Parenti
THE ONE
PERCENT PATHOLOGY AND THE
MYTH OF CAPITALISM
30 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
Dr. Michael
Parenti gave this keynote speech for the 4th Annual People's Movement
Assembly
at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington in October, 2012. He
talked
about economics, neo-liberalism, globalization and the history of
capitalism. Parenti
spoke
and wrote about these topics long
before most other academics dared mention – and much less critique
–capitalism,
the chosen economic form in the US, and really the world.
Raised
in
a
working
class
Italian
family
in
East
Harlem,
New
York
City,
Parenti
went
on
to
receive
his
Ph.D.
in
political
science
at
Yale
in
1962.
His
academic
career
was
cut
short
by
his
dismissal
after
he
was
arrested
for
protesting
the
US
war
on
Vietnam.
Parenti
became
an
independent
scholar,
lecturer
and
author
of
over
20
books.
And
he
remained
an
activist
as
well.
Thanks to Ed Mays from Pirate TV, Seattle,
for this
recording. You can see the film of this talk at
<http://www.piratetvseattle.com/>
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Miko Peled:
THE GENERAL'S SON
Journey
of
an
Israeli
in
Palestine
27 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
29
second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
Miko
Peled's father was the Israeli major general Matti Peled. He was part
of the General Staff during the Six Day War in 1967. Israel then
conquered the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights and Sinai, setting the
stage for the untenable situation the Palestinians face today. His son
Miko visited the very territories his father had helped to conquer. He
formed friendships in the West Bank, re-considered his own upbringing
and did much original research to re-write with authority the history
he was taught growing up in Israel.
In the second half of his talk Miko Peled talks about the
moment in his life where everything changed. His 13 year old niece
Smadar was among those killed in Jerusalem by two Palestinian suicide
bombers. Miko Peled learned from his sister Nurit. She surprised the
world press by blaming not the Palestinians but the Israeli government
for the death of her daughter. She said the brutal occupation of
Palestine had led to a measure of despair that caused the young suicide
bombers to take their own lives, along with that of her daughter. Peled
also explains why the two state solution is no longer possible and
calls for one secular democratic state in which Palestinians and
Israelis live side by side.
Miko Peled's book: The General's Son, was published in 2012.
The poet
Alice Walker wrote the foreword and said that this book is the most
hopeful on the topic of Israel/Palestine. Peled was recorded by Jeffrey
Blankfort in Berkeley, CA, on September 19, 2012. He spoke at a benefit
for clean water for children in Gaza, organized by the Middle East
Children's Alliance.
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Prof. Don Huber
THE IMPACT OF GMOs
AND THE HERBICIDE ROUNDUP ON CROPS, ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Professor
Huber
gave
me
permission
to
post
his
70.9
MB
power
point
presentation
for
this
talk.
HERE it is.
29 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
29 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
The battle lines are drawn over safety of genetically
modified plants and animals between the corporations that make them,
and farmers and consumers expected to handle and eat them.
Don Huber is Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. He taught,
researched and published at Purdue University for thirty-five years on
plant physiology, microbiology, pathology and soil-borne disease
control. Huber came out of retirement to speak out on the dangers of
glyphosate and genetically modified plants.
Monsanto already launched a campaign to discredit him in spite
of his impeccable credentials that even include his work, from 1963 to
1971, at the U.S. Army Edgewood Proving Ground and Ft. Detrick
Biological Laboratories in Maryland. There he did research on chemical
and biological warfare, qualifying him well for his current work on
GMOs.
Don Huber came from the land. He grew up on a citrus and poultry farm
in Arizona and later a dairy farm in Idaho. He worked his way through
college at a sawmill, in construction, washing pots and pans, and
janitorial jobs. Huber came to the second annual Heirloom Seed Expo in
Santa
Rosa, California, in September 2012, to present his research. Recorded
9/12/2012
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Pamm Larry and THE
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION TO LABEL GMO FOOD
A
snapshot
in
time
of
one
of
the
most
unexpectedly
successful
political
campaigns
over
the
right
to
know
what
is
in
our
food
(ONE 29 min Program)
30 second Preview/Promo
In
a
David
VS
Goliath
fight
a
grassroots
group
joined
by
organic
food,
farm
and
environmental
organizations,
is
facing
some
of
the
most
powerful
corporations,
including
Monsanto,
DuPont,
BASF,
Bayer,
and
Dow
over
the
deceptively
simple
issue
of
labeling
GMO
foods.
Almost
one
million
Californians
made
it
possible
for
the
labeling
proposal
to
be
placed
on
the
November
2012
ballot
as
Prop.
37,
however
as
of
production
of
the
program
on
September
25,
over
$30
million
have
already
been
committed
by
the
GMO
industry
and
pesticide
producers
to
defeat
Prop
37.
This program is a personal portrait of the farmer, midwife and now
grandmother from Chico, CA, Pamm Larry, who single-handedly initiated
the labeling campaign and met thousands along the way who also want to
see genetically modified food labeled.
Both sides agree one one thing: Whatever the outcome, the California
election result for Proposition 37 will not be the end of the issue by
any means. As of September 2012, 11 other states have already formed a
coalition to initiate GMO labeling campaigns via legislation or ballot
initiatives patterned after Prop. 37. So even if money wins over people
in California the issue will not go away. If Prop. 37 passes the Ag.
chemical and industrial food corporate lobby, headed by Monsanto, have
already warned of a legal challenge.
Pamm Larry was recorded at the Heirloom Seed Expo at Santa Rosa, CA, on
September 11, 2012
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THE FALSE PROMISE OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD
(ONE 29 min Program)
28 second Preview/Promo
On the same day as organic farmers met in
Santa Rosa, CA, for the second annual Heirloom Seed Expo the 60 day
comment period ended for twelve new genetically engineered products.
While a growing number of family farmers, medical professionals, and
plant scientists are warning of the health risks of GMO plants and
animals, the Obama administration has sped up their approval process.
The sense of urgency was also heightened by another development. GMOs,
mostly corn and soy, have been planted in the US for almost 20 years.
However that corn and soy have been mainly used for animal feed,
ethanol or for starch and corn sugar that has been added as ingredient
to processed foods for humans, junk food and soft drinks. As of 2012
GMO foods will be aggressively promoted to be eaten directly. Corn,
apples, potatoes, beets, papayas, squash and tomatoes etc. are already
in the pipe line. So the battle over mandatory labeling of GMO foods
has become more passionate and more urgent.
Wenonah Hauter is the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. The
organization works to ensure that the food, water and fish we consume
is safe, accessible and sustainably produced.
Recorded September 13, 2012
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Vandana Shiva
The Seed at the Heart of Freedom
and Genetic Engineering's War on Life
By
huge
popular
request
this
is
a
Re-broadcast
from
October
2011
as
antidote
to the $25 million raised by NO on Prop 37
29 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
30 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
California Prop. 37 on the November ballot,
requiring the labeling of GMOs, has the attention of the country and
even the world. YES on 37 collected $3 Million, NO on 37 is funded by
Monsanto, DuPont, Pepsi, BASF, Dow, Nestle, Coca-Cola and others to the
tune of $25 million. Vandana Shiva addresses science and politics
of GMOs in a passionate, convincing way without mentioning Prop. 37.
Shiva was recorded in September 2011 at the first national Heirloom
Seed Expo held in Santa Rosa, CA. 10,000 people had come on short
notice to see plants and seeds that would already be extinct had not
someone lovingly collected and bred them.
Vandana Shiva explains how biotechnology creates super weeds,
poisons beneficial insects and soil microbes and only brings high
yields when fertilizers, pesticides and abundant water are applied. She
reports on Monsanto's intrusion into the Indian market by burning
heirloom seeds, and locking farmers and seed vendors into exclusive
agreements. Monsanto is using the patent rights they received via
former Monsanto lawyer Clarence Thomas on the US Supreme Court to
collect royalty payments and make it illegal to save and exchange
seeds. She calls for the international abolition of GMOs and the
removal of patents since seeds are a gift from nature to be shared
freely.
Vandana Shiva, trained in quantum physics, became a seed saver
and
ecologist in 1982. She and her organization Navdanya <http://www.navdanya.org/> have
done a huge
part of the work limiting the spread of GMOs into India. For her the
attempts to impose GMOs on India is a war on life and the most recent
wave of colonialism. She and the members of Navdanya learned from
Gandhi's campaigns against the British - and as Gandhi chose the
spinning wheel and salt, they chose the seed as the vessel of life and
dedicated themselves to its protection.
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." She spoke on
September 15, 2011, at the Heirloom Seed Expo organized by Baker Creek
Seeds along with many independent seed companies, farmers and schools.
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Scientific Freedom
in
the
Age of Biotechnology
With Arpad Pusztai, Tyrone Hayes,
John
Losey and Ignacio Chapela
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Part
ONE
29 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
This program is about
academic freedom,
independent thinking, corporate intervention into science, the buying
of academia,
the collusion of regulatory agencies with the very corporations they
are
to oversee and maybe - most frightening of all - the invasion of the
DNA,
the inner spaces and the self organization of life. Original broadcast
2003 - re-broadcast now in support of the voices who call for labeling
of GMO foods.
Arpad Pusztai was an advocate of
genetic
engineering until his research with rats showed serious damage to their
immune
system and organ growth when they were fed with genetically engineered
potatoes. He was fired from his job as Principal Scientific Officer at
the Rowett Institute in Scotland, a job he had held for 30 years.
Tyrone Hayes did research on the
effects
of Atrazine, the world's most widely used agricultural chemical as part
of
a study of breast and prostate cancer. He found damage to tissue and
organs of amphibians including sex changes caused by fluctuating levels
of estrogen and testosterone. His research was suppressed, and
the industry financed research to discredit his work.
John Losey discovered that
Monarch
butterfly caterpillars can die when they eat pollen from engineered
corn plants. The industry waged an unsuccessful campaign to suppress
his report.
Ignacio Chapela discovered that
engineered corn has already invaded the cradle of corn in Oaxaca,
Mexico. A campaign was begun to discredit him and he was
denied tenure in spite of the full support of his colleagues. Two years
after this event the University of California, Berkeley, reversed its
2003 rejection of tenure and hired Chapela as regular member of the
faculty.
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JUST RECORDED!
Yastel Yamada:
The Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima
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Part
ONE
29 second Preview/Promo
Part TWO
They are willing to work on fuel removal in
the
most dangerous areas of Fukushima Daiichi to protect younger workers
from high radiation doses. They said they are elders, were no longer
having children and might die of natural causes before some of the long
latency cancers would make them seriously ill.
Now 700 plus members strong, they are retired workers from Fukushima,
and engineers and technicians from other branches of industry. They
made this extraordinary offer only four weeks after the Fukushima
disaster. However 14 months later TEPCO has not yet given them
permission to work.
The Skilled Veterans are alerting
the international community to the serious problems with the cleanup at
Fukushima Daiichi. 11,400 fuel rods are stuck in damaged buildings, and
in Unit 4 100 feet up in the air. If they were to lose cooling during
the 20 year plus removal to safe storage a fire could spread 85 times
the amount of Cs137 of the Chernobyl accident around the globe.
NEW on August 19, 2012. Arne Gunderson from Fairewinds
published a video about the looming danger from the fuel pool at Unit 4
and shows how the fuel bundles could catch fire:
<http://fairewinds.org/content/can-spent-fuel-pools-catch-fire>
Yastel Yamada is co-founder and Director of their
organization,
the
Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima. Through August 2012 he is on a
speaking tour in the US. The SVCF has two primary goals. One is to
inform the US public about the very serious problems of the cleanup at
the plant, and secondly to appeal to the US government to put pressure
on the Japanese government to convince TEPCO to allow the Skilled
Veterans to work.
Recorded July 30, 2012, Ukiah, CA
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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL
Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
Update of the 2011 program
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Part
ONE
29 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
29 second Preview/Promo
Part
THREE
29 second Preview/Promo
Part FOUR
SUMMARY
Part ONE
Instead of honoring its victims at this
time Chernobyl is referenced to minimize the impact of Fukuchima.
Supposedly only 35 people died. The World Health Organization and the
IAEA, whose mission is to promote nuclear power, claim that "there is
no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or
mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be
related to radiation exposure from Chernobyl."
That the reality on the ground is very different comes to life
in a
book, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the
Environment. The number of victimes so far is estimated to be between
600,000 and, in this book, 1.9 million. Cesium-137 from the Chernobyl
nuclear accident was found in the Antarctic in snow that fell from 1987
to 88 It will remain there, radioactive, for 300 years.
LINK
to article on: Fukushima radiation could reach US West Coast in five
years.
SUMMARY Part TWO
The extensive section on health effects in this book offers a whole new
view of the consequences of radiation induced disease. Yes, there are
cancers to specific organs, many thyroid cancers caused by Iodine 131
and 129 but there are also diseases that affect body systems such as
the whole endocrine system, not just the thyroid, or the immune system,
the respiratory and the reproductive systems. - Also a brief
explanation of "half life" "hot spots" and why background
radiation is different from radiation from nuclear processes.
SUMMARY Part THREE
This program presents the consequences of the Chernobyl explosion on
the environment. How has the radiation affected - and continues to
affect air, water, the soil, plants and animals. How does radiation
move, disperse, bio-accumulate and enter the food chain. Specific
examples are from studies on rivers and lakes, wild and domestic
animals, birds, fish, fungi, bacteria, viruses, studies that show that
they were all affected, in varying degrees, but without exception.
SUMMARY Part FOUR
This last of four programs presents important information on the
plight of the children of Chernobyl who - to this day - need vacations
in uncontaminated areas to detoxify their bodies from some of the
embedded radioactive substances that they absorb in every day life,
substances such as cesium, cobalt, thorium, plutonium etc. Also
explained is the danger of contaminated food, and how to set up ongoing
projects, under control of local communities, to deal with the
persisting radiation and find methods to measure the burden of internal
radiation.
Chernobyl: Consequences
of the Catastrophe for People and the
Environment was first published in 2009 in the Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences - and promptly ignored. After an
original print run of only 700 copies the report is no longer available
from the Academy. However, the authors and editor are
offering the book for free as pdf
file - and they are placing a new
print run back into circulation.
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Helen Caldicott
IMPACT OF RADIATION FROM NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
(ONE Encore Program)
29 second Preview/Promo
As world attention is focused on the
severely damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan it become
apparent how little is known about the radioactive substances being
released and their impacts on life.
Helen Caldicott says that 200 new elements are made inside a nuclear
reactor, all intensely radioactive, some lasting seconds, some 17
million years. Many of them are carcinogenic, some are mutagenic. In
this speech she explains how radiation induces cancers and mutations,
and describes the effects of the four most significant isotopes present
in nuclear power plants: radioactive iodine-131, cesium-137,
strontium-90, and plutonium-239.
This a an extremely timely excerpt of a one hour lecture given in 2009.
Helen Caldicott was then campaigning against the pro-nuclear power
stance of the Obama administration. She spoke to create awareness of
the terrible danger from nuclear reactors and demanded that no new
plants be built and the existing reactors be closed.
For almost 40 years the Australian physician Dr. Helen Caldicott has
campaigned against nuclear weapons and nuclear power. In 1971 she led
her first successful antinuclear campaign that stopped French
atmospheric testing in the Pacific. She came to the US in 1977 and
worked and taught at Harvard Medical School and the Children's Hospital
Boston. Physicians for Social Responsibility, the organization that
she founded, received a Nobel Peace Prize.
Here is the TRANSCRIPT Thank you Wendy!
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1979 Archive SHUT
DOWN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
May 6 Coalition Rally
Against Nuclear Power held in Washington, DC, May 6, 1979
28 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
28 second Preview/Promo
Part
TWO
Five weeks after the accident at Three Mile
Island in Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979 - on a mere three week's
notice - 70,000 determined people came to Washington, DC, to call for
the shut-down of all nuclear power plants. And if they had succeeded
the world would be a SO much better place today. This is an amazing
historic document that raises all the questions that confront us today:
nuclear reactors as ticking time-bombs with potential for catastrophic
accidents. Do we have the right to spread nuclear waste and nuclear
radiation that will poison the planet tens and hundreds and even
hundreds of thousands of years into the future?
Part
ONE:
Bella Abzug, John Gofman, Helen Caldicott, Ralph
Nader - and more.
Part
TWO:
Jane Fonda, David Brower, Dick Gregory, Grace Paley,
Abbie Hoffman, Kurt Vonnegut, Governor Jerry Brown and Barry Commoner.
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SHUT DOWN NUCLEAR
POWER PLANTS
The Life and Work of
Dr. John Gofman
29 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
28 second Preview/Promo
Part TWO
How many nuclear power plant accidents does it
take to come to that conclusion. Even after Fukushima there is very
little movement in that direction. Why is that? Are we mistaken or
uninformed about the dangers of nuclear radiation? Do we believe again
- and over again this time - that there are safe doses of radiation?
That radiation from power plants will not stay dangerous - depending on
the element - from days to hundreds, thousands and even hundreds of
thousands of years? That in these long time periods radioactive
particles will not eventually move from the source of the accident to
every corner of the earth?
The story of an extraordinary man illustrates both the science and the
politics of nuclear power. Dr. John Gofman, from 1970 on, called for
the closure of nuclear power plants.
The obituaries for him in 2007 quoted him as saying: “
Licensing a nuclear power plant is, in my view, licensing random
premeditated murder. First of all, when you license a plant, you know
what you are doing --- so it’s premeditated. Second, the evidence on
radiation-producing cancer is beyond doubt. I’ve worked fifteen years
on it, and so have many others. It is not a question anymore:
Radiation produces cancer, and the evidence is good all the way down to
the lowest doses. The only way you could license nuclear power plants
and not have murder is if you could guarantee perfect containment. But
they admit that they are not going to contain it perfectly."
John Gofman studied under Glenn Seaborg at UC Berkeley and, in 1943,
earned a Ph.D. in nuclear physical chemistry for his work on, and
co-discovery of, Uranium 232 and 233. He finished Med. School in 1946
and became Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. He
made a number of major discoveries working with cholesterol,
lipoproteins, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, and cancer.
Gofman was so widely acclaimed as scientist in both fields, nuclear
chemistry and medicine, that he was asked to be part of two major
projects at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. His task was to
evaluate the health effects of radiation and radionuclide release from
weapons testing, nuclear war, radioactivity in medicine, nuclear power,
etc.--all of the atomic energy programs. And he was given a three
million dollar budget to start. His multiyear work in this field
convinced him that nuclear power plants need to closed. His research
was suppressed and he was forced to resign in 1973.
Gofman is the 1992 recipient of the Right Livelihood Award for
his anti-nuclear work. He is often called the "father" of the
antinuclear movement. Produced May 22,
2012.
CREDITS
Thanks to Leslie Freeman and her book: Nuclear Witnesses: Insiders
Speak Out, to David Ratcliffe and his very well researched and
informative web site <http://www.ratical.org>.
Thanks
to
Egan
O'Connor,
assistant
to
John
Gofman
from
1970
to
his
death
in
2007.
And
to
the
Pacifica
Archives
<http://pacificaradioarchives.org/>
and
Aileen
Alfandary
at
KPFA
Radio.
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THE DAY WE BOMBED
UTAH
by John G. Fuller - a
reading
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Part
ONE
28 second Preview/Promo
Part
ONE
From the beginning of the nuclear age, from the
Manhattan Project to the bomb testing program to the development of
nuclear reactors one aspect remained concealed, that is the emission
and the effects of radiation on life. And it was not a question whether
scientists, government agencies, including the Atomic Energy
Commission, were ignorant about the danger and the effects. Freedom of
information requests reveal the evidence that they knew and decided to
keep it secret or downplay it. And one can easily argue that it
remains one of the murderous secrets of our time as well.
Fallout from the atom bombs exploded on the Nevada Test Site
affected most seriously communities of Downwinders in Utah but were
also recorded 2000 miles away on the East Coast. The author and
investigative writer John G. Fuller unraveled the sequence of lies and
deception towards the Downwinders of Utah in his book: The Day We
Bombed Utah. In a pre-publication article in the May 1983 edition of
Omni Magazine he previewed his most important points. Here are links I
used in updating Fuller's story.
http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/radiationdeathanddeception.html
You can even hear some of the voices of people Fuller describes,
including sheepman Kern Bulloch.
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KENT STATE
REVISITED
The Murders at Kent
State (ONE single program)
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ONE
The killing of four students on the campus of Kent
State, Ohio, on May 4, 1970, during a demonstration against Nixon's
expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia received new attention on
April 23, 2012. The Obama administration's Justice Department decided
not to re-open the case in spite of evidence that the guardsmen had
been ordered to shoot. This reminded the public that the question of
who ordered the shooting has never been resolved.
This is the first of an occasional series on the place that has become
TUC Radio's new home: Mendocino County, Northern California, to honor
extraordinary people and events in this remote region. Here is the
connection between a small local newspaper in Anderson Valley <http://www.theava.com>, a rural
radio station, KZYX <http://www.kzyx.org>,
a
woman,
Laurel
Krause,
living
on
the
Pacific
ocean
near
a
former
logging
mill
town
<http://www.truthtribunal.org>
and
a
veteran
radio
programmer,
Jeff
Blankfort
<http://radio4all.net>
with
events
that
shook
the world in 1970. Also referenced in this re-broadcast is
film maker Michael Moore, attorney William Kunstler's daughter Emily
and Congressman Dennis Kucinich. All together a piece of living history
assembled in the mountains of Northern California. Recorded May 9,
2012.
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF UTAH PHILLIPS
Utah talks about his
life
and how he became an activist
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ONE
This is a tribute to the late Utah Phillips, the
amazing, wise, funny
folk singer and to the times his life spanned - from the Great
Depression to 2008.
In this 2004 recording Utah Phillips talked about the events that
shaped his life. He said that he never put his life story into a one
hour narration like this one. He spoke freely from the heart with
humor, deep conviction and wisdom, honoring many unsung heroes who
influenced his life in vivid anecdotes. From his childhood to Salt Lake
City to the Korean war, his life as a Hobo, his work with transients
and migrants, his discovery of anarchism and pacifism and how to use
music as a weapon, this is a moving, honest account of an extraordinary
life.
Utah Phillips died on May 23, 2008 in Nevada City. His passing
generated a flood of letters and news stories from across the country.
You can see why he is remembered with such admiration and love.
Recorded by Maria Gilardin.
Utah
founded
a
homeless
shelter,
Hospitality
House.
<www.hospitalityhouseshelter.org>
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Richard Heinberg
THE END OF GROWTH
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ONE
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TWO
An important contribution to the running debate on
economic growth. In
his new book Heinberg argues that growth is ending due to the
convergence of three factors: Debt, depletion and disaster. Heinberg is
considered one of the foremost experts on fossil fuel depletion. He is
the author of ten books, including The Party’s Over Powerdown, Blackout
and Peak Everything. He came to Mendocino, CA, in December 2011 to talk
to - and exchange ideas with - the Mendocino Coast Transition Towns
movement.
Heinberg is senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. His website is
richardheinberg.com/. He appeared in the movie: The End of Suburbia
that inspired so many to prepare for local self reliance.
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Michael Parenti
THE FACE OF IMPERIALISM
A talk on Parenti's most recent book
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"The Face of Imperialism
will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by
people around the world - many of them indigenous peoples - who are
defending themselves against the Empire." That's what the author Andre
Vltchek wrote for the jacket of Dr. Michael Parenti's most recent book.
Parenti is one of the nation’s leading
progressive political analysts. After receiving his Ph.D. in political
science from Yale Parenti has taught at colleges and universities, in
the United States and abroad. He wrote 23 books, among them: Democracy
for the Few, Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, Against Empire and
God and His Demons. He risked and ended his promising academic career
when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam.
Parenti has written about empire,
history, the media, theology, and socialism in his decades as an
activist and teacher. However one topic has intrigued him more than
others. He once wrote that "Imperialism has been the most powerful
force in world history over the last five centuries, carving up whole
continents, oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire
civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our
academics, media, and political leaders."
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FEMINIST THEOLOGY
AND WOMEN IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
Dr. Riffat Hassan
For International Womens Month
A rare 1993 recording updated in March 2012
for TUC Radio's 20th anniversary celebration.
Dr. Riffat Hassan, born in Pakistan and educated in England, taught
theology in the US. Her feminist friends in Pakistan realized that they
needed a theological argument to oppose anti woman legislation and
asked her to help. She became, in the mid 1980s, the first trained
theologian to take on, at personal risk, the misreading of the Koran
with the explicit goal to help women's liberation.
Recorded on April 1, 1993, at UC Berkeley, this is a two part
program that begins with an moving account of her personal journey and
ends with a painstakingly researched account of the
story of Adam and Eve common to Islam, Christianity and Judaism. This
myth has been used to declare women secondary, subservient to men, and
sinful. As it turns out this is not the original story.
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MONSANTO
VS.
PERCY
SCHMEISER
Report on the lawsuit that challenges the ownership of life by
corporations (Update Feb. 2012)
Percy Schmeiser and Ignacio Chapela
Monsanto, the giant multinational
agro-chemical
company, sued Percy Schmeiser over the presence of their patented
canola that had invaded the edges of Schmeiser's field from a
neighbor's plot. The Schmeiser case has become one of the most watched
and most important cases for organic farmers, seed savers, for the
movement against the invasion of
the biosphere by genetically modified plants, and against corporate
ownership of life.
Schmeiser was recorded in Ukiah, CA, in November 2006. He gave a report
of his multi-year legal battle to save his land and home, and his 50
year legacy as plant breeder from being seized by Monsanto over 12
pounds of invading seeds. After two shattering losses in court he
finally won a partial victory in the Canadian Supreme Court. However
the court upheld Monsanto's patent rights - even when
their genetically modified canola invades another field or cross
pollinates with organic or pedigree canola or even their relatives. Any
invaded organism becomes the property of Monsanto as well. Under
globalization the patent rights may apply to the US as well.
Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan. He took
over the family farm in 1947. He and his wife are known on the Prairies
as seed savers. Over 50 years they developed a canola seed that was
resistant to disease and lost their life's work by contamination from
genetically modified canola. <http://www.percyschmeiser.com>
He is joined by UC Berkeley microbiologist Ignacio Chapela who asks:
Can genetically engineered plants and animals not only make us sick
when we eat them but can there be a horizontal gene transfer between
their genes and other life - including ours - since all genes are
related. Are we modifying the human DNA as we modify the related DNA of
plants and animals? Chapela teaches at
UC Berkeley. In October 2000 he discovered the contamination of
Mexican corn with Monsanto GMO corn.
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SEED SAVERS VS
MONSANTO
Lawrence Davis-Hollander
A movement is spreading through North
America and it may play a profound role in the ever clearer
contradiction between corporate and community farming, between
genetically modified and pure and healthy food, between monoculture and
diversity. Today's speaker, Lawrence Davis-Hollander says that finally,
after the farm and gardening revival that began in the 1960 and early
70s, the seed collecting and seed saving movement is flourishing as
well.
This is a rich, personal account of Davis-Hollander's experience as
collector, touching on many of the pertinent questions around seed
saving, the connection to history, genetic variety, food, culture and
place - and the role seed saving plays in the resistance to genetic
engineering and corporate control of seeds.
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FAMILY FARMERS VS MONSANTO
Attorney Daniel Ravicher
Monsanto appeared in Federal District Court
in Manhattan on January 31st, 2012, to have a suit dismissed that was
filed by organic growers. At stake is: Can Monsanto sue farmers
whose land was contaminated by pollen or seed from genetically modified
plantings by their neighbors? The answer is that Monsanto has asserted
their patent rights over those whose land was polluted by GMOs and
continues to do so. Monsanto has to date filed 144 lawsuits against
farmers in at least 27 different states for alleged infringement of its
transgenic seed patents, while settling another 700 out of court.
Dan Ravicher, the attorney for the Organic Seed Growers &
Trade Association and others, representing over 300,000 individuals,
gave this summary of the landmark suit to stop these law suits at the
Heirloom Seed Expo in Santa Rosa, CA, on September 14, 2011. As of
February 2012 this suit hangs in the balance. Will the District Court
Judge follow Monsanto's demand and declare the issue without merit, or
will the suit go forward with consequences for the right to pure food
and the survival of organic food production in the US.
Follow the case through these web sites.
Lead plaintiff: Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association <http://www.osgata.org/>
Their attorney Daniel Ravicher <http://www.pubpat.org/>
Supporting organization <http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/>
BAD NEWS (February 27, 2012)
The judge sided with Monsanto! SEE HERE
Press release from OSGATA
On February 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald handed down her ruling on a motion
to dismiss in the case of Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn et al v.
Monsanto after hearing oral argument on January 31st in Federal
District Court in Manhattan. Her ruling to dismiss the case brought
against Monsanto on behalf of organic farmers, seed growers and
agricultural organizations representing farmers and citizens was met
with great disappointment by the plaintiffs. (Go to the site for more.)
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Michael Parenti
THE PATHOLOGY OF WEALTH
The first talk of 2012 by the social critic and noted author Michael
Parenti fit perfectly into the debates of the time, that of the One
versus the 99% and the finally no longer taboo question: What exactly
is CAPITALISM? Parenti is debunking some of the myths of capitalism:
That it creates jobs, peace, democracy and wealth - and more. In Part
TWO Parenti describes the pathologies of capitalism by its inability to
respond to climate change. Quoting a businessman in a New Yorker
cartoon he reads: "While the end of the world scenario will be rife
with unimaginable horrors, ..the pre-end period will be filled with
unprecedented opportunities." Also in this segment arguments for the
benefits of socialism in areas of our lives that should not be managed
under the profit system. He lists health care, energy, and
transportation.
Michael Parenti spoke on January 6, 2012, at the La Peña
Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA. He is one of the nation’s leading
progressive political analysts. Raised in a working class district of
New York City, Parenti went on to earn a Ph.D. from Yale and lost his
chance at an academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam.
Thanks to John Parulis for the recording
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Richard Grossman
WHEN INJUSTICE IS LEGAL
WHAT DO THE ABOLITIONISTS
TEACH
US ABOUT CHALLENGING CORPORATE RULE
This program is in remembrance of Richard Grossman, who died of cancer
in November 2011. He was one of the great uncompromising, courageous
thinkers and activists in the unfolding project to define, limit and
abolish corporate power. Ralph Nader called Grossman "the preeminent
historian of corporations" and this speech, that Grossman gave at
Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in November 2006, shows what
that meant. Grossman refers to the radical branch of the Abolitionists
who confirmed that we are born with inalienable rights that precede the
formation of governments, rights that governments are tasked to
protect. As with the Abolitionists in the 1800-reds who determined that
slaves could not be free under the existing constitution, anti
corporate campaigner also need to re-write the constitution to
dismantle the corporate state.
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 was teaching Democracy Schools with 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/>
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Christopher
Hitchens
THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER
Hitchens Evidence for Kissinger's War Crimes
Hitchens died on December 15, 2011. His
work on the war crimes of Henry Kissinger may be his most enduring. In
this recording he describes Kissinger as a "a one man rolling global
crime wave." Acerbic, witty, fact and passion filled. Recorded in the
Fall of 2001 in San Francisco at a book release party for: The Trial of
Henry Kissinger.
In Part TWO Hitchens discusses whether Nixon and Kissinger
stole the elections of 1968, offers additional information on
Kissinger's role in Israel, Palestine, and Cyprus, and reviews some of
the instruments of international law that may be used to bring war
criminals to trial. Updated in December 2011.
"Hitchens investigates Kissinger’s involvement in the war in Indochina,
planned assassinations in Santiago, Nicosia and Washington, D.C., and
genocide in East Timor. Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously
unpublished documentation, and material released under the Freedom of
Information Act, Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man
whose (actions)resulted in both individual murders and widespread,
indiscriminate slaughter." (Verso Press)
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Richard
Grossman
DISMANTLING CORPORATIONS
Remembering Richards work and life
Richard
Grossman
said:
"..
corporations
don’t
have
rights.
Rights
are
for
people.
Corporations
only
have
privileges,
and
only
those
that
we
the
people
bestow
on
them."
In
a
nutshell
that
was
the
essence
of
his
research
and
teaching
for
the
last
20
years.
Richard
died
of
melanoma
on
November
22nd,
2011,
at
a
hospital
in
New
York
City,
where
he
was
born
sixty-eight
years
earlier.
Ralph
Nader called him the “preeminent historian of corporations” and a
new, inspiring reading of history was his special gift. Richard said
that the American revolution was fought less against the crown but
against the crown corporations. And he believed that it's time to
remember that fight and assert sovereignty of the people over the
corporate state and ask: Why should the many be governed by the few?"
In the last 15 years he had been an important member of POCLAD, the
Project on Corporations, Law and Democracy and CELDF, the Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund. His lasting legacy are the Democracy
Schools that continue to be taught across the country, and a pamphlet:
Taking Care of Business describes the process of de-chartering
corporations. <http://www.ratical.org/corporations/TCoB.html>
Two
important projects that Richard Grossman initiated in the last
months of his life do not receive enough notice in the obituaries about
his work: Upstate New York, where he lived in a small town, is in the
cross hairs of natural gas exploration and hydrofracking. Richard
Grossman became active in the Sovereign People's Action Network (SPAN).
He presented, at the August 2011 Green Fest in New York City, the draft
of a law to not just regulate or limit the practice but to formally
criminalize the procedure in an amendment to the penal code. <http://corporatecrimereporter.com/documents/fracking.pdf>
The
second legacy of Richard Grossman's work that he formalized as
draft just 4 weeks before he died is An
Act
To
Criminalize
Chartered,
Incorporated
Business
Entities as
a class.<GrossmanActToCriminalize.html>
Several
Obituaries
refer
to
that
Act
by
name
without
offering
a
link
to
the
text.
It
seems
as
if
those
who
want
to
remember
Richard
shy
away
from
presenting
his
most
radical
proposal.
But
Richard
himself
wanted
it
to
be
seen.
It
is
his
contribution
to
the
Occupy
movement.
This is
the first and second in a two hour tribute to this passionate
and erudite
man, beginning with this recording of a 1995 presentation to a planning
meeting with the members of the International Forum on Globalization.
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Bill Moyers:
Politics Today is Money Laundering
Keynote for Public Citizen
Moyers says: "Politics Today is Money
Laundering and the Trafficking of Power and Policy" - and "why New
York’s Zuccotti Park is occupied is no mystery. Reporters keep
scratching their heads and asking: Why are you here? But it’s as clear
as the crash of 2008: they are occupying Wall Street because Wall
Street has occupied America."
Part TWO is a reading of Moyers' concise and revealing mini
history of the corporate takeover of America's democracy, beginning
with the infamous secret 1971 memo by Lewis Powell to his friends at
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Powell soon became Justice of the United
States Supreme Court. Moyers sums it up: "We look back on it now as a
call to arms for class war waged from the top down... Within two years
the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce formed a task force of 40
business executives. Their assignment was to defend the free enterprise
system and push the corporate agenda. In 1971, only 175 firms had
registered lobbyists in the capital; by 1982, nearly twenty-five
hundred did. Corporate PACs increased from under 300 in 1976 to over
twelve hundred by the middle of the l980s. Powell had set in motion a
revolt of the rich." (Moyers omitted this very important section due to
time constraints.)
Bill Moyers, elder, intellectual, journalist and public
broadcaster for four decades has known politics more intimately than
most of his media colleagues. He was an organizing founder and deputy
director of the Peace Corps, Special Assistant and then Press Secretary
to President Lyndon Johnson and played a key role in organizing and
supervising the 1964 Great Society legislative task forces.
Bill Moyers delivered the keynote address at Public Citizen's 40th
Anniversary celebration in October 2011. Public Citizen was co-founded
by Ralph Nader, and now has over 225,000 members. Their motto is
"defending democracy, resisting corporate power"
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Natural Process
Farming
Bob Cannard
In the description of the Bioneers he is:
"Iconoclast, piano player, great cook, and an incredible farmer". Bob
Cannard is a frequent guest at their annual conferences. His produce
and fruit are so exquisite that they are used in the most expensive
restaurants, including Chez Panisse in Berkeley. His farm store is open
year round and sells vegetables and home-canned goods at affordable
prices.
As the cities are taking over the land Cannard is taking back what he
can. He is acknowledged by Michael Pollan as one of the important
members of the sustainable food movement, creating solutions to the
growing crisis of the loss of farmland - caused by urbanization and the
techniques of industrial agriculture.
After explaining how to have fun restoring a compacted weedy
piece of land or lawn, how to use biochar and more, Cannard proposes to
build the Garden Party and lays out the principles of taking
responsibility for one's food on a personal and local level to a
cheering audience. Those are the criteria for membership in the Garden
Party.
Cannard runs Green String Farm <www.greenstringfarm.com/>and
Institute
in
Petaluma,
CA.
Recorded Sept. 15, 2011 in Santa Rosa.
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9/11 Reclaiming
Our Future
With Ed Asner, Kevin Danaher, Richard Gage and Anodea Judith
This program begins with an excerpt from
the trailer for an upcoming movie by Engineers and Architects for 9/11
Truth about the destruction of World Trade Center Building #7, followed
by a talk by Kevin Danaher about reclaiming our future. Danaher is
co-founder of Global Exchange and executive producer of the annual San
Francisco Green Festival, and husband of Code Pink founder Medea
Benjamin.
Reclaiming our Future was the motto of the 10 year anniversary
of 9/11 held in 2011 at San Francisco's Herbst Theater. The event
signaled a break through on 9/11 in two important areas. A trailer for
an upcoming movie by Engineers and Architects for 9/11 Truth about the
destruction of World Trade Center Building #7 has already gone viral on
the internet. Narrated by Ed Asner, it shows the latest research that
rebuts the government explanation that office furniture fire caused the
free fall collapse of the 47 story building, that was not hit by an
airplane. Of all the 9/11 issues the case of building #7 is the most
compelling to-date to initiate a new investigation. Architects and
engineers are joined by 9/11 family members and first responders who
are joining that demand. Kevin Danaher supports the movie and gives a
passionate appeal for reclaiming our future, the second theme of the
event.
Anodea Judith is founder and director of Sacred Centers. Her
book, Waking the Global Heart: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love
of Power to the Power of Love, was the winner of the 2007 Nautilus Book
Award for Social Change. She is a groundbreaking thinker, writer, and
spiritual teacher. Her passion for the realization of untapped human
potential matches her concern for humanity’s impending crises — her
fervent wish is that we “wake up in time.” She holds Masters and
Doctoral degrees in Psychology and Human Health, is a registered yoga
teacher, with lifelong studies of healing, mythology, history,
sociology, systems theory, and mystic spirituality.
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Remembering
Doris
"Granny D." Haddock
- and her fight to get money out of politics
TUC Radio Archive
At a time when the 2010 midterm elections
set a record for campaign spending; and a new populism is on the rise
that contains elements of anger and racism it's good to remember Doris
"Granny D." Haddock the amazing, eloquent, funny grandmother who gave
the last 15 years of her life to getting money out of politics and to
embody a populism that is fueled by love, compassion and a bright,
clear sense of justice.
Granny D. was best known for walking, in her 90th year, from Los
Angeles to Washington DC to tell those she met along the way that there
is a way to restore democracy by removing the privilege of money. Among
the many proposals for campaign finance reform that she pursued, one
national piece of legislation was then under debate, the McCain
Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act - and she is widely credited for
galvanizing the public support that helped pass that Act in 2002.
She had worked on campaign finance reform on the state level before her
walk and she continued to do so when she returned home in March 2000.
For another decade she did vigils, was arrested, met with over half the
Senators and about 100 House members. She walked 300 miles across
Missouri with the Alliance for Democracy and founded a group that
pushed the New Hampshire state legislature to create the Citizen Funded
Election Task Force.
Granny D. died March 9, 2010, at the age of 100. Just before her death,
which
came very suddenly, she had jokingly discussed with her friends and
supporters what it would be like to walk across the country again to
call attention to the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v.
Federal Election Commission. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled
corporations are persons and have First Amendment rights and that the
government cannot impose restrictions on their political speech. That
decision cleared the way for corporations and other special interest
groups to spend record amounts of money to buy Congress and elections.
Granny D. left behind a treasure of writings, recorded speeches, and an
inspiring diary of her 1999/2000 walk across America - some of which
you will be able to enjoy in this double program. The late journalist
Molly Ivens said about her: Granny D, gives you "the strength, courage
and optimism to keep fighting for change."
Thanks to <http://www.humanmedia.org/>
for
clips
of
Molly
Ivins,
Jim
Hightower
and
Dennis
Burke.
David
Freudberg
produced
a
beautiful
one
hour
portrait
of
Granny
D.
that
you
can
access
at:
<http://www.humanmedia.org/catalog/program.php?products_id=104>
And
thanks
to
Amy
Goodman
of
<http://www.democracynow.org/>
for
parts
of
her
interview
with
Granny
D.
during
her
Senate
campaign.
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Michael
Parenti:
THE STRUGGLE FOR HISTORY
Dissident Truth and Official Deception
In
this
talk
Michael
Parenti
quotes
Winston
Churchill
who
said
to
his
fellow
party
members:
“History
will
be
kind
to
us
because
I
plan
to
write
it.”
Far
from
being
an
objective
account
of
events
history
bears
the
mark
of
its
writer,
the
omissions
of
the
censors,
and
the
interests
of
those
who
benefit
from
making
it.
In
this
speech
Parenti
shows
how
to
take
the
recording
of
history
back
from
politicians,
the
media,
professors,
clergy,
and
business
people.
Michael Parenti is one of the nation's leading progressive political
analysts. With roots in a working class Italian district of New York
and a Ph.D. in
political science from Yale Michael Parenti has become an
internationally known lecturer. He is the author of over twenty books.
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Michael Parenti
THE ASSASSINATION
OF JULIUS CAESAR
A People's History of Ancient Rome
Who was Julius
Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who
murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a
deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author,
speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new
insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing.
This rebroadcast is part of the very popular and ever expanding series
on what Parenti calls Real History, a different and intriguing reading
of a surprisingly large number all too familiar stories. Parenti spoke
about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius
Caesar, a people's history of ancient Rome. He was recorded by Brian
Barry in the summer of 2003 in San Francisco.
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INTO
ETERNITY
Helen Caldicott and Michael Madsen
This is a
conversation between Helen Caldicott and Michael Madsen whose film,
Into Eternity, premiered in the US in February 2011. Helen called
Madsen "One of the more extraordinary people I've ever interviewed".
This is a thought provoking exchange between the veteran campaigner,
Helen Caldicott, who dedicated her life to alerting us to the nuclear
danger, and the young Danish artist. He introduces thoughts about
civilization, language, danger and eternity.
Into Eternity is a documentary about the building of the world's first
permanent repository for nuclear waste in Finland. It shows not only
the construction under way that will take 140 years, but introduces the
people involved, the scientists, regulators and corporate executives
who oversee this project. None of them will be alive when Onkalo, as
the repository is called, will be finished in 2120; and they must
expect this repository to remain intact and untouched by future humans
for at least 100,000 years. Such is the danger and longevity of waste
from nuclear power plants.
This is a re-broadcast of Helen's weekly radio program, If You Love
This Planet.
Recorded June 17, 2011 in Australia and Denmark. The web site
for the movie is Into
Eternity.
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NUCLEAR ETERNITY
at Chernobyl, Fukushima and Onkalo
Joanna Macy and
Natalia Manzurova
NUCLEAR ETERNITY at Chernobyl, Fukushima and Onkalo
How long does
radiation from nuclear fuel remain dangerous to life? At least 100,000
years. At Fukushima that fuel lies littered under the ruins of the
exploded buildings. Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy and Natalia Manzurova,
who worked at Chernobyl after the accident, talk about nuclear eternity.
Natalia Manzurova is a Russian radiation ecology expert. For almost
five years she worked in a lab in the abandoned town of Pripyat two
miles from Chernobyl. She was an engineer at another nuclear facility
in Russia and was ordered to the site of the accident. She saw several
of her colleagues die and is ill herself.
A founder of Chernobyl Union, a support group for liquidators, Natalia
Manzurova currently works with Planet of Hope, advocating for people
exposed to radiation, such as downwinders, people living in radiation
areas, and nuclear workers; a large and growing category of victims of
the nuclear age.
She spoke in Berkeley on April 10, 2011. The Center for Safe Energy <http://www.centerforsafeenergy.org/>,
that
organized
the
event,
had
asked
Joanna
Macy,
longtime
anti
nuclear
activist
and
author
of
books
such
as:
"Pass
It
On:
Five
Stories
that
Can
Change
the
World"
to
give
an
introduction.
Cosponsors
of
the
event
were
Plutonium-Free
Future,
Tri-Valley
CARES,
and
the
Social
Justice
Committee
of
the
Berkeley
Fellowship
of
Unitarian
Universalists.
Onkalo - Into
Eternity
Onkalo
is the
first permanent storage for waste from nuclear power plants in Finland.
Blasted into bedrock of the island of Olkiluoto on the shores of the
Baltic Sea, it has to remain secure for 100,000 years.
Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen's documentary of the building in
progress of Onkalo is a meditation on eternity, insanity and the
impossibility of projecting anything 100,000 into the future. The film
also proves eloquently and with expert statements the terrible danger
that arises from so-called "spent" nuclear fuel and makes us see
Fukushima with very different eyes.
This radio program presents excerpts from the film and its amazing
sound design.
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Ellen Brown
THE FINANCIAL HIJACKING OF AMERICA
How to escape
the web of debt
This is a talk
about the trillion dollar bailout
of the too large to fail banks and how it relates to the underlying
crisis caused by the private control of the US - and soon the world's
- money supply. Brown has an intriguing theory that she sets out to
prove: Congress was initially not very interested in a bailout of the
banks and needed to be shown, she says, that the situation was serious
and that more money than ever before had to flow from taxpayers and the
Federal Reserve into the banking system. In part ONE of her talk Ellen
Brown runs down the incidents that led to the collapse of Lehman
Brothers. She asks whether Lehman was purposefully bombed with short
and naked short sales, and then was left unsupported by fellow banks in
order to prove to Congress and to us that the crisis was serious. She
quotes from a NY Times headline: "Lehman had to die, it seems, so
global finance could live."
In
part TWO Ellen Brown covers the little known but highly consequential
role of the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland. The BIS
serves as a bank for central banks and is not accountable to any
national government. It plays an increasingly important role in the
ever centralizing global financial system. Brown points to the risk of
formalizing the money system for the world as the unregulated and
unaccountable private domain of private banks - a process that is
taking place right now. And you are about to hear about the Bank of
North Dakota, an amazing, little known, highly successful state owned
bank founded in 1919 and flourishing today. She suggests that
California adopt that model to solve both the budget and the overall
financial crisis - as 5 states are already planning to do. Washington,
Michigan, Illinois, Massachusetts and Virginia have bills pending for
state owned banks.
Ellen Brown is the author of
Web of Debt, a book about the Federal
Reserve. She shows how the private banking cartel has usurped the power
to create money, and how we the people can take back that power.
You can see the film of this
presentation on: <http://understandingdeeppolitics.org/conference-video>
For updates on public banking
and the growing number of state initiatives to bypass Wall Street go to
<http://publicbankinginstitute.org/>
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THE GOLDSTONE REPORT
The
Legacy
of
the
Landmark
Investigation
of
the
Gaza
Conflict
Co-edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner and Philip Weiss
Published
in early 2011 by Nation Books
Part ONE: Prof. George
Bisharat and Adam Horowitz
In the spring of 2009, South African judge Richard Goldstone set out on
a mission to the Gaza Strip on assignment from the United Nations Human
Rights Council to investigate possible war crimes committed during
"Operation Cast Lead," Israel's invasion of Gaza a few months earlier.
Many other reports on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had come and
gone, but the account Goldstone's mission produced ... became the
report heard around the world. It is one of the most controversial and
historic documents published in the century-long conflict in Israel and
Palestine.
Horowitz and Weiss of the influential blog Mondoweiss, with Lizzy
Ratner, produced a readable version of the voluminous Goldstone report
and included luminaries, such as Bishop Desmond Tutu and Canadian
writer Naomi Klein. This is a recording of the appearance of Horowitz
and Weiss at the First Congregational Church in Oakland, CA, on June 5,
2011. Introduction by UC Hastings law professor George Bisharat. Thanks
to Jeffrey Blankfort for the recording.
Part TWO: Phil Weiss
In this Part TWO: a segment of Bishop Desmond Tutu's foreword to the
book; Horowitz repeats the story of the children of a Gaza family shot
in front of their home by Israeli soldiers; Phil Weiss give a moving
account of the international solidarity expressed after the onslaught
on Gaza; and Horowitz reads from Naomi Klein's introduction.
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Iain Boal: THE BEGINNING OF THE NUCLEAR AGE
Enrico
Fermi
and
Henry
Moore
Part ONE:
Did the nuclear age begin at Alamogordo, in Hiroshima, or with Fermi's
experiment? Fermi set off the first nuclear chain reaction in
the middle of Chicago in 1942, risking a first China Syndrome. With
the help of a Chicago street gang he built an unshielded graphite pile
with uranium pellets and control rods tacked to a two by four. His
experiment led to the building of
the plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Iain Boal is a
historian of technology and author of Resisting
the
Virtual
Life (City Lights Books) and The
Green
Machine, a history of the
bicycle, just out by Notting Hill Editions, 2011.
Part TWO:
Enrico Fermi's experiment, setting off the first nuclear chain
reaction, provided the blueprint for the plutonium bomb. In his
commemoration of this little known event that changed the world, the
historian of technology, Iain Boal, describes the mindset of the early
nuclear scientists who began releasing the most long lived toxic
substances on earth. He also sketches the beginning of resistance
to nuclear weapons in SDS and CND.
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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL
April 26, 1986 - 2011
SUMMARY
Part ONE
Instead of honoring its victims at this
time Chernobyl is referenced to minimize the impact of Fukuchima.
Supposedly only 35 people died. The World Health Organization and the
IAEA, whose mission is to promote nuclear power, claim that "there is
no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or
mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be
related to radiation exposure from Chernobyl."
That the reality on the ground is very different comes to life in a
book, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the
Environment.
SUMMARY Part TWO
The extensive section on health effects in this book offers a whole new
view of the consequences of radiation induced disease. Yes, there are
cancers to specific organs, many thyroid cancers caused by Iodine 131
and 129 but there are also diseases that affect body systems such as
the whole endocrine system, not just the thyroid, or the immune system,
the respiratory and the reproductive systems. - Also a brief
explanation of "half life" "hot spots" and why background
radiation is different from radiation from nuclear processes.
SUMMARY Part THREE
This program presents the consequences of the Chernobyl explosion on
the environment. How has the radiation affected - and continues to
affect air, water, the soil, plants and animals. How does radiation
move, disperse, bio-accumulate and enter the food chain. Specific
examples are from studies on rivers and lakes, wild and domestic
animals, birds, fish, fungi, bacteria, viruses, studies that show that
they were all affected, in varying degrees, but without exception.
SUMMARY Part FOUR
Today's last of four program presents important information on the
plight of the children of Chernobyl who - to this day - need vacations
in uncontaminated areas to detoxify their bodies from some of the
embedded radioactive substances that they absorb in every day life,
substances such as cesium, cobalt, thorium, plutonium etc. Also
explained is the danger of contaminated food, and how to set up ongoing
projects, under control of local communities, to deal with the
persisting radiation and find methods to measure the burden of internal
radiation.
PROGRAM NOTES:
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the
Environment, was compiled by Alexey Yablokov, member of the Russian
Academy of Science, and Vassily Nesterenko, former director of the
Belorussian Nuclear Center. Yablokov and Nesterenko wrote a synopsis of
the over 1,000 titles and
more than 5,000 printed and internet publications that reflect the
impact of radiation not just on the health of human beings but on the
whole ecosystem. They compiled research on rivers and lakes, the soils
and the grains and vegetables growing there, wild and domestic animals,
birds, fish, fungi, bacteria, viruses, trees, mushrooms, and
berries, - a literature that shows that they were all affected,
in varying degrees, but without exception.
It is an extraordinary and auspicious coincidence that the
book becomes
freely available at a time where the world is trying to make sense of
Fukushima. The similarities are uncanny, the experience gained and
described is potentially life saving. Even the chapter on mitigation,
how to treat exposed persons, how to remediate soils that are
contaminated, how to get ready to live with contaminations that will
persist, can be helpful.
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the
Environment was first published in 2009 in the Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences - and promptly ignored. After an
original print run of only 700 copies the report is no longer available
from the Academy. However, the authors and editor are now (April 2011)
offering the book for free as pdf
file - and they are placing a new
print run back into circulation.
Watch this film please! Children of Chernobyl <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fCCVU4y7oE>
(There is a graphic warning - it refers to
images of children with birth defects - please don't be deterred by the
warning. I believe that we all need to see them and be moved to
compassion and action.)
Mike McCormick, KEXP, Seattle, did an excellent interview of Dr. Alexey
Yablokov. He is co-author of "Chernobyl: Consequences of the
Catastrophe for People and the Environment" Recorded March 27, 2011.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-hHTFWXr90>
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Kay Drey and S. David
Freeman
IT WAS AND IS POSSIBLE TO STOP NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Kay Drey speaks on Routine Releases by
nuclear reactors. They emit dangerous gases and fission products during
their day to day operations. David Freeman states that no nuclear power
plants should be built since they are dangerous, cost prohibitive, and
can easily be replaced with renewable energy. He also says that we need
a police state to live with them. He closed down 8 nuclear reactors
during his tenure as Chief Executive at the Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA), and one more when he was General Manager of the Sacramento
Municipal Utilities District (SMUD).
Program Notes:
Kay Drey speaks on Routine Releases by nuclear reactors. They emit
dangerous gases and fission products during their day to day
operations. Drey is former board member of Beyond Nuclear and the
Nuclear Information & Resource Service. Now retired, she has worked
for 30 years as an advocate for the protection of the general public,
workers and the environment from the hazards of nuclear power and
radioactive waste.
David Freeman states that no nuclear power plants should be built since
they are dangerous, cost prohibitive, and can easily be replaced with
renewable energy. He also says that we need a police state to live with
them. He closed down 8 nuclear reactors during his tenure as Chief
Executive at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and one more when he
was General Manager of the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District
(SMUD).
He is Interim General Manager of Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power Water System since October 6, 2009, overseeing the largest
municipal utility in the country. Freeman oversaw and managed the Port
of Los Angeles where he led the boards of the ports of Los Angeles and
Long Beach to adopt the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action plan, a
comprehensive strategy to reduce port air emissions by nearly 50
percent over a period of five years. He has a five-decade career in
both the electric and water utilities. He served in Chief Executive
positions at the largest power authorities in the world, including the
New York Power Authority, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the
Lower Colorado River Authority, and General Manager of the Sacramento
Municipal Utilities District (SMUD).
An engineer and lawyer, Freeman has served in high-level government
positions, including adviser to President Carter. He is the Chairman of
the Board of the Hydrogen Car Company (HCC).
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Mary Olson and Jacqui
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PLUTONIUM FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS?
The disaster at Fukushima makes it apparent
how little is known about the operation of a nuclear power plant. For
example the so-called "spent" fuel in the cooling pools on the rooftops
is many times more dangerous than the fresh, non irradiated fuel. The
biggest danger from the Fukuchima nuclear accident comes from unit 3
that was stocked in September 2010 with MOX, a new mixed oxide reactor
fuel that contains plutonium - not as a fission byproduct - but from
the outset inside the fuel rods. MOX fuel is many times more lethal
than uranium fuel.
This is conversation between Mary Olson from NIRS, the Nuclear
Information and Resource Service, and Jacqui Cabasso from the Western
States Legal Foundation. It is a rare historic document of the origins
of a campaign against MOX plutonium fuel for nuclear power, an analysis
of the terrible pact of mutual support between utilities, weapons
makers and bought off congress people.
President Obama says, after Fukushima, that nuclear power will remain
quote "part of the overall energy plan". Republicans - in their
merciless budget cuts leave as yet a program untouched that funds the
ongoing construction of a MOX fuel generating plant at Savannah River
in South Carolina.
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is
the
TRANSCRIPT Thank you Scott!
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STOP NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Helen Caldicott's Appeal to President Obama
This is a medical lecture on the health effects of uranium mining,
processing, radiation damage to cells and genes and the routine
releases of radioactive materials such as Tritium from nuclear power
plants during "normal" operations.
When Obama in his 2010 State of the Union address strongly endorsed
nuclear power as one of the solutions to global warming - and said:
"That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power
plants in this country" the anti nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott
responded in the Huffington Post. Throughout her almost 40 year long
international campaign and her writings in seven books she has always
made the connection between nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and
environmental destruction. She said that not only should no new nuclear
power plants be built but called for: ending "the sale of nuclear
reactors globally by the US, Russia, France and others for they are
fundamentally factories for nuclear weapons production because they
manufacture plutonium..". Ultimately - she said - "the goal should be
the cessation of the production of enriched uranium and plutonium by
closing all nuclear power plant operations."
2009-06-28
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Michael Parenti: REAL HISTORY
A six part (3 hour) lecture series
Part one/six
THE MYTH OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS
As the United States government claims to
spread democracy around the world and is deeply involved in ghost
writing constitutions for other countries, the spotlight falls back on
this country. Is the current US system a democracy, - has it ever been
one? In The Myth of the Founding Fathers Michael Parenti takes us back
to the early days of the republic. Who were the founding fathers, what
were their goals in writing the US constitution? Who did they exclude
and who did they favor? What was their attitude towards slavery? How
many of them actually wanted to create a monarchy? And who – in the end
– ratified the constitution after it was written?
Michael Parenti is among our leading
progressive political analysts. He
received his Ph.D. in political
science from Yale University in 1962 and has taught at colleges in the
US and abroad. The focus of his lectures is American democracy, US
foreign policy, and the invented reality of the media.
Part two/six
THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR AND THE RISE OF
US
IMPERIALISM
US foreign policy of our time is clearly
interventionist. From the 1950s to today, from Korea, Vietnam to Iraq
and Afghanistan and countless smaller wars in between the country has
moved away from the sentiment once expressed by George Washington:
“Beware of foreign entanglements“
When did all this begin? Michael Parenti uses the history of the
Spanish American War to answer several very intriguing questions. Who
first expressed the desire to annex the island of Cuba – and when? The
early African American emancipation movement inside the US was critical
of US plans to attack Cuba. Why, their leaders asked, was the US
government concerned about Spanish repression of the rights of Cubans
while the repression of African Americans within the US was ignored.
Some said
the Negro needs freedom just as much as the Cubans. Why did
the US attack the Philippines when it was Cuba that they wanted to take
over? Why did the US give verbal support to the Cuban liberation
movements against Spain while selling weapons to Spain to fight the
poplar movement? The Spanish American War was an important turning
point in the
transition of the US to an imperial power and many of the forces at
work are eerily contemporary.
Part
three/six
THE FUNCTIONS OF FASCISM
Parenti says that fascism is a new order
and
consciousness that served the same old power structure and promised to
solve the ills of the many while protecting the interests of the few.
He answers in detail who financed the Fascist parties and what services
the fascists rendered in return. Many of the measures enacted by
fascists were frighteningly similar to those enacted today: They
include the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of
corporate taxes and inheritance taxes, defeat of unions, and the
suspension of civil liberties.
Part
four/six
THE REAL CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II
Who inside Germany was resisting the rise
of
Hitler and why were they not supported by Britain and France? Why did
the Western Allies allow Hitler to take over Austria and
Czechoslovakia? Why did Britain and France refuse to enter an anti
fascist alliance with the Soviet Union? Why did Britain and France do
nothing while Hitler conquered Denmark and Norway even though they had
finally already declared war against Germany in 1939. The West, says
Parenti, saw Hitler as a bulwark against communism and the Soviet Union
and were hoping that the two countries would bleed each other white.
Part
five/six
PSYCHO-HISTORY
A considerable number of historians, political scientists and
psychologists have begun to rely on psychology to explain political
phenomena. They treat individuals as driven by covert, personal
emotions, distorting our understanding of political life. Using the
examples of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and US President Herbert Hoover
Parenti proves what is wrong with that analysis.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's opposition to the absolute monarch of
Russia, the Tsar, psycho historians say, came out of Lenin's unresolved
issues with parental authority. When Herbert Hoover, after
administering food aid for Belgium and Central Europe denied it to the
hungry at home during the depression, psycho historians characterized
him as an active-negative president due to his very bad childhood.
Parenti writes that in spite of his bad childhood Hoover had become a
multi-millionaire and stood firmly with his fellow millionaires. He
opposed jobless benefits and public assistance as creeping socialism
while giving tax breaks to corporation. Parenti present a very
different and intriguing explanation for the actions of Lenin and
Hoover.
Part six/six
BURNING
OF
BOOKS
The burning of books creates a powerful symbol, to this day people kill
and die over such an action. In this reading from Michael Parenti's
History as Mystery a book burning story is told that is deeper, and
maintained for centuries longer than any of these efforts before or
after. Parenti discloses who the biggest purveyor of book burnings of
the last two millennia was and how the real perpetrators and academics
tried to shift the blame.
When Parenti's book History as Mystery was published by City
Lights in San Francisco Daniel Ellsberg, who made history by disclosing
the Pentagon papers and the real causes of the war on Vietnam, wrote:
Michael Parenti unveils the falsified history, from the early Christian
church to the present, a fascinating, darkly revelatory tale. History
as Mystery contains many more intriguing chapters from the Inquisition
and Joan of Arc to the way present day text books distort labor history.
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Bernie
Sanders:
One: SECRET FUNDING BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Two: THE WAR OF THE RICH AGAINST THE POOR
Three: WE MUST BREAK UP THE LARGEST BANKS
Four: INTERNATIONAL TRADE, TRADE DEFICIT & JOB LOSSES
BEST-OF from Sanders' Senate Filibuster - FOUR 29 minute programs
Summary:
ONE: Sanders reports on
the "jaw dropping" $3.3 trillion in emergency loans
and more than $9 trillion in over 21,000 short-term loans and other
financial arrangements the Federal Reserve handed out without input or
supervision, dwarfing the $700 billion Treasury Department bank bailout
during the Wall Street meltdown.
TWO:
During 8 years of Pres. Bush the
wealthiest 400 families saw their income double while tax rates dropped
almost in half. They now earn on average $345 million a year and pay an
effective tax rate of 16.6% - that is the lowest tax rate ever.
Collectively the 400 richest Americans have accumulated $1.27 trillion
in wealth.
THREE:
While taxpayers bailed out Wall Street banks because they were too big
to fail, 3 out of 4 financial institutions that were bailed out are now
larger than before. Wells Fargo is 43% bigger, JP Morgan Chase 51%
bigger, and Bank of America is 138% bigger. If we are serious about
preventing a future collapse worse than the current one we have to
break these banks up, says Sanders.
FOUR:
After devoting time to the $13.7 trillion national debt and our deficit which is $1.4 trillion,
Sanders turns to our trade deficit. He says: In 2008 the trade deficit
was nearly 700 billion - last year our deficit with China alone was
almost 227 billion - we urgently need trade reform.
Program
Notes:
Bernie Sanders names names: In December 2010 the Federal Reserve
finally disclosed their secret funding of banks, corporations and
individuals during the Wall Street meltdown. The Fed. was forced to do
so by legislation introduced by Bernie Sanders. Sanders reports on the
"jaw dropping" size of $3.3 trillion in emergency loans and other
assistance and more than $9 trillion in over 21,000 short-term loans
and other financial arrangements the Federal Reserve handed out without
input or supervision. The figures revealed dwarf the $700 billion
Treasury Department bank bailout signed into law under President George
W. Bush - which Sanders voted against. <http://sanders.senate.gov/>In
Part TWO Sanders says: There is a war going on in this country, waged
by some of the wealthiest and most powerful people against the
working people and middle class. Billionaires want more and more. The
income going to the top 1% nearly tripled since the 1970s. 80% of all
new income earned from 1980 to 2005 has gone to the top 1%. But that is
not enough.
Vermont's independent Senator Bernie
Sanders'
8 1/2 hour filibuster speech in protest of the Bill that - among other
gifts - extended tax breaks to the richest Americans, crashed the
Senate servers. Bars and Pizza parlors carried his speech live. He
began speaking on the morning of Friday, December 10 and did not eat or
sit down until 7 pm. He gave one of those speeches many wished Pres.
Obama was capable of giving.
Even though - or really because the bill
did
pass both houses a few days later - Sanders' words must be remembered.
This bill, ironically called: Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance
Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 is an attack on social
security and a blueprint for even larger gifts and tax relief to
corporation and the richest of the rich.
The speech is also filled with fascinating details of the ongoing work
by Bernie Sanders and a few colleagues. Sanders had led a fight against
the powerful U.S. Federal Reserve and won, forcing the central bank to
disclose more details than ever on its rescue actions during the
financial crisis.
<http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/reform_transaction.htm>
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Michael Parenti:
How
I Became an Activist
Parenti rarely talks about his life. How does a NYC street kid get
accepted to Yale? Hoe does he lose the privilege of his PhD. in an
arrest at a demonstration against the war on Vietnam, and become an
internationally acclaimed author and lecturer?
Michael Parenti grew up in a poor, working class Italian community in
New York City. When he received his PhD in political science from Yale
in 1962 he was the success and pride of his family. He risked and ended
his academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam.
Ultimately the choice he made then was a good one. He now is an
independent political writer and thinker and author of over 20 books.
Invitations to speak come from all over North America. His topics are
history, fascism, US Imperialism, globalization and terrorism. His
writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Recorded in Berkeley, CA June 6, 2003. Length 64 min
Produced by Brian Barry, re-mastered by Maria Gilardin
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JUST RECORDED:
THE PROLIFERATION OF WIRELESS DEVICES
Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields
Eileen O'Connor, UK; Olle Johansson, Sweden; Joel Moskowitz, UC
Berkeley; Martin Blank, Columbia
SUMMARY
Independent researchers say that radiation emitted by cell phones
and cell towers has been linked to DNA damage, cancer, immunological
impairment, neurological diseases, reduced fertility and impacts on
neurological function. The radiation is also harming animals and
nature, and is as much an environmental as human health issue.
Federal law, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, denies local
communities the right to challenge cell tower sitings on health and
environmental grounds. There is no government agency that studies the
impact of an ever increasing electronic smog emitted by cell towers,
cell phones, wifi's, smart meters and new wireless electronic devices
unheard of only last year. Most of us are now exposed to one or more of
these emitter 24/7, even those who do not own or operate any of of them.
At the end of November 2010 a conference was held on The Health Effects
of Electromagnetic Fields in the prestigious Commonwealth Club of
San Francisco. Physicians, grassroots campaigners, and scientists from
many countries had come together to address this urgent issue.
Part ONE
Eileen O'Connor, UK, was diagnosed with breast cancer when she
discovered that she was living in a cancer cluster. Her village was
dominated by a cell tower placed there in 1994. In 2003 the villagers
forcefully removed the phone mast and prevented it from being put back
up. Eileen is the director of the Radiation Research Trust.
Olle Johansson is Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience
at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and Professor, The Royal
Institute of Technology. Dr. Johannson is a leading world authority in
the field of EMF radiation and health effects. He has published more
than 500 original articles, reviews, book chapters and conference
reports within the field of neuroscience.
Part TWO
Dr. Joel Moskowitz is Director of the Center for Family and Community
Health, at the School of Public Health, at the University of
California, Berkeley. This Research Center is one of 37 Prevention
Research Centers supported by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Dr. Martin Blank is Associate Professor in the Department of
Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University. He holds a
PhD from Columbia in Physical Chemistry and a PhD from Cambridge,
England, in Colloid Science.
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JUST
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Alexander Cockburn
OBAMA'S PLACE IN THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF CAPITAL
& THE DEMISE OF
THE WELFARE STATE
SUMMARY
Cockburn (pronounced: coburn) says that the current economic crisis is
the outcome of the neoliberal age that began in the seventies by
promoting corporate power and eviscerating social services. He alludes
to the role presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II have
played in this neoliberal expansion and argues that Obama comes out in
support of capital.
PROGRAM NOTES
Cockburn is co-editor, with Jeffrey Saint Clair, of the biweekly
newsletter CounterPunch. He says about their newsletter, http://www.counterpunch.org,
that it supports "the battles against the war machine, big business and
the rapers of nature." He and Saint Clair have also written or
co-edited many books, among them Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the
Press, Imperial Crusades, and: Dime's Worth of Difference. Cockburn
writes for The Nation and the Los Angeles Times.
Cockburn lives and works in Petrolia, a very small town in
Northern California. He was recorded on December 3, 2010, in yet
another small town on the ocean in Mendocino County on one his very
rare public appearances. He was invited by Parents for Peace, Mendocino.
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Chalmers Johnson died on November 20, 2010.
- this archival broadcast is in memory of his timeless work
Chalmers Johnson on NEMESIS:
The Last Days of the
American Republic
A conversation with Gray Brechin
Chalmers
Johnson died age 79 on November 20, 2010, after a full and amazing life
as author, professor, historian and scholar on Asia's political
economy. This recording contains many of his most important
arguments. Johnson said
that the U.S. is on the verge of internal collapse, due in large
part to the vast expenditures required to maintain its ever-expanding
empire. Nothing is more dangerous to democracy than military
expansion and war. He said "The political system of the United States,
history tells us, is one of the most unstable combination there is -
that is domestic democracy and foreign empire - the choices are stark.
A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it
can't be both."
Chalmers Johnson is the acclaimed author
of Blowback
and The Sorrows of Empire.
He is a former analyst for the CIA
and professor emeritus of the University of California San Diego. He
was interviewed by the California based author of “Imperial San
Francisco”, Gray Brechin, at an event hosted by KPFA radio and Global
Exchange in March 2007.
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Robert Fisk and
Hatem Bazian
LIES, MISREPORTING AND CATASTROPHE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
SUMMARY
A talk and conversation on the role of the journalist in the
misreporting on the Middle East. Fisk begins with a linguistic analysis
and says that our language has become not just a debased ally but a
full verbal partner in the language of governments, armies, generals
and weapons makers. Journalists become participants in the unfolding
catastrophe, particularly in Palestine, where peace has become almost
impossible.
PROGRAM NOTES
England's most famous reporter for the Middle East, Robert Fisk, made
his annual trip to Berkeley, CA, to speak at a benefit for MECA, the
Middle East Childrens Alliance. He is an acclaimed author and Middle
East correspondent for the London Independent. This time he had asked
to be interviewed on stage by Hatem Bazian, the young Palestinian
American lecturer at the University of CA Berkeley. Between Fisk and
Bazian they filled the Berkeley Church to capacity.
Robert Fisk has lived in and reported on the Middle East since 1976. He
says that every journalist in the Middle East needs to keep a history
book in their pocket as reminder of why the injustices inflicted by the
West on the Middle East are engraved in people’s minds and have a
powerful influence on what happens next.
Hatem Bazian was born in Nablus in the West Bank, went to school in
Amman, Jordan, and came to the US to attend San Francisco State
University. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Islamic Studies
from UC Berkeley and is a well loved and politically engaged teacher.
Recorded September 22, 2010.
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Israel's Right to Exist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StQ22iPtWCA
Proposing aid to GAZA in an
airlift a la Berlin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUvgyogllCA
Why not sue the American weapons
makers for the deaths of civilians:
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Richard Heinberg
PEAK EVERYTHING
Richard Heinberg has influenced the work of those
who are searching for
a way out of today's interlocking crisis of climate, finance and
resource depletion. I visited him in Sept. 2010 at a crucial moment. He
had just written the new preface for his 2007 book Peak Everything,
Waking Up to the Century of Declines. Analyzing the events of
the past
three years Heinberg writes in his update that the question of when we
will reach the peak of the resources that we made ourselves dependent
on has finally been answered - and the time is NOW. The economic
crisis, he says, is not a dip from which we will recover. Humanity has
achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption
rates, and our species needs to learn right now to live within the
resource limits of the Earth.
This interview brings up the intriguing history of the limits to growth
movement, what other energy sources and raw material are close to peak,
the need to reform the financial system and the growth imperative built
into policy. Heinberg's work inspired the transition town movement -
and he gives a brief survey of the recent successes.
Heinberg is the author of eight other books, including The Party’s
Over, and Blackout, Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis.
He is
currently Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to building more resilient,
sustainable, and equitable communities. His appearance in the movies: The End of Suburbia and
Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour
popularized and
demystified the concept of peak oil and so many other diminishing
resources.
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BEST of TUC -
anniversary of the Hurricane.
This story never made the national media.
HURRICANE KATRINA
and
the War on the Poor
PREVENTED - AT GUNPOINT - TO RESCUE THEMSELVES
Eyewitness report from
two S.F. paramedics,
Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Larry Bradshaw
Among their experiences: Gretna Sheriffs block the
Greater New Orleans
Bridge across the Mississippi and shoot when they and a large group of
African Americans try to walk to safety. Later their temporary shelter
is destroyed by police and their food and water taken away. When they
finally get picked up they and thousands of others sit in a dirty cage
at the New Orleans airport, again without food and water, forced to
wait for the George W. Bush photo opportunity to end. As they arrive in
San Antonio they are made to stand on a dark tarmac and are subjected
to two dog sniffing ordeals. This and more in a
24 minute interview with Lorrie Beth and Larry by Maria Gilardin,
recorded on Sept. 9, 2005.
READ
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Michael Parenti
IDEOLOGY AND CONSPIRACY
From: Understanding Deep Politics Conference, Santa Cruz, CA. - May
14/16 2010
In
this entertaining talk, rich with historic references, Parenti
describes the right-wing agenda of dismantling social democracy while
calling anybody who describes this as a purposeful strategy a
conspiracy theorist. He shows that this strategy began right after
World War II but culminates now as powerful segment of right wing media
and the GOP have moved so far to the right that they have overshot
their popular base. Meanwhile democrats, including Obama, unable or
unwilling to formulate the social democratic alternative, still talk of
bipartisan approaches.
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VOTING IN THE USA
How the Vote was Won and Lost
If the
right to vote is taken as a measure of a vibrant democracy, the United
States came off to a bad start. Dr. Michael Parenti says that the most
interesting list from the period of 1787 is the rather long one of
people who were not allowed to vote - and he names all of them. Also,
in Part TWO, the many ways in which votes have been stolen during the
Bush administration.
This archival recording is
a primer on the history of voting and the day to day efforts to make
democracy come alive that shows Parenti at his best as historian and
engaged political thinker.
Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts.
After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has
taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad.
Parenti risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the
war on Vietnam. He is a prolific author and an engaging speaker.
He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and is the author
of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism,
History as Mystery, and - most recently - God and His Demons. Recorded by Contra Costa TV at the
Pleasant Hill Library in Contra Costa, California 1-24-07.
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Michael Parenti
Political Liberties and Economic Democracy
From the
University of Hartford Series: CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE 21st CENTURY
In his November 2009 lecture
at the University of Hartford Dr. Michael Parenti answers intriguing
questions about democracy. Is US democracy a result of capitalism as
some claim - or does it exist - such as it is - in spite of the current
economic system. AND did the founding fathers even envision a
democratic system - and why were so many of them opposed to democracy.
Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts.
This is part one of his one hour lecture. He was introduced by the
President of the University of Hartford, Walter Harrison.
After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has
taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad.
Parenti grew up in a conservative, catholic, working class Italian
community in New York city. He is a prolific author and an engaging
speaker. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and is
the author of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few,
Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and - most recently - God and His
Demons.
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GASLAND
Resistance to drilling in the Marcellus Shale
Six weeks into the BP oil disaster
President Obama said we need to move
to natural gas as a clean fuel alternative. Material from the trailer
to the movie GASLAND and voices from DamascusCitizens.org call that
into question. They say that chemicals used in the process of hydraulic
fracturing and set free in drilling have poisoned water and air. A
grassroots movement is resisting the encroachment of gas drilling into
Pennsylvania and upstate New York.
They encounter two problems: The fossil fuel industry was
exempted from
the clean air and safe drinking water act under the Bush
administration, and corporations do not need to disclose what chemicals
they use. Test results from drinking water in people's homes and from
spills and
sediment in evaporation ponds at drill sites have now identified 247
out of over 300 chemicals and they include carcinogens, mutagens, and
neurotoxins.
Josh Fox, for his movie GASLAND, reports from 24 states on the
impacts
of chemical hydraulic fracturing. He uncovered water that can be lit on
fire right out of the tap, talks to chronically ill residents of
drilling areas from many different locations in the US, describes pools
of toxic waste that kill cattle and vegetation, and well blowouts and
gas explosions.
Natural Gas, in the eyes of oil service corporations such as
Halliburton, and the stock market, is in it's tenth year of an
unprecedented boom. The US, they say, is the Saudi Arabia of natural
gas with 450,000 gas wells already operating in over 32 states and
aggressively expanding. This program tries to capture some of the
imagination and determination of the local people in this David and
Goliath confrontation.
Part ONE: Josh Fox from his trailer for the movie GASLAND and
Barbara
Arrindell and Joe Levine from Damascus Citizens, interviewed by Fred
Pecora, producer at WJFF. <http://www.damascuscitizens.org/>
<http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/>
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Michael Ruppert
COLLAPSE
This is a one hour
program based on the movie
Collapse. Shot in only two days in May 2009 in an abandoned warehouse
in Los Angeles the film has become an internet sensation. Pirated
almost 2 million times before its official release as DVD in June 2010
the film has undercut the censorship of oil and money. <http://www.collapsemovie.com/>
Beginning with a surprising number of favorable reviews, including from
the New York and Los Angeles Times, the film continues to expand
attention in spite of its stark and scary message: A collapsing
global
financial system and the end of an abundant supply of oil are removing
the underpinnings of the current economic system. Michael Ruppert says
that human industrial civilization is collapsing, and that it becomes
impossible to sustain the way of life we have been living. <http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/>
Here is paraphrased, what Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in the New York
Times after the premiere of the movie Collapse: Since 2001, Michael
Ruppert has devoted his life, two books and a self-published
newsletter, From the Wilderness, to connecting the dots between
population, economics and energy, and concluding that the center will
not hold. Lucidly and with weary conviction, he cites evidence for a
declining global oil supply, like costly offshore drilling, and
demolishes hopes pinned on substitutes like ethanol (“a complete joke”)
and clean coal (“no such thing”). He is shockingly persuasive, and the
majority of his premises are verifiable. - end of paraphrased NY Times
review.
Richard Heinberg, author of The Party is Over said about
Ruppert's most
recent book: Confronting Collapse: "Ruppert has an unblemished track
record for saying things that are incendiary, outrageous, shocking -
and true. Our new president needs desperately to hear the uncomfortable
message of this book about energy and the economy, and so do the rest
of us."
In the first part of the radio version of Collapse I focus on
Ruppert's line of arguments around Peak Oil. There are several
respected researchers who also argue that we have reached Peak, the
halfway point between the discovery and the end of oil where oil
companies take greater and greater risks to tap the last remaining oil
fields - as the disastrous British Petroleum spill in the Gulf of
Mexico shows. In part two Ruppert addresses the collapse of the fuel
based agriculture and of the financial system.
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Michael
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GOD AND HIS DEMONS
This is Dr. Michael Parenti's first talk on
his most recent book: God
and His Demons. The 2010 book covers the many evils committed in the
name of godly virtue throughout history, and the threat posed by
fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries.
Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political
analysts.
He is a prolific author and an engaging speaker. Parenti grew up in a
conservative, catholic, working class Italian community in New York
city. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale he has
taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad.
He risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war
on Vietnam. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and
is the author
of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Contrary Notions,
Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and Dirty Truths.
Recorded at the Unitarian Universalists Hall in Berkeley, CA, on April
27, 2010.
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Frances Moore
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GETTING A GRIP
Barbara Kingsolver says of Frances Moore Lappé's most recent
book:
Getting a Grip, “This is not an ordinary book; it’s more like a new
pair of glasses, allowing you to see everything around you with greater
clarity. Suddenly the world is more comprehensible, even more
beautiful."
Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books including
the
three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Diet for a Small Planet was
the first book to expose the enormous waste built into U.S. grain-fed
meat production. For Frances that was a powerful symbol of a global
food system that is creating hunger out of plenty. Eating a
planet-centered diet, she argued, means choosing what is best for the
earth and our bodies—a daily action that reminds us of our power to
create a saner world.
France Moore Lappé asks several
important questions: how can we make
sense of the fact that we are creating a world that none of us
individually would chose and - what are the causal forces that produce
this needless suffering. She lays out how we can draw on the resources
that lie dormant in every
human being. Neuroscience, she says, affirms that human beings are
predisposed or "softwired," for empathy, cooperation, fairness, and the
desire to have power, to be imaginative and to create.
Lappé's work of the last two decades is dedicated to help
set free
those creative forces that produce real democracy and to collect
inspiring international examples of where this is already happening.
<http://www.smallplanet.org/>
Recorded at Yoga Mendocino, Ukiah, CA on April 11, 2010
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Peter Dale Scott on Thomas Merton
THE MANY GATED CITY
This is a 25 minute talk by Peter Dale Scott on Thomas Merton, the
catholic priest,
Trappist monk, writer of over 70 books, poet, and social activist.
Scott, best known for his writings on foreign policy, the
CIA and the drug trade, shares many of the complexities that have made
Thomas Merton, who died in 1968, so intriguing. To this day Thomas
Merton's name and writings are associated with the acceptance of the
spiritual traditions of Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Sufism by western
spiritual thinkers and poets such as Thoreau, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and
Rilke.
The spiritual and literary connections that Scott lays out in
this talk
are interwoven with not just Merton's ideas on mutual respect, inner
and outer peace, liberation theology, and Gandhian nonviolence - but
with the vision for a cultural societal as well as a personal change
that can bring about a peaceful world.
This is a fascinating survey of the rich history of mutually inspiring
contact between the living traditions of the East and West that now
have been suffocated in the war on terror. Literary and spiritual
contacts that are essential for world peace have been broken by war.
And in that sense a talk on Merton is a talk on the road to peace -
especially from a poet and political writer such as Scott who knows so
much about war.
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Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
and people of Willits
END OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION
and Wild Dreams of a New Beginning
Documentary of an art exhibition under the
title of End of Industrial
Civilization in the small former logging town of Willits, CA, with
poems and paintings by Ferlinghetti; and collages, and photos from
Indian reservations by Maria Gilardin.
The program opens with the Ferlinghetti poem: Wild Dreams of a
New Beginning, written in 1974, about the mile high tidal wave that
runs over Los Angeles which sinks like the Titanic, all lights lit;
crosses the country to sweep Manhattan Island clean in 16 seconds. The
washed land then awakes again to wilderness, and the Indians reclaim
their canoes.
The poem was part of an art exhibition in Willits, CA, around the
theme: End of Industrial Civilization, with poems and paintings by
Ferlinghetti; and collages, and photos from Indian reservations by
Maria Gilardin. The show also included a small library with The
Airconditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller and Kirkpatrick Sale's
article: Lessons from the Luddites.
Sale had written in the Nation in 1995 that we need to set limits on
technology: "As our own daily experience has convinced us, we in the
industrial world are in the middle of a social and political revolution
that is almost without parallel. ..This transformation is, without
anyone being prepared for it, overwhelming the communities and
institutions and customs that once were the familiar stanchions of our
lives.
Resistors to industrial civilization, Sale said, .. could find their
most useful models in the 19th century Luddites who fought the
introduction of the huge mechanized looms and child labor. "It was not
all machinery that the Luddites opposed, but "all Machinery hurtful to
Commonality," as a March 1812 letter to a hated manufacturer put it.
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GEOENGINEERING THE PLANET
Addressing the effects, not the causes, of climate change
Geo-engineers are proposing large scale global projects to reduce solar
radiation. They want to force the oceans into absorbing more CO2
through "fertilization", and they work on carbon sequestration and
weather modification.
While most climate scientist left the Copenhagen Summit
feeling gloomy
about the lack of action to halt climate change, a small group felt
emboldened. They are the geo-engineers who are proposing large scale
global projects to reduce solar radiation by spreading sulphate
aerosols into the atmosphere, placing sunshades into space or by
whitening the clouds. They also want to force the oceans into absorbing
more of the excess CO2 through "fertilization" by spreading urea, iron
or phosphorous. And they work on carbon sequestration and weather
modification. What seemed until recently a mad science fiction project
is now gaining acceptance by corporations, politicians, the US
Department of Energy, climate change deniers and funders.
Among the institutions where geoengineering research is being done are:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Stanford University, the Russian
Academy of Sciences, the German Max Planck Institute, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, the Universities of Manchester, Bristol and
Edinburgh, UK - as well as labs and corporations in Canada, India,
China, Australia and many other places.
The nonprofit civil society organization, the ETCGroup, has probably
followed the issue of geoengineering more closely and over the longest
period of time. At least that is the opinion of the Swedish Society for
Nature Conservation. They commission the ETCGroup to write a pamphlet
called "Retooling the Planet?" with an overview over and detailed
critique of geoengineering. It came out in the Fall of 2009, and is
freely available on their website ETCGroup.org. The ETC group has
fundamental objections to geoengineering since it treats only the
symptoms, not the causes of climate change and can be used as an excuse
for delaying the implementation of CO2 reductions. But they also wanted
to issue a warning that large scale open field, real world experiments
in ocean fertilization and solar radiation management may be about to
begin and need to come under scrutiny.
The ETCGroup reports that indigenous peoples, civil society
organizations and women's group have already expressed their opposition
to geoengineeering schemes. Most of these organization are in the
global South and they need to hear from the opposition in the
industrialized countries, especially in the US and the UK. The goals
are to bring about a ban on any real-world experimentation in
geoengineering, to expose the overt and covert interests of the
players, and to demand accountability from governments, corporations
and scientists who are actively promoting these technologies.
2010-03-26, San Francisco
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Iain Boal
WHO WERE THE LUDDITES?
Machine smashers of the 19th century or
members of a fascinating social movement with visionary insights into
the unfolding drama of industrialization?
The impact of today's technologies on social relations and the
planet
itself is becoming an intriguing field of inquiry. However so far the
discussion of nuclear power, biotechnology, deforestation, automobiles
or computers is pretty much dominated by industry and government who
want us to take all this for granted.
In this context it is inspiring to remember the Luddites who questioned
industrial civilization at its very beginning in England during the
introduction of mechanized textile mills. They knew that the
power-looms that they selectively destroyed were not just a technology
but would create a whole new set of relations: Factory work, child
labor, and the demise of artisan and skilled labor. They anticipated
that the new machines, that they themselves had helped build, were not
the promised tool to help them in their work but would eventually
become part of a machine culture with power over human life and even
human consciousness.
Iain Boal is an independent scholar and historian of technology. He
taught a course on the Luddites at Stanford University. This lecture
was expanded into a book project, Resisting the Virtual Life, an
anthology edited by Iain Boal and James Brook and published by City
Lights.
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Ali Abunimah
ON THE ONGOING EFFORTS TO FREE GAZA AND THE BOYCOTT ISRAEL MOVEMENT
Ali Abunimah spoke in Berkeley, CA, at the end of February 2010 and
gave an assessment of the situation in Gaza, one year after the
terrible 22 day long assault by Israel. Homes, schools and health
clinics still lie in ruins because Israel and Egypt who control all
land and sea access into Gaza do not allow building materials to enter.
Of 122 clinics 46% are destroyed, of 640 schools 18 are completely
destroyed, 280 are damaged and can't be repaired. People still live in
the ruins of their former homes.
A vibrant international movement to end the blockade is making
ongoing
attempts to enter through Egypt and by sea to bring supplies into Gaza.
Ali Abunimah was part of the Gaza Freedom March in December 2009. The
suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza has strengthened the international Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement. The movement has also united
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza with those dispersed through the
world and with the few still living in Israel as second class citizens.
Abunimah, along with author Naomi Klein are prominent supporters of
that boycott Israel movement.
The plight of the people in Gaza has also revived a venerable idea to
solve the Israel Palestine conflict. Instead of the failed two state
solution Abunimah and others are calling for one state for two peoples.
I this speech as well as in his 2006 book One Country: A Bold Proposal
to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Abunimah explains how that may
come about.
Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian American activist and author. He
is often heard on Democracy Now as co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, an
online publication about the Israel Palestine conflict. Born in
Washington, DC, he spent his early years in England and Belgium before
returning to attend Princeton University. His mother was expelled from
from Lifta, now controlled by Israel, his father is from the West Bank.
Recorded by Jeff Blankfort on 2010-02-28 at an event of the
Middle East Children's Alliance, MECA.
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Helen Caldicott
IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET
The Canadian writer Naomi Klein said about
Helen Caldicott: (she) "has
the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and
urgency with humor." In 2009 the revised edition of Caldicott's book:
If You Love This Planet was published by Norton.
In a yearlong research process she updated the information on
dangerous
global trends such as ozone depletion, global warming, toxic pollution,
food contamination, and deforestation - and, as always, she gives a
prescription for a cure and cause for hope. Helen Caldicott rallies
readers to action with the contention that our fight for the planet
will draw its strength from love for the Earth itself.
Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 38 years to an international
campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear
age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental
destruction. She was only 23 years old when she received her medical
degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1961. Ten year
later, in 1971, she was in her first successful antinuclear campaign to
stop French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific.
While living in the United States from 1977 to 1986, she co-founded
Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors
committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear
power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Helen Caldicott has written for numerous publications and has authored
seven books, among them: Nuclear Madness, Missile Envy, The New Nuclear
Danger, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer, and If You Love this Planet.
Recorded in Oakland, CA, October 23-2009
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Helen Caldicott
BANNING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
In 1986 the city of Berkeley, CA, - as one of many around the globe -
passed a Nuclear Free Act which allows the city to boycott companies
involved in nuclear work. The University of CA Berkeley however, which
runs the nuclear weapons lab at Lawrence Livermore and - until recently
the Los Alamos Lab is - as State institution - exempt from the
municipal regulation.
The anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott spoke in
Berkeley at a
June 2009 meeting of SuperBOLD, an organization dedicated to enforcing
the Nuclear Free ordinance. They are trying to prevent the Berkeley
Public library from hiring the 3M corporation to maintain the Radio
Frequency checkpoint system there. 3M refuses to sign a contract that
they will not do “work for nuclear weapons.”
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.
Arjun Makhijani, is President of IEER.
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The EXECUTION of
Martin
Luther King
by Dr. William Pepper
Dr. William Pepper became James
Earl Ray's lawyer when he found out
that Ray was not the murderer and investigated the plot to kill King.
This extraordinary story has implications for history, civil rights,
justice and democracy.
Bill Pepper's friendship with King and his family goes back to 1967.
Pepper had gone to Vietnam and taken photos of children burned by
napalm. King asked to meet with him and they worked closely together
during the anti-Vietnam war phase of King's life. In this recording
Pepper explains why he became convinced of Ray's innocence and, during
25 years of investigative work, pieced together the plot to kill King.
The extraordinary story has implications for history, civil rights,
justice and democracy. (Feb. 2003)
William Pepper is an acclaimed lawyer who practices international law.
His book by Verso is: AN ACT OF STATE, The Execution of Martin Luther
King. Recorded 2003-02-10. For more information: <http://www.thekingcenter.com>
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David Korten
COMMUNITY AND THE NEW ECONOMY
Why Wall Street can't be fixed and how to replace it
David
Korten is the author of the 2009 book: "Agenda for a New Economy"
and chair of the board of YES Magazine. He is probably best known for
his famous anti-globalization book: When Corporations Rule the World.
He argues
that pouring trillions of dollars in bail-out money
into the
Wall Street institutions that created the crisis does nothing to repair
the failed economic system.
In this speech, given in March 2009 at the NW regional conference
of
Veterans for Peace, he analyzes two major flaws of the current economic
system and points to ways to replace them. One is the monetary system,
the other the concept of ever increasing growth, measured as GDP.
Thanks to Ed Mays of Pirate
TV for the recording.
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Jutta Kill and Dr.
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CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS
False Solutions to Peak Oil and Climate Change
In September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a
Teach in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil and global resource
depletion & extinction. <http://www.ifg.org>
Several Panel meetings addressed the many false solutions to the
climate crisis that may be accelerating the danger rather than
alleviating it. Coal for example is now promoted as a substitute for
oil and promises for the capture of the carbon are made that are not
yet possible with current technologies and may never be available on a
large scale.
Jutta Kill is a climate campaigner and activist for FERN, an
NGO
based in Europe. A participant in the
Durban Group's critique of carbon trading she eloquently describes how
the system favors large
corporations and will prevent a transition to renewable energy
production. Dr. Arjun Makhijani argues against the resurgence of
nuclear power. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering, specializing in nuclear
fusion, from U.C. Berkeley. He is the principal author of the first
study ever done (and
completed in 1971) on the energy conservation potential in the U.S.
economy.
The speakers were recorded at the Confronting the Global Triple Crisis
teach in, organized by the International Forum on Globalization, in
Washington DC in September 2007.
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Ross Gelbspan, Susan George and Walden Bello
SOLUTIONS TO THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS
In September of 2007 the International
Forum on
Globalization held a Teach-in in Washington DC on climate change, peak
oil, global resource depletion & extinction. At the end of the
three-day event proposals to resolve the crisis were made By Ross
Gelbspan, Susan George, and Walden Bello.
Ross Gelbspan is a Pulitzer Price winning journalist, climate activist
and author of The Heat Is On and Boiling Point. He says that the speed
of global warming has blind sided all of us. The first warning by James
Hansen came in 1988. 20 years later scientists tell us we are at, or
have passed, the point of no return. All
this came from one degree of warming. We can no longer burn
coal and oil. Susan George is chair of the planning board
of the Transnational Institute, <www.tni.org>.
One
of
her
recent
books
is:
Another
World
is
possible
if..
(Verso
2004)
Susan
George
proposes
a
new
Keynesianism,
not
military
but
environmental
this
time,
that
could
bring
about
a
massive
conversion
to
eco
friendly
industry
and
alternative
energies
and
resolve
the
looming
recession
that
we
are
facing
at
the
same
time.
Walden
Bello
is
professor
of
sociology
at
the
university
of
the
Philippines
and
leader
of
the
anti
corporate
globalization
and
peace
movement.
He
is
cofounder
of
Focus
on
the
Global
South,
<www.focusweb.org>
based
in
Bangkok,
Thailand.
His
book,
Dragons
in
Distress,
is
widely
regarded
as
the
classic
that
predicted
the
collapse
of
the
East
Asian
economies
later
in
that
decade.”
He
puts
the
triple
crisis
in
the
context
of
capitalism
and
the
policies
of
globalization
and
growth.
An
8
to
10%
growth
rate
is
ecologically
criminal.
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ANTHRAX-WAR
A film by Bob Coen & Eric Nadler
Film makers Bob Coen and Eric Nadler investigate the forgotten story of
the 2001 anthrax attacks. A week after 9/11 letters containing the
weaponized Ames strain of anthrax began arriving in the mail. These
attacks— despite the FBI’s claim that the case is closed— remain
unsolved to this day.
In tracing the anthrax attacks to the center of the U.S. bio-defense
program, this film raises an alarm. Biological weapons research on
global pandemics is now being conducted by corporations and private
labs without government oversight.
The 2009 film, ANTHRAX-WAR, and the accompanying book: Dead Silence,
Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail, detail the seven-year global
journey by Coen and Nadler. They uncover an underground black market in
bio-warfare materials and attempts to develop a so-called "ethnic
bio-weapon", targeting black populations in Africa. Along the way they
investigate the suspicious sudden deaths of scientists, among them
Bruce Ivins, who was named the lone suspect eight days after his
alleged suicide and the questionable suicide by British weapons
inspector and anthrax researcher David Kelly.
The film: Anthrax War is a Canada-France co production produced by
Galafilm and TelFrance/Transformer Films for the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, Société Radio-Canada and ARTE. For more
information of this excellent film and book <http://www.counterpointpress.com>
go
to
their
web
site:
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December 12:
I recently saw your post about Bob Coen and Eric Nadler's film The
Anthrax War... I originally saw the film just after it was made and
have been keeping my eyes open in regards to David Kelly and other
information relayed in the movie. So, I thought you should know about
the recent developments involving Kelly: Six Doctors are
saying he was Murdered: Thank you Jacques!
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David Ray Griffin
THE MYSTERIOUS COLLAPSE OF WORLD TRADE CENTER 7
The collapse of Building 7 on the afternoon
of 9/11 was overshadowed by
that of the Twin Towers in spite of one eerie similarity. Even though
it had not been hit by a plane, the 47 story building also came down at
free fall speed, collapsing into it's footprint. FEMA admitted in their
initial report in 2002 that they had no good explanation as to why the
building came down and an official silence fell over the fate of the
building for six more years.
Then, in November 2008, the federal technology agency NIST
released the
Final WTC 7 Investigation Report. In their executive summary they say
that heating of floor beams and girders caused one of 82 support column
to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse that led to the
failure of the 81 others and brought the building down.
9-eleven researcher David Ray Griffin scrutinized the NIST report page
by page and published his findings in book form in the summer of 2009.
He set out to prove that NIST arrived at their conclusions by
disregarding evidence and said that "The omission of evidence by NIST
is so massive, that I treat it as a distinct type of scientific fraud."
The omissions listed in this talk include work done by FEMA, the USGS,
dust analysis by international labs, and eyewitness reports from police
officers and city officials.
Prof. Griffin retired from the Claremont School of Theology, where he
had taught for 30 years, and wrote in 2004 the most widely read book on
the subject: The New Pearl Harbor, disturbing questions about the Bush
administration and 9-11.
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BUSH Radio, Cape
Town
South Africa's first community radio station
Noam Chomsky praised the vitality and professionalism of South Africa's
most influential community station. This is an intriguing look into the
day to day operations of the station that defined how radio is done and
trained staff for 80+ stations. When you visit Bush Radio in Cape Town
any Saturday morning you find children as young as 6 years doing their
own programming. Weekdays the news department presents local news on
the air, in writing as blog, including photos and video.
Denied a license under the old Apartheid regime, Bush Radio
went on the air illegally in 1993. Two broadcasters were arrested and
the equipment confiscated. After the historic elections of 1994 the
first broadcast licenses issued by the Mandela government were
specifically for community broadcasters. In June of 1995 Bush Radio
received its license to broadcast. Bush Radio played a huge role in
defining the laws and practice of community radio in South Africa. Over
the last eight years they trained approximately 500 people to operate a
radio station. Almost every one of the nearly 90 stations in existence
in South Africa today employs at least one person trained at Bush Radio.
In the summer of 2009 Brenda Leonard, the Bush Radio administrator,
went on a US tour of public radio stations. I met her in San Francisco
and asked her to tell me about the day to day operations of Bush Radio.
<http://www.bushradio.co.za>
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THE REAL PATCH
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How to eliminate greed and profit in health care
In the 1998 movie Robin Williams played
Patch Adams, the funny doctor
with a red clown's nose, the young man who almost committed suicide but
then found joy in becoming a physician and taking care of people. That
movie made Patch Adams a folk hero but it also undermined the deeper
meaning of the healing project that he and his friends were and are
building today.
In this program Patch Adams gives a review of the history of his
project, the Gesundheit Institute, <http://www.patchadams.org>
lists some of the international
activities on behalf of orphans, prevention of child sexual slavery and
women's mortality in childbirth. Adams now wants to build a full
hospital based on the principles of healing that he laid out in this
talk.
One week before this talk, Adams was invited by Republican congress
members to talk about health care. This program includes his report of
his defense of Single Payer to a group that had applauded Cheney and
Rove a week earlier.
Patch Adams was recorded on July 5, 2009 in Willits, CA. Justin Briggs
operated the audio system.
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Cynthia
McKinney &
THE FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
The Free Gaza Movement <http://www.freegaza.org/>
began
in
the
Fall
of
2006.
Seeing
all
land
borders
of
Gaza
controlled
by
Israel
-
and
by
Egypt
at
Rafah
-
severely
restricting
the
crossing
of
urgently
needed
food,
fuel,
and
medicine
for
1.4
million
Palestinians
-
they
decided
to
reach
Gaza
by
sea,
and
directly
challenge
the
Israeli
siege.
They found two, small, wooden fishing boats. In August 2008 they became
the first international boats to land in the port of Gaza in 41 years.
Between August and December 2008 the Free Gaza Movement successfully
broke the Israeli siege five times and arrived in Gaza with
international crews and humanitarian aid.
In response to the month-long Israeli war on Gaza that began at the end
of December 2008 the Free Gaza Movement sent a ship with over 3 tons of
emergency medical supplies, and 3 surgeons. Cynthia McKinney, former
U.S. congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate, decided to
participate in this journey.
This time the Israeli navy rammed the ship, almost sinking it - then
abandoned the disabled vessel. This is McKinney's story of
confrontation with the Israeli navy in international waters, up to the
boarding of the second Free Gaza Boat by Israeli commandos and the
kidnapping and imprisoning the passengers.
Cynthia McKinney <http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/>
came
to
Sonoma
State
University
on
August
15,
2009
to
tell
a
story
that
made
it
around
the
world
as
breaking
news
-
but
was
almost
completely
ignored
by
the
US
media.
Cynthia McKinney made history in 1992 when she became the first African
American woman to represent Georgia in Congress. However she soon found
herself in the sites of AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee, Israel's officially registered lobby, when she refused to
sign a statement supporting Israel that is routinely demanded by AIPAC
of every candidate for Congress from either party.
She went on to be one of the handful of members of Congress to defend
the rights of the Palestinians. She lost the Democratic primary of
2002, when contributions from across the country from pro-Israel
sources flowed to her opponent. In 2004, she ran again and, despite
attacks again from pro-Israel forces, she regained her seat in office
although she was denied her seniority by House Democratic leader Nancy
Pelosi. In 2006, her Democratic party opposition united behind a single
candidate. Cynthia McKinney was defeated and left Congress.
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media. Former US Congress woman Cynthia McKinney joined two boat trips
to bring humanitarian aid into the port of Gaza.
On the first trip the Free Gaza boat was rammed and almost sunk by the
Israeli navy. The second boat that tried to reach Gaza in June 2009 was
boarded by Israeli commandos, and the passengers imprisoned in
Israel. Cynthia McKinney became Israeli prisoner number 77894. Don't
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THE CERES
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A phone
conversation with the Executive Director Cathryn Couch and client
Katherine Kraemer.
In the California town of Sebastopol high school students meet for two
hours after school on a day of their choice to cook organic healing
food for people with serious health problems. Named after the Greek
goddess of agriculture and generosity, Ceres, this project is almost
entirely based on gifts. The teenage volunteers enjoy cooking so much
that there is a waiting list. Sonoma County organic farmers donate most
of the food, the use of the first kitchen was donated by a church, and
volunteers are bringing the prepared dishes to the homes of the
clients. These clients, and often their whole family receive a week's
worth of beautifully prepared food as gift for up to three months.
After that time they are asked to contribute. Their donation to the
Ceres Community Project can be as little as $5 a week.
The Ceres Project is young - it started in March of 2007 - but it has
touched so many lives, and inspired such gratitude and a kind of
generosity that increased fourfold the number of meals provided in
2008. In early 2009 there is already the first attempt to duplicate the
project in a neighboring county.
The Ceres Project came to the attention of another community
organization, the West Marin radio station KWMR <http://kwmr.org/> and Mike Litchfield,
host of the series: Heading Home. When Ceres Project founder Cathryn
Couch first appeared on the air the station received so many requests
to hear her again that Cathryn came back on the air in March of 2009.
Thanks to KWMR and Mike Litchfield for allowing the re-broadcast of the
program.
Part ONE: Interview with Cathryn Couch, Executive Director of the Ceres
Community Project.
Part TWO: Conversation with Ceres Community Project client Katherine
Kraemer who is going through chemotherapy. Cathryn Couch is
participating as well.
Both interviews are made by phone. Recorded on March 10, 2009.
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Peter Dale Scott
AMERICA'S AFGHANISTAN
US National Security and a Heroin-Ravaged State
The US State Department calls Afghanistan a failed state that justifies
US intervention, rather than acknowledging that US intervention has
caused that so-called failure. And among all the triggers to that
failure from US support of the
Mujahedin and Al Quaeda to the war lords one element is not recognized
in it’s real importance: the role of the trade in opium.
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.
This talk by Professor Scott is putting names and faces on the
beneficiaries of that drug trade. Peter Dale Scott was recoded in the
mountains of Northern California on April 27, 2009 at
a small gathering of friends and neighbors. He has since expanded this
speech and the longer text with footnotes is posted at <http://www.japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3145>
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Derrick Jensen:
BRINGING DOWN
CIVILIZATION
Derrick Jensen wrote in his early book: “Listening to the Land”: “We
are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault
on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on
children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide --all
these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity." And he
follows that with a question: “Why do we act as we do? What are sane
and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will
it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of
being? My work and life revolve around these questions. “
When I recorded him in the Oakland, California warehouse of AK Press,
Derrick Jensen asked that question in a much more pointed way: If
civilization is destroying us and the earth – do we need to bring down
civilization? Derrick Jensen lives in Northern California, he teaches
creative writing in prison and has written many books, among them: endgame
(the book this talk is based on, The Culture of Make Believe, A
Language
Older
Than
Words, and Listening to the Land.
<http://www.derrickjensen.org>
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Helen Caldicott
BANNING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
In 1986 the city of Berkeley, CA, - as one of many around the globe -
passed a Nuclear Free Act which allows the city to boycott companies
involved in nuclear work. The University of CA Berkeley however, which
runs the nuclear weapons lab at Lawrence Livermore and - until recently
the Los Alamos Lab is - as State institution - exempt from the
municipal regulation.
The anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott spoke in Berkeley at a
June 2009 meeting of SuperBOLD, an organization dedicated to enforcing
the Nuclear Free ordinance. They are trying to prevent the Berkeley
Public library from hiring the 3M corporation to maintain the Radio
Frequency checkpoint system there. 3M refuses to sign a contract that
they will not do “work for nuclear weapons.”
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.
Arjun Makhijani, is President of IEER.
THIS IS ONE SELF-CONTAINED 29 min.
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Lorenzo Milam
just made me aware of an anti-nuclear piece that Lawrence Ferlinghetti
wrote in 1958. I asked Ferlinghetti, who is now 90 years young, to read
it again, 51 years
later. Ferlinghetti had seen Nagasaki a few
weeks after the atom bomb destroyed it. That experience changed his
life. "The Tentative Description of a Dinner to Promote the Impeachment
of President Eisenhower" is less about Eisenhower than about all
Presidents
since then who failed to end the nuclear age. Ferlinghetti reads about
the "strange rain that would never stop .. and
perverted pollen blown on sunless seas - eaten by irradiated fish who
spawned up cloudleaf streams and fell upon our dinner plates."
Here is a 7 min. 37 sec.
broadcast quality audio recording made on July 12, 2009, of Ferlinghetti reading.
Here
is
the
film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ61bdAWYoE
Stephen
Zarlenga
THE AMERICAN MONETARY ACT
Solving the Financial Crisis by Monetary Reform
Congressman Dennis Kucinich has posted the
following on his web site:
"The U.S. monetary reform is urgently needed: It is long past time we
look at the
implications of . . . the privatization of money created by
the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the bank fractional reserve system and
our debt-based economic system. Unless we have dramatic reform of
monetary policy, the entire economic
system will continue to accelerate wealth upwards. I am currently
working on drafting legislation for an ‘American Monetary Act’ to
address these and other issues in order to protect the economic well
being of America."
<http://kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2786&Itemid=76>
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?
Kucinich is working closely with Stephen Zarlenga, director of
the American Monetary Institute <http://www.monetary.org/>
and
author
of:
The Lost Science of
Money. I
interviewed Zarlenga in May 2009 after his return from Washington, DC,
where he had briefed members of Congress. A report on the briefing was
done by Richard Cook. <http://www.richardccook.com/>
For a broadcast quality mp3 version
of Part ONE of this program
click HERE
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version
of Part TWO of this program
click HERE
I just uploaded two excerpts
of the film version of this program to YouTube:
Nationalize the Federal Reserve
- Remove the Power of Banks to Create Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_kbyAl3-AM
Money to The People - NOT to
Banks
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George Galloway
VIVA PALESTINA
Breaking the siege of GAZA
George Galloway is an outspoken Member of
the British Parliament,
serving since 1987. He is perhaps best known for his support of
Palestine and his campaign to end economic sanctions against Iraq. When
he stood up to Tony Blair and called the invasion of Iraq illegal he
was expelled from the Labour Party.
After participating in daily demonstrations in England during the
Israeli assault on Gaza from the end of December 2008 into January
2009, Galloway led a convoy of vehicles loaded with humanitarian aid to
Gaza. Under the name VIVA Palestina the convoy began in England in
February 2009, crossed from Spain into North Africa and entered Gaza
from Egypt with over 200 vehicles through the Rafah crossing that is
usually kept locked by the Egyptian government.
Galloway says that if it were not for the extraordinary influence of
the Israeli government that maintains a blockade of GAZA, aid
from governments and UN sources would be pouring into the war ravaged
Gaza strip. He says that 61,200 homes were destroyed and Palestinians
are still living in the rubble because Israel refuses to allow building
materials into Gaza. Galloway plans to do what the international
community fails to do and continue to lead convoys from other countries
as well, including Russia and China.
Galloway was touring the US in April and May 2009 to invite donors and
participants from the United States for the next convoy to Gaza. The
plan is to leave New York on the 4th of July, fly directly into Egypt,
purchase vehicles and medical supplies and repeat the successful breach
of the Rafah crossing. <http://www.vivapalestina-us.org
>
NOTE: Registration to
join the convoy from New York is only open until June 20, 2009, at
midnight (CST). Check out the registration form - which must be
complete by then, at <http://www.vivapalestina-us.org/?cat=7>
Thanks to the Middle East Children's Alliance for organizing
this
event. <http://www.mecaforpeace>
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Peter
Dale Scott
LIFTING THE STATE OF EMERGENCY
An unresolved legacy of the Bush administration
Very few seem to know and among the few who know most don't seem to
care that the US remains under a state of emergency declared by the
Bush administration. The state of emergency was formally proclaimed
five days after 9/11 on September 14th, 2001, and extended by Bush
repeatedly thereafter, most recently on August 28th, 2008 for yet
another year.
Under cover of this State of Emergency, the Bush
administration enacted
many extreme measures, ranging from suspension of habeas corpus, to the
preparations for martial law in the US.
In early 2009 an attempt was made to alert the public and put pressure
on Congress to lift the state of emergency.
In February 2009 Professor Peter Dale Scott <http://www.peterdalescott.net/>
and
former
Congressman
Dan
Hamburg
wrote
a
formal
letter
to
President
Obama's
staff
and
several
congress
people.
They
referred
to
the
National
Emergencies
Act,
one
of
the
post-Watergate
reforms
that
requires
specifically
that
not
later
than
six
months
after
a
national
emergency
is
declared,
and
not
later
than
the
end
of
each
six-month
period
thereafter
that
such
emergency
continues,
each
House
of
Congress
shall
meet
to
consider
a
vote
on
a
joint
resolution
to
determine
whether
that
emergency
shall
be
terminated.
Letter writing campaign:
<http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090328020251412>
Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain
Terrorist Attacks (Aug. 28, 2008): <http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/08/20080828-7.html>
Investigation into Whether America is Still a Constitutional Government
<http://www.constitutionally.blogspot.com>
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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. Annie Machon mentions two
Palestinians jailed on false evidence. They are Samar Alami and Jawad
Botme and the web site in their support is <http://www.freesaj.org.uk/>.
She also spoke abut Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo, and the web site <http://www.cageprisoners.com/>
Machon's
web
site
is:
<http://www.anniemachon.com/>
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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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For the excerpt by PD Scott on Eliot
Spitzer on YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsY1hzDWHKk>
For the op-ed that Spitzer wrote - that exposed predatory lending and
really got him busted: <SpitzerColumn.htm>
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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 adviser 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. <http://www.abengoasolar.com/sites/solar/en/our_projects/usa/arizona/index.html>
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 Carlin 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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MORE INFO:
Harvey Wasserman: A $50
Billion nuke power bomb is dropping toward Obama’s stimulus package,
January 31, 2009. (Wasserman was on Democracy Now! on this issue on
Feb.
5.) <http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2009/1721>
James
Hansen, NASA: Tell President Obama About Coal River Mountain
<http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2009/20090203_CoalRiverMountain.pdf>
Coal River Mountain is the site of an absurdity. I learned about
Coal River Mountain from students at Virginia Tech last fall.
They were concerned about Coal River Mountain, but at that time most of
them were working to support Barack Obama. They assumed Barack
Obama would not allow such outrages to continue. The issue at Coal
River
Mountain is whether the top of the mountain will be blown up, so that
coal can be dredged out of it, or whether the mountain will be
allowed to stand.
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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WAR ON
GAZA
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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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.
January 10, 2009
This is also the time to hear -
again - three other voices: Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein and Ilan
Pappe. Please
listen, copy, and pass on the links.
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.
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Ilan Pappe
THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF
PALESTINE
The daily news on
Israel
and Palestine is impossible to understand without knowledge of the
history of the 1948 expulsion of 3/4 of a million Palestinians by the
Jewish army from what then became the state of Israel. When, in 1998,
the Israelis opened the
military archives it became clear that the Zionist movement had planned
to expel the Palestinians long before 1948.
PART ONE - 29 min.
PART TWO - 29 min.
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September 22, 2015
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Willits, CA
PS. This donation is only
a small way of saying, "Thank you, and please keep doing your great
show!"
11/23/2012
Hello Maria,
Why did I donate? I
guess the short answer is that I very much appreciate and value the
content of your programs. I have heard perspectives and
information that help me tie together things that I already know, or
that help me see things in a different light. I appreciate that
your programs often help one to see what appears to me to be the
"bigger picture" stripped of much of the typical cultural conditioning,
propaganda, and national self-aggrandizement that pervades mass
media and what we usually are taught. Yesterday, I was driving
and listening to your program featuring John Trudell. I was
impressed by his story and his viewpoints, many of which I have come to
have, myself. Thinking about this and other programs of yours
that I have enjoyed, I just thought it was about time to contribute
monetarily. Overdue, in fact. Thanks for what you do. Take
care.
Richard B.
Palo Cedro, CA
8/17/2012
Good morning
Thank you for all
the work
you do to bring life changing information to all of us. We are out here
working
for our own cause, doing our own thing, sometimes feeling lonely,
distraught,
or overwhelmed, but to turn on KOPN, listener supported radio, on
Thursday
afternoons and hear your voice and the wonderful programs you bring
into my
home, my work, and my life, makes me feel more connected and supported.
Sometimes I am saddened by what I hear or feel overwhelmed at a new
idea or
challenge, but always I am grateful and uplifted that so many people,
like
yourself, are working for their own cause and making the world better.
Thank you
Carrie H.
Columbia, MO
8/8/2012
Comment on:
To The Memory of Chernobyl and the pdf
file of
Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
Thank you for this resource....have learned a lot about effects of
nuclear power accidents and intend to study more. I had no idea about
the effects of radioactive isotopes on pathogens...that concept really
got my attention. Also, the transport of buried isotopes by plants
years after an accident was very enlightening. As a nurse, I have been
trying to study this topic since Fukushima, trying to be prepared
for possible future patients and really appreciate your work.
M.P.
Franklin, VT
1/9/2012
No
one
should
ever
doubt
how
ahead
of
the
curve
TUC
Radio
was
and
is.
In
1996,
I
bought
a
TUC
cassette
tape
of
a
group
lecture
called
Computers
for
a
Brave
New
World.
On
it,
sociologist
Helena
Norbert
Hodge
set
forth
the
notion
that
in
the
new
global
economy,
the
ideal
consumer
for
all
products
and
services
becomes
a
16-year-old
boy.
I’ve
mentioned
that
idea
to
dozens
of
people
in
the
years
since,
gradually
seeing
it
morph
from
cutting-edge
theory
to
common
knowledge.
Just
the
other
day
I
spoke
with
a
leading
reporter
in
the
Hollywood
press,
for
instance,
who
bemoaned
this
reality
with
respect
to
the
difficulties
of
women
in
gaining
positions
of
power
in
the
entertainment
industry.
But
it
all
started
with
Helena,
Maria,
and
TUC
Radio…
Tom S.
Los Angeles
12/25/2011
Greetings
to
Maria
Gilardin
I thoroughly enjoy each
and all of your evocative + illuminating broadcasts. They
shed
much-needed
light
on
topics kept out of public review for so many
all-too obvious reasons
For o
flawless quality of totality of your learned guests o valid points of view of
oft-forgotten +/or purposefully-ignored personalities o
shining very-bright points-of-light on otherwise obscure or
intentionally quashed truths + facts o
facilitating - those who care to listen - to engage in mental
dialectics + intellectual ratiocinations o perpetuating all educational
processes of the intentionally self-taught o
crafting a new awareness of non-fabricated history o
skewering sophists + exposing mendacious diatribes disguised +
sugar-coated by "public relations specialists" o
presenting vast powers of the English language - "for better or
worse" o
presenting art + craft of deceptive wordsmiths to achieve specific yet
undisclosed outcomes o
exposing latent + secret intentions of bombastic demagogues who
endeavour to + generally deceive the gullible or under-informed public
Respectfully submitted
Bob
San Francisco
02/22/2011
Hi
Maria,
I
have
listened
occasionally
for
years,
and
have
always
been
impressed
with
your
approach
which
combines
thoroughness,
fairness
and
courtesy
with
the
willingness
to
call
a
spade
a
spade.
So
much
media
just
repeats
the
talking
points
from
each
side,
or
at
least
the
two
loudest
sides,
without
ever
separating
what
is
knowable
truth,
and
what
is
opinion,
interpretation
or
spin.
You
are
a
breath
of
fresh
air
compared
to
my
amazingly
pessimistic
Libertarian
brother.
Hopefully
those
of
us
that
believe
in
building
things
together
can
outlast
those
who
just
want
to
scrap
it
all
in
the
name
of
"liberty".
Dave L.
New Hampshire
11/02/2010
Hello
-
wanted
to
let
you
know,
I'm
a
San
Francisco
Bay
Area
resident
currently
working
in
Wellington,
New
Zealand,
and
I
found
your
broadcasts
on
an
FM
radio
station
here
in
town
(Radio
Brooklyn,
a
Wellington
suburb).
I
appreciate
hearing
such
a
brave
and
important
herald
of
truth
and
independence
on
the
public
airwaves,
and
am
glad
that
your
voice
is
reaching
across
the
world.
kudos,
Jeff J, Wellington. NZ
10/29/2010
Dear
Maria,
I
have
been
a
freeloader
on
your
site
for
some
time,
so
this
was
only
a
small
payment
for
the
excellent
programs
I
have
listened
to
over
the
years.
I
can’t
begin
to
express
how
valuable
they
have
been
to
me,
and
the
thoughtfulness,
care,
and
intelligence
you
have
put
into
producing
them.
More
importantly,
the
topics
are
vital
to
our
public
discourse
-
a
discourse
that
sadly
resembles
in
the
mainstream
the
shadows
of
Plato’s
cave.
Your project epitomizes the true meaning of “service” and the title you
have chosen couldn’t have been better
Many thanks,
Norm,
Winslow,
ME
6/6/2010
Dear Maria,
At
this
moment
I'm
listening
to
the
TUC
Ruppert
segments
from
"Collapse"...
I'm
seriously,
existentially
depressed
(and
have
been
for
almost
two
years
now)
as
I
review
the
period
through
which
I
have
lived
(1942-present).
I
acknowledge
the
unprecedented
technological
progress
that
has
occurred
during
this
period
and
I've
reveled
in
its
contributions
to
the
betterment
of
my
life,
but
now
the
hangover
is
upon
me.
I
see
the
other
side:
It
has
also
been
the
most
flagrantly
malignant,
anti-life
period
humans
have
experienced
(perpetrated?)
so
far
because
so
much
of
the
horror
is
now
more
or
less
global
in
its
implications.
And
the
chickens
are
just
beginning
to
come
home
to
roost.
As ever, I value your work and send my encouragements your way.
Nathan P.
11/02/2009
Dear
Ms.
Gilardin,
I
have
been
listening
to
your
radio
program
every
week
for
over
a
year
now
(Fridays
12:30
pm
on
WWUH).
It
is
the
one
show
which
I
have
changed
my
schedule
for
in
order
not
to
miss
one
episode.
I
find
it
thoughtful,
insightful
and
informative
in
a
calm,
intelligent
manner
which
fosters
thought
and
reflection.
It
is,
in
my
opinion,
comparable
to
Democracy
Now!
Thank
you
for
all
that
you
do.
Be well,
Kim B. Unionville, CT
10/31/2009
Maria,
Thank you for your great work digging up the truth that the
corporations would rather stay buried. I'm very sorry that our
"community" radio station KGNU-Boulder has
decided that your show is too controversial to air. I am giving more
money to your show and less to them now.
Thank
you
for
making
the
audio
available
for
download.
David
P.
Fort Collins, CO
10/16/2009
Hi
Maria,
As always, thank you for all that you do!
I
recently downloaded thirteen mp3 files, and am therefore "donating"
$26.00. As was mentioned by a previous donor, if everyone just would
pay one dollar per download, the revenue issue would be solved.
It's
a shame that enough people won't pay for such remarkable information to
give you the freedom to do your wonderful work. If folks who can pay
would, then it would make it free for those who can't. But I'm sorry to
say that you might be forced to charge for all downloads along the
lines of what Alternative Radio does. Free is great, but to see your
work disappear would be a sad day.
So people, if you have the resources to pay Maria for her work, please
do so.
Be well,
Chris
A.
9/21/2009
Hi Maria!
I've been
listening to your productions for nearly a decade. I discovered
Internet radio right around 2001 and it quickly became my primary
window on the world. It started with reliance on rfpi.org on shortwave
in the late 1990s as a way to stay sane in Alaska. I think I have
everything you have released since that time on one or another hard
drive.
I still go back to the 2 part reading of Alex Carey's work,
the talks
by Bill Pepper, and the lecture by Richard Grossman.
Best wishes for your new home. You have helped us see clearly, but
there seems to be nothing we can do about it. The myth is gone; we wait
and work for the justice that must be done.
Regards,
vince
7/27/2009
Hi Maria!
I listen to WWUH radio on the web where I catch
your show from time to time. Thank you for your bravery in
stating the truth.
On Monday night I visited your website for the first time,
and
ended up listening to Michael Parenti for about 4 hours. I got to
sleep around 3 am, but is was worth it.
God bless and good luck on your mission.
Len J.
Braintree, MA
7/8/2009
Hi Maria,
I discovered Thomas Greco on the Global
Research News Hour archives, and then I went
to noliesradio and saw an interview there for the same guy and then I
saw that the source was you!
So glad to discover you, and I read a little of your story about
your house and so on--remarkable!!! I am hoping to meet
someone in my
school who is so committed as you are! It is the
journey to the truth and reality (pretty sixties sounding) and my heart
is captivated, entranced.
So warm greetings from the Northland! Be well and Good
Luck! My heart will be with you!
J. C.
Oslo, Norway
2/27/2009
Maria,
My wife and I are trying to start a self-sustainable
Healing Arts Community Center, off the grid. Your programs are such a
rare example of free speech and so inspiring to all who listen. I first
was exposed to TUC in Seattle, WA years ago and have been educated and
reassured by your speakers that humans can have an open dialog about
the current state of affairs. Please keep up your monumental work!
Always looking forward to hearing your voice of clarity! Walk in Beauty,
Dr. Alan S.
Mapleton, IA
2/19/2009
Hi Maria,
Since I heard you interviewed on Global News Hour I've been regularly
downloading your radio shows (and advising others to do so as well).
Today I started reading Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing of
Palestine," an author I discovered through your audio archives and
because of that, your appeal on the TUC website especially struck a
nerve. I thought it was about time I dipped my hands into my
pocket and supported a show that is much needed in this time where
propaganda masquerades as news; and that's on both sides of the
Atlantic.
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes from a grey and dank London,
Steven L.
2/17/2009
Maria--You and your show are amazing and so valuable to all of us who
listen to it and all the others who are then indirectly affected. Thank
you for your clarity, your courage, and your commitment.
Joshua L.
Boulder, CO
2/16/2009
I downloaded Peter Dale Scott right after hearing the talk on KGNU. I
wanted to get a copy for some of my friends.
By the way whereas l enjoy listening to points of view unavailable
elsewhere, I must add that I do not always agree with some of your
speakers assertions, but I suspect that that is the engineer in me.
Sending a donation nevertheless -
David P.
Denver, CO
2/14/2009
Hi Maria,
I try to remember to listen to your show on KGNU on Friday afternoons
but it usually slips my attention. This past Friday, I was
delayed at work and, a bit after 4pm, it dawned on me to tune in.
I was intrigued by Peter Dale Scott's essay and went to your website to
read a bit about him. As I scrolled down, I saw mention of your
debt, the amount you owed to your credit card. Despising the
American banking system and the excessive usury they practice and
adoring the service you provide, I realized the time was right to make
a donation.
That is my motivation.
Thank you for your dedication.
Regards,
Henry C.
Denver, CO
2/10/2009
Thank you very much for making these important Parenti lectures
available. I looked up your collage work and it is excellent! It
reminded me of some art work that I saw at Documenta in Kassel,
Germany, two years ago. Very powerful images with some commentary and
humor mixed in.
I admire your independence and ability to speak up and share the truth.
Carol K.
San Francisco, CA
1/23/2009
A huge thank you, Maria, for your thoughtful, informative
programs.
I am particularly impressed right now with the programs
about Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza. I have always,
throughout my
life, cared about Israel and the Jewish people, but I am finding it
very difficult to continue in support of their need for a place of
their own when they show such cruelty toward the Palestinian people.
Their excuses for their destructive behavior just don't add up
when
you get the kind of information that Jeffrey Blankfort has given in
your interview with him.
What really put it over the top for me was the
segment on Democracy Now on Wednesday and Thursday with the young
Palestinian student telling about the killing of his two brothers by
Israeli soldiers who allowed his father to watch the slow death of one
of his sons during a 20 hour period when they would not allow them to
move from the car where they had been shot nor would allow medical
treatment for them.
The tipping point has been reached and with the
help of programs like yours maybe we in the US can begin to see how our
support of Israel is promoting this horrendous behavior.
I surely hope so.
Thank you
again for
your important work.
Susan V.K., San Francisco
3/25/2008
Maria,
I have
been listening to TUC Radio for only a year, but because of your
generosity in making mp3 downloads available to all, I feel like I have
been part of the TUC family for years. I think TUC is the most
important program I listen to. Thank you for your hard
work. Good luck with your new home.
-David,
Lafayette, CO
5/11/2008
I am happy to be able to contribute. TUC is so important to
understanding the world today. Thanks for your efforts! Also thanks to
all the others who contribute what they can to keep this important work
going! Send what you can when you can!
Kit B., Tacoma, WA.
5/12/2008
Supporting
your courage and independence.
Regards,
Stephanie,
San Francisco, CA
5/27/08
In
these crazy times I /know/ I am more usefully conscious-- thanks to
you. I wish I could do as much for you as you have done for me. I
really enjoy your program-- and never miss it!
Robert
L, San Francisco
6/19/08
Maria,
thank you so much for allowing mp3 downloads. Wonderful and useful work
you're doing! It's interesting that it was the attempted corporate
takeover of Pacifica Radio that helped spawn the creation of
independent work such as your's along with Amy Goodman's here on the
east coast. Thanks so much again.
Good
luck with your new PV system, it's the future.
Chris
& Harriet
7/18/08
Hi
Maria,
I will
send more money in the future.
I have
been meaning to donate but have put it off. The contrast of
downloads to donations struck me and pushed me to act. I too have
enjoyed your free downloads and am enormously grateful to you for your
work. I will order CDs to share with others in the future. When I
listen To TUC, it's usually online while I work. I found TUC on KZYX
after moving here from Florida. KZYX has also introduced me to
Democracy Now, Alternative Radio, the voices of Zinn, Chomsky, Parenti
and so much more. I am amazed by this new wealth of information.
Gregory
H., Willits, CA
10/12/08
A.J. in
New York City sent this e-mail to his friend - and to me:
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=
1521609105&channel=992396355
If you
don't know this woman, this film is a really good introduction. i go to
her site pretty regularly, download some shows she's done, occasionally
donate some dough, maybe write an email (and always get a reply).
If you
want Vivid, she's got it, and i'm very pleased to have found her a few
years ago.
And
come to think of it, I think Maria is Frida -- and Rosa L. -- reborn in
San Francisco.
Or
maybe that's not fair; i think i'm just being, you know, hip. i kind of
like somebody's description of Frida that says Frida had no politics --
that she was simply attracted to the fire of the people who did. and
that's not Maria at all. yes, she gets off on other folks and their
fire, but she's got plenty of her own.
A.J.
New York City
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