Political Perspectives

State Bank of Oregon Community Forum A public forum on the Oregon State Bank and a proposal to create a publicly owned bank modeled after the highly successful Bank of North Dakota was held on February 1st. Forum speakers were Barbara Dudley, Co-Chair of the Oregon Working F... Read more

State Bank of Oregon Community Forum A public forum on the Oregon State Bank and a proposal to create a publicly owned bank modeled after the highly successful Bank of North Dakota was held on February 1st. Forum speakers were Barbara Dudley, Co-Chair of the Oregon Working... Read more

Rabia Yeaman speaks with Philip N. Howard, an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Washington about his new book, THE DIGITAL ORIGINS OF DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY: Information Technology and Political Islam. (This interview was originally scheduled... Read more

BEST-OF from Bernie Sanders' Senate Filibuster  Part Three: WE MUST BREAK UP THE LARGEST BANKS 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 Farg... Read more

  The guest is David Lively, Marketing Director of the Organically Grown Company in Eugene. He will talk about the Organicology conference going on in Portland this week and about current issues in the organic foods movement including the controversial "coexistence” deal b... Read more

The guest is David Lively, Marketing Director of the Organically Grown Company in Eugene. He will talk about the Organicology conference going on in Portland this week and about current issues in the organic foods movement including the controversial "coexistence” deal betw... Read more

Former Congressional Representative Cynthia McKinney speaks on her life and work. Her talk was given as part of the "Rule of Law" panel at the conference called "How the World Changed after 9-11." Read more

Alexander Cockburn speaks on "OBAMA'S PLACE IN THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF CAPITAL & THE DEMISE OF THE WELFARE STATE" (from the series TUC Radio www.tucradio.org/ Alexander Cockburn says that the current economic crisis is the outcome of the neoliberal age that began in the se... Read more

Host Sue Surpriano speaks with environmental activist Samantha Chirillo of Eugene about biomass and the cutting down of old growth forests for corporate profit.   Read more

Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with Dr. Margaret Flowers. congressional fellow for the 18,000-member Physicians for a National Health Program, about a single-payer health care program. She will be one of the speakers at the Single Payer Health Care: State Wide Conference on Satu... Read more