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                                                               News you're not supposed to know

Tune in at 9AM Thursdays for an anarcho-socialist viewpoint on everything from climate to imperialism and the new Jim Crow.  Press**Watch is now approaching its 30th year broadcasting on KBOO!

 

 

 

 

 

 

--By the way!  If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, ripping off the title "PressWatch" and the byline "News You're Not Supposed To Know" must be like a big sloppy and totally unwelcome kiss.  Get your own titles and bylines, folks, so that no one confuses your sloppy conformist crap with my sloppy anarcho-socialist crap.  Keep crap separated, I say.  

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Presswatch 05/21/2009

Airs at: Wed, 05/20/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
Hosted by: Theresa Mitchell News You're Not Supposed to Know Read more

PressWatch 05/14/09

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2009 at 5:00pm
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Hosted by: Theresa Mitchell Theresa hosts a special extended edition of Presswatch for Membership Drive. Read more

Presswatch on 05/07/09

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Ye scurvy barrrnacles! Harken! Thursday I be preparin' to launch PrrressWench with Peter Leeson, who has written "The Invisible Hook," (get it?), a history of the democracies that we call historic pirate society. 'Tis an eye opener and no mistake. I need PIRATES who be ready... Read more

Author Peter Leeson: "The Invisible Hook" -- Pirate Democracies

Airs at: Wed, 05/06/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
Ye scurvy barrrnacles! Harken! Thursday I'd be preparin' to launch PrrressWench with Peter Leeson, who has written "The Invisible Hook," (get it?), a history of the democracies that we call historic pirate society. 'Tis an eye opener and no mistake. I needed PIRATES who'd b... Read more

Swine Flu and the Potential for Pandemic

Airs at: Wed, 04/29/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know" discusses Swine Flu --  potential for pandemic?  Read more

Torture in US History: Dark Role of the CIA

Airs at: Wed, 04/22/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know:"    Continuing global recession with rising unemployment. And the shame of torture in U.S history--from slave days to post WWII and into the present. Torture achieves only hostility and  resistance.  But may ... Read more

The Incredible US Incarceration Rate, Tax Havens for Scoundrels, and Suspicious Debris from the Twin Towers

Airs at: Wed, 04/15/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell takes a look at how our prison cells are overcrowded, one of 4 of the world's prisoners is an American, and we lock up our children.  Totalitarianism? Also evasion of taxes through foreign tax havens, and politicians going easy on the bankers  -- bodes... Read more

U.S. Dollar in Perilous Position

Airs at: Thu, 04/02/2009 at 5:00pm
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  The economy's looking none to healthy--China challenges U.S. dollar,  derivative exposure threatens US banks.  What will the G20 do?  The protests & arrests there continue.  As a municipal bus driver, Theresa's noticed a decrease in ridership and traffic, and an increase ... Read more

Prison Camps as a "Solution" to Economic Collapse?

Airs at: Wed, 03/25/2009 at 5:00pm
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Host Theresa Mitchell with the "News You're Not Supposed to Know" discusses global warming disinformation, and takes a hard look at U.S. prison statistics.  Will the response to economic collapse lead to another 'Katrina Pogrom?' Preparations, complete with concentration ca... Read more

False Hopes in Economic News. Can Real Democracy Prevail?

Airs at: Wed, 03/18/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Presswatch
Theresa Mitchell with"the news you're not supposed to know" warns us not to be suckered by news reports that our economy is getting back on its feet. The super-rich and their gambling machine (derivatives) are about to implode the entire global economy.  Hyperinflation, any... Read more