Global Affairs

Radio Free Palestine: 69 Years of Nakba

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2017 at 10:00am - 10:00pm

Produced for: Radio Free Palestine

Here are the archives from the special day of programming: --7am The Armenian Genocide (107 years), the ethnic cleansing of northern Syria, the Balfour Declaration and Sykes-Picot (100 years), the creation of Saudi Apartheid (85 years), the Nakbah and creation of Israeli Ap... Read more

Radio Free Palestine

On Wednesday May 15th, 2024, on the 76th anniversary of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba and resistance to Israeli Apartheid, Radio Free Palestine has launched on May 14th at 9PM PST, on stations across North America, 24 hours of programming from radio stations and producer... Read more

Greg Palast LIVE ON KBOO

Airs at: Thu, 05/11/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

To kick-off KBOO's Spring Membership Drive, Jo Ann Hardesty welcomes author, reporter and filmmaker Greg Palast. He told us how the election would be stolen....and then it was. Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Televi... Read more

How the US has Provoked North Korea

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie asks Martin Hart-Landsberg about the situation in Korea, and Marty discusses the history and political economy of US-Korea relations. Marty Hart-Landsberg is a local scholar and activist who has researched and written extensively on Korea. To keep up on events fro... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 8, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts and we hear about -- How the US has provoked North Korea; How policing protects class oppression; What's really wrong with inequality; The racial casting of "The Handmaid's Tale"; activist events this week. Listen to and share individua... Read more

Youth Advocacy in Pakistan

Airs at: Sun, 05/07/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week on Century Of Lies, we hear from Wiqas Ahmad, a drug policy reform activist and youth advocate based in Pakistan. Plus, skeletons in Congressman Tom Marino's closet have popped the White House's trial balloon about Marino becoming the next Drug Czar, and a leaked ... Read more

Women Activists Call on Trump to Initiate Regional Peace Talks with North Korea

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

"The United States, as I understand it, has made a precondition for talks with North Korea, that they must get rid of their nuclear weapons stockpile before talks can begin. For North Korea, as they view it, that's a nonstarter." – Christine Ahn, founder and internation... Read more

Embrace Festival in Portland, May 4-6

Airs at: Thu, 05/04/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News

Starting tonight, Portland will play host to the Embrace Festival at the Art Museum in Southwest Portland, which will go until Saturday night. It is a many-faceted event focusing on spirituality and community. KBOO reporter John Schuck spoke to Deshna Ubeda, the event’s dir... Read more

Kent State Massacre Anniversary

Airs at: Thu, 05/04/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

Hundreds of students, survivors and supporters gathered today on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio – forty seven years after US National Guard soldiers killed four students protesting the Vietnam War. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with some of them about their memo... Read more

Eco-Social Justice on the Global Frontlines: Vandana Shiva

Airs at: Tue, 05/02/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Despite the position of the Trump administration, which has labeled climate change a “hoax” concocted by China, there is virtual universal unanimity that the Earth’s temperature is rising and that human activity is largely responsible. In the face of this crisis Trump is... Read more