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Regulating Psychedelics

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Regulating Psychedelics. The Transform Drug Policy Foundation has released a new publication entitled “How To Regulate Psychedelics: A Practical Guide,” which looks at how to shape policy and regulation for psychedelics outside the medical sphe... Read more

Israel-Palestine Struggle

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick interviews David Finkel, Middle East expert, on the current Israel-Palestine struggle. In Part 1 of the interview they discussed the history of Israel’s dispossession of Palestinian land and enclosing them in smaller and smaller areas, as in apartheid South ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 20, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, a re-broadcast from the program Against the Grain. Why was the political philosopher Hannah Arendt so critical of mainstream Zionism? What did her criticisms have to do with how she understood nationalism and histori... Read more

Drug Use During Pandemic

Airs at: Wed, 11/15/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Drug Use During Pandemic. We hear from Doctor Sheila Vakharia, Deputy Director of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance, on the Health Impacts of State Policies, Drug Decriminalization and Service Access. Plus a ... Read more

Lakayana Drury on Word is Bond

Airs at: Thu, 11/30/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
From their website: "Word is Bond empowers young Black men as they transition from boys into adulthood and find themselves navigating a world that provides very few answers to unlocking their highest selves." Find out more about Word is Bond online here.   Read more

#SafeSupplyNow

Airs at: Wed, 11/08/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: #SafeSupplyNow. On November 3, hundreds of people in Vancouver, BC and Toronto, Ontario marched and rallied in support of the Drug User Liberation Front, harm reduction, and safe supply. We hear one of the speakers at the Vancouver rally, DJ L... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 13, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Crypto and Fraud: After the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX last November, federal prosecutors charged the company's founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, with fraud and what ... Read more

Middle East in Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
In the last month after Hamas’s savage murderous and senseless attack, Israel has revealed itself as just as murderous and far more lethal in its drive to ethnically cleanse the entire territory that before 1948 was peacefully inhabited by majority Palestinian minority Jewi... Read more

Portland Palestinians and Jews Share Grief and Demand Ceasefire in Gaza

Airs at: Fri, 11/03/2023 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for Radiozine
Portland Jews and Palestinians whose families in Israel and Gaza have been and continue to be impacted by the current escalation gathered for a press conference October 30th, 2023 at the Portland office of Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley. This follows last week's release of a j... Read more

The Brave New World of Renewable Diesel

Airs at: Mon, 11/06/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
There is no question that we need to cut our carbon emissions substantially and quickly in order to prevent our planet from becoming uninhabitable. While the move to electrify transportation is an obvious step toward decarbonization, the fossil fuel industry has other ideas... Read more