War/Peace

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The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law: Interview Jonathan Hafetz

Airs at: Thu, 02/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  A Deeper Look
Jonathan Hafetz of The National Security Project of the ACLU joins host Llinda Olson-Osterlund to talk about the new book  he co-edited, The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law. This book has the voices of over a hundred attorneys from all types of practice... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/25/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/25/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme court took another step in the long - and many say misguided - journey to granting corporations personhood under the U.S. Constitution. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a five-member majority of the court increased the... Read more

Department of Justice's Recent Report on Torture and Other War Crimes

Airs at: Tue, 02/23/2010 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor Americans don't torture. No, they call it something else. And then they get away with it.  A deeply disappointing Department of Justice report reduces the war crimes of the Bush administration to an error of legal judgment. Sorry about the torture! Sh... Read more

Radiozine on 2/22/10

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Host Bruce Silverman interviews Alissa Hamilton, author of "Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice." Alissa Hamilton is a Food and Society Policy Fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She lives in Toronto. Close to three quarters of U.S. ho... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/18/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  What's next in the Aaron Campbell case? Also, an interview with Oregon Attorney General John Kroger   Tuesday night, Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to over 1,000 Portlanders at Maranantha Church about the "execution" of Aaron Campbell, the most recent victim of a police shoo... Read more

Signs of Change

Airs at: Wed, 02/17/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll take you on an audio tour through the art exhibition: Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.  Hundreds of posters, photographs, video, and audio representing more than forty years of activism, political protest, and social  j... Read more

Joe Sacco: Footnotes in Gaza on 01/11/10

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2010 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
Portland artist and self-styled "war junkie" Joe Sacco has carved out a niche in the publishing world for his war reportage comics.  For twenty years Sacco has plunged into global hot spots to bring back detailed graphic stories of civilian bystanders.  His books include Sa... Read more

Our Republic is broken. What is to be done? Let's call a Constitutional Convention and fix it.

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2010 at 12:00am
 Our Republic is broken. What's to be done? With Joe on vacation, Abe tosses out a possible answer: a Constitutional Convention. Our Republic is broken. A lockstep minority, cloaked in arcane rules, can bring business to a complete halt. The influence of monied interests i... Read more

PressWatch: Bust the Banksters/Iranian Turtles in Spaaaaaaace

Good morning and the best of luck to you this bright February day, especially if, gods help you, you are driving a new Toyota.  The Washington Post produced an article this week that points to that nasty little accelerator-sticking problem, and notes that it was identified ... Read more

‘Just War’, the Predicates and Precedents of Nuremberg and the Iraq War

ust War’, the Predicates and Precedents of Nuremberg and the Iraq War--Copyright 2007 by James M. Craven/Blackfoot Name: Omahkohkiaayo i'poyi-The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wr... Read more