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Jason Lutes - Berlin

Airs at: Thu, 01/10/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Jason Lutes is a dogged comics storyteller.  His previous graphic novel Jar of Fools was serialized for years in Seattle's Stranger newspaper before being collected in book form.  Now comes the 600-page magnum opus Berlin, a sprawling tale of urban struggle in Germany du... Read more

Buscando America on 12/18/18

Airs at: Tue, 12/18/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Este 20 de diciembre se cumplen 29 años de  aquella madrugada del año  1989 cuando tropas norteamericanas atacaron Panamá por tierra y aire. Conoce más sobre la invasión estadounidense a Panamá en esta emisión. Además hablamos con Javier Sierra sobre la reunión de la COP24... Read more

The War on Yemen: A Conversation with Dr. Aisha Jumaan

Airs at: Tue, 12/18/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  The US Senate voted this week 56-41 to end US support of the war on Yemen. According to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders: “The Saudi intervention in Yemen has created the worst humanitarian disaster in the world, with millions of people facing imminent starvation. The tim... Read more

December 2018 B(A)DNews: Angry Voices From Around The World

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2018 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
This is episode number 18 (12/2018) of “B(A)D NEWS – Angry Voices From Around The World”, a news program from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios, consisting of short news segments from different parts of the world. This month, you’ll hear:... Read more

Light at the End of the Tunnel for Yemen?

Airs at: Fri, 12/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
  As of Tuesday, December 11th, the Senate is poised to vote on ending US support of the war on Yemen. According to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders: "Tomorrow, I will move to proceed to S.J. Res. 54, the resolution I have offered with Senators Lee and Murphy to end U.S. inv... Read more

Speaking the Truth About the Dead

Airs at: Mon, 12/10/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Dismayed by the bipartisan praise for George HW Bush following his death on November 30th, Denise Morris weighs the moral imperative not to speak ill of the dead against the importance and responsibility to speak the truth about the deeds of powerful public figures. For mor... Read more

Drawn to Berlin - Ali Fitzgerald

Airs at: Thu, 12/13/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Celebrate Words and Pictures' 15th anniversary on the air with a visit from Drawn to Berlin author Ali Fitgerald! Drawn to Berlin follows Ali's encounters with Syrian youth, as she teaches comics workshops at a makeshift refugee center in Germany and hears personal stor... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 10, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 12/10/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode which includes: Is China Destined to Become the New World Hegemon? An interview with China Scholar Richard Smith on how China became a world economic and political power. Speaking Truth about the Dead: How to talk truthfully about the recently... Read more

Mecha Samurai Empire's Peter Tieryas

Airs at: Fri, 12/07/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
What would Western North America look like if the Axis powers had won WW2?  In Peter Tieryas's new dystopian alternate history novel, Mecha Samurai Empire as well as his previous, United States of Japan, this scenario is explored with frightening detail. In conversation wit... Read more

Press**Watch: The Holy Corpse of Bush the Elder

Airs at: Thu, 12/06/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
When a US President dies, the corporate press (and the corporate-dependent press) move as one to use the event to reinforce the Official Myth:  We are a decent people, and our leaders are decent people.  Look, there's one of them handing some candy to another.  There may ha... Read more