War/Peace

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Fortress On A Hill

Every fourth Thursday from 9:00 am - 10:00 am   The United States has become synonymous with empire and endless war, American troops sit in 70% of the world's countries, and yet, most Americans don't know that.  The military is joined disproportionately by a 'warrior caste... Read more

US - Saudi War Crimes Against Yemen (ENCORE)

Airs at: Tue, 10/30/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  On February 3rd, 2018, Roots of Conflict and KBOO/Portland, co-sponsored a presentation at Portland State University called US-Saudi Coalition: Bringing Peace or War? In this episode you will hear from Yemeni activist, Aisha Jumaan and Mohammad al-Nimr, son of executed ... Read more

Israel and Saudi Arabia: Two bullies of the Middle East

Airs at: Wed, 10/17/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    While Saudi Arabia wages ruthless war on Yemen and beheads or otherwise dismembers its own dissidents, Israel continues its brutal onslaught of Gaza, suppresses internal dissent and hounds BDS activists around the world. Both get massive military aid from and work clo... Read more

Portlanders Protest Pinkwashing of Israeli Military

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    The first transgender officer in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) visited Portland last week, and his appearance was greeted by protesters opposed to the pinkwashing (using a positive association with the LGBTQIA+ community to distract from bad behavior) of the Israel... Read more

Protest Planned for Ehud Barak Visit to Portland

Airs at: Wed, 10/10/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  COALITION OF ACTIVIST GROUPS PLANS DEMONSTRATION TO CONFRONT FORMER ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER   This Sunday, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak will be in Portland to speak at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center. A coalition of local activist and human rights grou... Read more

Husayn and the Pilgrimage to Arbaeen

Airs at: Fri, 10/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
    Imam Muhsen Al-Dhalimy is the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Portland on the corner of Denney and Hall in Beaverton. The Islamic Center of Portland is the only Shia Mosque in the Portland Metro.  Imam Al-Dhalimy was born in Iraq and made the pilgrimage to K... Read more

Fox & American Fictionary

Airs at: Thu, 10/18/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Dubravka Ugresic, a novelist and essayist Susan Sontag called a "writer to follow and cherish," has been living in exile in Amsterdam since the Yugoslav wars of the early 90s.  Labeled a traitor and a witch when she vocally critiqued the rising ethno-nationalism of both ... Read more

9/11 Unmasked, Part 4: Fran Shure and the Problem of the Media

Airs at: Tue, 09/25/2018 at 12:00am
  This is the fourth of my four-part series on the 9/11 Consensus Panel, whose work was released in book form on September 11th, 2018. [Note: Amazon, as of September 25th, now reports the book as "Temporarily out of stock" even as the publisher says Amazon has many copies ... Read more

Afghanistan, Iraq, & Yemen: Finding Hope in Countries Devastated by U.S. Policy

Airs at: Wed, 09/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Join peace activist Kathy Kelly and host Lisa Loving for an hour on colonialism and nonviolence in the face of war, this Wednesday morning at 9. Back in the 1990s, Kathy was founder of Voices in the Wilderness, where she traveled with local activist Dan Handelman of Peac... Read more

#DisarmPSU Rally

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A rally and march was hosted today at Portland State University. The outcry comes after Jason Washington, a black man, was gunned down by PSU police officers James Dewey and Shawn McKenzie in late June. The mission of the event was to bring justice for Washington and preven... Read more