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Unwelcome Guests Episode #653.1 - The Biopsychosocial Approach (Understanding The Growth Of Child Development Disorders)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #653.2 - The Biopsychosocial Approach (Understanding The Growth Of Child Development Disorders)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #652.1 - Is Humanity In Its Right Mind? (The Rise and Rise Of The Left Brain)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #652.2 - Is Humanity In Its Right Mind? (The Rise and Rise Of The Left Brain)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #651.1 - Deep Green Resistance (Earth At Risk Conference)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #651.2 - Deep Green Resistance (Earth At Risk Conference)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #650.1 - Fighting Nature To The Last Drop (Resource Extraction in India and Alberta)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #650.2 - Fighting Nature To The Last Drop (Resource Extraction in India and Alberta)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #649.1 - Why Money Will End (And How To Prepare)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #649.2 - Why Money Will End (And How To Prepare)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #648.1 - The Monoculture of Modernity (Reflections on The Many Ways To Live)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #648.2 - The Monoculture of Modernity (Reflections on The Many Ways To Live)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #647.1 - Making The Universe Your Employer (Giving Up The Burden Of Money)

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Unwelcome Guests Episode #647.2 - Making The Universe Your Employer (Giving Up The Burden Of Money)

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Another philosophical episode this week, featuring a range of reflections from the wise on what life has taught them, and how (and why) the world has changed since their youth. Our main readings are books by Wendell Berry, John Taylor Gatto and Henry David Thoreau.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-03-09T14:36:22-08:002013-03-09T14:36:22-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/646#2

Another philosophical episode this week, featuring a range of reflections from the wise on what life has taught them, and how (and why) the world has changed since their youth. Our main readings are books by Wendell Berry, John Taylor Gatto and Henry David Thoreau.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-03-09T14:36:22-08:002013-03-09T14:36:22-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/645#1

A stark contrast with last week's show, we look this week behind the facade of the separation of powers in USA. Do any effective checks remain on how the US government behaves itself? Or is the external threat of massive dissent the only check left to the ongoing rollout of the totalitarian state's surveillance and control grid.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-03-02T12:25:51-08:002013-03-02T12:25:51-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/645#2

A stark contrast with last week's show, we look this week behind the facade of the separation of powers in USA. Do any effective checks remain on how the US government behaves itself? Or is the external threat of massive dissent the only check left to the ongoing rollout of the totalitarian state's surveillance and control grid.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-03-02T12:25:51-08:002013-03-02T12:25:51-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/644#1

A carpe diem show this week which asks "Do you have a personal philosophy?" If you are one of the many people who have not given the matter much thought, Professor William Irvine cautions against accepting the 'default philosophy' of hedonistic consumerism. Now is the time to decide what you stand for and to refuse to stand for anything less!

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-02-23T17:36:55-08:002013-02-23T17:36:55-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/644#2

A carpe diem show this week which asks "Do you have a personal philosophy?" If you are one of the many people who have not given the matter much thought, Professor William Irvine cautions against accepting the 'default philosophy' of hedonistic consumerism. Now is the time to decide what you stand for and to refuse to stand for anything less!

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-02-23T17:36:55-08:002013-02-23T17:36:55-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/643#1

What would it mean to live 'a higher & more ethereal life' we ask this week in a successor program to last week's show. The quote is from Henry David Thoreau's classic Walden which we keep reading, and which details the shed he built by Walden Pond in 1845 at a cost of $28.12½ (i.e. around $1000 nowadays). Our main presentation is a 2013 interview about Direct Action to resist the US government sponsored armed gangs who are attempting to evict people from their homes. We supplement this with short readings from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education and from Suelo.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-02-16T15:22:49-08:002013-02-16T15:22:49-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/643#2

What would it mean to live 'a higher & more ethereal life' we ask this week in a successor program to last week's show. The quote is from Henry David Thoreau's classic Walden which we keep reading, and which details the shed he built by Walden Pond in 1845 at a cost of $28.12½ (i.e. around $1000 nowadays). Our main presentation is a 2013 interview about Direct Action to resist the US government sponsored armed gangs who are attempting to evict people from their homes. We supplement this with short readings from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education and from Suelo.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-02-16T15:22:49-08:002013-02-16T15:22:49-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/642#1

A poem by Wendell Berry starts us off on a differently paced, more musical set of episodes this week. As a counter to what Jacques Fresco terms 'base articiality of materialism and mindless consumption' we weave a tapestry of thoughts including those from iconoclastic earthy thinkers including Suelo, the moneyless resident of a Utah desert from whom we heard in episode 600 and the American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-02-09T15:45:37-08:002013-02-09T15:45:37-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/642#2

A poem by Wendell Berry starts us off on a differently paced, more musical set of episodes this week. As a counter to what Jacques Fresco terms 'base articiality of materialism and mindless consumption' we weave a tapestry of thoughts including those from iconoclastic earthy thinkers including Suelo, the moneyless resident of a Utah desert from whom we heard in episode 600 and the American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-02-09T15:45:37-08:002013-02-09T15:45:37-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/641#1

This episode continues where we left off last time, with a radio adaptation of the remainder of the most recent of Scott Noble's 2012 film, The Power Principle. This half focuses on the sequence of fears used by the ruling elite to keep the 99% submissive and afraid, whether of communists, nuclear war or Muslim fundamentalists. Insiders and other commentators reveal a bigger picture of US Foreign Policy driven by an aggressive and ruthless clique using organisations such as the CIA, the arms industry and big media to exploit and oppress the 99% both at home and abroad.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-02-02T10:48:16-08:002013-02-02T10:48:16-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/641#2

This episode continues where we left off last time, with a radio adaptation of the remainder of the most recent of Scott Noble's 2012 film, The Power Principle. This half focuses on the sequence of fears used by the ruling elite to keep the 99% submissive and afraid, whether of communists, nuclear war or Muslim fundamentalists. Insiders and other commentators reveal a bigger picture of US Foreign Policy driven by an aggressive and ruthless clique using organisations such as the CIA, the arms industry and big media to exploit and oppress the 99% both at home and abroad.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-02-02T10:48:16-08:002013-02-02T10:48:16-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/640#1

This week we devote the whole show to the first part of a radio adaptation of Metanoia's latest film, The Power Principle. Using examples of Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Chile and Greece a wide range of insiders and historians unmask the Cold War as a propaganda cover for the war between the rest of the world and resource hungry US corporations.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-01-26T15:23:52-08:002013-01-26T15:23:52-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/640#2

This week we devote the whole show to the first part of a radio adaptation of Metanoia's latest film, The Power Principle. Using examples of Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Chile and Greece a wide range of insiders and historians unmask the Cold War as a propaganda cover for the war between the rest of the world and resource hungry US corporations.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-01-26T15:23:52-08:002013-01-26T15:23:52-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/639#1

This week we hear the voices of three now deceased authors on the topics of technology and Social Control. First a vintage 1962 recording of Aldous Huxley speaking on the prospects for technototalitarianism. Next it's a more relaxed interview with science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut and we conclude with a musical collage of 1970's wisdom from E. F. Schumacher.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-01-18T21:46:02-08:002013-01-18T21:46:02-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/639#2

This week we hear the voices of three now deceased authors on the topics of technology and Social Control. First a vintage 1962 recording of Aldous Huxley speaking on the prospects for technototalitarianism. Next it's a more relaxed interview with science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut and we conclude with a musical collage of 1970's wisdom from E. F. Schumacher.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-01-18T21:46:02-08:002013-01-18T21:46:02-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/638#1

This week two speakers give us a new angle on why so many people seem addicted to living lives that leave them unfulfilled. Firstly, doctor and addiction specialist Gabor Maté gives a personal reflection on the question "Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted?". After a musical break we hear a radio adaptation of Consumed - The Human Experience, which looks at how marketing is finely tuned to hijacking human evolutionary drives.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-01-12T13:24:46-08:002013-01-12T13:24:46-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/638#2

This week two speakers give us a new angle on why so many people seem addicted to living lives that leave them unfulfilled. Firstly, doctor and addiction specialist Gabor Maté gives a personal reflection on the question "Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted?". After a musical break we hear a radio adaptation of Consumed - The Human Experience, which looks at how marketing is finely tuned to hijacking human evolutionary drives.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-01-12T13:24:46-08:002013-01-12T13:24:46-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/637#1

This week an invitation to reflect on capitalism in crisis not as an economic but a political phenomenon. We hear two 'bigger picture' talks on the interrelationships between Economics and Politics, one with a European focus, one which concentrates on USA. First Tariq Ali gives us "The Rotten Heart of Europe" summarising the machinations of the political elite in Europe. Next it is Gar Alperovitz, author of "America Beyond Capitalism", on the growth of US movements to decentralize wealth and ownership.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-01-04T11:28:18-08:002013-01-04T11:28:18-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/637#2

This week an invitation to reflect on capitalism in crisis not as an economic but a political phenomenon. We hear two 'bigger picture' talks on the interrelationships between Economics and Politics, one with a European focus, one which concentrates on USA. First Tariq Ali gives us "The Rotten Heart of Europe" summarising the machinations of the political elite in Europe. Next it is Gar Alperovitz, author of "America Beyond Capitalism", on the growth of US movements to decentralize wealth and ownership.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2013-01-04T11:28:18-08:002013-01-04T11:28:18-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/636#1

This week we turn our attention to the 'War on Drugs', which as addiction specialist Gabor Maté points out is of course a war on drug users. We start with a hour on "The Science of Drug Politics" by former UK Government Chief Drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt whose testimony clearly suggests that scientific considerations were of minor interest to the politicians he was supposed to advise. Next we hear Dr. Maté who touches on some of the reasons why the War On Drugs may not be failure after all...

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-29T14:19:37-08:002012-12-29T14:19:37-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/636#2

This week we turn our attention to the 'War on Drugs', which as addiction specialist Gabor Maté points out is of course a war on drug users. We start with a hour on "The Science of Drug Politics" by former UK Government Chief Drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt whose testimony clearly suggests that scientific considerations were of minor interest to the politicians he was supposed to advise. Next we hear Dr. Maté who touches on some of the reasons why the War On Drugs may not be failure after all...

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-29T14:19:37-08:002012-12-29T14:19:37-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/635#1

Last week we reflected on whether people's penchant for doomsday predictions and tales of the living dead was connected to their common experience of life under capitalism. This week, given the absence of an apocalyptic Mayan doomsday event, we ask whether a conscious effort to reject such catastrophism is in order, and what a progressive future might look like.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-21T21:54:32-08:002012-12-21T21:54:32-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/635#2

Last week we reflected on whether people's penchant for doomsday predictions and tales of the living dead was connected to their common experience of life under capitalism. This week, given the absence of an apocalyptic Mayan doomsday event, we ask whether a conscious effort to reject such catastrophism is in order, and what a progressive future might look like.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-21T21:54:32-08:002012-12-21T21:54:32-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/634#1

On our last show before December 21st, 2012, we examine the spectre of 'catastrophe'. Does the popularity of undead imagery reveal anything about modern society? We begin by revisiting David Graeber's insights on Tiv mythology at the time of the African slave trade, then examine the underpinning of the modern university and schooling systems as a way to decode the barrage of modern day warnings of the 'Fiscal Cliff'.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-15T14:29:07-08:002012-12-15T14:29:07-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/634#2

On our last show before December 21st, 2012, we examine the spectre of 'catastrophe'. Does the popularity of undead imagery reveal anything about modern society? We begin by revisiting David Graeber's insights on Tiv mythology at the time of the African slave trade, then examine the underpinning of the modern university and schooling systems as a way to decode the barrage of modern day warnings of the 'Fiscal Cliff'.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-15T14:29:07-08:002012-12-15T14:29:07-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/633#1

Is planet earth facing a food crisis? Are there too many people here? Can humanity afford to tackle desertification in the Sahel? Filmmaker Mike Freedman, food activist Tristram Stuart, author Ronald Wright and finally permaculturist and aid worker Tony Rinaudo all contribute their voices to this week's challenge to simplistic and reductionist thinking on such matters.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-08T14:29:07-08:002012-12-08T14:29:07-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/633#2

Is planet earth facing a food crisis? Are there too many people here? Can humanity afford to tackle desertification in the Sahel? Filmmaker Mike Freedman, food activist Tristram Stuart, author Ronald Wright and finally permaculturist and aid worker Tony Rinaudo all contribute their voices to this week's challenge to simplistic and reductionist thinking on such matters.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-08T14:29:07-08:002012-12-08T14:29:07-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/632#1

Whether in terms of biodiversity, Peak Oil, water shortages or whatever, we've looked many times on this show at the damaged and degraded planet earth that we are leaving for our children. This week we take another angle, looking at the damage done to the very brains and minds of our children.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-01T14:29:07-08:002012-12-01T14:29:07-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/632#2

Whether in terms of biodiversity, Peak Oil, water shortages or whatever, we've looked many times on this show at the damaged and degraded planet earth that we are leaving for our children. This week we take another angle, looking at the damage done to the very brains and minds of our children.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-12-01T14:29:07-08:002012-12-01T14:29:07-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/631#1

This week, exceptionally, we hear two pieces from a single speaker, John Taylor Gatto. He is in poor health having been slow to recover from a stroke last year, so we reflect on his genius with two classic talks: "Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!" and "The Neglected Genius of American Spirituality".

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-11-24T08:07:56-08:002012-11-24T08:07:56-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/631#2

This week, exceptionally, we hear two pieces from a single speaker, John Taylor Gatto. He is in poor health having been slow to recover from a stroke last year, so we reflect on his genius with two classic talks: "Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!" and "The Neglected Genius of American Spirituality".

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-11-24T08:07:56-08:002012-11-24T08:07:56-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/630#1

Did you know that the earth is currently experiencing the biggest mass extinction in in the last 65 million years? That half the worlds' plants and animals may go extinct in the next 30 years? Or that extinctions are happening at an accelerating pace already around 1000 times the natural rate?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-11-17T10:23:15-08:002012-11-17T10:23:15-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/630#2

Did you know that the earth is currently experiencing the biggest mass extinction in in the last 65 million years? That half the worlds' plants and animals may go extinct in the next 30 years? Or that extinctions are happening at an accelerating pace already around 1000 times the natural rate?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-11-17T10:23:15-08:002012-11-17T10:23:15-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/629#1

This week we conclude our reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years with a focus on the fraud of land 'ownership' and economics. A mix of new and familiar speakers include a reading by Lyn Gerry from episode 90 and a radio adaptation of an Adam Curtis film, The League of Gentlemen.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-11-10T01:33:29-08:002012-11-10T01:33:29-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/629#2

This week we conclude our reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years with a focus on the fraud of land 'ownership' and economics. A mix of new and familiar speakers include a reading by Lyn Gerry from episode 90 and a radio adaptation of an Adam Curtis film, The League of Gentlemen.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-11-10T01:33:29-08:002012-11-10T01:33:29-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/628#1

This week we learn how much effort has been put to making people assume that the virtues of capitalism are beyond question. We hear three Marxian commentators offering their own angles on the development of capitalism in USA, interspersed with a reprise of Noam Chomsky from episode 29 on the elite's determination to control the public mind lest the democratic state serve the wishes of the majority rather than the privilege of the few.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-11-03T13:09:38-07:002012-11-03T13:09:38-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/628#2

This week we learn how much effort has been put to making people assume that the virtues of capitalism are beyond question. We hear three Marxian commentators offering their own angles on the development of capitalism in USA, interspersed with a reprise of Noam Chomsky from episode 29 on the elite's determination to control the public mind lest the democratic state serve the wishes of the majority rather than the privilege of the few.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-11-03T13:09:38-07:002012-11-03T13:09:38-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/627#1

This week, two Marxist professors speak on the social impact of capitalism and especially in USA. First, Silvia Federici speaks on 'The Progressive Process of Desocialization', how capitalism breaks down communities and people's human relationships of care. Next it is the turn of Richard Wolff who applies his Marxian class analysis to the US household, noting that more and more adults are rejecting the traditional (feudal) model of domestic exploitation and either living alone or in more egalitarian patterns.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-10-27T09:00:46-07:002012-10-27T09:00:46-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/627#2

This week, two Marxist professors speak on the social impact of capitalism and especially in USA. First, Silvia Federici speaks on 'The Progressive Process of Desocialization', how capitalism breaks down communities and people's human relationships of care. Next it is the turn of Richard Wolff who applies his Marxian class analysis to the US household, noting that more and more adults are rejecting the traditional (feudal) model of domestic exploitation and either living alone or in more egalitarian patterns.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-10-27T09:00:46-07:002012-10-27T09:00:46-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/626#1

This week we note some similarities between the so called extreme 'left' and 'right' ends of the political spectrum - when the government claims the ability to unilaterally decide how to run things, the stated ideology often goes by the board anyway. Bryan Gould discusses the confidential 'trade agreement' TPP, noting that it is less about free trade and more about subduing national sovereignty to the multinational corporations who devised it. In our second hour, we continue with Richard Wolff's Marxian class analysis, looking specifically at the 1917 Russian revolution.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-10-18T13:32:05-07:002012-10-18T13:32:05-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/626#2

This week we note some similarities between the so called extreme 'left' and 'right' ends of the political spectrum - when the government claims the ability to unilaterally decide how to run things, the stated ideology often goes by the board anyway. Bryan Gould discusses the confidential 'trade agreement' TPP, noting that it is less about free trade and more about subduing national sovereignty to the multinational corporations who devised it. In our second hour, we continue with Richard Wolff's Marxian class analysis, looking specifically at the 1917 Russian revolution.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-10-18T13:32:05-07:002012-10-18T13:32:05-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/625#1

This week is something of a continuation of last week's show, featuring the second part of economics professor Richard Wolff on Marxian class analysis, and we approach the end of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. It is an aid to help to rethink what you think you know about economics and politics and possibly jettison some categories of thought which are unhelpful.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-10-13T12:33:55-07:002012-10-13T12:33:55-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/625#2

This week is something of a continuation of last week's show, featuring the second part of economics professor Richard Wolff on Marxian class analysis, and we approach the end of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. It is an aid to help to rethink what you think you know about economics and politics and possibly jettison some categories of thought which are unhelpful.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-10-13T12:33:55-07:002012-10-13T12:33:55-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/624#1

As we approach the climax of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, we begin a series of talks by Economics Professor Richard Wolff introducing Marxian class analysis.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-10-06T08:10:19-07:002012-10-06T08:10:19-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/624#2

As we approach the climax of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, we begin a series of talks by Economics Professor Richard Wolff introducing Marxian class analysis.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-10-06T08:10:19-07:002012-10-06T08:10:19-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/623#1

This week we accompany our continued reading of David Graeber with Richard Peet on the Rise of Finance Capital. In our second hour, an outspoken Chris Hedges gives his own account of the rise of neoliberalism and reports on the America you won't have heard about on Commercially Controlled media, which he researched for 2 years to write his latest book.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-29T07:30:11-07:002012-09-29T07:30:11-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/623#2

This week we accompany our continued reading of David Graeber with Richard Peet on the Rise of Finance Capital. In our second hour, an outspoken Chris Hedges gives his own account of the rise of neoliberalism and reports on the America you won't have heard about on Commercially Controlled media, which he researched for 2 years to write his latest book.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-29T07:30:11-07:002012-09-29T07:30:11-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/622#1

Our first hour this week is a presentation by Noam Chomsky on the emerging world order in which USA is dominating the world's remaining energy resources in the Middle East and in which this same militancy is being aggressively visited on resistance at home. In our second hour, we look at the anniversary of the occupy movement and the efforts underway to build grassroots resistance to the stranglehold of the predatory elite financiers.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-22T10:59:58-07:002012-09-22T10:59:58-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/622#2

Our first hour this week is a presentation by Noam Chomsky on the emerging world order in which USA is dominating the world's remaining energy resources in the Middle East and in which this same militancy is being aggressively visited on resistance at home. In our second hour, we look at the anniversary of the occupy movement and the efforts underway to build grassroots resistance to the stranglehold of the predatory elite financiers.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-22T10:59:58-07:002012-09-22T10:59:58-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/621#1

As we return to reading David Graeber this week, we look at the origins of capitalism in USA - how the system of self-sufficient slave estates and family farms gave way to one of wage labor. Then we ask, were the events of 11 years ago the cover for a massive financial fraud? We conclude by reflecting on what these angles contribute to our understanding of 'capitalism' and the importance of personally, consciously stepping away from it.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-15T14:48:30-07:002012-09-15T14:48:30-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/621#2

As we return to reading David Graeber this week, we look at the origins of capitalism in USA - how the system of self-sufficient slave estates and family farms gave way to one of wage labor. Then we ask, were the events of 11 years ago the cover for a massive financial fraud? We conclude by reflecting on what these angles contribute to our understanding of 'capitalism' and the importance of personally, consciously stepping away from it.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-15T14:48:30-07:002012-09-15T14:48:30-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/620#1

This week we hear three different perspectives on the Mental Health of the US population - and indeed upon the American concept of 'mental health. Is it a matter of fixing broken brains with carefully targeted drugs? Our speakers agree that the US public have been profitably misinformed by professional experts full of ideas about how they should and shouldn't behave.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-08T08:25:14-07:002012-09-08T08:25:14-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/620#2

This week we hear three different perspectives on the Mental Health of the US population - and indeed upon the American concept of 'mental health. Is it a matter of fixing broken brains with carefully targeted drugs? Our speakers agree that the US public have been profitably misinformed by professional experts full of ideas about how they should and shouldn't behave.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-08T08:25:14-07:002012-09-08T08:25:14-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/619#1

A range of material for you this week as we return to our continuing reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years: Joan Baxter on land grabbing in Africa, William Black on financial control fraud and the soundtrack of a short video on the Financialization of Nature.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-01T05:15:52-07:002012-09-01T05:15:52-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/619#2

A range of material for you this week as we return to our continuing reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years: Joan Baxter on land grabbing in Africa, William Black on financial control fraud and the soundtrack of a short video on the Financialization of Nature.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-09-01T05:15:52-07:002012-09-01T05:15:52-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/618#1

This week a 'bigger picture' show, with two hour long pieces which outline the stark contours of the rapidly emerging police state that is the USA of 2012. Our main speakers are Peter Dale Scott, Peter Phillips and Frank Morales.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-08-25T11:16:53-07:002012-08-25T11:16:53-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/618#2

This week a 'bigger picture' show, with two hour long pieces which outline the stark contours of the rapidly emerging police state that is the USA of 2012. Our main speakers are Peter Dale Scott, Peter Phillips and Frank Morales.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-08-25T11:16:53-07:002012-08-25T11:16:53-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/617#1

We start the final chapter of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years this week by going beyond the 'bad apples' line at the deeper, systemic truths which underlie the rottenness of finance capital and indeed of the idolization of competition. Gary Weiss speaks on his book, Ayn Rand Nation and entrepreneur and journalist Margaret Heffernan speaks on Money, Power and Competition.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-08-18T10:00:01-07:002012-08-18T10:00:01-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/617#2

We start the final chapter of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years this week by going beyond the 'bad apples' line at the deeper, systemic truths which underlie the rottenness of finance capital and indeed of the idolization of competition. Gary Weiss speaks on his book, Ayn Rand Nation and entrepreneur and journalist Margaret Heffernan speaks on Money, Power and Competition.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-08-18T10:00:01-07:002012-08-18T10:00:01-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/616#1

On the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan, we hear how not only the Japanese but also the Marshall Islanders continue to suffer as a result of the US military's determination to assert its nuclear superiority, whatever the cost to human life. Complementing out main focus on Nuclear Weapons, we hear from Chris Busby that the safety of Nuclear Power may be overestimated by a factor of 400.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-08-11T11:16:39-07:002012-08-11T11:16:39-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/616#2

On the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan, we hear how not only the Japanese but also the Marshall Islanders continue to suffer as a result of the US military's determination to assert its nuclear superiority, whatever the cost to human life. Complementing out main focus on Nuclear Weapons, we hear from Chris Busby that the safety of Nuclear Power may be overestimated by a factor of 400.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-08-11T11:16:39-07:002012-08-11T11:16:39-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/615#1

This week is a sequel to last week's episode, again combining some hidden history of the bankers in USA with our continued reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. We conclude with the audio of an introductory presentation on Altruistic Economics which Robin Upton gave at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin in December 2009.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-08-04T07:43:31-07:002012-08-04T07:43:31-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/615#2

This week is a sequel to last week's episode, again combining some hidden history of the bankers in USA with our continued reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. We conclude with the audio of an introductory presentation on Altruistic Economics which Robin Upton gave at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin in December 2009.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-08-04T07:43:31-07:002012-08-04T07:43:31-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/614#1

We left off our reading of David Graeber with the statement that "The logic of money was granted autonomy. Political and military power were then gradually reorganized around it". This week we look in more detail at what that meant, focusing mainly on the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. As well as reading more from Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear a few words from Ivan Illich and the first half of a radio adaptation of a video on the Banking Cartels and the US Federal Reserve.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-07-28T11:24:07-07:002012-07-28T11:24:07-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/614#2

We left off our reading of David Graeber with the statement that "The logic of money was granted autonomy. Political and military power were then gradually reorganized around it". This week we look in more detail at what that meant, focusing mainly on the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. As well as reading more from Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear a few words from Ivan Illich and the first half of a radio adaptation of a video on the Banking Cartels and the US Federal Reserve.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-07-28T11:24:07-07:002012-07-28T11:24:07-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/613#1

This week we examine the history of eugenics in USA. Robert Whitaker tells how WASPish business magnates took up the idea of racial purity and aggressively promoted eugenics, leading directly to forced sterilizations and lobotomies across USA, and indirectly to Nazi Germany's Final Solution.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-07-21T12:11:02-07:002012-07-21T12:11:02-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/613#2

This week we examine the history of eugenics in USA. Robert Whitaker tells how WASPish business magnates took up the idea of racial purity and aggressively promoted eugenics, leading directly to forced sterilizations and lobotomies across USA, and indirectly to Nazi Germany's Final Solution.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-07-21T12:11:02-07:002012-07-21T12:11:02-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/612#1

This week a look at the grim consequences of the logic of imperialist exploitation for profit since the Middle Ages. As a specific example of the general principles we read about in Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear Frank Sanello on the Opium Wars between Britain and China.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-07-14T07:03:51-07:002012-07-14T07:03:51-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/612#2

This week a look at the grim consequences of the logic of imperialist exploitation for profit since the Middle Ages. As a specific example of the general principles we read about in Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear Frank Sanello on the Opium Wars between Britain and China.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-07-14T07:03:51-07:002012-07-14T07:03:51-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/611#1

Does money really empower people, or does it trap them in a zero-sum game in which >99% will come out as losers? A two-parter this week on money and debt. In our first hour, two speeches from the first conference on Modern Money Theory in Rimini, Italy. In the second, we continue reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-07-07T10:50:54-07:002012-07-07T10:50:54-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/611#2

Does money really empower people, or does it trap them in a zero-sum game in which >99% will come out as losers? A two-parter this week on money and debt. In our first hour, two speeches from the first conference on Modern Money Theory in Rimini, Italy. In the second, we continue reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-07-07T10:50:54-07:002012-07-07T10:50:54-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/610#1

This week, we start with Peter Linebaugh on Luddism and the multifaceted enclosure movement in UK. Then, a report on prison privatization in Canada. We conclude by starting chapter 10 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years on the decline of the Axial age empires and social systems in India and China.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-30T13:38:02-07:002012-06-30T13:38:02-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/610#2

This week, we start with Peter Linebaugh on Luddism and the multifaceted enclosure movement in UK. Then, a report on prison privatization in Canada. We conclude by starting chapter 10 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years on the decline of the Axial age empires and social systems in India and China.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-30T13:38:02-07:002012-06-30T13:38:02-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/609#1

Three contrasting pieces this week which all hint at the inadequacy of limiting self as the skin-encapsulated ego. Firstly, Ethan Watters on socially defined aspects of madness, including how Glaxo Smith Kline aggressively globalized Western ideas of depression in Japan. Next, I summarize Steve Talbott's essay on problems of the 'man as machine' metaphor. Finally, an hour on Peace Pilgrim, whose 'retirement project' was to walk across USA for over 25 years without using money or asking for food or shelter.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-23T13:24:46-07:002012-06-23T13:24:46-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/609#2

Three contrasting pieces this week which all hint at the inadequacy of limiting self as the skin-encapsulated ego. Firstly, Ethan Watters on socially defined aspects of madness, including how Glaxo Smith Kline aggressively globalized Western ideas of depression in Japan. Next, I summarize Steve Talbott's essay on problems of the 'man as machine' metaphor. Finally, an hour on Peace Pilgrim, whose 'retirement project' was to walk across USA for over 25 years without using money or asking for food or shelter.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-23T13:24:46-07:002012-06-23T13:24:46-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/608#1

I start my third year this week with an unusually open ended love-it-or-hate-it next episode in the 'Flight From Meaning' series, centered on an essay by philosopher Steve Talbott on how biologists contrive to study life itself as if it were merely a lifeless mechanism. We also hear from Jane Goodall about chimpanzee society and read some of Underground History of American Education on John Taylor Gatto's boyhood.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-16T01:50:12-07:002012-06-16T01:50:12-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/608#2

I start my third year this week with an unusually open ended love-it-or-hate-it next episode in the 'Flight From Meaning' series, centered on an essay by philosopher Steve Talbott on how biologists contrive to study life itself as if it were merely a lifeless mechanism. We also hear from Jane Goodall about chimpanzee society and read some of Underground History of American Education on John Taylor Gatto's boyhood.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-16T01:50:12-07:002012-06-16T01:50:12-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/607#1

Although in the 'Flight From Meaning' series, a rather traditional show concludes my second year of making Unwelcome Guests. First, a regular speaker, Alfie Kohn, speaking on why he believes that any competition is too much. We conclude with the end of chapter 9 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, on the introduction of coinage in India, Greece and China.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-08T20:49:56-07:002012-06-08T20:49:56-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/607#2

Although in the 'Flight From Meaning' series, a rather traditional show concludes my second year of making Unwelcome Guests. First, a regular speaker, Alfie Kohn, speaking on why he believes that any competition is too much. We conclude with the end of chapter 9 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, on the introduction of coinage in India, Greece and China.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-08T20:49:56-07:002012-06-08T20:49:56-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/606#1

The first of a two part series, we consider the bigger question of meaning in life. In our first hour we look at a prejudice shared by many people of differing backgrounds and inclinations - the notion that human beings are somehow innately superior to all other life forms - with a radio adaption of the 2012 film The Superior Human. We conclude our second hour by resuming reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years where we left off in episode 597.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-02T12:17:36-07:002012-06-02T12:17:36-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/606#2

The first of a two part series, we consider the bigger question of meaning in life. In our first hour we look at a prejudice shared by many people of differing backgrounds and inclinations - the notion that human beings are somehow innately superior to all other life forms - with a radio adaption of the 2012 film The Superior Human. We conclude our second hour by resuming reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years where we left off in episode 597.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-06-02T12:17:36-07:002012-06-02T12:17:36-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/605#1

In our first hour this week we hear author Tim Weiner on the FBI and the 48 year reign of its founder, J. Edgar Hoover, whom Weiner describes as 'a Machiavelli'. In our second hour, a vintage recording of Alan Francovich speaking about On Company Business, his groundbreaking 1980 film on the CIA.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-05-26T11:24:32-07:002012-05-26T11:24:32-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/605#2

In our first hour this week we hear author Tim Weiner on the FBI and the 48 year reign of its founder, J. Edgar Hoover, whom Weiner describes as 'a Machiavelli'. In our second hour, a vintage recording of Alan Francovich speaking about On Company Business, his groundbreaking 1980 film on the CIA.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-05-26T11:24:32-07:002012-05-26T11:24:32-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/604#1

This week another show made with the ongoing Occupy movement in mind. Our main feature is author and researcher James Douglass on his book Gandhi and the Unspeakable, and we hear thoughts from Chris Hedges and Barbara Epstien also from earlier this year.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-05-19T12:48:08-07:002012-05-19T12:48:08-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/604#2

This week another show made with the ongoing Occupy movement in mind. Our main feature is author and researcher James Douglass on his book Gandhi and the Unspeakable, and we hear thoughts from Chris Hedges and Barbara Epstien also from earlier this year.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-05-19T12:48:08-07:002012-05-19T12:48:08-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/603#1

This week a sequel to last week's show on human communication. We hear the rest of the talk by Professor Daniel Everett on 'Language, Culture and Being Human', with some Q&A. We hear more on NVC from Marshall Rosenberg.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-05-12T14:58:44-07:002012-05-12T14:58:44-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/603#2

This week a sequel to last week's show on human communication. We hear the rest of the talk by Professor Daniel Everett on 'Language, Culture and Being Human', with some Q&A. We hear more on NVC from Marshall Rosenberg.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-05-12T14:58:44-07:002012-05-12T14:58:44-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/602#1

This week we take two very distinct looks at human communication. Firstly we hear half an hour from a recent talk from Professor Daniel Everett on Language, Culture and Being Human. Next psychologist and negotiator Marshall Rosenberg, describes NVC (Non-violent communication).

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-05-05T10:13:41-07:002012-05-05T10:13:41-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/602#2

This week we take two very distinct looks at human communication. Firstly we hear half an hour from a recent talk from Professor Daniel Everett on Language, Culture and Being Human. Next psychologist and negotiator Marshall Rosenberg, describes NVC (Non-violent communication).

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-05-05T10:13:41-07:002012-05-05T10:13:41-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/601#1

This week we continue examining money, with radio adaptations of 2 films. In our first hour, Adam Curtis' 25 Million Pounds narrates the rise and fall of financial fraudster, Nick Leeson. In our second hour, The Economics of Happiness which recommends relocalization as the urgent solution to economic globalization.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-04-28T12:40:05-07:002012-04-28T12:40:05-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/601#2

This week we continue examining money, with radio adaptations of 2 films. In our first hour, Adam Curtis' 25 Million Pounds narrates the rise and fall of financial fraudster, Nick Leeson. In our second hour, The Economics of Happiness which recommends relocalization as the urgent solution to economic globalization.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-04-28T12:40:05-07:002012-04-28T12:40:05-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/600#1

This week, a follow up show to last week's one on money. We begin with a talk by Nipun Mehta on 'Designing for Generosity'. Then, an interview with Daniel Suelo, now moneyless since 2000 and his biographer, Mark Sundeen. In our second hour, an audio adaptation of the 2011 money reform film, Money As Debt III.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-04-21T12:37:54-07:002012-04-21T12:37:54-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/600#2

This week, a follow up show to last week's one on money. We begin with a talk by Nipun Mehta on 'Designing for Generosity'. Then, an interview with Daniel Suelo, now moneyless since 2000 and his biographer, Mark Sundeen. In our second hour, an audio adaptation of the 2011 money reform film, Money As Debt III.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-04-21T12:37:54-07:002012-04-21T12:37:54-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/599#1

This week, a set of sideways looks at money. We begin with an interview of David Hawkes on a range of ideas about the 'magic' of money, its ability to promote materialism and alienate humans from their work. Then, and audio version of Robin Upton's 2011 presentation, "What Economics Can't Tell You About Money", followed by a radio adaptation of the film On Modern Servitude.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-04-14T10:33:26-07:002012-04-14T10:33:26-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/599#2

This week, a set of sideways looks at money. We begin with an interview of David Hawkes on a range of ideas about the 'magic' of money, its ability to promote materialism and alienate humans from their work. Then, and audio version of Robin Upton's 2011 presentation, "What Economics Can't Tell You About Money", followed by a radio adaptation of the film On Modern Servitude.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-04-14T10:33:26-07:002012-04-14T10:33:26-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/598#1

This week we compare the output of the agribusiness industry with locally grown food. In our first hour Pam Warhurst, a founder of the "Incredible Edible" movement, focuses on growing local food as a way to grow community. After pieces on why US doesn't label GM foods and on how large environmental NGOs work with big business, we conclude with news of a 7 acre food forest in Seattle.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-04-07T10:53:33-07:002012-04-07T10:53:33-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/598#2

This week we compare the output of the agribusiness industry with locally grown food. In our first hour Pam Warhurst, a founder of the "Incredible Edible" movement, focuses on growing local food as a way to grow community. After pieces on why US doesn't label GM foods and on how large environmental NGOs work with big business, we conclude with news of a 7 acre food forest in Seattle.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-04-07T10:53:33-07:002012-04-07T10:53:33-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/597#1

This week three speakers on the ongoing transition. Bruce Schneier begins by speaking about threats to the internet and social change, Robert Jensen speaks on the naturalization of violence against women, Rob Hopkins speaks on transition culture. We conclude by returning to Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-31T14:01:59-07:002012-03-31T14:01:59-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/597#2

This week three speakers on the ongoing transition. Bruce Schneier begins by speaking about threats to the internet and social change, Robert Jensen speaks on the naturalization of violence against women, Rob Hopkins speaks on transition culture. We conclude by returning to Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-31T14:01:59-07:002012-03-31T14:01:59-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/596#1

This week we learn more about NSA, which no longer limits its activities to mere intelligence gathering. Whistleblower Mark Klein tells how he broke the NSA's unwarranted wiretapping scandal, Kevin Zeese speaks on a century of political infiltration of US political movements, and about infiltration of Occupy movements and we conclude with researcher Steve Schofield on the NSA's largest base in Europe.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-24T09:25:37-07:002012-03-24T09:25:37-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/596#2

This week we learn more about NSA, which no longer limits its activities to mere intelligence gathering. Whistleblower Mark Klein tells how he broke the NSA's unwarranted wiretapping scandal, Kevin Zeese speaks on a century of political infiltration of US political movements, and about infiltration of Occupy movements and we conclude with researcher Steve Schofield on the NSA's largest base in Europe.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-24T09:25:37-07:002012-03-24T09:25:37-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/595#1

This week we review the wholesale privatization of New Zealand carried out in the 1980s and 90s. We hear a radio adaptation of Alister Barry's 1996 documentary, Someone Else's Country and conclude with a few words from Chapter 7 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-17T09:59:26-07:002012-03-17T09:59:26-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/595#2

This week we review the wholesale privatization of New Zealand carried out in the 1980s and 90s. We hear a radio adaptation of Alister Barry's 1996 documentary, Someone Else's Country and conclude with a few words from Chapter 7 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-17T09:59:26-07:002012-03-17T09:59:26-07:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/594#1

This week we hear three different perspectives on the ongoing Occupy movement. Firstly, an open letter to the police by occupier Reverend Richard Lang. Then Noam Chomsky on how to broaden Occupy and on its relationship to the US Republicrat kabuki. Finally P2P theorist Michel Bauwens sets Occupy in the context of emerging peer production. We conclude with another reading from chapter 7 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-09T04:39:12-08:002012-03-09T04:39:12-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/594#2

This week we hear three different perspectives on the ongoing Occupy movement. Firstly, an open letter to the police by occupier Reverend Richard Lang. Then Noam Chomsky on how to broaden Occupy and on its relationship to the US Republicrat kabuki. Finally P2P theorist Michel Bauwens sets Occupy in the context of emerging peer production. We conclude with another reading from chapter 7 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-09T04:39:12-08:002012-03-09T04:39:12-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/593#1

After a call to action to 'stop the machine', we hear a couple of voices of those whose lives have been a friction to slow it down. Angie Zelter tells of the plowshares destruction of nuclear weapons, and John Stewart on the prevention of airport expansion, while Gwen Schulman reports of how Canadian environmental NGOs are 'partnering' with big mining firms.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-03T03:33:58-08:002012-03-03T03:33:58-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/593#2

After a call to action to 'stop the machine', we hear a couple of voices of those whose lives have been a friction to slow it down. Angie Zelter tells of the plowshares destruction of nuclear weapons, and John Stewart on the prevention of airport expansion, while Gwen Schulman reports of how Canadian environmental NGOs are 'partnering' with big mining firms.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-03-03T03:33:58-08:002012-03-03T03:33:58-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/592#1

This week we look at the possible future interactions between society and computing technologies. We start with Gary Webb's story of how he used the WWW to circumvent censorship of his revelations of CIA drug dealing. Then we hear Cory Doctorow on corporations increasing interest in limiting the ways in which users use computing devices. In our second hour, Eben Moglen describes his work on 'freedom boxes', to create securely encrypted connections between individuals.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-02-25T05:28:29-08:002012-02-25T05:28:29-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/592#2

This week we look at the possible future interactions between society and computing technologies. We start with Gary Webb's story of how he used the WWW to circumvent censorship of his revelations of CIA drug dealing. Then we hear Cory Doctorow on corporations increasing interest in limiting the ways in which users use computing devices. In our second hour, Eben Moglen describes his work on 'freedom boxes', to create securely encrypted connections between individuals.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-02-25T05:28:29-08:002012-02-25T05:28:29-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/591#1

Is the world a dead machine, which human beings should exploit for their own purposes as they see fit? This week we hear Anima Mundi, a film which rejects modern scientism in favor of an approach more characteristic of traditional cultures. It encourages a 'soulful' approach to the world around us - living with sensitivity, as we would within a living being.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-02-17T18:36:44-08:002012-02-17T18:36:44-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/591#2

Is the world a dead machine, which human beings should exploit for their own purposes as they see fit? This week we hear Anima Mundi, a film which rejects modern scientism in favor of an approach more characteristic of traditional cultures. It encourages a 'soulful' approach to the world around us - living with sensitivity, as we would within a living being.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-02-17T18:36:44-08:002012-02-17T18:36:44-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/590#1

This week, two angles on the mind-body connection which challenge the simplistic model of man as machine. First, Marc David speaks on the essential but often overlooked mental aspects of eating. Then we hear Ben Goldacre speaks on the placebo effect.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-02-09T13:30:37-08:002012-02-09T13:30:37-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/590#2

This week, two angles on the mind-body connection which challenge the simplistic model of man as machine. First, Marc David speaks on the essential but often overlooked mental aspects of eating. Then we hear Ben Goldacre speaks on the placebo effect.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-02-09T13:30:37-08:002012-02-09T13:30:37-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/589#1

We feature the second non-Arab American to be indicted under the Patriot Act, CIA insider Susan Lindauer. Is she really, as two US judges decided, mentally unfit to stand trial? Is this related to her being locked up and threatened with indefinite detention without trial? Her perspective in the run up to Sep 11th is a new one to this show, though in implicating the Cheney/Rumsfeld clique, is fairly compatible with other voices that we have heard on the show, and with our second guest, journalist and author, Ian Henshall.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-02-03T19:18:08-08:002012-02-03T19:18:08-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/589#2

We feature the second non-Arab American to be indicted under the Patriot Act, CIA insider Susan Lindauer. Is she really, as two US judges decided, mentally unfit to stand trial? Is this related to her being locked up and threatened with indefinite detention without trial? Her perspective in the run up to Sep 11th is a new one to this show, though in implicating the Cheney/Rumsfeld clique, is fairly compatible with other voices that we have heard on the show, and with our second guest, journalist and author, Ian Henshall.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-02-03T19:18:08-08:002012-02-03T19:18:08-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/588#1

Gabor Maté has advice for parents and anyone seeking to understand the youth of today - on the problems for kids who focus their attention on their peers instead of their parents. Like Alfie Kohn, he urges parents to eschew behavioral methods and instead to value long term relationships with their kids. We supplement his analysis with a radio adaptation of the film Starsuckers, on how the cult of celebrity is exploited for financial gain and political purposes

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-01-27T21:01:25-08:002012-01-27T21:01:25-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/588#2

Gabor Maté has advice for parents and anyone seeking to understand the youth of today - on the problems for kids who focus their attention on their peers instead of their parents. Like Alfie Kohn, he urges parents to eschew behavioral methods and instead to value long term relationships with their kids. We supplement his analysis with a radio adaptation of the film Starsuckers, on how the cult of celebrity is exploited for financial gain and political purposes

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-01-27T21:01:25-08:002012-01-27T21:01:25-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/587#1

This show spins a wide range of voices into an exposé of the myth of urban decay. We begin with Steve Macek, then hear Dr. Gabor Maté on his experiences of 'drug addicts' in an inner city neighborhood. Our longest piece is Ivan Illich speaking about water and the sense of smell.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-01-21T07:54:49-08:002012-01-21T07:54:49-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/587#2

This show spins a wide range of voices into an exposé of the myth of urban decay. We begin with Steve Macek, then hear Dr. Gabor Maté on his experiences of 'drug addicts' in an inner city neighborhood. Our longest piece is Ivan Illich speaking about water and the sense of smell.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-01-21T07:54:49-08:002012-01-21T07:54:49-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/586#1

Focusing particularly on the Carlyle group, this episode looks at the US Military-Industrial(-Congressional) Complex. First, we adapt for radio the 2004 video of Dan Briody's Iron Triangle - The Carlyle Group Exposed. Then, we adapt the more wide ranging 2010 documentary, Ethos, which looks at what is really going on in US behind the facade of democracy.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-01-14T05:10:07-08:002012-01-14T05:10:07-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/586#2

Focusing particularly on the Carlyle group, this episode looks at the US Military-Industrial(-Congressional) Complex. First, we adapt for radio the 2004 video of Dan Briody's Iron Triangle - The Carlyle Group Exposed. Then, we adapt the more wide ranging 2010 documentary, Ethos, which looks at what is really going on in US behind the facade of democracy.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-01-14T05:10:07-08:002012-01-14T05:10:07-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/585#1

A range of voices on the topic of wage slavery. In our first hour, a Wendell Berry reading, The Ecological Crisis as A Crisis of Character, a short video on fiat money, and A Brief History of Plutocracy by Robin Upton. In hour 2, the soundtrack of a video parable about big government, followed by continued reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-01-07T00:31:02-08:002012-01-07T00:31:02-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/585#2

A range of voices on the topic of wage slavery. In our first hour, a Wendell Berry reading, The Ecological Crisis as A Crisis of Character, a short video on fiat money, and A Brief History of Plutocracy by Robin Upton. In hour 2, the soundtrack of a video parable about big government, followed by continued reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2012-01-07T00:31:02-08:002012-01-07T00:31:02-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/584#1

FCC SAFETY UNKNOWN! Our second episode on the Occupy movement includes two veterans of the show. Firstly, Chris Hedges presents an address entitled "Nonviolent Citizen Resistance to War and Globalization". Secondly we hear a range of voices addressing Occupy Oakland on the need for concerted resistance, including Derrick Jensen. We hear music by David Rovics and Mankana.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-31T12:44:48-08:002011-12-31T12:44:48-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/584#2

FCC SAFETY UNKNOWN! Our second episode on the Occupy movement includes two veterans of the show. Firstly, Chris Hedges presents an address entitled "Nonviolent Citizen Resistance to War and Globalization". Secondly we hear a range of voices addressing Occupy Oakland on the need for concerted resistance, including Derrick Jensen. We hear music by David Rovics and Mankana.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-31T12:44:48-08:002011-12-31T12:44:48-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/583#1

This week, a seasonal twist to our look at the dark sides of the modern money system. We hear the documentary Christmas Unwrapped, on the pagan roots of the Christmas festival. We conclude Games with Sex and Death, chapter 6 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-24T02:57:44-08:002011-12-24T02:57:44-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/583#2

This week, a seasonal twist to our look at the dark sides of the modern money system. We hear the documentary Christmas Unwrapped, on the pagan roots of the Christmas festival. We conclude Games with Sex and Death, chapter 6 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-24T02:57:44-08:002011-12-24T02:57:44-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/582#1

This week we keep our focus on the dark sides of the modern money system, hearing from monologuist Mike Daisy on why he considers money is a cargo cult, and Edward Griffin on the founding of the Federal Reserve system. We continue reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, reaching chapter 6, Games with Sex and Death.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-18T00:30:43-08:002011-12-18T00:30:43-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/582#2

This week we keep our focus on the dark sides of the modern money system, hearing from monologuist Mike Daisy on why he considers money is a cargo cult, and Edward Griffin on the founding of the Federal Reserve system. We continue reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, reaching chapter 6, Games with Sex and Death.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-18T00:30:43-08:002011-12-18T00:30:43-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/581#1

The show this week unmasks the moral pretensions of globalized imperialism run amok. Professor Anthony J. Hall speaks on the coming home to roost of USA's history of imperialism and globalization through force of arms. In our second hour, we begin reading A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations, the next chapter of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, on how the mentality and language of 'exchange' is used both to cloak such predatory hierarchical relations and to obscure our innate drive towards communistic relationships of mutual aid.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-11T19:09:33-08:002011-12-11T19:09:33-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/581#2

The show this week unmasks the moral pretensions of globalized imperialism run amok. Professor Anthony J. Hall speaks on the coming home to roost of USA's history of imperialism and globalization through force of arms. In our second hour, we begin reading A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations, the next chapter of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, on how the mentality and language of 'exchange' is used both to cloak such predatory hierarchical relations and to obscure our innate drive towards communistic relationships of mutual aid.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-11T19:09:33-08:002011-12-11T19:09:33-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/580#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-03T00:06:06-08:002011-12-03T00:06:06-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/580#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-03T00:06:06-08:002011-12-03T00:06:06-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/579#1

This week we continue our detailed look at money and debt. In our first hour, Edward Griffin speaks on the history of banking in USA. In our second hour, we conclude last week's reading of Primordial Debt, chapter 3 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-01T05:09:45-08:002011-12-01T05:09:45-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/579#2

This week we continue our detailed look at money and debt. In our first hour, Edward Griffin speaks on the history of banking in USA. In our second hour, we conclude last week's reading of Primordial Debt, chapter 3 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-12-01T05:09:45-08:002011-12-01T05:09:45-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/578#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-11-19T23:00:30-08:002011-11-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/578#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-11-19T23:00:30-08:002011-11-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/577#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-11-11T23:00:30-08:002011-11-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/577#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-11-11T23:00:30-08:002011-11-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/576#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-11-03T23:00:30-08:002011-11-03T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/576#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-11-03T23:00:30-08:002011-11-03T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/575#1

Focussing on Canada's Tar Sands this week, we examine the murky reality of 'free trade', and interference by the Canadian Government in the European Climate Change legislation. Who makes and enforces these agreements, and who benefits? We look at how the SPP is being revamped for re-introduction after concerted efforts to kill it by citizens' action groups

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-29T23:00:30-08:002011-10-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/575#2

Focussing on Canada's Tar Sands this week, we examine the murky reality of 'free trade', and interference by the Canadian Government in the European Climate Change legislation. Who makes and enforces these agreements, and who benefits? We look at how the SPP is being revamped for re-introduction after concerted efforts to kill it by citizens' action groups

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-29T23:00:30-08:002011-10-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/574#1

A special show this week devoted to Occupy Wall Street. How to make a show of interest both to OWS attendees and to those who know next to nothing about it? Inspired by the popularity of episode 536, we give you an audio collage including live radio interviews with participants and local residents, video soundtracks, historic material and quite a lot of music.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-22T23:00:30-08:002011-10-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/574#2

A special show this week devoted to Occupy Wall Street. How to make a show of interest both to OWS attendees and to those who know next to nothing about it? Inspired by the popularity of episode 536, we give you an audio collage including live radio interviews with participants and local residents, video soundtracks, historic material and quite a lot of music.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-22T23:00:30-08:002011-10-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/573#1

We devote the whole show this week to a remarkable talk from 2011-09-11 by Michael Ruppert, who back in episode 95 became the first speaker on this show to question the events of Sep 11th. However, in this talk he says that 9/11 belongs to a 'bygone era' and he focuses instead on the urgent need to transition away from a paradigm of infinite growth and fiat currency.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-15T23:00:30-08:002011-10-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/573#2

We devote the whole show this week to a remarkable talk from 2011-09-11 by Michael Ruppert, who back in episode 95 became the first speaker on this show to question the events of Sep 11th. However, in this talk he says that 9/11 belongs to a 'bygone era' and he focuses instead on the urgent need to transition away from a paradigm of infinite growth and fiat currency.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-15T23:00:30-08:002011-10-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/572#1

If competition is such a good thing, why is it not tolerated in areas of government or law? Or in the money system, which functions as a highly profitable private business? And what about cartel agreements which align the interests of multi-national corporations firmly against the interests of consumers? Are corporations really competing to bring better products to market more cheaply, or are they competing for control of government to grant them privileges?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-08T23:00:30-08:002011-10-08T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/572#2

If competition is such a good thing, why is it not tolerated in areas of government or law? Or in the money system, which functions as a highly profitable private business? And what about cartel agreements which align the interests of multi-national corporations firmly against the interests of consumers? Are corporations really competing to bring better products to market more cheaply, or are they competing for control of government to grant them privileges?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-08T23:00:30-08:002011-10-08T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/571#1

This week we hear about three people who, unimpressed by technological 'progress', quit city life to live successfully off the land - all three of them remained active into their 90's. Although travelling widely, they remained rooted to their homestead farms. In our first hour, Masanobu Fukuoka, who researched no-till farming in Japan for decades before Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the word permaculture. In our second hour, an audio adaptation of a film on the life and death of US back-to-the-lander Helen Nearing, and her husband, Scott.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-01T23:00:30-08:002011-10-01T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/571#2

This week we hear about three people who, unimpressed by technological 'progress', quit city life to live successfully off the land - all three of them remained active into their 90's. Although travelling widely, they remained rooted to their homestead farms. In our first hour, Masanobu Fukuoka, who researched no-till farming in Japan for decades before Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the word permaculture. In our second hour, an audio adaptation of a film on the life and death of US back-to-the-lander Helen Nearing, and her husband, Scott.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-10-01T23:00:30-08:002011-10-01T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/570#1

The show this week looks at the ideas of 'law' and 'rights'. As George Carlin says, if the government can take it away, it isn't a right, it's a privilege. A disturbing but important thought in these days in which governments worldwide are becoming more open about their subservience to expediency. We hear from a range of speakers, and our material ranges from the comic to the deadly serious.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-09-24T23:00:30-08:002011-09-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/570#2

The show this week looks at the ideas of 'law' and 'rights'. As George Carlin says, if the government can take it away, it isn't a right, it's a privilege. A disturbing but important thought in these days in which governments worldwide are becoming more open about their subservience to expediency. We hear from a range of speakers, and our material ranges from the comic to the deadly serious.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-09-24T23:00:30-08:002011-09-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/569#1

This week we introduce a new author, Jacques Lusseyran. As a teenager, although completely blind, he organised some of the most effective French resistance to the Nazi occupation. We begin with a reading of Steve Talbott's Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole? about techno-fixing human beings, which focuses on Lusseyran. Next, we read one of Lusseyran's essays, The Blind in Society. Finally, an interview with Laura Fogg, author of Travelling Blind -- life lessons from unexpected places, on her experience of helping the blind to navigate.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-09-17T23:00:30-08:002011-09-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/569#2

This week we introduce a new author, Jacques Lusseyran. As a teenager, although completely blind, he organised some of the most effective French resistance to the Nazi occupation. We begin with a reading of Steve Talbott's Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole? about techno-fixing human beings, which focuses on Lusseyran. Next, we read one of Lusseyran's essays, The Blind in Society. Finally, an interview with Laura Fogg, author of Travelling Blind -- life lessons from unexpected places, on her experience of helping the blind to navigate.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-09-17T23:00:30-08:002011-09-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/568#1

This week's show is released 10 years to the day since Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon could not account for 1/4 of all its spending. like the $2,300,000,000,000 he spoke about, many details from the next day are still unaccounted for, a decade later - including most notably the sudden (though not unexpected) implosion of WTC7. We hear the soundtrack of a new video by AE911 Truth, and testimony from a range of witnesses including Norman Mineta, William Rodriguez, Scott Forbes, a bunch of professional reporters and a couple of enthusiastic amateurs.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-09-10T23:00:30-08:002011-09-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/568#2

This week's show is released 10 years to the day since Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon could not account for 1/4 of all its spending. like the $2,300,000,000,000 he spoke about, many details from the next day are still unaccounted for, a decade later - including most notably the sudden (though not unexpected) implosion of WTC7. We hear the soundtrack of a new video by AE911 Truth, and testimony from a range of witnesses including Norman Mineta, William Rodriguez, Scott Forbes, a bunch of professional reporters and a couple of enthusiastic amateurs.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-09-10T23:00:30-08:002011-09-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/567#1

We start this week's show with Professor David McNally on 21st century instances of people rebelling against their would be overlords. Then a set of activists in Spain on how a recent wave of protests against the austerity morphed into an experiment in self-government. Finally, we conclude our reading of radical philosopher Ivan Illich's 1971 book, Deschooling Society, in which he describes the re-conceptualisation needed to break from the counter-productive and dependency producing hierarchical institutions of the 20th century.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-09-03T23:00:30-08:002011-09-03T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/567#2

We start this week's show with Professor David McNally on 21st century instances of people rebelling against their would be overlords. Then a set of activists in Spain on how a recent wave of protests against the austerity morphed into an experiment in self-government. Finally, we conclude our reading of radical philosopher Ivan Illich's 1971 book, Deschooling Society, in which he describes the re-conceptualisation needed to break from the counter-productive and dependency producing hierarchical institutions of the 20th century.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-09-03T23:00:30-08:002011-09-03T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/566#1

This show anticipates a time when most people are not working for the man, but interacting through what Ivan Illich describes as 'Learning Webs'. We start with a US valedictorian, Erica Goldson's bold speech against the school machine, and the conclusion of the John Taylor Gatto interview. Then we read chapter 6 of Deschooling Society, Learning Webs, before concluding with some thoughts on how a decentralised money system might work.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-08-27T23:00:30-08:002011-08-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/566#2

This show anticipates a time when most people are not working for the man, but interacting through what Ivan Illich describes as 'Learning Webs'. We start with a US valedictorian, Erica Goldson's bold speech against the school machine, and the conclusion of the John Taylor Gatto interview. Then we read chapter 6 of Deschooling Society, Learning Webs, before concluding with some thoughts on how a decentralised money system might work.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-08-27T23:00:30-08:002011-08-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/565#1

This week we look at the effect on the direction of Western society of the concerted efforts made to turn as many people as possible into non-thinking automata. In our first hour, a wide ranging and entertaining lecture from a quarter century ago, E. F. Schumacher speaks on "The World Crisis and the Wholeness of Life" in the year before his death. Then the ensuing Q & A, followed by chapter 5 from Illich's Deschooling Society. We conclude with a little from John Taylor Gatto and a retired Brigadier General on one aspect of waste by the US military.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-08-20T23:00:30-08:002011-08-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/565#2

This week we look at the effect on the direction of Western society of the concerted efforts made to turn as many people as possible into non-thinking automata. In our first hour, a wide ranging and entertaining lecture from a quarter century ago, E. F. Schumacher speaks on "The World Crisis and the Wholeness of Life" in the year before his death. Then the ensuing Q & A, followed by chapter 5 from Illich's Deschooling Society. We conclude with a little from John Taylor Gatto and a retired Brigadier General on one aspect of waste by the US military.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-08-20T23:00:30-08:002011-08-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/564#1

The show this week reflects on why, in the face of dire predictions if we do not make big changes to how we live, so many people feel either powerless or even disinterested to try to effect such changes. We continue with last week's Gatto interview, followed by another chapter of Deschooling Society and an essay by Philip Balla.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-08-13T23:00:30-08:002011-08-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/564#2

The show this week reflects on why, in the face of dire predictions if we do not make big changes to how we live, so many people feel either powerless or even disinterested to try to effect such changes. We continue with last week's Gatto interview, followed by another chapter of Deschooling Society and an essay by Philip Balla.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-08-13T23:00:30-08:002011-08-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/563#1

This week we pick up with both recordings from last week, focussing on the establishment of what in our second hour, Ivan Illich calls the 'New World Religion', the cult of mass compulsion schooling. As Gatto explains, in the 20th Century, mass compulsion schooling served to create the most essential resource of all for US big business - a stockpile of radically incomplete, childish adults who could be counted on to mass produced and mass consume goods and services according to a schedule imposed by managers. Illich broadens the discussion beyond merely business and adds historical perspective.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-08-06T23:00:30-08:002011-08-06T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/563#2

This week we pick up with both recordings from last week, focussing on the establishment of what in our second hour, Ivan Illich calls the 'New World Religion', the cult of mass compulsion schooling. As Gatto explains, in the 20th Century, mass compulsion schooling served to create the most essential resource of all for US big business - a stockpile of radically incomplete, childish adults who could be counted on to mass produced and mass consume goods and services according to a schedule imposed by managers. Illich broadens the discussion beyond merely business and adds historical perspective.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-08-06T23:00:30-08:002011-08-06T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/562#1

This week we look at the need to deschool ourselves both as individuals and collectively, by relying more on our own wits and those of our personal contacts and less on the dying impersonal centralised institutions which dominated 20th century developed life. The title is a quote from an extended interview with John Taylor Gatto, which we follow by reading the first chapter of Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-30T23:00:30-08:002011-07-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/562#2

This week we look at the need to deschool ourselves both as individuals and collectively, by relying more on our own wits and those of our personal contacts and less on the dying impersonal centralised institutions which dominated 20th century developed life. The title is a quote from an extended interview with John Taylor Gatto, which we follow by reading the first chapter of Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-30T23:00:30-08:002011-07-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/561#1

Focusing on the Anthrax attacks of 2001 in the weeks after Sep 11th, we look at the deep state's policy of blaming its false flag attacks either on nebulous foreign terrorist groups, or, as a fallback, on a domestic 'lone nut'. Mark Crispin Miller speaks on the changing use of the term 'conspiracy theory', researcher Danielle Ganser on NATO's Operation Gladio, ex-UK police researcher Tony Farrell on 7/7, and researchers Meryl Nass and Graeme MacQueen on the 'Amerithrax' attacks.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-23T23:00:30-08:002011-07-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/561#2

Focusing on the Anthrax attacks of 2001 in the weeks after Sep 11th, we look at the deep state's policy of blaming its false flag attacks either on nebulous foreign terrorist groups, or, as a fallback, on a domestic 'lone nut'. Mark Crispin Miller speaks on the changing use of the term 'conspiracy theory', researcher Danielle Ganser on NATO's Operation Gladio, ex-UK police researcher Tony Farrell on 7/7, and researchers Meryl Nass and Graeme MacQueen on the 'Amerithrax' attacks.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-23T23:00:30-08:002011-07-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/560#1

This week we look at the goings on in England which started 200 years ago this November, headed by the mysterious figure of Ned Ludd. Why did the Luddites break certain machines but leave others? Why did central government send more troops to crush Luddism that to fight Napoleon in France? But first, the soundtrack of two videos, Robots vs. Luddites and New Technology Whose Progress?'

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-16T23:00:30-08:002011-07-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/560#2

This week we look at the goings on in England which started 200 years ago this November, headed by the mysterious figure of Ned Ludd. Why did the Luddites break certain machines but leave others? Why did central government send more troops to crush Luddism that to fight Napoleon in France? But first, the soundtrack of two videos, Robots vs. Luddites and New Technology Whose Progress?'

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-16T23:00:30-08:002011-07-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/559#1

A show on the 'developed' world's fundamental disconnection from the soil that ultimately sustains us all, with an emphasis on the insanity of modern US food laws. Julian Cribb on the global famines ahead, Ivan Illich on soil and virtue, David Gumpert on why FDA agents went undercover for a year to catch an Amish farmer accused of selling raw milk. Then Frederick Kaufman on global food market profiteering by Goldman Sachs and Patrick Holden from the UK soil association on organic food and use of direct action to escape the market model of food provision.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-09T23:00:30-08:002011-07-09T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/559#2

A show on the 'developed' world's fundamental disconnection from the soil that ultimately sustains us all, with an emphasis on the insanity of modern US food laws. Julian Cribb on the global famines ahead, Ivan Illich on soil and virtue, David Gumpert on why FDA agents went undercover for a year to catch an Amish farmer accused of selling raw milk. Then Frederick Kaufman on global food market profiteering by Goldman Sachs and Patrick Holden from the UK soil association on organic food and use of direct action to escape the market model of food provision.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-09T23:00:30-08:002011-07-09T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/558#1

Did you know that the nuclear fallout in Fallujah is worse than in Hiroshima or Nagasaki? Brian Haw did. We start with a few words from the recently departed one man political protest. Then Chris Busby speaks on the dangers of radiation that authorities and the media conspire to cover up, and we hear from Jeff Donn about the real risks and radiation releases in US nuclear power stations. Our title feature, in hour 2, is a radio adaptation of the sombre and philosophical film, Into Eternity, about the Finnish efforts to build the world's first long term nuclear storage facility.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-02T23:00:30-08:002011-07-02T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/558#2

Did you know that the nuclear fallout in Fallujah is worse than in Hiroshima or Nagasaki? Brian Haw did. We start with a few words from the recently departed one man political protest. Then Chris Busby speaks on the dangers of radiation that authorities and the media conspire to cover up, and we hear from Jeff Donn about the real risks and radiation releases in US nuclear power stations. Our title feature, in hour 2, is a radio adaptation of the sombre and philosophical film, Into Eternity, about the Finnish efforts to build the world's first long term nuclear storage facility.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-07-02T23:00:30-08:002011-07-02T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/557#1

This week, a two part show on the US Police State. In our first hour, recordings from last week's meeting of the National Committee to Reopen The Rosenberg Case, including Robert Meeropol's Eulogy to his parents, by whose 1953 killing the US government intensified the red scare. In our second hour, we hear from the Chicago civil liberties community on the September 2010 FBI raids there and subsequent use of grand jury proceedings in an effort to chill dissent.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-06-25T23:00:30-08:002011-06-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/557#2

This week, a two part show on the US Police State. In our first hour, recordings from last week's meeting of the National Committee to Reopen The Rosenberg Case, including Robert Meeropol's Eulogy to his parents, by whose 1953 killing the US government intensified the red scare. In our second hour, we hear from the Chicago civil liberties community on the September 2010 FBI raids there and subsequent use of grand jury proceedings in an effort to chill dissent.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-06-25T23:00:30-08:002011-06-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/556#1

This week we challenge traditional ideas about wealth and poverty. Our main piece is by two English professors, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett on their 2009 book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. But first, we conclude the Ivan Illich reading from episode 554.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-06-18T23:00:30-08:002011-06-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/556#2

This week we challenge traditional ideas about wealth and poverty. Our main piece is by two English professors, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett on their 2009 book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. But first, we conclude the Ivan Illich reading from episode 554.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-06-18T23:00:30-08:002011-06-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/555#1

The week's show features two important thinkers on the idea of the world as system. First, a radio adaptation of episode 2 of the new documentary by Adam Curtis, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace about the social role and flimsy scientific basis of the idea of an 'ecosystem', followed by a short comment by Curtis on the film's main message. Next, Ivan Illich on the institutionalization of society and the loss of people's personal power in the 1980's when people started to see the world as a system.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-06-11T23:00:30-08:002011-06-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/555#2

The week's show features two important thinkers on the idea of the world as system. First, a radio adaptation of episode 2 of the new documentary by Adam Curtis, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace about the social role and flimsy scientific basis of the idea of an 'ecosystem', followed by a short comment by Curtis on the film's main message. Next, Ivan Illich on the institutionalization of society and the loss of people's personal power in the 1980's when people started to see the world as a system.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-06-11T23:00:30-08:002011-06-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/554#1

The show this week looks at 'human needs' - a concept so deep as to go largely unquestioned by the ideologues of economics and economic development. We start with a reading from an anthropology professor which challenges ideas of 'primitive' people's poverty, before some of an essay by Illich on "Needs". In our second hour, some easier listening - a radio adaptation of a film on consumerism, Shop Til You Drop.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-06-04T23:00:30-08:002011-06-04T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/554#2

The show this week looks at 'human needs' - a concept so deep as to go largely unquestioned by the ideologues of economics and economic development. We start with a reading from an anthropology professor which challenges ideas of 'primitive' people's poverty, before some of an essay by Illich on "Needs". In our second hour, some easier listening - a radio adaptation of a film on consumerism, Shop Til You Drop.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-06-04T23:00:30-08:002011-06-04T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/553#1

This week we hear a pair of perspectives from earlier this month on US foreign policy, both from seasoned critics of the US Imperial Strategy. Firstly, Tariq Ali reviews the historical record, from the genocidal expansionism of US colonists up this month's exploits in Libya. Secondly, Noam Chomsky speaksin Syracuse, NY on "What Drives US Foreign Policy & What We Can Do To Change It".

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-05-28T23:00:30-08:002011-05-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/553#2

This week we hear a pair of perspectives from earlier this month on US foreign policy, both from seasoned critics of the US Imperial Strategy. Firstly, Tariq Ali reviews the historical record, from the genocidal expansionism of US colonists up this month's exploits in Libya. Secondly, Noam Chomsky speaksin Syracuse, NY on "What Drives US Foreign Policy & What We Can Do To Change It".

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-05-28T23:00:30-08:002011-05-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/552#1

This week's entire show is devoted to a recent speech by the pioneer of the free software movement, Richard Stallman. He gives a history of copyright law, and how it has become a tool of corporations to maximize profit by creating scarcity. He explains the technical and legal sides of some recent battles about DRM, and the moral and pragmatic reasons why people should refuse to use proprietary software.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-05-21T23:00:30-08:002011-05-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/552#2

This week's entire show is devoted to a recent speech by the pioneer of the free software movement, Richard Stallman. He gives a history of copyright law, and how it has become a tool of corporations to maximize profit by creating scarcity. He explains the technical and legal sides of some recent battles about DRM, and the moral and pragmatic reasons why people should refuse to use proprietary software.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-05-21T23:00:30-08:002011-05-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/551#1

The show this week looks at the so-called financial 'crisis' from two different perspectives. Firstly, I give an audio commentary on a presentation I created last year, Understanding the Financial 'Crisis'. Next, Michael Hudson speaks on "The Specter Haunting Europe", detailing the financial goings on in Europe, focussing on the evisceration of the Latvian economy and expanding upon his prediction of a new feudalism and a neo-liberal style fire sale of the European welfare state.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-05-14T23:00:30-08:002011-05-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/551#2

The show this week looks at the so-called financial 'crisis' from two different perspectives. Firstly, I give an audio commentary on a presentation I created last year, Understanding the Financial 'Crisis'. Next, Michael Hudson speaks on "The Specter Haunting Europe", detailing the financial goings on in Europe, focussing on the evisceration of the Latvian economy and expanding upon his prediction of a new feudalism and a neo-liberal style fire sale of the European welfare state.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-05-14T23:00:30-08:002011-05-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/550#1

No conclusive answers this week, as we consider possible motivations behind the recent attacks on Libya that underlie the rather overused cover story of humanitarian intervention. As an introduction, we read Ellen Brown's article Libya: All about Oil or All About Banking?. This sets the stage for our main presentation, by Vijay Prashad, a professor of international relations, whose invaluable insights and pieces of history you are unlikely to hear on commercial media.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-05-07T23:00:30-08:002011-05-07T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/550#2

No conclusive answers this week, as we consider possible motivations behind the recent attacks on Libya that underlie the rather overused cover story of humanitarian intervention. As an introduction, we read Ellen Brown's article Libya: All about Oil or All About Banking?. This sets the stage for our main presentation, by Vijay Prashad, a professor of international relations, whose invaluable insights and pieces of history you are unlikely to hear on commercial media.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-05-07T23:00:30-08:002011-05-07T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/549#1

This week's show looks at the health impacts of chemical pollution. At home, profit maximisation is steadily toxifying the environment of North America as corporations hide behind deceitful and outdated legal guidelines. In Nigeria, we see how $hell are blatantly dumping whatever is expedient, using a mixture of lawyers and violence to try to stifle objections. We conclude with a 2005 recording about the damage of pre-natal exposure to environmental toxins.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-30T23:00:30-08:002011-04-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/549#2

This week's show looks at the health impacts of chemical pollution. At home, profit maximisation is steadily toxifying the environment of North America as corporations hide behind deceitful and outdated legal guidelines. In Nigeria, we see how $hell are blatantly dumping whatever is expedient, using a mixture of lawyers and violence to try to stifle objections. We conclude with a 2005 recording about the damage of pre-natal exposure to environmental toxins.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-30T23:00:30-08:002011-04-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/548#1

An unusually topical show for you this week. We start by adapting an Adam Curtis film on the development of the nuclear industry. Next the scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, Christopher Busby, explains that the nuclear industry relies on a massive underestimation of the health effects of radiation. We conclude with a compilation of recordings on shutting down nuclear power plants from TUC Radio.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-23T23:00:30-08:002011-04-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/548#2

An unusually topical show for you this week. We start by adapting an Adam Curtis film on the development of the nuclear industry. Next the scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, Christopher Busby, explains that the nuclear industry relies on a massive underestimation of the health effects of radiation. We conclude with a compilation of recordings on shutting down nuclear power plants from TUC Radio.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-23T23:00:30-08:002011-04-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/547#1

This week we continue our investigation into the incarceration industry. Firstly, a look at FASD, a congenital brain deficiency caused by mothers who drink excessive alcohol while pregnant. Second, a speech by prison reformer Vivien Stern on how the terrifying reality of the prison system in UK. We conclude with a rebroadcast of a section from Charles Eisenstein on 'life under contract' about the deeper reasons behind the push to incarcerate ever more of the population.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-16T23:00:30-08:002011-04-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/547#2

This week we continue our investigation into the incarceration industry. Firstly, a look at FASD, a congenital brain deficiency caused by mothers who drink excessive alcohol while pregnant. Second, a speech by prison reformer Vivien Stern on how the terrifying reality of the prison system in UK. We conclude with a rebroadcast of a section from Charles Eisenstein on 'life under contract' about the deeper reasons behind the push to incarcerate ever more of the population.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-16T23:00:30-08:002011-04-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/546#1

The show this week looks at the soft underbelly of the corporate system - the growing awareness that it is destroying the planet. First we hear from the ALF/ELF spokesman, Steve Best, who advocates any and all kinds of direct action to defend the earth and prevent its plunder. Then it's a talk from John Stauber on how the environmental movement died as a result of cooptation by big corporations.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-09T23:00:30-08:002011-04-09T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/546#2

The show this week looks at the soft underbelly of the corporate system - the growing awareness that it is destroying the planet. First we hear from the ALF/ELF spokesman, Steve Best, who advocates any and all kinds of direct action to defend the earth and prevent its plunder. Then it's a talk from John Stauber on how the environmental movement died as a result of cooptation by big corporations.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-09T23:00:30-08:002011-04-09T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/545#1

Language is a technology that reflects our thinking on a deep level, yet most of us use it without a thought. Similarly, many people watch commercially produced without a noting how they support an ideological agenda. First this week we adapt Jack Shaheen's film, Reel Bad Arabs on Hollywood's Anti-Arab bias. Next, a few words from John Taylor Gatto on how Henry Ford introduced the metaphor of USA as a 'melting pot' to introduce a complex lecture by Vicente Rafael entitled Translation in Wartime on the connection between translation and imperialism.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-02T23:00:30-08:002011-04-02T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/545#2

Language is a technology that reflects our thinking on a deep level, yet most of us use it without a thought. Similarly, many people watch commercially produced without a noting how they support an ideological agenda. First this week we adapt Jack Shaheen's film, Reel Bad Arabs on Hollywood's Anti-Arab bias. Next, a few words from John Taylor Gatto on how Henry Ford introduced the metaphor of USA as a 'melting pot' to introduce a complex lecture by Vicente Rafael entitled Translation in Wartime on the connection between translation and imperialism.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-04-02T23:00:30-08:002011-04-02T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/544#1

The show this week looks at the past present and future of the US city, against a backdrop of peak oil. We begin with an interview with James Howard Kunstler on the development of urban design in the 20th century. Then Jeff Tomlin speaks on Alive Transportation, Fitness, Safety, Community and Trust. We conclude with Jeff Vail on transitioning away from hierarchies such as nation states towards "scale free self-sufficiency".

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-03-26T23:00:30-08:002011-03-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/544#2

The show this week looks at the past present and future of the US city, against a backdrop of peak oil. We begin with an interview with James Howard Kunstler on the development of urban design in the 20th century. Then Jeff Tomlin speaks on Alive Transportation, Fitness, Safety, Community and Trust. We conclude with Jeff Vail on transitioning away from hierarchies such as nation states towards "scale free self-sufficiency".

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-03-26T23:00:30-08:002011-03-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/543#1

This week we look at the psychologically corrupting aspects of money. Our main presentation is a radio adaptation of Robin Upton's presentation "The Corruption of Money", which is accompanied by Beyond Money, a speech by John Taylor Gatto. We also hear words from George Lakoff and Vivien Stern on commodification of justice and morality.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-03-19T23:00:30-08:002011-03-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/543#2

This week we look at the psychologically corrupting aspects of money. Our main presentation is a radio adaptation of Robin Upton's presentation "The Corruption of Money", which is accompanied by Beyond Money, a speech by John Taylor Gatto. We also hear words from George Lakoff and Vivien Stern on commodification of justice and morality.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-03-19T23:00:30-08:002011-03-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/542#1

The show this week is devoted to a single speaker, Bernie Sanders, independent US Senator for Vermont, whose 8½ hour speech he last December protested the "Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010". We hear extracts of his speech, on the multi-trillion dollars bailouts which he forced the Fed to disclose, the increasing size of already 'too-big-to-fail' banks, increasing inequality in US society and global trade.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-03-12T23:00:30-08:002011-03-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/542#2

The show this week is devoted to a single speaker, Bernie Sanders, independent US Senator for Vermont, whose 8½ hour speech he last December protested the "Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010". We hear extracts of his speech, on the multi-trillion dollars bailouts which he forced the Fed to disclose, the increasing size of already 'too-big-to-fail' banks, increasing inequality in US society and global trade.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-03-12T23:00:30-08:002011-03-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/541#1

This week we hear author Sasha Abramsky and professors Viviane Saleh-Hanna and Michelle Alexander on the US incarceration industry, or as they call it, the "Prison Industrial Complex". How can a country which used to style itself the "land of the free" lock up far more of its own population than any other country? Why has the US prison population exploded? And what is the connection with racial segregation and Jim Crow?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-03-05T23:00:30-08:002011-03-05T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/541#2

This week we hear author Sasha Abramsky and professors Viviane Saleh-Hanna and Michelle Alexander on the US incarceration industry, or as they call it, the "Prison Industrial Complex". How can a country which used to style itself the "land of the free" lock up far more of its own population than any other country? Why has the US prison population exploded? And what is the connection with racial segregation and Jim Crow?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-03-05T23:00:30-08:002011-03-05T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/540#1

This week we conclude our series on forced schooling, with a range of voices on its inter-relation with commercial organisations, including a radio adaptation of the Canadian film, "Corporations in The Classroom", an interview with Maia Szalivitz on the 'troubled teen' industry, and an interview with Dayna Martin on the emerging 'partnership' style of parenting known as radical unschooling.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-02-26T23:00:30-08:002011-02-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/540#2

This week we conclude our series on forced schooling, with a range of voices on its inter-relation with commercial organisations, including a radio adaptation of the Canadian film, "Corporations in The Classroom", an interview with Maia Szalivitz on the 'troubled teen' industry, and an interview with Dayna Martin on the emerging 'partnership' style of parenting known as radical unschooling.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-02-26T23:00:30-08:002011-02-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/539#1

This week we continue to examine the details of schooling as a social control mechanism. First, a section from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education, followed by the conclusion of his Radio Free School interview and an excerpt from a speech on the scientific management of children. In hour 2, Peg Luksik of the Pennyslvania Parents' Commission asks "Who Controls The Children?", focusing on increasingly sophisticated efforts by the schooling system to establish, log and 'correct' US students' attitudes.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-02-19T23:00:30-08:002011-02-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/539#2

This week we continue to examine the details of schooling as a social control mechanism. First, a section from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education, followed by the conclusion of his Radio Free School interview and an excerpt from a speech on the scientific management of children. In hour 2, Peg Luksik of the Pennyslvania Parents' Commission asks "Who Controls The Children?", focusing on increasingly sophisticated efforts by the schooling system to establish, log and 'correct' US students' attitudes.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-02-19T23:00:30-08:002011-02-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/538#1

The show this week features two friends from different generations who dish the dirt on the US forced schooling system and the tax-exempt foundations which engineered it. Our main interview is Norman Dodd, chief investigator of the 1953 'Reece Committee' on Tax Exempt Foundations, set in context by a reading from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education. Next it is Charlotte Iserbyt, ex-senior policy advisor in US Department of Education, followed by the first half of a 2004 Radio Free School interview with John Taylor Gatto.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-2-10T23:00:30-08:002011-2-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/538#2

The show this week features two friends from different generations who dish the dirt on the US forced schooling system and the tax-exempt foundations which engineered it. Our main interview is Norman Dodd, chief investigator of the 1953 'Reece Committee' on Tax Exempt Foundations, set in context by a reading from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education. Next it is Charlotte Iserbyt, ex-senior policy advisor in US Department of Education, followed by the first half of a 2004 Radio Free School interview with John Taylor Gatto.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-2-10T23:00:30-08:002011-2-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/537#1

This week we hear two scholars on the profound roots of separation, firstly within the structure of the brain itself, secondly between individuals in modern society. Ian McGilchrist sets the scene in our first hour with The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. In our second hour we replay one of the deepest talks from earlier Unwelcome Guests episodes - The Roots and Ramifications of our Culture of Hierarchy and Control by Marvin Bram.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-2-4T23:00:30-08:002011-2-4T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/537#2

This week we hear two scholars on the profound roots of separation, firstly within the structure of the brain itself, secondly between individuals in modern society. Ian McGilchrist sets the scene in our first hour with The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. In our second hour we replay one of the deepest talks from earlier Unwelcome Guests episodes - The Roots and Ramifications of our Culture of Hierarchy and Control by Marvin Bram.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-2-4T23:00:30-08:002011-2-4T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/536#1

This week we mark a year since Lyn's last new episode by deviating from our usual format. Instead of a few separate speeches, an audio collage of speakers, some with backing music. The most prominent voice is Noam Chomsky's, but he is supported by a couple of dozen others from earlier episodes and other sources. The overarching theme is the need to question the existing reality, especially to shake off the hierarchical institutions and prejudices of the past, and embrace a new spirit of autonomy that respects the individual.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-1-28T23:00:30-08:002011-1-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/536#2

This week we mark a year since Lyn's last new episode by deviating from our usual format. Instead of a few separate speeches, an audio collage of speakers, some with backing music. The most prominent voice is Noam Chomsky's, but he is supported by a couple of dozen others from earlier episodes and other sources. The overarching theme is the need to question the existing reality, especially to shake off the hierarchical institutions and prejudices of the past, and embrace a new spirit of autonomy that respects the individual.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-1-28T23:00:30-08:002011-1-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/535#1

This week we have two contributions by Peter Dale Scott, a long established researcher into what he calls 'deep politics'. We begin with a 30 minute talk on Continuity of Government from the 2010 Santa Cruz Understanding Deep Politics conference, and conclude with a 90 minute interview from 2010-10-16 on the contents of his new book, The American War Machine - Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and The Road to Afghanistan, interspersed by 8 minutes of Dwight Eisenhower's valedictory address from half a century ago in which he warns of the military industrial complex.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-1-21T23:00:30-08:002011-1-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/535#2

This week we have two contributions by Peter Dale Scott, a long established researcher into what he calls 'deep politics'. We begin with a 30 minute talk on Continuity of Government from the 2010 Santa Cruz Understanding Deep Politics conference, and conclude with a 90 minute interview from 2010-10-16 on the contents of his new book, The American War Machine - Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and The Road to Afghanistan, interspersed by 8 minutes of Dwight Eisenhower's valedictory address from half a century ago in which he warns of the military industrial complex.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-1-21T23:00:30-08:002011-1-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/534#1

Did you know that in Livermore, California a bulb has been lit constantly since 1901 and is still going strong? This week's headline piece is a radio adaptation of The Lightbulb Conspiracy, a film about how the first international cartel not only increased prices but to decreased the lifetime of lightbulbs. We also hear Juliet Schor on overproduction and radio adaptations of Annie Leonard's The Story of Bottled Water, The Story of Cosmetics and The Story of Stuff, plus Heather Rogers' The Hidden Life of Garbage.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-1-14T23:00:30-08:002011-1-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/534#2

Did you know that in Livermore, California a bulb has been lit constantly since 1901 and is still going strong? This week's headline piece is a radio adaptation of The Lightbulb Conspiracy, a film about how the first international cartel not only increased prices but to decreased the lifetime of lightbulbs. We also hear Juliet Schor on overproduction and radio adaptations of Annie Leonard's The Story of Bottled Water, The Story of Cosmetics and The Story of Stuff, plus Heather Rogers' The Hidden Life of Garbage.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-1-14T23:00:30-08:002011-1-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/533#1

This week we hear a range of voices on False Flag terror attacks by national 'security forces'. After an introduction by James Corbett, an insider's account from 2007 by Annie Machon of why she and David Shayler quit MI5. Next we look at the '9-99' apartment bombings in September 1999 by the Russian FSB, whose director, Putin, was swept to power, and which served as a pretext to attack Chechnya. After reports from Iraq of false flag terror attacks by the occupying forces, sections on the 2009 'underwear bomber' and the '7-7' London bombings of July 7th, 2005.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-1-7T23:00:30-08:002011-1-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/533#2

This week we hear a range of voices on False Flag terror attacks by national 'security forces'. After an introduction by James Corbett, an insider's account from 2007 by Annie Machon of why she and David Shayler quit MI5. Next we look at the '9-99' apartment bombings in September 1999 by the Russian FSB, whose director, Putin, was swept to power, and which served as a pretext to attack Chechnya. After reports from Iraq of false flag terror attacks by the occupying forces, sections on the 2009 'underwear bomber' and the '7-7' London bombings of July 7th, 2005.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2011-1-7T23:00:30-08:002011-1-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/532#1

We start a new decade of Unwelcome Guests with a show appropriate to New Year's Resolutions. In our first hour we hear Heather Rogers on her new book, Green Gone Wrong, about why buying 'green' products will never solve the world's ecological crises. Our second hour presents a healthier alternative for resolution material - two individuals who have heard an inner calling and decided to take up an issue, to act upon their convictions in spite of the change to their routine; Charles Eisenstein tells how he came to write Ascent of Humanity, and Carne Ross tells why he quit the UK Diplomatic Service and how he came to start a non-profit diplomatic service for marginalised people groups.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-31T23:00:30-08:002010-12-31T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/532#2

We start a new decade of Unwelcome Guests with a show appropriate to New Year's Resolutions. In our first hour we hear Heather Rogers on her new book, Green Gone Wrong, about why buying 'green' products will never solve the world's ecological crises. Our second hour presents a healthier alternative for resolution material - two individuals who have heard an inner calling and decided to take up an issue, to act upon their convictions in spite of the change to their routine; Charles Eisenstein tells how he came to write Ascent of Humanity, and Carne Ross tells why he quit the UK Diplomatic Service and how he came to start a non-profit diplomatic service for marginalised people groups.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-31T23:00:30-08:002010-12-31T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/531#1

This week we continue our series on the age of reunion. We start with Elisabet Sahtouris speaking on evolutionary leaps which spring from cooperation, the unification of formerly disparate organisms to create new life forms of massively greater complexity. Next Brian Willson recalls his unexpected empathic connection with a faceless victim of US napalm in Vietnam. In our second hour, we hear Jonathan Balcombe, author of Second Nature : The Inner Lives of Animals on the rich inner lives of animals, and why scientists are showing interest in them after ignoring them for so long. We conclude with a moving speech by Anita Burke on the role of unconditional love in changing corporate culture.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-24T23:00:30-08:002010-12-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/531#2

This week we continue our series on the age of reunion. We start with Elisabet Sahtouris speaking on evolutionary leaps which spring from cooperation, the unification of formerly disparate organisms to create new life forms of massively greater complexity. Next Brian Willson recalls his unexpected empathic connection with a faceless victim of US napalm in Vietnam. In our second hour, we hear Jonathan Balcombe, author of Second Nature : The Inner Lives of Animals on the rich inner lives of animals, and why scientists are showing interest in them after ignoring them for so long. We conclude with a moving speech by Anita Burke on the role of unconditional love in changing corporate culture.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-24T23:00:30-08:002010-12-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/530#1

This week we hear a radio adaptation of Scott Noble's 2 hour video documentary, Human Resources, supplemented by some remarks of John Taylor Gatto on the history of forced schooling. Human Resources charts the rise of social control by large organisations in the 20th century, focusing on the use of behaviourism and eugenics. It tells how the moneyed elite sidelined ethical concerns as they funded increasingly destructive experiments into the manipulation of individuals and populations. Focusing on USA, we see how initial research results such as the Hawthorn Effect and the frustration-aggression hypothesis paved the way for more destructive research such as MK-ULTRA carried out on citizens by the military and the CIA in the name of 'national security'.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-17T23:00:30-08:002010-12-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/530#2

This week we hear a radio adaptation of Scott Noble's 2 hour video documentary, Human Resources, supplemented by some remarks of John Taylor Gatto on the history of forced schooling. Human Resources charts the rise of social control by large organisations in the 20th century, focusing on the use of behaviourism and eugenics. It tells how the moneyed elite sidelined ethical concerns as they funded increasingly destructive experiments into the manipulation of individuals and populations. Focusing on USA, we see how initial research results such as the Hawthorn Effect and the frustration-aggression hypothesis paved the way for more destructive research such as MK-ULTRA carried out on citizens by the military and the CIA in the name of 'national security'.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-17T23:00:30-08:002010-12-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/529#1

This week look at two traditionally no-go areas for reductionist science - morality and spirit. Our opening talk, by Paul Bloom, looks at research into the human moral sense, and presents findings which suggests that children even only a few months old are possessed of some kind of moral sense. We follow this up with a heartfelt talk from peace activist Brian Willson, who describes the need for US culture to break out of its self-imposed box and relate healthily with the world at large. Our major talk, by evolutionary biologist and gift economy activist, Elisabet Sahtouris, is a wide ranging one. She directly challenges reductionist models of evolution, preferring a holistic view, concluding that humanity is undergoing a change akin to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-11T23:00:30-08:002010-12-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/529#2

This week look at two traditionally no-go areas for reductionist science - morality and spirit. Our opening talk, by Paul Bloom, looks at research into the human moral sense, and presents findings which suggests that children even only a few months old are possessed of some kind of moral sense. We follow this up with a heartfelt talk from peace activist Brian Willson, who describes the need for US culture to break out of its self-imposed box and relate healthily with the world at large. Our major talk, by evolutionary biologist and gift economy activist, Elisabet Sahtouris, is a wide ranging one. She directly challenges reductionist models of evolution, preferring a holistic view, concluding that humanity is undergoing a change akin to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-11T23:00:30-08:002010-12-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/528#1

This week we took a look at the Bilderberg Group, a secret meeting of about 120 hierarchs from Europe and US. Senior members of national governments, multi-national companies, royal families, media corporations and financial institutions have met up annually since its inception in 1954. Little is known of the contents of their meetings, due to strictly enforced privacy - which may finally be weakening, as more leaks are emerging. We hear a range of voices this week, including Tony Gosling and Michael Parenti as well as Daniel Estulin's speech on the Bilderberg group given this year to the European parliament.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-3T23:00:30-08:002010-12-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/528#2

This week we took a look at the Bilderberg Group, a secret meeting of about 120 hierarchs from Europe and US. Senior members of national governments, multi-national companies, royal families, media corporations and financial institutions have met up annually since its inception in 1954. Little is known of the contents of their meetings, due to strictly enforced privacy - which may finally be weakening, as more leaks are emerging. We hear a range of voices this week, including Tony Gosling and Michael Parenti as well as Daniel Estulin's speech on the Bilderberg group given this year to the European parliament.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-12-3T23:00:30-08:002010-12-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/527#1

The show raises more questions than answers. We looks at the emerging science of epigenetics, which studies information which children inherit other than through DNA. This cutting edge science has the potential to tell a new story about evolution, one that is less to do with humans as discrete and separate survival machines controlled by genetic programs, more about our relationships with each other and the world around us. We broadcast a panel discussion from Vancouver 2010 entitled "A Dialogue in Epigenetics - How Does The Environment get under our skin?", accompanied by a related reading from Charles Eisenstein's Ascent of Humanity.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-11-26T23:00:30-08:002010-11-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/527#2

The show raises more questions than answers. We looks at the emerging science of epigenetics, which studies information which children inherit other than through DNA. This cutting edge science has the potential to tell a new story about evolution, one that is less to do with humans as discrete and separate survival machines controlled by genetic programs, more about our relationships with each other and the world around us. We broadcast a panel discussion from Vancouver 2010 entitled "A Dialogue in Epigenetics - How Does The Environment get under our skin?", accompanied by a related reading from Charles Eisenstein's Ascent of Humanity.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-11-26T23:00:30-08:002010-11-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/526#1

This week we hear three complementary views on the topic of 'economic development'. First, a short article by Helena Norberg-Hodge on the global culture of consumerism. Next, a radio adaptation of the Adam Curtis' 1992 documentary, Black Power. Focusing on Kwame Nkrumah's Volta Dam Project, this tells how the rich West African colony of the Gold Coast because the highly indebted country of Ghana. Finally, former 'economic hit man', John Perkins, tells how he helped corrupt foreign elites to ensnare their countries in debt.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-11-19T23:00:30-08:002010-11-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/526#2

This week we hear three complementary views on the topic of 'economic development'. First, a short article by Helena Norberg-Hodge on the global culture of consumerism. Next, a radio adaptation of the Adam Curtis' 1992 documentary, Black Power. Focusing on Kwame Nkrumah's Volta Dam Project, this tells how the rich West African colony of the Gold Coast because the highly indebted country of Ghana. Finally, former 'economic hit man', John Perkins, tells how he helped corrupt foreign elites to ensnare their countries in debt.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-11-19T23:00:30-08:002010-11-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/525#1

Last week's episode looked at how man made toxic chemicals have proved more destructive for humans than initially anticipated. This week, by contrast, we look at the effects of chemicals that occur naturally in plants, and may be more therapeutic than generally recognised. In our first hour, Claudia Little, a medical marijuana activist looks at some of the innumerable therapeutic uses of this plant, with a history of medical use going back several thousands of years. Our second hour features Michael Pollan speaking on the contents of his book Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire, which widens our focus to look at how plants have co-evolved to fulfil useful functions to other life forms.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-11-12T23:00:30-08:002010-11-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/525#2

Last week's episode looked at how man made toxic chemicals have proved more destructive for humans than initially anticipated. This week, by contrast, we look at the effects of chemicals that occur naturally in plants, and may be more therapeutic than generally recognised. In our first hour, Claudia Little, a medical marijuana activist looks at some of the innumerable therapeutic uses of this plant, with a history of medical use going back several thousands of years. Our second hour features Michael Pollan speaking on the contents of his book Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire, which widens our focus to look at how plants have co-evolved to fulfil useful functions to other life forms.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-11-12T23:00:30-08:002010-11-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/524#1

This week we continue looking at the toxic nature of the human separation from nature; we bring you 3 different pieces about the human engineering of toxic chemicals. First, an adaptation of Adam Curtis' BBC documentary Goodbye Mrs. Ant, on the rise and fall of the pesticide industry as purveyors of miracle cures, and how discovery of the pernicious effects of DDT lead to the growth of ecology and the environmentalist movement. Secondly, a 2009 interview with about the world's most fatal industrial chemical leak, the 1984 disaster in which a pesticide factory exploded in Bhopal. Finally, an interview with Emmanuelle Schick Garcia about her film, The Idiot Cycle, on how multinational chemical companies are both the world's biggest produce carcinogens and are intimately connected with the cancer treatment industry.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-11-6T23:00:30-08:002010-11-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/524#2

This week we continue looking at the toxic nature of the human separation from nature; we bring you 3 different pieces about the human engineering of toxic chemicals. First, an adaptation of Adam Curtis' BBC documentary Goodbye Mrs. Ant, on the rise and fall of the pesticide industry as purveyors of miracle cures, and how discovery of the pernicious effects of DDT lead to the growth of ecology and the environmentalist movement. Secondly, a 2009 interview with about the world's most fatal industrial chemical leak, the 1984 disaster in which a pesticide factory exploded in Bhopal. Finally, an interview with Emmanuelle Schick Garcia about her film, The Idiot Cycle, on how multinational chemical companies are both the world's biggest produce carcinogens and are intimately connected with the cancer treatment industry.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-11-6T23:00:30-08:002010-11-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/523#1

This week we take a look at that engimatic modern prophet, Ivan Illich. His writings covered a wide range of areas, from health to technology to economics to church history and way beyond. Robert Hutchinson will give a quick biographical sketch and introduce some of his radical strands of thought, before we focus on a single major prophesy, the sudden collapse of social power, its revelation as a fiction. We link this to the confidence based backing of centralised currency and hear from Marshall Rosenberg, George Draffan and others on related fictions which people internalise as a response to hierarchy.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-30T23:00:30-08:002010-10-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/523#2

This week we take a look at that engimatic modern prophet, Ivan Illich. His writings covered a wide range of areas, from health to technology to economics to church history and way beyond. Robert Hutchinson will give a quick biographical sketch and introduce some of his radical strands of thought, before we focus on a single major prophesy, the sudden collapse of social power, its revelation as a fiction. We link this to the confidence based backing of centralised currency and hear from Marshall Rosenberg, George Draffan and others on related fictions which people internalise as a response to hierarchy.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-30T23:00:30-08:002010-10-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/522#1

This week a range of voices continue our series on separation. We start with Michael Lerner speaking on his 2006 book, "The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right", about the spiritual disconnection of modern US society, and how this has been both exacerbated and the exploited by an alliance of corporate interests and the 'religious right'. Next a short section of an interview with Bill McKibben. In our second hour, after revisiting the words of Charles Eisenstein, we hear from Richard Louv, about what he terms 'Nature Deficit Disorder'.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-22T23:00:30-08:002010-10-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/522#2

This week a range of voices continue our series on separation. We start with Michael Lerner speaking on his 2006 book, "The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right", about the spiritual disconnection of modern US society, and how this has been both exacerbated and the exploited by an alliance of corporate interests and the 'religious right'. Next a short section of an interview with Bill McKibben. In our second hour, after revisiting the words of Charles Eisenstein, we hear from Richard Louv, about what he terms 'Nature Deficit Disorder'.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-22T23:00:30-08:002010-10-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/521#1

This week, we continue our series on separation, we look at wall building by governments to keep people separate. Is this, as we are told, to keep ordinary citizens safe from terrorism or drug smugglers? In light of the mound of evidence about false flag terror and CIA-sponsored drug smuggling, it seems rational to look for another explanation. In our second hour, Wendy Brown asks whether it could it be to keep us separate and, symbolically, divided, to symbolically perpetuate the illusion of state power? Our first hour starts with a short clip from George Draffan speaking on the introduction of passports and state use of technology to control people. It finishes with a condensed speech by Jaggi Singh on migration and the growing No One Is Illegal resistance movement.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-15T23:00:30-08:002010-10-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/521#2

This week, we continue our series on separation, we look at wall building by governments to keep people separate. Is this, as we are told, to keep ordinary citizens safe from terrorism or drug smugglers? In light of the mound of evidence about false flag terror and CIA-sponsored drug smuggling, it seems rational to look for another explanation. In our second hour, Wendy Brown asks whether it could it be to keep us separate and, symbolically, divided, to symbolically perpetuate the illusion of state power? Our first hour starts with a short clip from George Draffan speaking on the introduction of passports and state use of technology to control people. It finishes with a condensed speech by Jaggi Singh on migration and the growing No One Is Illegal resistance movement.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-15T23:00:30-08:002010-10-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/520#1

We examine whether US schools and colleges exist to serve the greater good of society or to serve the greater wealth of CEOs by creating a pliable underclass who can be moulded according to the whims of capital. We recall Lyn Gerry's original mission for the show, and contrast that with the US education system. We start with two episodes of Third Paradigm about college financing, and read from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In our second hour, we compare Jonathan Kozol's analysis of US schools with the similar, but more radical critique by John Taylor Gatto.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-9T23:00:30-08:002010-10-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/520#2

We examine whether US schools and colleges exist to serve the greater good of society or to serve the greater wealth of CEOs by creating a pliable underclass who can be moulded according to the whims of capital. We recall Lyn Gerry's original mission for the show, and contrast that with the US education system. We start with two episodes of Third Paradigm about college financing, and read from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In our second hour, we compare Jonathan Kozol's analysis of US schools with the similar, but more radical critique by John Taylor Gatto.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-9T23:00:30-08:002010-10-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/519#1

This week we begin a series on separation by looking at the furore surrounding sexual abuse of children. We start with, "Kids, Sex and The State" by Judith Levine, detailing officially sanctioned child abuse by the US government. Don't think paedophile priests when you read that, think "war on drugs". We read of a UK council which has banned parents from attending their own children in its parks, a reminder that crime prevention does not equate to concern for children's welfare. In our second hour, Jackson Katz discusses the primary sexual socialization of young US men - increasingly violent and misogynistic pornography. We contrast this with more the more traditional puberty rites of the Ashanti people of Ghana. We conclude with a presentation by Robert Jensen into what the rise of the US pornography industry reveals about the predatory nature of capitalism.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-1T23:00:30-08:002010-10-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/519#2

This week we begin a series on separation by looking at the furore surrounding sexual abuse of children. We start with, "Kids, Sex and The State" by Judith Levine, detailing officially sanctioned child abuse by the US government. Don't think paedophile priests when you read that, think "war on drugs". We read of a UK council which has banned parents from attending their own children in its parks, a reminder that crime prevention does not equate to concern for children's welfare. In our second hour, Jackson Katz discusses the primary sexual socialization of young US men - increasingly violent and misogynistic pornography. We contrast this with more the more traditional puberty rites of the Ashanti people of Ghana. We conclude with a presentation by Robert Jensen into what the rise of the US pornography industry reveals about the predatory nature of capitalism.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-10-1T23:00:30-08:002010-10-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/518#1

This week, we look at what Peter Phillips of Project Censored terms a "truth emergency", the routine way in which deceitful messages are fabricated and distributed en masse by the corporate media. We start with his presentation to the May 2010 Understanding Deep Politics conference in Santa Cruz. We conclude with an audio adaptation of Scott Noble's effort to combat this tide of misinformation, the video Psywar, about the history of propaganda and psychological war. Focusing on psyops as tools of the class war, Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn and other speakers tell the story of the origins of truth misrepresentation as an industry, and we look at its role in the US military and political establishments.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-9-24T23:00:30-08:002010-9-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/518#2

This week, we look at what Peter Phillips of Project Censored terms a "truth emergency", the routine way in which deceitful messages are fabricated and distributed en masse by the corporate media. We start with his presentation to the May 2010 Understanding Deep Politics conference in Santa Cruz. We conclude with an audio adaptation of Scott Noble's effort to combat this tide of misinformation, the video Psywar, about the history of propaganda and psychological war. Focusing on psyops as tools of the class war, Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn and other speakers tell the story of the origins of truth misrepresentation as an industry, and we look at its role in the US military and political establishments.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-9-24T23:00:30-08:002010-9-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/517#1

This week's show is dedicated to James Douglass. His talk centers on the assassination of JFK, and it retells the Kennedy presidency with some of the backstage manipulations from down memory hole. He sets the scene by recounting Thomas Merton's prediction that, if Kennedy could turn towards the good, he would be assassinated by "the unspeakable". We look at Kennedy's close collaboration with his supposed adversary, Khrushchev to avert war, and explore a parallel with WW1. We listen to a section of Kennedy's most important speech, in which he finally stepped over the line by unilaterally announcing a US nuclear test ban treaty, and chronicle how he worked for world peace, until he we assassinated by the US security state. We conclude by looking at the implications for the 21st century, exploring a parallel with Martin Luther King and hear an afterword by Bill Hicks.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-9-17T23:00:30-08:002010-9-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/517#2

This week's show is dedicated to James Douglass. His talk centers on the assassination of JFK, and it retells the Kennedy presidency with some of the backstage manipulations from down memory hole. He sets the scene by recounting Thomas Merton's prediction that, if Kennedy could turn towards the good, he would be assassinated by "the unspeakable". We look at Kennedy's close collaboration with his supposed adversary, Khrushchev to avert war, and explore a parallel with WW1. We listen to a section of Kennedy's most important speech, in which he finally stepped over the line by unilaterally announcing a US nuclear test ban treaty, and chronicle how he worked for world peace, until he we assassinated by the US security state. We conclude by looking at the implications for the 21st century, exploring a parallel with Martin Luther King and hear an afterword by Bill Hicks.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-9-17T23:00:30-08:002010-9-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/516#1

This week's show looks at food, focussing specifically on the US food system. In our first hour, we hear from Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food. He speaks of the economic pressures that promote energy intensive agribusiness and the growing backlash and grassroots opposition. He casts doubt on the modern, reductionist approach to understanding food, remarking that "in matters of food, so far, culture, historically has been a more reliable guide to what to eat than science." In our second hour, we hear from Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved, on The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-9-10T23:00:30-08:002010-9-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/516#2

This week's show looks at food, focussing specifically on the US food system. In our first hour, we hear from Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food. He speaks of the economic pressures that promote energy intensive agribusiness and the growing backlash and grassroots opposition. He casts doubt on the modern, reductionist approach to understanding food, remarking that "in matters of food, so far, culture, historically has been a more reliable guide to what to eat than science." In our second hour, we hear from Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved, on The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-9-10T23:00:30-08:002010-9-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/515#1

As the corporate media starts to spew forth anti-Iran propaganda, the alternative media are full of reports about the coming attack on Iran. This week in our first hour Webster Tarpley discusses why he expects war with Iran, and why he thinks Wikileaks is not what it appears to be. In our second hour, Stephen Kinzer gives a history of the first coup d'état ever organised by the CIA. "Operation Ajax", motivated by the desire to regain control of the nation's huge oil revenues, ousted Iran's elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, plunging the country into 25 years of US-backed bloody dictatorship.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-9-3T23:00:30-08:002010-9-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/515#2

As the corporate media starts to spew forth anti-Iran propaganda, the alternative media are full of reports about the coming attack on Iran. This week in our first hour Webster Tarpley discusses why he expects war with Iran, and why he thinks Wikileaks is not what it appears to be. In our second hour, Stephen Kinzer gives a history of the first coup d'état ever organised by the CIA. "Operation Ajax", motivated by the desire to regain control of the nation's huge oil revenues, ousted Iran's elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, plunging the country into 25 years of US-backed bloody dictatorship.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-9-3T23:00:30-08:002010-9-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/514#1

Computer technology promises to be make work ever more efficient. But efficient at what? And why? If technology is saving people time, why do they seem to have so little left for what matters? The first hour features a presentation from last month by Nicholas Carr, author of "Is The Internet Making Us Stupid?", introduced by an essay from Steve Talbott, "Multitasking Ourselves to Death". We conclude with a few minutes of history from the great techno-sceptic, Ivan Illich, followed by a speech from Heather Menzies, author of "No Time, Stress, and the Crisis of Modern Life".

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-8-27T23:00:30-08:002010-8-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/514#2

Computer technology promises to be make work ever more efficient. But efficient at what? And why? If technology is saving people time, why do they seem to have so little left for what matters? The first hour features a presentation from last month by Nicholas Carr, author of "Is The Internet Making Us Stupid?", introduced by an essay from Steve Talbott, "Multitasking Ourselves to Death". We conclude with a few minutes of history from the great techno-sceptic, Ivan Illich, followed by a speech from Heather Menzies, author of "No Time, Stress, and the Crisis of Modern Life".

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-8-27T23:00:30-08:002010-8-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/513#1

This week's show looks at the manipulation necessary to create wars from 3 different angles, the brainwashing of recruits, the political manipulation of public opinion, and tailoring of Hollywood's depiction of war.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-8-20T23:00:30-08:002010-8-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/513#2

This week's show looks at the manipulation necessary to create wars from 3 different angles, the brainwashing of recruits, the political manipulation of public opinion, and tailoring of Hollywood's depiction of war.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-8-20T23:00:30-08:002010-8-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/512#1

This week we take two contrasting views of the issue of climate change. Firstly, a speech by Gwynne Dyer from 2009 entitled "Climate wars". Secondly, a classic from the 1970's by visionary US Ecologist Murray Bookchin, on the need to rethink the human relationship to nature, and the numerical bias in Western science.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-8-13T23:00:30-08:002010-8-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/512#2

This week we take two contrasting views of the issue of climate change. Firstly, a speech by Gwynne Dyer from 2009 entitled "Climate wars". Secondly, a classic from the 1970's by visionary US Ecologist Murray Bookchin, on the need to rethink the human relationship to nature, and the numerical bias in Western science.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-8-13T23:00:30-08:002010-8-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/511#1

Starting from the recent UK Deputy Prime Minister's statement that the Iraq War is illegal, this week's show looks at the business of war both for the state and its paid protagonists, adapting a pair of anti-war films by Gwynne Dyer.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-8-6T23:00:30-08:002010-8-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/511#2

Starting from the recent UK Deputy Prime Minister's statement that the Iraq War is illegal, this week's show looks at the business of war both for the state and its paid protagonists, adapting a pair of anti-war films by Gwynne Dyer.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-8-6T23:00:30-08:002010-8-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/510#1

This week's show includes three speakers' exciting vision of a single, global, interconnected human family. We start with Jeremy Rifkin's uplifting conclusion of last week's Empathic Civilization talk, before an interview with Charles Eisenstein and concluding with a similarly uplifting call to change the human narrative by David Korten.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-30T23:00:30-08:002010-7-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/510#2

This week's show includes three speakers' exciting vision of a single, global, interconnected human family. We start with Jeremy Rifkin's uplifting conclusion of last week's Empathic Civilization talk, before an interview with Charles Eisenstein and concluding with a similarly uplifting call to change the human narrative by David Korten.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-30T23:00:30-08:002010-7-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/509#1

The show this week looks at the gift economy. We look at a range of reasons to challenge the cynical, capitalist view of the human as 'red in tooth and claw', listening to evidence from speakers including Alfie Kohn, Genevieve Vaughan & Jeremy Rifkin.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-24T23:00:30-08:002010-7-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/509#2

The show this week looks at the gift economy. We look at a range of reasons to challenge the cynical, capitalist view of the human as 'red in tooth and claw', listening to evidence from speakers including Alfie Kohn, Genevieve Vaughan & Jeremy Rifkin.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-24T23:00:30-08:002010-7-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/508#1

The show this week looks at the financial crisis from two angles. Most of it is given over to a talk by Nicole Foss about the implications for expansionary debt-based money of hitting the planet's ecological limits. We conclude with a reading of Michael Hudson's 2009 article, "The Language of Looting", which explains how the term "free market" is now used to mean the opposite of its historical meaning.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-17T23:00:30-08:002010-7-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/508#2

The show this week looks at the financial crisis from two angles. Most of it is given over to a talk by Nicole Foss about the implications for expansionary debt-based money of hitting the planet's ecological limits. We conclude with a reading of Michael Hudson's 2009 article, "The Language of Looting", which explains how the term "free market" is now used to mean the opposite of its historical meaning.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-17T23:00:30-08:002010-7-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/507#1

This week's show features Jackson Katz' exploration of how Western culture legitimates male violence and domination in institutional power structures. It concludes with an interview with Robert Fuller, who coined the word rankism to talk about abuse of power by those in hierarchies to undermine those beneath them. The first hour begins with some good news from http://indymedia.org.uk, the unanimous exoneration of a team of UK citizens who broke into a factory making weapons destined for Gaza. The jury agreed that they were preventing a greater crime, a principle which, if taken to its logical conclusion, presents a great possibility for change. We adapt Jackson Katz' "Tough Guise - Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity", a video examination of the culture of male violence and mainstream media's contribution to it. It ends with some remarks by Jeremy Rifkin on his new book, "The Empathic Civilization" in which he points to another way of living that to which we will look more closely in a future episode. The second hour concludes Rifkin's remarks, and then features an interview with Robert W. Fuller, on the subject of 'Rankism', a word he coined to describe the abuse, bullying or other disrespect of underlings by those of higher rank. Some listeners may question his naive faith in 'democracy' and 'the market', but still be impressed by his central point that hierarchy as it currently exists equates to a huge dignity deficit. I hope you will be as encouraged as I am that people from all walks of life and political viewpoints are concluding that a big change is coming.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-10T23:00:30-08:002010-7-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/507#2

This week's show features Jackson Katz' exploration of how Western culture legitimates male violence and domination in institutional power structures. It concludes with an interview with Robert Fuller, who coined the word rankism to talk about abuse of power by those in hierarchies to undermine those beneath them. The first hour begins with some good news from http://indymedia.org.uk, the unanimous exoneration of a team of UK citizens who broke into a factory making weapons destined for Gaza. The jury agreed that they were preventing a greater crime, a principle which, if taken to its logical conclusion, presents a great possibility for change. We adapt Jackson Katz' "Tough Guise - Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity", a video examination of the culture of male violence and mainstream media's contribution to it. It ends with some remarks by Jeremy Rifkin on his new book, "The Empathic Civilization" in which he points to another way of living that to which we will look more closely in a future episode. The second hour concludes Rifkin's remarks, and then features an interview with Robert W. Fuller, on the subject of 'Rankism', a word he coined to describe the abuse, bullying or other disrespect of underlings by those of higher rank. Some listeners may question his naive faith in 'democracy' and 'the market', but still be impressed by his central point that hierarchy as it currently exists equates to a huge dignity deficit. I hope you will be as encouraged as I am that people from all walks of life and political viewpoints are concluding that a big change is coming.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-10T23:00:30-08:002010-7-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/506#1

John Taylor Gatto has documented how business interests instituted forced schooling to 'dumb down' active citizens into consumers passive enough to work for the man and accept what they were given by corporations. This show looks at the moral component of dumbing down, the undermining of people's innate altruism and moral sense, making them easily manipulable by money. The first hour starts with a presentation by Alfie Kohn on teaching children to care. He explains how the strict father approach of praising or rewarding kids for being kind to others and punishing them for being selfish undermines children's ability to become nurturers of others, by encouraging them to think only of themselves. It ends with a humorous piece from The Onion about the hypnotic power money has over people. The second hour starts with a song "Don't Let Money Change You" and some remarks of Noam Chomsky from episode 29 on the "Spirit of the Age" (Selfish love of money) from the 1850's. Next is Daniel Pink's review of research into the relationship between motivation and performance, and a section episode 371's adaption of "The Trap" on New Labour's introduction of target culture into UK. It replays "12 Shovels", from episode 183, Lyn Gerry's parallel of capitalism to the sadistic behaviour of Nazi Concentration camp guards, before concluding with a presentation by Barry Schwartz on Moral Values.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-2T23:00:30-08:002010-7-2T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/506#2

John Taylor Gatto has documented how business interests instituted forced schooling to 'dumb down' active citizens into consumers passive enough to work for the man and accept what they were given by corporations. This show looks at the moral component of dumbing down, the undermining of people's innate altruism and moral sense, making them easily manipulable by money. The first hour starts with a presentation by Alfie Kohn on teaching children to care. He explains how the strict father approach of praising or rewarding kids for being kind to others and punishing them for being selfish undermines children's ability to become nurturers of others, by encouraging them to think only of themselves. It ends with a humorous piece from The Onion about the hypnotic power money has over people. The second hour starts with a song "Don't Let Money Change You" and some remarks of Noam Chomsky from episode 29 on the "Spirit of the Age" (Selfish love of money) from the 1850's. Next is Daniel Pink's review of research into the relationship between motivation and performance, and a section episode 371's adaption of "The Trap" on New Labour's introduction of target culture into UK. It replays "12 Shovels", from episode 183, Lyn Gerry's parallel of capitalism to the sadistic behaviour of Nazi Concentration camp guards, before concluding with a presentation by Barry Schwartz on Moral Values.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-7-2T23:00:30-08:002010-7-2T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/505#1

This week's show attempts to deconstruct the matrix of illusion that surrounds money and economics that is used to disorientate citizens and keep them working hard for their corporate masters. The first part is a speech by cognitive linguist, George Lakoff, entitled "Moral Politics". He explains the nature of metaphor and presents two contrasting approaches to parenthood, the "Strict Father" and the "Nurturing parent" models, linking these to Republican v. Democratic politics in US. I present some information I've uncovered about "economic literacy", and how business leaders used it to promote some of the worldview that Lakoff refers to as the "Strict Father" model. The second hour revisits Lyn Gerry's reading of Richard K. Moore's "Escaping The Matrix" essay from episode #87, deconstructing the economic and political agenda of the 1980's in US/UK and beyond. We conclude with another lively deconstruction, by economist Michael Hudson, likening the FIRE (Finance, Insurance & Real Estate) sector to a parasite that lives on the host of the productive economy. Most obviously, it sucks money from it, less remarked upon, it numbs the brain of the body politic, through control of mass media, to present itself as essential to the health of its prey, the real economy.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-6-26T23:00:30-08:002010-6-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/505#2

This week's show attempts to deconstruct the matrix of illusion that surrounds money and economics that is used to disorientate citizens and keep them working hard for their corporate masters. The first part is a speech by cognitive linguist, George Lakoff, entitled "Moral Politics". He explains the nature of metaphor and presents two contrasting approaches to parenthood, the "Strict Father" and the "Nurturing parent" models, linking these to Republican v. Democratic politics in US. I present some information I've uncovered about "economic literacy", and how business leaders used it to promote some of the worldview that Lakoff refers to as the "Strict Father" model. The second hour revisits Lyn Gerry's reading of Richard K. Moore's "Escaping The Matrix" essay from episode #87, deconstructing the economic and political agenda of the 1980's in US/UK and beyond. We conclude with another lively deconstruction, by economist Michael Hudson, likening the FIRE (Finance, Insurance & Real Estate) sector to a parasite that lives on the host of the productive economy. Most obviously, it sucks money from it, less remarked upon, it numbs the brain of the body politic, through control of mass media, to present itself as essential to the health of its prey, the real economy.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-6-26T23:00:30-08:002010-6-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/504#1

The first hour is a radio adaptation of "On The Desperate Edge Of Now", the first part of an Adam Curtis series entitled "The Living Dead". It explains how WW2 was recreated by the Nuremburg War Crimes trials as a just war, with clear heroes and villains. Interviews with veterans reveal the psychological cost of taking part in war, and the difficulty of coming to terms with it in a society which left unexamined the difficult questions of why and how the war was fought. The second hour features two speeches from www.bbc5.tv. Firstly a speech given to the Make Wars History conference by retired surgeon turned peace activist, David Halpin, on the reality of war, in which he shares his experiences of Gaza and his exasperation at the stupefaction of most of the British public. It concludes with a presentation by Chris Coverdale in the UK House of Commons to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Preventing war on the legal status of the invasions of Iraq and Afganistan under existing anti-war laws.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-6-19T23:00:30-08:002010-6-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/504#2

The first hour is a radio adaptation of "On The Desperate Edge Of Now", the first part of an Adam Curtis series entitled "The Living Dead". It explains how WW2 was recreated by the Nuremburg War Crimes trials as a just war, with clear heroes and villains. Interviews with veterans reveal the psychological cost of taking part in war, and the difficulty of coming to terms with it in a society which left unexamined the difficult questions of why and how the war was fought. The second hour features two speeches from www.bbc5.tv. Firstly a speech given to the Make Wars History conference by retired surgeon turned peace activist, David Halpin, on the reality of war, in which he shares his experiences of Gaza and his exasperation at the stupefaction of most of the British public. It concludes with a presentation by Chris Coverdale in the UK House of Commons to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Preventing war on the legal status of the invasions of Iraq and Afganistan under existing anti-war laws.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-6-19T23:00:30-08:002010-6-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/503#1

I hope to have my technical issues sorted our by next week. Meanwhile, this is as relevant as when it was first aired 5 years ago, as it deals with restructuring society and economy in a sustainable and many believe, more livable, way

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-2-15T23:00:30-08:002010-2-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/503#2

I hope to have my technical issues sorted our by next week. Meanwhile, this is as relevant as when it was first aired 5 years ago, as it deals with restructuring society and economy in a sustainable and many believe, more livable, way

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-2-15T23:00:30-08:002010-2-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/502#1

Hi All, My computer repairs are not yet finished but I though this show covered a question that never goes out of style and many recent listeners will have never heard it. The unemployment numbers are a regular feature of reporting and debate these days, which centers around "how to create jobs" but does not address the question of whether we really want a society that requires most to have "jobs" created by other people as opposed to work they do as they deem necessary and desirable. What is the result? One can go to a store and see a whole aisle of vile smelling laundry detergents that are all the same except for the packaging, but no one can "afford" to clean up polluted lands and waterways.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-2-8T23:00:30-08:002010-2-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/502#2

Hi All, My computer repairs are not yet finished but I though this show covered a question that never goes out of style and many recent listeners will have never heard it. The unemployment numbers are a regular feature of reporting and debate these days, which centers around "how to create jobs" but does not address the question of whether we really want a society that requires most to have "jobs" created by other people as opposed to work they do as they deem necessary and desirable. What is the result? One can go to a store and see a whole aisle of vile smelling laundry detergents that are all the same except for the packaging, but no one can "afford" to clean up polluted lands and waterways.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-2-8T23:00:30-08:002010-2-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/501#1

This was the last speech I recorded, when Howard Zinn spoke in Binghamton, NY on The Power to Change, a few days after Obama's election. I have heard many of his speeches and this was one of the best. I have dreaded his passing and now it is here. What a loss to the world! On top of it all, my sound card failed and the new one won't arrive til next week, so this is a rebroadcast of an old show which is why it does not mention his passing. It ends with a reading from Susan Rosenthal's book power and powerlessness

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-31T23:00:30-08:002010-1-31T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/501#2

This was the last speech I recorded, when Howard Zinn spoke in Binghamton, NY on The Power to Change, a few days after Obama's election. I have heard many of his speeches and this was one of the best. I have dreaded his passing and now it is here. What a loss to the world! On top of it all, my sound card failed and the new one won't arrive til next week, so this is a rebroadcast of an old show which is why it does not mention his passing. It ends with a reading from Susan Rosenthal's book power and powerlessness

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-31T23:00:30-08:002010-1-31T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/500#1

Last week's ruling by the US Supreme Court that campaign finance laws abridge the first amendment rights of corporations serves to demonstrate why the issue of citizen organizing to bring down corporate rule is a prerequisite to effectively dealing with almost every societal problem because it goes to the core issue of the power to decide how we want to live.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-25T23:00:30-08:002010-1-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/500#2

Last week's ruling by the US Supreme Court that campaign finance laws abridge the first amendment rights of corporations serves to demonstrate why the issue of citizen organizing to bring down corporate rule is a prerequisite to effectively dealing with almost every societal problem because it goes to the core issue of the power to decide how we want to live.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-25T23:00:30-08:002010-1-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/499#1

Just the facts

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-18T23:00:30-08:002010-1-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/499#2

Just the facts

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-18T23:00:30-08:002010-1-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/498#1

This week on the program we’ll continue on the topic of understanding corporate rule for the purpose of discovering the foundation of its power and undermining it, using the book Defying corporations, Defining democracy as our reference point. In addition to another reading from the book, I’m going to play you some other material that illuminates the issue in various ways. We’ll begin with a panel discussion state surveillance that was held at the Oct 2009 convention of the national lawyers guild in Seattle. The discussion did not mention corporations as such, yet the framework of corporate rule underlies the surveillance of citizens by the state. In advance of every significant official gathering of the powerful whether political conventions, economic summits or trade negotiations an increasing amount of law enforcement personnel and materiel are directed toward thwarting protest and other oppositional activity. This is justified under the rubric of public safety When did you ever see such law enforcement power brought to bear against the violence, and harm perpetrated by the corporate class every single day?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-11T23:00:30-08:002010-1-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/498#2

This week on the program we’ll continue on the topic of understanding corporate rule for the purpose of discovering the foundation of its power and undermining it, using the book Defying corporations, Defining democracy as our reference point. In addition to another reading from the book, I’m going to play you some other material that illuminates the issue in various ways. We’ll begin with a panel discussion state surveillance that was held at the Oct 2009 convention of the national lawyers guild in Seattle. The discussion did not mention corporations as such, yet the framework of corporate rule underlies the surveillance of citizens by the state. In advance of every significant official gathering of the powerful whether political conventions, economic summits or trade negotiations an increasing amount of law enforcement personnel and materiel are directed toward thwarting protest and other oppositional activity. This is justified under the rubric of public safety When did you ever see such law enforcement power brought to bear against the violence, and harm perpetrated by the corporate class every single day?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-11T23:00:30-08:002010-1-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/497#1

This week I’m going to begin by reading a more essays from the book Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. Then a talk by Susan George :Where did the money go?" Are disparities of wealth the cause of political inequality, or the result?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-5T23:00:30-08:002010-1-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/497#2

This week I’m going to begin by reading a more essays from the book Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. Then a talk by Susan George :Where did the money go?" Are disparities of wealth the cause of political inequality, or the result?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2010-1-5T23:00:30-08:002010-1-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/496#1

Corporate anthropologist Jane Ann Morris on corporate personhood and readings from "Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy"

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-12-28T23:00:30-08:002009-12-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/496#2

Corporate anthropologist Jane Ann Morris on corporate personhood and readings from "Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy"

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-12-28T23:00:30-08:002009-12-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/495#1

This week on the program for your edification during the holiday season, a collection of tales of horror, some real some fictional. The real tales in are testimonies of people in New York, Pennsylvania and Colorado whose homes and lives have been destroyed so that energy corporations can make profits for their shareholders extracting gas to fuel the orgy of consumption and waste that is proudly called by some our way of life, but that is leading inexorably towards our way of death. Out fictional horror stories are readings of works by Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-12-22T23:00:30-08:002009-12-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/495#2

This week on the program for your edification during the holiday season, a collection of tales of horror, some real some fictional. The real tales in are testimonies of people in New York, Pennsylvania and Colorado whose homes and lives have been destroyed so that energy corporations can make profits for their shareholders extracting gas to fuel the orgy of consumption and waste that is proudly called by some our way of life, but that is leading inexorably towards our way of death. Out fictional horror stories are readings of works by Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-12-22T23:00:30-08:002009-12-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/494#1

the politics, economics, propaganda and reality of climate change and its deniers in the age of stupid

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-12-15T23:00:30-08:002009-12-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/494#2

the politics, economics, propaganda and reality of climate change and its deniers in the age of stupid

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-12-15T23:00:30-08:002009-12-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/493#1

a seminar conducted by Charles Eisenstein, author of the Ascent of Humanity, on deschooling. It deals identifying the ways of thinking and behaving, in other words the social conditioning, inculcated by the schooling process so that we can engage in our mental liberation

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-12-7T23:00:30-08:002009-12-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/493#2

a seminar conducted by Charles Eisenstein, author of the Ascent of Humanity, on deschooling. It deals identifying the ways of thinking and behaving, in other words the social conditioning, inculcated by the schooling process so that we can engage in our mental liberation

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-12-7T23:00:30-08:002009-12-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/492#1

We continue last weeks thread about getting serious about a total transformation of humans relationship to living on earth with two different flavors of hard core conversation - more Derrick Jensen and Canadian ecologist Bill Rees

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-30T23:00:30-08:002009-11-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/492#2

We continue last weeks thread about getting serious about a total transformation of humans relationship to living on earth with two different flavors of hard core conversation - more Derrick Jensen and Canadian ecologist Bill Rees

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-30T23:00:30-08:002009-11-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/491#1

The question of how we want to live our lives, both individually and collectively lies at the heart of all the problems we face, and how we solve them, .whether we are talking about preventing the destruction of rural New York by hydrocarbon corporations, of the collapse of the planets biosphere because of people that will not let go of a destructive social system,. In the parlance of Charles Eisenstein, whether we survive and move to an age of reunion, or extinguish ourselves and most everything else clinging to the deck chairs of the age of separation. The question of how we live our life was the topic of a wide ranging discussion between author Derrick Jensen, activist red moon Song and students at the university of Connecticut last month. The discussion lasted for three hours, so I’ve had to cut a lot out . Full version is at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37233

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-23T23:00:30-08:002009-11-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/491#2

The question of how we want to live our lives, both individually and collectively lies at the heart of all the problems we face, and how we solve them, .whether we are talking about preventing the destruction of rural New York by hydrocarbon corporations, of the collapse of the planets biosphere because of people that will not let go of a destructive social system,. In the parlance of Charles Eisenstein, whether we survive and move to an age of reunion, or extinguish ourselves and most everything else clinging to the deck chairs of the age of separation. The question of how we live our life was the topic of a wide ranging discussion between author Derrick Jensen, activist red moon Song and students at the university of Connecticut last month. The discussion lasted for three hours, so I’ve had to cut a lot out . Full version is at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37233

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-23T23:00:30-08:002009-11-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/490#1

I have said that I am not exaggerating when I say that that hydrofracking shale to extract gas has destroyed the land, air and water wherever it has been done. There are no exceptions It also destroys the character, peace and beauty of the place, as well as in many cases the fabric of community, fracturing long time friendships. Fundamentally it lays waste to a variety of freedoms, as you will hear demonstrated by example on the program this week. Our featured presentation is the stories of three people from Susquehanna County Pennsylvania whose beautiful countryside is being reduced to poison and poison and profit by gas drillers. Each of the people’s stories brings out a different aspect. They were interviewed by a several people from the shale shock, coalition a citizen’s anti-fracking group based in the Ithaca area, who made the trip to Pennsylvania at the end of October.. The witnesses spoke under condition of anonymity, so they will be introduced by first name only. Why they wished this will become obvious as you hear their stories.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-16T23:00:30-08:002009-11-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/490#2

I have said that I am not exaggerating when I say that that hydrofracking shale to extract gas has destroyed the land, air and water wherever it has been done. There are no exceptions It also destroys the character, peace and beauty of the place, as well as in many cases the fabric of community, fracturing long time friendships. Fundamentally it lays waste to a variety of freedoms, as you will hear demonstrated by example on the program this week. Our featured presentation is the stories of three people from Susquehanna County Pennsylvania whose beautiful countryside is being reduced to poison and poison and profit by gas drillers. Each of the people’s stories brings out a different aspect. They were interviewed by a several people from the shale shock, coalition a citizen’s anti-fracking group based in the Ithaca area, who made the trip to Pennsylvania at the end of October.. The witnesses spoke under condition of anonymity, so they will be introduced by first name only. Why they wished this will become obvious as you hear their stories.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-16T23:00:30-08:002009-11-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/489#1

first hour, audio from the video: Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations What you need to know about natural gas production, about the destruction of Colorado by fracking for natural gas from shale, and then reading from Permaculture: princples and Pathways Beyond Sustainability

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-9T23:00:30-08:002009-11-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/489#2

first hour, audio from the video: Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations What you need to know about natural gas production, about the destruction of Colorado by fracking for natural gas from shale, and then reading from Permaculture: princples and Pathways Beyond Sustainability

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-9T23:00:30-08:002009-11-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/488#1

3 davids on saving the world

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-2T23:00:30-08:002009-11-2T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/488#2

3 davids on saving the world

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-11-2T23:00:30-08:002009-11-2T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/487#1

This week on the program we’re going look at the battle to defend the human right and human necessity of access to fresh clean water from corporate privatizers. Whoseover controls your access to water controls you, because you will die without it. So of course this is an important subject for everyone, but it is a critical issue to those of here in New York State fighting an invasion of gas drillers. In order to access the gas contained in shale thousands of feet below, the drillers must use a process patented by Halliburton called fracking that requires the injection billions of gallons of a toxic brew of water, sand and chemicals into the earth to force gas from the shale formations. Blue Gold is a documentary on the subject of water privatization that was released last year based on a book of the same title by Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow. I have adapted it for radio. . For those facing the gas drilling threat, the information in this film adds a whole new dimension. If they pollute the water as well as extract gas, there is a great additional profit opportunity. Selling us the water we once had for free as part of the commons they destroyed

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-10-27T23:00:30-08:002009-10-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/487#2

This week on the program we’re going look at the battle to defend the human right and human necessity of access to fresh clean water from corporate privatizers. Whoseover controls your access to water controls you, because you will die without it. So of course this is an important subject for everyone, but it is a critical issue to those of here in New York State fighting an invasion of gas drillers. In order to access the gas contained in shale thousands of feet below, the drillers must use a process patented by Halliburton called fracking that requires the injection billions of gallons of a toxic brew of water, sand and chemicals into the earth to force gas from the shale formations. Blue Gold is a documentary on the subject of water privatization that was released last year based on a book of the same title by Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow. I have adapted it for radio. . For those facing the gas drilling threat, the information in this film adds a whole new dimension. If they pollute the water as well as extract gas, there is a great additional profit opportunity. Selling us the water we once had for free as part of the commons they destroyed

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A friend of mine recently told me she saw something on TV that shocked her. It was some sort of event of republican party faithful during which the announcement was made that Chicago has lost its bid to host the Olympics. The people at this event were celebrating this announcement because they saw it as a defeat for Barack Obama who had been speaking on behalf of the city of Chicago as an Olympic venue. Why this shocked me is not because it was petty. I am no saint and have done my share of petty things. What surprised me so much about my friend's story was that the people at this event, who knew they were being broadcast were not ashamed to display their pettiness to world. People used to be embarrassed about things and it seemed to me telling that they weren't. This inspired me to present the material in this weeks show.

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A friend of mine recently told me she saw something on TV that shocked her. It was some sort of event of republican party faithful during which the announcement was made that Chicago has lost its bid to host the Olympics. The people at this event were celebrating this announcement because they saw it as a defeat for Barack Obama who had been speaking on behalf of the city of Chicago as an Olympic venue. Why this shocked me is not because it was petty. I am no saint and have done my share of petty things. What surprised me so much about my friend's story was that the people at this event, who knew they were being broadcast were not ashamed to display their pettiness to world. People used to be embarrassed about things and it seemed to me telling that they weren't. This inspired me to present the material in this weeks show.

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conclusion of ascent of humanity

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conclusion of ascent of humanity

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Last week. I said we'd finish the series of readings from Charles Eisenstein's book the Ascent of Humanity. Well, it turns out not quite right, because I couldn't make everything fit into the exact one hour and fifty nine minutes this show is required to occupy, no more or less. In the age of reunion, radio shows will get to be whatever length they need to be. and not have to conform to a predetermined clock. Everything we do is subject, even in subtle ways to the machine ideology of mass production and nothing more so than the system of schooling, which which figures prominently in Eisenstein's book, and will be the topic of two interviews in the first hour

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Last week. I said we'd finish the series of readings from Charles Eisenstein's book the Ascent of Humanity. Well, it turns out not quite right, because I couldn't make everything fit into the exact one hour and fifty nine minutes this show is required to occupy, no more or less. In the age of reunion, radio shows will get to be whatever length they need to be. and not have to conform to a predetermined clock. Everything we do is subject, even in subtle ways to the machine ideology of mass production and nothing more so than the system of schooling, which which figures prominently in Eisenstein's book, and will be the topic of two interviews in the first hour

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-10-6T23:00:30-08:002009-10-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/482#1

This week we begin the final chapter, and penultimate reading from Charles Eisenstein's 2006 book - the ascent. of humanity...Accompanying the reading will be several other voices that resonate with ideas brought out in the reading. The stages of birth a key metaphor that Eisenstein will employ in discussing the change of thinking and thence society from the ideology of domination and control to the age of reunion, and of those in society attempting to forestall the process of birth by crawling back into the womb

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-9-28T23:00:30-08:002009-9-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/482#2

This week we begin the final chapter, and penultimate reading from Charles Eisenstein's 2006 book - the ascent. of humanity...Accompanying the reading will be several other voices that resonate with ideas brought out in the reading. The stages of birth a key metaphor that Eisenstein will employ in discussing the change of thinking and thence society from the ideology of domination and control to the age of reunion, and of those in society attempting to forestall the process of birth by crawling back into the womb

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-9-28T23:00:30-08:002009-9-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/481#1

Charles Eisenstein on language that doesn't lie and Mbanna Kantako on how the concept of human rights transformed his life and broadcasting

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Charles Eisenstein on language that doesn't lie and Mbanna Kantako on how the concept of human rights transformed his life and broadcasting

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This week in our continuing reading from the ascent of humanity by Charles Eisenstein, he will address the power that the stories we tell have over us. He is speaking quite literally and this sounds strange because we are all raised on sayings like sticks and stones .... Language however is the seminal huamn technology that had made all the rest of what we call civilization possibile. The reading will set the stage for some other material that graphically demonstrates the way that stories sre battlefields in the struggle for power. Nothing demonstrates this so clearly as the question of the story of the events of September 11, 2001. As is obvious when we think about it, the story of the purpose of the attacks of that day and who perptrated them has had life changing consequences on the whole world.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-9-15T23:00:30-08:002009-9-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/480#2

This week in our continuing reading from the ascent of humanity by Charles Eisenstein, he will address the power that the stories we tell have over us. He is speaking quite literally and this sounds strange because we are all raised on sayings like sticks and stones .... Language however is the seminal huamn technology that had made all the rest of what we call civilization possibile. The reading will set the stage for some other material that graphically demonstrates the way that stories sre battlefields in the struggle for power. Nothing demonstrates this so clearly as the question of the story of the events of September 11, 2001. As is obvious when we think about it, the story of the purpose of the attacks of that day and who perptrated them has had life changing consequences on the whole world.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-9-15T23:00:30-08:002009-9-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/479#1

We continue in our reading from Ascent of Humanity and pair that with a 1999 talk by Dakota poet and activist John Trudell that deal with the imposition and disengagement from machine culture as a process of brutalization and stupefaction, and its opposite intelligence and responsibility. This is what real personal responsibility looks like (as opposed to the slave version of that )

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We continue in our reading from Ascent of Humanity and pair that with a 1999 talk by Dakota poet and activist John Trudell that deal with the imposition and disengagement from machine culture as a process of brutalization and stupefaction, and its opposite intelligence and responsibility. This is what real personal responsibility looks like (as opposed to the slave version of that )

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-9-7T23:00:30-08:002009-9-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/478#1

Continuing in chapter 7 of Ascent of Humanity with a guest commentary by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock

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Continuing in chapter 7 of Ascent of Humanity with a guest commentary by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock

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Economic criminals from inside and outside the box

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Economic criminals from inside and outside the box

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Runaway biosphere destruction, and a money systems that promote cooperation instead of greed

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-8-17T23:00:30-08:002009-8-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/476#2

Runaway biosphere destruction, and a money systems that promote cooperation instead of greed

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-8-17T23:00:30-08:002009-8-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/475#1

This week we'll begin chapter seven in Charles Eisenstein's Ascent of Humanity, where in he address the question of despair and optimism, and demurrage currency, a system of money that encourages cooperation and disaccumulation. But first, a remarkable talk from Greenfest 2009: John Doscher on Capitalism as Culture

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This week we'll begin chapter seven in Charles Eisenstein's Ascent of Humanity, where in he address the question of despair and optimism, and demurrage currency, a system of money that encourages cooperation and disaccumulation. But first, a remarkable talk from Greenfest 2009: John Doscher on Capitalism as Culture

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-8-10T23:00:30-08:002009-8-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/474#1

The latest thinking in the field of biology relegates competition to a minor theme within a cooperative system, in which order emerges organically from complexity

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-8-3T23:00:30-08:002009-8-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/474#2

The latest thinking in the field of biology relegates competition to a minor theme within a cooperative system, in which order emerges organically from complexity

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-8-3T23:00:30-08:002009-8-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/473#1

philosopher, mathematician, linguist and healer Charles Eisenstein has up to this point examined the fundamental ideology underlying both our science and religion, the project of domination and control, why this has led to the myriad problems we face and the general dissatisfaction most people feel with life.This week , we being a new phase of the book that makes clear why our attempts to fix our problems only result in greater ones - the very premises under which we operate, the story that we tell to explain reality, whether scientifically or spiritually is false.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-7-27T23:00:30-08:002009-7-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/473#2

philosopher, mathematician, linguist and healer Charles Eisenstein has up to this point examined the fundamental ideology underlying both our science and religion, the project of domination and control, why this has led to the myriad problems we face and the general dissatisfaction most people feel with life.This week , we being a new phase of the book that makes clear why our attempts to fix our problems only result in greater ones - the very premises under which we operate, the story that we tell to explain reality, whether scientifically or spiritually is false.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-7-27T23:00:30-08:002009-7-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/472#1

How the technological program of domination and control plays our in law, medicine, psychiatry and the question of suffering

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-7-20T23:00:30-08:002009-7-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/472#2

How the technological program of domination and control plays our in law, medicine, psychiatry and the question of suffering

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-7-20T23:00:30-08:002009-7-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/471#1

continuing in Chapter 5 on the mechanisms of social control used to break the spirit to the paltry offerings of the culture of control

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continuing in Chapter 5 on the mechanisms of social control used to break the spirit to the paltry offerings of the culture of control

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-7-13T23:00:30-08:002009-7-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/470#1

More and money, property, and the ideology of innate human depravity, and how this determines the sense of self and the concept of morality, and why previous revolutionary thinkers have not gone far enough

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-7-6T23:00:30-08:002009-7-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/470#2

More and money, property, and the ideology of innate human depravity, and how this determines the sense of self and the concept of morality, and why previous revolutionary thinkers have not gone far enough

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-7-6T23:00:30-08:002009-7-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/469#1

In this section, he elaborates on all the things that have been taken from us to be sold back to us for profit, and how we cannot ever solve the destruction of the planet unless the process of commodify our lives ends

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-6-29T23:00:30-08:002009-6-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/469#2

In this section, he elaborates on all the things that have been taken from us to be sold back to us for profit, and how we cannot ever solve the destruction of the planet unless the process of commodify our lives ends

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-6-29T23:00:30-08:002009-6-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/468#1

Rhis week we get to money, and its fundamental antagonism to community. The role of money is to rake away what we did for ourselves, and sell it back to us, by creating a society in which everyone is dispensable

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Rhis week we get to money, and its fundamental antagonism to community. The role of money is to rake away what we did for ourselves, and sell it back to us, by creating a society in which everyone is dispensable

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-6-22T23:00:30-08:002009-6-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/467#1

What do science and religion have in common?

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What do science and religion have in common?

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This week I'm going to continue with the reading from Charles Eisenstein's the ascent of humanity, a wide ranging tour de force that examines the ideology that underlies the pathological behavior that has caused the human species to bring a planet that was indeed the garden of eden to the brink of destruction.

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This week I'm going to continue with the reading from Charles Eisenstein's the ascent of humanity, a wide ranging tour de force that examines the ideology that underlies the pathological behavior that has caused the human species to bring a planet that was indeed the garden of eden to the brink of destruction.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-6-8T23:00:30-08:002009-6-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/465#1

This week I'm going to devote the entirety to the program again to the reading of Charles Eisenstein's ascent of Humanity. The mark of how lost our society is can be seen in that almost nobody has ever heard of this book, when its contents should be a topic of discussion in every bar and cafe instead of what is being talked about

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This week I'm going to devote the entirety to the program again to the reading of Charles Eisenstein's ascent of Humanity. The mark of how lost our society is can be seen in that almost nobody has ever heard of this book, when its contents should be a topic of discussion in every bar and cafe instead of what is being talked about

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-6-1T23:00:30-08:002009-6-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/464#1

This week, the mental technologies and their role in the Age of Separation

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This week, the mental technologies and their role in the Age of Separation

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-5-25T23:00:30-08:002009-5-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/463#1

crises are swirling around us, events are unfolding and policies and programs are being hotly debated. The topics such as whether people shall have universal care, or torturers be brought to account, or institutions of an economic system rescued and and what , or wars be continued or ended, and what to do about the destruction of natural world, all these are of the utmost importance. Yet I am frustrated with the nature of the debate, because it is not addressing the way these things are connected, and they are. There is even now in our society more broadly a parallel contest between science and religion, and these are seen as opposites fighting for supremacy, modernity versus morality as characterized by the Abrahamic world view. But Charles Eisentein the author of the the ascent humanity has illuminated the illusory nature of even that difference. Underlying all these things is a world view and program of domination and control, of viewing the human being as separate and and antagonistic to mature in a struggle for survival, cast out of the garden of eden. Eisenstein had begun his book by defining that world view of domination and control that is the central project of what we call civilization. And if we are to devise solutions that truly solve anything, I believe we must go that deep. And therefore, I am going to devote the entire program this week to just reading from his tour de force, the ascent of humanity. And Eisenstein believes we are the cusp of a new era in the history of humanity when we have reached the limits of a very long process of what he calls separation, and that it is now to reunite with an identity long abandoned, not as a a going backwards, but as a sort of, my words, coming full circle.....

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-5-18T23:00:30-08:002009-5-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/463#2

crises are swirling around us, events are unfolding and policies and programs are being hotly debated. The topics such as whether people shall have universal care, or torturers be brought to account, or institutions of an economic system rescued and and what , or wars be continued or ended, and what to do about the destruction of natural world, all these are of the utmost importance. Yet I am frustrated with the nature of the debate, because it is not addressing the way these things are connected, and they are. There is even now in our society more broadly a parallel contest between science and religion, and these are seen as opposites fighting for supremacy, modernity versus morality as characterized by the Abrahamic world view. But Charles Eisentein the author of the the ascent humanity has illuminated the illusory nature of even that difference. Underlying all these things is a world view and program of domination and control, of viewing the human being as separate and and antagonistic to mature in a struggle for survival, cast out of the garden of eden. Eisenstein had begun his book by defining that world view of domination and control that is the central project of what we call civilization. And if we are to devise solutions that truly solve anything, I believe we must go that deep. And therefore, I am going to devote the entire program this week to just reading from his tour de force, the ascent of humanity. And Eisenstein believes we are the cusp of a new era in the history of humanity when we have reached the limits of a very long process of what he calls separation, and that it is now to reunite with an identity long abandoned, not as a a going backwards, but as a sort of, my words, coming full circle.....

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-5-18T23:00:30-08:002009-5-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/462#1

our core myth in western civilization is that the aim of human progress is to dominate nature, whether justified in religious texts or in the secular religion of science and technology. That we would have the outcomes we have is not surprising when one examines the value systems that guide the choices society makes

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our core myth in western civilization is that the aim of human progress is to dominate nature, whether justified in religious texts or in the secular religion of science and technology. That we would have the outcomes we have is not surprising when one examines the value systems that guide the choices society makes

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-5-11T23:00:30-08:002009-5-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/461#1

This week on the show we'll continue to explore visions of human society more congenial to our highest aspirations as well as our most basic needs. In the first hour of the program we'll return to another recording from the 4th Oekonux Conference, on the topic of ending artificial scarcity by applying the philosophy of free software to economic and legal systems. Then a reading from the Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein dealing with the religion of technology and control, the unifying principle beneath humanities diverse crises.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-5-4T23:00:30-08:002009-5-4T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/461#2

This week on the show we'll continue to explore visions of human society more congenial to our highest aspirations as well as our most basic needs. In the first hour of the program we'll return to another recording from the 4th Oekonux Conference, on the topic of ending artificial scarcity by applying the philosophy of free software to economic and legal systems. Then a reading from the Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein dealing with the religion of technology and control, the unifying principle beneath humanities diverse crises.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-5-4T23:00:30-08:002009-5-4T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/460#1

Last week on the program we heard a documentary that covered a twenty year period during which the remote Himalayan region of Ladakh was subjected to capitalist development in the name of progress that destroyed an ancient culture based on solidarity, and the fragile ecosystem which had previously met the needs of the people. Where there had been a sense of abundance and happiness, there was now typical third world squalor and dispair.On the program this week, we cover the global economic crises as the death throes of the unsustainable rule of money, and how to re build a culture in itsd ashes, based in mutual aid and respect for each other and the land. You can have TARP, or BARF or FART, but business as usual is so, so over, I'll begin by reading you an article by Charles Eisenstein, author of the Ascent of Humanity . He puts the current economic crises at the cusp of a needed and longed for change in the basis of human society, what he calls the age of reunion, the return of the gift economy. We;ll conclude the program with another presentation from the 4 annual oekonux conference, Free Software and Beyond The World of Peer Production held in Manchester, England last month that brought together an international group of people from the free software movement that are exploring the application of peer to peer networks and free collaboration beyond software to society as a whole..

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Last week on the program we heard a documentary that covered a twenty year period during which the remote Himalayan region of Ladakh was subjected to capitalist development in the name of progress that destroyed an ancient culture based on solidarity, and the fragile ecosystem which had previously met the needs of the people. Where there had been a sense of abundance and happiness, there was now typical third world squalor and dispair.On the program this week, we cover the global economic crises as the death throes of the unsustainable rule of money, and how to re build a culture in itsd ashes, based in mutual aid and respect for each other and the land. You can have TARP, or BARF or FART, but business as usual is so, so over, I'll begin by reading you an article by Charles Eisenstein, author of the Ascent of Humanity . He puts the current economic crises at the cusp of a needed and longed for change in the basis of human society, what he calls the age of reunion, the return of the gift economy. We;ll conclude the program with another presentation from the 4 annual oekonux conference, Free Software and Beyond The World of Peer Production held in Manchester, England last month that brought together an international group of people from the free software movement that are exploring the application of peer to peer networks and free collaboration beyond software to society as a whole..

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-4-27T23:00:30-08:002009-4-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/459#1

Notions like the rule of law, progress, and development are part of what one of our speakers this week calls the given world - the society we have been born into and which is presented to us as a fait accompli. a track with one direction only. But this is by no means the opinion of all, and many are looking towards ancient ideas and practices as guidance towards new future directions. One of those ancient ideas with resurgent power is the concept of the commons, a form of economy brtually stamped out to create the modern world.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-4-19T23:00:30-08:002009-4-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/459#2

Notions like the rule of law, progress, and development are part of what one of our speakers this week calls the given world - the society we have been born into and which is presented to us as a fait accompli. a track with one direction only. But this is by no means the opinion of all, and many are looking towards ancient ideas and practices as guidance towards new future directions. One of those ancient ideas with resurgent power is the concept of the commons, a form of economy brtually stamped out to create the modern world.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-4-19T23:00:30-08:002009-4-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/458#1

Seeds of a new energy descent, post capitalist society rooted in the principles and practices of permaculture and the free software movement

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-4-12T23:00:30-08:002009-4-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/458#2

Seeds of a new energy descent, post capitalist society rooted in the principles and practices of permaculture and the free software movement

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-4-12T23:00:30-08:002009-4-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/457#1

The program this week deals with an existential crisis facing New York and Pennsylvania. The information you are about to hear is chilling, from a panel of very well informed people. On March 26, the shaleshock citizens alliance held a forum attended by more than 200 people in Ithaca , New York on NATURAL GAS DRILLING: HEALTH EFFECTS, ECONOMICS AND THE WATERSHED The plan to drill shale gas in the marcellus formation threatens our air, our water and our way of life. The gas industry and the government have lied to the people or kept them in ignorance. The truth must be know before its too late.and the gas drilling industry turns our home into an industrial sacrifice zone -as they have already done in the rural west. Water and air polluted, people and animals sick and dying. farmers livelihoods destroyed

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-4-5T23:00:30-08:002009-4-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/457#2

The program this week deals with an existential crisis facing New York and Pennsylvania. The information you are about to hear is chilling, from a panel of very well informed people. On March 26, the shaleshock citizens alliance held a forum attended by more than 200 people in Ithaca , New York on NATURAL GAS DRILLING: HEALTH EFFECTS, ECONOMICS AND THE WATERSHED The plan to drill shale gas in the marcellus formation threatens our air, our water and our way of life. The gas industry and the government have lied to the people or kept them in ignorance. The truth must be know before its too late.and the gas drilling industry turns our home into an industrial sacrifice zone -as they have already done in the rural west. Water and air polluted, people and animals sick and dying. farmers livelihoods destroyed

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-4-5T23:00:30-08:002009-4-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/456#1

This week on the program we continue the market is naked series with a look at the discipline of economics itself. Is it a science, as economists claim or is it a religion based on faith in an intangible entity - the market - with the power to transform the actions of innately greedy human beings into a socially beneficial activity? Our speaker this week is a professor of economics, though an unusual one. He does not assert economics is a religion - that's my encapsulation of his presentation. By a religion I mean a belief system used to explain the world ,that is based on premises that must be taken on faith, rather than evidence. The premise in question is the nature of human nature - and whether we have an economic system that responds a reality we can't change, or whether it in fact creates s a reality of greed and predation, by inculcating and rewarding it every step of the way. This is a central question whose answer determines whether we take the attitude of Charlie's co-workers, that this is just the way things are and get a prescription for prozac, or we have the courage to grab hold of the fabric of the matrix and tear it to see what is on the side.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-3-29T23:00:30-08:002009-3-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/456#2

This week on the program we continue the market is naked series with a look at the discipline of economics itself. Is it a science, as economists claim or is it a religion based on faith in an intangible entity - the market - with the power to transform the actions of innately greedy human beings into a socially beneficial activity? Our speaker this week is a professor of economics, though an unusual one. He does not assert economics is a religion - that's my encapsulation of his presentation. By a religion I mean a belief system used to explain the world ,that is based on premises that must be taken on faith, rather than evidence. The premise in question is the nature of human nature - and whether we have an economic system that responds a reality we can't change, or whether it in fact creates s a reality of greed and predation, by inculcating and rewarding it every step of the way. This is a central question whose answer determines whether we take the attitude of Charlie's co-workers, that this is just the way things are and get a prescription for prozac, or we have the courage to grab hold of the fabric of the matrix and tear it to see what is on the side.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-3-29T23:00:30-08:002009-3-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/455#1

The program this week I mean to be part of series to confront the question what is an economy for? Who is our economic system for? Should it be saved or is it fundamentally misguided in that it discounts or destroys the things that matter, and elevates and values the shallow, the cruel and the repugnant. The discourse surrounding this question, even by those who mean well, often takes for granted certain criteria that are not defined or questioned. For example, we hear, in mainstream discussion of concepts like efficiency and productivity without the speakers adding the important question - from whose perspective is something efficient and productive? Productive of what? Banality? Ugly buildings? Mind numbing employment? A poisoned environment? Ignorance ? Poorly made junk? Desperation and fear? Disrespect and contempt? Pettiness and confusion? Lies and propaganda? why are there millions of homeless people when there are millions of empty homes?In what way is such a system efficient? why should any human being have to ask permission of another human being to go to the bathroom?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-3-23T23:00:30-08:002009-3-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/455#2

The program this week I mean to be part of series to confront the question what is an economy for? Who is our economic system for? Should it be saved or is it fundamentally misguided in that it discounts or destroys the things that matter, and elevates and values the shallow, the cruel and the repugnant. The discourse surrounding this question, even by those who mean well, often takes for granted certain criteria that are not defined or questioned. For example, we hear, in mainstream discussion of concepts like efficiency and productivity without the speakers adding the important question - from whose perspective is something efficient and productive? Productive of what? Banality? Ugly buildings? Mind numbing employment? A poisoned environment? Ignorance ? Poorly made junk? Desperation and fear? Disrespect and contempt? Pettiness and confusion? Lies and propaganda? why are there millions of homeless people when there are millions of empty homes?In what way is such a system efficient? why should any human being have to ask permission of another human being to go to the bathroom?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-3-23T23:00:30-08:002009-3-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/454#1

The following is a encapsulation of a prevailing view of the present economic crisis: that, greedy bankers and CEOs and arrogant wall street whiz kids, in the absence of effective regulation, took rash actions that resulted in economic catastrophe that has harmed many innocent people, and that in order to prevent further economic harms, these bad actors must be bailed out, albeit resentfully, to prevent systemic collapse As bad as this picture is, the program this week will present testimony that it is far worse than that.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-3-15T23:00:30-08:002009-3-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/454#2

The following is a encapsulation of a prevailing view of the present economic crisis: that, greedy bankers and CEOs and arrogant wall street whiz kids, in the absence of effective regulation, took rash actions that resulted in economic catastrophe that has harmed many innocent people, and that in order to prevent further economic harms, these bad actors must be bailed out, albeit resentfully, to prevent systemic collapse As bad as this picture is, the program this week will present testimony that it is far worse than that.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-3-15T23:00:30-08:002009-3-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/453#1

Lies told to initiate the invasion of 2 countries resulting in the deaths and maiming of millions of people, the use of the Department of Justice to target political opponents, the creation of enemies lists and the mass surveillance of our electronic communications under the rubric of terrorism prevention, the shoveling of billions in to no-bid war -related contracts for corporate cronies, the kidnapping, indefinite detention, and torture of people, and the attribution of monarchical powers to the presidency - these are the hallmarks of a fascist takeover of the US. None of this would have possible without the enabling act, the events of sept 11, 2001. This week we're going to hear updates on from two of the 9/11 truth movement's top researchers, author Dr, David Ray Griffin, and architect Richard Gage, founder of architects and engineers for 9/11 truth. We'll begin the show with Larry Britt, author of a 2003 article on the 14 characteristics of fascism as he addresses the topic: it can't happen here, or can it?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-3-8T23:00:30-08:002009-3-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/453#2

Lies told to initiate the invasion of 2 countries resulting in the deaths and maiming of millions of people, the use of the Department of Justice to target political opponents, the creation of enemies lists and the mass surveillance of our electronic communications under the rubric of terrorism prevention, the shoveling of billions in to no-bid war -related contracts for corporate cronies, the kidnapping, indefinite detention, and torture of people, and the attribution of monarchical powers to the presidency - these are the hallmarks of a fascist takeover of the US. None of this would have possible without the enabling act, the events of sept 11, 2001. This week we're going to hear updates on from two of the 9/11 truth movement's top researchers, author Dr, David Ray Griffin, and architect Richard Gage, founder of architects and engineers for 9/11 truth. We'll begin the show with Larry Britt, author of a 2003 article on the 14 characteristics of fascism as he addresses the topic: it can't happen here, or can it?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-3-8T23:00:30-08:002009-3-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/452#1

excerpts from the five part series

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-3-1T23:00:30-08:002009-3-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/452#2

excerpts from the five part series

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Excerpts from a series produced for Pacifica radio recorded earlier this month

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-2-22T23:00:30-08:002009-2-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/451#2

Excerpts from a series produced for Pacifica radio recorded earlier this month

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On February 11, a community forum on gas drilling was held at the town hall in Spencer, NY sponsored by the citizens energy alliance and shaleshock.org. It featured Dr. Theo Colburn, an expert on the health effects of gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, and Jack Ossont of Democracy New York, on actions communities can take to save the places they love from corporate predation by using rights based organizing. Dr. Colburn's narrated via cell phone while a powerpoint presentation showing what gas drilling has done to her part of Colorado was screened for the attendees at the Town Hall, . What I can't show you on radio is how hideous these installations are, they look like chemical plants on the outskirts of an industrial wasteland with tanks, pipes, pits and heavy equipment. They want put thousands of these things here - it is the worst kind of terrorism

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-2-16T23:00:30-08:002009-2-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/450#2

On February 11, a community forum on gas drilling was held at the town hall in Spencer, NY sponsored by the citizens energy alliance and shaleshock.org. It featured Dr. Theo Colburn, an expert on the health effects of gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, and Jack Ossont of Democracy New York, on actions communities can take to save the places they love from corporate predation by using rights based organizing. Dr. Colburn's narrated via cell phone while a powerpoint presentation showing what gas drilling has done to her part of Colorado was screened for the attendees at the Town Hall, . What I can't show you on radio is how hideous these installations are, they look like chemical plants on the outskirts of an industrial wasteland with tanks, pipes, pits and heavy equipment. They want put thousands of these things here - it is the worst kind of terrorism

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-2-16T23:00:30-08:002009-2-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/449#1

A ponzi scheme, or pyramid is one which directs wealth towards the tip by drawing from the base. The more wealth is drawn towards the tip the larger the base from which its drawn must be. As the need for a larger base expands exponentially, there will be a point at which no more greater fools to feed the expansion. The system will collapse, whether it is the investment fund of Bernard Madoff, a pyramid of financial derivatives built on infinitely rising real estate prices, or the very premise at the hear of capitalism, economic growth. In a finite world, nothing can grow forever. It can only grow by taking wealth from somewhere else, or taking it from the future.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-2-9T23:00:30-08:002009-2-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/449#2

A ponzi scheme, or pyramid is one which directs wealth towards the tip by drawing from the base. The more wealth is drawn towards the tip the larger the base from which its drawn must be. As the need for a larger base expands exponentially, there will be a point at which no more greater fools to feed the expansion. The system will collapse, whether it is the investment fund of Bernard Madoff, a pyramid of financial derivatives built on infinitely rising real estate prices, or the very premise at the hear of capitalism, economic growth. In a finite world, nothing can grow forever. It can only grow by taking wealth from somewhere else, or taking it from the future.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-2-9T23:00:30-08:002009-2-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/448#1

A 93 year old man froze to death in his home, not because heat was unavailable, but because money was placed between him and his needs, just as it stands as an obstacle to implement solutions that already exist to the ecosystem crisis.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-2-2T23:00:30-08:002009-2-2T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/448#2

A 93 year old man froze to death in his home, not because heat was unavailable, but because money was placed between him and his needs, just as it stands as an obstacle to implement solutions that already exist to the ecosystem crisis.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-2-2T23:00:30-08:002009-2-2T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/447#1

The ultimate goal of power is to be able to create a society you want to live in. This week on the program we're going to focus on solutions, on developing a social system appropriate both to our needs and to our limitations, the ingredients of systemic change will be the topic

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-1-25T23:00:30-08:002009-1-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/447#2

The ultimate goal of power is to be able to create a society you want to live in. This week on the program we're going to focus on solutions, on developing a social system appropriate both to our needs and to our limitations, the ingredients of systemic change will be the topic

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-1-25T23:00:30-08:002009-1-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/446#1

6500 feet below the earth of New York's beautiful, rural Finger Lakes region lies a geological formation called the Marcellus shale. Hallibuton has developed a destructive and toxic process called hydrofracking that can extract gas from such formations. Energy corporations have already laid waste to vast areas of Colorado, Wyoming, Texas and Pennsylvania to extract shale gas. Now they have their sights on New York, aided and abetted by corrupt/and or ill informed politicians and bureacrats in Albany who rubber stamped the provisions the corporations wanted. But the people in the Finger Lakes have a different idea of the future that does not involve being and industrial sacrifice zone, and are organizing to stop it.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-1-19T23:00:30-08:002009-1-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/446#2

6500 feet below the earth of New York's beautiful, rural Finger Lakes region lies a geological formation called the Marcellus shale. Hallibuton has developed a destructive and toxic process called hydrofracking that can extract gas from such formations. Energy corporations have already laid waste to vast areas of Colorado, Wyoming, Texas and Pennsylvania to extract shale gas. Now they have their sights on New York, aided and abetted by corrupt/and or ill informed politicians and bureacrats in Albany who rubber stamped the provisions the corporations wanted. But the people in the Finger Lakes have a different idea of the future that does not involve being and industrial sacrifice zone, and are organizing to stop it.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-1-19T23:00:30-08:002009-1-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/445#1

The economics and politics of planetary survival (and destruction)

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-1-11T23:00:30-08:002009-1-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/445#2

The economics and politics of planetary survival (and destruction)

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Over the past few weeks I've been airing material from a teach called confronting the triple crises - climate change, peak oil and resource depletion. I'm going to play you more from that teach in , as well as resume reading from the book Power and powerlessness by Susan Rosenthal as we start a new chapter this week .. A theme that will emerge from the teach- in speakers this week is the role of the economic system in both bringing about the crises and impeding solutions to it -why nothing is being done so far that makes a significant difference .

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-1-5T23:00:30-08:002009-1-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/444#2

Over the past few weeks I've been airing material from a teach called confronting the triple crises - climate change, peak oil and resource depletion. I'm going to play you more from that teach in , as well as resume reading from the book Power and powerlessness by Susan Rosenthal as we start a new chapter this week .. A theme that will emerge from the teach- in speakers this week is the role of the economic system in both bringing about the crises and impeding solutions to it -why nothing is being done so far that makes a significant difference .

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2009-1-5T23:00:30-08:002009-1-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/443#1

The new administration and Congress that will soon take power have pledged to take a new constructive direction on the issues of climate and energy - but the approaches that were discussed during the campaign and are apparently the front runners among policy makers are largely false solutions. The program this week will devoted to explaining why this is so. We're going to hear a panel pf speakers on energy, including scientists, journalists and activists who spoke at Confronting the triple crisis - a conference held by the International Forum on globalization in last September to consider the relationship between the problems of climate change, energy and the consumer society. In order to bring you the full impact of this powerful panel of speakers - I'm going to put off starting the next chapter of power and powerlessness until next week.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-12-28T23:00:30-08:002008-12-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/443#2

The new administration and Congress that will soon take power have pledged to take a new constructive direction on the issues of climate and energy - but the approaches that were discussed during the campaign and are apparently the front runners among policy makers are largely false solutions. The program this week will devoted to explaining why this is so. We're going to hear a panel pf speakers on energy, including scientists, journalists and activists who spoke at Confronting the triple crisis - a conference held by the International Forum on globalization in last September to consider the relationship between the problems of climate change, energy and the consumer society. In order to bring you the full impact of this powerful panel of speakers - I'm going to put off starting the next chapter of power and powerlessness until next week.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-12-28T23:00:30-08:002008-12-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/442#1

Last week I began playing you speakers from a three day Teach-In: Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis" put on by the international forum on globalization the IFG in September. This week we;ll continue with more speakers on the panel addressing Dimensions of the Global Triple Crisis. moderated by IFG founder Jerry Mander. Three presentations will be followed by audience discussion with some of the panelists heard this week and last . Then we'll wrap up the program with the conclusion of chap

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-12-21T23:00:30-08:002008-12-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/442#2

Last week I began playing you speakers from a three day Teach-In: Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis" put on by the international forum on globalization the IFG in September. This week we;ll continue with more speakers on the panel addressing Dimensions of the Global Triple Crisis. moderated by IFG founder Jerry Mander. Three presentations will be followed by audience discussion with some of the panelists heard this week and last . Then we'll wrap up the program with the conclusion of chap

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-12-21T23:00:30-08:002008-12-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/441#1

Capitalism is based on a 17th century assumption, that there exists an endless supply of materials, commodities, and labor that can and should be marshaled to create continual economic growth. It has led to the dangerous destruction of our ecosystem and is on a collision course with climate change because the remedies required to preserve the ecosystem necessitate decreasing as well as different practices of consumption and production. From the ecological perspective less is more, it is prudent and responsible, in fact urgently necessary. From the capitalist point of view, it is a disaster , a severe decrease in economic activity, a reversal of economic growth, a depression. As long as we remain within the system and logic of capitalism, we can neither make human needs a priority, nor take the necessary steps to avert a crisis of mass extinction of our species and most others that is caused by the pollution from our wasteful industrial societies, which are increasing in size each year, driven by the imperatives of growth. Every proposal for dealing with our ecological situation seems to be accepted or rejected based on it's ability to generate profit rather than results. Bottom line, the right wingers are correct - what's good for the environment is bad for profits. Confronting that is a first step in having a real discussion. However, the health of our ecosphere is not negotiable, it is a prerequisite for life itself - to chose capitalism over the ecosphere is to chose death.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-12-14T23:00:30-08:002008-12-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/441#2

Capitalism is based on a 17th century assumption, that there exists an endless supply of materials, commodities, and labor that can and should be marshaled to create continual economic growth. It has led to the dangerous destruction of our ecosystem and is on a collision course with climate change because the remedies required to preserve the ecosystem necessitate decreasing as well as different practices of consumption and production. From the ecological perspective less is more, it is prudent and responsible, in fact urgently necessary. From the capitalist point of view, it is a disaster , a severe decrease in economic activity, a reversal of economic growth, a depression. As long as we remain within the system and logic of capitalism, we can neither make human needs a priority, nor take the necessary steps to avert a crisis of mass extinction of our species and most others that is caused by the pollution from our wasteful industrial societies, which are increasing in size each year, driven by the imperatives of growth. Every proposal for dealing with our ecological situation seems to be accepted or rejected based on it's ability to generate profit rather than results. Bottom line, the right wingers are correct - what's good for the environment is bad for profits. Confronting that is a first step in having a real discussion. However, the health of our ecosphere is not negotiable, it is a prerequisite for life itself - to chose capitalism over the ecosphere is to chose death.

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"I don’t believe it’s possible to be neutral. The world is already moving in certain directions. Wars are going on. Children are starving. And to be neutral, to not take a stand in a situation like that is to collaborate with whatever is going on, to allow it to happen." That quote of Howard Zinn began Chapter 13, "Decide Which Side You're On" in Susan Rosenthal's book "Power and Powerlessness," the current section of our ongoing reading. Zinn's quote illustrates the fictition of journalistic objectivity. Journalist and author Jeremy Scahill is clear about what his role as a journalist is - to interrogate power and lay bare the truth, and he is concerned that the alternative media which took such a strong stand during the Bush years exposing the lies and crimes is at risk of becoming what he calls a blue state Fox during the Obama years. He spoke of this and more Dec 2 at the Park Center for Independent Media in Ithaca, New York, and we're going to hear his talk and audience discussion in the show this week. Then we'll conclude with the next installment of "Power and Powerlessness. "

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"I don’t believe it’s possible to be neutral. The world is already moving in certain directions. Wars are going on. Children are starving. And to be neutral, to not take a stand in a situation like that is to collaborate with whatever is going on, to allow it to happen." That quote of Howard Zinn began Chapter 13, "Decide Which Side You're On" in Susan Rosenthal's book "Power and Powerlessness," the current section of our ongoing reading. Zinn's quote illustrates the fictition of journalistic objectivity. Journalist and author Jeremy Scahill is clear about what his role as a journalist is - to interrogate power and lay bare the truth, and he is concerned that the alternative media which took such a strong stand during the Bush years exposing the lies and crimes is at risk of becoming what he calls a blue state Fox during the Obama years. He spoke of this and more Dec 2 at the Park Center for Independent Media in Ithaca, New York, and we're going to hear his talk and audience discussion in the show this week. Then we'll conclude with the next installment of "Power and Powerlessness. "

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The Justice Robert Jackson Conference On The Planning For Prosecution Of High Level American War Criminals was held mid September at the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, convened by its dean, Lawrence Velvel. . As one speaker commented, this conference differed from most in the academic setting in that it proceeded from the conclusion that crimes had been committed and addressed itself toward accountability and deterrence. At the conclusion of the two day event, participants solicited commitments of work towards that goal and formed a steering committee the ongoing work. This week, I'm going to play you the first panel, Crimes Of Torture And Degrading And Abusive Conduct, And Perpetrators and Punishments." featuring three experts in law and piblic policy Josh Dratel, Christopher Pyle and Phillipe Sands In order to put you at the same starting point, that the crimes are a given, last week I played a radio adaptation of a documentary "Torturing Democracy" that showed the evidence as well as those responsible. The panel and audience questions will take about an hour and a half, and we'll conclude with the next installment of the reading from the book power and powerlessness by Susan Rosenthal.

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The Justice Robert Jackson Conference On The Planning For Prosecution Of High Level American War Criminals was held mid September at the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, convened by its dean, Lawrence Velvel. . As one speaker commented, this conference differed from most in the academic setting in that it proceeded from the conclusion that crimes had been committed and addressed itself toward accountability and deterrence. At the conclusion of the two day event, participants solicited commitments of work towards that goal and formed a steering committee the ongoing work. This week, I'm going to play you the first panel, Crimes Of Torture And Degrading And Abusive Conduct, And Perpetrators and Punishments." featuring three experts in law and piblic policy Josh Dratel, Christopher Pyle and Phillipe Sands In order to put you at the same starting point, that the crimes are a given, last week I played a radio adaptation of a documentary "Torturing Democracy" that showed the evidence as well as those responsible. The panel and audience questions will take about an hour and a half, and we'll conclude with the next installment of the reading from the book power and powerlessness by Susan Rosenthal.

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A remarkable conference took place mid September in Andover, Massachusetts that hasn't gotten the coverage it deserved. It was convened by Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law. Among It's attendees were legal scholars and practitioners of international and human rights law, who gathered and pledged to devise a strategy to, in the words of dean Velvel, to hold high U.S. officials accountable in courts of law and, if guilt is found, to obtain appropriate punishments. I'm going to begin airing presentations from that conference next week. I want to set the stage by reviewing some of the evidence and witnesses that could be presented at some future trial of high level US officials and former officials. We'll do this via a radio adaptation of a powerful new documentary, Torturing Democracy, produced by Sherry Jones of the National Security archive. Some people have been able to view the film on their local PBS stations but most have not - PBS told the filmmakers that no national air date was available until January 20, 2009 - Barack Obama's inauguration day. Following the fim, we'll continue with of serial reading from Dr. Susan Rosewnthal's 2006 book, Power and Powerlessness.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-11-23T23:00:30-08:002008-11-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/438#2

A remarkable conference took place mid September in Andover, Massachusetts that hasn't gotten the coverage it deserved. It was convened by Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law. Among It's attendees were legal scholars and practitioners of international and human rights law, who gathered and pledged to devise a strategy to, in the words of dean Velvel, to hold high U.S. officials accountable in courts of law and, if guilt is found, to obtain appropriate punishments. I'm going to begin airing presentations from that conference next week. I want to set the stage by reviewing some of the evidence and witnesses that could be presented at some future trial of high level US officials and former officials. We'll do this via a radio adaptation of a powerful new documentary, Torturing Democracy, produced by Sherry Jones of the National Security archive. Some people have been able to view the film on their local PBS stations but most have not - PBS told the filmmakers that no national air date was available until January 20, 2009 - Barack Obama's inauguration day. Following the fim, we'll continue with of serial reading from Dr. Susan Rosewnthal's 2006 book, Power and Powerlessness.

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The Bush Cheney Republican era has been one of gangster wars, unrestrained corporate greed and criminality, surveillance, repression, lies and torture - all cheered on by a media dominated by bellicose bullies. Some characterize this as aberrant, but it is aberrant only in its excess - it is the ultimate expression of a state based on hierarchies of dominance, that worships competition and power - from the international to the personal. It's institutions break people to its yoke from childhood; its rulers give lip service to democracy but despise it in fact . .From questions of war and peace to schoolyard bullies - the template is the same

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The Bush Cheney Republican era has been one of gangster wars, unrestrained corporate greed and criminality, surveillance, repression, lies and torture - all cheered on by a media dominated by bellicose bullies. Some characterize this as aberrant, but it is aberrant only in its excess - it is the ultimate expression of a state based on hierarchies of dominance, that worships competition and power - from the international to the personal. It's institutions break people to its yoke from childhood; its rulers give lip service to democracy but despise it in fact . .From questions of war and peace to schoolyard bullies - the template is the same

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On November fourth the American electorate resoundingly repudiated the policies of the Bush years, and sent Barack Obama and his party to office with a mandate for change. How shall change be achieved, and what shall it be? Howard Zinn, with a brand new talk given November 8th in Binghamton, NY that addresses just these questions - change, the power to make it, the role of movements, and the role of the state...it's one of his best, from someone wise, brave and with a long view

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On November fourth the American electorate resoundingly repudiated the policies of the Bush years, and sent Barack Obama and his party to office with a mandate for change. How shall change be achieved, and what shall it be? Howard Zinn, with a brand new talk given November 8th in Binghamton, NY that addresses just these questions - change, the power to make it, the role of movements, and the role of the state...it's one of his best, from someone wise, brave and with a long view

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-11-9T23:00:30-08:002008-11-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/435#1

Who should be bailed out" Should General Motors receive the death sentence? and more

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-11-3T23:00:30-08:002008-11-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/435#2

Who should be bailed out" Should General Motors receive the death sentence? and more

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-11-3T23:00:30-08:002008-11-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/434#1

The 2008 election as an example of Divide and Rule, the topic of this weeks reading

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-10-27T23:00:30-08:002008-10-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/434#2

The 2008 election as an example of Divide and Rule, the topic of this weeks reading

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In the last chapter I read from Susan Rosenthal's "Power and Powerlessness," I felt compelled to respectfully disagree with her assertion that human population growth was not in itself a problem. While I agree with her point that hunger is caused by maldistribution of food resulting from our political economic system, I disagree with assertion that environmentalists who raise the issue of overpopulation a are either witting or unwitting supporters of a racist and genocidal world view. When I say respectfully disagree, I mean it about the respect part. Dr. Rosenthal is not the only eminent, or sincere thinker who has this view. I'm so bothered by this thinking among so many excellent people that I'm devoting the entire show this week to the question of biodiversity which is the issue underlying concerns about human population limits. Readings of "Power and Powerlessness" will resume next week

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-10-19T23:00:30-08:002008-10-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/433#2

In the last chapter I read from Susan Rosenthal's "Power and Powerlessness," I felt compelled to respectfully disagree with her assertion that human population growth was not in itself a problem. While I agree with her point that hunger is caused by maldistribution of food resulting from our political economic system, I disagree with assertion that environmentalists who raise the issue of overpopulation a are either witting or unwitting supporters of a racist and genocidal world view. When I say respectfully disagree, I mean it about the respect part. Dr. Rosenthal is not the only eminent, or sincere thinker who has this view. I'm so bothered by this thinking among so many excellent people that I'm devoting the entire show this week to the question of biodiversity which is the issue underlying concerns about human population limits. Readings of "Power and Powerlessness" will resume next week

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a web site called market crash describes the capitalist market as follows" In financial markets, the “majority is always wrong.” When the investing majority or the crowd is overly bearish, this is the best time to be buying stocks. When the crowd is overly exuberant, this is the time to be selling stocks. The financial markets work in this ironic way because not everyone can win in the market. If it were possible for everyone to win in the markets, this would mean that money is being created from nothing. The creation of money, in this manner, is impossible. Therefore the markets are a zero-sum game. Zero-sum means that for every winner, there is a loser. The winner takes the losers money. Zero-sum games are games where the amount of "winnable goods" is fixed. " the greater fool theory; A theory that states it is possible to make money by buying securities, whether overvalued or not, and later selling them at a profit because there will always be someone (a bigger or greater fool) who is willing to pay the higher price. When acting in accordance with the greater fool theory, an investor buys questionable securities without any regard to their quality, but with the hope of quickly selling them off to another investor (the greater fool), who might also be hoping to flip it quickly. Unfortunately, speculative bubbles always burst eventually, leading to a rapid depreciation in share price due to the selloff.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-10-12T23:00:30-08:002008-10-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/432#2

a web site called market crash describes the capitalist market as follows" In financial markets, the “majority is always wrong.” When the investing majority or the crowd is overly bearish, this is the best time to be buying stocks. When the crowd is overly exuberant, this is the time to be selling stocks. The financial markets work in this ironic way because not everyone can win in the market. If it were possible for everyone to win in the markets, this would mean that money is being created from nothing. The creation of money, in this manner, is impossible. Therefore the markets are a zero-sum game. Zero-sum means that for every winner, there is a loser. The winner takes the losers money. Zero-sum games are games where the amount of "winnable goods" is fixed. " the greater fool theory; A theory that states it is possible to make money by buying securities, whether overvalued or not, and later selling them at a profit because there will always be someone (a bigger or greater fool) who is willing to pay the higher price. When acting in accordance with the greater fool theory, an investor buys questionable securities without any regard to their quality, but with the hope of quickly selling them off to another investor (the greater fool), who might also be hoping to flip it quickly. Unfortunately, speculative bubbles always burst eventually, leading to a rapid depreciation in share price due to the selloff.

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Warning of Impending bank meltdown, shutdown and martial law, explanation of the financial fraud, and the election fraud and the plan for class war that led ultimately to this mess

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-10-5T23:00:30-08:002008-10-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/431#2

Warning of Impending bank meltdown, shutdown and martial law, explanation of the financial fraud, and the election fraud and the plan for class war that led ultimately to this mess

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-10-5T23:00:30-08:002008-10-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/430#1

Some listeners have written to ask me to do coverage on the financial crisis to counter the spin and obfuscation being broadcast in the corporate media. In terms of analysis by economists of the administration bailout plan, Democracy Now has been providing excellent coverage to illuminate the power grab, to point out how there is never enough money to provide health carte for the people for example, but always enough to bail out Wall Street. I recommend you listen at democracynow.org if you haven't heard it. One topic of debate is whether the urgency for action is real or a scheme to ram through a sort of financial "Patriot Act. " Many within the financial world have been warning of a financial collapse as a result of the deadly brew credit and leverage cooked up by Wall Street bankers I can tell you that there are many financial analysts who are not fans of the administration and its policies, or the current practices on Wall Street, who do believe that economic system is on the verge of collapse.. but don't believe a 700 billion bailout will solve the problem, as is being claimed . Many within the system have denounced it as an orgy of criminality in terms unusual in the normally staid financial analyst sector The question that isn't part of the official debate within capitalism is the one that mosts interests me - whether this system ought to survive at all, rather than how to save it. or , beyond that how to apply social leverage to an already toppling system, and we'll explore that question in depth this week with author Derrick Jensen.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-9-28T23:00:30-08:002008-9-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/430#2

Some listeners have written to ask me to do coverage on the financial crisis to counter the spin and obfuscation being broadcast in the corporate media. In terms of analysis by economists of the administration bailout plan, Democracy Now has been providing excellent coverage to illuminate the power grab, to point out how there is never enough money to provide health carte for the people for example, but always enough to bail out Wall Street. I recommend you listen at democracynow.org if you haven't heard it. One topic of debate is whether the urgency for action is real or a scheme to ram through a sort of financial "Patriot Act. " Many within the financial world have been warning of a financial collapse as a result of the deadly brew credit and leverage cooked up by Wall Street bankers I can tell you that there are many financial analysts who are not fans of the administration and its policies, or the current practices on Wall Street, who do believe that economic system is on the verge of collapse.. but don't believe a 700 billion bailout will solve the problem, as is being claimed . Many within the system have denounced it as an orgy of criminality in terms unusual in the normally staid financial analyst sector The question that isn't part of the official debate within capitalism is the one that mosts interests me - whether this system ought to survive at all, rather than how to save it. or , beyond that how to apply social leverage to an already toppling system, and we'll explore that question in depth this week with author Derrick Jensen.

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Last week on the program we heard the first part of talk by Robert Jensen - The Old Future's Gone - Progressive Strategy Amid Cascading Crises given at a gathering of activists in Vancouver last August, This week, we'll broadcast most of the discussion that followed. In our second hour, we'll continue with our serial reading of Power and Powerlessness by Dr Susan Rosenthal, Over the past 5 weeks the readings have examined in details how the society we live was created, and how it has resulted in the domination of the many by the few, to the detriment of most people who are deliberately excluded from the most basic level of decision making. This week, we begin a new section that deals with why we put up with it - the mechanisms of social control. PLEASE EMAIL YOUR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FOR SUSAN ROSENTHAL TO ME AT unwelcome@radio4all.net Thanks to those pf you that have already sent some - they are great!

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Last week on the program we heard the first part of talk by Robert Jensen - The Old Future's Gone - Progressive Strategy Amid Cascading Crises given at a gathering of activists in Vancouver last August, This week, we'll broadcast most of the discussion that followed. In our second hour, we'll continue with our serial reading of Power and Powerlessness by Dr Susan Rosenthal, Over the past 5 weeks the readings have examined in details how the society we live was created, and how it has resulted in the domination of the many by the few, to the detriment of most people who are deliberately excluded from the most basic level of decision making. This week, we begin a new section that deals with why we put up with it - the mechanisms of social control. PLEASE EMAIL YOUR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FOR SUSAN ROSENTHAL TO ME AT unwelcome@radio4all.net Thanks to those pf you that have already sent some - they are great!

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This week on the program we're going to read the final chapter in part two of Power and Powerlessness by Susan Rosenthal. This part of the book has examined how a society based on inequality has been created through abandoning the ancient human values of reciprocity and cooperation. This weeks chapter will examine how the stress produced through capitalist competition and dispossession is literally the single largest cause of ill health. Susan Rosenthal, a physician and psychotherapist, then explains how the ill health created by social inequality is capitalized upon as a profit opportunity. This will set us up for the next part of the book in which she asks why we continue to put up with a societal arrangement so disadvantageous to most She's not the only one examining these questions. In a sept 11 interview on the English language version of al jazeera tv, American historian Howard Zinn concluded that nothing short of rebellion in America is necessary to change course..I was unable to find a clip of the original video, but the transcript of the brief interview is circulating on the internet, and I 'll begin the show by reading that to you. We're also going to hear the first part of a talk and discussion in a similar vein with Professor Robert Jensen and a group of activists in Vancouver, that comes to us thanks to Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock

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This week on the program we're going to read the final chapter in part two of Power and Powerlessness by Susan Rosenthal. This part of the book has examined how a society based on inequality has been created through abandoning the ancient human values of reciprocity and cooperation. This weeks chapter will examine how the stress produced through capitalist competition and dispossession is literally the single largest cause of ill health. Susan Rosenthal, a physician and psychotherapist, then explains how the ill health created by social inequality is capitalized upon as a profit opportunity. This will set us up for the next part of the book in which she asks why we continue to put up with a societal arrangement so disadvantageous to most She's not the only one examining these questions. In a sept 11 interview on the English language version of al jazeera tv, American historian Howard Zinn concluded that nothing short of rebellion in America is necessary to change course..I was unable to find a clip of the original video, but the transcript of the brief interview is circulating on the internet, and I 'll begin the show by reading that to you. We're also going to hear the first part of a talk and discussion in a similar vein with Professor Robert Jensen and a group of activists in Vancouver, that comes to us thanks to Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-9-14T23:00:30-08:002008-9-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/427#1

America is the freest country in the world. We're taught it n school, it's echoed in political campaign rhetoric, and repeated by everyday people, very often people who've never been to any other country. If one's life consists of going to work and obeying the orders of your boss, going shopping and paying for your purchases, driving home in a car with all the proper licenses and insurances, to a home on which all the rents, mortgages and taxes are paid, cooking dinner, watching tv and going to bed to do it all again tomorrow - even people in dictatorships are free to live that life. This week oour ongoing reading of power and powerlessness, published in 2006 by Dr. Susan Rosenthal deals how the capitalist system has changed the nature of the family to suit its purposes, and how in spite of the lip service given to family values, families today are buckling under the pressure generated by the drive for profit

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America is the freest country in the world. We're taught it n school, it's echoed in political campaign rhetoric, and repeated by everyday people, very often people who've never been to any other country. If one's life consists of going to work and obeying the orders of your boss, going shopping and paying for your purchases, driving home in a car with all the proper licenses and insurances, to a home on which all the rents, mortgages and taxes are paid, cooking dinner, watching tv and going to bed to do it all again tomorrow - even people in dictatorships are free to live that life. This week oour ongoing reading of power and powerlessness, published in 2006 by Dr. Susan Rosenthal deals how the capitalist system has changed the nature of the family to suit its purposes, and how in spite of the lip service given to family values, families today are buckling under the pressure generated by the drive for profit

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-9-7T23:00:30-08:002008-9-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/426#1

The program begins with a report filed Aug 30, by Ken Avidor from Minneapolis on the eve of the Republican convention, offered as exhibit one for the analysis of Susan Rosenthal in her book Power and Powerlessness, the reading of which will continue in the second hour. The report concluded with a statement from the National Lawyers Guild attorney that the actions of the protesters posed no threat, but that depends on where you stand. He noted that the protesters who had been preventively arrsted where advocating for change and not the Democratic party kind, which is precisely why they were the targets of State repression. They are people with a dangerous idea, the return of human society to its ancient rules of reciprocity and equality, described in our reading last week... ideas that challenge the legitimacy of a State based on the rules of capitalism: seize the surplus and compete or die. . As Susan Rosenthal pointed out in last week's reading, these are rules put in place my humans, which we can, and actually must, change. The deadly nature of capitalist rule number two, compete or die, will be the focus of our reading this week. We'll set the stage with a discussion of what economic historian Webster Tarpley calls the worst financial crisis of human history .

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-9-1T23:00:30-08:002008-9-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/426#2

The program begins with a report filed Aug 30, by Ken Avidor from Minneapolis on the eve of the Republican convention, offered as exhibit one for the analysis of Susan Rosenthal in her book Power and Powerlessness, the reading of which will continue in the second hour. The report concluded with a statement from the National Lawyers Guild attorney that the actions of the protesters posed no threat, but that depends on where you stand. He noted that the protesters who had been preventively arrsted where advocating for change and not the Democratic party kind, which is precisely why they were the targets of State repression. They are people with a dangerous idea, the return of human society to its ancient rules of reciprocity and equality, described in our reading last week... ideas that challenge the legitimacy of a State based on the rules of capitalism: seize the surplus and compete or die. . As Susan Rosenthal pointed out in last week's reading, these are rules put in place my humans, which we can, and actually must, change. The deadly nature of capitalist rule number two, compete or die, will be the focus of our reading this week. We'll set the stage with a discussion of what economic historian Webster Tarpley calls the worst financial crisis of human history .

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-9-1T23:00:30-08:002008-9-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/425#1

Last week I began a reading of a remarkable book, Power and Powerless by Susan Rosenthal. It is a book for people who are fundamentally revolted by this society, and who seek a much more fundamental change in our relationships to one another and the planet than is ever offered or possible within the electoral spectacle of our so called democracy. This is a radical book in that it gets to root questions, such as is our hierarchical repressive society reflective of human nature, why do people put up with the meaningless lives offered by capitalist workplaces and consumer society? The reading is in the second hour. During the course of the book reading that will take many weeks, I'm also playing other material that relates to the ideas in Power and Powerlessness. This week, we'll begin the show with a talk by Boston University sociologist and author Juliet Schor on her 2004 book Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. This talk was given a ta conference of educators in Vancouver BC in 2005, still totally relevant 3 years later.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-8-24T23:00:30-08:002008-8-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/425#2

Last week I began a reading of a remarkable book, Power and Powerless by Susan Rosenthal. It is a book for people who are fundamentally revolted by this society, and who seek a much more fundamental change in our relationships to one another and the planet than is ever offered or possible within the electoral spectacle of our so called democracy. This is a radical book in that it gets to root questions, such as is our hierarchical repressive society reflective of human nature, why do people put up with the meaningless lives offered by capitalist workplaces and consumer society? The reading is in the second hour. During the course of the book reading that will take many weeks, I'm also playing other material that relates to the ideas in Power and Powerlessness. This week, we'll begin the show with a talk by Boston University sociologist and author Juliet Schor on her 2004 book Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. This talk was given a ta conference of educators in Vancouver BC in 2005, still totally relevant 3 years later.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-8-24T23:00:30-08:002008-8-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/424#1

The election season is getting underway in earnest and the media, corporate and otherwise will be full of the platforms of parties, the sound bites of candidates, the pundits, pollsters and so on. What won't be on the table is the question of whether we even want the sort of society that the candidates are vying to lead. What won't be on the ballot is the question of the powerless of most people over the fundamental social structures that shape our lives . This week and over the coming weeks and months I'm going to read you a brilliant but little known book that a listener brought to my attention, that takes on those questions. It's called Power and Powerlessness and the author is Susan Rosenthal, a physician and psychotherapist who reached the conclusion after decades of research, observation and activism that social power is necessary for human health. Her book deals with four basic questions: what's going on, how did this happen, why do we put up with it, and what will it take. We'll also hear, in a similar vein, an interview with writer and DIY activist Chris Carlsson about his new book "Newtopia"

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-8-17T23:00:30-08:002008-8-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/424#2

The election season is getting underway in earnest and the media, corporate and otherwise will be full of the platforms of parties, the sound bites of candidates, the pundits, pollsters and so on. What won't be on the table is the question of whether we even want the sort of society that the candidates are vying to lead. What won't be on the ballot is the question of the powerless of most people over the fundamental social structures that shape our lives . This week and over the coming weeks and months I'm going to read you a brilliant but little known book that a listener brought to my attention, that takes on those questions. It's called Power and Powerlessness and the author is Susan Rosenthal, a physician and psychotherapist who reached the conclusion after decades of research, observation and activism that social power is necessary for human health. Her book deals with four basic questions: what's going on, how did this happen, why do we put up with it, and what will it take. We'll also hear, in a similar vein, an interview with writer and DIY activist Chris Carlsson about his new book "Newtopia"

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-8-17T23:00:30-08:002008-8-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/423#1

Griffin discusses his latest book 9/11 contradictions: an open letter to congress and the press with supporting material from the other speakers

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Griffin discusses his latest book 9/11 contradictions: an open letter to congress and the press with supporting material from the other speakers

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-8-11T23:00:30-08:002008-8-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/422#1

As the American economic edifice implodes, conversations on what is to be done are taking place below the mainstream political radar. Some are looking back to Populism and Jeffersonian ideas from Americas past as guidance for a way forward, synthesizing ideas from the left and right that resonate the 21st century situation

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-8-3T23:00:30-08:002008-8-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/422#2

As the American economic edifice implodes, conversations on what is to be done are taking place below the mainstream political radar. Some are looking back to Populism and Jeffersonian ideas from Americas past as guidance for a way forward, synthesizing ideas from the left and right that resonate the 21st century situation

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-8-3T23:00:30-08:002008-8-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/421#1

The Humanist Chaplaincy has created a lifetime achievement award for cultural contributions of the openly godless . The 2008 recipient was Bad Religion front man and evolutionary biologist Greg Graffin. He speaks, sings and takes questions.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-7-28T23:00:30-08:002008-7-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/421#2

The Humanist Chaplaincy has created a lifetime achievement award for cultural contributions of the openly godless . The 2008 recipient was Bad Religion front man and evolutionary biologist Greg Graffin. He speaks, sings and takes questions.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-7-28T23:00:30-08:002008-7-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/420#1

From food shortages to energy scarcity, from climate change to economic implosion we are beset with a host of situations where crisis can be turned into opportunity . All of these problems we face, result from an economic and political system based on the compulsive over production and consumption of junk and waste in the service of an abstraction, economic growth . This state of affairs need not, and by some accounts cannot ,continue. Our two featured speakers this week will look at where we are and why, and where might go by focusing on two areas -Raj Patel will talk about the food system, and Richard Heinberg will unveil his a idea to create crisis planning for what he calls resilient communities

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-7-20T23:00:30-08:002008-7-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/420#2

From food shortages to energy scarcity, from climate change to economic implosion we are beset with a host of situations where crisis can be turned into opportunity . All of these problems we face, result from an economic and political system based on the compulsive over production and consumption of junk and waste in the service of an abstraction, economic growth . This state of affairs need not, and by some accounts cannot ,continue. Our two featured speakers this week will look at where we are and why, and where might go by focusing on two areas -Raj Patel will talk about the food system, and Richard Heinberg will unveil his a idea to create crisis planning for what he calls resilient communities

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-7-20T23:00:30-08:002008-7-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/419#1

Landmen for gas drilling companies are swarming central new york, trying to talk land owners into signing mineral leases that will allow them to extract natural gas from the marcellus shale, a geological formation covering half of new york state, two thirds of pennsyvania and parts of ohio, west virgina and virginia. Due to the high prices resulting from peak in natural gas and new drilling methods, its extraction can now be profitable. The landmen make all sorts of promises to the owners, but tonight you're going to hear from people from wyoming and colorado who've experienced the reality -their rural communities turned into corporate sacrifice zones. They came east to speak at a community forum in Walton, NY on June 27, "Marcellus Shale - The Impact of Natural Gas Drilling " organized by the catskill mountain keeper http://catskillmountainkeeper.org/.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-7-13T23:00:30-08:002008-7-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/419#2

Landmen for gas drilling companies are swarming central new york, trying to talk land owners into signing mineral leases that will allow them to extract natural gas from the marcellus shale, a geological formation covering half of new york state, two thirds of pennsyvania and parts of ohio, west virgina and virginia. Due to the high prices resulting from peak in natural gas and new drilling methods, its extraction can now be profitable. The landmen make all sorts of promises to the owners, but tonight you're going to hear from people from wyoming and colorado who've experienced the reality -their rural communities turned into corporate sacrifice zones. They came east to speak at a community forum in Walton, NY on June 27, "Marcellus Shale - The Impact of Natural Gas Drilling " organized by the catskill mountain keeper http://catskillmountainkeeper.org/.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-7-13T23:00:30-08:002008-7-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/418#1

The two scientists heard in this weeks programs aren't to my knowledge anarchists, nor were they trying to make any point about anarchism specifically. But the import of what they discuss refutes the notion that without god and the state, humanity would descend into an orgy of violence and greed (seems we have that now). In the first hour Oxford zoologist and famous public atheist Richard Dawkins reads from his book The God Delusion on being good without god, the evolutionary roots of our moral sense, remarkably consistent across cultures and ideologies and the role of altruism in evolutionary survival. Dr. Joan Roughgarden, a top evolutionary ecologist from Stanford has called into question Darwins Theory of Sexual Selection, his explanation of sex roles, because it does not explain the wide variation of sex and gender found in nature, which in no way resembles the Victorian family. In short, the dominator society is in no way our destiny. (You already knew that, but now science is in the process of confirming it empirically) Funnily enough, I have the impression that these two scientists have some sort of professional antagonism, but to me, they both seem headed in the same ultimate direction

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-7-9T23:00:30-08:002008-7-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/418#2

The two scientists heard in this weeks programs aren't to my knowledge anarchists, nor were they trying to make any point about anarchism specifically. But the import of what they discuss refutes the notion that without god and the state, humanity would descend into an orgy of violence and greed (seems we have that now). In the first hour Oxford zoologist and famous public atheist Richard Dawkins reads from his book The God Delusion on being good without god, the evolutionary roots of our moral sense, remarkably consistent across cultures and ideologies and the role of altruism in evolutionary survival. Dr. Joan Roughgarden, a top evolutionary ecologist from Stanford has called into question Darwins Theory of Sexual Selection, his explanation of sex roles, because it does not explain the wide variation of sex and gender found in nature, which in no way resembles the Victorian family. In short, the dominator society is in no way our destiny. (You already knew that, but now science is in the process of confirming it empirically) Funnily enough, I have the impression that these two scientists have some sort of professional antagonism, but to me, they both seem headed in the same ultimate direction

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-7-9T23:00:30-08:002008-7-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/417#1

Everyone seems to be feeling a rising sense of alarm as the prices of food and energy skyrocket and the number of people losing their livelihoods grows. This is made worse by the political leaders and corporate media's failure to tell the truth, or the whole truth about what's on the horizon, or to offer any solution but a modified version of business as usual. This week we'll hear from three people who will address what is happening, and why, and discuss predictions and strategies for the future. One is an American economist, one a Russian emigre who lived through the chaos in the collapsing soviet union and another an Indian activist fighting for an open source food system.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-29T23:00:30-08:002008-6-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/417#2

Everyone seems to be feeling a rising sense of alarm as the prices of food and energy skyrocket and the number of people losing their livelihoods grows. This is made worse by the political leaders and corporate media's failure to tell the truth, or the whole truth about what's on the horizon, or to offer any solution but a modified version of business as usual. This week we'll hear from three people who will address what is happening, and why, and discuss predictions and strategies for the future. One is an American economist, one a Russian emigre who lived through the chaos in the collapsing soviet union and another an Indian activist fighting for an open source food system.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-29T23:00:30-08:002008-6-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/416#1

The battle over who owns and controls the mass media, which ideas and information will reach a broad public is central to the question of whether rule by the people can or will exist. the failure of the American mass media to truthfully inform the public is predictable, and was predicted by the people who fought the commercialization of radio in the early 20th century. In a media system based on profits from advertising revenue, the attention of the audience becomes the product sold to the advertiser. The ideal audience is therefore not only large, it is one not in the habit of thinking critically . Critical thinkers will maintain their habits of mind through the commercial breaks, and that's bad for business. Fomenting ignorance and passivity through the manipulation of language was one of the key themes of George Orwell's dystopian novel of a totalitarian society, "1984." Robert Kane Pappas 2006 documentary, Orwell Rolls in his Grave, compares the manipulation of ideas by media in 21st century America to Orwell's totalitarian state. I have adapted it for radio for your listening pleasure this week as we administer an antidote to the propaganda flowing hot and heavy in this election season. Then a reading on the "diamond invention" a decades long advertising campaign to change the culture of courtship to profit DeBeers.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-23T23:00:30-08:002008-6-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/416#2

The battle over who owns and controls the mass media, which ideas and information will reach a broad public is central to the question of whether rule by the people can or will exist. the failure of the American mass media to truthfully inform the public is predictable, and was predicted by the people who fought the commercialization of radio in the early 20th century. In a media system based on profits from advertising revenue, the attention of the audience becomes the product sold to the advertiser. The ideal audience is therefore not only large, it is one not in the habit of thinking critically . Critical thinkers will maintain their habits of mind through the commercial breaks, and that's bad for business. Fomenting ignorance and passivity through the manipulation of language was one of the key themes of George Orwell's dystopian novel of a totalitarian society, "1984." Robert Kane Pappas 2006 documentary, Orwell Rolls in his Grave, compares the manipulation of ideas by media in 21st century America to Orwell's totalitarian state. I have adapted it for radio for your listening pleasure this week as we administer an antidote to the propaganda flowing hot and heavy in this election season. Then a reading on the "diamond invention" a decades long advertising campaign to change the culture of courtship to profit DeBeers.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-23T23:00:30-08:002008-6-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/415#1

New developments in 9/11 research including Guiliani's lies exposed regarding the fall of World Trade Center Building 7

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-15T23:00:30-08:002008-6-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/415#2

New developments in 9/11 research including Guiliani's lies exposed regarding the fall of World Trade Center Building 7

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-15T23:00:30-08:002008-6-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/414#1

This weekend more than 3000 media activists gathered in Minneapolis for (June 7-9) organized by freepress.net, an organization devoted to dismantling the corporate controlled propaganda machine that now passes for media in the USA

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-8T23:00:30-08:002008-6-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/414#2

This weekend more than 3000 media activists gathered in Minneapolis for (June 7-9) organized by freepress.net, an organization devoted to dismantling the corporate controlled propaganda machine that now passes for media in the USA

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-8T23:00:30-08:002008-6-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/413#1

going to go beyond the idea of a few bad apples to examine the relationship between torture, the state and some of the professionals who torture in the name of the state, both recently in terms of the US as well as other times and places

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-1T23:00:30-08:002008-6-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/413#2

going to go beyond the idea of a few bad apples to examine the relationship between torture, the state and some of the professionals who torture in the name of the state, both recently in terms of the US as well as other times and places

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-6-1T23:00:30-08:002008-6-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/412#1

From a panel from a conference, Freedoms at Risk that was held at New York University in February 08. The topics raised were timely: issues of academic freedom to criticize establishment views from within the academy, as well as in the press and in the media and the integrity of the election process itself.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-5-26T23:00:30-08:002008-5-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/412#2

From a panel from a conference, Freedoms at Risk that was held at New York University in February 08. The topics raised were timely: issues of academic freedom to criticize establishment views from within the academy, as well as in the press and in the media and the integrity of the election process itself.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-5-26T23:00:30-08:002008-5-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/411#1

Long time listeners to this show have heard about how the resistance to the spreading of sewage sludge by waste management corporations in rural Pennsylvania gave birth to a local democracy movement where communities have asserted the right to protect their environment and way of life by passing local laws. This process has revealed to many people the level at which supposedly democratic government at the state and federal level is in fact in thrall to corporate interests. The democracy school movement that formed out of this has taught people in communities across the nation how to avoid the hamster wheel of regulatory wrangling and go straight to heart of the matter, protecting the places we live and love. From, Pennsylvania, to New Hampshire to Spokane, Washington, to Arcata, California, communities are organizing and refusing to become corporate sacrifice zones. This week, the fight for democracy comes home, that is to my home, Schuyler county New York, where residents of the town of Hector are organizing to stop the spreading of sewage sludge on our farmland. The show this week is intensely local but I hope it will also prove valuable to all the communities where this show is heard - no matter where you go in America, the struggle for the future is underway. What you're going to hear is a recording of a community meeting held in Hector, NY on May 15, sponsored by CARR - citizens for agricultural and rural responsibility, non-partisan group formed by Town of Hector, NY residents concerned about the health of our families, our community, and the rural land we love. This broadcast is timely because there will be another meeting, Thursday May 22 in Mecklenburg. I'll give details for local folks later in the show. We'll conclude with a talk by Sheldon Rampton, co-author with John Stauber of "Toxic Sludge is Good for You" about the tactics the PR industry uses to try to pass of harmful products like sludge through the manipulation of opinion.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-5-18T23:00:30-08:002008-5-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/411#2

Long time listeners to this show have heard about how the resistance to the spreading of sewage sludge by waste management corporations in rural Pennsylvania gave birth to a local democracy movement where communities have asserted the right to protect their environment and way of life by passing local laws. This process has revealed to many people the level at which supposedly democratic government at the state and federal level is in fact in thrall to corporate interests. The democracy school movement that formed out of this has taught people in communities across the nation how to avoid the hamster wheel of regulatory wrangling and go straight to heart of the matter, protecting the places we live and love. From, Pennsylvania, to New Hampshire to Spokane, Washington, to Arcata, California, communities are organizing and refusing to become corporate sacrifice zones. This week, the fight for democracy comes home, that is to my home, Schuyler county New York, where residents of the town of Hector are organizing to stop the spreading of sewage sludge on our farmland. The show this week is intensely local but I hope it will also prove valuable to all the communities where this show is heard - no matter where you go in America, the struggle for the future is underway. What you're going to hear is a recording of a community meeting held in Hector, NY on May 15, sponsored by CARR - citizens for agricultural and rural responsibility, non-partisan group formed by Town of Hector, NY residents concerned about the health of our families, our community, and the rural land we love. This broadcast is timely because there will be another meeting, Thursday May 22 in Mecklenburg. I'll give details for local folks later in the show. We'll conclude with a talk by Sheldon Rampton, co-author with John Stauber of "Toxic Sludge is Good for You" about the tactics the PR industry uses to try to pass of harmful products like sludge through the manipulation of opinion.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-5-18T23:00:30-08:002008-5-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/410#1

This week on the program two provocative talks that address, in different ways, the role of individuals in tackling change that of necessity takes on two of our society's central beliefs - the glorification of work and the sanctity of property

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-5-11T23:00:30-08:002008-5-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/410#2

This week on the program two provocative talks that address, in different ways, the role of individuals in tackling change that of necessity takes on two of our society's central beliefs - the glorification of work and the sanctity of property

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-5-11T23:00:30-08:002008-5-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/409#1

A radio adaptation of "the Wold According to Monsanto:a documentary that Americans won't ever see" by Marie-Monique Robin

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-5-6T23:00:30-08:002008-5-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/409#2

A radio adaptation of "the Wold According to Monsanto:a documentary that Americans won't ever see" by Marie-Monique Robin

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-5-6T23:00:30-08:002008-5-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/408#1

This week, we conclude our series on earth jurisprudence, the rights of nature, and the people who are seizing the power to reject corporate rule.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-4-27T23:00:30-08:002008-4-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/408#2

This week, we conclude our series on earth jurisprudence, the rights of nature, and the people who are seizing the power to reject corporate rule.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-4-27T23:00:30-08:002008-4-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/407#1

Last week we began a series on an emerging area of law , earth jurisprudence, with talks from a symposium held at the world's first legal institute devoted exclusively to developing a body of law to give rights to nature. As we heard last week, the creatures and features of the natural world are regarded as property under most law. Our laws no more correspond to the reality of the natural world than does the once accepted idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-4-20T23:00:30-08:002008-4-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/407#2

Last week we began a series on an emerging area of law , earth jurisprudence, with talks from a symposium held at the world's first legal institute devoted exclusively to developing a body of law to give rights to nature. As we heard last week, the creatures and features of the natural world are regarded as property under most law. Our laws no more correspond to the reality of the natural world than does the once accepted idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-4-20T23:00:30-08:002008-4-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/406#1

Our petrochemical lifestyle has poisoned the air, water, and soil, and now is changing the Earth's climate pattern toward an ecosystem that predates the circumstances under which we and the animals and plants on which we inter depend have evolved. Our agriculture, which made an exponential expansion of human population possible, is based in Earth's temperate zones, which will be drastically reduced as the planet heats up. Much of Earth's arable soil has already been damaged by industrial agriculture. All over the industrialized world, people are gathering to discus and implement projects for sustainability, conservation and relocalization. Individuals trying to change their lifestyles can only go so far - the problems are systemic and require a shift in the widespread practices of industrial societies and the fundamental concepts upon which they are based such as economic growth, globalized production, and the natural world as property and resource. Our laws and courts are not geared to deal with the scale of ecological harm, which once caused often can't be restored within a human timescale. It is irreparable harm People attempting to address our ecological problems find the laws inadequate if not downright hostile. Activists find themselves in jail for trying to stop harmful activity, while the perpetrators receive the protection of the state. Legal practitioners and communities confronted by this legal brick wall are working to establish new law that will conform to our ecological reality, an earth jurisprudence. This week we'll begin a three part series focusing on the theory and action of this movement for the rights of nature under law and how communities are using it to fight corporate destruction.

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Our petrochemical lifestyle has poisoned the air, water, and soil, and now is changing the Earth's climate pattern toward an ecosystem that predates the circumstances under which we and the animals and plants on which we inter depend have evolved. Our agriculture, which made an exponential expansion of human population possible, is based in Earth's temperate zones, which will be drastically reduced as the planet heats up. Much of Earth's arable soil has already been damaged by industrial agriculture. All over the industrialized world, people are gathering to discus and implement projects for sustainability, conservation and relocalization. Individuals trying to change their lifestyles can only go so far - the problems are systemic and require a shift in the widespread practices of industrial societies and the fundamental concepts upon which they are based such as economic growth, globalized production, and the natural world as property and resource. Our laws and courts are not geared to deal with the scale of ecological harm, which once caused often can't be restored within a human timescale. It is irreparable harm People attempting to address our ecological problems find the laws inadequate if not downright hostile. Activists find themselves in jail for trying to stop harmful activity, while the perpetrators receive the protection of the state. Legal practitioners and communities confronted by this legal brick wall are working to establish new law that will conform to our ecological reality, an earth jurisprudence. This week we'll begin a three part series focusing on the theory and action of this movement for the rights of nature under law and how communities are using it to fight corporate destruction.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-4-14T23:00:30-08:002008-4-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/405#1

The final episode of the series based on the testimony from Winter Soldier Iraq and Afganistan, as well as excerpts from the documentary the Tank Man of the crushing of the 1989 uprising in china and the aftermath, because it's easier to see our fau

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-4-6T23:00:30-08:002008-4-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/405#2

The final episode of the series based on the testimony from Winter Soldier Iraq and Afganistan, as well as excerpts from the documentary the Tank Man of the crushing of the 1989 uprising in china and the aftermath, because it's easier to see our fau

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-4-6T23:00:30-08:002008-4-6T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/404#1

We'll continue this week with selected testimony from the Winter Soldier Hearings as well as placing it in its context of 9/11 and the project of global domination, with 9/11 truth scholar Kevin Barrett and international law and human rights expert Richard Falk. "Dehumanization of the Enemy" was one of the topics of the winter soldier testimony. Dehumanization of the enemy is part of the goal of military training, not accidental or isolated . Military training is designed to remove the recruits' lifelong moral prohibition against homicide, and ultimately, dehumanizing them as well

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-3-30T23:00:30-08:002008-3-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/404#2

We'll continue this week with selected testimony from the Winter Soldier Hearings as well as placing it in its context of 9/11 and the project of global domination, with 9/11 truth scholar Kevin Barrett and international law and human rights expert Richard Falk. "Dehumanization of the Enemy" was one of the topics of the winter soldier testimony. Dehumanization of the enemy is part of the goal of military training, not accidental or isolated . Military training is designed to remove the recruits' lifelong moral prohibition against homicide, and ultimately, dehumanizing them as well

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-3-30T23:00:30-08:002008-3-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/403#1

Testimony of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and the context of American militarism

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Testimony of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and the context of American militarism

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-3-24T23:00:30-08:002008-3-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/402#1

Excerpts from Winter Soldier ivaw.org

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Excerpts from Winter Soldier ivaw.org

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On March 6, members of Rochester, NY Declaration of Peace in collaboration with 45 other local organizations hosted a town hall featuring a panel of speakers: Scott Ritter, a former UN chief weapons inspector and marine corps officer, Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor, and Bryan Casler of Iraq Veterans Against the War . The event was part of broader campaign action by Declaration of Peace to call local members of Congress to account on the illegality of the Iraq invasion and occupation. This week I'm going to play you the event pretty much in its entirety. The participants spoke frankly and I heard a few things I hadn't heard before that contradict congressional claims of ignorance. Though the event's declared purpose was an examination of the legality of the Iraq invasion, it was in my view a historical document of mainstream Americans who set out to use the supposed mechanisms of their democracy to find instead lies and hypocrisy.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-3-9T23:00:30-08:002008-3-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/401#2

On March 6, members of Rochester, NY Declaration of Peace in collaboration with 45 other local organizations hosted a town hall featuring a panel of speakers: Scott Ritter, a former UN chief weapons inspector and marine corps officer, Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor, and Bryan Casler of Iraq Veterans Against the War . The event was part of broader campaign action by Declaration of Peace to call local members of Congress to account on the illegality of the Iraq invasion and occupation. This week I'm going to play you the event pretty much in its entirety. The participants spoke frankly and I heard a few things I hadn't heard before that contradict congressional claims of ignorance. Though the event's declared purpose was an examination of the legality of the Iraq invasion, it was in my view a historical document of mainstream Americans who set out to use the supposed mechanisms of their democracy to find instead lies and hypocrisy.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-3-9T23:00:30-08:002008-3-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/400#1

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David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist for The New York Times who has focussed on the subject of taxation. He most recently published book Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill, is an expose of hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and what has been called corporate socialism. It follows his previous Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else, which was a a New York Times bestseller. Johnston received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting "for his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms." Priorto joining the New York Times in 1995, he's worked for various major daily papers around the country and studied economics at the university of Chicago and elsewhere. He now lives in Rochester, New York area where he spoke on Februrary 16th at an event sponsored by the Rochester Labor Lyceum, which has presented public talks and debates on topics of labor and social justice since 1897.

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David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist for The New York Times who has focussed on the subject of taxation. He most recently published book Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill, is an expose of hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and what has been called corporate socialism. It follows his previous Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else, which was a a New York Times bestseller. Johnston received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting "for his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms." Priorto joining the New York Times in 1995, he's worked for various major daily papers around the country and studied economics at the university of Chicago and elsewhere. He now lives in Rochester, New York area where he spoke on Februrary 16th at an event sponsored by the Rochester Labor Lyceum, which has presented public talks and debates on topics of labor and social justice since 1897.

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Last week on the program, we focused on the social, and economic ramifications of the American landscape of subburban sprawl through the eyes of James Howard Kunstler. One of Kunstler's theme is that the physical arrangements of suburbia are not only unsustainable but that they both reflect and create a society that purposrts to represent an American Dream but have in fact become a nightmare in many ways and not delivered the happiness it purports to sell. This week, two different examinations of mental health and happiness in America. Our first speaker will be a returning guest, Stepehen Bezruchka, a medical doctor whose studies in public health and clinical experience have led him to social relations, rather than the medical model, as determinants for phsyical and mental health. Then we'll hear a very interesting talk by Matt Wray, a sociologist at the University of Nevada who has been studying suicide in Las Vegas.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-2-17T23:00:30-08:002008-2-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/398#2

Last week on the program, we focused on the social, and economic ramifications of the American landscape of subburban sprawl through the eyes of James Howard Kunstler. One of Kunstler's theme is that the physical arrangements of suburbia are not only unsustainable but that they both reflect and create a society that purposrts to represent an American Dream but have in fact become a nightmare in many ways and not delivered the happiness it purports to sell. This week, two different examinations of mental health and happiness in America. Our first speaker will be a returning guest, Stepehen Bezruchka, a medical doctor whose studies in public health and clinical experience have led him to social relations, rather than the medical model, as determinants for phsyical and mental health. Then we'll hear a very interesting talk by Matt Wray, a sociologist at the University of Nevada who has been studying suicide in Las Vegas.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-2-17T23:00:30-08:002008-2-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/397#1

Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work." Peak oil has insured that this sprawl world has no future. What might it be and how do we rise to meet it?

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Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work." Peak oil has insured that this sprawl world has no future. What might it be and how do we rise to meet it?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-2-11T23:00:30-08:002008-2-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/396#1

A few weeks ago on the show I played for you UK scholar Nafeez Ahmed's tour de force overview of the converging crises now coming to a head in the globalized system of industrial capitalism: climate catastrophe, peak oil, food scarcity and economic dysfunction. In a recent entry on his blog, he summarized the situation: "This global system is hugely destructive of human life. Devoid of the capability to recognize and enact ethical values, it is driven purely by the imperatives of profit, efficiency, growth, and monopoly. Consequently, it is not only destructive of human life; it is destructive of all life, nature, and even itself. It is now generating multiple crises across the world that over the next 10-15 years threaten to converge in an unprecedented and unimaginable way, unless we take drastic action now." The question is how do we take action, what action should we take, what vision guides our action. As A variety of speakers presented on this program have made clear, preserving the status quo is not a workable goal, because it is the status quo that is the source of the problem. Ways forward through this will be the focus of the program this week.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-2-3T23:00:30-08:002008-2-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/396#2

A few weeks ago on the show I played for you UK scholar Nafeez Ahmed's tour de force overview of the converging crises now coming to a head in the globalized system of industrial capitalism: climate catastrophe, peak oil, food scarcity and economic dysfunction. In a recent entry on his blog, he summarized the situation: "This global system is hugely destructive of human life. Devoid of the capability to recognize and enact ethical values, it is driven purely by the imperatives of profit, efficiency, growth, and monopoly. Consequently, it is not only destructive of human life; it is destructive of all life, nature, and even itself. It is now generating multiple crises across the world that over the next 10-15 years threaten to converge in an unprecedented and unimaginable way, unless we take drastic action now." The question is how do we take action, what action should we take, what vision guides our action. As A variety of speakers presented on this program have made clear, preserving the status quo is not a workable goal, because it is the status quo that is the source of the problem. Ways forward through this will be the focus of the program this week.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-2-3T23:00:30-08:002008-2-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/395#1

One of the most widely repeated myths in America is that capitalism and the free market are responsible for American prosperity, and its hallmark, the American middle class. We will hear on the program this week that the middle class is not a by product o

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-1-27T23:00:30-08:002008-1-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/395#2

One of the most widely repeated myths in America is that capitalism and the free market are responsible for American prosperity, and its hallmark, the American middle class. We will hear on the program this week that the middle class is not a by product o

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-1-27T23:00:30-08:002008-1-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/394#1

Capitalism's next economic crisis is upon us, and the news last week was was full of discussions of the fall of the stock market, the weakness of the dollar , the need for fiscal stimulous and so on. Capitalism, in its few hundred years of existence , has undergone continual cycles of crisis, recession, depression, inflation, stagflation. This has been spoken of as a subprime crisis, but its much, more more...

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-1-20T23:00:30-08:002008-1-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/394#2

Capitalism's next economic crisis is upon us, and the news last week was was full of discussions of the fall of the stock market, the weakness of the dollar , the need for fiscal stimulous and so on. Capitalism, in its few hundred years of existence , has undergone continual cycles of crisis, recession, depression, inflation, stagflation. This has been spoken of as a subprime crisis, but its much, more more...

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-1-20T23:00:30-08:002008-1-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/393#1

Change seems to be the watchword for the 2008 campaign season, yet the candidates put forward as the leading contenders are put forward exactly because they can be relied upon to create continuity, not change, in the system that has been responsible for c

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-1-14T23:00:30-08:002008-1-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/393#2

Change seems to be the watchword for the 2008 campaign season, yet the candidates put forward as the leading contenders are put forward exactly because they can be relied upon to create continuity, not change, in the system that has been responsible for c

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-1-14T23:00:30-08:002008-1-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/392#1

A radio adaptation of the John Pilger's film and information on the CIA's MK Ultra program on mind control and scientific torture

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-1-7T23:00:30-08:002008-1-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/392#2

A radio adaptation of the John Pilger's film and information on the CIA's MK Ultra program on mind control and scientific torture

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2008-1-7T23:00:30-08:002008-1-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/391#1

This week's show will be devoted to two presentations given by professor Peter Dale Scott. His topics are 9/11 in the context of his lifelong research into what he calls deep politics, and the deep state, and the role of 9/11 in wars of empire and wh

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This week's show will be devoted to two presentations given by professor Peter Dale Scott. His topics are 9/11 in the context of his lifelong research into what he calls deep politics, and the deep state, and the role of 9/11 in wars of empire and wh

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-12-30T23:00:30-08:002007-12-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/390#1

On Dec 15, physicist and 911 truth researcher Steven Jones announced his most recent discovery at a Boston 9i1 truth conference - he has discovered flakes of unreacted thermite, an incendiary, in samples of WTC debris. We're going to bring you an excerpt of that talk where he explains these recent findings by himself and other 911 truth movement scientists and researchers , who are part of the largest open source grassroots criminal investigation in history. Dr. Jones discovery follows on his recent findings of anomalous particles in several samples of dust from the world trade center site. We'll begin the program with a presentation he made last June at a conference in Vancouver, to update you on the investigation leading up to his present revelations, then end with a clip in which he describes the recent discovery.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-12-23T23:00:30-08:002007-12-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/390#2

On Dec 15, physicist and 911 truth researcher Steven Jones announced his most recent discovery at a Boston 9i1 truth conference - he has discovered flakes of unreacted thermite, an incendiary, in samples of WTC debris. We're going to bring you an excerpt of that talk where he explains these recent findings by himself and other 911 truth movement scientists and researchers , who are part of the largest open source grassroots criminal investigation in history. Dr. Jones discovery follows on his recent findings of anomalous particles in several samples of dust from the world trade center site. We'll begin the program with a presentation he made last June at a conference in Vancouver, to update you on the investigation leading up to his present revelations, then end with a clip in which he describes the recent discovery.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-12-23T23:00:30-08:002007-12-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/389#1

In the book, For Giving: a feminist critique of exchange that I've been reading from over recent weeks, philosopher Genevieve Vaughn has made the case that understanding the dehumanization of women under patriarchy is key to understanding other coercive or exploitative social arrangements based on maintaining authority and privilege by force and violence. Vaughn notes that the privileged ones are distinguished by a mark, in the case of patriarchy, a body part and a gender identity. In the case of other analogous systems of domination and submission, the mark may be skin color, ownership of property, membership in an ideological or ethnic group, or the wearing of special clothes like uniforms and badges. Though I'm going to suspend the reading of Vaughn's book this week on account of time constraints, it nonetheless provides a useful frame for understanding the topic of this week's program, - torture, and why it persists even in societies that officially reject its use. When an incident of torture or brutality by the military or police erupts into public view as a scandal, the official opinion makers repeatedly frame the incident as a result of individual flaws, bad apples. Our speakers this week will will expose the roots of torture as crimes of obedience, conformity to a society where bullies rule.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-12-16T23:00:30-08:002007-12-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/389#2

In the book, For Giving: a feminist critique of exchange that I've been reading from over recent weeks, philosopher Genevieve Vaughn has made the case that understanding the dehumanization of women under patriarchy is key to understanding other coercive or exploitative social arrangements based on maintaining authority and privilege by force and violence. Vaughn notes that the privileged ones are distinguished by a mark, in the case of patriarchy, a body part and a gender identity. In the case of other analogous systems of domination and submission, the mark may be skin color, ownership of property, membership in an ideological or ethnic group, or the wearing of special clothes like uniforms and badges. Though I'm going to suspend the reading of Vaughn's book this week on account of time constraints, it nonetheless provides a useful frame for understanding the topic of this week's program, - torture, and why it persists even in societies that officially reject its use. When an incident of torture or brutality by the military or police erupts into public view as a scandal, the official opinion makers repeatedly frame the incident as a result of individual flaws, bad apples. Our speakers this week will will expose the roots of torture as crimes of obedience, conformity to a society where bullies rule.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-12-16T23:00:30-08:002007-12-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/388#1

the Security and prosperity partnership, the SPP, is an executive-level pact between the governments and corporate sectors of Canada, the United States and Mexico, which has never been debated publicly or voted on in any of the three countries.

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the Security and prosperity partnership, the SPP, is an executive-level pact between the governments and corporate sectors of Canada, the United States and Mexico, which has never been debated publicly or voted on in any of the three countries.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-12-9T23:00:30-08:002007-12-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/387#1

There are those who equate markets with freedom, but the regime of markets, and exchange stand in opposition to the values of community. we'll unmask that with Naomi Klein on globalization and the shock doctrine, and reading from For-Giving: A femini

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-12-5T23:00:30-08:002007-12-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/387#2

There are those who equate markets with freedom, but the regime of markets, and exchange stand in opposition to the values of community. we'll unmask that with Naomi Klein on globalization and the shock doctrine, and reading from For-Giving: A femini

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-12-5T23:00:30-08:002007-12-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/386#1

This week on the program we'll hear a variety of perspectives highlighting the relationships between ecology, the role of language and the role of money and markets and movements to restore our cultural, economic and environmental commons

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-11-25T23:00:30-08:002007-11-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/386#2

This week on the program we'll hear a variety of perspectives highlighting the relationships between ecology, the role of language and the role of money and markets and movements to restore our cultural, economic and environmental commons

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-11-25T23:00:30-08:002007-11-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/385#1

Miguel De La Rosa, of EDUCA in Oaxaca, Mexico on the roots of migration, neoliberalism, and social movements, then Mike Davis and Jutin Chacon on the official disregard of immigrants during the San Diego wildfires, the parallels with what happened during

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-11-19T23:00:30-08:002007-11-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/385#2

Miguel De La Rosa, of EDUCA in Oaxaca, Mexico on the roots of migration, neoliberalism, and social movements, then Mike Davis and Jutin Chacon on the official disregard of immigrants during the San Diego wildfires, the parallels with what happened during

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-11-19T23:00:30-08:002007-11-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/384#1

almost everything about human societies is an invention yet we treat these arbitrary, often absurd, often cruel society arrangements and laws as if they were laws of nature - something inescapable, like gravity, when they could all be changed , swept away

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-11-12T23:00:30-08:002007-11-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/384#2

almost everything about human societies is an invention yet we treat these arbitrary, often absurd, often cruel society arrangements and laws as if they were laws of nature - something inescapable, like gravity, when they could all be changed , swept away

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On Oct 24, 2007 Sy Hersh gave the annual Amnesty International lecture in Dublin. His insights and information are given an added dimension by last week's program on the authoritarian personality

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On Oct 24, 2007 Sy Hersh gave the annual Amnesty International lecture in Dublin. His insights and information are given an added dimension by last week's program on the authoritarian personality

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Last week I devoted the entire show to a forum on the need for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Our speakers last week gave several reasons, a cure for royal ism, defense of the Constitution or maintaining the rule of law. More important than all those things is to halt the descent into fascism, by asserting a challenge to the authority claimed by the people on the throne and those behind it. Fascism, when the power of the State is used to subjugate the people for the use of corporations, has been a recurring theme from the founding of the US, even before the term was coined by Benito MMussolini. The US constitution is constructed such that it enables it's growth, while movements toward liberty tend to require bloodletting and broken bones among the people inflicted by the forces of law and order. An important question is why are so many citizens of a country that gives so much lip service to freedom, so willing to embrace its opposite? We'll begin the program with a very interesting interview that explores that question, then we'll conclude with the resumption of readings from For-Giving by Genevieve Vaughn, a feminist critique of the essential authoritarian nature and structure of exchange, that is markets.

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Last week I devoted the entire show to a forum on the need for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Our speakers last week gave several reasons, a cure for royal ism, defense of the Constitution or maintaining the rule of law. More important than all those things is to halt the descent into fascism, by asserting a challenge to the authority claimed by the people on the throne and those behind it. Fascism, when the power of the State is used to subjugate the people for the use of corporations, has been a recurring theme from the founding of the US, even before the term was coined by Benito MMussolini. The US constitution is constructed such that it enables it's growth, while movements toward liberty tend to require bloodletting and broken bones among the people inflicted by the forces of law and order. An important question is why are so many citizens of a country that gives so much lip service to freedom, so willing to embrace its opposite? We'll begin the program with a very interesting interview that explores that question, then we'll conclude with the resumption of readings from For-Giving by Genevieve Vaughn, a feminist critique of the essential authoritarian nature and structure of exchange, that is markets.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-10-29T23:00:30-08:002007-10-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/381#1

10/13/07 Teach-In on Impeachment was sponsored by the Broome County Peace Action group, and Broome County NY Veterans for Peace Chapter 90.

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10/13/07 Teach-In on Impeachment was sponsored by the Broome County Peace Action group, and Broome County NY Veterans for Peace Chapter 90.

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analyzing "the market" from the point of view of ecosocialism and the gift economy

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analyzing "the market" from the point of view of ecosocialism and the gift economy

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-10-15T23:00:30-08:002007-10-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/379#1

An explanation of what money is and how it destroys the environment, a critique of neoliberalism from the indigenous eco-socialist perspective, and a feminist critique of the exchange economy

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-10-7T23:00:30-08:002007-10-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/379#2

An explanation of what money is and how it destroys the environment, a critique of neoliberalism from the indigenous eco-socialist perspective, and a feminist critique of the exchange economy

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-10-7T23:00:30-08:002007-10-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/378#1

Climate change and peak oil have a common solution, that brings back community as a primary organizing principle

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-9-30T23:00:30-08:002007-9-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/378#2

Climate change and peak oil have a common solution, that brings back community as a primary organizing principle

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A talk by Prof Angela Davis, given Sept 18, 2007 at Cornell University. The US imprisons more people than any other nation, more than two million are behind bars now. According to report by the US dept of justice a few years ago, 1 in 37 Americans will find themselves behind bars. The majority of those prisoners are people of color, especially African American men, even in states where they are a tiny minority of the population, and even though many studies have shown that white people break laws as often or more often than people of color. It is estimated that one in 3 black men will be incarcerated at some time in his life. That the US legal system is biased against people of color, and the poor, who are disproportionately people of color, is incontrovertible, and Angela Davis will touch on that in the talk. Then she'll go on beyond to question the institution of prison itself, to pose the idea that imprisonment is bound up with the American conception of democracy in surprising ways, that it plays a role in how freedom is defined in the national psyche. Angela Davis, a former political prisoner herself as well as an internationally known scholar, is one of the foremost activists in the prison abolition movement that questions the very validity and purpose of prison as an institution.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-9-23T23:00:30-08:002007-9-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/377#2

A talk by Prof Angela Davis, given Sept 18, 2007 at Cornell University. The US imprisons more people than any other nation, more than two million are behind bars now. According to report by the US dept of justice a few years ago, 1 in 37 Americans will find themselves behind bars. The majority of those prisoners are people of color, especially African American men, even in states where they are a tiny minority of the population, and even though many studies have shown that white people break laws as often or more often than people of color. It is estimated that one in 3 black men will be incarcerated at some time in his life. That the US legal system is biased against people of color, and the poor, who are disproportionately people of color, is incontrovertible, and Angela Davis will touch on that in the talk. Then she'll go on beyond to question the institution of prison itself, to pose the idea that imprisonment is bound up with the American conception of democracy in surprising ways, that it plays a role in how freedom is defined in the national psyche. Angela Davis, a former political prisoner herself as well as an internationally known scholar, is one of the foremost activists in the prison abolition movement that questions the very validity and purpose of prison as an institution.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-9-23T23:00:30-08:002007-9-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/376#1

This week on the program two talks that illuminate the extent to which the so-called "war on terrorism," specifically, and the concept of national security generally, is about the bottom line, though that is not how its sold to the general public. You will hear this week how it resembles the cold war in many ways, from red scares at home to wars abroad. At home the target is people whose politics threaten profits, abroad, ditto. A matrix of relationships designed to defend these financial interests involves nearly every influential sector of society, and our speakers will go into detail on who some of they key actors have been, and what laws and policies have resulted. In the first hour, we'll hear from Peter Phillops director of project censored , and in the second hour, Will Potter, a DC based journalist ...with a talk The Green Scare: Eco-Activism in the Age of Terror"

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This week on the program two talks that illuminate the extent to which the so-called "war on terrorism," specifically, and the concept of national security generally, is about the bottom line, though that is not how its sold to the general public. You will hear this week how it resembles the cold war in many ways, from red scares at home to wars abroad. At home the target is people whose politics threaten profits, abroad, ditto. A matrix of relationships designed to defend these financial interests involves nearly every influential sector of society, and our speakers will go into detail on who some of they key actors have been, and what laws and policies have resulted. In the first hour, we'll hear from Peter Phillops director of project censored , and in the second hour, Will Potter, a DC based journalist ...with a talk The Green Scare: Eco-Activism in the Age of Terror"

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-9-16T23:00:30-08:002007-9-16T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/375#1

Darren Doherty is one of Australia's top permaculture designers. He specializes in type of work called keyline design. Keyline design is a system which was originally devised to rehumidfy the dry landscapes of Australia and thus speed the creation and regeneration of living topsoils. But as you will hear this week, one of the creators of the keyline system believes that the soil regeneration it performs can remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere and restore the climate balance of the planet . if the system was employed on the planet's farmland. The problem of the destruction of our environment cannot be separated from economics, and economics, as someone has said, is politics. Environmental destruction, whether climate destabilization or the myriad forms of human induced pollution we have been forced to endure result not from technological failures so much as political ones. The politics of power and disempowerment , driven by economic motives is the salient determining factor, according to the research of our first speaker economist James Boyce of the university of Massachusetts A number of independent financial analysts are warming that the US economy is on the verge of a collapse that could bring on a depression like the 1930's or worse. One of the more interesting of these writers is Jim Willie, a Phd statistician and proprietor of goldenjackass.com He describes the purpose of his site as follows: The Golden Jackass website is designed to inform and instruct in the complex ways of gold, currencies, bonds, interest rates, stocks, commodities, futures, derivatives and the world economy, with no respect shown for inept bankers and economists, whose policies and practices contribute toward the slow motion degradation, if not destruction, of the financial world.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-9-9T23:00:30-08:002007-9-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/375#2

Darren Doherty is one of Australia's top permaculture designers. He specializes in type of work called keyline design. Keyline design is a system which was originally devised to rehumidfy the dry landscapes of Australia and thus speed the creation and regeneration of living topsoils. But as you will hear this week, one of the creators of the keyline system believes that the soil regeneration it performs can remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere and restore the climate balance of the planet . if the system was employed on the planet's farmland. The problem of the destruction of our environment cannot be separated from economics, and economics, as someone has said, is politics. Environmental destruction, whether climate destabilization or the myriad forms of human induced pollution we have been forced to endure result not from technological failures so much as political ones. The politics of power and disempowerment , driven by economic motives is the salient determining factor, according to the research of our first speaker economist James Boyce of the university of Massachusetts A number of independent financial analysts are warming that the US economy is on the verge of a collapse that could bring on a depression like the 1930's or worse. One of the more interesting of these writers is Jim Willie, a Phd statistician and proprietor of goldenjackass.com He describes the purpose of his site as follows: The Golden Jackass website is designed to inform and instruct in the complex ways of gold, currencies, bonds, interest rates, stocks, commodities, futures, derivatives and the world economy, with no respect shown for inept bankers and economists, whose policies and practices contribute toward the slow motion degradation, if not destruction, of the financial world.

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speech from University of Manitoba, May 27, 2007

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speech from University of Manitoba, May 27, 2007

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A panel on democracy, relocalization and an indigenous perspective from the 2007 New York Green Fest, and an experimental energy farm

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-8-26T23:00:30-08:002007-8-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/373#2

A panel on democracy, relocalization and an indigenous perspective from the 2007 New York Green Fest, and an experimental energy farm

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-8-26T23:00:30-08:002007-8-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/372#1

The conclusions of "The Trap" by Adam Curtis and "The Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-8-19T23:00:30-08:002007-8-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/372#2

The conclusions of "The Trap" by Adam Curtis and "The Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto.

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Part 2 of a radio adaptation of "The Trap: What Happened to our Dream of Freedom" by Adam Curtis, and the installment from The Underground History of American Education"

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-8-12T23:00:30-08:002007-8-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/371#2

Part 2 of a radio adaptation of "The Trap: What Happened to our Dream of Freedom" by Adam Curtis, and the installment from The Underground History of American Education"

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-8-12T23:00:30-08:002007-8-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/370#1

This week, we begin the final chapter of John Taylor Gatto's book The Underground History of American Education, as Gatto drives home the point of the argument he's been making throughout the book, that the system of compulsory schooling has not been put in place to sharpen the intellectual skills of children to be equal to the responsibilities of free citizens, but just the opposite, to dumb them down, to be the malleable subjects of a plutocracy. Gatto has showed how this program developed out of union of the racial supremacist ideologies prevalent among 19th century intellectuals and the needs of industrial capitalists for a controllable and profitable workers and consumers. Though the rhetoric of freedom has dominated the the founding and development of the united states, the reality has been an orgy of violence. racism and related ideologies of inferiority and superiority have provided the justification for this oppression of others to people who wished to see themselves as paragons of morality and reason. Gatto has shown that it was the leaders in science and academia that were the purveyors of this bleak vision, a theme that will be echoed in a new three part series to begin this week by the British documentarian Adam Curtis. Long time listeners may remember two of his previous series , the Power of Nightmares and the Century of Self. His new series is called The Trap; What happened to our dreams of freedom?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-8-5T23:00:30-08:002007-8-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/370#2

This week, we begin the final chapter of John Taylor Gatto's book The Underground History of American Education, as Gatto drives home the point of the argument he's been making throughout the book, that the system of compulsory schooling has not been put in place to sharpen the intellectual skills of children to be equal to the responsibilities of free citizens, but just the opposite, to dumb them down, to be the malleable subjects of a plutocracy. Gatto has showed how this program developed out of union of the racial supremacist ideologies prevalent among 19th century intellectuals and the needs of industrial capitalists for a controllable and profitable workers and consumers. Though the rhetoric of freedom has dominated the the founding and development of the united states, the reality has been an orgy of violence. racism and related ideologies of inferiority and superiority have provided the justification for this oppression of others to people who wished to see themselves as paragons of morality and reason. Gatto has shown that it was the leaders in science and academia that were the purveyors of this bleak vision, a theme that will be echoed in a new three part series to begin this week by the British documentarian Adam Curtis. Long time listeners may remember two of his previous series , the Power of Nightmares and the Century of Self. His new series is called The Trap; What happened to our dreams of freedom?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-8-5T23:00:30-08:002007-8-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/369#1

The schools and the "respectable" media are part of a system of propaganda used to obscure the vastly unequal benefit delivered by the "social contract" and to prevent those with the raw end of deal from realizing their numbers and pot

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-29T23:00:30-08:002007-7-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/369#2

The schools and the "respectable" media are part of a system of propaganda used to obscure the vastly unequal benefit delivered by the "social contract" and to prevent those with the raw end of deal from realizing their numbers and pot

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-29T23:00:30-08:002007-7-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/368#1

Tom Linzey of CELDF and Jack and Valerie of Democracy New York talk about latest evolution in the battle in rural Pennsylvania against corporate rights, and the citizens who have been radicalized by the demonstration of sham democracy - Gatto explains how a plan for Democracy lite, known as "elite democracy" was implemented a century ago. The idea, proposed and approved, was the permanent infantilizing of the bulk of population, skimming the cream to become managers for the ruling class. Linzey spoke in Montour Falls, NY 7/17/07

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-22T23:00:30-08:002007-7-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/368#2

Tom Linzey of CELDF and Jack and Valerie of Democracy New York talk about latest evolution in the battle in rural Pennsylvania against corporate rights, and the citizens who have been radicalized by the demonstration of sham democracy - Gatto explains how a plan for Democracy lite, known as "elite democracy" was implemented a century ago. The idea, proposed and approved, was the permanent infantilizing of the bulk of population, skimming the cream to become managers for the ruling class. Linzey spoke in Montour Falls, NY 7/17/07

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-22T23:00:30-08:002007-7-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/367#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-15T23:00:30-08:002007-7-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/367#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-15T23:00:30-08:002007-7-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/366#1

NSA eavesdropping, RFID, electronic tracking and control, and the bureacracy of creating flunkies

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-8T23:00:30-08:002007-7-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/366#2

NSA eavesdropping, RFID, electronic tracking and control, and the bureacracy of creating flunkies

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-8T23:00:30-08:002007-7-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/365#1

as we mark the annual celebration clebrationf the first American revolution, a growing number of people have concluded that a second American revolution is long overdue. The 1776 uprising overthrew rule by an aristocracy of blood, and replaced it with an aristocracy of blood money, that has delivered life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on an inverted sliding scale ever since, by design. It is a design that was meant to frustrate popular rule, to allow a few to divide and conquer the many. Its myths of self reliance and prosperity were based on free land stolen from its original inhabitants. its wealth was built from the labors of the enslaved and exploited. Freedom is possible only when one has the power to escape control, a process that begins in the mind. If not for this mental bondage that creates isolation, passivity, fear and competition for favor, the few could not rule the many.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-1T23:00:30-08:002007-7-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/365#2

as we mark the annual celebration clebrationf the first American revolution, a growing number of people have concluded that a second American revolution is long overdue. The 1776 uprising overthrew rule by an aristocracy of blood, and replaced it with an aristocracy of blood money, that has delivered life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on an inverted sliding scale ever since, by design. It is a design that was meant to frustrate popular rule, to allow a few to divide and conquer the many. Its myths of self reliance and prosperity were based on free land stolen from its original inhabitants. its wealth was built from the labors of the enslaved and exploited. Freedom is possible only when one has the power to escape control, a process that begins in the mind. If not for this mental bondage that creates isolation, passivity, fear and competition for favor, the few could not rule the many.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-7-1T23:00:30-08:002007-7-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/364#1

In their groundbreaking 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent, professors Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky not only explained, but documented with extensive case studies, how mass media and public opinion are shaped in a democracy. Twenty years later, can their "propaganda model" still be used to explain modern media distortions? That was one of the main questions discussed last month at a conference at the university of Windsor, in Ontario, titled "20 Years of Propaganda?" We'll begin the program with a presentation from that conference by Sut Jhally, who teaches analysis and recognition of propaganda in the media at UMass Amherst, where he heads the Media Education Project. We'll follow that with the next installment of John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Education," his work on the development of compulsory schooling and its social engineering goals, which were not to enlighten but to mold the children of diverse cultures into a population useful to the agenda of corporate controlled mass production and consumption

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-6-24T23:00:30-08:002007-6-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/364#2

In their groundbreaking 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent, professors Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky not only explained, but documented with extensive case studies, how mass media and public opinion are shaped in a democracy. Twenty years later, can their "propaganda model" still be used to explain modern media distortions? That was one of the main questions discussed last month at a conference at the university of Windsor, in Ontario, titled "20 Years of Propaganda?" We'll begin the program with a presentation from that conference by Sut Jhally, who teaches analysis and recognition of propaganda in the media at UMass Amherst, where he heads the Media Education Project. We'll follow that with the next installment of John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Education," his work on the development of compulsory schooling and its social engineering goals, which were not to enlighten but to mold the children of diverse cultures into a population useful to the agenda of corporate controlled mass production and consumption

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-6-24T23:00:30-08:002007-6-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/363#1

A recent study shows more than 80 percent of Americans think household debt is a serious problem. Selected presentations from a conference "Debt Matters" and the financial services industry, and how debt has replaced the vanishing social safet

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-6-18T23:00:30-08:002007-6-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/363#2

A recent study shows more than 80 percent of Americans think household debt is a serious problem. Selected presentations from a conference "Debt Matters" and the financial services industry, and how debt has replaced the vanishing social safet

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-6-18T23:00:30-08:002007-6-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/362#1

Talk was given May 16, 2007 in Vancouver, BC

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Talk was given May 16, 2007 in Vancouver, BC

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-6-10T23:00:30-08:002007-6-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/361#1

Peak Oil and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, War and the Soul, Psychology, School and Social Control

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-6-3T23:00:30-08:002007-6-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/361#2

Peak Oil and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, War and the Soul, Psychology, School and Social Control

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-6-3T23:00:30-08:002007-6-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/360#1

Defeating RFID's, preserving the freedom of the internet, the power of decentralized, anarchic projects, the dark and light side of technology, education and psychology

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-5-27T23:00:30-08:002007-5-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/360#2

Defeating RFID's, preserving the freedom of the internet, the power of decentralized, anarchic projects, the dark and light side of technology, education and psychology

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What is the relationship between compulsory schooling, imperial subjugation, and corporate control?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-5-20T23:00:30-08:002007-5-20T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/359#2

What is the relationship between compulsory schooling, imperial subjugation, and corporate control?

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The nation state, is maintained by force and violence, whether carried out by monarchs, presidents, or parliaments, and their cops, courts and armies. laws and customs vary among nations, or are even contested within nations, but what all these nations have in common is a the use of official force to maintain social relationships of unequal power and unequal access to the means for living. Ironically these institutions of force are rationalized as crime prevention, justofied to control human nature which is portrayed as selfish and brutal and prone to cutthroat competition. But do they rather not create a culture of callousness and competition through the hierachies they enforce?

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The nation state, is maintained by force and violence, whether carried out by monarchs, presidents, or parliaments, and their cops, courts and armies. laws and customs vary among nations, or are even contested within nations, but what all these nations have in common is a the use of official force to maintain social relationships of unequal power and unequal access to the means for living. Ironically these institutions of force are rationalized as crime prevention, justofied to control human nature which is portrayed as selfish and brutal and prone to cutthroat competition. But do they rather not create a culture of callousness and competition through the hierachies they enforce?

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Culture is defined as "The accumulated habits, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people that define for them their general behavior and way of life; the total set of learned activities of a people." If culture is a set of learned activities, how is it taught and learned, by whom and why? John Taylor Gatto's book, the Underground History of American Education, which will return this week in the second hour, documents the institution of compulsory schooling as a program to impose cultural uniformity to create something called Americanism, a mass culture based on an aristocracy of wealth and the submission to the needs of industrial commerce. In the 20th century, due to mass media, especially television, the aristocracy of wealth has had unprecedented ability delibertely create and impose culture - a preocess which came to a head in the 1950's So deliberate was this imposition of culture that it gave rise to a movement that actually called itself a counterculture. It fought not only for rights within this sytem, but challenged the culture vision of Americanism itself. That struggle over culture comtinues to this day, and is playing out on a widening series of battlefields in an increasingly complex society. We'll take a look at a few of its aspects, beginning with a talk by political scientist Michael Parenti on the topic of his latest book, the Culture Struggle. Parenti focusses on the use of culture to maintain class power. We'll then look the alliance of Protestant Christian fundamentalism with empire with Michelle Goldberg, author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism", finishing off as promised, with a reading from the Underground History of American Education.

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Culture is defined as "The accumulated habits, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people that define for them their general behavior and way of life; the total set of learned activities of a people." If culture is a set of learned activities, how is it taught and learned, by whom and why? John Taylor Gatto's book, the Underground History of American Education, which will return this week in the second hour, documents the institution of compulsory schooling as a program to impose cultural uniformity to create something called Americanism, a mass culture based on an aristocracy of wealth and the submission to the needs of industrial commerce. In the 20th century, due to mass media, especially television, the aristocracy of wealth has had unprecedented ability delibertely create and impose culture - a preocess which came to a head in the 1950's So deliberate was this imposition of culture that it gave rise to a movement that actually called itself a counterculture. It fought not only for rights within this sytem, but challenged the culture vision of Americanism itself. That struggle over culture comtinues to this day, and is playing out on a widening series of battlefields in an increasingly complex society. We'll take a look at a few of its aspects, beginning with a talk by political scientist Michael Parenti on the topic of his latest book, the Culture Struggle. Parenti focusses on the use of culture to maintain class power. We'll then look the alliance of Protestant Christian fundamentalism with empire with Michelle Goldberg, author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism", finishing off as promised, with a reading from the Underground History of American Education.

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The most relevant testimony of the 4/24 US House oversight comittee on the lies told the US public about the death of former football star turned soldier Pat Tillman, killed by "friendly fire" - and the strange cover-up that might be way more t

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-4-29T23:00:30-08:002007-4-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/356#2

The most relevant testimony of the 4/24 US House oversight comittee on the lies told the US public about the death of former football star turned soldier Pat Tillman, killed by "friendly fire" - and the strange cover-up that might be way more t

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-4-29T23:00:30-08:002007-4-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/355#1

The Onondaga Nation and Haudenosaunee Confederacy, to which it belongs, existed long before European settlers came to these shores. They had developed a sophisticated culture and governance style which allowed them to live harmoniously with the Earth and with each other. The culture of environmental stewardship practiced by the Haudenosaunee has been supplanted by a culture that views the land as real esate and resource base. The ultimate result of that way of thinking and acting is epitomized by the destruction of Onondaga lake, site of the present city of Syracuse, NY which has in the course of less than 200 years, been turned into a toxic soup containing more than 22 million tons of industrial waste. The corporations responsible have mostly closed thier plants and moved them to other countries, where they continue a similar proces of destruction which is called in mainstream parlance "development." This weekend, Earth Day celebrations were held all over the country, and many of them focussed on the need to address global warming, a result of the same type of industrial activity and thought processes that has laid waste to a beautiful lake in central New York. As millions of Americans are seeing and discussing Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, as well as his recent Congressional testimony, about what should be done to respond to global warming, I would like to pose this question: can these problems be solved using the same mindset, the same cultural values, that created the problem? Gore has attempted to sell his solutions as a great economic opportunity. Earth must be saved, whether it benefits the economy or not. Our culture devalues the land as home, relegating it to a natural resource, just as it denigrates people into a so-called "human resource." Is it any wonder that our culture has transformed a paradise into a prozac popping polluted hellhole of prisoners, wage slaves, and tinpot tyrants? I submit to you that the very reason that the powers -that -be have fought environmentalists with such ferocity, is that they know, that values of earth call us to values different from those upon whih their powers are based. The land rights action of the Onondaga nation has called upon us to take up, with them, stewardship of the land. To that end, they came together with their settler neighbors in a year -long series of dialogs to discuss our common future. Last October, a two day event brought together Haudenosaunee leaders, scientists, lawyers and Syracuse areas residents to address the restoration the land and water of the historic Onondaga nation territory. We'll present a portion of that, begining with a look at the land before the arrival of ther Europeans and the land management practices of the Haudenosaunee, the ancient culture who has called this land home for thousands of years

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-4-22T23:00:30-08:002007-4-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/355#2

The Onondaga Nation and Haudenosaunee Confederacy, to which it belongs, existed long before European settlers came to these shores. They had developed a sophisticated culture and governance style which allowed them to live harmoniously with the Earth and with each other. The culture of environmental stewardship practiced by the Haudenosaunee has been supplanted by a culture that views the land as real esate and resource base. The ultimate result of that way of thinking and acting is epitomized by the destruction of Onondaga lake, site of the present city of Syracuse, NY which has in the course of less than 200 years, been turned into a toxic soup containing more than 22 million tons of industrial waste. The corporations responsible have mostly closed thier plants and moved them to other countries, where they continue a similar proces of destruction which is called in mainstream parlance "development." This weekend, Earth Day celebrations were held all over the country, and many of them focussed on the need to address global warming, a result of the same type of industrial activity and thought processes that has laid waste to a beautiful lake in central New York. As millions of Americans are seeing and discussing Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, as well as his recent Congressional testimony, about what should be done to respond to global warming, I would like to pose this question: can these problems be solved using the same mindset, the same cultural values, that created the problem? Gore has attempted to sell his solutions as a great economic opportunity. Earth must be saved, whether it benefits the economy or not. Our culture devalues the land as home, relegating it to a natural resource, just as it denigrates people into a so-called "human resource." Is it any wonder that our culture has transformed a paradise into a prozac popping polluted hellhole of prisoners, wage slaves, and tinpot tyrants? I submit to you that the very reason that the powers -that -be have fought environmentalists with such ferocity, is that they know, that values of earth call us to values different from those upon whih their powers are based. The land rights action of the Onondaga nation has called upon us to take up, with them, stewardship of the land. To that end, they came together with their settler neighbors in a year -long series of dialogs to discuss our common future. Last October, a two day event brought together Haudenosaunee leaders, scientists, lawyers and Syracuse areas residents to address the restoration the land and water of the historic Onondaga nation territory. We'll present a portion of that, begining with a look at the land before the arrival of ther Europeans and the land management practices of the Haudenosaunee, the ancient culture who has called this land home for thousands of years

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This weekend thousands of communities in all 50 states held events to educate the public on global warming issues and to mobilize the political will to make the social changes this crisis requires. This is my conrribution to that effort.

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This weekend thousands of communities in all 50 states held events to educate the public on global warming issues and to mobilize the political will to make the social changes this crisis requires. This is my conrribution to that effort.

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The 19th century French social phisopher Pierre Joseph Proudhon, the first to describe himself as an anarchist wrote in his essay What Is Property?, Property, acting by exclusion and encroachment, while population was increasing, has been the life-principle and definitive cause of all revolutions. Religious wars, and wars of conquest, when they have stopped short of the extermination of races, have been only accidental disturbances, soon repaired by the mathematical progression of the life of nations. The downfall and death of societies are due to the power of accumulation possessed by property. Last week's speaker John Marciano quipped that the liberal sees a man sleeping on the street and says the system isn't working, and a radical sees the same thing and says that the system is working. What accounts for such divegent conclusions about the same objective fact. And there are other conclusions as well, such as that the sleeper is lazy, crazy, or addicted to intoxicating substances or that that he is a sinner out of favor with god, or a person with bad karma,in short in some way culpable, and our social system blameless. One's conclusion about the man on the street therefore is based on what one believes about the basic nature of the society we live in, and what governs its dominant processes.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-4-8T23:00:30-08:002007-4-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/353#2

The 19th century French social phisopher Pierre Joseph Proudhon, the first to describe himself as an anarchist wrote in his essay What Is Property?, Property, acting by exclusion and encroachment, while population was increasing, has been the life-principle and definitive cause of all revolutions. Religious wars, and wars of conquest, when they have stopped short of the extermination of races, have been only accidental disturbances, soon repaired by the mathematical progression of the life of nations. The downfall and death of societies are due to the power of accumulation possessed by property. Last week's speaker John Marciano quipped that the liberal sees a man sleeping on the street and says the system isn't working, and a radical sees the same thing and says that the system is working. What accounts for such divegent conclusions about the same objective fact. And there are other conclusions as well, such as that the sleeper is lazy, crazy, or addicted to intoxicating substances or that that he is a sinner out of favor with god, or a person with bad karma,in short in some way culpable, and our social system blameless. One's conclusion about the man on the street therefore is based on what one believes about the basic nature of the society we live in, and what governs its dominant processes.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-4-8T23:00:30-08:002007-4-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/352#1

Why US Foreign policy remains the same - war, and what it takes to stop

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Why US Foreign policy remains the same - war, and what it takes to stop

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What are presnted as isolated news items are actually connected - there is a line that connects Chiquita death squads and their Iraqi counterparts - and that line runs right through the USA, as we will hear on the program this week. CIA and US Military opeartives have created dfeath squads, personally or by proxy in countries as wide ranging as viet nam, el salvador and now Iraq. US pundits have suggested that the violence is an indication of a culture not up to the task of democracy. Let me suggest that it is a characeristic trait of any dominator society, one riddled with social . sexual and economic hierarchies kept in place by violence, as they must be , because the people on the bottom of the hierarchy will no maintain that position voluntarily- and that includes the United States

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What are presnted as isolated news items are actually connected - there is a line that connects Chiquita death squads and their Iraqi counterparts - and that line runs right through the USA, as we will hear on the program this week. CIA and US Military opeartives have created dfeath squads, personally or by proxy in countries as wide ranging as viet nam, el salvador and now Iraq. US pundits have suggested that the violence is an indication of a culture not up to the task of democracy. Let me suggest that it is a characeristic trait of any dominator society, one riddled with social . sexual and economic hierarchies kept in place by violence, as they must be , because the people on the bottom of the hierarchy will no maintain that position voluntarily- and that includes the United States

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This week on the program we're going to look at what economist Michael Hudson has called the new serfdom, because 90 prcent of the population carries perpetual debt which supports the top ten percent. Politicians and pundits tell people that education is key to economic prosperity, but for many people without means, this is where they fall into the first debt trap. To get an education, they must borrow, and thanks to the colllusion of politicians and bankers, many are trapped in a vicious dowlward spiral. We'll hear about that in our second hour. If they escape that trap, the mortgage on a vastly inflated home price awaits them. In our first hour we'll hear from Dr. Michael Hudson on how financiers use debt to get a free lunch, and how the rest of us are on the menu

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This week on the program we're going to look at what economist Michael Hudson has called the new serfdom, because 90 prcent of the population carries perpetual debt which supports the top ten percent. Politicians and pundits tell people that education is key to economic prosperity, but for many people without means, this is where they fall into the first debt trap. To get an education, they must borrow, and thanks to the colllusion of politicians and bankers, many are trapped in a vicious dowlward spiral. We'll hear about that in our second hour. If they escape that trap, the mortgage on a vastly inflated home price awaits them. In our first hour we'll hear from Dr. Michael Hudson on how financiers use debt to get a free lunch, and how the rest of us are on the menu

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-3-18T23:00:30-08:002007-3-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/349#1

Women seeking freedom and dignity have run a gauntlet between church and state, religion and science, all of which have been used in the service of patriarchy and privilege.

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Women seeking freedom and dignity have run a gauntlet between church and state, religion and science, all of which have been used in the service of patriarchy and privilege.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-3-11T23:00:30-08:002007-3-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/348#1

How are values formed and perpetuated? For what purpose?

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How are values formed and perpetuated? For what purpose?

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On March 21, 2007 Iran will no longer officially accept US dollars for any transactions. Iran has entered into discussions with Russia to form a gas cartel. Russia and Iran are the world's number 1 and number 5 gas producers, and they are numbers 1 and 2 in natural gas reserves (holding possibly half of the world's natural gas reserves). The currency moves threaten the US dollar's position as the world's reserve currency, and a cartel would be anathema to US interests in the region. - this is a quote from an article a Feb 24 article "A gathering perfect storm" by David Chapman, who is a director of a Canadian investment fund in precious metals

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On March 21, 2007 Iran will no longer officially accept US dollars for any transactions. Iran has entered into discussions with Russia to form a gas cartel. Russia and Iran are the world's number 1 and number 5 gas producers, and they are numbers 1 and 2 in natural gas reserves (holding possibly half of the world's natural gas reserves). The currency moves threaten the US dollar's position as the world's reserve currency, and a cartel would be anathema to US interests in the region. - this is a quote from an article a Feb 24 article "A gathering perfect storm" by David Chapman, who is a director of a Canadian investment fund in precious metals

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Greenhouse gases have hit a new record in the atmosphere and the build-up is accelerating, apparently because of industrial growth in Asia, . China is opening coal-fired power plants at the rate of almost one a week. "Levels are at a new high," said Kim Holmen, research director of the Norwegian Polar Institute which oversees the Zeppelin measuring station on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard about 1,200 km (750 miles) from the North Pole. Concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted largely by burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars, had risen to 390 parts per million (ppm) from 388 a year ago. 400 parts per million is considered the critical threshhold beyond which warming effects may be beyond the point of no return. At the present rate of increase, we will reach the critical level in five years. Meanwhile, on Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all time high. There is actually a relationship between the CO2 numbers and the Dow Jones. Governments are maintaining the Dow Jones numbers which reflect a toxic brew of overproduction and excessive consumption - all fueled by the burning of hydrocarbons, at the expense of focussing on the CO2 numbers and the capacity of the planet to sustain our sort of life form.

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Greenhouse gases have hit a new record in the atmosphere and the build-up is accelerating, apparently because of industrial growth in Asia, . China is opening coal-fired power plants at the rate of almost one a week. "Levels are at a new high," said Kim Holmen, research director of the Norwegian Polar Institute which oversees the Zeppelin measuring station on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard about 1,200 km (750 miles) from the North Pole. Concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted largely by burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars, had risen to 390 parts per million (ppm) from 388 a year ago. 400 parts per million is considered the critical threshhold beyond which warming effects may be beyond the point of no return. At the present rate of increase, we will reach the critical level in five years. Meanwhile, on Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all time high. There is actually a relationship between the CO2 numbers and the Dow Jones. Governments are maintaining the Dow Jones numbers which reflect a toxic brew of overproduction and excessive consumption - all fueled by the burning of hydrocarbons, at the expense of focussing on the CO2 numbers and the capacity of the planet to sustain our sort of life form.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-2-18T23:00:30-08:002007-2-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/345#1

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It is often said that the "War on Terror" is bankrupting the US economy. What if that's the cart before the horse?

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It is often said that the "War on Terror" is bankrupting the US economy. What if that's the cart before the horse?

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Testimony from the citizens tribunal on Iraq war crimes in support of Lt. Ehren Watada in Tacoma, WA , with a report on the DC peace protest

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-1-28T23:00:30-08:002007-1-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/343#2

Testimony from the citizens tribunal on Iraq war crimes in support of Lt. Ehren Watada in Tacoma, WA , with a report on the DC peace protest

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What do you get when you cross our education system with our media system? The manufacture of consent and the suppression of dissent. Audio from the Media Reform Conference, with an emphasis on propaganda

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-1-21T23:00:30-08:002007-1-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/342#2

What do you get when you cross our education system with our media system? The manufacture of consent and the suppression of dissent. Audio from the Media Reform Conference, with an emphasis on propaganda

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George Bush's announcement earlier this week of an escalation of troop deployment to Iraq sparked protests around the world. Polls showed more than two thirds of Americans, including those in the military, oppose the escalation. This raises a basic question - what if anything legitimizes Bush to take a life and death action that most people here, and in Iraq oppose, and why should soldiers obey Bush's, rather than the people's will. More fundamentally, why should anyone obey orders they oppose. And a related question, why do they?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-1-14T23:00:30-08:002007-1-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/341#2

George Bush's announcement earlier this week of an escalation of troop deployment to Iraq sparked protests around the world. Polls showed more than two thirds of Americans, including those in the military, oppose the escalation. This raises a basic question - what if anything legitimizes Bush to take a life and death action that most people here, and in Iraq oppose, and why should soldiers obey Bush's, rather than the people's will. More fundamentally, why should anyone obey orders they oppose. And a related question, why do they?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-1-14T23:00:30-08:002007-1-14T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/340#1

Examination of the previously secret documentary evidence of the actual goals of US and UK planners that are furthered with the pretext of external enemies

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-1-7T23:00:30-08:002007-1-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/340#2

Examination of the previously secret documentary evidence of the actual goals of US and UK planners that are furthered with the pretext of external enemies

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-1-7T23:00:30-08:002007-1-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/339#1

Why elections don't result in popular rule, technocracies and entrenched power, and a look at a system designed to create broad-based voluntary participation in running society, without a state. Have you heard of "demarchy"?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-1-1T23:00:30-08:002007-1-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/339#2

Why elections don't result in popular rule, technocracies and entrenched power, and a look at a system designed to create broad-based voluntary participation in running society, without a state. Have you heard of "demarchy"?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2007-1-1T23:00:30-08:002007-1-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/338#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-12-24T23:00:30-08:002006-12-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/338#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-12-24T23:00:30-08:002006-12-24T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/337#1

During this holiday season people will eat drink and make merry. What we eat and drink now and throughout the year effects not only our health, and the health of the environment. It also serves to roll back or extend corporate control.of our lives , as you will hear on the program this week In our ongoing readings from John Taylor Gatto's book the Underground History of American Education, he wrote of the deliberate transformation of American society in the 19th century to centralize control over the necessities of life into the hands of a corporate oligarchy. He explained the role compulsory schooling plays: to mentally homogemize the population to serve that system, and how the discovery of hydrocarbon energy motivated this change, as well as financed it. This social reconfiguation was sold in the name of techological progress and prosperity - and its price was stunted potential individually and stunted self-governance societally, and a sociey that is now largely at the mercy of some corporation to furnish, or withhold our most basic needs. It is true that one can decide amongst what is available, but who decides what is available, and how it is distributed? If you can't decide, your actual freedom is very limited indeed.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-12-18T23:00:30-08:002006-12-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/337#2

During this holiday season people will eat drink and make merry. What we eat and drink now and throughout the year effects not only our health, and the health of the environment. It also serves to roll back or extend corporate control.of our lives , as you will hear on the program this week In our ongoing readings from John Taylor Gatto's book the Underground History of American Education, he wrote of the deliberate transformation of American society in the 19th century to centralize control over the necessities of life into the hands of a corporate oligarchy. He explained the role compulsory schooling plays: to mentally homogemize the population to serve that system, and how the discovery of hydrocarbon energy motivated this change, as well as financed it. This social reconfiguation was sold in the name of techological progress and prosperity - and its price was stunted potential individually and stunted self-governance societally, and a sociey that is now largely at the mercy of some corporation to furnish, or withhold our most basic needs. It is true that one can decide amongst what is available, but who decides what is available, and how it is distributed? If you can't decide, your actual freedom is very limited indeed.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-12-18T23:00:30-08:002006-12-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/336#1

Last week on the program we heard how the emerging class of 19th century industrialists and their political and intellectual allies re-imagined prosperity in terms of coal fired mass production culture, how they set out to deliberately reshape society to that end. This was in essence, a war, in that a few leaders would dictate the sacrifice of the lives of many who were unwitting or unwilling, in the name of national success. This historical example allows us to read between the lines of the official policy debate on the US occupation of iraq between the Bush administration, the incoming Congress and the the Iraq Study Group. It also illuminates the meaning of the response of the political and media establishment toward the work of Dr. Les Roberts, our featured speaker this week. The politics are being framed as a contest between bipartisan so-called pragmatists of the study group, versus administration national security hardliners. In fact, both of these groups represent industries with some type of presnt or hoped for economic interest in Iraq. The policy conflict is just political theater. as the study group has merely repackaged the original and still officially unackowledged objectives of the invasion: the control of the future of Iraq and its resources by an amglo american state/corporate alliance. . Dr. Les Roberts is the author of two studies of mortality in Iraq, conducted in 2004 and this year, which were published in the UK medical journal, the Lancet.Though Roberts research takes him all over the world, he was raised in the Syracuse area and now makes his home in Chenanego county. which is part of New York's 24th congressional district. Roberts made an abortive run in the Democratic congressional, primary this year and he addresses the politics of politics as well as the politics of science and of the media.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-12-10T23:00:30-08:002006-12-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/336#2

Last week on the program we heard how the emerging class of 19th century industrialists and their political and intellectual allies re-imagined prosperity in terms of coal fired mass production culture, how they set out to deliberately reshape society to that end. This was in essence, a war, in that a few leaders would dictate the sacrifice of the lives of many who were unwitting or unwilling, in the name of national success. This historical example allows us to read between the lines of the official policy debate on the US occupation of iraq between the Bush administration, the incoming Congress and the the Iraq Study Group. It also illuminates the meaning of the response of the political and media establishment toward the work of Dr. Les Roberts, our featured speaker this week. The politics are being framed as a contest between bipartisan so-called pragmatists of the study group, versus administration national security hardliners. In fact, both of these groups represent industries with some type of presnt or hoped for economic interest in Iraq. The policy conflict is just political theater. as the study group has merely repackaged the original and still officially unackowledged objectives of the invasion: the control of the future of Iraq and its resources by an amglo american state/corporate alliance. . Dr. Les Roberts is the author of two studies of mortality in Iraq, conducted in 2004 and this year, which were published in the UK medical journal, the Lancet.Though Roberts research takes him all over the world, he was raised in the Syracuse area and now makes his home in Chenanego county. which is part of New York's 24th congressional district. Roberts made an abortive run in the Democratic congressional, primary this year and he addresses the politics of politics as well as the politics of science and of the media.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-12-10T23:00:30-08:002006-12-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/335#1

This week I'll resume reading from John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Education", as we begin a new chapter that chronicles how economic elites deliberately deintellectualized America in order to create a tractable labor force for the industrial revolution that coal was to fuel. This is not speculation or imagination, you will hear evidence from the documentary record that the literate and independent population of mostly family farmers was conmsidered a threat to a new social order that was being installed - one which would put the control the necessities of life in the hands of a relative few captaims of industry and their legions of managers. The children of america were to be deliberately schooled to serve this new system devoted to industrial production. Last week, we heard about Prussia, the first and foremost example of the modern totalitarian garrison state, and how its population was managed and formed to the needs of the rulers of the state through its tripartite school system. We heard how this school system was deliberately recreated in America, through the efforts of certain reformers backed by industrialists . The social philosopher John Dewey defined politics as the shadow cast by big business over society. It's more like a total eclipse. the creation, expansion management and protection of wealth is, as the they say 90 percent of the law.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-12-4T23:00:30-08:002006-12-4T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/335#2

This week I'll resume reading from John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Education", as we begin a new chapter that chronicles how economic elites deliberately deintellectualized America in order to create a tractable labor force for the industrial revolution that coal was to fuel. This is not speculation or imagination, you will hear evidence from the documentary record that the literate and independent population of mostly family farmers was conmsidered a threat to a new social order that was being installed - one which would put the control the necessities of life in the hands of a relative few captaims of industry and their legions of managers. The children of america were to be deliberately schooled to serve this new system devoted to industrial production. Last week, we heard about Prussia, the first and foremost example of the modern totalitarian garrison state, and how its population was managed and formed to the needs of the rulers of the state through its tripartite school system. We heard how this school system was deliberately recreated in America, through the efforts of certain reformers backed by industrialists . The social philosopher John Dewey defined politics as the shadow cast by big business over society. It's more like a total eclipse. the creation, expansion management and protection of wealth is, as the they say 90 percent of the law.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-12-4T23:00:30-08:002006-12-4T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/334#1

In this second part of our series on impeachment, we look at the mafia-like nature of the Bush/ Cheney administration. Behind the waving flags and patriotic rhetoric, what we have is a field day for people who'll walk over dead bodies for a dollar - literally. We're going to begin with Robert Greenwald's wonderful video documentary on war profiteering, Iraq for Sale, which I've adapted for radio. It looks under the covers of the privatization of the military. For years, the public has been inundated with rhetoric of the efficiency of private industry. The question that must be asked is efficient for whom?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-11-26T23:00:30-08:002006-11-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/334#2

In this second part of our series on impeachment, we look at the mafia-like nature of the Bush/ Cheney administration. Behind the waving flags and patriotic rhetoric, what we have is a field day for people who'll walk over dead bodies for a dollar - literally. We're going to begin with Robert Greenwald's wonderful video documentary on war profiteering, Iraq for Sale, which I've adapted for radio. It looks under the covers of the privatization of the military. For years, the public has been inundated with rhetoric of the efficiency of private industry. The question that must be asked is efficient for whom?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-11-26T23:00:30-08:002006-11-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/333#1

The human race is at a crossroads brought on by the destruction of our environment. For the sake of survival and for our happiness, we must transform the way we live, and we must do it now. The government of United States, its policies, and its ideology are a large part of the problem, and the Bush Cheney administration is the distilliation, the standard bearer, of everything that is wrong- calculated liars, torturers, serial killers, looters of the national wealth, subverters of national and international sanity through a campaign of fear and violence, contempt for the American people and everybody and everything else but the profits of an elite circle of already wealthy people. It, they, epitomize a way of being in the world that goes back long before their present terms of office. Our politics and economics require deep structural change that will take time. But serious action must happen now . Impeachment is triage, we must stop, quite literally, the bleeding.. This week you'll hear the case for impeachment, with a special emphasis on torture, as part one of a two part series NOTE TO PODDERS: As far as i can tell, about 4500 people podcast this program each week. I know that some of you are outside the US, because you have written. I'm honored that you choose to listen, especially as this program is very much geared to Americans. So, this message is really for US listeners. Folks, you would not be able to hear this program if not for Radio4all. if you appreciate the program, I beg of you, make a donation of 1 dollar a year to help keep this going. There's a donate button at the top right hand corner of the page. Thanks so much

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-11-19T23:00:30-08:002006-11-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/333#2

The human race is at a crossroads brought on by the destruction of our environment. For the sake of survival and for our happiness, we must transform the way we live, and we must do it now. The government of United States, its policies, and its ideology are a large part of the problem, and the Bush Cheney administration is the distilliation, the standard bearer, of everything that is wrong- calculated liars, torturers, serial killers, looters of the national wealth, subverters of national and international sanity through a campaign of fear and violence, contempt for the American people and everybody and everything else but the profits of an elite circle of already wealthy people. It, they, epitomize a way of being in the world that goes back long before their present terms of office. Our politics and economics require deep structural change that will take time. But serious action must happen now . Impeachment is triage, we must stop, quite literally, the bleeding.. This week you'll hear the case for impeachment, with a special emphasis on torture, as part one of a two part series NOTE TO PODDERS: As far as i can tell, about 4500 people podcast this program each week. I know that some of you are outside the US, because you have written. I'm honored that you choose to listen, especially as this program is very much geared to Americans. So, this message is really for US listeners. Folks, you would not be able to hear this program if not for Radio4all. if you appreciate the program, I beg of you, make a donation of 1 dollar a year to help keep this going. There's a donate button at the top right hand corner of the page. Thanks so much

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-11-19T23:00:30-08:002006-11-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/332#1

I had planned a different show this week, but after hearing since election day about impeachment being off the table, I am beside myself with outrage. Oh no you don't, not again. Had Reagan, Pappy Bush and their minions been held accountable for their crimes twenty tears ago, we would not have been sadled with six years of a fascist nightmare, featuring the greyer versions of the same cast of characters. The Democrats, who controlled Congress during the Reagan years pulled their punches with the excuse that the American people, that would be us, couldn't stand another disgraced President. What nonsense, it's the power structure that was afraid the system would be revealed to the people for the perpetually rotten thing that it is - what other kind of leadership can an empire have?.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-11-13T23:00:30-08:002006-11-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/332#2

I had planned a different show this week, but after hearing since election day about impeachment being off the table, I am beside myself with outrage. Oh no you don't, not again. Had Reagan, Pappy Bush and their minions been held accountable for their crimes twenty tears ago, we would not have been sadled with six years of a fascist nightmare, featuring the greyer versions of the same cast of characters. The Democrats, who controlled Congress during the Reagan years pulled their punches with the excuse that the American people, that would be us, couldn't stand another disgraced President. What nonsense, it's the power structure that was afraid the system would be revealed to the people for the perpetually rotten thing that it is - what other kind of leadership can an empire have?.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-11-13T23:00:30-08:002006-11-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/331#1

Why do Americans put up with the government we have? We have been "germanized" by design.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-11-5T23:00:30-08:002006-11-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/331#2

Why do Americans put up with the government we have? We have been "germanized" by design.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-11-5T23:00:30-08:002006-11-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/330#1

This election season, corruption in government and in the electoral process are top issues for many voters - anger and disgust over both major party leadership's refusal to end the unconsionable Iraq war and or take appropriate action to respond to the imminent ecological emergency has brought a flood of new contenders into the electoral arena who are challenging business as usual. They face an uphill battle : vote fraud, gerrymandering, corporate influence, media spin - in short a system so manipulated that it is a democracy in name only

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-10-30T23:00:30-08:002006-10-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/330#2

This election season, corruption in government and in the electoral process are top issues for many voters - anger and disgust over both major party leadership's refusal to end the unconsionable Iraq war and or take appropriate action to respond to the imminent ecological emergency has brought a flood of new contenders into the electoral arena who are challenging business as usual. They face an uphill battle : vote fraud, gerrymandering, corporate influence, media spin - in short a system so manipulated that it is a democracy in name only

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-10-30T23:00:30-08:002006-10-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/329#1

What does it mean to live in an empire? What is the nature of empire and what must people believe in order to participate in the process of building and maintaining it. How do people come to think certain ways, believe certain things, and how important to maintaining an empire, this empire, are the stories we tell ourselves about our society? These are the topic of the program this week. We'll begin with a new public class series with social historian John Marciano on empire as a way of life, and we'll resume readings from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education which dovetails nicely with Marciano's presentation. As you will hear, the education Americans receive about the actions and motivations of the American state lays the groundwork for a national state of mind, and this has global consequences. The media takes up where school leaves off, by amplifying the official stories from the centers of power. An example - if you were alive during the Reagan years you would have often heard the phrase "evil empire" used by the administration to describe the USSR. never confronted in the parade of pundits on the corporate media was the implication that there can be a good empire

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-10-22T23:00:30-08:002006-10-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/329#2

What does it mean to live in an empire? What is the nature of empire and what must people believe in order to participate in the process of building and maintaining it. How do people come to think certain ways, believe certain things, and how important to maintaining an empire, this empire, are the stories we tell ourselves about our society? These are the topic of the program this week. We'll begin with a new public class series with social historian John Marciano on empire as a way of life, and we'll resume readings from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education which dovetails nicely with Marciano's presentation. As you will hear, the education Americans receive about the actions and motivations of the American state lays the groundwork for a national state of mind, and this has global consequences. The media takes up where school leaves off, by amplifying the official stories from the centers of power. An example - if you were alive during the Reagan years you would have often heard the phrase "evil empire" used by the administration to describe the USSR. never confronted in the parade of pundits on the corporate media was the implication that there can be a good empire

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-10-22T23:00:30-08:002006-10-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/328#1

In 1492, in the process of seeking a shortcut to India, Christopher Columbus encountered a continent which was not on his maps - an abundant land inhabited by tens of millions of hospitable people with unsophistivated weapons. In order to legalize the plundering of the lands of their indigenous hosts, the Pope proclaimed the Doctrine of Discovery, a law that said that only Christians could hold title to lands, and this lands inhabited by nonChristians were available for taking. It is well to remember that most of human history's large scale atrocities have been done legally, in other words the perpetrators announced their actions legal under their own laws. The cultural descendants of these treacherous guests propelled forward by the same greed, arrogance, and short term thinking have created a way of life that is destroying our planetary life support systems. After 500 years of emiseration, the remnants of America's indigenous people are rising in our time, demanding that old promises be kept, and offering ancient wisdom to salvage our common future - this week we'll hear from two people who stand in both worlds - Oren Lyons. Onondaga faithkeeper, scholar and internationally known humans rights activist of central New York and Edita Alavez Ruiz, a Zapotec pshychologist from the state of Oaxaca mexico

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-10-15T23:00:30-08:002006-10-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/328#2

In 1492, in the process of seeking a shortcut to India, Christopher Columbus encountered a continent which was not on his maps - an abundant land inhabited by tens of millions of hospitable people with unsophistivated weapons. In order to legalize the plundering of the lands of their indigenous hosts, the Pope proclaimed the Doctrine of Discovery, a law that said that only Christians could hold title to lands, and this lands inhabited by nonChristians were available for taking. It is well to remember that most of human history's large scale atrocities have been done legally, in other words the perpetrators announced their actions legal under their own laws. The cultural descendants of these treacherous guests propelled forward by the same greed, arrogance, and short term thinking have created a way of life that is destroying our planetary life support systems. After 500 years of emiseration, the remnants of America's indigenous people are rising in our time, demanding that old promises be kept, and offering ancient wisdom to salvage our common future - this week we'll hear from two people who stand in both worlds - Oren Lyons. Onondaga faithkeeper, scholar and internationally known humans rights activist of central New York and Edita Alavez Ruiz, a Zapotec pshychologist from the state of Oaxaca mexico

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-10-15T23:00:30-08:002006-10-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/327#1

It seems strange to me that all of a sudden, immigration has been trumpeted as such a big problem that congress feels compelled to use taxpayer money, including the taxes paid by immigrants, to build walls accross the US borders. This in the wake of a group of armed racists calling themselves the minutemen, patrolling the southern border hoping to accost people crossing from Mexico. I call them racists because they aren't patrolling the Canadian border, where presumably only Anglos would bee crossing, and thus that they are motivated not by issues of undocumented immigrastion per se, just the immigration of Latinos, who are fast become a majority culture in the southwest west. Though they target illgal immigration, its important to undersdtand that immigration laws have long the purpose to control the ethic composition and cultural character of the United states. In previous chapters of the reading I've been doing from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education, he explained how the developers of compulsory state schooling wanted to impose certain cultural values, those of Anglo Saxon protestants, on the children of immigrants, in order to prevent challenges to the exisitng order. Various social movements challenging class power and priviledge were sweeping across Europe in the 19th century, and swept into America with immigrant populations. This exploitation of immigrants when they arrived here only fueled class based social activism such as the labor union movement, And as we will hear in the first hour of the program from our feminist scholar silvia federici, witch hunts, and I mean the original ones against women alleged to be witches, were based in struggles about power, profit and hierarchy as capitalism came into being,. We'll follow that with another reading from John Gatto's underground history of American education, and its development by what he calls true believers as a method of social engineering modeled on Europeans systems designed to preserve class stratification.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-10-9T23:00:30-08:002006-10-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/327#2

It seems strange to me that all of a sudden, immigration has been trumpeted as such a big problem that congress feels compelled to use taxpayer money, including the taxes paid by immigrants, to build walls accross the US borders. This in the wake of a group of armed racists calling themselves the minutemen, patrolling the southern border hoping to accost people crossing from Mexico. I call them racists because they aren't patrolling the Canadian border, where presumably only Anglos would bee crossing, and thus that they are motivated not by issues of undocumented immigrastion per se, just the immigration of Latinos, who are fast become a majority culture in the southwest west. Though they target illgal immigration, its important to undersdtand that immigration laws have long the purpose to control the ethic composition and cultural character of the United states. In previous chapters of the reading I've been doing from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education, he explained how the developers of compulsory state schooling wanted to impose certain cultural values, those of Anglo Saxon protestants, on the children of immigrants, in order to prevent challenges to the exisitng order. Various social movements challenging class power and priviledge were sweeping across Europe in the 19th century, and swept into America with immigrant populations. This exploitation of immigrants when they arrived here only fueled class based social activism such as the labor union movement, And as we will hear in the first hour of the program from our feminist scholar silvia federici, witch hunts, and I mean the original ones against women alleged to be witches, were based in struggles about power, profit and hierarchy as capitalism came into being,. We'll follow that with another reading from John Gatto's underground history of American education, and its development by what he calls true believers as a method of social engineering modeled on Europeans systems designed to preserve class stratification.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-10-9T23:00:30-08:002006-10-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/326#1

What happened during hurricane Katrina demonstrated starkly that the fate of poor people is of little concern to the people who run things in America. Flood victims were left to starve, then shot at when they tried to get food, then given a one way ticket to anywhere while developers moved in to grab their land for future vacation condos. This should be a cautionary tale as to what to expect in the event of an economic meltdown that suddenly brings millions of people into the ranks of the poor who never expected to be in that position, and who, without a paycheck, have no means to fend for themselves in a society where money must be paid to somebody for even the most basic needs - water, food, shelter, Blaming the poverty on personal failures has been all the rage in America since the 1980's, and the myth of self reliance persists in a society where it has been impossible for more than a century - I mean, it's not like you can find a piece of vacant land, build a log cabin, plant some corn, hunt wild game and draw water from the creek - for most people, the only food they've ever seen comes from a grocery store or a restaurant. The captains of industry drove people off the land and into the cities, then into the suburbs. Underwriting this whole process was cheap fossil fuel - now much less cheap and destined to become more expensive. The widening ripples of the rising price of petroleum, the basis of almost everything in this society, means more downsizing, more mergers. fewer jobs, more people with no money to spend who still must live. Based on the events of Katrina, help won't be coming from Washington, . It's time to think about making other arrangements.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-10-2T23:00:30-08:002006-10-2T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/326#2

What happened during hurricane Katrina demonstrated starkly that the fate of poor people is of little concern to the people who run things in America. Flood victims were left to starve, then shot at when they tried to get food, then given a one way ticket to anywhere while developers moved in to grab their land for future vacation condos. This should be a cautionary tale as to what to expect in the event of an economic meltdown that suddenly brings millions of people into the ranks of the poor who never expected to be in that position, and who, without a paycheck, have no means to fend for themselves in a society where money must be paid to somebody for even the most basic needs - water, food, shelter, Blaming the poverty on personal failures has been all the rage in America since the 1980's, and the myth of self reliance persists in a society where it has been impossible for more than a century - I mean, it's not like you can find a piece of vacant land, build a log cabin, plant some corn, hunt wild game and draw water from the creek - for most people, the only food they've ever seen comes from a grocery store or a restaurant. The captains of industry drove people off the land and into the cities, then into the suburbs. Underwriting this whole process was cheap fossil fuel - now much less cheap and destined to become more expensive. The widening ripples of the rising price of petroleum, the basis of almost everything in this society, means more downsizing, more mergers. fewer jobs, more people with no money to spend who still must live. Based on the events of Katrina, help won't be coming from Washington, . It's time to think about making other arrangements.

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There is very little about our society which is natural, and by that I mean based on some universal and unchangeable principle, as for example, gravity or the length of days relative to latitude and season. Human society is built on ideas at the most basic level - ideas about human nature and intelligence, the natural world and our place in it, what isvaluable. what is right and who is qualified to decide, . When these fundamental assumptions are widely accepted as true, they appear natural, normal, inevitable, not as the arbitrary customs they in fact are. Our social institutions reflect and perpetuate this consensus reality, in large and small ways, and changing our ideas leads to changes in our institutions. That is why people who are determined to maintain a status quo, battle to control the institutional vectors of reality creation : schools, the media and even religion. A prime example of this is the question of the corporation. A corporation is a legal construct that has been attributed personhood under law, and now enjoys more freedom and power than actual persons. The same society that created corporations, is now ruled by them

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There is very little about our society which is natural, and by that I mean based on some universal and unchangeable principle, as for example, gravity or the length of days relative to latitude and season. Human society is built on ideas at the most basic level - ideas about human nature and intelligence, the natural world and our place in it, what isvaluable. what is right and who is qualified to decide, . When these fundamental assumptions are widely accepted as true, they appear natural, normal, inevitable, not as the arbitrary customs they in fact are. Our social institutions reflect and perpetuate this consensus reality, in large and small ways, and changing our ideas leads to changes in our institutions. That is why people who are determined to maintain a status quo, battle to control the institutional vectors of reality creation : schools, the media and even religion. A prime example of this is the question of the corporation. A corporation is a legal construct that has been attributed personhood under law, and now enjoys more freedom and power than actual persons. The same society that created corporations, is now ruled by them

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Whoever you are, you won't be the same after you hear this. One speaker says, "There are no longer any Red States, and we must tell CNN, Fox and NBC that we know w are the majority" These talks from 9/10/06 at Manhattan Community Church

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Whoever you are, you won't be the same after you hear this. One speaker says, "There are no longer any Red States, and we must tell CNN, Fox and NBC that we know w are the majority" These talks from 9/10/06 at Manhattan Community Church

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According to the US dept of energy ": â

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According to the US dept of energy ": â

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We are about to be subjected to a barrage from the Bush administration on the 5 year anniversary of 9/11 designed to crank up the terror and drum up support for the terror wars, which is slipping badly in the polls, with 60 percent of the American people wishing US troops out of Iraq, not to mention the wishes of the Iraqi people who are nearly unamimous on that . The opening salvos in the media campaign for our hearts and minds has begun. Yesterday, Sept 2, the New York Times carried an article by Jim Dwyer titled 2 U.S. Reports Seek to Counter Conspiracy Theories About 9/11. It begins as follows... Faced with an angry minority of people who believe the Sept. 11 attacks were part of a shadowy and sprawling plot run by Americans, separate reports were published this week by the State Department and a federal science agency insisting that the catastrophes were caused by hijackers who used commercial airliners as weapons. The official narrative of the attacks has been attacked as little more than a cover story by an assortment of radio hosts, academics, amateur filmmakers and others who have spread their arguments on the Internet and cable television in America and abroad. As a motive, they suggest that the Bush administration wanted to use the attacks to justify military action in the Middle East. Most elaborately, they propose that the collapse of the World Trade Center was actually caused by explosive charges secretly planted in the buildings, rather than by the destructive force of the airliners that thundered into the towers and set them ablaze. " further in to the article, dwyer writes "A nationwide poll taken earlier this summer by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that more than a third of those surveyed said the federal government either took part in the attacks or allowed them to happen. And 16 percent said the destruction of the trade center was aided by explosives hidden in the buildings. The survey questioned 1,010 adults by telephone and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points. Details are available " 911truth.org one of the key sites of the 9/11 truth movement cites another national poll conducted by Zogby, in which 42 percent of American adults , believe that the US government and its 9/11 Commission concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks, saying there has been a cover-up. So, in spite of the damage to American intellect by schooling that John Taylor Gatto has been discussing in his book the underground history of American education - which will contimnue in our second hour - the project of dumbing has not damaged all American noses so much that they fail to distinguish either the smell of manure or a burning Reichstag

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We are about to be subjected to a barrage from the Bush administration on the 5 year anniversary of 9/11 designed to crank up the terror and drum up support for the terror wars, which is slipping badly in the polls, with 60 percent of the American people wishing US troops out of Iraq, not to mention the wishes of the Iraqi people who are nearly unamimous on that . The opening salvos in the media campaign for our hearts and minds has begun. Yesterday, Sept 2, the New York Times carried an article by Jim Dwyer titled 2 U.S. Reports Seek to Counter Conspiracy Theories About 9/11. It begins as follows... Faced with an angry minority of people who believe the Sept. 11 attacks were part of a shadowy and sprawling plot run by Americans, separate reports were published this week by the State Department and a federal science agency insisting that the catastrophes were caused by hijackers who used commercial airliners as weapons. The official narrative of the attacks has been attacked as little more than a cover story by an assortment of radio hosts, academics, amateur filmmakers and others who have spread their arguments on the Internet and cable television in America and abroad. As a motive, they suggest that the Bush administration wanted to use the attacks to justify military action in the Middle East. Most elaborately, they propose that the collapse of the World Trade Center was actually caused by explosive charges secretly planted in the buildings, rather than by the destructive force of the airliners that thundered into the towers and set them ablaze. " further in to the article, dwyer writes "A nationwide poll taken earlier this summer by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that more than a third of those surveyed said the federal government either took part in the attacks or allowed them to happen. And 16 percent said the destruction of the trade center was aided by explosives hidden in the buildings. The survey questioned 1,010 adults by telephone and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points. Details are available " 911truth.org one of the key sites of the 9/11 truth movement cites another national poll conducted by Zogby, in which 42 percent of American adults , believe that the US government and its 9/11 Commission concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks, saying there has been a cover-up. So, in spite of the damage to American intellect by schooling that John Taylor Gatto has been discussing in his book the underground history of American education - which will contimnue in our second hour - the project of dumbing has not damaged all American noses so much that they fail to distinguish either the smell of manure or a burning Reichstag

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The period of European history following the collapse of the Roman empire has been called the Dark Ages because of its domination by superstition. It is characterized by mass ignorance and hostility to reason and science and a lack of technological development which is, in our culture, synonymous with progress. The Roman empire and its collapse is the metaphor for the social critque put forward by the speaker we're going to hear in the first half of the program, and it has echoes in the deliberate construction of national ignorance that is emerging from our ongoing reading of John Taylor Gatto's book on American education, which will continue in the second half of the program. Our first speaker, Morris Berman, is a scholar and critic of Western cultural and intellectual history. His recent book, Dark Ages America: the final phase of empire, uses a comparison to the fall of Rome to analyze our present society. Bermans presentation is very dark and he mourns for the passing of an America that barely existed, In the question period that follows his talk, his audience challenges him on that point.

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The period of European history following the collapse of the Roman empire has been called the Dark Ages because of its domination by superstition. It is characterized by mass ignorance and hostility to reason and science and a lack of technological development which is, in our culture, synonymous with progress. The Roman empire and its collapse is the metaphor for the social critque put forward by the speaker we're going to hear in the first half of the program, and it has echoes in the deliberate construction of national ignorance that is emerging from our ongoing reading of John Taylor Gatto's book on American education, which will continue in the second half of the program. Our first speaker, Morris Berman, is a scholar and critic of Western cultural and intellectual history. His recent book, Dark Ages America: the final phase of empire, uses a comparison to the fall of Rome to analyze our present society. Bermans presentation is very dark and he mourns for the passing of an America that barely existed, In the question period that follows his talk, his audience challenges him on that point.

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Economics is usually spoken about as a subcategory of activity within the politics of society, but I would like to suggest that the economics of our society are the politics of our society - in that they create the type of political structures and institutions we have. Whereas it is usually said that we have a market economy, what we in fact have is a market society, a market government. Everything is shaped by that fact, even people's individual personalities and behavior, through the institutions of the society. The persistent social ills, poverty, war, violence, greed, waste, remain because they are intrinsic to the structure of markets, not aberrations within in it.

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Economics is usually spoken about as a subcategory of activity within the politics of society, but I would like to suggest that the economics of our society are the politics of our society - in that they create the type of political structures and institutions we have. Whereas it is usually said that we have a market economy, what we in fact have is a market society, a market government. Everything is shaped by that fact, even people's individual personalities and behavior, through the institutions of the society. The persistent social ills, poverty, war, violence, greed, waste, remain because they are intrinsic to the structure of markets, not aberrations within in it.

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Over the last month we've heard a series, the Century of Self, about how the consumer culture was created in the 20th century as a strategy to control the supposedly irrational masses, who were to be psychologically manipulated to accentuate trivial selfishness in the guise of self actualization, and offered consumer choicer in lieu of real freedom. The subjugation of societies by rulers is, of course, far older than the 20th century, as are the rationalizations they create to legitimize their rule . They have crushed the intelligence, creativity and dignity of those thety rule through various coercive means, then presented their stunted societies as the natural order of things. As our readings from John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Education" show, we have an education system created to adjust people to that order by breaking their minds and spirits 'til they fit the mold. Human social arrangements have also provided misguided templates for human interaction with the natural world, with now evident consequences. In his groudbreaking 1965 essay "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought," Murray Bookchin wrote:" An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles." He predicted " "If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

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Over the last month we've heard a series, the Century of Self, about how the consumer culture was created in the 20th century as a strategy to control the supposedly irrational masses, who were to be psychologically manipulated to accentuate trivial selfishness in the guise of self actualization, and offered consumer choicer in lieu of real freedom. The subjugation of societies by rulers is, of course, far older than the 20th century, as are the rationalizations they create to legitimize their rule . They have crushed the intelligence, creativity and dignity of those thety rule through various coercive means, then presented their stunted societies as the natural order of things. As our readings from John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Education" show, we have an education system created to adjust people to that order by breaking their minds and spirits 'til they fit the mold. Human social arrangements have also provided misguided templates for human interaction with the natural world, with now evident consequences. In his groudbreaking 1965 essay "Ecology and Revolutionary Thought," Murray Bookchin wrote:" An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles." He predicted " "If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

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Subverting democracy and maintaining elite control of society through the creation of "consumers"

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Subverting democracy and maintaining elite control of society through the creation of "consumers"

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Thanks to Adam Curtis, David Rovics davidrovics.com

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Thanks to Adam Curtis, David Rovics davidrovics.com

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This week we continue our series on social control, with part 2 of the Century of Self, a video documentary by Adam Curtis adapted for radio, on the use of Freud's theories by government and corporations to manage the minds of the American people. Another reading from John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of Education in America" in the second hour

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This week we continue our series on social control, with part 2 of the Century of Self, a video documentary by Adam Curtis adapted for radio, on the use of Freud's theories by government and corporations to manage the minds of the American people. Another reading from John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of Education in America" in the second hour

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a cbs/new york times poll conducted in 2004 found that , "59% of the American people trust the federal government to do what is right only some of the time," even as 64% responded that "government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves. if 64% - almost 2/3, of the people believe that "government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves" why haven't they, we, made things change? A simple question without a simple answer, but this week we'll begin a series seeking whatever answers we can find

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a cbs/new york times poll conducted in 2004 found that , "59% of the American people trust the federal government to do what is right only some of the time," even as 64% responded that "government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves. if 64% - almost 2/3, of the people believe that "government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves" why haven't they, we, made things change? A simple question without a simple answer, but this week we'll begin a series seeking whatever answers we can find

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Conventional wisdom is that there are no political prisoners in the United States. But that's incorrect, there are and there have always been. Every development that was decent and good in this country has required the people to face down the government and its police - the end of slavery, human and civil rights for women and people of color, an improvement of the conditions under which most must labor, to name a few Before any reforms have been enshrined in law or policy, reformers wer beaten, imoprisoned and even killed. It required a critical mass of deliberate and, disobedient citizenry to reject what was then lawful in favor of what was right, thus causing the system to bend so it would not break. It has always taken great courage. And like soldiers, the reformers in the front lines take the most casualities. The strategy of the state is to rout them before reinforcements arrive, to silence them before they can inspire others to join the cause Recent revelations that environmental and antiwar groups top the government's list of domestic threats have elicted responses of puzzlement from many ordinary citizens. But it's not a mistake or foolishness on the part of the state -these movements challenge the arrogance of the powerful to own the natural world and its creatures as chattel, their right to despoil the homes and habitats of others for personal gain, and the production and consumption of endless more that has led us to an impending environmental catastrophe that threatens to end life as we know it on this planet. On the program this week you will hear how the law punishes people who burn down buildings for money with far less severity than those who burn down buildings for love. In the past few months , federal officials have arrested dozens of environmental and animal rights activists in connection with a series of arsons and other militant actions that occurred in several western states in the 1990's . The charges could result in prison sentences of life plus hundres of years, while those who do arson for profit normally receive 5 to ten years in prison. We're going to hear a forum on how the law has been used to suppress social movements in the past, and how it is now being used in what has been termed, the green scare. The forum was held june 26 in New York City and arranged by the Natioanl Lawyers Guild, (nlg.org) which is assisting in the defense of the green scare prisoners

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Conventional wisdom is that there are no political prisoners in the United States. But that's incorrect, there are and there have always been. Every development that was decent and good in this country has required the people to face down the government and its police - the end of slavery, human and civil rights for women and people of color, an improvement of the conditions under which most must labor, to name a few Before any reforms have been enshrined in law or policy, reformers wer beaten, imoprisoned and even killed. It required a critical mass of deliberate and, disobedient citizenry to reject what was then lawful in favor of what was right, thus causing the system to bend so it would not break. It has always taken great courage. And like soldiers, the reformers in the front lines take the most casualities. The strategy of the state is to rout them before reinforcements arrive, to silence them before they can inspire others to join the cause Recent revelations that environmental and antiwar groups top the government's list of domestic threats have elicted responses of puzzlement from many ordinary citizens. But it's not a mistake or foolishness on the part of the state -these movements challenge the arrogance of the powerful to own the natural world and its creatures as chattel, their right to despoil the homes and habitats of others for personal gain, and the production and consumption of endless more that has led us to an impending environmental catastrophe that threatens to end life as we know it on this planet. On the program this week you will hear how the law punishes people who burn down buildings for money with far less severity than those who burn down buildings for love. In the past few months , federal officials have arrested dozens of environmental and animal rights activists in connection with a series of arsons and other militant actions that occurred in several western states in the 1990's . The charges could result in prison sentences of life plus hundres of years, while those who do arson for profit normally receive 5 to ten years in prison. We're going to hear a forum on how the law has been used to suppress social movements in the past, and how it is now being used in what has been termed, the green scare. The forum was held june 26 in New York City and arranged by the Natioanl Lawyers Guild, (nlg.org) which is assisting in the defense of the green scare prisoners

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July 4, 1776 - after declaring equality, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness inalienable human rights, insurgent colonists who would not be governed against their will took up arms against King George, who they called a tyrant. They called themselves patriots. king george and his men called them criminals. Though the patriots won their war, they abandoned the ideals of the declaration of july 4th as they set up a nation in which 90 percent of the people in it were slaves - chattel slaves, marital slaves or debt slaves. Since then, many have fought and even died for those inalenable rights, but they have *not* been called patriots. They have been called criminals, and some are rotting in jail right now. On the celebration of the declaration's 230th birthday, we'll present some reportage on the doings of patriots and criminals - you decide which are which.

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July 4, 1776 - after declaring equality, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness inalienable human rights, insurgent colonists who would not be governed against their will took up arms against King George, who they called a tyrant. They called themselves patriots. king george and his men called them criminals. Though the patriots won their war, they abandoned the ideals of the declaration of july 4th as they set up a nation in which 90 percent of the people in it were slaves - chattel slaves, marital slaves or debt slaves. Since then, many have fought and even died for those inalenable rights, but they have *not* been called patriots. They have been called criminals, and some are rotting in jail right now. On the celebration of the declaration's 230th birthday, we'll present some reportage on the doings of patriots and criminals - you decide which are which.

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last week on the program, we aired a talk by Derek Jensen which I hope you had a chance to hear. If not, I recommend downling show #311 from our archive at unwelcomeguests.org -In his talk Derek posed a series of questions to us as what our threshold of toleration is for ourtages against ourselves and our ecosystem - he posed this as a series of hypothetical acts by an alien invader - poisong the land, air and water, putting dioxin in every mother' breastmilk, extinguishing 90 percent of the large fish in the ocean, to name a few. These listed asaults on the living world, however, are not hypothetical. They are examples of the actual damage done by industrial civilization, what is called "our way of life." He raised the question, how bad does it have to get before people are willing to do something about it? At a time when sweeping change is needed environmentalists are boxed in by a legal , political and economic power structure that is fighting to preserve present privilege at the cost of losing the future. Jensen compared the acquiescense to this power structure with the nazi final solution. He also referred to Robert J Lifton's research on the nazi concentration camp doctors, Lifton,a psychiatrist wanted to understand how it was that so many doctors, respected members of society who were sworn to heal and not harm, justified their participation in death camps. He interviewed many of them after the war and they told him, that they attempted to help make life more bearable for the the prisoners in whatever way they could . Jensen noted what the nazi doctors did not do, which was the only thing that would actually help the victims, which was challenge and destroy the nazi system that was creating the atroticity in the first place. Both Jensen abd the previous weeks speaker Seneca elder and professor John Mohawk targeted the beliefs that that underlie western society, as one's that that encourage, or at least permit widespread environmental destruction- Jensen called this not inhabiting the place we live It seems to me that the failure of the majority to confront and prevent the preventable, whether genocide or ecocide resides in the mind rather than in any obstacle of the physical world. What ideas and ideologies are shaping this society's action's in the world?

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last week on the program, we aired a talk by Derek Jensen which I hope you had a chance to hear. If not, I recommend downling show #311 from our archive at unwelcomeguests.org -In his talk Derek posed a series of questions to us as what our threshold of toleration is for ourtages against ourselves and our ecosystem - he posed this as a series of hypothetical acts by an alien invader - poisong the land, air and water, putting dioxin in every mother' breastmilk, extinguishing 90 percent of the large fish in the ocean, to name a few. These listed asaults on the living world, however, are not hypothetical. They are examples of the actual damage done by industrial civilization, what is called "our way of life." He raised the question, how bad does it have to get before people are willing to do something about it? At a time when sweeping change is needed environmentalists are boxed in by a legal , political and economic power structure that is fighting to preserve present privilege at the cost of losing the future. Jensen compared the acquiescense to this power structure with the nazi final solution. He also referred to Robert J Lifton's research on the nazi concentration camp doctors, Lifton,a psychiatrist wanted to understand how it was that so many doctors, respected members of society who were sworn to heal and not harm, justified their participation in death camps. He interviewed many of them after the war and they told him, that they attempted to help make life more bearable for the the prisoners in whatever way they could . Jensen noted what the nazi doctors did not do, which was the only thing that would actually help the victims, which was challenge and destroy the nazi system that was creating the atroticity in the first place. Both Jensen abd the previous weeks speaker Seneca elder and professor John Mohawk targeted the beliefs that that underlie western society, as one's that that encourage, or at least permit widespread environmental destruction- Jensen called this not inhabiting the place we live It seems to me that the failure of the majority to confront and prevent the preventable, whether genocide or ecocide resides in the mind rather than in any obstacle of the physical world. What ideas and ideologies are shaping this society's action's in the world?

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Try it, you'll like it!

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Try it, you'll like it!

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If you're a baby boomer, you may recall how we blamed our parents' generation for allowing US politicians, of both parties, then as now, to conduct a criminal and horrific war, based on lies, to satisfy the lust for power and wealth of old men. Now the atrocities are happening on our watch, and despite the 60's generation's efforts to create a new society, - where the old would not use the young, where the rich would not use the poor, as pawns in their in their flesh and blood monoploy games - the same bankrupt ideas and policies still dog our efforts to create a better society. In some cases even the same cast of characters - such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Negroponte return as a re-occurring nightmare to reenact the Viet Nam war overtly and covertly in many countries under many rationalizations. Our institutions are a travesty and it falls to us as a people to take responsibility and stop a criminal regime. This week on the program, several speakers address strategies for accountability.

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If you're a baby boomer, you may recall how we blamed our parents' generation for allowing US politicians, of both parties, then as now, to conduct a criminal and horrific war, based on lies, to satisfy the lust for power and wealth of old men. Now the atrocities are happening on our watch, and despite the 60's generation's efforts to create a new society, - where the old would not use the young, where the rich would not use the poor, as pawns in their in their flesh and blood monoploy games - the same bankrupt ideas and policies still dog our efforts to create a better society. In some cases even the same cast of characters - such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Negroponte return as a re-occurring nightmare to reenact the Viet Nam war overtly and covertly in many countries under many rationalizations. Our institutions are a travesty and it falls to us as a people to take responsibility and stop a criminal regime. This week on the program, several speakers address strategies for accountability.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-6-4T23:00:30-08:002006-6-4T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/308#1

Two workshops on GI war resistance, conscientious objection and counter-recruitment

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Two workshops on GI war resistance, conscientious objection and counter-recruitment

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Rural america is known for sending its children to the military to fight for a vision of America, one that doesn't quite exist. They believe their government when it tells them they must fight communists in tiny country x or terrorists in impoverished country z. Ironically, these soldiers from rural America have more in common with the insurrectionary third world villagers they're fighting than they realize- both live in places that are being beaten down for the sake of a corporate bottom line somwwhere. Our "defenders of American democracy" find out just how little democracy they have when they try to stop a corporation from ruining their home town . A new populist alliance of long time environmental activists and rural folk in central Pennsylvania has grown out of a struggle to ban toxic agribusiness operations that have targeted the area as the next profit opportunity. This movement is taking a new approach that is spreading across America via a project of public education and organization called democracy schools, that are teaching direct action lawmaking to challenge corporate supremacy and to create rights under law for people and the land

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-5-21T23:00:30-08:002006-5-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/307#2

Rural america is known for sending its children to the military to fight for a vision of America, one that doesn't quite exist. They believe their government when it tells them they must fight communists in tiny country x or terrorists in impoverished country z. Ironically, these soldiers from rural America have more in common with the insurrectionary third world villagers they're fighting than they realize- both live in places that are being beaten down for the sake of a corporate bottom line somwwhere. Our "defenders of American democracy" find out just how little democracy they have when they try to stop a corporation from ruining their home town . A new populist alliance of long time environmental activists and rural folk in central Pennsylvania has grown out of a struggle to ban toxic agribusiness operations that have targeted the area as the next profit opportunity. This movement is taking a new approach that is spreading across America via a project of public education and organization called democracy schools, that are teaching direct action lawmaking to challenge corporate supremacy and to create rights under law for people and the land

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A Christian ex-war correspondent and an Islamic Scholar address religion's role in state violence and social conflict (talk is from March 2006)

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A Christian ex-war correspondent and an Islamic Scholar address religion's role in state violence and social conflict (talk is from March 2006)

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Using peak oil as an opportunity to create the kind of world we want to live in through decentralization and earth stewardship

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Using peak oil as an opportunity to create the kind of world we want to live in through decentralization and earth stewardship

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Understanding and preparing for energy descent - audio from "Fuelling the Future" and a new study confirms benefits of organic farming

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-4-23T23:00:30-08:002006-4-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/303#2

Understanding and preparing for energy descent - audio from "Fuelling the Future" and a new study confirms benefits of organic farming

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-4-23T23:00:30-08:002006-4-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/302#1

This week, the third installment of the year long collaborative educational project on the Onondaga nation's lawsuit to regain their ancestral lands, guaranteed to them by several treaties made over the centuries, first with European colonial governments and then the newly formed United states. The collabotative deucational project, sponsored by the Onandagas, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, and Syracuse University, is bringing together Ononadaga and other Haudenosaunee speakers, academics and community members to understand the history, culture and role that the six nations of Haudensaunee, also known as the Iroquois confederacy, have had on the US, and the effect of theUSon the Haudenosaunee and other indigenous nations. This history has been taught to generations of school children in a heavily biased way - unquestioned were the rights of the so-called founding fathers, pilgrims, colonists, pioneers to what they did - wage a geniocidal land grab perpetrated against innocent people . Manifest destiny, the doctrine used to justify this, was presented , during my education at least, as a positive development leading to American greatness. These programs present, finally, the other side of the story. What you're about to hear is a recording made last Tuesday that contains one of the most amazing teachersI have ever had the privilege to hear, Onandaga Beaver Clan Chief Irving Powless Jr. who seized the time, and after the formal presentation was concluded, led the audience in an exercise to make them understand the meaning of the Onondaga landclaim in a personal way...

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This week, the third installment of the year long collaborative educational project on the Onondaga nation's lawsuit to regain their ancestral lands, guaranteed to them by several treaties made over the centuries, first with European colonial governments and then the newly formed United states. The collabotative deucational project, sponsored by the Onandagas, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, and Syracuse University, is bringing together Ononadaga and other Haudenosaunee speakers, academics and community members to understand the history, culture and role that the six nations of Haudensaunee, also known as the Iroquois confederacy, have had on the US, and the effect of theUSon the Haudenosaunee and other indigenous nations. This history has been taught to generations of school children in a heavily biased way - unquestioned were the rights of the so-called founding fathers, pilgrims, colonists, pioneers to what they did - wage a geniocidal land grab perpetrated against innocent people . Manifest destiny, the doctrine used to justify this, was presented , during my education at least, as a positive development leading to American greatness. These programs present, finally, the other side of the story. What you're about to hear is a recording made last Tuesday that contains one of the most amazing teachersI have ever had the privilege to hear, Onandaga Beaver Clan Chief Irving Powless Jr. who seized the time, and after the formal presentation was concluded, led the audience in an exercise to make them understand the meaning of the Onondaga landclaim in a personal way...

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Webster's dictionary defines economy as: a system of producing, distributing, and consuming wealth. A neutral description of a social construct that is far from neutral. Who decides what wealth is and how it is produced, distributed and consumed? What ideological assumptions underlie this process, and what policies are implemented in its service, by whom, and to what ends? We have heard the term war economy, which suggests that there is also a peace economy. If so, we have never experieciened it, because, as you will hear from several angles on the program this week, the economy we have is in itself a war, a war between nations and a war within nations.

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Webster's dictionary defines economy as: a system of producing, distributing, and consuming wealth. A neutral description of a social construct that is far from neutral. Who decides what wealth is and how it is produced, distributed and consumed? What ideological assumptions underlie this process, and what policies are implemented in its service, by whom, and to what ends? We have heard the term war economy, which suggests that there is also a peace economy. If so, we have never experieciened it, because, as you will hear from several angles on the program this week, the economy we have is in itself a war, a war between nations and a war within nations.

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Since the relevations of programmatic sexualized torture at Abu Ghraib and many other US military prisons, a few low level personnel have been given show trials as "bad apples", in order to deflect blame from the commanders and civilian officials such as Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales, who advocated the torture policy and now seek to deny it because it has been exposed. Sadistic torture in the service of American foreign policy. however, is not new. For example, sadistic torture was carried out under American tutelage in Central America in the 1980's by foreign military officers trained at the US School of the Americas, These torture programs, called counter insurgency, were supervised by the CIA. Diana Ortiz, an American nun, is one person who lived to tell of her arrest and torture in Guatemala, which included gang rape and cigarette burns. She reported that her torture sessions were presided over by an American advisor, to whom the Guatemalans deferred. The general american self view is that we are a benevolent culture and that these sadistic acts are aberrations. I would like to suggest that they are too commonly found in American culture to be aberrations, and that they are found in every culture based on hierarchy and rank - the social structure epitomized by the military, as well as by patriarchal theocracies. Most people do not believe, or do not wish to acknowledge that sadism is a perenniel feature of the military and of societies that glorify the military. What do I mean by sadism? Sadism is deriving sexual arousal from the infliction of suffering and humiliation on others.

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Since the relevations of programmatic sexualized torture at Abu Ghraib and many other US military prisons, a few low level personnel have been given show trials as "bad apples", in order to deflect blame from the commanders and civilian officials such as Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales, who advocated the torture policy and now seek to deny it because it has been exposed. Sadistic torture in the service of American foreign policy. however, is not new. For example, sadistic torture was carried out under American tutelage in Central America in the 1980's by foreign military officers trained at the US School of the Americas, These torture programs, called counter insurgency, were supervised by the CIA. Diana Ortiz, an American nun, is one person who lived to tell of her arrest and torture in Guatemala, which included gang rape and cigarette burns. She reported that her torture sessions were presided over by an American advisor, to whom the Guatemalans deferred. The general american self view is that we are a benevolent culture and that these sadistic acts are aberrations. I would like to suggest that they are too commonly found in American culture to be aberrations, and that they are found in every culture based on hierarchy and rank - the social structure epitomized by the military, as well as by patriarchal theocracies. Most people do not believe, or do not wish to acknowledge that sadism is a perenniel feature of the military and of societies that glorify the military. What do I mean by sadism? Sadism is deriving sexual arousal from the infliction of suffering and humiliation on others.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-3-26T23:00:30-08:002006-3-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/298#1

Women's struggle for equality in America, and the influence of the egalitarian Haudenosaunee on 19th century feminist thinkers and activists

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-3-17T23:00:30-08:002006-3-17T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/298#2

Women's struggle for equality in America, and the influence of the egalitarian Haudenosaunee on 19th century feminist thinkers and activists

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Noam Chomsky spoke March 4 at Binghamton university to standing room only audience on the increased threat of nuclear proliferation as a result of US actions and called upon Americans to organize and remedy the deficit of democracy in the united states.

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Noam Chomsky spoke March 4 at Binghamton university to standing room only audience on the increased threat of nuclear proliferation as a result of US actions and called upon Americans to organize and remedy the deficit of democracy in the united states.

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The United States government made dozens treaties with native nations, and has broken them all. In the few decades, many of those nations have gone to court to demand enforcement or compensation for these violated treaties. Last year, the Onondaga Nation in Central New York State filed a groundbreaking land claim against the state of New York. Unlike other claims by native nations which sought monetary compensation or casino rights, the Onodaga are asserting their traditional role of earth stewardship to the seventh generation, as laid out in their Great Law of Peace, to heal their ancestral territories that have been devastaed by industrial pollution Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future, is a year long series of educational programs sponsored by, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) a grassroots organization of Central New Yorkers which recognizes and supports the sovereignty of the traditional government of the Onondaga Nation. This week part one, "The Nation in Our Midst: Onondaga History, Culture and Spirituality, with onandaga leaders Tadadaho Sid Hill and clan mother Audrey Shenandoah. First, we'll begin with an historical overview of the treatment and attitude of the Euopean settler stoward Native Americans with Professor John Marciano from his public class lecture series based on Howard Zinn's Peoples' History of the United States

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The United States government made dozens treaties with native nations, and has broken them all. In the few decades, many of those nations have gone to court to demand enforcement or compensation for these violated treaties. Last year, the Onondaga Nation in Central New York State filed a groundbreaking land claim against the state of New York. Unlike other claims by native nations which sought monetary compensation or casino rights, the Onodaga are asserting their traditional role of earth stewardship to the seventh generation, as laid out in their Great Law of Peace, to heal their ancestral territories that have been devastaed by industrial pollution Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future, is a year long series of educational programs sponsored by, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) a grassroots organization of Central New Yorkers which recognizes and supports the sovereignty of the traditional government of the Onondaga Nation. This week part one, "The Nation in Our Midst: Onondaga History, Culture and Spirituality, with onandaga leaders Tadadaho Sid Hill and clan mother Audrey Shenandoah. First, we'll begin with an historical overview of the treatment and attitude of the Euopean settler stoward Native Americans with Professor John Marciano from his public class lecture series based on Howard Zinn's Peoples' History of the United States

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The winds have died down and the flood waters receded but the nightmare is far from over for the people of New Orleans, especially the people of the city's 9th ward. After being left to drown on their rooftops, herded into a convention center without food and water, derided as looters when they tried to find their own and prevented from escaping to safety from the flooded city by white cops from the suburbs, they were sent away on buses with one way tickets. Now They're trying to return home in the face of a business and government alliance that wants to exile them forever and turn their neighborhod into an upscale tourist mecca. Meanwhile, thousands of volunteers have answred their cry for help and solidarity with new orleans' perpetually second class citizens

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The winds have died down and the flood waters receded but the nightmare is far from over for the people of New Orleans, especially the people of the city's 9th ward. After being left to drown on their rooftops, herded into a convention center without food and water, derided as looters when they tried to find their own and prevented from escaping to safety from the flooded city by white cops from the suburbs, they were sent away on buses with one way tickets. Now They're trying to return home in the face of a business and government alliance that wants to exile them forever and turn their neighborhod into an upscale tourist mecca. Meanwhile, thousands of volunteers have answred their cry for help and solidarity with new orleans' perpetually second class citizens

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-2-26T23:00:30-08:002006-2-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/294#1

Last weeks show on the controlled demolition of the world trade center towers on 9/11 2001 motivated many listeners to take government involvement in the 9/11 attacks seriously, and to tell others. That the government is lying about 9/11 is easy to prove, but for many people it is either hard to believe or to risky to even talk about. In the agri-ecological discipline of permaculture, which I hope to present more about on the ptogram in the coming months, there is a principle that the problem is the solution � the acceptance of the lie of 9/11 is the problem, it promulgates fear and submission and legitimizes endless war and an American police state. Breaking the spell of the 9/11 cover story is the key to setting free resistance to resurgent fascism in America. Resisting this is the obligation of the American people. Twentieth century history clearly teaches us what happens when resistance comes too late Last week on the program I read you about operation north woods, a 1960�s plan, created by the pentagon, and nixed by Kennedy, which called for the government to stage terrorist attacks in the US that would then be blamed on Cuba and be used as a pretext for an invasion of that country. Some time ago, we also broadcast about an aborted coup in the 1930�s against the FDR administration which was hatched by the some of the nations most power capitalists who tried recruit Marine General Smedley butler to be the military dictator of the United States. The point is that a totalitarian tendency has been present in the American body politic since the nations beginnings � the United States is not alone in this � the point is that the United States is not exempt from this. In every country that falls to totalitarian regimes we see the same alliances, men of wealth and generals

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2006-2-19T23:00:30-08:002006-2-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/294#2

Last weeks show on the controlled demolition of the world trade center towers on 9/11 2001 motivated many listeners to take government involvement in the 9/11 attacks seriously, and to tell others. That the government is lying about 9/11 is easy to prove, but for many people it is either hard to believe or to risky to even talk about. In the agri-ecological discipline of permaculture, which I hope to present more about on the ptogram in the coming months, there is a principle that the problem is the solution � the acceptance of the lie of 9/11 is the problem, it promulgates fear and submission and legitimizes endless war and an American police state. Breaking the spell of the 9/11 cover story is the key to setting free resistance to resurgent fascism in America. Resisting this is the obligation of the American people. Twentieth century history clearly teaches us what happens when resistance comes too late Last week on the program I read you about operation north woods, a 1960�s plan, created by the pentagon, and nixed by Kennedy, which called for the government to stage terrorist attacks in the US that would then be blamed on Cuba and be used as a pretext for an invasion of that country. Some time ago, we also broadcast about an aborted coup in the 1930�s against the FDR administration which was hatched by the some of the nations most power capitalists who tried recruit Marine General Smedley butler to be the military dictator of the United States. The point is that a totalitarian tendency has been present in the American body politic since the nations beginnings � the United States is not alone in this � the point is that the United States is not exempt from this. In every country that falls to totalitarian regimes we see the same alliances, men of wealth and generals

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evidence that the 3 three steel skyscrapers that collapsed in New York City on Sept 11, 2001 did so as a result of controlled demolition, that the airplanes crashes provided the cover but were not the cause of the collapses, and that the rigging of the so

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evidence that the 3 three steel skyscrapers that collapsed in New York City on Sept 11, 2001 did so as a result of controlled demolition, that the airplanes crashes provided the cover but were not the cause of the collapses, and that the rigging of the so

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This week on the program, we will present a forum held last week in Washington DC on the impeachment of the Bush administration. You will hear a discussion that should have been, but was not, taking place on the floor of Congress. A forum that should have been aired on every major media outlet, but was not. The moderater was lawyer Kevin Zeese, an independent candidate for senate and a lead activist with the DC- based peace group Democracy Rising , democracyrising.us, which he founded with Ralph Nader and Virginia Rodino. Panelists were Marcus Raskin of the Institute for Policy Studies, Former diplomat Ann Wright, Former attorney general Ramsey Clark, David Swanson of Afterdowningstreet.org, and Cindy Sheehan of gold star families for peace In addition to the legalistic issues that you will hear raised by panelists and questioners, the most important part of this in my view for citizens such as ourselves is the moral imperative raisid by panelists- we have an obligation to stop a government and power structure which is making on war on the world for the purpose of looting it. Ironically, it was our nation's entry into world war 2 that that tipped the balance against Hitler and liberated the concentration camps. In this present situation, we can expect no rescue from outside, and we are, as a people, complicit with the crimes of our government if we do not stop them, whether or not we are personally suffering from this regime. I mention this because many people in Germany lived quite normally, and even saw improvements in their personal situation under fascism, Such people, even if they were bakers or plumbers, were deemed, in the discourse of the war crimes trials and principles laid down at Nuremburg, to have failed in their obligation to oppose the conduct of their government. Panel was took place last week

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This week on the program, we will present a forum held last week in Washington DC on the impeachment of the Bush administration. You will hear a discussion that should have been, but was not, taking place on the floor of Congress. A forum that should have been aired on every major media outlet, but was not. The moderater was lawyer Kevin Zeese, an independent candidate for senate and a lead activist with the DC- based peace group Democracy Rising , democracyrising.us, which he founded with Ralph Nader and Virginia Rodino. Panelists were Marcus Raskin of the Institute for Policy Studies, Former diplomat Ann Wright, Former attorney general Ramsey Clark, David Swanson of Afterdowningstreet.org, and Cindy Sheehan of gold star families for peace In addition to the legalistic issues that you will hear raised by panelists and questioners, the most important part of this in my view for citizens such as ourselves is the moral imperative raisid by panelists- we have an obligation to stop a government and power structure which is making on war on the world for the purpose of looting it. Ironically, it was our nation's entry into world war 2 that that tipped the balance against Hitler and liberated the concentration camps. In this present situation, we can expect no rescue from outside, and we are, as a people, complicit with the crimes of our government if we do not stop them, whether or not we are personally suffering from this regime. I mention this because many people in Germany lived quite normally, and even saw improvements in their personal situation under fascism, Such people, even if they were bakers or plumbers, were deemed, in the discourse of the war crimes trials and principles laid down at Nuremburg, to have failed in their obligation to oppose the conduct of their government. Panel was took place last week

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In the past week , Bush and his cronies have been touring the country to justify their domestic spying program, bipartisan calls from a despicable Congress to retroactively legalize their crimes are being spun out to us by a craven media, and the Senate gets ready to vote on the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice who favors a national secutity dictatorship. Meanwhile, four beloved people from our community have been carted off to Federal prison for what was, in real terms, a small protest against an illegal and unjust war started by those same officials that has resulted in carnage. This week on the program, you will hear, from a variety of voices, what the actual state of the union is, and hopefully be called to action to change it.

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In the past week , Bush and his cronies have been touring the country to justify their domestic spying program, bipartisan calls from a despicable Congress to retroactively legalize their crimes are being spun out to us by a craven media, and the Senate gets ready to vote on the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice who favors a national secutity dictatorship. Meanwhile, four beloved people from our community have been carted off to Federal prison for what was, in real terms, a small protest against an illegal and unjust war started by those same officials that has resulted in carnage. This week on the program, you will hear, from a variety of voices, what the actual state of the union is, and hopefully be called to action to change it.

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"unofficial " hearings were held Jan 20, 2006 in Washington DC in illegal spying by Bush administration on dissenters under the guise of the "war on terror"

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"unofficial " hearings were held Jan 20, 2006 in Washington DC in illegal spying by Bush administration on dissenters under the guise of the "war on terror"

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Two historians on race, slavery, and freedom in america- in the first hour John Marciano returns with his public discussion group on Zinn's People's History with commentary on the function of race and slavery within empire, then Eric Foner talk

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Two historians on race, slavery, and freedom in america- in the first hour John Marciano returns with his public discussion group on Zinn's People's History with commentary on the function of race and slavery within empire, then Eric Foner talk

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la.soundposse.org

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la.soundposse.org

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The holiday season is a time when peace on earth and good will toward others are spoken about and sung about, then are put aside with the torn wrappings in the garbage can, and the world moves on in its cycle of wars and the space between wars which is called peace but is a quiet that descends when the vanquished are too exhausted to continue struggling against the victor. Religions promise peace but have served as a pretext for wars for millennia. The leaders of nations extoll peace as they make war, or else they extoll war as a means to peace, which really just means victory. Most wars now in progress are not between nations but within them, and most of the armies are in place to fight people in their own nation state. Some say that warmaking is an essential part of human nature - if this is so, then why do people so want peace? Goodwill is a prerequisite for peace, yet our societies are not structured to promote good will - very much the opposite. The good will that is in us is systematically assaulted, callousness and viciousness rewarded. Not officially of course, but in practice.

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The holiday season is a time when peace on earth and good will toward others are spoken about and sung about, then are put aside with the torn wrappings in the garbage can, and the world moves on in its cycle of wars and the space between wars which is called peace but is a quiet that descends when the vanquished are too exhausted to continue struggling against the victor. Religions promise peace but have served as a pretext for wars for millennia. The leaders of nations extoll peace as they make war, or else they extoll war as a means to peace, which really just means victory. Most wars now in progress are not between nations but within them, and most of the armies are in place to fight people in their own nation state. Some say that warmaking is an essential part of human nature - if this is so, then why do people so want peace? Goodwill is a prerequisite for peace, yet our societies are not structured to promote good will - very much the opposite. The good will that is in us is systematically assaulted, callousness and viciousness rewarded. Not officially of course, but in practice.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2005-12-25T23:00:30-08:002005-12-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/285#1

This article was published in From The Wilderness www.fromthewilderness.com

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This article was published in From The Wilderness www.fromthewilderness.com

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A People's History of the WTO, alarming climate facts, the empire strikes back against earth defenders, and Harold Pinter rips the evil empire a new asshole

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A People's History of the WTO, alarming climate facts, the empire strikes back against earth defenders, and Harold Pinter rips the evil empire a new asshole

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The obvious question is why don't Democrats challenge the rigged elections? Don't they want to win? Are they just spineless, or do they believe the elections were honest? Consider another possibility, that the party leadership won't challenge them because they have no alternative plan - that can save the profits of Wall Street and Corporate America without having a police state at home and an empire abroad

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2005-11-27T23:00:30-08:002005-11-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/282#2

The obvious question is why don't Democrats challenge the rigged elections? Don't they want to win? Are they just spineless, or do they believe the elections were honest? Consider another possibility, that the party leadership won't challenge them because they have no alternative plan - that can save the profits of Wall Street and Corporate America without having a police state at home and an empire abroad

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2005-11-27T23:00:30-08:002005-11-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/281#1

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The words freedom and democracy are often heard as part of the official dialog to describe what our society is and has and what others lack. The meanings of these words are gnerally undefined, and their application to what actually happens in this society is considerd too outre for mainstream political discourse. The unmentioned elephant in the parlor is that our putative American freedoms accrue to indivduals in proportion to their position in an economic hierarchy that dooms most to a life with very little freedom indeed - if freedom means the ability to amply meet one's physical survival needs with dignity so that one may spend one's time and effort in an meaningful and emotionally satisfying way. Is our economic system based on employment compatible with a free society or with self government?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2005-11-13T23:00:30-08:002005-11-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/280#2

The words freedom and democracy are often heard as part of the official dialog to describe what our society is and has and what others lack. The meanings of these words are gnerally undefined, and their application to what actually happens in this society is considerd too outre for mainstream political discourse. The unmentioned elephant in the parlor is that our putative American freedoms accrue to indivduals in proportion to their position in an economic hierarchy that dooms most to a life with very little freedom indeed - if freedom means the ability to amply meet one's physical survival needs with dignity so that one may spend one's time and effort in an meaningful and emotionally satisfying way. Is our economic system based on employment compatible with a free society or with self government?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2005-11-13T23:00:30-08:002005-11-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/279#1

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Audio from the first statewide conference on Vermont secession 10/28/05 - sponsored by Second Vermont Republic - vermontrepublic.org

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Audio from the first statewide conference on Vermont secession 10/28/05 - sponsored by Second Vermont Republic - vermontrepublic.org

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Audio excerpts from the 1972 film "Winter Soldiers" a documentary of the VVAW 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation, then a panel of central New York Vets commenting on the film and comparing it to the recent wars

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Audio excerpts from the 1972 film "Winter Soldiers" a documentary of the VVAW 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation, then a panel of central New York Vets commenting on the film and comparing it to the recent wars

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John Judge is an independent researcher and lecturer on political assassinations, covert operations, hidden history, and the rise of fascism in America. He has been active since the 1960's opposing war, racism and militarism . Judge is a co-fo

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John Judge is an independent researcher and lecturer on political assassinations, covert operations, hidden history, and the rise of fascism in America. He has been active since the 1960's opposing war, racism and militarism . Judge is a co-fo

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First hour, a wrap of last weeks federal conspiracy trail of four Ithaca peace activists, then Prof. Doug Dowd on disenthralling ourselves with the story of America in order to make a decent society

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First hour, a wrap of last weeks federal conspiracy trail of four Ithaca peace activists, then Prof. Doug Dowd on disenthralling ourselves with the story of America in order to make a decent society

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Capitol hill briefing sponsored by Cynthis McKinney on the 9/11 cover-up - this hearing not covered by the corporate media7/22

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Capitol hill briefing sponsored by Cynthis McKinney on the 9/11 cover-up - this hearing not covered by the corporate media7/22

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Several hundred people packed into the Christ Episcopal church in Binghamton last Thursday to hear Hinchey's presentation on the Downing Street Memos and Iraq. When he came to the front to speak, the audience rose to give him an extended standing ov

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Several hundred people packed into the Christ Episcopal church in Binghamton last Thursday to hear Hinchey's presentation on the Downing Street Memos and Iraq. When he came to the front to speak, the audience rose to give him an extended standing ov

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This week we continue with our twice monthly class series by economist Doug Dowd based on his as yet unpublished recent book - the USA, where we are where we're headed. This week he addresses the indexes for quality of life in America, income, security, education, and housing. But we are going to begin our show with a story centered here in Ithaca that deals with quality of life issues as well - the environment we live in and who has the power, and who does not, to make decisions about how the physical space, in our communities is used.

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This week we continue with our twice monthly class series by economist Doug Dowd based on his as yet unpublished recent book - the USA, where we are where we're headed. This week he addresses the indexes for quality of life in America, income, security, education, and housing. But we are going to begin our show with a story centered here in Ithaca that deals with quality of life issues as well - the environment we live in and who has the power, and who does not, to make decisions about how the physical space, in our communities is used.

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Excerpt of "Downing Street Minutes Hearing"s from 6/16/05

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Excerpt of "Downing Street Minutes Hearing"s from 6/16/05

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Part 4 of the series of lectures by radical economist Doug Dowd on The USA: Where we are and where we're headed and then the motive behind Social Security privatization and why it won't save Wall Street

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Part 4 of the series of lectures by radical economist Doug Dowd on The USA: Where we are and where we're headed and then the motive behind Social Security privatization and why it won't save Wall Street

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Radical economist Doug Dowd continues his series on the political economy of the US, this time focussing on the financialization of the economy

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Radical economist Doug Dowd continues his series on the political economy of the US, this time focussing on the financialization of the economy

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Talk was originally givem 4/25/05

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Talk was originally givem 4/25/05

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Dowd continues with his class based on his upcoming book The USA: where we are and where we're headed, focusing on hierachy and its life destroying effects, and the intrinsic harm of corporate power and capitalist ideology - then Bernie Sanders on di

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Dowd continues with his class based on his upcoming book The USA: where we are and where we're headed, focusing on hierachy and its life destroying effects, and the intrinsic harm of corporate power and capitalist ideology - then Bernie Sanders on di

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see http://www.911truth.org PLease distribute this information to people who don't know

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see http://www.911truth.org PLease distribute this information to people who don't know

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Seymour Hersh on the "Chain of Command" , Mark Manning, bearing witness to the atrocities in fallujah, and Robert Jensen on the choice between humanity and empire facing Americans

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Seymour Hersh on the "Chain of Command" , Mark Manning, bearing witness to the atrocities in fallujah, and Robert Jensen on the choice between humanity and empire facing Americans

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Maura Stephens is a longtime journalist and activist who spent 19 years at Newsweek magazine. Now an independent reporter, as well as an educator and activist, she is a member of the national Iraq Speakers Bureau and editorial and policy adviser to EPIC, the Education for Peacein Iraq Center. She also works with Life for Relief and Development to bring humanitarian aid to the people of Iraq. She is known in the Ithacaarea for her work toward peace, justice, equity, media reform, electoral reform, and citizen engagement in democracy. In this presentation, taped on March 19, 2004, Stephens shared some of the information she has gathered during her research and extensive interviews with Iraqis before the invasion and during the occupation of Iraq.

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Maura Stephens is a longtime journalist and activist who spent 19 years at Newsweek magazine. Now an independent reporter, as well as an educator and activist, she is a member of the national Iraq Speakers Bureau and editorial and policy adviser to EPIC, the Education for Peacein Iraq Center. She also works with Life for Relief and Development to bring humanitarian aid to the people of Iraq. She is known in the Ithacaarea for her work toward peace, justice, equity, media reform, electoral reform, and citizen engagement in democracy. In this presentation, taped on March 19, 2004, Stephens shared some of the information she has gathered during her research and extensive interviews with Iraqis before the invasion and during the occupation of Iraq.

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Listen!

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There is a war raging everywhere on this planet. It's being waged with bombs and laws and money, by corporate investors and their government allies, in order to rule the world. Some of these warrios call this state of affairs a fight for freedom and some of call it a free market. But millions and millions call it slavery and are rising up in various ways to make a different world. This week we focus on resistance, from local to global. We'll conclude with part 3 of the corporation, and then we'll hear how rural communties can, and are are sucessfully standing up to corporate incursions. But first, our own community is making the news this week.

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There is a war raging everywhere on this planet. It's being waged with bombs and laws and money, by corporate investors and their government allies, in order to rule the world. Some of these warrios call this state of affairs a fight for freedom and some of call it a free market. But millions and millions call it slavery and are rising up in various ways to make a different world. This week we focus on resistance, from local to global. We'll conclude with part 3 of the corporation, and then we'll hear how rural communties can, and are are sucessfully standing up to corporate incursions. But first, our own community is making the news this week.

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Part 2 of the Corporation, a radio adaptation of the film by Achbar, Abbott and Bakan, Ithaca fights for a living wage at Wal-Mart, and another episode of "The Mysterious Stranger"

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Part 2 of the Corporation, a radio adaptation of the film by Achbar, Abbott and Bakan, Ithaca fights for a living wage at Wal-Mart, and another episode of "The Mysterious Stranger"

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Now, in the most elaborate civilization in our species' existence, we are dominated by social institutions that are not only threatening these basic necessities of life, but also doing their best to suppress action to avert calamity. This week, we look at several aspects of this pathological behavior. First, we are very pleased to bring you pert one of a three part radio adaptation of the tour de force documentary, The Corporation. In part one, the corporation as psychopath. Then a report on two former Fox Televison reporters who asking the FCC to revoke FOX's broadcast license for lying to the public, and we conclude with Mark Twain's posthumously published satire on human hypocrisy, Letters from Earth, adapted for radio.

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Now, in the most elaborate civilization in our species' existence, we are dominated by social institutions that are not only threatening these basic necessities of life, but also doing their best to suppress action to avert calamity. This week, we look at several aspects of this pathological behavior. First, we are very pleased to bring you pert one of a three part radio adaptation of the tour de force documentary, The Corporation. In part one, the corporation as psychopath. Then a report on two former Fox Televison reporters who asking the FCC to revoke FOX's broadcast license for lying to the public, and we conclude with Mark Twain's posthumously published satire on human hypocrisy, Letters from Earth, adapted for radio.

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What does the US invasion of Iraq, the kidnapping of a popular Haitian president by US commandos and homelessness in New York City have to do with one another? Thay are part of the military-monetary system

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What does the US invasion of Iraq, the kidnapping of a popular Haitian president by US commandos and homelessness in New York City have to do with one another? Thay are part of the military-monetary system

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What does Bush mean by "democracy?" Who is the real enemy? What are "special interests?" IN this 1986 talk on "The Right Turn" Chomsky explores the ongoing efforts of American elites to suppress actual democratic participation at home and abroad. This talk focusses on American foreign policy from Vietnam to the Reagan years, and from this we can be quite clear as to the actual nature of the Bush agenda, what "Liberty" will look like.

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What does Bush mean by "democracy?" Who is the real enemy? What are "special interests?" IN this 1986 talk on "The Right Turn" Chomsky explores the ongoing efforts of American elites to suppress actual democratic participation at home and abroad. This talk focusses on American foreign policy from Vietnam to the Reagan years, and from this we can be quite clear as to the actual nature of the Bush agenda, what "Liberty" will look like.

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This week, the final episode of the Power of Nightmares: the Rise of the Politics of Fear, and then, the real story of the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King - a plot to destroy a growing popular movement orchestrated by the FBI with the collaboratio

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This week, the final episode of the Power of Nightmares: the Rise of the Politics of Fear, and then, the real story of the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King - a plot to destroy a growing popular movement orchestrated by the FBI with the collaboratio

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This week we'll take another swing at the lies that maintain the politics of fear that mask the policies of empire. In the first hour, The Power of Nightmares continues, and then we'll uncover the cover-up on 9/11 with David Ray Griffin and Dennis Bernstein.

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This week we'll take another swing at the lies that maintain the politics of fear that mask the policies of empire. In the first hour, The Power of Nightmares continues, and then we'll uncover the cover-up on 9/11 with David Ray Griffin and Dennis Bernstein.

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Computer programmer comes forward to tell how a Republican Congresman comissioned him to rig the vote, the irony of the Ukraine and the open season on Iraq's assets

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Computer programmer comes forward to tell how a Republican Congresman comissioned him to rig the vote, the irony of the Ukraine and the open season on Iraq's assets

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This week we continue our series of presentations from the first national conference on peak oil and community solutions held last month in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the previous weeks' programs, speakers have explained how modern industrial society has been made possible by cheap and plentiful fossil fuel energy, which from this point on will be increasingly expensive and scarce, and how this is likely to impact an economic system which is based on the false assumptions of unlimited natual resources and endless growth. And we have heard how our population, techonolgies, and expectations of bigger and better, are on a collision course with the finite resources of this planet. In this episode we'll focus on sustainable agriculture in the context of sustainable human culture, and examine our assumptions about progress, technology, and social relations in light of our ecological reality. We'll begin with a presentation from the conference on Permaculture, a design system that many believe is the perfect tool for transition to the energy descent society

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This week we continue our series of presentations from the first national conference on peak oil and community solutions held last month in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In the previous weeks' programs, speakers have explained how modern industrial society has been made possible by cheap and plentiful fossil fuel energy, which from this point on will be increasingly expensive and scarce, and how this is likely to impact an economic system which is based on the false assumptions of unlimited natual resources and endless growth. And we have heard how our population, techonolgies, and expectations of bigger and better, are on a collision course with the finite resources of this planet. In this episode we'll focus on sustainable agriculture in the context of sustainable human culture, and examine our assumptions about progress, technology, and social relations in light of our ecological reality. We'll begin with a presentation from the conference on Permaculture, a design system that many believe is the perfect tool for transition to the energy descent society

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The US political and corporate establishment began to address issues of oil scarcity as far back as the mid 20th century, and at every opportunity since then, chose the path of increasing consumption backed by overt militarism and covert neocolonial strategies involving the establishment of dictatorial puppet regimes ready to guard US access to oil, a patterm that continues in the latest round of resource wars in the middle east. In the first hour of the program, the geopolitics of oil, with Pat Murphy, in the second hour we address the possibilites of home grown energy in the form of ethanol with permaculturist David Blume.

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The US political and corporate establishment began to address issues of oil scarcity as far back as the mid 20th century, and at every opportunity since then, chose the path of increasing consumption backed by overt militarism and covert neocolonial strategies involving the establishment of dictatorial puppet regimes ready to guard US access to oil, a patterm that continues in the latest round of resource wars in the middle east. In the first hour of the program, the geopolitics of oil, with Pat Murphy, in the second hour we address the possibilites of home grown energy in the form of ethanol with permaculturist David Blume.

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Last week 200 participants and presenters from across the country gathered in Yellow Springs, Ohio for the first US conference on peak oil and community solutions. The focus of the conference was organizing, learning, teaching and implementing the social and technological changes needed to make the transition to a sustainable low energy society, and to take this initiative at the grassroots level, especially necessary becausae our so called leaders are not realistically or humanely addressing this impending crisis. This week, and for the next several weeks, we'll bring you presentations from the conference including general and specific ideas on cooperative living, ecological practices, and relocalization of the economy as necessary and even inherently desirable adaptations for the future of human society The conference was organized by Community Service, a group based in Yellow Springs o wIt founded in 1949 by Arthur Morgan as an educational institution focused on the ideas and practices of small community and which has been a pioneer in the intentional community and cohousing movements. And to fonish off the show, the suppressed history of a planned fascist coup in America

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Last week 200 participants and presenters from across the country gathered in Yellow Springs, Ohio for the first US conference on peak oil and community solutions. The focus of the conference was organizing, learning, teaching and implementing the social and technological changes needed to make the transition to a sustainable low energy society, and to take this initiative at the grassroots level, especially necessary becausae our so called leaders are not realistically or humanely addressing this impending crisis. This week, and for the next several weeks, we'll bring you presentations from the conference including general and specific ideas on cooperative living, ecological practices, and relocalization of the economy as necessary and even inherently desirable adaptations for the future of human society The conference was organized by Community Service, a group based in Yellow Springs o wIt founded in 1949 by Arthur Morgan as an educational institution focused on the ideas and practices of small community and which has been a pioneer in the intentional community and cohousing movements. And to fonish off the show, the suppressed history of a planned fascist coup in America

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We are in a fix, caught between a hammer of ecological and economic meltdown and a well organized group of Christian fascists and their neocon allies determined to impose biblical rule in America while making war on the world for its remaining resources. First on the program, American historian and man of letters, Gore Vidal, on the recent election and the theocratic assault on the American state, Then we turn to the other juggernaut on our horizon, the collapse of industrial civilation as a result of energy depletion and the choices we face, as explained by ecologist Richard Heinberg in his recent book Powerdown: options and actions for a post carbon world.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-11-8T23:00:30-08:002004-11-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/228#2

We are in a fix, caught between a hammer of ecological and economic meltdown and a well organized group of Christian fascists and their neocon allies determined to impose biblical rule in America while making war on the world for its remaining resources. First on the program, American historian and man of letters, Gore Vidal, on the recent election and the theocratic assault on the American state, Then we turn to the other juggernaut on our horizon, the collapse of industrial civilation as a result of energy depletion and the choices we face, as explained by ecologist Richard Heinberg in his recent book Powerdown: options and actions for a post carbon world.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-11-8T23:00:30-08:002004-11-8T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/227#1

Updates on 9-11, government covers up its possession WTC jetliners' flight recorders, citizens file unprecedented complaint demanding criminal investigation by New York Attorney General into 9/11, and frank talk about war and atrocities from those wh

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-11-1T23:00:30-08:002004-11-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/227#2

Updates on 9-11, government covers up its possession WTC jetliners' flight recorders, citizens file unprecedented complaint demanding criminal investigation by New York Attorney General into 9/11, and frank talk about war and atrocities from those wh

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-11-1T23:00:30-08:002004-11-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/226#1

This week on the program we'll focus on how the corporate media system is undermining the conditions necessary for democratic governemce, and we'll hear frank talk from two public officials who have joined forces with, scholars, journalists and citizens in the media democracy movement to do something about it. We'll begin with a forum on media consolidation that took place last week at Ithaca College. Among the particpants were dissident FCC commissioner Michael Copps and Ithaca's member of Conmgress Maurice Hinchey who has introduced a bill that if passed would take steps to diversify media ownership and reinstitute the fairness doctrine. Then an interview with John Buchanan, author of Fixing America: Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media and the Religious Right.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-10-25T23:00:30-08:002004-10-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/226#2

This week on the program we'll focus on how the corporate media system is undermining the conditions necessary for democratic governemce, and we'll hear frank talk from two public officials who have joined forces with, scholars, journalists and citizens in the media democracy movement to do something about it. We'll begin with a forum on media consolidation that took place last week at Ithaca College. Among the particpants were dissident FCC commissioner Michael Copps and Ithaca's member of Conmgress Maurice Hinchey who has introduced a bill that if passed would take steps to diversify media ownership and reinstitute the fairness doctrine. Then an interview with John Buchanan, author of Fixing America: Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media and the Religious Right.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-10-25T23:00:30-08:002004-10-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/225#1

In the words of journalist Catherine Yurica : "Americans and the main-stream media have been very slow in catching on to the fact that we are in a war

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-10-18T23:00:30-08:002004-10-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/225#2

In the words of journalist Catherine Yurica : "Americans and the main-stream media have been very slow in catching on to the fact that we are in a war

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-10-18T23:00:30-08:002004-10-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/224#1

Testimony from the 911 Citizen's Comission Hearings , New York City 9/9/04 If the mass media played this stuff, it would change the world. Copy this, pass it on!

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-10-11T23:00:30-08:002004-10-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/224#2

Testimony from the 911 Citizen's Comission Hearings , New York City 9/9/04 If the mass media played this stuff, it would change the world. Copy this, pass it on!

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-10-11T23:00:30-08:002004-10-11T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/223#1

PLease burn this to a CD and drop it on anyone with a Bush/Cheney sign in their front yard

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-10-3T23:00:30-08:002004-10-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/223#2

PLease burn this to a CD and drop it on anyone with a Bush/Cheney sign in their front yard

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-10-3T23:00:30-08:002004-10-3T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/222#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-9-27T23:00:30-08:002004-9-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/222#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-9-27T23:00:30-08:002004-9-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/221#1

What is peak oil, and how does it relate to 9/11 as a pretext for US invasion of Iraq? It won't be the first time that US leaders have staged a violent incident in order to start a war with economic objectives, as Richard Sanders explains.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-9-19T23:00:30-08:002004-9-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/221#2

What is peak oil, and how does it relate to 9/11 as a pretext for US invasion of Iraq? It won't be the first time that US leaders have staged a violent incident in order to start a war with economic objectives, as Richard Sanders explains.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-9-19T23:00:30-08:002004-9-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/220#1

The Bush/Cheney administration declared Sept 11 as "patriot day," but a growing international citizen movement has called this the "summer of truth" - the point at which the true role of the Bush/Cheney administration in the events of 911 will finally be told. These 911 truth activists are no longer a small group crying in the wind. Last week on the program, we covered a new Zogby poll which revealed that half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," Tonight on the program we're going to present some critical new information one of the most suspicious aspects of the of the government response to the hijacked planes, that is their lack of response, its failure to send the the airforce in pursuit of the hijacked planes which has been the routine practice for the past 35 years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-9-13T23:00:30-08:002004-9-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/220#2

The Bush/Cheney administration declared Sept 11 as "patriot day," but a growing international citizen movement has called this the "summer of truth" - the point at which the true role of the Bush/Cheney administration in the events of 911 will finally be told. These 911 truth activists are no longer a small group crying in the wind. Last week on the program, we covered a new Zogby poll which revealed that half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," Tonight on the program we're going to present some critical new information one of the most suspicious aspects of the of the government response to the hijacked planes, that is their lack of response, its failure to send the the airforce in pursuit of the hijacked planes which has been the routine practice for the past 35 years.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-9-13T23:00:30-08:002004-9-13T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/219#1

A new Zogby poll found hat half of New York residents believe that "that some of our leaders knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," Featured in tonights program P

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-9-5T23:00:30-08:002004-9-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/219#2

A new Zogby poll found hat half of New York residents believe that "that some of our leaders knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," Featured in tonights program P

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-9-5T23:00:30-08:002004-9-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/218#1

The Republican Nationmal Convention gets underway tomorrow in New York City but the Republicans are truly unwelcome guests there, recent polls show that 80 percent of New York City residents don't want them , and that 60 percent or so of those polled approve of the anti-RNC demonstrations. Hundreds of thousands have already turned out to protest against the Bush agenda. First on the program, a look at parts of that agenda that remain unspoken, theocratic dictatorship, and the general climate of secrecy and lies that characterize the Bush white house - veteran radio journalist Larry Bensky spoke with NYU Media scholar and author Mark Crispin Miller and former Nixon White Counsel John Dean In the second hour, Anarchism 101. In the lead up to the convention the mainstram press has dutifully reported hysterical statements by New York City authorities of fearsome anarchists invading the city and they announced that the NYPD had dispatched teams of officers throughout the nation to perform round the clock surveillance on 56 anarchist organizers. What is anarchism? Should you be afraid, or should you join up?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-8-30T23:00:30-08:002004-8-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/218#2

The Republican Nationmal Convention gets underway tomorrow in New York City but the Republicans are truly unwelcome guests there, recent polls show that 80 percent of New York City residents don't want them , and that 60 percent or so of those polled approve of the anti-RNC demonstrations. Hundreds of thousands have already turned out to protest against the Bush agenda. First on the program, a look at parts of that agenda that remain unspoken, theocratic dictatorship, and the general climate of secrecy and lies that characterize the Bush white house - veteran radio journalist Larry Bensky spoke with NYU Media scholar and author Mark Crispin Miller and former Nixon White Counsel John Dean In the second hour, Anarchism 101. In the lead up to the convention the mainstram press has dutifully reported hysterical statements by New York City authorities of fearsome anarchists invading the city and they announced that the NYPD had dispatched teams of officers throughout the nation to perform round the clock surveillance on 56 anarchist organizers. What is anarchism? Should you be afraid, or should you join up?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-8-30T23:00:30-08:002004-8-30T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/217#1

Do you have a right of free speech if the only way you can use it is in ways that don't offend the government? Do you have a right to assemble freely to demonstrate your disapproval of government policies if you're only allowed to do this in such way that it has no impact? This week on the program we'll look at the extent to which our constitutional rights are actually respected - the freedom to speak, to hold views and freely associate with others, to demonstrate , to be protected from cruel and unusal punishment and to have one's person or belongings safe from arbitrary search and seizure by agents of the state. These are the American freedoms that we are told are being protected by the endless war. We'll report on new developments in the court case of four teenage peace activsts in Ithaca, then Abu Ghraib, USA. In our second hour a lesson on your rights and how to protect them while protesting, speciallu geared to listeners headed to New York to protest the Republican Convention

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-8-23T23:00:30-08:002004-8-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/217#2

Do you have a right of free speech if the only way you can use it is in ways that don't offend the government? Do you have a right to assemble freely to demonstrate your disapproval of government policies if you're only allowed to do this in such way that it has no impact? This week on the program we'll look at the extent to which our constitutional rights are actually respected - the freedom to speak, to hold views and freely associate with others, to demonstrate , to be protected from cruel and unusal punishment and to have one's person or belongings safe from arbitrary search and seizure by agents of the state. These are the American freedoms that we are told are being protected by the endless war. We'll report on new developments in the court case of four teenage peace activsts in Ithaca, then Abu Ghraib, USA. In our second hour a lesson on your rights and how to protect them while protesting, speciallu geared to listeners headed to New York to protest the Republican Convention

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-8-23T23:00:30-08:002004-8-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/216#1

In the first hour, direct action organizer David Solnit on his new book "Globalizing Liberation," which is compilationn of essays on the new radicalism, a movement bringing together many movements that is offering an alternative to the world order of market capitalism. In the second hour, a documentary on how people are revivng a very old tradition of direct democracy in America, the town meeting, in an effort to make their voicse heard on the issues they care about

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-8-15T23:00:30-08:002004-8-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/216#2

In the first hour, direct action organizer David Solnit on his new book "Globalizing Liberation," which is compilationn of essays on the new radicalism, a movement bringing together many movements that is offering an alternative to the world order of market capitalism. In the second hour, a documentary on how people are revivng a very old tradition of direct democracy in America, the town meeting, in an effort to make their voicse heard on the issues they care about

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-8-15T23:00:30-08:002004-8-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/215#1

The Program begins with a reading of an article "The Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain Back to Iraq" which makes the connection between agriculture, empire and the origin of wealth. Then David Holmgren, co-founder of the Permaculture movement, and what this system of environmental design has to offer to a post-petroleum world

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-8-9T23:00:30-08:002004-8-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/215#2

The Program begins with a reading of an article "The Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain Back to Iraq" which makes the connection between agriculture, empire and the origin of wealth. Then David Holmgren, co-founder of the Permaculture movement, and what this system of environmental design has to offer to a post-petroleum world

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-8-9T23:00:30-08:002004-8-9T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/214#1

see notes

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see notes

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What Democracy Now wouldn't let you hear, plus material from Phase 2 (Toronto) of the Citizens Inquiry into the Unanswered Questions of 9/11

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-7-23T23:00:30-08:002004-7-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/213#2

What Democracy Now wouldn't let you hear, plus material from Phase 2 (Toronto) of the Citizens Inquiry into the Unanswered Questions of 9/11

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-7-23T23:00:30-08:002004-7-23T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/212#1

George Bush's Rape rooms, beyond labels that block inquiry, how to get beyond the media blockade on challenges to the "official story"

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-7-19T23:00:30-08:002004-7-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/212#2

George Bush's Rape rooms, beyond labels that block inquiry, how to get beyond the media blockade on challenges to the "official story"

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-7-19T23:00:30-08:002004-7-19T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/211#1

The realities and politics of dealing with climate change, and the role of US military experiments in catastrophic weather events

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-7-12T23:00:30-08:002004-7-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/211#2

The realities and politics of dealing with climate change, and the role of US military experiments in catastrophic weather events

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-7-12T23:00:30-08:002004-7-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/210#1

Myths and realities of Americas leaders, wars, and free market

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-7-5T23:00:30-08:002004-7-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/210#2

Myths and realities of Americas leaders, wars, and free market

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-7-5T23:00:30-08:002004-7-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/209#1

What is peak oil? What does it mean? What does it have to do with endless war? How will it bring about the end of capitalism? Can industrial society survive or is the "party" over?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-6-28T23:00:30-08:002004-6-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/209#2

What is peak oil? What does it mean? What does it have to do with endless war? How will it bring about the end of capitalism? Can industrial society survive or is the "party" over?

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-6-28T23:00:30-08:002004-6-28T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/208#1

The strange case of the collapsing buildings, the intrigues of the Pakistani ISI, and a media that sees no evil

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-6-21T23:00:30-08:002004-6-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/208#2

The strange case of the collapsing buildings, the intrigues of the Pakistani ISI, and a media that sees no evil

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-6-21T23:00:30-08:002004-6-21T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/207#1

From the 2/04 San Francisco Conference, on the history of "False Flag" operations by the US government, and placing the 9/11 arracks in that context. A false flag op is a violent covert action sone with the intention of placing the blame for the

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-6-15T23:00:30-08:002004-6-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/207#2

From the 2/04 San Francisco Conference, on the history of "False Flag" operations by the US government, and placing the 9/11 arracks in that context. A false flag op is a violent covert action sone with the intention of placing the blame for the

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-6-15T23:00:30-08:002004-6-15T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/206#1

This week we continue with presentations by independent investigators at the international inquiey on 911. held in San Francisco in March. This week will place 9/11 in context of the planet's dwindling oil resources and the closed door decisions about how to deal with the phenomenon of peak oil that have apparently already been made by the Ameican power elites - to defend corporate capitalism at any cost, even if that means species extinction. This places 9/11 in a high stakes context that may change the way you look at the issue of 9/11's unanswered questions.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-31T23:00:30-08:002004-5-31T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/206#2

This week we continue with presentations by independent investigators at the international inquiey on 911. held in San Francisco in March. This week will place 9/11 in context of the planet's dwindling oil resources and the closed door decisions about how to deal with the phenomenon of peak oil that have apparently already been made by the Ameican power elites - to defend corporate capitalism at any cost, even if that means species extinction. This places 9/11 in a high stakes context that may change the way you look at the issue of 9/11's unanswered questions.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-31T23:00:30-08:002004-5-31T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/205#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-27T23:00:30-08:002004-5-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/205#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-27T23:00:30-08:002004-5-27T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/204#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-18T23:00:30-08:002004-5-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/204#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-18T23:00:30-08:002004-5-18T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/203#1

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-10T23:00:30-08:002004-5-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/203#2

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-10T23:00:30-08:002004-5-10T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/202#1

Broadcast of "Inqusitions" a new radio drama by Greg Guma on the Haymarket martyts

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-5T23:00:30-08:002004-5-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/202#2

Broadcast of "Inqusitions" a new radio drama by Greg Guma on the Haymarket martyts

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-5-5T23:00:30-08:002004-5-5T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/201#1

Yesterday was earth day and today women marched in Washington DC to protest the right wing government's attempt to roll back hard won gains under law. This election season, pollsters ask voters which issue they consider of top importance: the economy, the war, the environment and so on. But the degradation of our bioshpere, a economy of " haves" and "have nots" and resource wars under the guise of high flow ideologies or bogus threats are are part and parcel of a civilization based on hierarchy and commodification. Our featured dpeaker tonight environmentalist and author Derrick Jensen argues that this "civilization" cannot save the envronment or itself, and must be brought down. Also on our program tonight, we conclude our readings from the book Discplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt...but first a brief report from Isreal and Palestine from Grace Ritterr , an Iithaca resident with a peace delegation that was present for the releace of Israeli anti-nuclear activist and whistleblower Mordecai Vanunnu earlier the week.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-4-26T23:00:30-08:002004-4-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/201#2

Yesterday was earth day and today women marched in Washington DC to protest the right wing government's attempt to roll back hard won gains under law. This election season, pollsters ask voters which issue they consider of top importance: the economy, the war, the environment and so on. But the degradation of our bioshpere, a economy of " haves" and "have nots" and resource wars under the guise of high flow ideologies or bogus threats are are part and parcel of a civilization based on hierarchy and commodification. Our featured dpeaker tonight environmentalist and author Derrick Jensen argues that this "civilization" cannot save the envronment or itself, and must be brought down. Also on our program tonight, we conclude our readings from the book Discplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt...but first a brief report from Isreal and Palestine from Grace Ritterr , an Iithaca resident with a peace delegation that was present for the releace of Israeli anti-nuclear activist and whistleblower Mordecai Vanunnu earlier the week.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2004-4-26T23:00:30-08:002004-4-26T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/200#1

Deadloced Jury In Peace Ativists Delony Trial, Damacio Lopez IDUST, how a pro-golfer became an activist, and how to be a radical professional and subvert the system from the inside

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Deadloced Jury In Peace Ativists Delony Trial, Damacio Lopez IDUST, how a pro-golfer became an activist, and how to be a radical professional and subvert the system from the inside

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The week, the felony trial of the st patricks day four , pacificsts of the ithaca catholic worker community who poured blood at the military recruiting center in Lansing NY on March 17, 2003, as part of nationwide efforts by americans to prevent the invasion of iraq by the US government. As we repotred last week, Tompkims County judge John Sherman barred the defense from bringing expert witnesses to testify on international law . One of the witnesses who was barred from testifying was historian Howard Zinn, but you'll hear him on the program tonight discussing how a knowledge of history is essential if citizens want to get to the truth behind the patriotic rhetoric of presidents bent on war rulers to send their citizens to kill and die.

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The week, the felony trial of the st patricks day four , pacificsts of the ithaca catholic worker community who poured blood at the military recruiting center in Lansing NY on March 17, 2003, as part of nationwide efforts by americans to prevent the invasion of iraq by the US government. As we repotred last week, Tompkims County judge John Sherman barred the defense from bringing expert witnesses to testify on international law . One of the witnesses who was barred from testifying was historian Howard Zinn, but you'll hear him on the program tonight discussing how a knowledge of history is essential if citizens want to get to the truth behind the patriotic rhetoric of presidents bent on war rulers to send their citizens to kill and die.

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Next Tuesday, April 6, the trial of 4 peace activists from the Ithaca Catholic Worker community will begin at the Tompkins County Courthouse on Tioga steet at 9 am. The activists, known as the Saint Patrick's Day Four are facing felony charges which carry a maximum four year sentence. In March 27th, the defendants learned that their chance to defend themselves has been curtailed. Judge M. John Sherman ruled in a written decision that the four will be limited in their assertion of the defenses of necessity and international law. In his ruling, Judge Sherman prohibited any expert witnesses or documentary evidence relating to necessity or international law, but said that the defendants could speak to these matters in their personal testimony. He found that there was "no applicability of [international law] in the present case" and that "the proffered proof does not demonstrate the type of true emergency envisioned by the [necessity] statute." Tonight on the program, you will hear the voices of the activists, speakers on international law, documentaty of evidence of the criminality of the war on Iraq, the choice that citizens must make between law and conscience and the duty of citizens to engage in civil resistance and we'll conclude the program with another reading from Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt also on the question of maintaing one's values in the face of a coercive herarchy.

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Next Tuesday, April 6, the trial of 4 peace activists from the Ithaca Catholic Worker community will begin at the Tompkins County Courthouse on Tioga steet at 9 am. The activists, known as the Saint Patrick's Day Four are facing felony charges which carry a maximum four year sentence. In March 27th, the defendants learned that their chance to defend themselves has been curtailed. Judge M. John Sherman ruled in a written decision that the four will be limited in their assertion of the defenses of necessity and international law. In his ruling, Judge Sherman prohibited any expert witnesses or documentary evidence relating to necessity or international law, but said that the defendants could speak to these matters in their personal testimony. He found that there was "no applicability of [international law] in the present case" and that "the proffered proof does not demonstrate the type of true emergency envisioned by the [necessity] statute." Tonight on the program, you will hear the voices of the activists, speakers on international law, documentaty of evidence of the criminality of the war on Iraq, the choice that citizens must make between law and conscience and the duty of citizens to engage in civil resistance and we'll conclude the program with another reading from Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt also on the question of maintaing one's values in the face of a coercive herarchy.

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Tariq Ali, author Bush In Babylon and The Clash of Fundamentalisms, speaks on the meaning of the Iraqui resistance and the importance of the American peace movement to the rest of the world, and we begin the next part of Disciplined Minds on "Resist

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Tariq Ali, author Bush In Babylon and The Clash of Fundamentalisms, speaks on the meaning of the Iraqui resistance and the importance of the American peace movement to the rest of the world, and we begin the next part of Disciplined Minds on "Resist

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Another perspective on the removal of Howard Stern: Bush, Clear Channel and the FCC, Anarchy class fights University of Colorado, an analysis of what's left out of Henry Louis Gates PBS documentary on the status of Black people in America and another reading from Disciplined Minds on subordination

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Another perspective on the removal of Howard Stern: Bush, Clear Channel and the FCC, Anarchy class fights University of Colorado, an analysis of what's left out of Henry Louis Gates PBS documentary on the status of Black people in America and another reading from Disciplined Minds on subordination

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It's election season again and politicians are promising good jobs for all and that no child will be left behind. Even if these candidates are sincere, which can not be assumed, what people hear being promised can't be delivered, because the very structure of this society is designed to leave most everyone behind, and to relegate us to lives in which we have no real say about how society will operate. We are forced to perform a lifetime of tedious work for somebody else's benefit and accept limited choices, mostly in the realm of consumption options. Even the consumer with the much vaunted 500 tv channels has had no say in what those 500 channels broadcast, but may only choose from what someone else has decided to make available. The role laid out for most people is to follow orders and not cause trouble. Tonight, we resume our reading from discilpned minds, a critical look at salaried professionals and the soul battering sytem that shapes their lives by Jeff Schmidt, which will exmine the techniques the educational system uses to quietly reconcile people with their limited opportunity for a fullfilling life while perpetuating the myth of endless possibility. But we'll begin the program from the opposite direction, how to approach the creation of a society where everyone really does get to make the decisions that effect our lives, instead of living as factotums in a hierarchy that serves the agenda of a few at the top. Mark Lance, an anarchist philospher and activist on the facuty of Georgetown university argues that in order to create a society of equals we must learn how to recreate ourselves - and that we must, in the here and now, not only protest what is oppressive, but strive to create institutions fit for free people.

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It's election season again and politicians are promising good jobs for all and that no child will be left behind. Even if these candidates are sincere, which can not be assumed, what people hear being promised can't be delivered, because the very structure of this society is designed to leave most everyone behind, and to relegate us to lives in which we have no real say about how society will operate. We are forced to perform a lifetime of tedious work for somebody else's benefit and accept limited choices, mostly in the realm of consumption options. Even the consumer with the much vaunted 500 tv channels has had no say in what those 500 channels broadcast, but may only choose from what someone else has decided to make available. The role laid out for most people is to follow orders and not cause trouble. Tonight, we resume our reading from discilpned minds, a critical look at salaried professionals and the soul battering sytem that shapes their lives by Jeff Schmidt, which will exmine the techniques the educational system uses to quietly reconcile people with their limited opportunity for a fullfilling life while perpetuating the myth of endless possibility. But we'll begin the program from the opposite direction, how to approach the creation of a society where everyone really does get to make the decisions that effect our lives, instead of living as factotums in a hierarchy that serves the agenda of a few at the top. Mark Lance, an anarchist philospher and activist on the facuty of Georgetown university argues that in order to create a society of equals we must learn how to recreate ourselves - and that we must, in the here and now, not only protest what is oppressive, but strive to create institutions fit for free people.

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This is a 2 hour edit of the 2/5/04 Town Hall in West Hartford, Conn Mahajan was recently in Iraq and reports that reconstruction is a sham, and Ritter calls for the immediate withdrawal of US soldiers. Both make clear that there were no "intellige

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This is a 2 hour edit of the 2/5/04 Town Hall in West Hartford, Conn Mahajan was recently in Iraq and reports that reconstruction is a sham, and Ritter calls for the immediate withdrawal of US soldiers. Both make clear that there were no "intellige

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Sorry about the delay - both my computer and I have been sick!

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Sorry about the delay - both my computer and I have been sick!

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Last week on the program we played a talk by Stan Goff in which he spoke about social struggles as issues of power, and he defined power as both the power to interpret and the power to master. This power to interpret, define what is normal, what is good, what is legitimate -- to set the standards agsint wihich ideas and actions are referenced is also the terrain of communications media and education. "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmid, the book that I've been reading weekly imstallments from from since last october, also deals with process of setting standards that determine which people will be credentialed as professionals, and thus play leading roles in society. The type of people granted these influential roles , what values they hold and to what ends and for whose benefit their work is performed has an impact on everyone in society This week we're going to delve more deeply into these parallels, with an in-depth imterview with Stan Goff that amplifies on the issues raised in his talk, and another reading from Discplined Minds that examines in detail how the tests that gatekeep entry into professions are structured to pass through aspirants whose values and future conduct in the firld are unlikely to question the domination of society by corporate hierarchies, and the maintance of those hierarchies by militarism and imperialim.

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Last week on the program we played a talk by Stan Goff in which he spoke about social struggles as issues of power, and he defined power as both the power to interpret and the power to master. This power to interpret, define what is normal, what is good, what is legitimate -- to set the standards agsint wihich ideas and actions are referenced is also the terrain of communications media and education. "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmid, the book that I've been reading weekly imstallments from from since last october, also deals with process of setting standards that determine which people will be credentialed as professionals, and thus play leading roles in society. The type of people granted these influential roles , what values they hold and to what ends and for whose benefit their work is performed has an impact on everyone in society This week we're going to delve more deeply into these parallels, with an in-depth imterview with Stan Goff that amplifies on the issues raised in his talk, and another reading from Discplined Minds that examines in detail how the tests that gatekeep entry into professions are structured to pass through aspirants whose values and future conduct in the firld are unlikely to question the domination of society by corporate hierarchies, and the maintance of those hierarchies by militarism and imperialim.

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Ecologist critical of biotech enied tenure at UC Berkey, David Rees on his cartoon "Get Your War On" and Disciplined Minds

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Ecologist critical of biotech enied tenure at UC Berkey, David Rees on his cartoon "Get Your War On" and Disciplined Minds

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How corporations are paying scholars to undermine the powerof juries, a call to action against oligarchy from Scott Ritter, the death of Horatio Alger and reading fron Discplined Minds on the how idealistic young people are broken to the yolk of corpora

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How corporations are paying scholars to undermine the powerof juries, a call to action against oligarchy from Scott Ritter, the death of Horatio Alger and reading fron Discplined Minds on the how idealistic young people are broken to the yolk of corpora

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Social systems are maintained by a social consensus, the stories that people believe to be true about the society, its leaders, and themselves as members of the society. Even the most repressive government must have the willing cooperation of enough of the people to wield the guns and clubs and man the prisons and torture chambers on behalf of the state against the others in the society Nazi propagandists deliberately employed a technique they called The Big Lie. They said, the bigger the lie the easier it is to present it repetitively , and have it be widely believed. . Central to most religion is submission to the will of an omnipotent god whose ways must not questioned. Tyrannical government follows a similar paradigm. There is an ancient relationship between religion and monarchy in fact - kings were said to hold their power by divine right, and in some cases claimed they themselves were gods. Are those struggling for a truly free and democratic society battling some human predisposition to subordination?

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Social systems are maintained by a social consensus, the stories that people believe to be true about the society, its leaders, and themselves as members of the society. Even the most repressive government must have the willing cooperation of enough of the people to wield the guns and clubs and man the prisons and torture chambers on behalf of the state against the others in the society Nazi propagandists deliberately employed a technique they called The Big Lie. They said, the bigger the lie the easier it is to present it repetitively , and have it be widely believed. . Central to most religion is submission to the will of an omnipotent god whose ways must not questioned. Tyrannical government follows a similar paradigm. There is an ancient relationship between religion and monarchy in fact - kings were said to hold their power by divine right, and in some cases claimed they themselves were gods. Are those struggling for a truly free and democratic society battling some human predisposition to subordination?

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There is struggle taking place everywhere on this planet to maintain a social hierarchy that gives some everything they desire by robbing from others the chance to live dignified and fullfilling lives, or even to live at all. This battle has many fronts and its outcome touches all our lives. Yet it is taboo to examine its workings, and illegimate to question its rightness.

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There is struggle taking place everywhere on this planet to maintain a social hierarchy that gives some everything they desire by robbing from others the chance to live dignified and fullfilling lives, or even to live at all. This battle has many fronts and its outcome touches all our lives. Yet it is taboo to examine its workings, and illegimate to question its rightness.

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The American Heritage® Dictionary : Fourth Edition. 2000. defines the term Potemkin village as: NOUN: Something that appears elaborate and impressive but in actual fact lacks substance: In 1787, when Catherine the Great visited the Ukraine and the Crimea, Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin , a Russian army officer, statesman, and her lover, decided to put up elaborate cardboard houses apparently full of splendor in the villages Catherine was shown. While this setup depicted an illusion of prosperity, the real condition of the village was hidden behind this facade. Tonight, travels in a Potemkin nation . Some of the sights on our tour: deadly zombie shoppers, the prospects for suburbia when the oil runs out, and uncovering the truth about 911, and ending with another reading from "Disciplined Minds"

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The American Heritage® Dictionary : Fourth Edition. 2000. defines the term Potemkin village as: NOUN: Something that appears elaborate and impressive but in actual fact lacks substance: In 1787, when Catherine the Great visited the Ukraine and the Crimea, Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin , a Russian army officer, statesman, and her lover, decided to put up elaborate cardboard houses apparently full of splendor in the villages Catherine was shown. While this setup depicted an illusion of prosperity, the real condition of the village was hidden behind this facade. Tonight, travels in a Potemkin nation . Some of the sights on our tour: deadly zombie shoppers, the prospects for suburbia when the oil runs out, and uncovering the truth about 911, and ending with another reading from "Disciplined Minds"

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Tonight we're going to explore the failure of American journalism in greater depth, with a full length speech by media scholar Robert McChesney who will lay out the structural forces that are responsible and that indicate the level of fundamental change needed to transform the role of the press to o ne useful to a democratic society. And, we'll continue reading from Discplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt about the social role of professionals' work - this week taking at look at how funding overtly and covertly directs and limits scientific research, Much like journalists - what is studied, explored or spoken about has much to do with the interests of those who have the money, rather than the needs of society as a whole or the personal interests of scientists themselves.

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Tonight we're going to explore the failure of American journalism in greater depth, with a full length speech by media scholar Robert McChesney who will lay out the structural forces that are responsible and that indicate the level of fundamental change needed to transform the role of the press to o ne useful to a democratic society. And, we'll continue reading from Discplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt about the social role of professionals' work - this week taking at look at how funding overtly and covertly directs and limits scientific research, Much like journalists - what is studied, explored or spoken about has much to do with the interests of those who have the money, rather than the needs of society as a whole or the personal interests of scientists themselves.

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In our first hour of the program tonight, we'll hear media scholoar Robert Media scholar Robert McChesney and PBS journalist BIll Moyers speaking at the national conference on media reform. In hour 2r, more readings from "Disciplined Minds"

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In our first hour of the program tonight, we'll hear media scholoar Robert Media scholar Robert McChesney and PBS journalist BIll Moyers speaking at the national conference on media reform. In hour 2r, more readings from "Disciplined Minds"

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Work is the area where where most of us have our greatest impact on society, and where society has its greatest impact on us. Mostly, the world of work has been structured so that most of the people who do it have little to say about what gets done or why. Yet, everything about work, the distrubution of the wealth that the work generates, who has work and who doesn't, the whole framework of what is called "the economy" - all of this exists as a result of human decisions. The system of labor and management, production and consumption, money and investment and markets are a human creation and are enforced and perpetuated by people, whether willlingly or at the direction of others. The world of work we experience is a political creation and an ideology underlies, and is expressed through even in the most menial labor. In our second hour , we'll focus on the ideological disclpine inherent in professional work and how that perpetuates the present system, as our series of readings from Jeff Scmidt's book "Disciplined Minds" continues. In our first hour, we'll hear about working people in Iraq fighting to form unions in their allegedly liberated country, growing poverty in America, and from a former Pentagon worker who is speaking out about the administrations' series of lies about Iraq, who is behind them, and what purpose they serve.

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Work is the area where where most of us have our greatest impact on society, and where society has its greatest impact on us. Mostly, the world of work has been structured so that most of the people who do it have little to say about what gets done or why. Yet, everything about work, the distrubution of the wealth that the work generates, who has work and who doesn't, the whole framework of what is called "the economy" - all of this exists as a result of human decisions. The system of labor and management, production and consumption, money and investment and markets are a human creation and are enforced and perpetuated by people, whether willlingly or at the direction of others. The world of work we experience is a political creation and an ideology underlies, and is expressed through even in the most menial labor. In our second hour , we'll focus on the ideological disclpine inherent in professional work and how that perpetuates the present system, as our series of readings from Jeff Scmidt's book "Disciplined Minds" continues. In our first hour, we'll hear about working people in Iraq fighting to form unions in their allegedly liberated country, growing poverty in America, and from a former Pentagon worker who is speaking out about the administrations' series of lies about Iraq, who is behind them, and what purpose they serve.

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In the first hour Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein will illuminate George Bush's statement that resisting Iraqi's "don't want freedom", by drawing parallels between the looting of Argentina under a "free market" regime that led to its collpase and the corporate fire sale that is behind the war and so-called reconstruction in Iraq. In our second hour of the program we continue with the reading ftom "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Scmidt, on the unacknowledged political nature of professional work and the training process that leads to a professioanl class accepting of ideological subordination to ruling elites.

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In the first hour Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein will illuminate George Bush's statement that resisting Iraqi's "don't want freedom", by drawing parallels between the looting of Argentina under a "free market" regime that led to its collpase and the corporate fire sale that is behind the war and so-called reconstruction in Iraq. In our second hour of the program we continue with the reading ftom "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Scmidt, on the unacknowledged political nature of professional work and the training process that leads to a professioanl class accepting of ideological subordination to ruling elites.

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Tonight we continue our series into the mental conditioning that underlies and perpetuates the type of society we have, one in whih most people are frustrated and depressed- in spite of being repreatedly told that this is the best of all possible worlds. In a speech given by Professor Noam Chomsky at the University of Illinois in September, he noted the extent to which absurd statements and transparent lies uttered by George Bush and other top officials went largely unchallenged by intellectuals, as well as the media. This highly educated class of people were somehow able to repeat, as well as discuss these farcically false offical claims without even a snicker. This ability to subordinate one's intelligence and creativity to reflect the values and serve the needs of the small group at the top of the social pyramid is the special skill that marks the professional in our society, according to Jeff Schmidt, who has written an amazing book "Discplined Minds. a critical lok at salaried professionals and the soul battering system that shapes their lives." In our second hour, we begin a series of readings from the book which w'll illuminates the indoctrination that shapes the class of people who are the lynch pin of this society We'll begin the program, though with a look at another vector of social control directed at those at the bottom of the pyramid - the criminal justice system - and the mindset that has made the United States number one in jailing its citizens.

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Tonight we continue our series into the mental conditioning that underlies and perpetuates the type of society we have, one in whih most people are frustrated and depressed- in spite of being repreatedly told that this is the best of all possible worlds. In a speech given by Professor Noam Chomsky at the University of Illinois in September, he noted the extent to which absurd statements and transparent lies uttered by George Bush and other top officials went largely unchallenged by intellectuals, as well as the media. This highly educated class of people were somehow able to repeat, as well as discuss these farcically false offical claims without even a snicker. This ability to subordinate one's intelligence and creativity to reflect the values and serve the needs of the small group at the top of the social pyramid is the special skill that marks the professional in our society, according to Jeff Schmidt, who has written an amazing book "Discplined Minds. a critical lok at salaried professionals and the soul battering system that shapes their lives." In our second hour, we begin a series of readings from the book which w'll illuminates the indoctrination that shapes the class of people who are the lynch pin of this society We'll begin the program, though with a look at another vector of social control directed at those at the bottom of the pyramid - the criminal justice system - and the mindset that has made the United States number one in jailing its citizens.

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From November 19 through the 21st, opponents of corporate globalization will converge in Miami to confront a ministerial on the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the FTAA, that would extend NAFTA to the entire hemisphere. "Another world is possible" is a motto used by many of the people opposing these various treaties,. that in effect are creating a new world government openly based on the priorities of corporate investment. But the phrase "another world is possible" does not refer only to government or economic policies, nor only to political and economic systems. It also encompasses the values that underlie those systems. But what causes us as a society to form and hold the values we have, that make the current world possible? What habits of mind determine that we will even for example, draw a distinction between economics and politics? Our mental structures that underlie our values and institutions must be addressed if we want to to make possible another society which is truly egalitarian, creative and democratic. This will be the subject of the first hour of the program and will start off our series on the roots and ramifications of our culture of hierarchy and control. In our second hour we'll hear about opening paths to a moral economy...

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From November 19 through the 21st, opponents of corporate globalization will converge in Miami to confront a ministerial on the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the FTAA, that would extend NAFTA to the entire hemisphere. "Another world is possible" is a motto used by many of the people opposing these various treaties,. that in effect are creating a new world government openly based on the priorities of corporate investment. But the phrase "another world is possible" does not refer only to government or economic policies, nor only to political and economic systems. It also encompasses the values that underlie those systems. But what causes us as a society to form and hold the values we have, that make the current world possible? What habits of mind determine that we will even for example, draw a distinction between economics and politics? Our mental structures that underlie our values and institutions must be addressed if we want to to make possible another society which is truly egalitarian, creative and democratic. This will be the subject of the first hour of the program and will start off our series on the roots and ramifications of our culture of hierarchy and control. In our second hour we'll hear about opening paths to a moral economy...

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Our environmental problems are ultimately political problems. Climate change and large scale contamination of air, water and soil were known about, and discussed in great depth 30 years ago. In the past three decades we could have fundamentally transforme

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2003-10-12T23:00:30-08:002003-10-12T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/174#2

Our environmental problems are ultimately political problems. Climate change and large scale contamination of air, water and soil were known about, and discussed in great depth 30 years ago. In the past three decades we could have fundamentally transforme

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A conference dealing with protecting water as a common resource was held in the Hudson Valley Sept 4-6. 2003. In this program Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva and "water doctor" John Todd on sustainable water

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A conference dealing with protecting water as a common resource was held in the Hudson Valley Sept 4-6. 2003. In this program Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva and "water doctor" John Todd on sustainable water

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A conference dealing with protecting water as a common resource was held in the Hudson Valley Sept 4-6. 2003. In this program Robert Kemmedy Jr of River Keeper talks about fighting corporate water polluters in the courts, and Tony Clarke of the Polaris In

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2003-9-29T23:00:30-08:002003-9-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/172#2

A conference dealing with protecting water as a common resource was held in the Hudson Valley Sept 4-6. 2003. In this program Robert Kemmedy Jr of River Keeper talks about fighting corporate water polluters in the courts, and Tony Clarke of the Polaris In

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2003-9-29T23:00:30-08:002003-9-29T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/171#1

Who benefits from the current sytem of food production. Not us.

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Who benefits from the current sytem of food production. Not us.

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As the second anniversary of the Sept 11 suicide bombing attacks approaches, those events of 2001 continue to be put forward as a justification for the actions of the government by the Bush administration and their captive press. We are being fed a steady diet of propaganda with the goal of keeping us fearful and distracting us from the real story. But truth will out , and tonight on the program we're going to bear down on the geopolitical agenda that lies behind the war on terrorism, and the attacks of 9-11-2001.. We'll hear from a former member of Tony Blair's cabinet who has publicly denounced the war on terrorism as" bogus", an independent researcher who has documented the deception and inconsistencies of the 911 official story and a former US special forces officer who will explain the workings of a brutal foreign policy based on the bottom line that is able to persist because of systematic deception.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2003-9-7T23:00:30-08:002003-9-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/169#2

As the second anniversary of the Sept 11 suicide bombing attacks approaches, those events of 2001 continue to be put forward as a justification for the actions of the government by the Bush administration and their captive press. We are being fed a steady diet of propaganda with the goal of keeping us fearful and distracting us from the real story. But truth will out , and tonight on the program we're going to bear down on the geopolitical agenda that lies behind the war on terrorism, and the attacks of 9-11-2001.. We'll hear from a former member of Tony Blair's cabinet who has publicly denounced the war on terrorism as" bogus", an independent researcher who has documented the deception and inconsistencies of the 911 official story and a former US special forces officer who will explain the workings of a brutal foreign policy based on the bottom line that is able to persist because of systematic deception.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2003-9-7T23:00:30-08:002003-9-7T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/168#1

the myths and realities of of low wage work, how the war on terrorism has become a war on labor unions. and a wakeup call to Americans by Truthout.org' founder William Rivers Pitt

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2003-9-1T23:00:30-08:002003-9-1T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/168#2

the myths and realities of of low wage work, how the war on terrorism has become a war on labor unions. and a wakeup call to Americans by Truthout.org' founder William Rivers Pitt

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The US has maintains a vast global military empire with bases in more than 120 countries, This empire is maintained in concert with a few dozen very large private corporations whose income comes almost exclusively from military contracts. This state of affairs has wide reaching impact on our domestic policies and arrangements that are seldom examined or even acknowledged. The the collective deep pocket that pays the bill for this military-industrial complex, that is the average American taxpayer, has little idea what is being spent or how its being used. The military and its bottom line are above criticism - both political parties in Congress fall over themselves to fling the taxpayers money at what is euphemistically called 'defense'. Tonight, our main presentation will be a in in-depth look at the dollars costs of the US military machine. But first a couple of things directed at the question of why we in an ostensible democracy allow the government to throw our money at a bloated military while it denies us the things that would make our lives easier.

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2003-8-25T23:00:30-08:002003-8-25T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/167#2

The US has maintains a vast global military empire with bases in more than 120 countries, This empire is maintained in concert with a few dozen very large private corporations whose income comes almost exclusively from military contracts. This state of affairs has wide reaching impact on our domestic policies and arrangements that are seldom examined or even acknowledged. The the collective deep pocket that pays the bill for this military-industrial complex, that is the average American taxpayer, has little idea what is being spent or how its being used. The military and its bottom line are above criticism - both political parties in Congress fall over themselves to fling the taxpayers money at what is euphemistically called 'defense'. Tonight, our main presentation will be a in in-depth look at the dollars costs of the US military machine. But first a couple of things directed at the question of why we in an ostensible democracy allow the government to throw our money at a bloated military while it denies us the things that would make our lives easier.

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Law enforcement and the courts team up to hand out harsh sentences to discourage political dissent

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Law enforcement and the courts team up to hand out harsh sentences to discourage political dissent

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Major Rokke is an expert on the subject of depleted uranium and Gulf War Syndrome. Tonight's talk will include information that the US military knows and has known the health and environmental hazards of depleted uranium since the 1940's, is collaborating with the nuclear power industry to keep the public in the dark, has a written a directive to leave radioactive shrapnel in wounded soldiers in order to study them, as well as performed experiments on the unwitting US population with chemical and biological weapons, and that they basically don't give a damn about the fate of the average soldier once they've served their purpose.

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Major Rokke is an expert on the subject of depleted uranium and Gulf War Syndrome. Tonight's talk will include information that the US military knows and has known the health and environmental hazards of depleted uranium since the 1940's, is collaborating with the nuclear power industry to keep the public in the dark, has a written a directive to leave radioactive shrapnel in wounded soldiers in order to study them, as well as performed experiments on the unwitting US population with chemical and biological weapons, and that they basically don't give a damn about the fate of the average soldier once they've served their purpose.

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Free and fair elections are the basis for America's claim to democracy. Our electoral process is manipulated in a variety of ways that result in a government that arguably fails to reflect the needs of most of us. Reformers who seek to redress this state of affairs hang their hopes on somehow being able to wrest elections back from the corporate money stream. Now, even the slender hope of changing the country's direction through the ballot box could be extinguished by the machine that records your vote, or more to the point, doesn't record your vote. During the tense months of wrangling that follwed the 2000 elextion, the corporate press steered clear of the allegations that election fraud was committed by the Bush campaign and focussed instead on the mechanics of voting equipment, hanging chads and pregnant chads. Congress, taking a cue from the press, instead of focussing on the misconduct of officails from the lowest level to the people on the top court, decided to foreveer vanquish the hanging chad by drafting a piece of legislation called The Help America Vote Act, HAVA that would fund the installation of high- tech touch screen voting machines across the nation. These machines are touted as cost effective and labor saving, as well as being a boon to blind people or those who would prefer a ballot in a language other than English. But computer scientists are raising the alarm that these voting machines' most salient feature is the ease with which elections could be rigged and the difficulity of detecting tamperingr before or after the fact. In the first hout computer scientist Barbara Simons explains the dangers of computerised voting. In the second hour Smithy looks at the mortgage industy's exploitation of the poor, with another edition of the Wuzards of Money

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2003-7-22T23:00:30-08:002003-7-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/163#2

Free and fair elections are the basis for America's claim to democracy. Our electoral process is manipulated in a variety of ways that result in a government that arguably fails to reflect the needs of most of us. Reformers who seek to redress this state of affairs hang their hopes on somehow being able to wrest elections back from the corporate money stream. Now, even the slender hope of changing the country's direction through the ballot box could be extinguished by the machine that records your vote, or more to the point, doesn't record your vote. During the tense months of wrangling that follwed the 2000 elextion, the corporate press steered clear of the allegations that election fraud was committed by the Bush campaign and focussed instead on the mechanics of voting equipment, hanging chads and pregnant chads. Congress, taking a cue from the press, instead of focussing on the misconduct of officails from the lowest level to the people on the top court, decided to foreveer vanquish the hanging chad by drafting a piece of legislation called The Help America Vote Act, HAVA that would fund the installation of high- tech touch screen voting machines across the nation. These machines are touted as cost effective and labor saving, as well as being a boon to blind people or those who would prefer a ballot in a language other than English. But computer scientists are raising the alarm that these voting machines' most salient feature is the ease with which elections could be rigged and the difficulity of detecting tamperingr before or after the fact. In the first hout computer scientist Barbara Simons explains the dangers of computerised voting. In the second hour Smithy looks at the mortgage industy's exploitation of the poor, with another edition of the Wuzards of Money

Robin Uptonhttp://RobinUpton.comunwelcome-via-atom@unwelcomeguests.net2003-7-22T23:00:30-08:002003-7-22T23:00:30-08:00http://unwelcomeguests.net/162#1

The war on drugs is the prototype for the endless war, providing an expansion in dictatorial powers for government under the cover of a carefully cultivated popular hysteria , a formula that has been repeated in the war on terrorism. Drug prohibition has the effect of keeping the prices of drugs high so those who do traffic in them may derive maximum financial benefit. On the program tonight you'll hear an explanation for why there are as many drugs for sale as ever, in spite of billions of taxpayer dollars spent on this endless war,. In our first hour, you'll hear allegations that highly placed officials in the US government are engaged in drug trafficking in order to generate an off the books stream of cash which has been used to fund a variety of assassinations and covert wars on every continent in order to further the process of corporate globalization. This is not a new story, it's just a suppressed story that remains a relatvant as ever, especially to those it continues to victimize. As a result of the eruption of the Iran Contra scandal in the late 1980's , persistent stories surfaced that covert operatives in the Reagan Bush administration were openly colaborating with drug traffickers. Community leaders were asserting that the crack epidemic raging in their cities was the reult of intentional importation of drugs by the same US government that was then arresting the people they'd hooked Journalists who took on the story, most notably Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News, had their careers destroyed. . Earlier, The Chrisitic Intstititue, a public interest law firm, tried to sue various high placed Reagan.Bush officials for their role in drug and gun running to fund illegal wars in Central America, But, they were never allowed to bring their case to trial. Instead, they were fined more than a million dollars for filing a "frivilous suit" which put the small non-profit group out of business. Many of the people named in that suit, or subsequently indicted as a result of a relatively feeble congressional invistagtion, are once again top jobs in the current administration. Tonight we're going to hear about one of them, deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, now , Colin Powell's #2 man. Meanwhile, about half of Americas 2 million prisoners are in jail because of charges relating in some way to the drug war - most of these prisoners of the drug war are poor and black or brown. Theri lives and their families lives have been ruined . As you will hear in our final hour, the corruption of the drug war trickles down in little ways even to Auburn, NY, were these drug prisoners esentially become slaves, with no means of redress against predatory prison guards...

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The war on drugs is the prototype for the endless war, providing an expansion in dictatorial powers for government under the cover of a carefully cultivated popular hysteria , a formula that has been repeated in the war on terrorism. Drug prohibition has the effect of keeping the prices of drugs high so those who do traffic in them may derive maximum financial benefit. On the program tonight you'll hear an explanation for why there are as many drugs for sale as ever, in spite of billions of taxpayer dollars spent on this endless war,. In our first hour, you'll hear allegations that highly placed officials in the US government are engaged in drug trafficking in order to generate an off the books stream of cash which has been used to fund a variety of assassinations and covert wars on every continent in order to further the process of corporate globalization. This is not a new story, it's just a suppressed story that remains a relatvant as ever, especially to those it continues to victimize. As a result of the eruption of the Iran Contra scandal in the late 1980's , persistent stories surfaced that covert operatives in the Reagan Bush administration were openly colaborating with drug traffickers. Community leaders were asserting that the crack epidemic raging in their cities was the reult of intentional importation of drugs by the same US government that was then arresting the people they'd hooked Journalists who took on the story, most notably Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News, had their careers destroyed. . Earlier, The Chrisitic Intstititue, a public interest law firm, tried to sue various high placed Reagan.Bush officials for their role in drug and gun running to fund illegal wars in Central Ame