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299 - Sadism and Empire (From South Dakota to Abu Ghraib)

2011-09-04T12:05:23Z

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{{Episode
|date=2006-03-26
|number=299
|title=Sadism and Empire
|subtitle=From South Dakota to Abu Ghraib
|image=299.jpg
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|summary=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. This week we hear two speakers on the deeper purpose, why it is routine US policy.
|description=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 perennial feature of the military and of societies that glorify the military.
|contributors=[[Andrea Smith]], [[Tim Wise]]
|credits=Thanks to Richard Ingram, Fred Nguyen
}}

[[category:torture]]
[[category:CIA]]
[[category:School_of_the_Americas]]
[[category:imperialism]]
[[category:war_Crimes]]

276 - 9/11 and the Permanent Government (The broader context of 9/11)

2011-09-04T11:51:13Z

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{{Episode
|date=2005-10-16
|number=276
|title=9/11 and the Permanent Government
|subtitle=The broader context of 9/11
|image=276.png
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|summary=This week we hear from [[John Judge]], 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. His talk mentions continuity of governance, and goes over suspicious circumstances surrounding the {{sep11}} attacks, such as the failure of standard operating procedure. He explains why he sees understanding {{sep11}} as a big step towards spreading a real awareness of how US government is operating.
|contributors=[[John Judge]]
|credits=Thanks to [[Mike McCormick]]
}}

[[category:Global_Dominance_Group]]
[[category:2001-09-11]]
[[category:false_Flags]]
[[category:COG]]

275 - High Crimes and War Crimes (Citizen's Tribunal on Iraq, Binghamton, NY)

2011-09-04T11:43:22Z

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{{Episode
|date=2005-10-09
|number=275
|title=High Crimes and War Crimes
|subtitle=Citizen's Tribunal on Iraq, Binghamton, NY
|image=275.jpg
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|summary=This week we hear from the Citizen's Tribunal on Iraq, and reflect on the comparison with the St. Patricks' Day Four. A range of legal experts - who were barred from the trial of the St. Patricks' Day Four - testify to the illegality of the unprovoked invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing war crimes.
|description=
|contributors=[[Scott Horton]], [[John Bonifaz]], [[Gita Gutierrez]], [[Robert Knight]], [[Dahr Jamail]]
|credits=Thanks to Binghamton IMC and Flashpoints
}}

[[category:Iraq]]
[[category:war_Crimes]]
[[category:war_Resistance]]

294 - 9/11 and the Role of the Military (Intimidating the Public, the Congress and the Press)

2011-09-04T11:30:26Z

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{{Episode
|date=2006-02-19
|number=294
|title=9/11 and the Role of the Military
|subtitle=Intimidating the Public, the Congress and the Press
|image=294.jpg
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|summary=Last week's show on the controlled demolition of the world trade center towers on [[category:2001-09-11 | Septmber 11th</th>]] 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. This week we hear a range of speakers on 9/11 and we consider its use as part of a campaign of terror.
|description=In the agri-ecological discipline of permaculture, which I hope to present more about on the show in the coming months, there is a principle that "the problem is the solution". If 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 may be the key to setting free resistance to resurgent fascism in America. Resisting this is the obligation of the American people. 20th 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 1960s plan, created by the pentagon, but 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 1930s 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.
|contributors=[[Philippe Sands]], "George Washington", [[Paul Craig Roberts]], [[George Kenney]], [[David Ray Griffin]]
|credits=Thanks to Active Ingredients, Electric Politics and Channel 4 UK
}}

[[category:2001-09-11]]
[[category:Amerithrax]]
[[category:fascism]]
[[category:militarism]]

274 - Citizen's Tribunal on Iraq from Binghamton, NY (The Diplomatic analysis)

2011-09-04T11:22:29Z

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{{Episode
|date=2005-10-02
|number=274
|title=Citizen's Tribunal on Iraq from Binghamton, NY
|subtitle=The Diplomatic Analysis
|image=274.jpg
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|summary=This week we look at the injustice perpetrated against 4 citizens of conscience who followed their conscience to protest the illegal war in Iraq.
|description=First, the result of the St. Patrick's Day Four trial. Then we hear a citizen's tribunal in Binghamton, New York, on Iraq, chaired by [[James Petras]], who asks how could the St. Patrick's Day Four's public act of peace be charged as a conspiracy and intimidation of public officials? How could starting an unprovoked war against a defenceless country be deemed to be lawful? Ex CIA employee, [[Ray McGovern]] testifies how that when the scare story of the uranium from Niger broke, it was instantly dismissed by his former CIA colleagues as impossible. Nevertheless, it was used to trick congress into supporting the war. [[Ann Wright]], another insider, testifies how she resigned in protest against the unprovoked invasion of Iraq. [[Michael Meacher]] testifies how there was solid evidence that UK and US government were fully aware that there were no weapons of mass destruction. For the second hour, the panellists take questions. For the last 15 minutes, we read an article by [[Charles Shah]], an upper middle class white prisoner sentenced for possession of a controlled substance. He writes about prison subculture and the expensive 'warehousing of offenders' as he refers to prison.
|contributors=[[James Petras]], [[Ray McGovern]], [[Ann Wright]], [[Michael Meacher]], [[Charles Shah]] (reading)
|credits=
}}
[[category:Iraq]]
[[category:war_Crimes]]
[[category:war_Resistance]]
[[category:war_On_Drugs]]
[[category:incarceration]]

291 - The Fascist State of the Union (A Time for Action)

2011-09-04T11:17:43Z

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{{Episode
|date=2006-01-29
|number=291
|title=The Fascist State of the Union
|subtitle=A Time for Action
|image=291.jpg
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|summary=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 security 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 what actions are needed to change it.
|contributors=[[Teresa Grady]] (reading), [[Michael Ratner]], [[Tracy James]], [[Henry Giroux]].
|credits=Thanks to Verna Avery Brown, Pacifica Radio, Slave Revolt Radio, thanks to C.S. Soong for the [[Henry Giroux]] interview.
|description=In our first hour, we start by reading the defiant statement of Teresa Grady, one of the St. Patrick's Day Four. Michael Ratner declares the crimes of the US administration.
[[Tracy James]] of Slave Revolt Radio reports on the "War on Drugs", how police forces have an incentive to make drug crimes a federal crime, since they can seize the property of anyone convicted of a drug offence. We conclude with an interview of [[Henry Giroux]] about the rise of fascism in US.
}}

[[category:fascism]]
[[category:war_On_Drugs]]
[[category:war_Resistance]]

290 - Spy Crimes and Misdimeanors (Excerpts from Conyer's Jan 20 hearings on domestic surveillance and presidential power)

2011-09-04T11:13:40Z

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{{Episode
|date=2006-01-22
|number=290
|title=Spy Crimes and Misdimeanors
|subtitle=Excerpts from Conyer's Jan 20 hearings on domestic surveillance and presidential power
|image=290.jpg
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|summary=This week we hear extracts of "unofficial" hearings that were held on 2006-01-20 in Washington DC into the illegal spying by the Bush administration on dissenters under the guise of the "war on terror".
|contributors=[[John Conyers]], [[Jerrold Nadler]], [[Adam Schiff]], [[Robert Wexler]], [[Chris Van Hollen]], [[Bruce Fein]], [[Jonathan Turley]], [[James Bamford]], [[Kate Martin]], [[Caroline Fredrickson]]
|credits=Thanks to Jim Page and Pacifica Radio
|music= [[Ethan Miller]] and [[Kate Boverman]]
}}

[[category:surveillance]]
[[category:war_On_Terror]]

271 - We Are All Refugees - Disaster, Dissent and the Sabotaged Revolution (Democracy School 2)

2011-09-04T11:08:12Z

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{{Episode
|date=2005-09-11
|number=271
|title=We Are All Refugees - Disaster, Dissent and the Sabotaged Revolution
|subtitle=Democracy School #2
|image=271.png
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|summary=On this, the fourth anniversary of the [[:category:2001-09-11 | US's reichstag fire]], we ask who does the US government work for? First, Andrew Geller investigates why the federal government neglecting to enact plans for saving the residents of New Orleans. Then we hear from the first democracy school in New York state, by Thomas Linzey.
|contributors=[[Thomas Linzey]], [[Andrew Geller]], [[Wayne Madsen]], [[Dennis Bernstein]], [[Jordan Flaherty]], The St. Patrick's Day 4
|credits=Thanks to Andrew Geller and Dennis Bernstein for your brilliant work
}}

[[category:corporate_Law]]
[[category:FEMA]]
[[category:civil_Rights]]
[[category:US Legislation]]
[[category:legal_History]]

288 - Crude Designs on Iraq (Addressing the questions of gangsterism, atrocity and complicity)

2011-09-04T11:06:33Z

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{{Episode
|date=2006-01-08
|number=288
|title=Crude Designs on Iraq
|subtitle=Addressing the Questions of Gangsterism, Atrocity and Complicity
|image=288.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week we start the show with [[Greg Muttit]] unmasking the US designs on Iraq's oil. Then [[Christian Parenti]] speaks on the hypocrisy of the case for the invasion of Iraq. We conclude with a 2005-07-30 keynote speech of [[Dahr Jamail]] to the world tribunal on addressing the war crimes occurring in Iraq, from Fallujah to the use of Depleted Uranium. We conclude by reading [[John Marciano]]'s essay "''Supporting the troops - A Dilemma with many Questions''" on what to do about the illegality of the Iraq war.
|contributors=[[Greg Muttit]], [[Christian Parenti]], [[Dahr Jamail]], [[John Marciano]] (reading)
|credits=Thanks to the LA SoundPosse for the Christian Parenti speech, for http://FlashPoints.net
|music=[[Pierce Woodward]]
}}

[[category:iraq]]
[[category:energy]]
[[category:war Crimes]]
[[category:war_Resistance]]

265 - 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later (Did the Commission get it right?)

2011-09-04T10:55:09Z

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{{Episode
|date=2005-07-31
|number=265
|title=9/11 Commission Report One Year Later
|subtitle=Did the Commission get it right?
|image=265.jpg
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|summary=This week we hear a Capitol hill briefing sponsored by [[Cynthia McKinney]] on the 9/11 cover-up, not a hearing which is covered by the corporate media!
|contributors=[[Cynthia McKinney]], [[Lorie Van Auken]], [[Mel Goodman]], [[John Judge]], [[Mike Ruppert]], [[Wayne Madsen]], [[Ray McGovern]], [[Robert McElvaine]]
|credits=
}}

[[category:2001-09-11]]

256 - The USA - Where we are and Where we are Headed (Doug Dowd Lecture Series 3)

2011-09-04T10:52:50Z

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{{Episode
|date=2005-05-29
|number=256
|title=The USA - Where we are & Where we are Headed
|subtitle=Doug Dowd Lecture Series #3
|image=256.png
|image_caption=
|summary=Radical economist Doug Dowd continues his series on the political economy of the US, this time focussing on the financialization of the economy.
|contributors=[[Doug Dowd]]
|description=Focussing especially on US after WW2, an angry Doug Dowd looks at how the FIRE (financial, insurance, real estate) sector have used political influence to manipulate the economy, capturing the surplus (and then some) to secure their position.

He continues into the second hour, looking at the US global position, and his prognosis is not good. We are in a time of crisis, he concludes.
|credits=Thanks to Michael Slaughter
}}

[[category:debt]]
[[category:economic 'Crisis']]
[[category:inequity]]

247 - The Human Costs of the Iraq War (Reports from Iraq)

2011-09-04T10:26:31Z

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{{Episode
|date=2005-03-27
|number=247
|title=The Human Costs of the Iraq War
|subtitle=Reports from Iraq
|image=247.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=[[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 Peace in 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 Ithaca area for her work toward peace, justice, equity, media reform, electoral reform, and citizen engagement in democracy. In this presentation, taped on 2004-03-19, 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.
|contributors=[[Maura Stephens]], [[Diana Ortiz]], [[Mark Twain]] (reading), The CCCP
|credits=
}}

[[category:elections]]
[[category:peace]]
[[category:fiction]]
[[category:Iraq]]

243 - The Incantations of Whiteness (Ask Black Folks About American Moral Values)

2011-09-04T10:22:54Z

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{{Episode
|date=2005-02-27
|number=243
|title=The Incantations of Whiteness
|subtitle=Ask Black Folks About American Moral Values
|image=243.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week we take a look at the hard edge of Black history: capitalism and slavery, rebellions and resistance. And political prisoners up until the present day with Mama Caleba of Rootwork and Gerald Smith of Slave Revolt Radio.
|contributors=[[Mama Calaeba]], [[Gerald Smith]], [[Mark Twain]] (reading)
|description=In our first hour, we hear a dramatic history of colonialism by Rootwork and Slave Revolt Radio. This emphasises the economic importance of slavery and hearing the manifold justifications offered for the racist policies of exploitation.
In the second hour, we hear about how the US government has used agents provocateurs to oppose organised resistance. We concludes with 30 minutes of reading of ''The Mysterious Stranger'' by [[Mark Twain]].
|credits=
}}

[[category:fiction]]
[[category:colonialism]]
[[category:racism]]
[[category:political_Prisoners]]

245 - Not Their Soldier (War Resistance and Class Consciousness Grows in the US Military Community)

2011-09-04T10:17:14Z

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{{Episode
|date=2005-03-13
|number=245
|title=Not Their Soldier
|subtitle=War Resistance and Class Consciousness Grows in the US Military Community
|image=245.jpg
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|summary=As we hear on the show this week, dissent against the occupation of Iraq is growing within the US Military and their families. Iraq war veterans are speaking out, using words like war crimes, genocide, and imperialism.
|description=In our first hour, we hear from [[Lou Plummer]], a veteran whose son in the military is one of the organizers of a March 19 national anti-war mobilization in Fayetteville, NC. Then we hear [[Jimmy Massey]], former Marine recruiter and Iraq combat veteran who exposes economic conscription, the methodical lies of recruiters and the casual killing of civilians by US troops in Iraq. We conclude with former special forces officer [[Stan Goff]] calling on the Military Community to engage in militant resistance against the war machine.
|contributors=[[Lou Plummer]], [[Jimmy Massey]], [[Stan Goff]]
|credits=Thanks to Brian Russell and Fred Nguyen
}}

[[category:Iraq]]
[[category:war Crimes]]
[[category:war Resistance]]

233 - Community, a Renewable Resource (Peak Oil and Community Solutions, part 4)

2011-09-04T10:07:27Z

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{{Episode
|date=2004-12-18
|number=233
|title=Community, a Renewable Resource
|subtitle=Peak Oil and Community Solutions, part 4
|image=233.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=Our present way of life in America is not sustainable. The question is whether we can make a transition to a graceful and sustainable future society, or descend into energy warlordism. Conservation, limits to growth and consumption and the transition to renewable energy and organic agriculture are some of the necessary approaches to the peak oil discussion. This week on the program we'll the look at the role that our social relations can play in meeting these future challenges - the development of community values and cooperative practices as a tool for living well in a world of scarce resources.
|description=In the first hour of the program, fostering resource conservation through cooperation via intentional communities. In our second hour, how the people of Cuba deindustrialized in the face of sudden politically induced energy scarcity. Both of this week's presentations were recorded at the first US conference on peak oil and community solutions that was held in November 2004 in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
|contributors=[[Harvey Baker]], [[Pat Murphy]]
|credits=
}}

[[category:permaculture]]
[[category:peak_Oil]]
[[category:Cuba]]

231 - Permaculture and Human Culture (Peak Oil and Community Solutions, part 3)

2011-09-04T10:05:23Z

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{{Episode
|date=2004-12-05
|number=231
|title=Permaculture and Human Culture
|subtitle=Peak Oil and Community Solutions, part 3
|image=231.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=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 natural resources and endless growth. And we have heard how our population, technologies, and expectations of bigger and better, are on a collision course with the finite resources of this planet. We hear from [[Ronald Wright]] about mankind's recent evolution, and how it demonstrates the necessity of respecting natural limits.
|description=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 [[:category:permaculture|Permaculture]], a design system that many believe is the perfect tool for transition to the energy descent society.

In our second hour, we hear from [[Ronald Wright]].
|contributors=[[Patricia Allen]], [[Ronald Wright]]
|credits=
}}
[[category:evolution]]
[[category:peak_Oil]]

213 - Some Dare Call It Treason (9/11: New Pearl Harbor. Reichstag Redux, or "Intelligence Failure"?)

2011-09-04T10:02:53Z

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{{Episode
|date=2004-07-22
|number=213
|title=Some Dare Call It Treason
|subtitle=9/11: New Pearl Harbor. Reichstag Redux, or "Intelligence Failure"?
|image=213.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary= In the first hour, an extensive interview with [[David Ray Griffin]], author of "The New Pearl Harbor" that looks at 40 different points that reveal the inconsistencies in the US Government/establishment version of the events surrounding the attacks of 9/11/2001. Griffin's book is making its way up the best seller lists, in spite of what appears to be a media blackout on his (and anyone's) work in this area.

In the second hour, [[Robert Bowman]], President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies, a former US fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, discusses the issue of the failure of fighter jets to intercept the hijacked planes used in the 9/11 attack, and he puts the events of that day in the context of American geopolitics. He spoke Phase 2 of the International Grassroots Inquiry in the Unanswered Questions of 9/11 held in Toronto in late May 2004.
|contributors=[[David Ray Griffin]], [[Maria Gilardin]], [[Robert Bowman]]
|credits=Thanks to [http://911inquiry.org 911inquiry.org] and [[TUC Radio]]
}}

[[category:2001-09-11]]

213 - Some Dare Call It Treason (9/11: New Pearl Harbor. Reichstag Redux, or "Intelligence Failure"?)

2011-09-04T09:01:57Z

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222 - I Kill Therefore I Am (Deception, Self-Deception and the Quest for Empire)

2011-09-04T09:00:59Z

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{{Episode
|date=2004-09-26
|number=222
|title=I Kill Therefore I Am
|subtitle=Deception, Self-Deception and the Quest for Empire
|image=222.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=Canadian philosopher [[John McMurtry]] speaks on the "ruling group mind" and the suppression of truth, then [[Bruce Gagnon]] talks about the plans to take the American Empire beyond the bounds of Earth with space-based weaponry, all being developed under the cover of "fighting terrorism," the latest excuse. He reveals the Nazi roots of the US space program, that flaunts the title "Masters of Space."
|contributors=[[John McMurtry]], [[Bruce Gagnon]]
|credits=
}}

[[category:psychopathy]]
[[category:star_Wars]]
[[category:global_Dominance_Group]]

136 - High Crimes (The Case for Impeachment of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft)

2011-09-04T08:52:20Z

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{{Episode
|date=2002-10-12
|number=136
|title=High Crimes
|subtitle=The Case for Impeachment of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft
|image=136.png
|image_caption=
|summary=[[Francis Boyle]], a professor of international law, discusses impeachable actions by US administration and volunteers his legal services to any member of Congress willing to file articles of impeachment (with Kellia Ramares) and [[Nafeez Ahmed]], author of ''The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked September 11th, 2001'' talks about what the US government knew about 9/11 and when.
|contributors=[[Francis Boyle]], [[Nafeez Ahmed]]
|credits=
}}

[[category:impeachment]]
[[category:war_Crimes]]
[[category:2001-09-11]]

141 - Abolishing Corporate Personhood (Origins of Impact Corporate Persons)

2011-09-04T08:42:40Z

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{{Episode
|date=2002-11-16
|number=141
|title=Abolishing Corporate Personhood
|subtitle=Origins of Impact Corporate Persons
|image=141.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=The power of corporations to control or manipulate every aspect of our lives has led a growing number of people to identify the legal rights of corporations as one of the key obstacles to a democratic society. This week we look at what is called 'corporate personhood' - how it came about, what its impact has been and the movement to abolish it.
|contributors=[[Thom Hartmann]], WILF
|credits=
}}

[[category:legal_History]]
[[category:corporate_Law]]

211 - The Weather Report From Hell (Climate Change and the War Machine)

2011-09-04T08:31:00Z

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{{Episode
|date=2004-07-11
|number=211
|title=The Weather Report From Hell
|subtitle=Climate Change and the War Machine
|image=211.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week we look at the reality and politics of managing climate change, and the role of US military experiments in catastrophic weather events.
|description=We begin this week's show with a conversation with [[Mark Lynas]], environmental activist turned author, on his new book that documents first hand accounts of global climate change already underway. Then, we learn how US Military experiments in Alaska that may already be contributing to weather disasters. Last February Nick Begich spoke at the 3rd Annual Sustainable Living Conference about a massive US Military antenna array called HAARP and related military technologies that are having/could have catastrophic effects on planetary systems.

Begich is the eldest son of the late United States Congressman from Alaska, Nick Begich Sr. He was twice elected President of both the Alaska Federation of Teachers and the Anchorage Council of Education. Begich received his doctorate in traditional medicine from The Open International University for Complementary Medicines in November 1994. He has been pursuing independent research in the sciences and politics for most of his adult life. He is also the editor of Earthpulse Flashpoints, a new-science book series. Begich has served as an expert witness and speaker before the European Parliament. He has spoken on various issues for groups representing citizen concerns, statesmen and elected officials, scientists and others. He is the author of several books about secret military technologies including: Angel’s Don’t Play this HAARP, Earth Rising, and Towards a New Alchemy.
|contributors=[[Mark Lynas]], [[Nick Begich]]
|credits=
}}

[[category:climate_Change]]
[[category:war]]
[[category:technology]]

207 - 9/11 as a "False Flag" Operation (Part 5 of the International Inquiry into the Unanswered Questions of 9/11)

2011-09-04T07:44:01Z

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{{Episode
|date=2004-06-13
|number=207
|title=9/11 as a "False Flag" Operation
|subtitle=Part 5 of the International Inquiry into the Unanswered Questions of 9/11
|image=207.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=From the 2004-02 San Francisco Conference, [[Mya Shone]] and [[Ralph Schoenman]] placing the 9/11 attacks in the context of the long history of False Flag operations carried out by the US government.
|contributors=[[Mya Shone]], [[Ralph Schoenman]]
|credits=Thanks to [[TUC Radio]] for the recordings
|music=[[David Rovics]]
}}

[[category:2001-09-11]]
[[category:False Flags]]

159 - The WTO, Biotechnology and Agri-Imperialism (The Economics and Politics of Hunger)

2011-09-04T07:40:31Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-03-22
|number=159
|title=The WTO, Biotechnology and Agri-Imperialism
|subtitle=The Economics and Politics of Hunger
|image=159.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week, we look at the politics of hunger. Why, given that enough food is produced to feed 9 billion people sufficiently, are so many people going hungry? The big lie of the agribusiness industry is that they are interested in tackling hunger. The market system itself reveals this. Markets are only interested in meeting the needs of those who have money. We begin with an interview of [[Luke Anderson]] about the international meeting in Sacramento about food trade policies such as pushing genetic engineering and privatisation of water on the nations of the south.
|contributors=[[George Naylor]], [[Luke Anderson]], [[Percy Schmeiser]], [[Vandana Shiva]]
|credits=
}}

[[category:genetic_Engineering]]
[[category:food]]
[[category:agribusiness]]
[[category:WTO]]

203 - International Inquiry into the 9/11 Cover Up (1) (Presentation from the event held in San Francisco March 28-28, 2004)

2011-09-04T07:40:08Z

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{{Episode
|date=2004-01-24
|number=203
|title=International Inquiry into the 9/11 Cover Up (1)
|subtitle=Presentation from the event held in San Francisco March 28-28, 2004
|image=203.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=The corporate media has failed to ask the most basic questions of the September 11th attacks, and has unquestioning accepted the official conspiracy theory. This week on the show we bring you coverage of an important citizens enquiry, which went unreported by the corporate media.
|contributors=[[Nichols Levis]], [[Barrie Zwicker]], [[Gray Brechin]], [[Webster Tarpley]]
|description=In our first hour, [[Nichols Levis]] speaks about how he first became suspicious of the events of 9-11 after understanding the US' long history of double dealing and double talking. [[Barrie Zwicker]] speaks on "where we are now" and [[Gray Brechin]] on the great lies of US history.
|credits=
}}

[[category:2001-09-11]]

162 - Full Spectrum Hypocrisy (The Drug War as a long-time tool of American Empire)

2011-09-04T07:27:54Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-04-12
|number=162
|title=Full Spectrum Hypocrisy
|subtitle=The Drug War as a long-time tool of American Empire
|image=162.png
|image_caption=
|summary=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. This week 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.
|description=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 relevant 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 collaborating with drug traffickers. Community leaders were asserting that the crack epidemic raging in their cities was the result 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 or even their very lives destroyed. Earlier, The Chrisitic Instititue, 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 "frivolous 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 investigation, are once again top jobs in the current administration. We 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. Their 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 essentially become slaves, with no means of redress against predatory prison guards...

|contributors=[[Jeff Blackburn]], [[Dean Becker]], Bo Gritz, [[Kwaku Person-Lynn]], Shicon
|credits=
}}

[[category:war_On_Drugs]]
[[category:CIA]]
[[category:incarceration]]

161 - Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness (Alienating the "Unalienable")

2011-09-04T07:23:01Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-04-05
|number=161
|title=Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness
|subtitle=Alienating the "Unalienable"
|image=161.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=A look at new visions of the "American Way of Life" in the context of ecological and economic realities, past and present.
|description=We start our show this week with an interview with Richard Heinberg on the coming tidal wave of Peak Oil, who shares his indignation at the news blackout surrounding peak oil. He recommends the shutting down of advertising and other such methods of promoting consumerism.
Then we hear an interview from [[Jeff Gates]], author of ''Democracy at Risk, Rescuing Main St. from Wall St. - A Populist's Vision for the 21st Century''. Sue Supriano interviews him on whether capitalism could be made sane by reforms.

In our second hour, we hear an interview with Michael Leibowitz on Marx' perspective on capitalism and technological development. Why do people not understand the nature of capitalism exploitation, he asks, answering that people confuse money with real wealth. Our second hour concludes with a speech by Bill Moyers on the inequity of capitalism in North America, and the need to stand up and oppose it.
|contributors=[[Richard Heinberg]], [[Jeff Gates]], [[Michael Leibowitz]], [[Bill Moyers]]
|credits=Thanks to [[Mike McCormick]] for the [[Richard Heinberg]] interview
}}
[[category:predatory_Capitalism]]
[[category:lifestyle_Change]]
[[category:inequity]]
[[category:transition]]
[[category:Peak_Oil]]

198 - Know Where You Stand and Stand There! (The St. Patrick's Day Four and Civil Resistance)

2011-09-04T07:22:17Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-12-20
|number=198
|title=Know Where You Stand and Stand There!
|subtitle=The St. Patrick's Day Four and Civil Resistance
|image=198.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week we hear the voices of the activists, speakers on international law, documenting 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. We conclude the program by reading the second half of chapter 15 of [[Disciplined Minds]], one of the most practically applicable ones in the book, ''Surviving Professional Training With Your Values Intact''.
|description=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 Street at 9 am. The activists, known as the Saint Patrick's Day Four are facing felony charges which carry a maximum four year sentence.

On 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."
|contributors=[[Peter De Mott]], [[Daniel Burns]], [[Clare Grady]], [[Theresa Grady]], [[Leuren Moret]], [[Karen Parker]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|credits=
}}

[[category:war_Crimes]]
[[category:direct_Action]]
[[category:hierarchy]]
[[category:resistance]]

197 - A Feast for the Insubordinate (Dissecting and Resisting the Ideologies of Domination)

2011-09-04T07:17:25Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-12-13
|number=197
|title=A Feast for the Insubordinate
|subtitle=Dissecting and Resisting the Ideologies of Domination
|image=197.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week we give help to those resisting indoctrination. First, we hear [[Noam Chomsky]] on war and the corporate media. Next it is evolutionary biologist [[Richard Lewontin]] on the the use of science to bolster reactionary ideologies. Finally, we begin chapter 15 of [[Disciplined Minds]], one of the most practically applicable ones in the book, entitled ''Surviving Professional Training With Your Values Intact''.
|contributors=[[Noam Chomsky]], [[Richard Lewontin]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|credits=
}}

[[category:war_Propaganda]]
[[category:evolution]]
[[category:Hierarchy]]
[[category:ideology]]

158 - Leverage (Corporations and Social Policy)

2011-09-04T07:15:20Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-03-15
|number=158
|title=Leverage
|subtitle=Corporations and Social Policy
|image=158.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=The history of the rise of corporate influence with [[Thom Hartmann]] and [[The Wizards of Money]] on how oil companies block solutions to climate change.
|description= In the first hour, author and legal scholar [[Thom Hartmann]] talks about the history of the corporation as a legal entity, and how the government and the legal system have fostered the growth of corporate power. This power has in turn, has enabled corporate owners and leaders to determine government policy. Hartman lays out a plan to break this cycle of corporate control in order to make a more truly democratic society possible.

In hour second hour [[Smithy]] from the [[The Wizards of Money]] describes the role of the oil industry in blocking solutions to climate change, and the response to this battle by another powerful corporate sector, the insurance industry.
|contributors=[[Thom Hartmann]], [[Smithy]]
|credits=Thanks to [[Wizards of Money]]
}}

[[category:corporate_Law]]
[[category:climate_Change]]

193 - Subordinating Minds (Academia, Media, Ideology and the Corporate State)

2011-09-04T06:49:15Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-11-15
|number=193
|title=Subordinating Minds
|subtitle=Academia, Media, Ideology and the Corporate State
|image=193.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This we we hear another perspective on the removal of Howard Stern: Bush, Clear Channel and the FCC, then, a class on anarchism fights the administration of the University of Colorado, and an analysis by [[Tracy James]] and [[Gerald Smith]] of [[Slave Revolt Radio]] of what's left out of Henry Louis Gates PBS documentary on the status of Black people in America. And we conclude by reading chapter 13 from [[Disciplined Minds]], entitled ''Subordination''.
|contributors=[[Clayton Duey]], [[Tracy James]], [[Gerald Smith]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|credits=
}}
[[category:media]]
[[category:FCC]]
[[category:obedience]]
[[category:hierarchy]]
[[category:social_Control]]

188 - The Power to Interpret (The Velvet Glove on the Iron Fist)

2011-09-04T06:48:29Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-10-11
|number=188
|title=The Power to Interpret
|subtitle=The Velvet Glove on the Iron Fist
|image=188.png
|image_caption=
|summary=This week we hear an in-depth interview with [[Stan Goff]] that amplifies on the issues raised in last week's talk, and we start reading chapter 10 of [[Disciplined Minds]], entitled ''Examining the [[:category:exams|Examination]]'', which shows the biased ideological nature of professional entry examinations.
|description=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 against which ideas and actions are referenced is also the terrain of communications media and education.

[[Disciplined Minds]], by [[Jeff Schmidt]], the book that I've been reading weekly instalments 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 interview with [[Stan Goff]] that amplifies on the issues raised in his talk, and we start reading chapter 10 from Disciplined Minds, entitled ''Examining the Examination'' 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 field are unlikely to question the domination of society by corporate hierarchies, and the maintenance of those hierarchies by militarism and imperialism.
|contributors=[[Stan Goff]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|credits=
}}
[[category:ideology]]
[[category:metanarratives]]
[[category:militarism]]
[[category:exams]]

188 - The Power to Interpret (The Velvet Glove on the Iron Fist)

2011-09-04T06:44:39Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-10-11
|number=188
|title=The Power to Interpret
|subtitle=The Velvet Glove on the Iron Fist
|image=188.png
|image_caption=
|summary=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 against which ideas and actions are referenced is also the terrain of communications media and education.

[['''Disciplined Minds''']], by [[Jeff Schmidt]], the book that I've been reading weekly instalments 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 interview with [[Stan Goff]] that amplifies on the issues raised in his talk, and we start reading chapter 10 from Disciplined Minds, entitled ''Examining the Examination'' 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 field are unlikely to question the domination of society by corporate hierarchies, and the maintenance of those hierarchies by militarism and imperialism.
|contributors=[[Stan Goff]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|credits=
}}
[[category:ideology]]
[[category:metanarratives]]
[[category:militarism]]
[[category:exams]]

184 - Spells, Counterspells and Viruses of the Mind (Perception and the Social Consensus)

2011-09-04T06:37:38Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-09-13
|number=184
|title=Spells, Counterspells and Viruses of the Mind
|subtitle=Perception and the Social Consensus
|image=184.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week we look at the deep stories people believe to be true about 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?
|description=After [[Richard Dawkins|Dawkins]]' presentation, we finish by concluding chapter 7 of [[Disciplined Minds]], entitled ''Opportunity''.
|contributors=[[Starhawk]], [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Oliver Sacks]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|credits=
}}

[[category:hierarchy]]
[[category:metanarratives]]
[[category:religion]]

183 - Twelve Shovels (The Fascist Heart of Capitalism)

2011-09-04T06:34:58Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-12-21
|number=183
|image=183.jpg
|image_caption=
|title=Twelve Shovels
|subtitle=The Fascist Heart of Capitalism
|contributors=[[Lyn Gerry]], [[Starhawk]], [[Vandana Shiva]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|music=[[Dana Lyons]], [[David Rovics]], [[Ethan Miller]]
|summary=This week on the show we look at the Fascist Heart of Capitalism. Those who seek to rule us, distract us with consumerism, control us by promoting mindless fear, divide by causing us to compete in a structure designed to create scarcity, barrage us with meaningless spectacles to give us the illusion of living or pretend that we share some common bond of Americanness with those who would use us up and throw us away to make a buck...united we stand??? Not hardly. Where are we, what must we do and what might victory look like?
|description=This week [[Lyn Gerry]] starts the show by recounting an anecdote she heard, age 15, about the sadism of guards in the Nazi concentration camp. She likens this to the capitalist model, which forces people to compete against one another by ensuring a perpetual scarcity of money. She then reads an article by [[Starhawk]] about the violent repression used against the anti-FTAA movement in Miami, and how it was effective in uniting resistance.

Then we hear a talk by [[Vandana Shiva]] from 2003-11 on poverty. She discussed how capitalism, because it doesn't accept the value of what is not expressed in financial terms, cannot recognised people's traditional wealth of self-sufficiency, community and harmony with nature. She gives examples of how capitalism and economic 'development' in fact creates absolute (as opposed to culturally defined) poverty. In our second hour, the talk continues, and she explains the corrupt reality of global trade.

We conclude the show with another 30 minutes of reading from chapter 7 of [[Jeff Schmidt]]'s [[Disciplined Minds]], entitled ''Opportunity''.
|prebroadcast=[[506]]
}}

[[category:repression]]
[[category:wage_Slavery]]
[[category:fascism]]
[[category:global_Trade]]
[[category:economic_'Development']]

172 - The Corporate Theft of Water (1) (Recordings from "The Water of Life - Perils and Promise on the 21st Century")

2011-09-04T06:32:12Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-06-21
|number=172
|title=The Corporate Theft of Water (1)
|subtitle=Recordings from "The Water of Life - Perils and Promise on the 21st Century"
|image=172.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=A conference dealing with protecting water as a common resource was held in the Hudson Valley September 4-6, 2003. In this program Robert Kennedy Jr of River Keeper talks about fighting corporate water polluters in the courts, and Tony Clarke of the Polaris Institute of Toronto details the corporations leading the push for the privatization of water.
|contributors=[[Robert Kennedy Jr]], [[Tony Clarke]]
|credits=
}}

[[category:water]]
[[category:legal Resistance]]
[[category:pollution]]
[[category:privatization]]

179 - Commerce and The Subjugation of Thought in America (1) (Systemic corruption in this society where profit is paramount)

2011-09-04T06:29:12Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-08-09
|number=179
|title=Commerce and The Subjugation of Thought in America (1)
|subtitle=Systemic corruption in this society where profit is paramount
|image=179.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=In our first hour this week, we hear media scholar [[Robert McChesney]] and PBS journalist [[Bill Moyers]] speaking at NCMR (the National Conference for Media Reform). In our second hour, we continue reading [[Disciplined Minds]], this week we read chapter 3, ''Insiders, Guests and Crashers''.
|contributors=[[Robert McChesney]], [[Bill Moyers]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|credits=
}}

[[category:Independent Media]]
[[category:society]]
[[category:obedience]]

179 - Commerce and The Subjugation of Thought in America (1) (Systemic corruption in this society where profit is paramount)

2011-09-04T06:23:36Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-08-09
|number=179
|title=Commerce and The Subjugation of Thought in America (1)
|subtitle=Systemic corruption in this society where profit is paramount
|image=179.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=In our first hour this week, media scholar Robert McChesney and PBS journalist BIll Moyers speaking at NCMR (the National Conference for Media Reform). In our second hour, we read chapter 3 of [[Disciplined Minds]], entitled ''Insiders, Guests and Crashers''.
|contributors=[[Robert McChesney]], [[Bill Moyers]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|credits=
}}

[[category:Independent Media]]
[[category:society]]
[[category:obedience]]

168 - The Colony Within (How Neoliberal Economics and Neoconservative Politics Are Turning the US into a banana republic)

2011-09-04T06:21:24Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-05-24
|number=168
|title=The Colony Within
|subtitle=How Neoliberal Economics and Neoconservative Politics Are Turning the US into a banana republic
|image=168.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=The myths and realities 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.
|contributors=[[William Rivers Pitt]]
|credits=
}}

[[category:wage_Slavery]]
[[category:predatory_Capitalism]]
[[category:war_On_Terror]]

178 - Work and Ideology (Professionals Liars in Iraq and US)

2011-09-04T06:02:50Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-08-02
|number=178
|title=Work and Ideology
|subtitle=Professionals Liars in Iraq and US
|image=178.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=In our first hour, we hear about working people in Iraq fighting to form unions in their allegedly liberated country, growing poverty in America, and from [[Karen Kwiatkowski]], a former Pentagon insider who is exposing the administrations' lies about Iraq. In our second hour, we'll focus on the ideological discipline inherent in professional work and how that perpetuates the present system, as we conclude the second chapter of [[Jeff Schmidt]]'s [[Disciplined Minds]], entitled ''Ideological Discipline''.
|description=Paid 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 paid 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 distribution 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 willingly 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.
|contributors=[[David Bacon]], [[Karen Kwiatkowski]], [[Jeff Schmidt]] (reading)
|credits=
}}

[[category:wage_Slavery]]
[[category:Iraq]]
[[category:poverty]]
[[category:ideology]]
[[category:obedience]]

166 - Beyond "The Axis of Evil" (Clarifying the History of US Intervention in Korea)

2011-09-04T05:59:51Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-05-10
|number=166
|title=Beyond "The Axis of Evil"
|subtitle=Clarifying the History of US Intervention in Korea
|image=166.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week on the show we deconstruct the myth of the US as defender of democracy worldwide, by asking why the US had any interest in the communism looking at the events of the Korean peninsular. In our first hour, we hear from [[Brian Willson]], who starts by telling the story of how he was radicalized by discovering the US military's genocidal agenda of bombing villages in Vietnam. He then offers a new perspective on the Korean peninsular and movingly calls for the US population to wake up out of their trance and see what is really happening in the world. Our second hour, [[Han S. Park]], a professor of international relations, on the history of the North Korean regime.
|contributors=[[Brian Willson]], [[Han S. Park]]
|credits=Thanks to [[Mike McCormick]] for the interview of Han S. Park
|description=[[Han S. Park]] explains the great desire of North Korea to acquire domestically produced nuclear weapons, and opines that although strict sanctions have helped to create famine and damage the North Korean economy, they have not undermined the regime's legitimacy and so can not change it. He recommends to the Bush administration a peaceful resolution to the Korean situation and suggests 50 years is enough for the (officially still ongoing) Korean war. He recommends to the US that they accede to North Korean demands and sign a peace treaty. He suggests that the US demand that North Korea unilaterally give up nuclear weapons is unrealistic.
|music=[[David Rovics]]
|prebroadcast=[[529]] and [[531]]
}}

[[category:obedience]]
[[category:war_Resistance]]
[[category:Korean_War]]
[[category:US_Foreign_Policy]]