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Noam Chomsky - Taking Control of Our Lives
02 Dec, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
On the occasion of Noam Chomsky’s 96th birthday on December 7, we are honored to broadcast for the first time this classic recording of a talk he gave in Albuquerque in the year 2000. Many of the issues he addressed then remain salient today. Chomsky says that the right of sovereignty is fundamental to the task of taking control of...
02 Dec, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
On the occasion of Noam Chomsky’s 96th birthday on December 7, we are honored to broadcast for the first time this classic recording of a talk he gave in Albuquerque in the year 2000. Many of the issues he addressed then remain salient today. Chomsky says that the right of sovereignty is fundamental to the task of taking control of...
Koohan Paik-Mander - Algorithms, Digital Technologies & Warfare
25 Nov, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Algorithms, the dictionary tells us, are a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by computer. Sounds innocuous enough. But hang on. It has a dark side. Algorithms can make mistakes due to biases, poor design, coding errors, or flawed assumptions. They can collect and process large amounts of personal data which can...
25 Nov, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Algorithms, the dictionary tells us, are a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by computer. Sounds innocuous enough. But hang on. It has a dark side. Algorithms can make mistakes due to biases, poor design, coding errors, or flawed assumptions. They can collect and process large amounts of personal data which can...
Francesca Albanese - Anatomy of a Genocide: Gaza
18 Nov, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Francesca Albanese of the UN says, “Gaza is now a wasteland of rubble, garbage and human remains.” And it may be worse than that. In the litany of crimes genocide is the most heinous. Omer Bartov, Brown University genocide scholar and former Israeli military officer in November 2023, a month after the October 7 attack on Israel said, “There is...
18 Nov, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Francesca Albanese of the UN says, “Gaza is now a wasteland of rubble, garbage and human remains.” And it may be worse than that. In the litany of crimes genocide is the most heinous. Omer Bartov, Brown University genocide scholar and former Israeli military officer in November 2023, a month after the October 7 attack on Israel said, “There is...
Naomi Klein – What Are We Going to Do?
11 Nov, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The day after the Trump election, the New York Times wrote: “America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year-old history.” For many, the results of November 5th confirmed the view that we are in dark times. So, the big question is: what are we going to do? We can wallow in self-pity and depression,...
11 Nov, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The day after the Trump election, the New York Times wrote: “America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year-old history.” For many, the results of November 5th confirmed the view that we are in dark times. So, the big question is: what are we going to do? We can wallow in self-pity and depression,...
P. Sainath - Gagging Democracy India-Style
04 Nov, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
India, the world's most populous country, is ruled by Narendra Modi who is the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP. He first became prime minister in 2014 and has been reelected twice since though in 2024 with much lower margins. Before coming to power in Delhi he was chief minister of the state of Gujarat where he presided...
04 Nov, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
India, the world's most populous country, is ruled by Narendra Modi who is the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP. He first became prime minister in 2014 and has been reelected twice since though in 2024 with much lower margins. Before coming to power in Delhi he was chief minister of the state of Gujarat where he presided...
Brian Klaas - The Wrong People at the Top
28 Oct, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Power. What is it? Political theorist Robert Dahl gave one example. He said, “A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that he would not otherwise do.” Why is it that often that those who are on top are the wrong people? The high rollers and the nabobs lust for power behind...
28 Oct, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Power. What is it? Political theorist Robert Dahl gave one example. He said, “A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that he would not otherwise do.” Why is it that often that those who are on top are the wrong people? The high rollers and the nabobs lust for power behind...
Norman Solomon – War & the Media
21 Oct, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In times of war the corporate media play a salient role in shaping public opinion. There are worthy and unworthy victims. Muslims, Arabs, and Iranians generally fall into that latter category whereas Washington and its allies are worthy victims that we support and empathize with. The current phase of the Gaza war did not begin on October 7 as the...
21 Oct, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In times of war the corporate media play a salient role in shaping public opinion. There are worthy and unworthy victims. Muslims, Arabs, and Iranians generally fall into that latter category whereas Washington and its allies are worthy victims that we support and empathize with. The current phase of the Gaza war did not begin on October 7 as the...
Zachary Lockman – A Brief History of Zionism
14 Oct, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Zion is the name of a hill in ancient Jerusalem. The Jewish nationalist movement coined the term Zionism in the 1890s. Zionism got the big power backing it was looking for when Britain issued the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917. Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary stated: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of...
14 Oct, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Zion is the name of a hill in ancient Jerusalem. The Jewish nationalist movement coined the term Zionism in the 1890s. Zionism got the big power backing it was looking for when Britain issued the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917. Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary stated: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of...
Russell Means – Welcome to the Reservation
07 Oct, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Indigenous communities are among the poorest in the U.S. This is one of many persistent symptoms of the colonial relationship imposed by force upon Indigenous peoples. As famed historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz says, “Neither arcane colonial laws nor the historical trauma of genocide simply disappear with time and certainly not when conditions of life and consciousness perpetuate them.” From the earliest...
07 Oct, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Indigenous communities are among the poorest in the U.S. This is one of many persistent symptoms of the colonial relationship imposed by force upon Indigenous peoples. As famed historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz says, “Neither arcane colonial laws nor the historical trauma of genocide simply disappear with time and certainly not when conditions of life and consciousness perpetuate them.” From the earliest...
Richard Forer – Blaming the Victim: Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
30 Sep, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Blaming the victim is as old as the hills. It occurs when the victim of a crime or tragedy is held at fault for the harm that befell them. In other words, you had it coming to you. The great scholar Edward Said ruefully remarked that the Palestinians were the victims of the victim hence it was very difficult for them to generate...
30 Sep, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Blaming the victim is as old as the hills. It occurs when the victim of a crime or tragedy is held at fault for the harm that befell them. In other words, you had it coming to you. The great scholar Edward Said ruefully remarked that the Palestinians were the victims of the victim hence it was very difficult for them to generate...
Noura Erakat – International Law: Real or Fiction
23 Sep, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine would be described repeatedly as a violation of the "rules-based order." Then a curious thing happened when Israel invaded Gaza in 2023. The term virtually disappeared as the U.S. sought to protect its close ally Israel. But the U.S. itself has a long record of violating the international rules-based order with its own invasions,...
23 Sep, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine would be described repeatedly as a violation of the "rules-based order." Then a curious thing happened when Israel invaded Gaza in 2023. The term virtually disappeared as the U.S. sought to protect its close ally Israel. But the U.S. itself has a long record of violating the international rules-based order with its own invasions,...
Ilan Pappe? – Myths of Israel
16 Sep, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
A myth is a story passed down through generations that attempts to explain the origins of something. The foundational myth of Israel was “a land without people for a people without a land.” That myth had profound consequences that reverberate today. There were people there - the Palestinians. Such myths are characteristic of settler colonial societies such as South Africa, Australia, New...
16 Sep, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
A myth is a story passed down through generations that attempts to explain the origins of something. The foundational myth of Israel was “a land without people for a people without a land.” That myth had profound consequences that reverberate today. There were people there - the Palestinians. Such myths are characteristic of settler colonial societies such as South Africa, Australia, New...
Michael Parenti - Fascism: The False Revolution
02 Sep, 2024 | 0:59:44 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Fascism is a term that is bandied about often rather loosely. Orwell wrote that it is understood to be “something not desirable.” But it is a complex political and economic synergy that has force and nationalism as its animating matrix. And it involves propaganda and the manipulation of the masses by the media. Mussolini, in one of his more honest...
02 Sep, 2024 | 0:59:44 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Fascism is a term that is bandied about often rather loosely. Orwell wrote that it is understood to be “something not desirable.” But it is a complex political and economic synergy that has force and nationalism as its animating matrix. And it involves propaganda and the manipulation of the masses by the media. Mussolini, in one of his more honest...
A Tribute to Barbara Ehrenreich
26 Aug, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Barbara Ehrenreich was a renowned social critic, journalist, feminist and author. She was born in Butte, Montana and studied chemistry at Reed College in Oregon and later received a Ph.D in cellular immunology at Rockefeller University in New York. But she left a possible career in science and teaching to become a seasoned muckraker in the tradition of Ida B....
26 Aug, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Barbara Ehrenreich was a renowned social critic, journalist, feminist and author. She was born in Butte, Montana and studied chemistry at Reed College in Oregon and later received a Ph.D in cellular immunology at Rockefeller University in New York. But she left a possible career in science and teaching to become a seasoned muckraker in the tradition of Ida B....
Jason Stanley - How Fascism Works
19 Aug, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
What is fascism? Michael Parenti, author and historian says, “Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination.” Fascism flourishes in times of economic insecurity and cultural backlash. Opportunistic politicians offer...
19 Aug, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
What is fascism? Michael Parenti, author and historian says, “Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination.” Fascism flourishes in times of economic insecurity and cultural backlash. Opportunistic politicians offer...
Thomas Suárez – Zionism: The Back Story
12 Aug, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The back story in journalism and scholarship uncovers vital information on important issues that had been obscured or omitted. It provides background. For example, the origin of Zionism is usually traced to a pamphlet Theodor Herzl wrote in 1896 called The Jewish State. However, the eminent Israeli scholar Ilan Pappe, writes "Many people do not know that Zionism began as...
12 Aug, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The back story in journalism and scholarship uncovers vital information on important issues that had been obscured or omitted. It provides background. For example, the origin of Zionism is usually traced to a pamphlet Theodor Herzl wrote in 1896 called The Jewish State. However, the eminent Israeli scholar Ilan Pappe, writes "Many people do not know that Zionism began as...
Steven Levitsky - Tyranny of the Minority
05 Aug, 2024 | 0:57:02 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The United States is moving toward a multiracial society. But that demographic development has sparked an authoritarian political backlash. Powerful forces like things just the way they are. Our political system makes the U.S. vulnerable to minority rule. Perhaps the most undemocratic mechanism enabling minority rule is the antiquated Electoral College. No other country has one. The Electoral College has...
05 Aug, 2024 | 0:57:02 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The United States is moving toward a multiracial society. But that demographic development has sparked an authoritarian political backlash. Powerful forces like things just the way they are. Our political system makes the U.S. vulnerable to minority rule. Perhaps the most undemocratic mechanism enabling minority rule is the antiquated Electoral College. No other country has one. The Electoral College has...
Richard Forer - Psychospiritual Roots of the Israel-Palestinian Tragedy
29 Jul, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In Sanskrit, maya means illusion, magic. Maya is at work among people and nations who project carefully crafted positive images of themselves. The U.S. and Israel are no different from other countries. They claim self-defense as they launch massive attacks. They invoke international law when it suits them then ignore it when it doesn’t. Then there’s always the standard line...
29 Jul, 2024 | 0:57:01 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
In Sanskrit, maya means illusion, magic. Maya is at work among people and nations who project carefully crafted positive images of themselves. The U.S. and Israel are no different from other countries. They claim self-defense as they launch massive attacks. They invoke international law when it suits them then ignore it when it doesn’t. Then there’s always the standard line...
Jude Browne - AI’s Promise & Peril
22 Jul, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The rise of AI, artificial intelligence, is a major development in human history. Its ramifications are profound. What is it exactly? AI provides a computer program with the ability to think and learn on its own. It is a simulation of human intelligence into machines to do things that normally humans do. A government advisory committee states that the emergence...
22 Jul, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
The rise of AI, artificial intelligence, is a major development in human history. Its ramifications are profound. What is it exactly? AI provides a computer program with the ability to think and learn on its own. It is a simulation of human intelligence into machines to do things that normally humans do. A government advisory committee states that the emergence...
Naomi Klein - Holocausts: An Historical Reckoning
15 Jul, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Holocaust, derived from the Greek, is a large-scale calamity involving fire. Today, the term is specifically used to describe the German genocide of the Jews. But it has a long history. The European mass murder of Indigenous peoples in North and South America killed 55 million or 90% of the population, between 1492 and 1600, in a little more than one...
15 Jul, 2024 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |
Holocaust, derived from the Greek, is a large-scale calamity involving fire. Today, the term is specifically used to describe the German genocide of the Jews. But it has a long history. The European mass murder of Indigenous peoples in North and South America killed 55 million or 90% of the population, between 1492 and 1600, in a little more than one...
