Political Perspectives

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with writer Roy Scranton about his new book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene.  Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. He explores what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving wor... Read more

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Jon Young says that reconnection with nature helps people build empathy and actually live in their full potential. Ani Raven Haines talks with Young about his work, and an upcoming weekend workshop entitled Music, Nature, and Storytelling.  More information on that worksho... Read more

Radio Ecoshock with host Alex Smith features Michael T. Snyder of the Economic Collapse blog, who explains the warning signs of another Depression. And Yale Professor Tim Snyder discusses the possibility of the return of state-sponsored mass murder as the climate deteriorat... Read more

John Trudell passed away on December 8, 2015, at his home. Today we honor his memory by playing some of his talks, interviews and music. In this hour we will hear "For Future Generations," a talk with poetry recorded on June 12th, 1998 at Westminister Church in Northeast Po... Read more

Doug McVay interviews writer, teacher, and filmmaker Lisa Rein about Aaron Swartz, Edward Snowden, digital privacy, and electronic freedom.  Lisa Rein is a film maker currently working on "From DeadDrop to SecureDrop" about the anonymous upload submission platform originall... Read more

Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with journalist Steven Hill about his new book, Raw Deal: How the "Uber" Economy and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers. Hill challenges conventional thinking about the "sharing economy" by showing why the vision of the ... Read more

Chris Hedges speaks with KBOO's Paul Roland about his latest book, 'Wages of Rebellion', and the state of the world today. As Chris puts it: In the face of modern conditions, revolution is inevitable. The rampant inequality that exists between the political and corporate el... Read more

Listen to the audio of this program Dr. Michael Parenti provides a critique of capitalism as the driving logic of empire, which motivates global exploitation and growing inequality everywhere. While contemporary economics typically defends the benefits of free-market capit... Read more

  A fairly unknown scientist - at least by US standards - took the lime light in major media in the US in September 2015. The New York Times - and also Democracy Now - quoted her this way: “To be blunt: If we burn it all, we melt it all,” said Ricarda Winkelmann, the lead ... Read more