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The Oregon Guard Home Campaign - Update on Efforts to Block Deployment of National Guard Troops to Iraq and Afghanistan

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
KBOO's public affairs host William Seaman interviews Dan Handelman about the campaign to keep Oregon's National Guard troops from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan ... how close is the vote in the Oregon House and Senate on legislation aimed at challenging the federalizati... Read more

Enhanced Interrogation is Torture

Airs at: Wed, 05/27/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for: 
Waterboarding, Torture or Enhanced interrogation ? What about the men and women who authorized it?  Are they criminals or Public Servants protecting America? Should they be held accountable? If so, then how? Should it be by a court or panel?  On this show we listen to the v... Read more

Rawandan War Crimes Tribunal

Airs at: Thu, 05/21/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Canadian courts have, for the first time, convicted someone for war crimes committed in another country. Though the Canadian government is not calling their law ‘Universal Jurisdiction’, today’s ruling has a lot of similarities with a Spanish law that has allowed that count... Read more

Amnesia on Memorial Day

Airs at: Sun, 05/24/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Well-read Red Frann Michel reminds us of many things President Obama forgot to remember in the traditional Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, and concludes with an anti-war poem by Adrienne Rich.  You can read her comments, with links to her sources, here.   Read more

The Curious Case of the Cowardly War-Mongers

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2009 at 5:00pm
 Hosts Abe Proctor and Joe Uris solve the Curious Case of the Cowardly War-Mongers!!! Closing the Guantanamo Bay gulag would be nice and all, but not if we have to bring the terrorists back to the United States! Apparently they're all 10 feet tall with various mutant supe... Read more

Sri Lankan Tiger Genocide

Airs at: Sun, 05/10/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  The Sri Lankan government has been on a campaign to eliminate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (or Tamil Tigers) with no regard to the civilian population caught in the crossfire. With virtually all independent news sources banned from the area, accurate news report... Read more

Protesters appeal AIPAC to stop funding Israel

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  The American Israel Public Affairs Committee recently concluded their annual convention in Washington DC, with hundreds of lobbyists visiting Congressional offices. This year, they were met by protesters calling for equal rights for the Palestinian people. KBOO’s Jenka ... Read more

Let's Connect the Torture Dots back to ... (wait for it) Dick Cheney!

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2009 at 5:00pm
 Abe and Joe connect the torture dots back to ... (wait for it) Dick Cheney! Abe and Joe examine new revelations in the ongoing U.S. torture scandal that lead directly to former Vice President Cheney. But we already knew that. Also, an LNG update and a look at the health c... Read more

Israeli Nuclear arms pose threat to Middle East.

Airs at: Sun, 05/17/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  A recent study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies examined the possibility of an Israeli nuclear strike on Iran. The study found that an Israeli show of force towards Iran is not entirely out of the question in the coming two years. But neither Barack ... Read more

Dubya, Hammer of God

May 18, 2009 Remember, back in those nightmare years surrounding the initial invasion and occupation of Iraq? Remember when we would speculate, half in jest, that Dubya was an unhinged, end-times, Book-of-Revelation, whackjob war leader? That he was, ha-ha, doing God's work... Read more