War/Peace

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Old Mole Variety Hour for November 24, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 11/23/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this program has discussions of the collapsing economy, the politics of humor and irony in popular entertainment, and the situation in Afghanistan. To hear the whole show, click on the arrow above.  To hear individual pieces, follow the links ... Read more

Afghanistan & Obama

Airs at: Sun, 11/23/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge  reads from several sources about how difficult it would be for the Obama administration to control Afghanistan.   See especially "The Coming Catastrophe: the American War in Afghanistan and Pakistan" by Richard Tanter.   Read more

Michael Schwartz, author of War Without End

Airs at: Tue, 11/18/2008 at 4:00pm
Members of Northwest Vets for Peace interview Michael Schwartz, author of War Without End: the Iraq War in Context. Michael Schwartz, professor of sociology and faculty director of the Undergraduate College of Global Studies at Stony Brook University, has written extensive... Read more

Obama and the Congo

Airs at: Wed, 11/05/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The conflict in the Congo, in central Africa, continues to be one of the most violent and ongoing wars on the planet.  With a new administration coming in, some Congolese activists see hope on the horizon. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with Kambale Musavuli, a student in Nort... Read more

Peter Erlinder on Congo

Airs at: Wed, 11/12/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Per Fagereng speaks with Peter Erlinder about Rwanda and the war in eastern Congo Read more

Hunger Strike for Oregon National Guard

Airs at: Mon, 11/10/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Michele Darr is in the same spot she has been for the past eleven days; camping and on hunger strike at the steps of governor Ted Kulongoski’s office in salem.   She wants a meeting with the governor and a chance to dissuade him from sending oregon's National Guard to serve... Read more

The Decider

 Apropos of my post below, Obama is planning to review the plethora of onerous executive orders issued by President Bush: President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is... Read more

Back from the brink

 While I'm still processing the full import of Obama's win -- I'll blog about it more later -- one very, very encouraging item that's popped up is his intention to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. From Spencer Ackerman:   Less than a week after his election, and more than... Read more

Lyn Moelich Interviews Michael Mead & Veterens on Welcome Home Project

Airs at: Thu, 11/06/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
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End of the Republican era

 The always-excellent Sidney Blumenthal, writing in the Guardian: Today's election is poised to end the Republican era in American politics - an era that began in reaction to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the Vietnam war and the civil rights revolution, was pioneered by Ri... Read more