Since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise disturbing connections to the past. On this week’s show, we’ll hear about hard fought battles for voting rights and the implications of new laws. Featuring: Reverend Tyrone Edwards, civil rights historian in Plaquemines Parish … Continued
Lead the Way Out of the Interrogation Room: Will American Psychological Assoc. End Role in Torture? James Risen: In Sharp Break from Past, APA Set to Vote on Barring Psychologists from Interrogations; Gitmo is a “Rights-Free Zone”: Dissident Psychologists Speak Out on APA Role in CIA-Pentagon Torture; First Republican Debate of 2016 Presidential Race Kicks … Continued
Lead the Way Out of the Interrogation Room: Will American Psychological Assoc. End Role in Torture? James Risen: In Sharp Break from Past, APA Set to Vote on Barring Psychologists from Interrogations; Gitmo is a “Rights-Free Zone”: Dissident Psychologists Speak Out on APA Role in CIA-Pentagon Torture; First Republican Debate of 2016 Presidential Race Kicks … Continued
Tonight, we mark the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. We bring you interviews and sound from a demonstration that took place at the gates of the Livermore nuclear weapons lab, one of the world’s primary design labs for nuclear weapons, where the U.S. is presently spending billions … Continued
We speak with Jamala Rogers the author of the new book Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion. Also Poor News Network brings us insight to the plight of the economically challenged in America. http://fergusonamerica.com/ Jamala currently resides in St. Louis, MO where she has devoted all of her adult life to creating a child-centered, family-oriented … Continued
Seventy years ago, the United States became the first and only country to use a nuclear weapon in warfare. We’ll chronicle the mobilization of scientists, money, and industry that made the bomb possible; how that created a political juggernaut that secured more and more money for military research, even in peacetime—and how it all started … Continued
Japanese Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe on 70th Anniv. of US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; On Hiroshima Anniv. Peacemakers March on Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab, Birthplace of Atomic Bomb.
An update on TPP Negotiations with Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of the Citizens Trade Campaign. The United States along with the government of the Philippines has been conducting its ‘War on Terrorism’ in the Southern Philippino Island of Mindanau over the past decade and a half. We’ll talk about resistance movements with Amirah Ali Lidasan, Filipino Muslim … Continued
Front groups, hidden videos, stolen identities – we’ll talk to an investigative journalist who’s been digging into the shadowy operation behind the effort to bring down Planned Parenthood. Plus: George Khoury wanted to visit the place he grew up – but upon his arrival to Ben Gurion Airport he wound up harassed, detained, and deported. We’ll … Continued
Juan González: Puerto Rico’s Economic “Death Spiral” Tied to Legacy of Colonialism; Give Us the Ballot: The Struggle Continues 50 Years After Signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; The Making of Leopoldo López: An Investigation into Venezuela’s Most Prominent Opposition Figure.
