Alternative Radio episodes:

• October 11, 2022Noam Chomsky - Notes on Resistance

  Resistance. How does one move from a position of dissent to resistance,

  direct action? As a political tactic resistance requires careful thought and

  must be freely undertaken. Practitioners include most famously Gandhi and Dr.

  King. It can come with a price. Both Gand...

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• October 04, 2022A Tribute to social critic, journalist, feminist and Reed College alum Barbara Ehrenreich

  Barbara Ehrenreich was a renowned social critic, journalist, feminist and

  author. She was born in Butte, Montana and studied chemistry at Reed College

  in Portland. She later received a Ph.D in cellular immunology at Rockefeller

  University in New York City. She left a ...

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• September 06, 2022Henry Giroux: The Attack on Public Education

  These are difficult times for public education. It is under political attack

  by what noted educator and scholar Henry Giroux calls the apostles of

  authoritarianism. Professor Giroux says, Public schools, more than ever, are

  subject to the toxic forces of privatization...

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• August 23, 2022Howard Zinn on American Exceptionalism

  In classic imperialist style, the U.S. exempts itself from the standards that

  it applies to others. This is a fundamental tenet of American exceptionalism.

  International law? Only for designated enemies, not for Washington and its

  vassals. Obey the master or face the ...

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• August 16, 2022Noam Chomsky - Chronicles of Dissent

  In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. King memorably said: We are caught

  in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

  Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Our present

  precarious circumstances make Dr. Kings words...

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• August 09, 2022Alternative Radio

  Congress shall make no lawabridging freedom of speech. There it is. Plain and

  simple. The First Amendment to the Constitution. But since 9/11 that

  amendment has been under sustained attack. Whistleblowers John Kiriakou,

  Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden,...

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• September 24, 2019The State/Finance Nexus

  The contemporary capitalist economic system has an extraordinary component to

  it. That is the connection between the government, and the financial sector,

  the big banks. What banks? The Big 5 are JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America,

  Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. ...

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• September 17, 2019Beyond Money

  Money, you know, is the root of all evil. The pursuit of it no matter the

  consequences has led to us, as the New York Timesdescribes it, “speeding

  toward environmental catastrophe.” Unregulated predatory capitalism and its

  obsession with generating profits no matter t...

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• September 10, 2019Fixing Democracy

  Around the world democracy is in trouble. Autocrats have come to power. In

  the U.S. democracy is compromised by a political system awash in money,

  gerrymandering, voter suppression and that absurd relic, the electoral

  college. One of the principal designers of the U.S...

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• August 27, 2019The Working Class

  Warren Buffett, the much-admired genius investor and one of the world’s

  richest men said, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class,

  the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” And who are the

  losers? The working class, people who work for an hou...

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