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The new director of national intelligence has told Congress that the global economic crisis is the most serious security peril facing the U.S.   We hear why.  PLUS: it's not just what he says, but how he says it: the Obama Code. 

With host Kris Welch.

guests: Michael Klare, prof. Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College

          George Lakoff, prof. Cognitive Science and Linguistics, UCB

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Joel Kovel, author of "Overcoming Zionism", has been fired from Bard College. We discuss why.  Plus: we talk with young leaders on their way to D.C. to demand urgent action on climate and energy.  PLUS: Prathap Chatterjee on Obama and Afghanistan.

Guests:

Joel Kovel, professor of social studies at Bard College for over 20 years, fired this month; author "Overcoming Zionism."

Julian McQueen, field organizer, Green for All.

Nina Rizzo, California Freedom from Oil Campus Organizer, Global Exchange.

Prathap Chatterjee, award-winning journalist; author (Iraq Inc.; Halliburton's Army).

With host Kris Welch.

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ACORN in Oakland, on the national day of foreclosure blockades.  Plus, Mitch Jeserich, back from DC, with his up-close-and-personal report on the Obama administration. PLUS: Stimulate this: the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and its impact on low-income women.

Guests:

Bill Chorneau, ACORN Oakland.
Mitch Jeserich, KPFA's Letters from Washington host/producer.
Isarema Garza, pres. Legal Momentum (US's oldest legal advocacy org. for women and girls); former head Dept. of Labor's Women's Bureau under Clinton.

With host Kris Welch.

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This one takes a listen to more of the cut up and music collage work being done in 1988 – a fantasy radio show that could have happened on radio in ’88, but seldom did. Lots of the pioneers and then current pieces of sampled music and manipulated found sound that was rockin’ on in ’88. Pop radio and it’s content intrude throughout just to remind you what was real at the time.

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A new boxed-set collection from Pema Chodrin, much-loved American Buddhist teacher.

With host Kris Welch.

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California counties in desperate financial straits; successful uprising against militarization in Hawaii.

With host Kris Welch.
Guests:

Keith Carson, Alameda county supervisor.
John Goia, Contra Costa county supervisor.
Jerry Mander, dir. International Forum on Globalization; author.

Koohan Paik, Hawaiian activist; award-winning filmmaker.

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