The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

The citizens of Greece this weekend resoundingly rejected their creditors' demands, finally renouncing the poison pill that is austerity economics. An exit from the Eurozone may be the consequence, but Greek courage is a ray of hope for people-centric poltiics and economics. Read more

Abe and Joe take your calls and reflect on one of the best weeks for the left in a long time. ... And liberals -- chill! It's ok to celebrate the victories when they come along. The struggle will still be there when we're through. Read more

Last week, another mass shooting took place in America in which guns, apparently, played no significant part. Also, it was perpetrated in an African American church by a young white supremacist who wanted to start a race war, but it's possible race wasn't his prime motive. ... Read more

Edward Snowden is back in the news after a Sunday Times of London story alleging that Chinese and Russian agents had hacked the cache of top-secret files taken by Snowden. This allegation breaks down under scrutiny, but it begs a number of larger questions: Is Snowden a tra... Read more

You may have heard about the Kurds at some point during the long and bloody War on TerrorTM. They comprise a sizeable ethnic minority, with a distinct language and culture, in parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria -- and have been historically oppressed by majorities in al... Read more

What is the true price of the fossil fuel economy? Far higher than you might think, according to a new analysis from the International Monetary Fund. Not only is fossil fuel extraction subsidized by governments everywhere, but taxpayers end up footing the bill for the exten... Read more

A new book by Tufts University professor Michael Glennon describes an entrenched, mostly hidden bureaucratic apparatus that is our true government -- at least as far as "national security" is concerned. It's this shadow government's implacability, he says, that explains the... Read more

Portland School Board member Steve Buel joins Abe and Joe in studio to talk about the challenges facing the Portland Public Schools district. Read more

Give us the money, Lebowski! It's KBOO's Spring Membership Drive. Why should you support KBOO? Because your grandmother would want you to, and because you can join in conversations like this one with Abe and Joe -- about the treacherous Trans-Pacific Partnership. Read more

Host Joe Uris speaks with Floy Jones and Jeff Boly of Friends of the Reservoirs about the imminent demolition of the 100-year-old Washington Park Reservoirs.  Read more