Global Affairs

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U.S. & Iran: Four Decades of Hostility

Airs at: Tue, 05/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The danger of war between the U.S. and Iran is increasing. U.S. forces virtually surround Iran. And they are being ramped up. In classic gunboat diplomacy a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group is positioned off the coast of Iran. Imagine if Iran had a naval armada off of ... Read more

John Bolton's push for Iran

Airs at: Thu, 05/16/2019 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per Fagereng talks to investigative historian Gareth Porter about John Bolton's push for war with Iran.  Read more

Trump's Attack on State Environmental Regulations

Airs at: Mon, 05/06/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Without giving notice to Tribes, water quality advocates, citizens or fishing families, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to revoke its own 2016 rule that ensures protective standards for Washington State’s citizens. If finalized, the proposed r... Read more

International Harm Reduction

Airs at: Sun, 05/05/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century, former UN official and retired international civil servant Dr. Mary Chinery-Hesse addresses the 2019 International Harm Reduction Conference #HR19 in Porto, Portugal. The audio for this week's Century comes to us courtesy of the Rights Reporter Founda... Read more

BAD News: April 2019 (#21)

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 04/26/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
This 21st edition of BAD News, Angry Voices From Around The World for April, 2019. Download This Episode   If you’d like to get involved in the network or want to hear more – send an email to a-radio-network@riseup.net   The a-radio-network website is currently down ... Read more

Humor, Shaming and Yelling At Racist Dogs w Tom Tanuki

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 04/26/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
Humor, Shaming and Yelling At Racist Dogs w Tom Tanuki On the show this week, Bursts spoke with Tom Tanuki, front man of the group Yelling At Racist Dogs (Y.A.R.D.), a performance anti-fascist group that directs insulting yells at far-right, xenophobic events and speakers. ... Read more

Ganja in Jamaica

Airs at: Sun, 04/28/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century, an interview with the renowned researcher Melanie Dreher, PhD, RN, FAAN. Read more

Portland poet Nastashia Minto, author of "Naked"; and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll be talking with Nastashia Minto, author of the new poetry collection, 'Naked': I never truly understood the beauty of another being until I began to find and love myself. Minto is a Georgia-born African American woman living and working in Portland. Reema Zaman call... Read more

Cottonwood School Student Podcasters

Airs at: Wed, 04/17/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Our Radiozine guests today are a group of 7th and 8th grade students from Portland’s Cottonwood School of Civics and Science, and their Humanities teacher, Emily Conner. The students recently completed podcasts on the topic Globalization and Food, and entered them in the NP... Read more

Zucked by Roger McNamee

Airs at: Fri, 04/12/2019 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
In a New Yorker profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg last September, Evan Osnos writes: “If Facebook were a country, it would have the largest population on earth. More than 2.2 billion people, about a third of humanity, log in at least once a month. That user base h... Read more