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WEEK ENDING 25 JUN 2010

FEATURE STORY

SOUTH OF THE BORDER, THE EMPIRE IS LOSING GROUND
LATIN AMERICA'S POPULIST REVOLUTIONS

Democracy Now — 21 Jun 2010
Oliver Stone's new film, South of the Border, looks at the populist revolutions sweeping the countries in Central and South America—in defiance of the Western empires (especially the US). Joining in the discussing is Tariq Ali. The conversation also covers the complicity of corporate media in misrepresenting the positions taken by Central and South American countries.

Watch  |  Download/Listen   48:53

Referenced items:   (on Amazon.com)
-- Oliver Stone DVDs
-- Books by Tariq Ali

Related GP articles:
-- Diagram of The Powers That Be

GULF OIL DISASTER -- IN DEPTH

PBS NewsHour

Uncertainty Over Health Effects of Oil Cleanup Worry Some Along Gulf — 23 Jun 2010 — Some coastal residents and cleanup workers are concerned that the oil, gas, and chemicals from the Gulf disaster are affecting their health.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   7:45

Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium's Aims, Effectiveness Debated — 22 Jun 2010 — The Obama administration vowed to appeal a federal judge's ruling, blocking the president's efforts to impose a six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling. We get two points of view on the environmental and economic consequences of halting oil exploration in the Gulf.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   11:28

Flashpoints

On-Scene Reports from the Gulf — 23 Jun 2010 — Two reports, from the Florida Keys and from New Orleans, where activists are confronting BP's wall of secrecy.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   36:01

Rense Radio

Clif High:  Oil Volcano—An Ill Wind This Way Blows — 24 Jun 2010 — Three months ago, prior to the start of the Gulf oil disaster, the Web Bots predicted coming trouble in the oceans—an upwelling from the ocean floor, "ocean death," and a great increase in public awareness of the importance of ocean health. Clif discusses this "hit," the likelihood of toxic air pollution increasing, and many other issues related to the oil volcano and how things will play out in the future.
Download/Listen   1:51:22
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Gary Null Show

Ruppert on the Oil Leak — 24 Jun 2010 — Mike Ruppert provides an analysis of the details of the oil leak(s), the BP and government cover-ups, and the hopelessness of the current strategies. He also talks about how the Gulf disaster fits into to the larger meme of peak oil and collapse. The first part of the show features health news.
Download/Listen   1:02:26

Coast To Coast

Worst-Case Scenarios — 19 Jun 2010 — Scientist Peter Ward discusses a few worst-case scenarios for how the Gulf oil spill might play out over the foreseeable future. Oh-my-gods include lightning bolts igniting a methane cloud over Miami; and, in a wicked twist, oil turds making it all the way to the beaches of Britannia, BP's homeland.
PART 1:  Download/Listen   1:00:00
PART 2:  Download/Listen   1:00:00

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Radio EcoShock

Danger Deep in the Gulf — 25 Jun 2010 — Some are warning that the Gulf will explode into a tsunami, killing millions. Tea Partiers fear the Gulf spill will lead to forced evacuations and FEMA camps. Alex Smith examines why Americans are reaching a state of panic over the BP disaster, bringing things back down to reality with a couple of scientists.
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Fresh Air

The Science Behind Deep-Water Oil Drilling — 24 Jun 2010 — The BP disaster has raised questions about the oil industry's ability to manage the risks and challenges involved in drilling thousands of feet below the ocean floor. New York Times science reporter Henry Fountain explains how deep-water drilling is supposed to work—and what may have gone wrong in the Deepwater Horizon operation.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   39:40

Living On Earth

Let the River Work — 18 Jun 2010 — Geologist Paul Kemp says increasing the volume of the Mississippi River flowing into the Gulf could help push back the oil from sensitive tidal areas.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:13

The Ixtoc Precedent — 18 Jun 2010 — Even as the situation in the Gulf of Mexico worsens, some pundits have been saying that wildlife there will eventually recover just fine, citing the case of Ixtoc well that suffered a 3-million-barrel blowout 31 years ago. But a scientist who was studying the sea life at that time says not all the parallels may hold true.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:42

Science Friday

Parallels Between Exxon Valdez and BP's Deepwater — 18 Jun 2010 — Alaskan journalist Charles Wohlforth, who covered the Exxon Valdez at the time and since, discusses the parallels that can be found between the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the current environmental crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   17:58

Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
The Fate of Nature:  Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth

MORE HOT & WHAT NOT

Sierra Club Radio

Summerize Your House — 19 Jun 2010 — Most people think about winterizing a house to save energy. Here are a few tips to improve your home's energy performance this summer.
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On the Edge with Max Keiser

Loren Howe:  The Real Story of Money and Freedom — 19 Jun 2010 — Howe argues that today's politics/currency model is just a less obvious form of enslavement. He discusses the parallels between our world and that of feudal societies of the past. He says we must devolve power to localities, take back from the banks the power to print money, and unplug ourselves from the centralized matrix.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   22:57

Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
The Real Story of Money, Health and Religion

Free Speech Radio News

McChrystal Resigns As Head of US Military Operations in Afghanistan — 23 Jun 2010 — Rolling Stone recently published comments made by General Stanley McChrystal, comments that were critical of other top officials working on the war, including Vice President Joe Biden. McChrystal has now resigned, and General David Petreaus will take over US military operations in Afghanistan.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:33

The Real News Network

Why the Furor Over McChrystal? — 23 Jun 2010 — Gareth Porter says the problem the Commander in Chief had with General McChrystal is really that the US has a failed, unrecoverable strategy in Afghanistan.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   17:21

Democracy Now

G-20:  Fortress Toronto — 25 Jun 2010 — After headlines, a variety of reports about the G-20 meeting in Toronto—security clampdown, protests, government surveillance, activists detained, resource extraction, impact on indigenous.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   1:00:00

Guns and Butter

Webster Tarpley:  The Collapse of Europe As the Second Phase In Two World Depressions — 23 Jun 2010 — Tarpley compares the three waves of the Great Depression of the 1930s with the progression of the current depression, including: the October 1929 New York Stock Market crash; the summer 1931 banking panic and collapse of Europe, featuring destruction of the world monetary system that depended on the British pound; and the subsequent banking panic and closure of the banks in the United States.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:53

Progressive News Hour

Catherine Austin Fitts: Preserving Family Wealth — 24 Jun 2010 — Catherine Austin Fitts gives her latest views on the global financial system, the economy, ethical investing, and preserving family wealth.
Download/Listen   29:40

Dan Carlin

Indecent Disclosure — 21 Jun 2010 — Dan discusses the pros and cons of whistleblowers who leak secrets. Also in the show, a talk about the need for full financial disclosure in politics.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   58:48

Food Chain Radio

Without Undocumented Farm Workers, Could Americans Eat? — 19 Jun 2010 — Craig Regelbrugge, co-chair of the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform discusses... the extent to which agriculture has come to rely on immigrant labor; why this labor tends to be illegal immigrant labor; and whether we in the US could really feed ourselves without a never-ending stream of illegal immigrant labor to work in our fields.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   43:37

On The Media

TV's Most Accurate Portrayal of Miranda — 18 Jun 2010 — A cop always reads a suspect their Miranda rights before interrogations, and unless the suspect explicitly waives those rights, nothing they say "pre-Miranda" can be used against them, right? No, said the US Supreme Court recently; and "you've got to be kidding," says David Milch, co-creator of NYPD Blue, which turns out the be a fairly practical guide to how Miranda is applied in real life.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:24

Information Wants to Be Expensive — 18 Jun 2010 — The idea that "information wants to be free," says Michael Hirschorn in the current issue of The Atlantic, has been the most powerful internet meme of the past 25 years. But in the app era led by of Apple, that meme nay be moderating.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:29

Media Minutes

Restoring FCC Authority to Regulate Providers — 25 Jun 2010 — The FCC opened a new proceeding for public comment on restoring its authority to regulate broadband providers, but have been holding secret meetings with phone and cable companies to discuss a legislative compromise. And public interest and consumer groups filed a petition to deny the Comcast-NBC merger.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:00

Uprising

Who Can Stop the Drums?  Urban Social Movements in Chavez's Venezuela — 18 Jun 2010 — Author Sujatha Fernandes discusses the popular support Hugo Chavez enjoys in Venezuela, the apparent contradiction in some of his methods, and the biased reporting on Chavez in Western press.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   14:36

Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
Who Can Stop the Drums?

SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

Fight the Empire (on KBOO)

Michael Ruppert:  Surviving Collapse — 17 Jun 2010 — Ruppert takes caller questions, including one that asks: "Why all the doom-talk; why don't we just toughen up and get off our butts and do something about it, like the way we pulled out of the Great Depression of the 1930s?"
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   56:00

Diet Soap Podcast

Fair Food Fight, — 20 Jun 2010 — Anderson and host Doug Lain discuss farms, chickens, and the real food movement. ~~ Also featured is a weird, funny audio collage about cryogenics and a childhood trip to Disneyland.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   39:40

Two Beers With Steve

Ol' Two Beers — 21 Jun 2010 — Nathan Martin and Steve Patterson have an in-depth discussion about the process of awakening to the twin pillars of fate—peak oil and financial-system unsustainability—and then deciding what to do about it.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:37:46

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

C-Realm Podcast

The Heidi Hypothesis — 21 Jun 2010 — What is 'nature'? Is it the beneficent giver and sustainer of all life, or is it the source of human misery from which only ingenuity and technology can deliver us and offer us a life of possibilities worthy of our noble human spark? KMO and independent journalist Nathanael Johnson wrestle with the vagaries of the competing narratives over the value of 'nature' and the things we call 'natural.'
Audio no longer available from host site.

Science Friday

Beyond Blimps—The Return of Zeppelin (un-Led'ed) — 18 Jun 2010 — Ira Flatow and guests discuss a resurgence of interest in high-tech blimps—a.k.a "hybrid airships"—for military, commercial, and consumer applications.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   17:44

Science Friday

Fire Water in Gasland — 18 Jun 2010 — In the race to stay ahead of the crashing energy-supply wave, the US in the 2000's gave gas drilling companies near carte blanche access to untapped natural gas reserves in the continental US. These tough-to-extract gas supplies usually require high-pressure hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), and that has been wreaking havoc with locals' water supplies. Turn on the faucet, light a match, phooom! James Fox of the film Gasland fills us in.
Reference page and trailer  |  Download/Listen   14:24

MORE CATCHING UP

Progressive News Hour

John McMurtry:  We Need an Economy Based on Life Goods — 10 Jun 2010 — McMurtry makes a strong case that the corporatized global economy and its single-minded focus on profit is simultaneously destroying the ecological viability of the planet and the prosperity of its citizens. He says we need to repatriate the power to print money, forbid externalization of costs, and design an economy that can provide meaningful work at quality-of-life wages and ensure healthy food, water, and other basics—i.e. "life goods."
Download/Listen   31:17

Black Agenda Report

Chicago Teachers Wise Up to Obama School Privatizations — 16 Jun 2010 — Reformists have won control of the teachers union in the town where Barack Obama became a fan of corporate schooling: Chicago. The new union leadership seems prepared to confront privatization head on.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:57

Between The Lines

Corporate Media is Killing Itself — 14 Jun 2010 — John Nichols explains how corporate media is so profit-driven that it is cutting its talent so severely that it is delivering a product fewer and fewer people want. He says we need to derail the momentum towards a propaganda state and create a media that respects us as citizens and does not lie to us.
Download/Listen   16:47
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COOL & COSMIC

More Cool & Cosmic:
Transformation, Consciousness, 2012 - Audio/Video

LEARNING, FOOD & FUN

Uprising

When You're Strange—New Doors Documentary — 16 Jun 2010 — According to the surviving members of The Doors, Oliver Stone's 1991 film about the band left a lot to be desired. They say a new documentary—titled When You're Strange—is the definitive story of The Doors. This audio clip features passages from the film, punctuated by KPFK's fund drive.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   58:36

Gary Null Show

Sugar Shock — 21 Jun 2010 — Connie Bennettand discusses the health effects of consuming various types of sugars ~~ In the first two segments, Gary reviews recent health news, including the association of brain tumors with cell phone use, and gives a commentary of the mainstream media's use of the military's phrasing and framing
Download/Listen   56:25

Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
Sugar Shock! – How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life, and How You Can Get Back on Track

Living On Earth

Heated Debate over Heating Milk — 18 Jun 2010 — Many states are considering the safety of unpasteurized milk and whether it should be legal. Raw milk advocates say that what they drink should be their choice, not the government's.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:37

Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
The Raw Milk Revolution

Nutrition Diva

What to Eat Before, During, and After a Workout — 15 Jun 2010 — What should people, especially kids, be putting in their mouths before, during, and after playing sports?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:50

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