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Abe and Joe Talk Radio - August 26

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2008 at 5:00pm
Host Joe Uris talks with listeners about proposed Liquified Natural Gas Pipelines in Oregon, the history and real meaning of the Russian/Georgian conflict and the Obama-Biden Democratic National Convention.  A No-Holds-Barred discussion of Real Stuff in Real Time. Interest... Read more

Congress Critiques FDA for Calling Hormone Disrupter "Safe"

Airs at: Wed, 08/20/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
 The U-S Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A, also known as B-P-A, is safe.  The FDA’s assessment of the chemical apparently relied on two studies—both of which were funded by the American Chemistry Council, Dow ... Read more

Get This! News for August 25, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 08/24/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Get This
 Host Chris Andreae brings us 30 minutes of outrageous news tid-bits circulating the globe today. Read more

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Airs at: Tue, 08/05/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Dave Mazza speaks with Dr. James  Yamazaki, professor emeritus in pediatrics. He was the lead physician of the 1949 U.S. Atomic Bomb Medical Team, studying the effects of nuclear bombing on children in Nagasaki. We also hear from Pamela Vergun, editor and translator of "A D... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 18, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 08/17/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts this program which features an explanation of what's going on between Russia and Georgia (and the US); a review of the documentary about a high wire exploit at the World Trade Center in 1974; and an introduction to Los Angeles's Thai Town.  Last week, Bil... Read more

Georgia & Russia: What's really going on?

Airs at: Sun, 08/17/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
If you want a clear explanation of what's going on between Russia and Georgia (and the US), listen to this conversation between Middle-Eastern expert Stephen Zunes and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick as they lay out the background and the probable outcome.  See also his current... Read more

Abe and Joe Talk Radio 8/19

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2008 at 5:00pm
Host Joe Uris steers the ship solo thru 2 issues, one local and one international.  Locally, we're centered on Mike Erickson's [Wiki] 2004 "vacation" in Cuba, where he lost all of the receipts and other paperwork showing that his vacation was, in actuality, a humanitarian m... Read more

Interview: Andy Worthington on the Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Airs at: Wed, 08/13/2008 at 5:00pm
    Host Linda Olson-Osterlund interviews guest Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of The 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison.They discuss the trial of Salim Hamdan, a driver for Osama Bin Laden. What did we learn from this , the first Unite... Read more

Dean Larry Velvel Talks about war crimes, part 2

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Scott Forrester presents part 2 of an interview with Dean Larry Velvel of the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover and organizer of the Conference on War Crimes and the law-breaking of the Bush Administration. He discusses  war  crimes  in history and related issues. Read more

Civil Liberties Watch: Author Andy Worthington on the Guantanamo Tribunal

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The first US War Crimes Tribunal since WWII concluded this past week with the sentencing of Salim Hamdan. Author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison, Andy Worthington talks about some of the lessons to take away from it. Read more