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This week on Century of Lies: Ukraine. At the recent European Harm Reduction Conference in Warsaw, Poland, a panel entitled "Harm Reduction in the War in Ukraine" explored innovative strategies developed to address the complex challenges posed by the war. On this week’s ed... Read more

The year in review and the year ahead. Read more

As the calendar turns anew tomorrow , we turn back the clock to 1968/69 (KBOO's founding). We will also honor our friend, and fellow programmer Diane Karl , longtime host of "Early Morning Gumbo".       Read more

Join Prison Pipeline hosts Emma Lugo, Karen James, Doug McVay & Adam Carpinelli, as they discuss this past year’s decision by Oregon legislators to overturn Ballot Measure 110 which was overwhelmingly approved by Oregonians in 2020. Legislators passed HB4002 which recrimina... Read more

Richard Botterill and Kim Martin, rank-and-file leaders in the Oregon Nurses Association, give us a blow-by-blow lead up to the biggest-yet, possible Providence Health strike, involving over 5,000 caregivers in eight hospitals and six clinics across Oregon. Read more

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This program aired originally on September 9, 2024 Today's program honors Oregon Environment Icon Bob Sallinger, who died on October 30. For over 30 years Bob has been a regional fixture advocating and fighting to protect our rivers, wildlife, forests and communities from ... Read more

On December 18th, Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a landmark ruling from a lower court last year. In the Held v Montana case, the Montana justices agreed that the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal proje... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts the final Old Mole broadcast of 2024, which includes the following segments: War and Climate Crisis in the Middle East: Laurie Mercier  speaks with Dr. Zeinab Shuker, who is an assistant professor of sociology at Sam Houston State University and ... Read more

In his 2016 collection of three essays, novelist Amitav Ghosh takes up a question of immense importance: what explains humanity’s collective failure to avert the existential threat posed by climate change? Capitalism and colonialism are the great structural forces that keep... Read more