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Portland Pursues Alternative to Compliance with EPA Lead Levels

Produced for:  Evening News
In Nineteen Ninety One (1991) the United States Environmental Protection Agency published the lead and copper rule, to minimize nurotoxins in water. The rule established a maximum contaminant level goal of zero for lead in drinking water. The Portland Water Bureau has neve... Read more

Welcome to the Jungle: Pepe Escobar

Airs at: Thu, 11/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Pepe Escobar writes in a Special to Consortium News: "It’s darkness at the break of (tropical) high noon. Jean Baudrillard once defined Brazil as “the chlorophyll of our planet”. And yet a land vastly associated worldwide with the soft power of creative joie de vivre ha... Read more

A New Path

Airs at: Sun, 10/28/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: A New PATH's director and co-founder Gretchen Burns Bergman addresses the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, and Members of Parliament in the UK debate drug policy, decriminalization, and harm reduction. A New PATH   Read more

Climate Change and NeoFascism

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel reports on climate change and authoritarian states, and how both are consequences of capitalism.  You can find the text of a longer version of her remarks, with links to sources, on the Old Mole blog. Image cropped from Klimacamp 2018 - 121 - 01.06.2018 20-5... Read more

Zunes on Khashoggi, Trump, Saudi Arabia, and more

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks to Stephen Zunes, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, about the torture/murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration and the new Saudi Crown Prince, and about what might be done (and is happenin... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 22nd, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier hosts this episode, in which we hear these pieces: Bill Resnick talks to Stephen Zunes, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, about the torture/murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration and the new... Read more

Harm Reduction and Marijuana Legalization

Airs at: Sun, 10/21/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: Canada legalizes marijuana, plus a discussion about harm reduction at the international level. Read more

Global is local Climate

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Weve been told that were at a crossroads in the fight against climate change, and that we need to act fast to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. But even before the dire warning issued by scientists, organizers across the world have been fighting climate change and thi... Read more

Assange Facing Extradition Pressure

Airs at: Thu, 10/18/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Julian Assange, the editor of the expose site WikiLeaks, is facing pressure from the US, according to Ecuadorian officials. They say negotiator are pressuring him to agree to demands, designed to provide an excuse to remove him from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Fid... Read more

Presidio 27 - Randy Rowland

Airs at: Fri, 10/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Marvin is joined by fellow Vietnam veteran Randy Rowland with his story of GI's leading the sitdown protest known as The Presidio Mutiny. A personal account by a participant of the Presidio mutiny, a sitdown protest of soldiers in military prison against the killing of a... Read more