Government/Politics

Asylum, Migration, and US Border Policy

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Download or listen to this segment here Biden's border policies have taken a dramatic shift to the right. Through an executive order he set a cap on daily migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border and allowed US authorities to deport migrants without processing their as... Read more

Hanford Journey

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Since time immemorial the Yakama Nation lived along a stretch of the Columbia River now known as the Hanford Reach. This area provided sources of food and medicines and contains many sacred sites, like Gable and Rattlesnake mountains, and the white bluffs that peer down fro... Read more

Progress In Vermont

Airs at: Wed, 06/26/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Progress In Vermont. The state of Vermont has approved legislation to allow municipalities to decide whether to authorize the establishment of overdose prevention centers, also known as supervised consumption facilities or safer consumption sit... Read more

Between doomerism and hopium: A conversation with Patrick Mazza

Airs at: Wed, 06/26/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Host Paul Roland welcomes back Cascadian climate activist and writer Patrick Mazza for a deep dive into our present predicament. Back in the day, when they were younger and somewhat more optimistic about our prospects of fighting power and environmental devastation, Patr... Read more

Review of Jacqueline O'Mahony's Sing, Wild Bird, Sing on the Irish famine

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Irish Famine: Larry Bowlden brings a review of Jacqueline O'Mahony's novel about the 1849 famine in Ireland, Sing, Wild Bird, Sing, a story of leaving and finding the Oregon Territories and a different sort of wanderer. The novel is sad and lovely, informative and enter... Read more

Gaza and the International Criminal Court

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have been in the news in recent months for their decisions against Israel and its war in Gaza. In their Left and  the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the history of thes... Read more

WRR: Rob Wallace on Bird Flu in Context

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Download or listen to this segment here In this Well-Read Red, we hear summary of and excerpts from a post by Rob Wallace titled "Whether Bird Flu is on the March Misses the Point," shared by Frann Michel. Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist at the Agroecology and... Read more

The FDA's Agony Over Ecstasy

Airs at: Wed, 06/19/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: FDA’s Agony Over Ecstasy. The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee met recently and rejected a new drug application for MDMA-Assisted Therapy which had been submitted by Lykos Therapeutics. The Co... Read more

Democracy at a Crossroad

Airs at: Mon, 06/24/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Every day we hear that the upcoming elections are a referendum on whether or not the United States remains a democracy. But for many years anti-democratic – in fact, outright fascistic – tendencies have been threatening communities around the country and definitely here in ... Read more

Saving America's Wild Horses

Airs at: Fri, 07/26/2024 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
  They're a symbol of freedom and their protection is mandated by federal law--but America's wild horses are being cruelly mismanaged by the very government agency charged with making sure they are safe. On this edition of Voices For The Animals, Michele Coppola talks with... Read more