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Systemic Racism in the Criminal Legal System

Airs at: Wed, 05/14/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
On this edition of Century: Systemic Racism in the Criminal Legal System. Recently at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the Fourth Annual Session of the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement held publ... Read more

The Hype About Hydrogen

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
News reports claim that emerging technologies that will solve the climate crisis, such as hydrogen, are just around the corner. But in reality these technologies are risky, costly and don’t really work all that well. Hydrogen in particular would actually speed up climate... Read more

CJC Deflection Report

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
In 2024 Oregon House Bill 4002 created the Oregon Behavioral Health Deflection Program to provide grant funding for deflection programs that assist individuals whose behavioral health conditions, including substance use disorder, lead to interactions with law enforcement... Read more

Systemic Racism in the Criminal Legal System

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Systemic Racism in the Criminal Legal System. Recently at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the Fourth Annual Session of the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 12, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Copaganda: News media, public officials, and the police themselves keep telling us that public safety requires ever more policing, despite all evidence to the contrary. In Co... Read more

Bad Air

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
According to the 2025 Annual Report of the American Lung Association, fifty-five years after the passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, nearly half of US residents breathe unhealthy air. One significant contribution to this problem is the inadequacy of the regulatory app... Read more

The Global Citizen - Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Tue, 05/06/2025 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
"Advantage China" in the tariff war with Trump. He has badly miscalculated China's capacity for resistance. Read more

Copaganda

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  News media, public officials, and the police themselves keep telling us that public safety requires ever more policing, despite all evidence to the contrary. In Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (New Press, 2025), civil rights lawyer Alec Karakat... Read more

Keeping Oregon Nuclear-Free

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In 1980 Oregon voters overwhelmingly passed an initiative that bans any new nuclear reactors until the there is a permanent national nuclear waste repository. Since 1992 when the Trojan Nuclear power plant in Rainier, OR closed, the state has been nuclear-free. But over ... Read more

The Plot Against Social Security

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  We share selected audio from a briefing on Social Security presented by Alex Lawson of Social Security Works for the group Radical Elders on April 10, 2025,  shared here with their permission.  Lawson explains how Social Security works, how and why it is being intenti... Read more