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Embrace Festival in Portland, May 4-6

Airs at: Thu, 05/04/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Starting tonight, Portland will play host to the Embrace Festival at the Art Museum in Southwest Portland, which will go until Saturday night. It is a many-faceted event focusing on spirituality and community. KBOO reporter John Schuck spoke to Deshna Ubeda, the event’s dir... Read more

Kent State Massacre Anniversary

Airs at: Thu, 05/04/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Hundreds of students, survivors and supporters gathered today on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio – forty seven years after US National Guard soldiers killed four students protesting the Vietnam War. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with some of them about their memo... Read more

Terrorism: Theirs and Ours

Airs at: Tue, 04/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Terrorism is the scourge of the era. It is a fearsome symbol conjuring images of nasty-looking, bearded men brandishing AK-47s. The media focus only on the terrorism of official enemies like Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The notion that the U.S. and its allies enga... Read more

Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou: The Reluctant Spy

Airs at: Fri, 04/21/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Join Chris Andrae for a conversation with the former CIA operative who was sent to prison for leaking classified information about torture. John Kiriakou was the first Central Intelligence Agency official to publicly confirm that agency interrogators waterboarded a high-... Read more

Former Army Airborne Ranger Reflects on Central America and Effects of the Military

Airs at: Fri, 04/21/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Former Army Airborne Ranger Dave Edgar served in Central America during the 1980's. His time in the military affected him greatly. Edgar regularly speaks to members of the community about the complications of military life.  In the first part of the show, veterans Mark ... Read more

Book Mole: Lilac Girls

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Lilac Girls, by Martha Hall Kelley; it’s a historically based novel about three women during World War II, one Polish, one German, and the other American. It focuses on Ravensbruck, the Nazi concentration camp for women. Read more

Medea Benjamin on the U.S. Global Escalation of War LIVE ON KBOO!

Airs at: Wed, 04/19/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Medea Benjamin on the  U.S. Global Escalation of War LIVE ON KBOO... Host, Linda Olson-Osterlund, will speak with Medea Benjamin. Benjamin is the author of eight books including Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control. She is also the co-founder of Code Pink and Global ... Read more

Trump's Syria Missile Strike: Symbolic Show of Force or Prelude to Wider U.S. War?

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  "Let's not forget that serious questions were happening in the media as well as serious congressional oversight and investigation in the possibility of the Trump campaign being in cahoots with Russia." On April 6, President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to a... Read more

Is There a Trump Foreign Policy?

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Conn Hallinan about Trump’s foreign policy: Is there a pattern? Is he just an impulsive madman? Or are we looking at the throes of the wounded U.S. empire at the end of the American century? Conn Hallinan writes for  Foreign Policy In Focus ... Read more

April 10 2017 Old Mole Variety Hour

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On the next Mole, Frann Michel hosts, and we hear these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Conn Hallinan of Foreign Policy on Focus about Trump's foreign policy; Desiree Hellegers talks with Huy Ong of OPAL Environmental Justice about Trimet's new budget and policing; C... Read more