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• How Concerned Should We Be About Fukushima?
• Who Is Really Behind the Syrian War?
• Restoring Function
• Magnesium and the Body's Biochemistry

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• Financial, Empire & Elites
• Corporations & Globalization
• Media, Internet & Privacy
• Energy, Peak Oil, Sustainability & Resilience
• Nuclear
• Environment
• Health
• Food, Organics & Agriculture
• History & Learning

FINANCIAL, EMPIRE & ELITES

Corbett Report

Who Is Really Behind the Syrian War? — 30 Aug 2013 — Even as the pretext for attacking Syria fails to convince the US public of the need for involvement, the US continues to prepare for military action. But who really benefits from the ongoing destabilization of Assad's government? James Corbett offers a cogent analysis of the real politics of the Syria debacle.
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Red Ice Radio

Bill Still on Banksters, Greece, the EU, and Solutions — 26 Aug 2013 — Money Masters guru Bill Still talks about the bankster attack on Greece and what Greeks can do to reclaim a prosperous future. Part of the solution he says, is for Greece to leave the EU and repudiate its debt, which was fraudulently acquired. More broadly, he thinks the EU has many problems and will eventually disintegrate. For citizens of the world, he admonishes that freedom is never cheap—it requires constant effort, and everyone needs to be involved.
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The Real World of Money

The Real Axis of Evil—Banksters, Warmongers, and Their Political Minions — 04 Sep 2013 — Andrew Gause gives his take on why Syria is happening. He says it's "Iraq deja vu" all over again; now, as then, it is about controlling the energy region, enforcing the status of the petrodollar, and keeping up military spending. Gause says a real US screw-up here could jeopardize reserve currency status of the dollar, but that is unlikely. To fight the system, he says people need to stop being shareholders in the Federal Reserve—that is, it's fine to use Federal Reserve Notes (dollars) for transactions, but don't hold your wealth in them (or the financial instruments that use them, like the stock market or US bonds)..
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Dan Carlin—Common Sense

An Army of One — 03 Sep 2013 — Can a US president take his nation into war by himself? The Syrian conflict may prove to be a test case to determine if any checks still exists on the war making authority of the Executive Branch of government. Dan Carlin reviews the many times in the last 3/4 century that US military efforts were not approached constitutionally.
Download/Listen   1:16:00

Keiser Report

China--On the Rise or Sinking into the Muck? — 02 Sep 2013 — Max and Stacy compare the situation for the American worker/consumer with that of their Chinese counterparts. Then Max talks to Dan Collins of The China Money Report about housing bubbles, infrastructure, food safety, and more in China.
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NPR

Pew Study—Americans Oppose US Intervention in Syria — 04 Sep 2013 — As congressional leaders line up behind President Obama's plan to strike Syria, a new poll from the Pew Research Center shows public opinion largely against even limited military action.
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(GP comment:  But shockingly, a majority believes the assertion that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its own people. How is it that have we forgotten the Iraq/WMD lie so quickly?)

Meria Heller Show

Kevin Ryan on Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects — 25 Aug 2013 — Kevin Ryan worked for Underwriters Lab, one of the most respected research organizations in the US. UL was tasked to examine some of the 9/11 evidence, but when employee Kevin Ryan questioned UL's dodgy procedures in the case publicly, Ryan was fired and the results suddenly could not be located. Ryan went on to investigate many of the scientific issues of 9/11, as well as the nature of the event's perpetrators. Rather than 19 Saudi hijackers being prime suspects, Ryan says there are 19 other people who are much more plausible as suspects—top-level players in the military-political-financial complex. And he names names.
Download/Listen   1:00:00

Progressive Radio News Hour

The Common Characteristics of the Countries the US Invades — 25 Aug 2013— Ellen Brown points out that all the countries on the US attack list for the last decade or so—Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, etc.—have several things in common: they're resource rich, they aren't a member of the Bank of International Settlements, and they're not a member of the World Trade Organization. And let's not forget that some of those target countries also had some of the world's few remaining independent central banks and large stockpiles of gold. Sadly, as the US military makes conquered countries' infrastructure "available" for rebuilding and buyout, the pluto-corporate vultures are using funds from their US depositors to help fund the activities.
Download/Listen   55:57

CORPORATIONS & GLOBALIZATION

Free Speech Radio News

Farmers' Strike in Colombia Highlights Impact of Free Trade Deal on Local Communities — 05 Sep 2013 — A widespread farmers strike continues in Colombia, where during the past week protesters have blocked major highways and filled the streets of Bogota, the nation's capital. Farmers are calling for fundamental reforms in the country's agricultural policies, including the US-backed Free Trade Agreement that they say has had devastating effects on small-scale farmers and rural communities. The protests have drawn a military-backed response from the government.
Audio no longer available from host site (fsrn.org) 6:34

Green Power and Wellness

The Elected Official Is Just a Waterboy for the Corporations — 26 Aug 2013 — Journalist Matt Rothschild talks about the rising tide of fascism in Wisconsin and the US, as well as his recent arrest for reporting on people singing in protest at the state capital.
Download/Listen   1:00:00

(GP comment:  First half is excellent; forget the second half.)

MEDIA, INTERNET & PRIVACY

ENERGY, PEAK OIL, SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

Unwelcome Guests

Community Successes—Restoring Our Connection To The Land — 24 Aug 2013— "Community Successes" is a recent talk by Rob Hopkins, in which he recounts some of the transition movement's successes in the UK, showing how communities can organize activities that subvert the dominant power structure by avoiding it altogether, and at the same time fostering activities that are rewarding on a personal level and build local economies.
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C-Realm Podcast

Manifesting in Meat Space — 28 Aug 2013— KMO offers an eloquent essay on the paradox of awareness, which is at once both empowering (because you know the truth) and disempowering (because you discover all solutions to be hopelessly inadequate). He gives a very nice overview of the metaphorical film Fight Club and then reviews the options for moving forward. He cautions against the allure of the "sexy solutions," from the unlikely possibility of a new revolution to the deus ex machina of a technology-killing solar strike. In the end, it will be straightforward, persistently applied efforts that will change things.
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NUCLEAR

Fairewinds / KALW

How Concerned Should We Be About Fukushima? — 29 Aug 2013 — Nuclear power experts Arjun Makhijani and Arnie Gundersen discuss the recent leaks from the nuclear power plant at Fukushima, Japan. It's been over two years since the plant suffered its original damage from the earthquake and tsunami. Since then, more than 300 tons of radioactive water has leaked from the plant into the ground and ocean, and the remaining infrastructure is highly unstable. Is Japan at risk? Could the entire Pacific Ocean be at risk? Are people living on the West Coast of the US at risk? What should be done?
Download/Listen   53:00

The Lifeboat Hour

The Fukushima Problem and Global Nuclear Insanity — 25 Aug 2013 — Radioactivity permeates the groundwater in Fukushima prefecture. Vast storage pools must continually be created for the contaminated ocean water used for cooling. Super-hot fuel rods are housed in damaged, teetering buildings. Permanent solutions must rely on as-yet-uninvented technology. The list goes on, making Fukushima not only the worst manmade disaster in history, but also a continuing threat to the well being of humans on the planet. Helen Caldicott reviews the facts of the Fukushima situation and then extrapolates to include the other 400+ nuclear plants around the planet, asking the world's citizens why they are not demanding an end to nuclear power. Why do parents strive to nurture their children but not strive to prevent a nuclear-contaminated future?
Download/Listen   1:01:00

ENVIRONMENT

ExtraEnvironmentalist

Restoring Function — 01 Sep 2013 — The fundamentally flawed logic of capitalist economics compels the consumption of ecosystems until they enter terminal dysfunction. John D. Liu discusses the amazing restoration of China's Loess Plateau from desertified disaster to fully recovered ecosystem. More broadly, he talks about the broken logic of how people act at the meta level—a sort of collective insanity that, strangely, is largely absent at the individual level. How do we recover from this behavioral paradox that threatens the future of our planet and ourselves?
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Orion

Population—The Other Half of the Environmental Equation — 28 Aug 2013— Environmental groups largely avoid the issue of population. But since total environmental impact roughly equals per-capita consumption times total population, the size of the planet's population must be dealt with. And as Alan Weisman explains, there are many non-coercive ways to rapidly achieve sustainable population levels, as some countries have done recently.
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(GP comment:  What he doesn't explain is that the infinite growth model fosters infinite population growth as part of the way it sustains itself, even though the strategy must fail in the end.)

Living on Earth

Mercury Hot Spots Around the World — 16 Aug 2013— A new report finds hotspots of unsafe mercury levels worldwide. David Evers, chief scientist at the Biodiversity Research Center, says that millions of people rely on fish with unsafe mercury levels as their principle source of protein.
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HEALTH

One Radio Network

Magnesium and the Body's Biochemistry — 19 Aug 2013 — Dr. Carolyn Dean, author of How To Change Your Life With Magnesium, discusses the importance of this mineral to health as well as some of the nuances of using Mg supplements. She also discusses problems in allopathic medical establishment and the importance of starting with the body's biochemistry when addressing any chronic health issue.
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FOOD, ORGANICS & AGRICULTURE

Food Sleuth Radio

Don Davis on Nutritional Decline in Modern Crop Varieties — 29 Aug 2013 — Long-time agricultural nutrition researcher Don Davis discusses the decline and dilution in nutrition that has come with the push for higher yields and bigger crops. He discusses the evidence on whether eating organic is a solution to this problem.
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Food Chain Radio

Farming Food Sovereignty — 24 Aug 2013 — Why did we end up with a food supply controlled by big government and big business? How can we foster food sovereignty? Topics include why the production and distribution of food tends to become consolidated in the hands of a few corporations and why many people are resisting the domination of centralized food systems. Guests are Beverly Bell and Tory Field, authors of Harvesting Justice.
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HISTORY & LEARNING

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

The "American Peril" and the First US Imperial Adventure — 25 Jul 2013— "Fan of history" Dan Carlin recounts the Spanish-American war, which saw the US rise from a B-level backwater to a recognized world power. As the successes of the war became obvious, the nation initially succumbed to imperial temptation, only to find that the details of the endeavor were a humanitarian nightmare. This forced the United States of the late 19th century to confront the contradiction between its revolutionary, self-determination self-image and its expanding imperialist interests.
Download/Listen   4:05:41

Fresh Air

Lawrence Of Arabia—From Archaeologist To Reluctant War Hero — 20 Aug 2013— T.E. Lawrence, the British officer who played a key role in the Middle East during World War I, was one of that war's few romantic champions. Scott Anderson's Lawrence in Arabia explains how Lawrence used his knowledge of Arab culture and medieval history to advance British causes while at the same time doing his best to steer the imperial juggernaut out of the region.
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Against the Grain

What Empire Ruins — 13 Aug 2013— We can go visit the ruins of imperial buildings, but there many things that empire has ruined—and that it continues to debase and degrade. What should we know about processes of ruination that afflict people and landscapes today—and will continue doing so into the future? Ann Laura Stoler traces some discusses imperial ruination in the context of Palestine, India, and Vietnam.
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