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This is the program for July 1

Tom Greco
THE END OF MONEY AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION
Tom Greco demystifies money and banking and explains the destructive power of the current financial system. He challenges us to recognize that our dreams of a sane, just and ecologically sound future can become reality only if we change the way in which money is created and used.

Tom Greco was recorded at the beginning of his lecture tour for his most recent book: THE END OF MONEY AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION. A former engineer and college professor, Greco has written on monetary and financial innovation for over 30 years. Earlier books include: New Money for Healthy Communities and Money and Debt, A Solution to the Global Crisis. His web site is http://www.reinventingmoney.com
Kelly Durkin and I recorded him at IONS in Petaluma, CA, on May 5, 2009.
This is NOT a double program.
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Stephen Zarlenga
THE AMERICAN MONETARY ACT
Solving the Financial Crisis by Monetary Reform
Congressman Dennis Kucinich has posted the following on his web site:
"The U.S. monetary reform is urgently needed: It is long past time we look at the
 implications of . . . the privatization of money created by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the bank fractional reserve system and our debt-based economic system. Unless we have dramatic reform of monetary policy, the entire economic system will continue to accelerate wealth upwards. I am currently working on drafting legislation for an ‘American Monetary Act’ to address these and other issues in order to protect the economic well being of America."
<http://kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2786&Itemid=76>

Observers believe that this single measure has the potential of bringing together tens of millions of people who have realized that our bank-run debt-based monetary system lies at the center of the financial crisis. The question is of course - how are these tens of millions going to find out that there is such legislation being developed?

Kucinich is working closely with Stephen Zarlenga, director of the American Monetary Institute <http://www.monetary.org/> and author of: The Lost Science of Money. I interviewed Zarlenga in May 2009 after his return from Washington, DC, where he had briefed members of Congress. A report on the briefing was done by Richard Cook. <http://www.richardccook.com/>
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I just uploaded two excerpts of the film version of this program to YouTube:
Nationalize the Federal Reserve - Remove the Power of Banks to Create Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_kbyAl3-AM
Money to The People - NOT to Banks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA54cgkvc_w
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George Galloway
VIVA PALESTINA
Breaking the siege of GAZA
George Galloway is an outspoken Member of the British Parliament, serving since 1987. He is perhaps best known for his support of Palestine and his campaign to end economic sanctions against Iraq. When he stood up to Tony Blair and called the invasion of Iraq illegal he was expelled from the Labour Party.

After participating in daily demonstrations in England during the Israeli assault on Gaza from the end of December 2008 into January 2009, Galloway led a convoy of vehicles loaded with humanitarian aid to Gaza. Under the name VIVA Palestina the convoy began in England in February 2009, crossed from Spain into North Africa and entered Gaza from Egypt with over 200 vehicles through the Rafah crossing that is usually kept locked by the Egyptian government.

Galloway says that if it were not for the extraordinary influence of the Israeli government that  maintains a blockade of GAZA, aid from governments and UN sources would be pouring into the war ravaged Gaza strip. He says that 61,200 homes were destroyed and Palestinians are still living in the rubble because Israel refuses to allow building materials into Gaza. Galloway plans to do what the international community fails to do and continue to lead convoys from other countries as well, including Russia and China.

Galloway was touring the US in April and May 2009 to invite donors and participants from the United States for the next convoy to Gaza. The plan is to leave New York on the 4th of July, fly directly into Egypt, purchase vehicles and medical supplies and repeat the successful breach of the Rafah crossing. <http://www.vivapalestina-us.org >
NOTE: Registration to join the convoy from New York is only open until June 20, 2009, at midnight (CST). Check out the registration form - which must be complete by then, at <http://www.vivapalestina-us.org/?cat=7>

Thanks to the Middle East Children's Alliance for organizing this event. <http://www.mecaforpeace>

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Peter Dale Scott
AMERICA'S AFGHANISTAN
US National Security and a Heroin-Ravaged State
The US State Department calls Afghanistan a failed state that justifies US intervention, rather than acknowledging that US intervention has caused that so-called failure. And among all the triggers to that failure from US support of the Mujahedin and Al Quaeda to the war lords one element is not recognized in it’s real importance: the role of the trade in opium.

Peter Dale Scott, author of “Drugs Oil, and War” and “Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America” is one of the most respected researchers on the use of drugs in the strategies of the CIA and in US foreign policy. <http://www.peterdalescott.net/> He says that the unprecedented increase in Afghani opium production in the last 5 years could never have happened without outside support.

While Afghanistan is being ravaged by heroin and many farmers are forced to grow for very little profit the real gains of drug production are made by large political players and on the international market. Even though Afghanistan now supplies over 90% of the world’s heroin, the Afghan portion of the global heroin network, in dollar terms, is financially minute compared to what is earned elsewhere. According to the UN, the ultimate value in world markets in 2007 of Afghanistan’s $4 billion opium crop was about $110 billion.

This talk by Professor Scott is putting names and faces on the beneficiaries of that drug trade.
Peter Dale Scott was recoded in the mountains of Northern California at a small gathering of friends and neighbors. He has since expanded this speech and the longer text with footnotes is posted at <http://www.japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3145>

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Peter Dale Scott
LIFTING THE STATE OF EMERGENCY
An unresolved legacy of the Bush administration
Very few seem to know and among the few who know most don't seem to care that the US remains under a state of emergency declared by the Bush administration. The state of emergency was formally proclaimed five days after 9/11 on September 14th, 2001, and extended by Bush repeatedly thereafter, most recently on August 28th, 2008 for yet another year.

Under cover of this State of Emergency, the Bush administration enacted many extreme measures, ranging from suspension of habeas corpus, to the preparations for martial law in the US.
In early 2009 an attempt was made to alert the public and put pressure on Congress to lift the state of emergency.

In February 2009 Professor Peter Dale Scott <http://www.peterdalescott.net/> and former Congressman Dan Hamburg wrote a formal letter to President Obama's staff and several congress people. They referred to the National Emergencies Act, one of the post-Watergate reforms that requires specifically that not later than six months after a national emergency is declared, and not later than the end of each six-month period thereafter that such emergency continues, each House of Congress shall meet to consider a vote on a joint resolution to determine whether that emergency shall be terminated.
Letter writing campaign:
<http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090328020251412>
Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks (Aug. 28, 2008): <http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/08/20080828-7.html>
Investigation into Whether America is Still a Constitutional Government
<http://www.constitutionally.blogspot.com>

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David Korten
COMMUNITY AND THE NEW ECONOMY
Why Wall Street can't be fixed and how to replace it
David Korten is the author of the 2009 book: "Agenda for a New Economy" and chair of the board of YES Magazine. He is probably best known for his famous anti-globalization book: When Corporations Rule the World.

He argues that pouring trillions of dollars in bail-out money into the Wall Street institutions that created the crisis does nothing to repair the failed economic system.

In this speech, given in March 2009 at the NW regional conference of  Veterans for Peace, he analyzes two major flaws of the current economic system and points to ways to replace them. One is the monetary system, the other the concept of ever increasing growth, measured as GDP.
Thanks to Ed Mays of Pirate TV for the recording.
The web site for David Korten is <http://www.davidkorten.org>
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THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT
A phone conversation with the Executive Director Cathryn Couch and client Katherine Kraemer.

In the California town of Sebastopol high school students meet for two hours after school on a day of their choice to cook organic healing food for people with serious health problems. Named after the Greek goddess of agriculture and generosity, Ceres, this project is almost entirely based on gifts. The teenage volunteers enjoy cooking so much that there is a waiting list. Sonoma County organic farmers donate most of the food, the use of the first kitchen was donated by a church, and volunteers are bringing the prepared dishes to the homes of the clients. These clients, and often their whole family receive a week's worth of beautifully prepared food as gift for up to three months. After that time they are asked to contribute. Their donation to the Ceres Community Project can be as little as $5 a week.

The Ceres Project is young - it started in March of 2007 - but it has touched so many lives, and inspired such gratitude and a kind of generosity that increased fourfold the number of meals provided in 2008. In early 2009 there is already the first attempt to duplicate the project in a neighboring county.

The Ceres Project came to the attention of another community organization, the West Marin radio station KWMR <http://kwmr.org/> and Mike Litchfield, host of the series: Heading Home. When Ceres Project founder Cathryn Couch first appeared on the air the station received so many requests to hear her again that Cathryn came back on the air in March of 2009. Thanks to KWMR and Mike Litchfield for allowing the re-broadcast of the program.

Part ONE: Interview with Cathryn Couch, Executive Director of the Ceres Community Project.
Part TWO: Conversation with Ceres Community Project client Katherine Kraemer who is going through chemotherapy. Cathryn Couch is participating as well.
Both interviews are made by phone. Recorded on March 10, 2009.
The web site of the Ceres Project is <http://www.ceresproject.org>
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ITHACA COMMUNITY MONEY
A history of the ITHACA HOURS community currency
During the Great Depression when banks were closed so they could be audited - over 400 currencies called SCRIPT were used in the US to buy food and services. When the banks reopened, sometimes several months later, SCRIPT was replaced with the federal currency.

Since the beginning of the financial crisis a resurgence of interest in alternative money systems has led to many new initiatives. A new website in the US called mainstreetcash.org is giving an overview over a huge number of community currencies and computer based trading systems with space for comment and discussion.

Featured on that web site are the Ithaca Hours, the oldest printed paper currency in the US. Founded in 1991 by Paul Glover it has been in continuous use, it's popularity rising and diminishing with fluctuations in the overall economy.

Each paper bill is a small piece of art and a commentary on the federal currency. At the top it says: IN ITHACA WE TRUST. - rather than In God We Trust. The currency is issued for the town of Ithaca and the surrounding farms - which means that the money will benefit local  exchanges and local jobs and can never go away as it does when we take dollars to WalMart.

I'm inviting you to re-visit with me one of the most important journeys I have taken as radio reporter, my 1995 visit to Ithaca. Paul Glover, who founded Ithaca Hours in 1991 is still doing community currency work. I spoke to him in March of 2009 to update the information in this program. His web site is http://www.paulglover.org
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Marilyn Waring
SEX, LIES AND GLOBAL ECONOMICS
The gross domestic product, the GDP, allegedly is an indicator of the well being of a society. Since powerful forces in banking and public policy are driving attempts to increase growth to solve the 2009 financial crisis it is important to listen to the critics of growth.

The GDP formula was invented by John Maynard Keynes who wrote a pamphlet during World War II entitled: The British National Income and How to Pay for the War. In 1953 that Keynesian set of rules was imposed on everybody.  The rules are called The United Nations System of National Accounts. All countries must use them or they will not be allowed to be a member of the UN, or deal with the World Bank and IMF. These unquestioned rules have been used to make public policy for the last 56 years.

Marilyn Waring says that the GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market. In other words it recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace to the preservation of the environment, and no value to unpaid work. This system leaves out half the population of the planet and the planet itself.

Marilyn Waring's work and intriguing life is described in a documentary film by Terre Nash. I'm bringing back the soundtrack of this film to support a debate on changing the current National Income Accounting using the GDP.

Marilyn Waring is an author, former member of the New Zealand Parliament, and goat farmer. She is Professor of Public Policy at AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand. The film is distributed by Bullfrog Films in Oley, Pennsylvania.
The web site of the film is: <http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/>
Thanks to Terre Nash for making this film available.
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Paul Grignon
MONEY AS DEBT
An independent movie on the question "Where does money come from?" already has had a huge two year success with well over 2 million viewers on the internet. Now it is seeing another surge of interest because it also explains some of the underpinnings of the current financial crisis.
 

Money as Debt by the Canadian Paul Grignon makes the case that only a small part of our money is created by the government mint that prints or coins it. The vast majority of money is created by banks whenever a loan or mortgage is made. Banks, which are private institutions, are given enormous power to make and manage money and it is well worth today, in light of the crash of so many banks, to look at the monetary system.

The web site of the film is: http://www.moneyasdebt.net
Thanks to Paul Grignon for making his film available.
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Annie Machon
BEYOND THE WAR ON TERROR
When Annie Machon studied classics at Cambridge University she was recruited by MI5, the British equivalent of the FBI. Machon spent 6 years as an operative against so-called political subversives.

While working for MI5 she and her then partner and colleague David Shayler discovered illegalities and outright crimes committed by their colleagues - both in MI5 and MI6, the British equivalent to the CIA. They ranged from illegal surveillance of labor politicians, and illegal phone tabs, to direct funding of Al Qaeda and false flag operations.

In the mid nineties, when Shayler was the head of the Lybian section at MI5 he worked with the corresponding section in MI6. He learned about their plot to assassinate Colonel Muammar Qaddafi. The plot was funded by MI6 and carried out. Several people were killed, most of them local residents who simply watched the convoy go by. Qaddafi was not hurt.

The assassination plot was the turning point for Machon and Shayler. They resigned from the agency and became whistle blowers. They hoped to initiate a parliamentary investigation into MI5 and MI6 to shed light on the increasing power of spy agencies and the growing immunity of what they call the Secret State. They say that after 9/11 the power of the Secret Sate is being enlarged everywhere and even a change in administration does not appear to roll back that power - not just in Britain, but apparently in the US as well.

While Shayler and Machon were fighting to reign in the MI5 and MI6 they encountered another, even larger complex of lies and secrets. The false information that led to Britain joining the war on Iraq. They joined the peace movement in hopes to alert others to learn from their example and mistrust the information on weapons of mass destruction coming out of the US CIA. Machon explains why she joined the 9/11 truth movement and how many vibrant groups in Europe and Russia are now campaigning for an independent - potentially international - new investigation of the events of 9/11.

Annie Machon was recorded on September 22, 2008 at the College of Marin in Kentfield, CA, by Ken Jenkins and Hummux. Annie Machon mentions two Palestinians jailed on false evidence. They are Samar Alami and Jawad Botme and the web site in their support is <http://www.freesaj.org.uk/>. She also spoke abut Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo, and the web site <http://www.cageprisoners.com/> Machon's web site is: <http://www.anniemachon.com/>

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Peter Dale Scott
SAVING AMERICAN POLITICS FROM THE PRESENT TWO-PARTY SYSTEM
The disparity of income and wealth in this country was increased by the first round of bank bail-outs. On Jan. 27, 2009, in front of an audience of Republicans, Scott explained in great detail the necessity to construct future bail-outs to diminish that gap for the sake of democracy. This is a lucid analysis and a well researched guideline for all who want to influence future financial policies.

This is also the only recording of a very unusual event. The San Francisco Republican Round Table crossed party lines and invited Peter Dale Scott. Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor of Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest books are: The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, published in 2007 by the University of California Press, and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War, published in 2008 by the Mary Ferrell Foundation Press. His website is <http://www.peterdalescott.net>

The Republican Round Table meets in a SF hotel. About 60 members, some with recognizable names, came to hear him. The only media in attendance were TUC Radio and, as guest, the former Ramparts editor Warren Hinkle accompanied by his basset hound.
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For the excerpt by PD Scott on Eliot Spitzer on YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsY1hzDWHKk>
For the op-ed that Spitzer wrote - that exposed predatory lending and really got him busted: <SpitzerColumn.htm>
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Fred Morse
SUN ENGINES AND CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER (CSP)
A brief history of a carbon free technology that could produce enough electricity to replace coal. CSP was pioneered by US engineers in the late 19th century and lost out to oil and coal. 

President Nixon asked Fred Morse whether solar energy made sense for America. His answer was "definitely yes". Fred Morse went on to manage solar energy in the Department of Energy for Presidents Carter and Reagan until 1989 when the programs were dismantled. Today Morse is the senior adviser for US operations for the Spanish firm Abengoa. They operate in over 70 countries and specialize in solar and bio-energy. Abengoa is trying to build the world's largest CSP plant near Phoenix, AZ. <http://www.abengoasolar.com/sites/solar/en/our_projects/usa/arizona/index.html> Coal and nuclear are lobbying hard to retain the lion's share of loan guarantees in the new stimulus package. ( The interview with Morse was recorded on 2008-08-26 in San Francisco/ Washington DC by phone.)

NOTES:
Our foremost climatologist, NASA's James Hansen, has demonstrated that our only hope of getting our atmosphere back to a safe level - below 350 parts per million CO2 - lies in stopping the use of coal to generate electricity.

Hansen points out that policy devices such as emissions reduction targets and cap-and-trade schemes simply will not work because there is already too much CO2 in the air. Much of the carbon dioxide given off by Robert Stephenson’s “Rocket” locomotive in 1829 is still in the atmosphere. Around 20% will still be present in thousands of years. If carbon dioxide continues to be released, even at the reduced rates now proposed, the amounts that remain will continue to build up. With present-day levels already posing real dangers, today’s policies of emissions reduction and carbon trading represent merely a slightly slower road to climate apocalypse. The lesson, Hansen argues, is that the bulk of the Earth’s remaining fossil fuels must be left untouched.

Thanks to Ken Butti and John Perlin whose book: A Golden Thread describes 2500 years of solar architecture and technology. Also to my friend Alex Carlin who first made me aware of CSP - a technology that has been made to lose out against oil and coal for decades - and that now needs it's day in the sun.
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MORE INFO:
Harvey Wasserman: A $50 Billion nuke power bomb is dropping toward Obama’s stimulus package, January 31, 2009. (Wasserman was on Democracy Now! on this issue on Feb. 5.) <http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2009/1721>

James Hansen, NASA: Tell President Obama About Coal River Mountain
<http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2009/20090203_CoalRiverMountain.pdf>
Coal River Mountain is the site of an absurdity.  I learned about Coal River Mountain from students at Virginia Tech last fall.  They were concerned about Coal River Mountain, but at that time most of them were working to support Barack Obama.  They assumed Barack Obama would not allow such outrages to continue. The issue at Coal River Mountain is whether the top of the mountain will be blown up, so that coal can be dredged out of it, or whether the mountain will be allowed to stand.

Arjun Makhjijani and David Freeman
IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING BACK?
- and do we need a police state to live with it?
Pres. Obama's energy secretary, Steven Chu, says he will streamline loan guarantees to build nuclear and coal fired power plants. This puts nuclear power on the watch list for the Obama administration.

This program features one of the great orators and elders of the anti nuclear movement. David Freeman shut down 8 of their 14 reactors while heading the Tennessee Valley Authority under Pres. Carter. He calls nuclear a failed technology and says that, in the age of terrorism, we need a police state to guard those Trojan horses.

Preceding Freeman's comment you will hear from Dr. Arjun Makhijani. He holds a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion. He is the principal editor and co-author of NUCLEAR WASTELANDS, the first global assessment of the effects of nuclear weapons production. He addresses the issues of nuclear proliferation and why nuclear technologies have spread in spite of the efforts, begun in the early 1960s to dismantle the existing weapons stockpiles.

Both speakers were attending a November 2005 conference organized by Dr. Helen Caldicott to deter the Bush administration from building new nuclear power plants. This is an updated version as a reminder to the current administration.

This program contains a chilling quote from Sen. Obama indicating that he is aware of the problems associated with nuclear power. (Source: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxl2cVFTLw> "I don't think there is anything that we inevitably dislike about nuclear power - we just dislike the fact that it might blow up and irradiate us and kill us."
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An interview with journalist Jeffrey Blankfort
ISRAEL'S WAR ON GAZA
On January 8 and 9, 2009 the US Senate and House passed resolutions overwhelmingly supporting Israel’s offensive in Gaza. This in the face of growing condemnation of the war on Gaza from another overwhelming majority in the United Nations General Assembly, and in the face of popular outcry not just in Muslim countries but in major cities throughout Europe as well as in the US and Canada.

There is a general consensus that the US is the only country that can bring about a cease fire - given the fact that it is Israel's strongest ally and financier. Yet the governing bodies and political elites in the US remain near unanimous in their support for Israel's actions even though they are increasingly isolated in world opinion. 

This interview covers four topics: the elections that led to the victory of Hamas in Gaza, the question of who broke the cease fire, and the so called coup by Hamas which was instead a failed coup against Hamas by US trained Fatah fighters. (See: Vanity Fair) Part two of the interview is dedicated to the most critical issue, the power of the Israel Lobby, its influence in taking the US into the war on Iraq and maintaining support for Israel in Senate and House.

Jeffrey Blankfort is a journalist, former editor of the Middle East Labor Bulletin, and host of "Takes on the World", a twice monthly radio program on foreign affairs on KZYX radio in Northern California. He has reported from Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel since 1970.
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On January 29, 2009, Jeffrey Blankfort interviewed Prof. John Mearsheimer on his radio program on KZYX, Takes on the World. HERE is the 39 minute unedited interview.
 
For more information on GAZA Jeffrey Blankfort recommends:

Audio ABUNIMAH, FINKELSTEIN & MEARSHEIMER discuss Israel's attacks on GAZA.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10225.shtml
On 8 January, a panel featuring these speakers was held at the University of Chicago to discuss the reasons and ramifications of the attacks on Gaza and the larger Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

ISRAEL'S LIES by HENRY SIEGMAN in the London Review of Books
Siegman is director of the US Middle East Project in New York and a former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n02/sieg01_.html>

UNDERSTANDING THE GAZA CATASTROPHE by RICHARD FALK
in the Huffington Post. Falk is United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-falk/understanding-the-gaza-ca_b_154777.html

Ilan Pappe
THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
The daily news on Israel and Palestine is impossible to understand without knowledge of the history of the 1948 expulsion of 3/4 of a million Palestinians by the Jewish army from what then became the state of Israel. When, in 1998, the Israelis opened the military archives it became clear that the Zionist movement had planned to expel the Palestinians long before 1948.
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Jeff Blankfort
TOTW (Takes on the World)
My friend Jeff Blankfort has a bi-monthly radio program on international affairs on KZYX in Philo, CA <http://www.kzyx.org> I am occasionally uploading the interview part of his program to this site to let you hear the voices of his informed and courageous guests.

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TUC Radio is distributing re-mastered CDs of Michael Parenti speeches. Click to go to the TUC  Radio PARENTI Archive page on this web site. To go to Michael Parenti's own web site - click HERE

January 21, 2008
Parenti has written a timely piece entitled: Capitalism's Self-Inflicted Apocalypse - you can read it HERE.

TUC Radio is distributing 26 films of Michael Parenti. These include the famous speeches from the 1980s to 2002 that were once distributed by People's Video in Seattle. They are re-mastered on DVD. Please use a DVD player built after 2005.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote this poem just before his 88th birthday. I recorded CASINO CULTURE in the kitchen of his apartment in North Beach.
Maria

LETTERS WITH RECENT DONATIONS

2/27/2009
Maria,
My wife and I are trying to start a self-sustainable Healing Arts Community Center, off the grid. Your programs are such a rare example of free speech and so inspiring to all who listen. I first was exposed to TUC in Seattle, WA years ago and have been educated and reassured by your speakers that humans can have an open dialog about the current state of affairs. Please keep up your monumental work! Always looking forward to hearing your voice of clarity! Walk in Beauty,
Dr. Alan S.
Mapleton, IA

2/19/2009
Hi Maria,
Since I heard you interviewed on Global News Hour I've been regularly downloading your radio shows (and advising others to do so as well). Today I started reading Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," an author I discovered through your audio archives and because of that, your appeal on the TUC website especially struck a nerve.  I thought it was about time I dipped my hands into my pocket and supported a show that is much needed in this time where propaganda masquerades as news; and that's on both sides of the Atlantic.  

Keep up the good work.
Best wishes from a grey and dank London,
Steven L.

2/17/2009
Maria--You and your show are amazing and so valuable to all of us who listen to it and all the others who are then indirectly affected. Thank you for your clarity, your courage, and your commitment.
Joshua L.
Boulder, CO

2/16/2009
I downloaded Peter Dale Scott right after hearing the talk on KGNU. I wanted to get a copy for some of my friends.
By the way whereas l enjoy listening to points of view unavailable elsewhere, I must add that I do not always agree with some of your speakers assertions, but I suspect that that is the engineer in me.
Sending a donation nevertheless -
David P.
Denver, CO

2/14/2009
Hi Maria,
I try to remember to listen to your show on KGNU on Friday afternoons but it usually slips my attention.  This past Friday, I was delayed at work and, a bit after 4pm, it dawned on me to tune in.  I was intrigued by Peter Dale Scott's essay and went to your website to read a bit about him.  As I scrolled down, I saw mention of your debt, the amount you owed to your credit card.  Despising the American banking system and the excessive usury they practice and adoring the service you provide, I realized the time was right to make a donation.
That is my motivation.
Thank you for your dedication.
Regards,
Henry C.
Denver, CO

2/10/2009
Thank you very much for making these important Parenti lectures available. I looked up your collage work and it is excellent! It reminded me of some art work that I saw at Documenta in Kassel, Germany, two years ago. Very powerful images with some commentary and humor mixed in.

I admire your independence and ability to speak up and share the truth.
Carol K.
San Francisco, CA
 

1/23/2009
A huge thank you, Maria, for your thoughtful, informative programs. 

I am particularly impressed right now with the programs about Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza.  I have always, throughout my life, cared about Israel and the Jewish people, but I am finding it very difficult to continue in support of their need for a place of their own when they show such cruelty toward the Palestinian people.  Their excuses for their destructive behavior just don't add up when you get the kind of information that Jeffrey Blankfort has given in your interview with him.

What really put it over the top for me was the segment on Democracy Now on Wednesday and Thursday with the young Palestinian student telling about the killing of his two brothers by Israeli soldiers who allowed his father to watch the slow death of one of his sons during a 20 hour period when they would not allow them to move from the car where they had been shot nor would allow medical treatment for them. 

The tipping point has been reached and with the help of programs like yours maybe we in the US can begin to see how our support of Israel is promoting this horrendous behavior.
I surely hope so.

Thank you again for your important work.
Susan V.K., San Francisco

3/25/2008
Maria,
I have been listening to TUC Radio for only a year, but because of your generosity in making mp3 downloads available to all, I feel like I have been part of the TUC family for years. I think TUC is the most important program I listen to. Thank you for your hard work. Good luck with your new home.
-David, Lafayette, CO

5/11/2008
I am happy to be able to contribute. TUC is so important to understanding the world today. Thanks for your efforts! Also thanks to all the others who contribute what they can to keep this important work going! Send what you can when you can!
Kit B., Tacoma, WA.

5/12/2008
Supporting your courage and independence.
Regards,
Stephanie, San Francisco, CA

5/27/08 
In these crazy times I /know/ I am more usefully conscious-- thanks to you. I wish I could do as much for you as you have done for me.  I really enjoy your program-- and never miss it!
Robert L, San Francisco

6/19/08
Maria, thank you so much for allowing mp3 downloads. Wonderful and useful work you're doing! It's interesting that it was the attempted corporate takeover of Pacifica Radio that helped spawn the creation of independent work such as your's along with Amy Goodman's here on the east coast. Thanks so much again.

Good luck with your new PV system, it's the future.
Chris & Harriet

7/18/08
Hi Maria, 
I will send more money in the future.
I have been meaning to donate but have put it off. The contrast of downloads to donations struck me and pushed me to act. I too have enjoyed your free downloads and am enormously grateful to you for your work. I will order CDs to share with others in the future. When I listen To TUC, it's usually online while I work. I found TUC on KZYX after moving here from Florida. KZYX has also introduced me to Democracy Now, Alternative Radio, the voices of Zinn, Chomsky, Parenti and so much more. I am amazed by this new wealth of information.
Gregory H., Willits, CA

10/12/08
A.J. in New York City sent this e-mail to his friend - and to me:
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=
1521609105&channel=992396355
If you don't know this woman, this film is a really good introduction. i go to her site pretty regularly, download some shows she's done, occasionally donate some dough, maybe write an email (and always get a reply).  

If you want Vivid, she's got it, and i'm very pleased to have found her a few years ago.

And come to think of it, I think Maria is Frida -- and Rosa L. -- reborn in San Francisco. 

Or maybe that's not fair; i think i'm just being, you know, hip. i kind of like somebody's description of Frida that says Frida had no politics -- that she was simply attracted to the fire of the people who did. and that's not Maria at all. yes, she gets off on other folks and their fire, but she's got plenty of her own.

A.J. New York City