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Dangers from Drugs Manufactured Overseas – Two / With Katherine Eban and Dr. Harry Lever

By MariaDecember 22, 2020Newest Podcasts

With Katherine Eban, author of “Bottle of Lies”, and Dr. Harry Lever In the first of this two part program we heard that nearly 80 percent of the active ingredients of all brand-name and generic drugs as well as almost all antibiotics in the U.S. are made outside of the country without any effective oversight, mostly in China and India. There is growing evidence that many of these drugs can be ineffective at best or contain toxic ingredients.
Katherine Eban’s book: “Bottle of Lies” is the detective story – now in the hands of medical staff, FDA administrators and those who fight for disclosure and safer medicines.
This program opens with Katherine Eban’s story of Ranbaxy, whose pills, exported into the US [ . . . ]

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Dangers from Drugs Manufactured Overseas – One / With Katherine Eban, author of “Bottle of Lies”

By MariaDecember 15, 2020Newest Podcasts

Katherine Eban’s recent book, “Bottle of Lies,” reveals that nearly 80 percent of the active ingredients of all brand-name and generic drugs as well as almost all of the antibiotics in the U.S. are made outside of the country, mostly in China and India.
Eban is an investigative journalist who has written award-winning stories that range from pharmaceutical counterfeiting to gun trafficking. “Bottle of Lies” is a New York Times bestseller that came out in 2019.
On June 17, 2020, Katherine Eban gave a talk for TEDMED, a series of TED talks that focus on health and medicine. Their mission is to connect science and the public by sharing stories that inform, inspire, engage and provoke action.
Next up are 12 minutes [ . . . ]

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From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima – Part TWO of TWO Arjun Makhijani – TUC Archives

By MariaDecember 8, 2020Newest Podcasts

Arjun Makhijani asks how it had been possible to exclude almost all military and civilian leaders of the WWII war effort from the Pentagon to the US government, including even the Vice President, and all but a handful of members of Congress, from knowing about and influencing the Manhattan Project.
Among the few in charge was the engineer and inventor Vannevar Bush. He was the first presidential science advisor and coordinated around 6,000 scientists working on war technologies. Bush was director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) in the Roosevelt White House, the very organization that initiated the Manhattan Project.
Arjun Makhijani holds a Ph.D. in engineering, specializing in nuclear fusion, from the University of California at Berkeley. [ . . . ]

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From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima – Part ONE of TWO Arjun Makhijani – TUC Archives

By MariaDecember 1, 2020Newest Podcasts

This year Pearl Harbor Day is on December 7, 2020
Questions raised are: Why was the US fleet moved from San Diego to Pearl Harbor? Does the Japanese attack have anything to do with the US oil embargo? What were the original goals of the Manhattan Project and why and when were they changed? And who was in charge of this secret program when even the US Vice President or the generals responsible for WWII did not know?   
Makhijani, originally from Mumbai, India, holds a Ph.D. in engineering with focus on nuclear fusion from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an extraordinary combination of historian and physicist.
Makhijani is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, the website is IEER.org [ . . . ]

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Joanna Macy: A Wiser, Braver World

By MariaNovember 24, 2020Newest Podcasts

On the Summer Solstice of 2020 Joanna Macy, from her home in Berkeley, spoke at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Buddhist monastery had called for Awakened Action and invited Women Leaders to Speak to Race, Poverty, Climate, and the Covid Pandemic.
Joanna Macy is an eco-philosopher and a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. Now in her very early nineties she has for decades helped transform despair and apathy into constructive change. As teacher, writer of eight books and antinuclear activist she has created frameworks for personal and social change. Joanna Macy is probably best know as the founder and root teacher of the Work That Reconnects.
Thanks to Roshi Joan Halifax and [ . . . ]

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Gabe Brown – Brown’s Ranch in North Dakota – Part Two

By MariaNovember 17, 2020Newest Podcasts

This is the last in a mini-series about protecting the soils of the world from erosion and poisoning by agricultural chemicals. Industrial farming techniques along with climate change are causing the loss of 75 billion tons of topsoils each year.
On May 4, 2020, Jesse Frost had a farmer to farmer conversation with Gabe Brown on Regenerative Agriculture. Jesse farms off grid in Kentucky and hosts the No-Till Market Garden Podcast. Gabe Brown’s 5,000 acre farm in North Dakota is now run by his son and his son’s fiancé. Most of the Brown Ranch is in crops and grazed by cattle, sheep and hogs with a small area in no till vegetables.
Gabe Brown is now a pioneer of the soil-health [ . . . ]

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Gabe Brown – Brown’s Ranch in North Dakota

By MariaNovember 10, 2020Newest Podcasts

Interview by Jesse Frost on the No-Till Growers Podcast On May 4, 2020, Jesse Frost had a farmer to farmer conversation with Gabe Brown on Regenerative Agriculture.
In the current emergency, that is caused by climate change and the Corona Virus pandemic, a movement among farmers brings inspiration and hope to those who are looking for healthy food and techniques of farming without chemicals.
Instead of adding to carbon dioxide pollution by industrial farming and animal raising techniques, farmers like Gabe Brown and Jesse Frost are exploring ways of actually bringing carbon dioxide down from the air and back into the soil.
Every year the Food and Agriculture Organization in the United Nations is celebrating World Soil Day on [ . . . ]

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In Memory of Robert Fisk — His Warning, in 2002, of the Pending War on Iraq

By MariaNovember 3, 2020Newest Podcasts

Robert Fisk, the award winning war correspondent and dean of Middle East journalists died in Dublin on October 30. He was only 74.
Robert Fisk won more British journalism awards than any of his peers, including British Foreign Reporter of the Year seven times and the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 2002. The New York Times described him as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain.” And that in spite of his principle of speaking truth to power.
Fisk reported for the London Independent on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, without sparing responsibility of the United States and his native Britain for so much of the carnage.
He became one of very few [ . . . ]

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Soil is a Living Being – Dr. Christine Jones and Farmer Gabe Brown

By MariaOctober 27, 2020Newest Podcasts

In the preceding TUC Radio program Dr. Christine Jones was first introduced. Here is the self-contained conclusion of her presentation to Fibershed. She is an internationally known ground-cover and soils ecologist. She works with landholders to increase biodiversity and biological activity. They sequester carbon, activate soil nutrient cycles, restore water balance, improve productivity and create new topsoil.
Gabe Brown first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. When a series of crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started – from 1993 on – experimenting with a new type of farming: regenerative agriculture. Gabe Brown is now a pioneer of the soil-health movement and has been named one of the [ . . . ]

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Soil is a Living Being – Dr. Christine Jones

By MariaOctober 20, 2020Newest Podcasts

Christine Jones is an internationally renowned and highly respected ground-cover and soils ecologist. She has a wealth of experience working with landholders to enhance biodiversity, increase biological activity, sequester carbon, activate soil nutrient cycles, restore water balance, improve productivity and create new topsoil. She is passionate about reversing the decline of nutrients in food that is grown on the world’s depleted soils.
Jones has organized and participated in workshops and conferences throughout Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, Central America, and the USA and has a strong publication and presentation record. She is a member of Arizona State University’s ‘Carbon Nation Team’ and sits on the advisory board of ‘The Carbon Underground’.
The non-profit Fibershed held a workshop with Christine [ . . . ]

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Hurricanes & Climate Change: Dr. Jennifer Francis

By MariaOctober 13, 2020Newest Podcasts

Jennifer Francis became Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center after being a research professor at Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
She gave an interview to Miami Herald reporter Alex Harris on Hurricanes & Climate Change a day after the beginning of the official annual hurricane season that goes from June first to November 30th, giving a forecast that in essence came true.
Live on Zoom this became one of the most detailed and fact-filled conversations about how natural phenomena such as El Nino and La Nina, and even dust storms from the Sahara desert, interact with warmer oceans and one foot higher sea levels and changes in the ocean currents that make hurricane seasons longer [ . . . ]

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Fast Food World – TUC personal archive – Two of Two

By MariaOctober 6, 2020Newest Podcasts

Eric Schlosser, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Carlo Petrini and Wendell Berry
Fast Food World was organized by Orville Schell, Dean of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and professor of journalism Michael Pollan. They had invited an international panel.
The goal of Fast Food World was to examine the economic, social and health aspects of worldwide food production and the role of food industries in promoting or destroying human welfare.
The first speaker is Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, followed by Vandana Shiva from India, activist and author of Monocultures of the Mind and Biopiracy. Also present and participating in the discussion, whether it is even still possible to feed the huge world population with healthy food are: Wendell [ . . . ]

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Fast Food World – TUC personal archive – One of Two

By MariaSeptember 29, 2020Newest Podcasts

Michael Pollan, Carlo Petrini and Wendell Berry
In the seventh month of Covid, September 2020, life for so many is coming into focus around the essentials – Home and Food. Including my home, threatened by the California fires, and my tiny garden with tomatoes and peppers. Meanwhile the whole world is bursting in with Covid news. And a conversation is beginning about how bes to rebuild the food web when Covid ends.
For me this brings back memories of an extraordinary on-stage conversation at UC Berkeley at the end of November 2003. The hall filled to capacity long before the beginning of the event. Who would have thought that a simple title such as “Fast Food World” would draw over [ . . . ]

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Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food and Farming in a Pandemic World – Part TWO of TWO

By MariaSeptember 22, 2020Newest Podcasts

This the conclusion of a masterclass on this theme taught by Vandana Shiva to students at the University of British Columbia on August 17, 2020. This program also includes a rare bonus-track of a TUC Radio recording of Shiva’s keynote at the Fast Food World conference at UC Berkeley on November 24, 2003.
Before earning her PhD in quantum theory Vandana Shiva had been training in India in the atomic energy commission. She credits the Chipko Movement, where she volunteered, with teaching her about biodiversity. Chipko was a nonviolent ecological movement in India in the 1970s started by rural villagers, mainly women. They were protecting trees and forests slated for government-backed logging by embracing the trees and stopping the chainsaws.
Vandana [ . . . ]

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Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food and Farming in a Pandemic World – Part ONE of TWO

By MariaSeptember 15, 2020Newest Podcasts

On Aug 17, 2020, the University of British Columbia in Canada invited Dr. Vandana Shiva to hold the first on-line Masterclass with students from UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems. Vandana Shiva gave a presentation and then the students self-organized the lively and warm Q and A period.
Vandana Shiva remembers with fondness her time as a student in Canada. She was trained as a physicist before shifting to interdisciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy. She earned her PhD in quantum theory at the University of Western Ontario.
Currently she is based in Dehra Dun, India. She has authored over 20 books, including The Violence of the Green Revolution, Monocultures of the Mind, Soil not Oil and Oneness [ . . . ]

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