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Dr. Larry Brilliant: Covid 19 – Outbreaks are Inevitable, But Pandemics are Optional

By MariaMarch 31, 2020Newest Podcasts

In the spiring of 2017, at a release party for his book: Sometimes Brilliant he sketched out his extraordinary voyage from civil rights movement, to medical training to helping out as physician during the occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes.
In the Bay Area Larry Brilliant connected with the psychedelic and music counterculture, and followed the hippie trail from London over the Khyber Pass to India – with his wife Elaine, Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm commune.
One of India’s best known spiritual teachers, Neem Karoli Baba, told him his destiny was to work for the World Health Organization to help eradicate smallpox. Larry Brilliant became a key participant in eliminating that 10,000-year-old disease that killed half [ . . . ]

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Dr. John Campbell: Corona Virus Update

By MariaMarch 24, 2020Newest Podcasts

and How NOT to Treat a Corona Virus Fever
On March 23rd, 2020, as global confirmed Corona cases top 400,000, Donald Trump stresses the need to Reopen America and ease up on stay at home orders – at the same time India announces a 21-day lockdown across the country; and UK prime minister Boris Johnson – after weeks of inaction – announces a strict lockdown all across England.
Just before this news became public Dr. John Campbell, in his daily updates on his YouTube channel, explained how important the stay at home orders are. Dr. Campbell is a retired Nurse Teacher based in England
The second commentary by Dr. Campbell deals with treatment of fever. Since fever has become the most important [ . . . ]

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Coronavirus: What is it and how do we prepare for it

By MariaMarch 17, 2020Newest Podcasts

With Dr. Michael Osterholm from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
In his book, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, Osterholm identified the most pressing infectious diseases of our day. AND he laid out a nine-point strategy on how to address them, with preventing a global flu pandemic at the top of the list. On March 3, 2020, he defined the public health strategy that should and could have been followed.
Dr. Michael Osterholm was interviewed by Peter Bergen, Vice President of Global Studies & Fellows, New America
You can watch the full one hour event on YouTube by searching for he title: Coronavirus: What is it and how do we prepare for it.

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Dr. John Campbell: Corona Virus – What we need to know now

By MariaMarch 10, 2020Newest Podcasts

Interview by Radio Ecoshock Host Alex Smith
In the first week of March 2020, as the world was trying to understand the new Corona Virus, this extraordinary conversation was posted in the weekly line-up of Radio Ecoshock.
My fellow broadcaster and friend Alex Smith reached Dr. John Campbell in Britain and asked him about the medical science and epidemiology of the Corona virus. Dr. Campbell is a retired Nurse Teacher and A and E nurse based in England. He also does some teaching in Asia and Africa. He publishes daily on Youtube under Campbellteaching. These videos help students learn the background to all forms of health care. He currently posts on the spread of the Corona virus. A film posted yesterday had [ . . . ]

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Protecting the Rights of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

By MariaMarch 3, 2020Newest Podcasts

After four days of intense deliberations between Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange’s legal team and attorneys representing the United States government at the end of February 2020 the British judge suspended the extradition hearings until mid-May.
The Trump administration decided to charge Julian Assange under the Espionage Act for his role in publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. He could be sentenced to up to 175 years in prison.
In contrast the Obama administration had decided not to charge under the Espionage Act in order to protect media such as the New York Times who published the very same materials that Assange had made public.
Assange has been held in London’s high security Belmarsh prison since April [ . . . ]

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Stop the Extradition of Julian Assange

By MariaFebruary 25, 2020Newest Podcasts

With Human Rights Lawyer Jennifer Robinson and author and public intellectual Tariq Ali On February 24, 2020, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing opened in a London court.
The US government had said he is guilty of hacking into and publishing US military databases. The Trump administration raised the stakes significantly. They want to put him on trial under the espionage act, threatening Assange with 175 years in prison.
Jennifer Robinson is a member of Julian Assange’s legal team. She spoke on February 4, 2020, at a public rally for Assange at the Royal National Hotel in London.
Tariq Ali is a well know British author, film-maker, historian, political activist and editor who came to support Julian Assange.
This rally and prior events [ . . . ]

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Big Tech interview with Anand Giridharadas: Winners Take All

By MariaFebruary 18, 2020Newest Podcasts

How Taxes, not Philanthropy, will Change the World – In this January 2020 episode of Big Tech, co-hosts Taylor Owen and David Skok speak with Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All. Giridharadas is editor-at-large for TIME magazine, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Giridharadas’ acclaimed book: Winners Take All, The Elite Charade of Changing the World describes a global elite who claim to be in the business of changing the world.
Big Tech is a podcast about the emerging technologies that are reshaping democracy, the economy and society. The podcast is a project of The Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada.
You can find the full [ . . . ]

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Ray McGovern – RussiaGate and Julian Assange

By MariaFebruary 11, 2020Newest Podcasts

Excerpts of the January 2019 program RussiaGate: The Absence of Evidence? – Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. His duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief to Ronald Reagan’s security advisers from 1981 to 1985.
The material for this program came with a professional challenge – would TUC radio broadcast arguments that there is no evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections? Now just over a year later there is renewed attention on election interference, the role of Russia, the working of the DNC in choosing the democratic candidate – and maybe most importantly of all [ . . . ]

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Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy, Part TWO of TWO

By MariaFebruary 4, 2020Newest Podcasts

Shoshana Zuboff is the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. She reveals a world in which technology users are the raw material for new procedures of manufacturing and sales that define an entirely new economic order: a surveillance economy. Some now claim that Facebook and Cambridge Analytica played a larger role in Donald Trump’s election victory than Russia.
In this part of her talk Zuboff describes how human behavior is not just observed but influenced to make a particular consumer or political choice.
Zuboff is the author of three books. “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power” foresaw how computers would revolutionize the modern workplace. Her influential “The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals…” [ . . . ]

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Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy Part ONE of TWO

By MariaJanuary 28, 2020Newest Podcasts

Shoshana Zuboff is the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. She reveals a world in which technology users are the raw material for new procedures of manufacturing and sales that define an entirely new economic order: a surveillance economy.
Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything wrote: “From the very first page I was consumed with an overwhelming imperative: everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self defense.”
Robert Reich, author of Saving Capitalism for the Many, Not the Few wrote: Shoshana Zuboff’s … “sweeping analysis demonstrates the unprecedented challenge to human autonomy, social solidarity, and democracy by this rogue (surveillance) capitalism.”
In the late 1990s TUC Radio’s studio was still located in the northeastern Mission industrial zone [ . . . ]

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Bruce Gagnon: The Ongoing Danger of Militarization of Space

By MariaJanuary 21, 2020Newest Podcasts

Archival Program from 2015
This archival program by TUC Radio about Dangers of the Militarization of Space is designed to follow last week’s commentary on Donald Trumps launch of the Space Force, the first new US military service in more than 70 years. At several ceremonies on and around December 27, 2019, Trump declared that ‘now space is the world’s new war-fighting domain.’ And that the US would seek dominance in space.
This talk was part of a two day symposium on The Dynamics of Nuclear Extinction, organized by antinuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott in 2015.
In 2017 Helen Caldicott edited a book with material from the Symposium, entitled Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation. And this talk by Bruce Gagnon is [ . . . ]

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Weapons in Space: Donald Trump has launched the US Space Force

By MariaJanuary 14, 2020Newest Podcasts

Trump said: ‘Space is the world’s new war-fighting domain.’
Space Force, the first new US military service in more than 70 years. The program begins with a clip from the signing ceremony at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, DC, on December 27, 2019.
On the eve of the ceremony Karl Grossman and Bruce Gagnon were interviewed on the podcast Loud & Clear Saying NO to the Militarization of Space. The program host, Brian Becker, gave permission to re-broadcast their comments.
Five days a week Brian Becker covers the latest news, commentary and political analysis on international affairs. His co-host is John Kiriakou, author, journalist and retired intelligence officer. Kiriakou was the first U.S. Government official to confirm that water boarding was used [ . . . ]

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Anand Giridharadas testifies before the Dutch Parliament

By MariaJanuary 7, 2020Newest Podcasts

Why the Super-Rich Won’t Change the World
Giridharadas was amazed when he received an invitation from the finance committee of the Dutch Parliament to discuss his book: Winners Take All, The Elite Charade of Changing the World. He had not expected to see the conservatives meet with him – but all parties showed up and engaged him for 1 1/2 hours. Giridharadas tweeted on October 17, 2019: They were something one rarely sees in politics: curious. They had more questions than answers. It was super-disorienting for an American.
Anand Giridharadas is editor-at-large for TIME magazine, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He had been invited by the [ . . . ]

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Anand Giridharadas: Should Billionaires Exist?

By MariaDecember 31, 2019Newest Podcasts

Are billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates the American Dream personified? Do they reflect a healthy economy? Or, as Senator Bernie Sanders has said, should billionaires not exist in the first place? Anand Giridharadas, Time magazine editor-at-large and author of “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World,” discusses why he agrees with Sanders.
This program is compiled from three excerpts: On Dec 9, 2019, Anand Giridharadas was Steve Paikin’s guest on The Agenda, TV Ontario’s renowned current affairs program.
Two months earlier, on Oct 8, 2019, Anand Giridharadas had been the guest on The Daily Show. The host, Trevor Noah, got into a fiery exchange with Giridharadas about his best selling book: “Winners Take [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Theocracy VS. Democracy – ARCHIVE

By MariaDecember 24, 2019Newest Podcasts

The Political Uses of Religion Michael Parenti says that democracy can’t survive under religious rule – whatever that religion may be. Parenti’s warning in this archival recording is as timely and urgently expressed as it was when this speech was first given on April 12, 1987, during the second term of the Reagan administration.
This talk is also very funny. Parenti explains how God may be considered as a “founding father” and why Woody Allen calls him an underachiever. It is easy to extend this timeless analysis to the present circumstances.
With roots in a working class Italian district of New York City and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale Michael Parenti has become an internationally known writer and lecturer. [ . . . ]

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