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Protecting the Rights of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

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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

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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

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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.
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Ray McGovern – RussiaGate and Julian Assange

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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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Collapse and the Technosphere with Dmitry Orlov, TWO of TWO

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This is the second part of a one hour conversation about the Technosphere between the Hermitix podcaster James and Dmitry Orlov. They met on line on August 31, 2019.
Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, Russia, and immigrated to the United States. He is an engineer and prolific author. Among his books are: Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects , Shrinking the Technosphere, and Everything is Going According to Plan.
In his 2013 book: The Five Stages of Collapse, A Survivors Toolkit, Orlov spelled out which constructs of modern states will be affected: His chapter headings go from Financial to Commercial Collapse to Political, Social and Cultural Collapse.
Dmitry Orlov continues to write almost weekly on his “Club Orlov” [ . . . ]

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Collapse and the Technosphere with Dmitry Orlov, ONE of TWO

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In recent research for TUC programs on climate change, the school strike movement and extinction rebellion ideas around collapse have been coming up. They may be expressed by scientists or novelists and include familiar names such as James Howard Kunstler and John Michael Greer.
One person stands out – Dmitry Orlov and this is a conversation with him that was conducted by James on his Hermitix podcast on August 31, 2019.
Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and writer on subjects related to “potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States,” something he has called “permanent crisis”.
When Orlov’s book: – Everything is Going According to Plan – was published in 2017 he wrote: A little over 21 [ . . . ]

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BURNED, Are Trees the New Coal

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Excerpts from the soundtrack of the film by Alan Dater and Lisa Merton
This is a documentary film on a problem most of us did not know we had and a practice that may yet prevent us from making the urgent transition to clean energy.
The first visuals in the film show clear cuts in wetland forests in the US South and Southeast, follow the logging trucks into the staging areas of electric power plants where the trees are shredded and burned as fuel – the so-called biomass.
Many of these power plants formerly burned coal and need little adjustment to now burn trees. The bitter irony is that burning trees emits more carbon than coal – as is explained in [ . . . ]

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Professor Rupert Read: The end of globalization and the return of localization

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How climate change breakdown terminates the concept of development
When Rupert Read first appeared on TUC Radio with his talk: This Civilization is Finished – So what is to be done – he drew a huge response. Here is a professor and well established intellectual who risks arrest in his association with the Extinction Rebellion climate change movement in England. XR use civil disobedience to make governments, and really everyone, declare climate change emergencies and act on them.
Even in September 2019 Professor Rupert Read – in front of an academic audience at the prestigious University College London feels compelled to say: “I come here with a message many of will find hard not to resist.”
But, as the urgency grows to deal [ . . . ]

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