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Michael Parenti: Capitalism’s Apocalypse – ARCHIVE

By MariaMarch 26, 2024Newest Catalog Items

Why the rich can’t save anybody – not even themselves 
2024 Tribute – Updated Archive: Parenti predicted the financial crisis and said that giant corporate capitalism – by it’s very nature – is an apocalyptic system. When unregulated the built in elements of ever increased growth may well bring the whole system down. And he described the growing national debt not as a tragic mistake but as a means to shift ever more money from the tax payers to the financial institutions in the form of interest payments.
This speech is an analysis of the many structural flaws of a capitalist system that puts it on a permanent collision course with democracy. Recorded on August 23, 2008 at the closing reception [ . . . ]

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Michael Parenti – Archive

By MariaMarch 19, 2024Newest Catalog Items

A People’s History of Ancient Rome with Lessons for Today Who was Julius Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author, speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing.
This rebroadcast is part of the very popular and ever expanding series on what Parenti called Real History, a different and intriguing reading of a surprisingly large number all too familiar stories.
Parenti spoke about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a people’s history of ancient Rome. He [ . . . ]

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Victoria Nuland Resigns – Glenn Greenwald and Ray McGovern Comment

By MariaMarch 12, 2024Newest Catalog Items

Nuland was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the third highest ranking US Diplomat position Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer. He became a vocal critic of the Iraq War and American foreign policy. In 2014, he cofounded The Intercept and was the editor until he resigned in October 2020. Greenwald now is self-publishing on Substack.
The Hill is a source for policy and political news. Glenn Greenwald was interviewed on their news commentary show, “Rising”.
Five days after the Greenwald interview the former CIA analyst Ray McGovern speculated that political differences between Nuland and Biden administration officials may have led to her surprise ouster.
Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration [ . . . ]

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Ilan Pappe: In Gaza now, it’s worse than ethnic cleansing

By MariaMarch 5, 2024Newest Catalog Items

The Israeli historian Ilan Pappe is interviewed by Dareen Abughaida on Al Jazeera English Dareen Abughaida is a Palestinian-Lebanese broadcast journalist based in Doha, Qatar. She’s currently working as the principal news presenter and host for Al Jazeera English. Dareen previously worked for Bloomberg L.P., CNBC, the World Bank, and the United Nations.
Al Jazeera English is a 24-hour English-language news channel. It is funded by the government of Qatar and the first world-wide English-language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Al Jazeera broadcasts in over 150 countries and territories, and has a global audience of 430 million people.
Dareen Abughaida interviewed Ilan Pappe on Feb 25, 2024. Pappe is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. This [ . . . ]

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The War on Truth – Julian Assange with Yanis Varoufakis

By MariaFebruary 27, 2024Newest Catalog Items

DiEM25 goes Live Stream while London’s High Court decides whether Julian Assange can be extradited to the US DiEM25 is a pan-European, progressive movement. They aim to democratize the EU before it disintegrates. DiEM25 members met by ZOOM on Feb 20, 2024, to comment on the court proceedings.
The moderator, Mehran Khalili, is an adviser to DiEM25 and writes about censorship and misinformation.
Yanis Varoufakis, economics professor and acclaimed author, was Minister of Finance in 2015, negotiating on behalf of the Greek government during their debt crisis.
Judith Meyer from Berlin, Germany, is a linguist and author and has been working for DiEM25 since 2016.
This recording, The War on Truth – Julian Assange with Yanis Varoufakis, is part of a 58 minute Live [ . . . ]

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Matt Simon: Microplastics Everywhere – in Water, Land and Air

By MariaFebruary 20, 2024Newest Catalog Items

Hosted by the Surfrider Foundation, San Diego, in January 2024 Matt Simon is the author of the book: A Poison Like No Other, How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.
He traces how the plastic we are using and discarding breaks into ever smaller pieces that poison water, soil and the atmosphere. Scientists have found micro plastics in the deepest ocean trenches and in snow of the North and South Poles. They are in our food, and from there travel though our bodies. And most plastic is made from a mix of toxic petro-chemicals.
Matt Simon has been a science journalist at Wired magazine for nine years. He covers a range of beats, including biology, robotics, climate change, and of course, [ . . . ]

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A Poison Like No Other – Matt Simon – TUC Archives

By MariaFebruary 13, 2024Newest Catalog Items

How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
Welcome to this program from TUC Radio’s Archives, first broadcasts on Jan. 3, 2023.
Almost all plastics in use today are so called “petrochemicals,” products made from fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas. This industry is booming and plastics are showing up not just in manufacturing, construction and road building, but in our personal environment, our homes, households, clothes, furniture, and the food distribution systems we depend on.
The very thing that makes plastic so useful – its toughness – means it never really goes away. It just gets smaller and smaller: eventually small enough to enter the atmosphere and be inhaled, or be absorbed by food crops that are watered with sewage sludge. [ . . . ]

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Yanis Varoufakis – The European Union and the War on Gaza

By MariaFebruary 6, 2024Newest Catalog Items

Excerpts from an interview by 99ZuEins – a podcast on the channel 99ToOne Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. He has been an outspoken dissident voice in the western discourse on the ongoing war in Gaza.
Since 2018, Varoufakis has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement, DiEM25, a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016.
Nadim, from 99ToOne, spoke with him about the nature of the war, the purpose and function of international institutions and humanitarian law, as well as the peculiar stance of the EU and Germany towards the war.
These are excerpts from a 45 minute interview,recorded on Feb. 2, 2024. Thanks to Nadim at 99ZuEins – a podcast on the [ . . . ]

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Ambassador Craig Murray and Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the International Court of Justice ruling on Genocide in Gaza

By MariaJanuary 30, 2024Newest Catalog Items

They are guests on Judging Freedom, hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano
On January 26, 2024, The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Craig Murray is a Scottish author, human rights campaigner, journalist, and former diplomat. He is a political activist, campaigning for human rights and for transparency in global politics.
Jeffrey Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is an SDG Advocate for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals
Judge Andrew Napolitano is an American former [ . . . ]

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George Galloway – Viva Palestina, Historic Aid Convoy to Gaza

By MariaJanuary 24, 2024Newest Catalog Items

Israel’s War on Gaza waged from Dec. 27/2008 to Jan. 18/2009 – TUC Radio Archive
The story of an international campaign to bring aid to Gaza and break the blockade is inspiring at this time – and here is the audio from a film I made of a talk given by George Galloway in Berkeley, CA, in 2009.
Israel’s war on Gaza from Dec 27, 2008 to Jan 18, 2009, made more than 100,000 people homeless. Both Israel and Egypt had closed the borders to Gaza, preventing all aid from coming in.
British Member of Parliament George Galloway broke the siege of Gaza with a 2 mile long humanitarian aid convoy in early 2009. They entered through the Rafah gate [ . . . ]

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Fred Gray – Civil Rights Attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, TUC Archive

By MariaJanuary 9, 2024Newest Catalog Items

Fred Gray, just out of law school, had made a commitment to destroy everything segregated in his home state of Alabama
Rosa Parks was only Fred Gray’s second case, after Claudette Colvin, a teenager, who nine months earlier had been the first to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and in turn inspired Rosa Parks.
When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance, 26-year-old Martin Luther King was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his and the movement’s lawyer. Gray’s legal victory in the federal courts ended the boycott 381 days later.
Fred Gray won scores of civil rights cases in education, voting rights, transportation, and health. [ . . . ]

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The Unsustainable Green Transition – Simon Michaux – Part TWO of TWO

By MariaJanuary 2, 2024Newest Catalog Items

Interview by Rachel Donald on PlanetCritical
Simon Michaux is associate professor at the Geological Survey of Finland. He and his team advise the Finnish government on how to phase out fossil fuels. As former mining engineer Michaux warns that we just don’t have enough minerals and materials in the Earth’s crust to develop a fully renewable economy along the standards we have come to expect – and he offers solutions.
Thanks to Rachel Donald, who engaged Michaux in a conversation on PlanetCritical.
DATE: April 19, 2023
LOCATION: Internet
CREDIT: Rachel Donald, PlanetCritical

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WWI – The Christmas Truce of 1914 – TUC Archives

By MariaDecember 26, 2023Newest Catalog Items

Silent Night in trenches of the Western Front
The Christmas Truce was an unofficial cease-fire on parts of the Western Front. Guns fell silent for one to several days. Soldiers emerged from the trenches and talked, exchanged gifts and kicked around a soccer ball. Trenches were close in some places, separated by 50 yards or less.
The Story of the Christmas Truce WWI is a documentary film about this spontaneous cease-fire. Thanks to historians Peter Hart, Taff Gillingham and Robin Schaefer, and their choice of rare documentary photos, footage and archived letters from soldiers of both sides.
This archival TUC Radio program first went into distribution on December 13, 2022. By coincidence on the same day that nearly 1,000 faith leaders called for [ . . . ]

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The Unsustainable Green Transition – Simon Michaux

By MariaDecember 19, 2023Newest Catalog Items

Interview by Rachel Donald on PlanetCritical
When I found this conversation and decided to re-broadcast I was intrigued by Simon Michaux’s rare expertise in mining – and by the premise that we can’t go green without going small. Our fossil fueled economy is destabilizing the planet. But a renewable economy as it is designed now makes unsustainable demands on minerals and materials of the earth.
Simon Michaux is an associate professor at the geological survey of Finland. He is a problem solver in the mining industry and now the industrial recycling industry. Most of his current scientific papers deal with the tasks to completely phase out fossil fuels in Finland.
Credit and thanks to Rachel Donald – host of PlanetCritical, lecturer and [ . . . ]