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  • All Time Favorites ( 10)
    Over 24 years of TUC Radio production a few programs have become unforgettable. Here they are.
  • Amazing Speakers & Events ( 77)
    Including speakers such as Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Winona LaDuke, Ward Churchill, Michael Parenti, Vandana Shiva, Howard Lyman, Ralph Nader, Maude Barlow, Alexander Cockburn, Kathy Kelly, and Andreas Toupadakis.
  • Films
    Two years ago I started filming all my radio programs. Here are the most intriguing, interesting, helpful, unusual or rare film in that growing collection.
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  • Michael Parenti ( 1)
    An archive of speeches by this insightful author/researcher about how our societal institutions no longer serve us - Themes are: Globalization, US Intervention, Racism, the Media the cost of Empire and a discourse on Julius Caesar, rebel or dictator?
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  • Native Nations ( 1)
    Native peoples speak on the destruction of their lands and their cultures, which are inseparable
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    • Environment ( 12)
      The effect of environmental degradation
  • Newest Catalog Items ( 463)
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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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Deep Adaptation Conversation with Joanna Macy hosted by Jem Bendell

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Jem Bendell is a professor of sustainability leadership at the University of Cumbria, UK. He is founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum, an online monthly conversation about how to prepare for what Bendell considers as a very likely collapse of industrial civilization.
Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology and a respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology.
In the summer of 2018 Prof. Bendell completed the paper entitled Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy. It was rejected for publication by reviewers of an academic journal.
Bendell refused to make changes to satisfy academia and published on the internet. There the paper has gone around the world. He has become an important voice among [ . . . ]

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Katie Singer: The Internet’s Footprint Part TWO of TWO

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Current efforts by the industry to roll out 5G cellular networks across the US heightened the interest in TUC radio programs. Especially what medical Doctor Devra Davis reported regarding tests commissioned by the Chicago Tribune in August 2019. Results showed that radio-frequency radiation exposure from the most popular smartphones measured higher than the legal safety limit. The way most users carry smartphones on their bodies and hold them close to their skull when they talk sends more radio-frequency radiation into their bodies than they know. What this may mean for our children is addressed by Katie Singer at the beginning of this talk. She also lists the most energy demanding parts of the internet and how much embodied energy exists [ . . . ]

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Katie Singer: The Internet’s Footprint Part ONE of TWO

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Katie Singer is the author of “An Electronic Silent Spring, Facing the Dangers and Creating Safe Limits”;  and the forthcoming “Our Web of Inconvenient Truths: The Internet, Energy Use, Toxic Waste and Climate Change – How on Earth Do We Shrink the Internet’s Footprint?”
She is a consultant with the EMR Policy Institute, and presented her concerns about the Internet’s footprint at the 2018 UN Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation and on a January, 2019, panel with climatologist Dr. Jim Hansen. She was interviewed at the Jan 25 to Feb. 3, 2019, conference of the the Hippocrates Health Institute by Ben Zeitlin. In her first book, The Electronic Silent Spring, Katie Singer wrote on EMR’s health effects. She told me that now [ . . . ]

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ARCHIVE: Fire and the Underground Life in the Forest Peter Wohlleben and Suzanne Simard

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UPLOADED A DAY EARLY due to Fire in our area: First broadcast November 2018
As California tries to come to terms with the largest and deadliest fires of 2019, attention falls on forests. Logging companies want more clear-cuts. Donald Trump says the forest floor should be cleaned with rakes.
Indigenous elders and visionary foresters say that nobody is asking the trees what they want and need. Especially now as the heat is rising, water becomes scarce and winds are fiercer.
Peter Wohlleben is the author of: “The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World”. He is a German forester who became disenchanted by the technologies he was expected to employ. He now manages [ . . . ]

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5G Cellular Network Technology – Boris Johnson and Devra Davis

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Late in the evening of September 24, 2019, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson surprised the UN General Assembly in New York City when he stepped to the podium. He gave an extraordinary – even poetic – description of the digital surveillance age. He said that digital authoritarianism is not the stuff of dystopian fantasy but of an emerging reality.
Devra Davis earned a PhD in science studies at the University of Chicago. She founded the non-profit Environmental Health Trust in 2007 to provide basic research and education about environmental health hazards and promote constructive policies locally and internationally. She is currently visiting Professor of Medicine in Israel and Turkey.
She was interviewed by podcaster David Wolfe about 5G and Mobile Phone [ . . . ]

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