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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 ( 76)
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.

Creative Communities ( 23)
Practical solutions for a new society (includes a 5-part series on how to print your own community money)
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- Banking ( 1)
- Simple Technologies ( 1)
- Transition Towns ( 1)

Environment and Climate Change ( 39)

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- Actions ( 1)
- Melting Ice ( 5)
- Sea Level ( 1)
- The ocean ( 2)

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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- Films on DVD ( 34)

Food & Water ( 20)

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- Clean Water ( 1)
- Safe Food ( 3)
- Seed Sovereignty ( 1)

Foreign Policy

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- Imperial US ( 4)
- Middle East ( 19)
- Palestine ( 5)

Globalization ( 3)

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- Corporate Power ( 1)

Inside U.S.

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- 9/11 ( 7)
- Civil Rights ( 5)
- Economics ( 3)
- Government ( 10)
- Internet ( 1)
- Labor ( 3)
- Politics ( 11)
- Racism ( 2)

Live Recordings ( 1)

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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- Michael Parenti Audio CDs ( 46)
  Audio CDs of Michael Parenti.
- Michael Parenti Films on DVD ( 30)
  Included are archival films transferred from VHS (come back for updates ..)

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
- Sovereignty ( 15)

Newest Catalog Items ( 455)
If you can't see the program you are looking for on this list use the search form at top of this website to locate it in the Catalog.

Nuclear ( 2)

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- Nuclear Power ( 4)
- Nuclear Weapons ( 11)

Technology

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- Biotechnology ( 1)
- Radiation ( 1)

The Arts ( 6)

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- Philosophy ( 3)

Women ( 1)

Prof. Richard Wolff on May Day 2025

By MariaMay 13, 2025Newest Catalog Items

On the impact of President Trump’s first 100 days This is the replay of a special, Live, May-Day talk by Professor Richard Wolff on President Trump’s economic policies. Wolff had been invited by Women Building Up in Brooklyn, NY.(WBU). In spite of the serious topic, his presentation was also entertaining and full of surprises.
Richard Wolff is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs of the New School.
Prof. Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. Among his many works are Understanding Capitalism; The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself; [ . . . ]

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Trump in Panic: Yemen Sinks a U.S. Fighter Jet

By MariaMay 6, 2025Newest Catalog Items

Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuss the incident with Danny Haiphong The shocking status of U.S. military power has been exposed by Yemen forcing an F-18 to sink off the USS Harry Truman to the bottom of the Red Sea. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson and former Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson call this the crisis facing America’s waning empire – and here are their comments – recorded on April 30.
Only four days later their discussion another incident confirmed their analysis: The NY Times reported on May 4 that a ballistic missile launched from Yemen struck near the main terminal of Israel’s international Ben Gurion Airport close to Tel Aviv, after the military failed to intercept the projectile.
These [ . . . ]

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How to bring peace to Ukraine – a war between two versions of history

By MariaApril 29, 2025Newest Catalog Items

Professor Jeffrey Sachs is being challenged by Professor Klaus Larres In April/May 2025 the possible end to the war in Ukraine has world attention. But the peace agreement requires an accepted reading of history – and the two sides are still far apart. Here is an amazing debate over the end of the Soviet Union, the expansion of NATO, nuclear weapons, prior attempts to end the invasion, and even the reminder that Crimea has been the home of Russia’s naval base since 1783.
Professor Klaus Larres teaches at the University of North Carolina. Professor Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. In spite of their differences of opinion, Professor Larres introduces Jeffrey Sachs as a [ . . . ]

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Our Common Future Under Climate Change, Honoring Pope Francis’ Laudato Si

By MariaApril 22, 2025Newest Catalog Items

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber recorded in Paris and at the Vatican in 2015
(Archival TUC Radio program from 2015) At 3am today, April 21, 2025, news services in California announced the death of Pope Francis. Among the many memories of his extraordinary life, his Encyclical on Climate Change, Laudato Si, on the urgently needed care of our common home, came to my mind.
Only nine days ago Pope Francis had announced the celebration, in September 2025, of the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si. Now we need to create the conditions for peace to prevent the destruction of our home without his help.
But Laudato Si has dual roots. Maybe for the first time in the history of papal encyclicals, Pope Francis invited scientists to [ . . . ]

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Alastair Crooke: Trump and Chaos

By MariaApril 15, 2025Newest Catalog Items

Judge Andrew Napolitano brings you the sources of Chaos from Ukraine to Iran to Gaza to Tariffs to the first deep splits inside the Trump Administration
This interview of Alastair Crooke was streamed live on April 14, 2025. Before he retired Crooke was a ranking figure in both British Intelligence with MI6 and European Union diplomacy. He is founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum. They promote engagement between political Islam and the West.
Judge Andrew Napolitano served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge from 1987 to 1995. Two years after retiring the Judge became a legal and political analyst for Fox News. He now runs a very popular podcast channel under the title “Judging Freedom”
This conversation was streamed Live [ . . . ]

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Yanis Varoufakis Dissects Trump’s Tariffs

By MariaApril 8, 2025Newest Catalog Items

The former Greek Finance Minister in conversation with Novara Media’s Michael Walker They spoke on April 8, 2025, when Donald Trump’s tariff’s had just collapsed the global stock markets and governments around the world were searching for a response.
Yanis Varoufakis is a university teacher, author in economics and technology, and engaged in European politics. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of DiEM25, that’s Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 a left-wing pan-European political party that he co-founded in 2016.
Varoufakis is being interviewed by Michael Walker, contributing editor at Novara Media. That’s an independent, non-profit media organization based in the United Kingdom.
Walker brings up questions not raised by many analysts in this extraordinary crisis in April 2025 – and Varoufakis answers are [ . . . ]

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How the demonstrations in Turkey and the US bombing of Yemen affect the fate of Gaza – and will Iran be next

By MariaApril 1, 2025Newest Catalog Items

Mohammad Marandi from the University of Teheran gives a close-up portrait of the countries surrounding Israel/Palestine Marandi was interviewed by Nima on the podcast channel Dialogue Works. They spoke on Monday, March 24, 2025.
The bombing of Yemen, that the U.S. Trump administration had launched, was continuing as they spoke. Analysts describe it as one of the largest bombing attacks on Yemen in years.
There also have been ongoing demonstrations in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators show support for the city’s jailed mayor. He is seen as the main rival of President Erdogan in the upcoming elections.
Nima’s guest, Mohammad Marandi, is an Iranian-American academic and political analyst. He is currently a professor of English Literature and [ . . . ]

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Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill Hundreds, Francesca Albanese

By MariaMarch 25, 2025Newest Catalog Items

Reaction to the breach of the cease fire on March 18 Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. She was in London, England, when Israel broke the Cease Fire in Gaza on March 18, 2022, and killed more than 400 people in that first night.
She was being interviewed on Channel4News on the topic of genocide. And I’m presenting this half hour with minimal edits to show how many challenges an interviewer needs to build into the exchange in order to avoid the accusation of antisemitism. The interview is dated March 18 and, just a week later, had over a quarter million views.
This program has minimal edits to show how many challenges an interviewer needs [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Fascism, The False Revolution, Archive TWO

By MariaMarch 18, 2025Newest Catalog Items

How western capitalist states cooperated with Fascism as bulwark against communism The overwhelming response from those who heard this program was disbelief – how can an analysis of Fascism made in 1995 be so relevant for 2025! This talk was recorded before a standing room audience of 1,200 in Berkeley, CA, on September 23, 1995.
Fascism, as Mussolini allegedly said, should be more properly called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.” And history, as told by Michael Parenti, shows that in all fascist societies, be it Italy, Germany, Japan, Spain, and into the present, corporate power increased. When the power of capital is untrammeled, Parenti says, all of us are at risk. The environment, the sacred [ . . . ]

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, Michael Parenti – Archive

By MariaMarch 11, 2025Newest 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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Ambassador Chas Freeman Explains Why Trump and Zelensky Argued

By MariaMarch 4, 2025Newest Catalog Items

Freeman speaks from 30 years of experience in diplomacy for the U.S. in China, the Middle East, and Europe Just one day after the world famous fight between Presidents Trump and Zelensky in the oval office on February 28, the podcaster Jyotishman Mudiar asked Ambassador Chas Freeman the following questions:
Why doesn’t Zelensky want a ceasefire? What is the reason for US-Russia normalization and why are there divisions within Europe regarding Russia and NATO. Will the US Deep State survive and are we watching a U.S. Coup d’Etat??
Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired American diplomat and writer. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service, and the State and Defense Departments over the course of thirty years.
Most notably, he worked as the [ . . . ]

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Jeffrey Sachs’ Explosive Speech to the EU Parliament Shakes Europe

By MariaFebruary 25, 2025Newest Catalog Items

On February 19, 2025, in the middle of an uproar over President Trump’s start of peace negotiations for Ukraine with Russia’s President Putin, Professor Jeffrey Sachs gave a 100 minute long information session to members of the European Parliament about the Geopolitics of Peace.
His candid and personal account made a deep impression. In only 24 minutes Prof. Sachs covered many important flashpoints in the region, among them:
The Nato expansion beginning in 1999 – with the US claiming the right to place missile systems into the new Nato members – including later Ukraine.
To the US decision, in September 2001, that it would launch seven wars in 5 years (according to General Wesley Clark) – beginning with Iraq – and only Iran [ . . . ]

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Picks And Shovels by Cory Doctorow, with Yanis Varoufakis

By MariaFebruary 18, 2025Newest Catalog Items

On the most powerful tool for crime ever invented: The personal computer David Moscrop invited Cory Doctorow and Yanis Varoufakis to a conversation. They discuss how the concentration of wealth and power and surveillance is made possible by the internet where someone like Elon Musk uses digital power to determine the outcome of an election, and then proceeds to dismantle democratic institutions.
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, science fiction author and activist. Doctorow had just announced that his most recent book: Picks And Shovels was going into distribution. Picks & Shovels is the origin story of the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, former Finance Minister of Greece and author [ . . . ]

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Netanyahu and Trump – Who Set a Trap for Whom – with Alastair Crooke

By MariaFebruary 11, 2025Newest Catalog Items

Who benefits from a transfer of Gaza to the U.S. and the expulsion of Palestinians When Judge Andrew Napolitano set up this interview with Alastair Crooke on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had just spent a week in Washington, DC, meeting with donors, Congressional leaders, and military personnel at the Pentagon. When Netanyahu and Trump finally met and had their joint press conference, many observers in the audience wondered who had the upper hand – in other words: “who set a trap for whom”. And when the world heard for the first time of Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and expel the Palestinians it was unclear whose idea that was and who benefits.
Maybe there is nobody [ . . . ]

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What Tariffs & Immigrants Really Mean for the Economy, with Dr. Richard Wolff

By MariaFebruary 4, 2025Newest Catalog Items

Thanks to Project Censored Radio and co-host Eleanor Goldfield This program was produced on the day when Donald Trump both threatened and postponed tariffs on Mexico and Canada. The interview with Richard Wolff was held five days earlier in the Project Censored studio by Eleanor Goldfield.
Goldfield asks Richard Wolff how these tariffs might be aimed at you and me rather than at Mexico and Canada. She also elicits an extraordinary explanation of how immigrants have built the wealth of the US – rather than having been a drain.
Richard Wolff is visiting professor at the New School University in New York City; and the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update.
The Project Censored Show [ . . . ]

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