Best David Barsamian Podcasts (2024)

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[Howard Zinn] Against War 57:01

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In a May 1976 column in the Boston Globe Howard Zinn wrote “Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.” Sadly his column in the Globe was discontinued soon af…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Gerard Di Trolio, Yves Engler, Christina Nikolic May 24th, 2018 59:11

6y ago59:11

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May 31st marks the deadline set by Kinder Morgan for British Columbia to guarantee the Texas oil operator's Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. The project has been massively controversial in BC, but its political import has made less of an impression on the country east of the Rockies.Maybe that explains why Justin Trudeau's Liberals have waded int…

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Gorilla Radio Flashbacks with Chris Cook, James Petras April 4th, 2005 25:14

6y ago25:14

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The Bush administration is busily preparing yet another front in its War on Terra. Far from the sands of the middle-east, the Bushistas have set into motion their plan of conquest in Latin America. It’s no secret, U.S. interests have long wanted to see an end to Cuba; an operable alternative example to the neo-liberal economic paradigm currently do…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Peter Lee, Whitney Webb, Janine Bandcroft May 17, 2018 58:37

6y ago58:37

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While prospects for a Middle East peace smoulder in the ruins of America's foreign policy Donald Trump is yet hopeful he can match his predecessor, garnering his own Nobel Peace Prize.Next month, the Trump show is on the road to Singapore and there, with Kim Jong Un as featured performer, the great ringmaster plans to undo the Democratic People's R…

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Gorilla Radio Site C Streeters with Chris Cook, Barbara Hay, “May” May 13, 2018 14:09

6y ago14:09

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Today's (May 14, 2018) ongoing citizen protest against the Site C dam project coincides with the announcement from the West Moberly First Nations of a decision rendered by the federal government regarding the injunction filed by the West Moberly and others to stop work on the contentious project. They argue Site C contravenes treaties they've signe…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Roger Annis, Nozomi Hayase, Janine Bandcroft May 10th, 2018 59:30

6y ago59:30

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Last week, the United States delivered more than 200 Javelin missiles to the coup regime in Ukraine. Following four years of rule from Kyiv, Petro Poroshenko's government is plagued by corruption, and is still fighting separatists in the eastern region of the country where his illegal seizure of power was never accepted.Though the Western press rou…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dan Kovalik, CAIA’s Great March Solidarity Protest, Janine Bandcroft, Christina Nikolic May 3rd, 2018 57:54

6y ago57:54

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As Honduran refugees squeezed between street gangsters and the immovably corrupt government of President Juan Orlando Hernandez hang fire in Tijuana, protests by the little people in the capital reportedly "turned violent" Tuesday. That's the neutral "turn of phrase" the professional western media uses when the monied interests, friends of the bank…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Phil Little, Richard Sanders, Janine Bandcroft April 26th, 2018 58:22

6y ago58:22

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Though seldom spoken now, those past a certain age will remember the Dirty Wars waged in South America in the last half of the last century. Perhaps the worst of it was when The Dirty Wars soiled Central America: El Salvador, Nicarauga, Guatemala, and of course Honduras from where Gringo mastermind, John Negroponte coordinated Central America's sha…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer, Christopher Black, Janine Bandcroft April 19th, 2018 58:59

6y ago58:59

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It's a great time to be in the war game! The Real News reports, "defense" company stocks at Northrup Grumman and Boeing have soared this year, while the latest launching of more than a hundred cruise missiles at Syria has proven a spectacular blast for Tomahawk maker, Raytheon.But, as Wall Street celebrates the dazzling array of opportunities prese…

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Ape Goes to Victoria CAIA Demonstration (short) April 18, 2018 4:58

6y ago4:58

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Went down to the demonstration. The audio features raw interviews with, in order of appearance:Larry Hannant, “Sandra”, Randy Caravaggio, Terry Wolfwood, and Marvin Sharp.This is all happening with the continued dissolution of the Middle East in the background. Syria was bombed again in the early morning hours of April 18th, this time by a coalitio…

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Ape Goes to the Victoria CAIA March of Return Demo April 18, 2018 41:08

6y ago41:08

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Went down to the demonstration. The audio features raw interviews with, in order of appearance:Larry Hannant, "Sandra", Randy Caravaggio, Terry Wolfwood, Angry Zionist supporter, and Marvin Sharp.This is all happening with the continued dissolution of the Middle East in the background. Syria was bombed again in the early morning hours of April 18th…

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Center for Community Media Podcast - Dr. Raphael Kellman 21:04

6+ y ago21:04

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Dr. Raphael Kellman, author of "The Whole Brain" and "The MicroBiome Diet," discusses holistic approaches to managing depression and anxiety with host Maria Kearns-Galeano.Image Credit: kellmancenter.comBy Center4CommunityMedia

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David Barsamian - Media, Propaganda and US Foreign Policy 1:12:41

6+ y ago1:12:41

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"Media, Propaganda and US Foreign Policy" featuring David Barsamian.Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-musicBy Center4CommunityMedia

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Interview - Indivisible Photo Project 6:08

7y ago6:08

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In this audio interview with Prof. Suzanne Gainer, she discusses her photo project titled, "Visible/Indivisible." She explains her motivation for the project and her collaboration with Maria Skinner.Photo by Suzanne GainerMusic by Bensound:http://www.bensound.com/By Center4CommunityMedia

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Center for Community Media - Sexual Assault Awareness 24:49

7y ago24:49

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In this podcast, Ashley Anthony interviews Sarah Valois in the WSU Counseling Center about sexual assault prevention, bystander intervention, and resources available to college students.Music by Bensound:http://www.bensound.com/By Center4CommunityMedia

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Interview with Laura Murphy in WSU Counseling Services 19:54

7+ y ago19:54

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In this Center for Community Media podcast, Abi Pinto interviews the Director of the WSU Counseling Center Laura Murphy.By Center4CommunityMedia

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Global Critical Media Literacy Project 10:18

8y ago10:18

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Students interview Dr. Julie Frechette about the Global Critical Media Literacy Project for the Center for Community Media.By Center4CommunityMedia

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Tomas Young’s War – Mark Wilkerson 55:53

8+ y ago55:53

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Mark Wilkerson was my guest on the March 24, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody, just a couple of weeks ahead of the release of his new biography, Tomas Young’s War. Tomas Young was the Kansas City Iraq War veteran who died on the eve of Veterans Day, 2014, 10 ½ years after being paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet in Iraq. Tomas was featured in the must-see…

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Jen Senko-Brainwashing My Dad 1:00:00

8+ y ago1:00:00

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Jen Senko was my guest on the March 17, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody. Just ahead of a special screening in Kansas City, Senko talked about her new documentary film, The Brainwashing of My Dad-The Truth Behind the Right-Wing Media Machine That Changed a Father and Divided a Nation. ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen…

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Ray McGovern – Ukraine Policy on the Tell Somebody Countdown 1:01:37

8+ y ago1:01:37

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The March 10, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody featured former CIA analyst and frequent guest Ray McGovern on the phone for a live broadcast. McGovern, an admirer of Andrew Bacevich, begins by taking issue with some of his comments about Putin and Russia on Democracy Now! that morning. Ray talks about the U.S. supported coup in Ukraine and ends the sh…

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David Barsamian-Just Back from Lebanon & on the Phone with Tell Somebody 1:01:39

8+ y ago1:01:39

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Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian returned for the March 3, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody, on the phone for a live call-in show. Just returned from a trip to Lebanon, he talked about that and took questions from callers as the show entered its final month. ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-c…

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Richard Tripp and Friends 1:03:06

8+ y ago1:03:06

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The February 11, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody was a conversation with homeless advocate Richard Tripp and some of his friends. ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the…

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Robert McChesney on the Phone for the Last Pledge Drive with Tell Somebody 54:02

8+ y ago54:02

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RobertMcChesney returned to the show for the lastpledge drive edition of TellSomebody, on February 4, 2016. We startedthe show talking about how over two years ago Tell Somebody covered the Michigan emergency managerlaw, ignored in the corporate media, which led tothe Flint water crisis. Then we talked about the new bookcoauthored by McChesney with…

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Elizabeth Murray - From CIA to Anti-Nuclear 59:54

8+ y ago59:54

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How did Elizabeth Murray go from being a New Mexico newspaper reporter fresh out of college to a CIA analyst serving as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council to an anti-nuclear activist? Listen to the January 21, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody and find out. ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .…

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Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World 1:01:01

8+ y ago1:01:01

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On the January 14, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody, Cecile Pineda returned to talk about her new book, Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World. Inspired, in part, by a case of mistaken identity, this book is a wide-ranging contemplation on why we are ruining the earth as a habitable home for ourselves and many of our co-inhabitants, prominently inc…

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Mel Goodman on Robert White (and More) 58:04

8+ y ago58:04

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Melvin A. Goodman was my guest on the January 7, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy where he was a colleague of the late Robert White, former US ambassador to El Salvador, and was a CIA analyst and colleague of Ray McGovern. He is the author of National Insecurity: The Cost of American M…

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The Ambassador's Daughter-Remembering the Murders 59:25

8+ y ago59:25

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On the December 24, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody we heard a report from Kansas Citians Alice Kitchen and Carol Coburn on the recent delegation to El Salvador marking the 35th anniversary of the murder of four church women there in 1980. One of the delegation participants was Claire White, daughter of Robert White, US ambassador to El Salvador 1980…

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Delegation to El Salvador 59:53

8+ y ago59:53

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A delegation of 120 people went to El Salvador November 26 - December 5, 2015, marking 35 years since 4 churchwomen were murdered by the US-supported Salvadoran military. Two Kansas Citians, Carol Coburn and Alice Kitchen, joined that delegation, and they report on it this week on Tell Somebody. ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename b…

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VPA Podcast 12:31

8+ y ago12:31

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Center for Community Media at Worcester State University Podcast Series. Episode 3: "Visual and Performing Arts."Published on 12/17/15.Music: www.bensound.com/royalty-free-musicLike us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter:www.facebook.com/WSUmedia@MediaWSUBy Center4CommunityMedia

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Lindsay Wise Talks About “Irradiated” 1:11:06

8+ y ago1:11:06

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This week on Tell Somebody, Lindsay Wise, Washington reporter for the Kansas City Star, talks about Irradiated, the McClatchy print and multimedia online series about “the hidden legacy of 70 years of atomic weaponry” that left “at least 33,480 Americans dead.” ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or righ…

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Sister Helen's Kansas City Speech 1:00:27

8+ y ago1:00:27

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This week on Tell Somebody, the speech that Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean gave at Unity on the Plaza in Kansas City on the evening of October 30, 2015. Sister Helen Prejean was in Kansas City on October 30 2015 for speaking engagements thanks to Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and The Center for Global Studies and S…

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Worcester Art Museum Podcast 10:58

8+ y ago10:58

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Center for Community Media Podcast Series: Episode 2Scott Britz discusses the relationship between Worcester State University and the Worcester Art Museum. Britz speaks with Dr. Kristin Waters and Dr. Catherine Wilcox-Titus about the museum and the opportunities available for members of the Worcester community.…

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Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues in Missouri 53:07

8+ y ago53:07

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This week on Tell Somebody. Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean, and Staci Pratt, state coordinator for Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP). If someone viciously and brutally murdered a loved one of yours – a child, a spouse, a parent - could you get past rage and grief to forgive? Or even just to accept? I'm not sure …

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Rocky Flats Cold War Horse 59:19

8+ y ago59:19

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A bigger-than-size statue of a horse wearing a hazmat suit is the subject of the October 29, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody. Author and professor Kristen Iversen and artist Jeff Gipe joined us on the phone to talk about it. Rocky Flats, near Denver and Boulder, Colorado, was the site of a plant producing highly radioactive plutonium triggers for nuc…

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Ray McGovern on Obama, Putin & Syria 57:31

8+ y ago57:31

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern returns for the October 15, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody. With Russian President Vladimir Putin having unleashed his version of Shock and Awe on Syria, possibly putting the tiny remaining handful of US CENTCOM's $500 million force of “Viable Indigenous Ground Forces” at risk and with what Ray McGovern calls the “Faw…

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Economist Richard D. Wolff 1:09:47

9y ago1:09:47

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Professor Richard D. Wolff spoke in Kansas City, Missouri at the All Souls Forum on September 13, 2015, and at the University of Missouri – Kansas City on September 14.. Shortly after his forum appearance at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, he sat down for a conversation with Tell Somebody. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Eme…

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Richard Rhodes on Nagasaki, 70 Years On 1:00:23

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On the August 20, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Richard Rhodes appeared for the second time in as many weeks. Rhodes had been on the phone for the July 30 edition of the show, ahead of an August 9, 2015 speaking engagement in Independence, that would mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Tell Somebody was in attendance at Community…

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Joe McGovern- The Other Side Documentary 58:59

9y ago58:59

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For the August13, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody,I got together with Joe McGovern to talk about his current project. According to his website, theothersidedocumentary.com, Joe is a progressive liberal democrat who has always been interested in politics, but who recently grew tired of the extreme political partisanship in America today. He got the id…

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Richard Rhodes - Remembering Kansas City - Remembering Nagasaki 1:01:40

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On the July 30 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, ahead of an August 9, 2015 speaking engagement in the area marking the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Richard Rhodes talked about his early life in the Kansas City area, how violent criminals get that way, and about nuclear weapons. Richard Rhodes was born in Kansas City, Kansas and grew u…

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Maurice Copeland on Kansas City Plant Cleanup & Help for Sick Workers 1:07:40

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On the July16, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Maurice Copeland talks about the lack of progressj in getting Special Exposure Cohort status for Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant workers and about plans for cleanup of the old plant. Maurice is a former nuclear weapons worker at the Kansas City Plant and is active in helping workers with EEOICPA…

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Unsubstantiated, Contradicted, or Non-Existent-Ray McGovern on Iraq Lies 1:04:30

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On the May 28, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) co-founder and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern reminds us that the “intelligence” used to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq was “fixed,” not “flawed,” and explains for whom the surge worked. ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filenam…

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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou & Peace Activist Brian Terrell 58:34

9y ago58:34

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On the May 21, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, whistle-blower and former CIA officer John Kiriakou, and peace activist Brian Terrell's remarks at a drone protest on May 17th at the gates of Whiteman AFB. ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to sa…

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Good Jobs and $15 For All Rally and March 57:09

9y ago57:09

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On April 15, 2015, fast food workers and others across the country and around the world struck and marched and spoke up for $15 and a union. On the April 30th edition we heard some of the sounds and voices of marchers and speakersat a rally and march in Kansas City ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or …

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Free Health Clinic in Kansas City 58:00

9y ago58:00

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On the April 16, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, hear from National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC) CEO, Nicole Lamoureux and Kansas City CARE Clinic CEO, Sheri Wood about a free health clinic in KC On Saturday, April 18th. ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "sav…

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Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps 1:00:17

9y ago1:00:17

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Michael Copps was a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2011, including a stint as acting FCC Chair in 2009. He is currently special advisor for Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative. Michael Copps returned to Tell Somebody to talk about the February, 2015 FCC vote for net neutrality and about media r…

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April 15 Good Jobs & $15 for All March, Tomas Young, The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont’d. 58:49

9y ago58:49

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Fast food workers in 200 cities across the country are going on strike on April 15, 2015. We talk about that in the first segment of the April 2, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, including a conversation with fast food worker and Stand Up KC activist Melinda Robinson. This Saturday, April 4, will mark 11 years since a bullet severed Tomas Young’s spi…

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Remembering Danny Schechter the News Dissector 1:00:13

9y ago1:00:13

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Investigative journalist, author, filmmaker, media critic and activist Danny Schechter died of pancreatic cancer on March 19, 2015. On the March 26, 2015 edition ofTell Somebody,two frequent guests of the show remember their friend. First, bestselling author Greg Palast explains how Schechter influenced him to abandon his career as an investigator …

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Anne Frank and Rachel Corrie Anniversaries, Ferguson, MO Stats, plus The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont’d. 58:54

9+ y ago58:54

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The March 19, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody begins with some thoughts about the March anniversaries of the deaths, murders really, resulting from government policies in Germany and Israel, of Anne Frank, sometime in March, 1945, and of Rachel Corrie on March 16, 2003. Then we consider some of the less-discussed statistics about police policies in F…

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Todd O’Boyle on Net Neutrality & Helen Caldicott on Nuclear Extinction 1:01:53

9+ y ago1:01:53

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On the March 12, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Todd O’Boyle, program director for Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative talks about the FCC's recent decisions on Network Neutrality and Community Broadband. In the second half of the show, Dr. Helen Caldicott opens a a symposium she organized on The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinc…

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Relentless Reformer-Robyn Muncy’s Biography of Josephine Roche 1:01:27

9+ y ago1:01:27

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On the March 5, 2015 edition ofTell Somebody,American history professor Robyn Muncy talks about her new biography, Relentless Reformer: Joesephine Roche and Progressivism in America. ??Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the aud…

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