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, Ken Stone September 20, 2023 30:05

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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded September 20th, 2023Earlier this year, Britain decided to include depleted uranium shells with its deliveries of their Challenger II tanks gifted to Ukraine. Russia charged the so-called CHARM3 munitions are in effect "dirty bombs" and would decision effectively "nuclearized" the war there.DU munitions were first …

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Christina Marches with United for Old Growth in Victoria February 25th, 2023 42:14

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Christina went down to the rally and to talk to the people on the march...RELEASEGroups announce Feb. 25 rally at provincial legislature, issue declaration calling on the province to accelerate action for threatened forestsUNCEDED LEKWUNGEN TERRITORIES/VICTORIA – 168 organizations across British Columbia have issued a declaration called United We S…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Rovics (Extended) February 25th, 2023 1:00:00

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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 25th, 2023On February 9th, a train derailed outside East Palestine, Ohio. The toxic cargo, purposefully ignited in a disastrously ill-advised attempt at environmental remediation.David Rovics‘ new song, East Palestine is a modern ballad of an old American story of the venality and base corruption culminat…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Jeremy Kuzmarov, David Rovics February 25, 2023 1:00:00

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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 25th, 2023Last weekend saw mass anti-war demonstrations around the United States and Europe. In Washington, DC 'Rage Against the War Machine' manifested in the very heart - if not the soul - of the nation with speakers and activists from a variety of pursuits and political persuasions agreeing to forego t…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer February 19th, 2023 1:00:00

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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 19th, 2023.On February 8th of this year, Dutch police presented new evidence to the District Court of The Hague regarding the July 17th, 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.Upon entering their evidence, the Dutch government and an Australian investigator on the case admitted to having held Ameri…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Jennifer Tynan February 18th, 2023 25:34

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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 18th.BC's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy has granted permits for the Ministry of Forests to begin a Spring spraying campaign across swathes of Vancouver Island.The plan is to use Foray 48B, (better known as Btk) in an attempt to eradicate the "Spongy Moth"; and though the ministries s…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler, Tyan Cherepuschak, Tyson Strandlund February 11th, 2023 1:00:00

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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 11th, 2023.This past week, Canadian Forces redeployed a CP-140 Aurora surveillance plane from its dedicated mission assisting U.S.-led drugs smuggling interdiction efforts in the Caribbean to spend two days flying reconnaissance over Haiti. Foreign Affairs Minister, Melanie Joly characterized the escalati…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler February 11th, 2023 59:25

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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 11th, 2023.This past week, Canadian Forces redeployed a CP-140 Aurora surveillance plane from its dedicated mission assisting U.S.-led drugs smuggling interdiction efforts in the Caribbean to spend two days flying reconnaissance over Haiti. Foreign Affairs Minister, Melanie Joly characterized the escalati…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Glenn Michalchuk, Tamara Lorincz February 4, 2023 59:27

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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 4th, 2023.Last month, the German government of Olaf Scholz relented to NATO pressure, agreeing to donate Leopard 2 tanks to the Kiev regime's war effort. The United States was quick to follow, delivering the first 60 of a promised 109 Bradley M2A2-ODS Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine. Canada's Trudeau adminis…

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Saul Arbess, Ken Stone January 28th, 2023 1:00:00

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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded January 22 & 28th, 2023.More than two years after BC’s former premier, John Horgan’s re-election promise to implement the recommendations of his own government’s Old Growth Strategy Review panel it’s business as usual in the woods. While some of the OGSR's 14 point plan was implemented, big trees are still falling…

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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