The Vinyl Experience – 12.15.17

VE113 Godfather The Who: The Punk And The Godfather The Clash: the Magnificent Seven Stevie Wonder: Big Brother Nirvana: Come As You Are Rob Wasserman from Duets. Jennifer Warnes and Rob Wasserman: Ballad Of The Runaway Horse Al Martino: I Have But One Heart Nini Rota: Fortunella The Godfather Soundtrack: Speak Softly Love James Brown: It’s A Man’s Man’s World …

Ask Beatty – 11.27.17

ARE MOST MEN MONSTERS?  More and more women are alleging sexual assault and sexual harassment in the workplace, as the list of alleged sexual perpetrators is increasing daily if not hourly.   Beatty’s guest today is Dr. Gary Null, internationally recognized alternative health expert/activist, author of dozens of best sellers, filmaker, radio talk show host and Founder of the Progressive …

Expat Files – 11.03.17

#1- Do locals celebrate Halloween in Latin America? I’ll say they do, but why? It took a few years for them to jump on board, but now they’ve grabbed onto the gringo Halloween tradition with a vengeance. Latins now celebrate that holiday “day/night” about 2 weeks longer than you do. However, the night time “trick or treat” bit is almost …

Expat Files – 10.29.17

#1- There has been a striking absence of political correctness, big brother influence, social justice warrior types and so-called snowflakes here in Latin America-excepting in certain gringoized tourist areas and public Latin university campuses. Because Latin America is a macho society, the culture is a good 25 years behind when it comes to political correctness of any kind. Funny thing …

PAUL KINGSNORTH – Brexit Reconsidered: a Modern Day Peasants’ Revolt?

In his introduction to the 1979 edition of his novel Pig Earth – the first in a trilogy chronicling the decline of peasant life in Europe in the 20th century – John Berger makes a distinction between what he calls a “culture of progress” and a “culture of survival”. The culture of progress, he says, “was born with the bourgeoisie …

John Atcheson – Put Away the Fireworks… You Don’t Live in a Democracy Anymore

Within the last 30 years, while we’ve chased bogeymen overseas and here at home, our Democracy has fallen. We have been taken over; defeated; our voices neutered; our freedoms trampled; our democracy vanquished. No invading force accomplished this; no jackboots echoed across our republic; no alien flag was raised above our lands. Not a single shot was fired by our …

Robert Parry – The Ever-Curiouser MH-17 Case

The curious mystery surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, gets more curious and more curious as the U.S. government and Dutch investigators balk at giving straightforward answers to the simplest of questions even when asked by the families of the victims. Adding to the mystery Dutch investigators have indicated that the Dutch …

Study: The ability to control dreams may help us unravel the mystery of consciousness

We spend around six years of our lives dreaming – that’s 2,190 days or 52,560 hours. Although we can be aware of the perceptions and emotions we experience in our dreams, we are not conscious in the same way as when we’re awake. This explains why we can’t recognise that we’re in a dream and often mistake these bizarre narratives …

Resistance Radio – Stephanie McMillan – 11.22.15

Stephanie McMillan’s award-winning editorial cartoons and comic strips have appeared in hundreds of publications and venues. She is the author of seven books, including Capitalism Must Die!, which combines comics with text in a basic overview of capitalism and revolution, and The Beginning of the American Fall, about the Occupy mobilizations. Stephanie has also been an organizer against capitalism all her life. Today we talk about her newest project, a calendar called “365 Daily Affirmations for Revolutionary Proletarian Militants.”