Black Agenda Radio – 07.10.17

Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. The United States has embedded itself in Syrian territory, after six years of arming Islamic jihadist fighters to overthrow that government. Russia is also in Syria, but that’s at the request of the recognized Syrian government. There is no legal justification for the U.S. presence in Syria, …

Project Censored – 05.16.17

What role can civil disobedience play in the stuggle for social change?  Peter explores this question with two guests: first, environmental organizer  Tim DeChristopher recounts his experience delaying a federal oil and gas  leasing process, and how the legal doctrine of “necessity” could be used in environmental campaigns. Then Sunsara Taylor discusses the right-wing effort to supress womens’ option of abortion, …

It’s All About Food – Barbara J. King and Casey T. Taft – 04.25.17

PART I: Barbara J. King, Personalities on the Plate: The Lives & Minds of Animals We Eat Barbara J. King is emerita professor of anthropology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and now is a full-time freelance science writer. Barbara has written or edited many books on anthropology and animal behavior. Her latest, just published in …