Saturday, November 26, 2011

Amy Goodman: The Power of People in Movements


New World Notes News
Vol. 4, No. 48 -- November 26, 2011

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This week in New World Notes, radio program #195, November 29, 2011

Amy Goodman: The Power of People
in Movements

Tahrir Square

In brief

Journalist Amy Goodman explains & celebrates the power "the People" have when they organize in movements. Includes some good insights (and information that will be new to many) on Frederick Douglass; Susan B. Anthony; Rosa Parks; and 1968 Olympians John Carlos, Tommie Smith, and Peter Norman--plus remarks on Tahrir Square, Occupy Wall Street, and President Obama.

From a talk she gave in Syracuse, NY, on November 3, 2011.

Amy Goodman is Executive Producer of "Democracy Now!"
Above: Amy Goodman.
Below: Abolitionist (and feminist) Frederick Douglass.

Notes, credits, & links

Recorded by (and thanks to) Wilton Vought for Essential Dissent. Video of the entire talk may be found there. Audio of the entire talk is here.

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "boiler room") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.
Above: Rosa Parks: not a solitary individual but part of a well-trained and well-organized movement. M.L. King, Jr., in background.
Below (l to r): Peter Norman, Tommie Smith, John Carlos--Mexico City, 1968.

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • December 6 & 13 -- Kathy Kelly on Our Current Wars
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Andrew Bacevich


New World Notes News
Vol. 4, No. 47 -- November 19, 2011

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This week in New World Notes, radio program #194, November 22, 2011

Andrew Bacevich


In brief

Retired Colonel--now Professor--Bacevich (pronounced BAY-se-vitch) critiques the US's policy of constant military intervention everywhere. This broadcast includes a recent article by Bacevich ("Is America Coming to Its Senses?")--which is cautiously optimistic--and selections from a recorded interview.

Bacevich is the author of five books on US foreign and national-security policy. The most recent is Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (2010).

Above: U.S. Marines in Fallujah, 2004. Below: Afghanistan, 2011.

Notes, credits, & links

Interview segment courtesy of the radio series Takes On the World and host Jeff Blankfort. The complete Bacevich interview is here.

Music courtesy of Skidmark Bob. Catch his "Decade War" audiocollage here.

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "Executive Dining Room") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

Above: Iran is surrounded by U.S. client states.
Below: U.S. B-2 bomber.

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • November 29 -- Amy Goodman
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Friday, November 11, 2011

U.S. vs. Libya and Iran: Calling All Nincompoops!


New World Notes News
Vol. 4, No. 46 -- Armistice Day, 2011

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This week in New World Notes, radio program #193, November 15, 2011

U.S. vs. Libya and Iran:
Calling All Nincompoops ...

Now, do your best to follow this. According to the White House
(spokesperson Jay Carney shown), ...
In brief

To Arms!

Only a nincompoop could believe the government's and the media's preposterous claims about Libya and now Iran: NATO is protecting Libyans (by bombing them) while Gaddafi dispenses Viagra to aid mass rape. Iran pays a failed US used-car dealer to hire Mexican mobsters to kill the Saudi ambassador in DC. Sheesh!

Commentators Glen Ford, Zafar Bangash, Anthony DiMaggio, & I expose the lies and offer some context. Plus a satiric song by Tom Lehrer (from 1965 but alas still relevant).

... Iran's elite Quds force (above) hired failed U.S.
used-car salesman Manssor Arbabsiar (below) ...

Notes, credits, & links

Song added: Tom Lehrer, "Send the Marines"

Zafar Bangash interview courtesy of "Unusual Sources," in Hamilton, Ontario. Thanks to the show & host Brandon Stone.

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for imprimatur) of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

... to hire mobsters from Mexico's Zetas drug cartel (alleged ones shown, above) to murder Saudi U.S. Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir (below) by dynamiting a restaurant in Washington, D.C. .... Are you laughing yet?

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • November 23 -- Andrew Bacevich
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