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The latest Shortwave Report (May 21) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)

Steven Watt, ACLU, reports on Spains attempt to get arrest warrants against the 13 CIA agents involved in the extraordinary renditioning of Khalid el-Masri; Jennifer Turner, ACLU, on the military tribunal against Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr and the banning of 4 reporters from the tribunal; Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and World Can't Wait activist, on the World Can't Wait ad "Crimes are Crimes No Matter Who Does Them"; Rick Jacobs, Courage Campaign, on the launching of a campaign to bust through the blanket of censorship on top of the courtroom battle against California's anti-gay ma

Here is the playlist from our May 19th broadcast

As the focus on the Deepwater Horizon "spill" -- isn't it more like a deluge? -- intensifies it shares common characteristics with past spills. We examine the unfolding story of this particular oil spill how history, politics, and even the news about it repeat. We hear from Greg Palast on the Exxon Valdez spill and from Rachel Maddow, Laura Flanders, and Liz Decker.

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Here is the playlist from our May 14th Broadcast:

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (May 14) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)

Here is the playlist from our May 12 broadcast

Raymond Lotta, communist political economist, digs into the Gulf oil
spill and reveals how it is a capitalist oil spill in every
conceivable way and points to how a socialist society would do
things differently.

Army veteran Matthis Chiroux talks about the nationwide "We Are Not
Your Soldiers" tour of resister vets and The World Can't Wait
organization, talking to high school students and organizing
resistance to military recruiters signing students up to carry out war crimes around the world.

Langston Hughes on the importance of Dreams.

May 15 is the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian "Catastrophe" of 1948 when more than 750,000 Palestinians were made into refugees to make room for the future state of Israel.
Palestinian Ziad Abbas talks about the Nakba, Vivien Sansour shares a poem and how Palestinian farmers continue to produce their crops despite the ongoing oppression.
And cultural anthropologist and Misragi Smadar Lavie presents a little shared perspective of Eastern or Arab Jews in Israel.

El martes 4 de mayo los campesinos del Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra salieron caminando desde San Salvador Atenco para el DF alrededor de las 10:00 de la mañana, después de recordar la muerte del joven Alexis Benhumea en una ceremonia. Fueron acompañados por un contingente de simpatizantes, incluso una veintena de biciclistas del centro social Chanti Ollin que habían llegado a Atenco el día anterior.