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This episode of Back in the USSR briefly discusses the Canadian Federal Election of 2019 before coming to focus on the struggles of the brave people of Ecuador, Chile, Lebanon, Iraq, Haiti and other countries where the people are rising against capitalism. Featuring poetry by Bobby Sands and music by Victor Jara.

UPLOADED A DAY EARLY due to Fire in our area As California tries to come to terms with the largest and deadliest fires of 2019, attention falls on forests. Logging companies want more clear-cuts. Donald Trump says the forest floor should be cleaned with rakes. Indigenous elders and visionary foresters say that nobody is asking the trees what they want and need. Especially now as the heat is rising, water becomes scarce and winds are fiercer. Peter Wohlleben is the author of: "The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World". He is a German forester who became disenchanted by the technologies he was expected to employ. He now manages a 4000 year old beech tree forest in Germany. He was interviewed by Steve Paikin on The Agenda in October, 2016. Wohlleben referred to research by colleagues and scientists that he benefitted from. Important among them is Suzanne Simard, professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. She has tested theories about how trees communicate with other trees. Simard also helped identify something called a hub tree, or “mother tree”. Mother trees are the largest trees in forests that act as central hubs for vast below-ground mycorrhizal networks. CREDITS This program is made up of short clips from the Steve Paikin interview of Wohlleben, a clip of Simard from an interview by Dan McKinney, followed by quotes from her frequent presentations on TED talks.

UPLOADED A DAY EARLY due to Fire in our area As California tries to come to terms with the largest and deadliest fires of 2019, attention falls on forests. Logging companies want more clear-cuts. Donald Trump says the forest floor should be cleaned with rakes. Indigenous elders and visionary foresters say that nobody is asking the trees what they want and need. Especially now as the heat is rising, water becomes scarce and winds are fiercer. Peter Wohlleben is the author of: "The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World". He is a German forester who became disenchanted by the technologies he was expected to employ. He now manages a 4000 year old beech tree forest in Germany. He was interviewed by Steve Paikin on The Agenda in October, 2016. Wohlleben referred to research by colleagues and scientists that he benefitted from. Important among them is Suzanne Simard, professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. She has tested theories about how trees communicate with other trees. Simard also helped identify something called a hub tree, or “mother tree”. Mother trees are the largest trees in forests that act as central hubs for vast below-ground mycorrhizal networks. CREDITS This program is made up of short clips from the Steve Paikin interview of Wohlleben, a clip of Simard from an interview by Dan McKinney, followed by quotes from her frequent presentations on TED talks.

A gay romantic comedy overcomes “Analysis Paralysis”; queer youth critique kids show censorship; Randy Rainbow skewers Rudy Giuliani in song; how a TV zap master influenced U.S. network coverage of LGBTQ people; a Uganda mob drives 16 gay men into abusive police hands, Northern Ireland gets marriage equality by default, Australia’s Census disappears queers, Chick-fil-A takes the low road to Scotland, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Welcome to indigenous in Music! This week Larry welcomes back from Oklahoma City, Blanca Iris Acuna. She has been nominated for two Native American Music Awards, including “Best Female Artist” and “Best Pop Recording” from her “Poets Ocean” album. She is the lead singer of “The Eagle and The Raven Band.” You can find out all about her and her band at poet_oceanwix.com. Enjoy music from The Eagle and the Raven Band, Soda Stereo, La Ley, Jimmy Lee Young, Tribalistas, Big City Indians, Chances, Stolen Identity, Blanca Iris Acuna, Khu.eex, QVLN, Shauit, Sly Mestokosho, Gary Small & the Coyote Bros, Midnight Shine, Irv Lyons Jr, Tom Bee, Tracy Bone, Gabby Taylor, Don Amero, Wolf Den, Innastate, Stolen Identity, Tchutchu, XenOart, Nortec Collective, Alan Sylboy, The Thundermakers, Eagle and Hawk, Baracutanga and much much more.

Radio Thrift Shop features a flexible format & is an homage to the "underground" era of broadcasting of the 1960's and 1970's that DJ Frederick grew up with. RTS features a homegrown mix of vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of cassette tapes and homemade / self released cds. Each broadcast of Radio Thrift Shop features an improvised playlist from DJ Frederick's music library.

Free radio on shortwave from the hills of New Hampshire to the world broadcast on no set schedule via 6070 & 7440 kHz in Europe. An homage to offshore, pirate, and underground radio stations. Also a nod to non-commercial stations worldwide.

Robert Jensen is an emeritus professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, a founding board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center, and a member of the team developing Ecosphere Studies at The Land Institute. Jensen’s most recent book, The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men from Spinifex Press, offers a critique of the pathology of patriarchy that is at the core of today’s crises. Host Sylvia Richardson has a lively discussion with Robert about radical patriarchy for men, what it means when men give up power and support women, moving from power over to power with. How to move society forward within all the current systems of power we live under.

Kevin Zeese speaks about how he and other US peace and justice activists decided to defend the Venezuelan Embassy from the US Government and it's coup plotters. With the permission of the Venezuelan government whom the US had forced to vacate their embassy, the Embassy Protection Collective occupied the building for 37 days, defending both the legitimate government rights and the Vienna Convention; the international law that protects a foreign embassy in the receiving country. In need of a public relations stunt to boost its failed coup attempt against Venezuela, the criminals running US foreign policy were handing over to coup supporters Venezuelan counselor offices in other cities to create the illusion that Trump supported traitor and clown Jaun Guaido had a legitimate government. The Embassy Protection Collective put a kink in the plan. Kevin Zeese tells how, and though eventually removed from the embassy when it was violated by Federal Agents what he thinks was won. At the end he and three others were arrested and charged. They are raising money for their defense and though facing a year in prison and $100,000 fine for interfering with protective services, are looking forward to the jury trial. The Feds have tried to bury them with irrelevant discovery while they are demanding to see all communications between the Feds and the Maduro government during the stand off. Zeese speaks of that as well.

Trump: Al-Baghdadi blew himself up, died 'like a dog' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSK-djQrUII

Think of great cities about to be lost as seas rise on a warming planet. That is Venice, and our guests Gray Brechin and Luca Muscara take us there, to the battleground between human history and climate change. But we go further into the killing role of great cities and lessons for our future from the New Deal. I'm Alex Smith. Let's explore time and place on Radio Ecoshock.

Think of great cities about to be lost as seas rise on a warming planet. That is Venice, and our guests Gray Brechin and Luca Muscara take us there, to the battleground between human history and climate change. But we go further into the killing role of great cities and lessons for our future from the New Deal. I'm Alex Smith. Let's explore time and place on Radio Ecoshock.

Think of great cities about to be lost as seas rise on a warming planet. That is Venice, and our guests Gray Brechin and Luca Muscara take us there, to the battleground between human history and climate change. But we go further into the killing role of great cities and lessons for our future from the New Deal. I'm Alex Smith. Let's explore time and place on Radio Ecoshock.

HERE is the show where Mick Mulvaney says the real Quid Pro Quo wasn't really real, the Rump in Chief claims he can't be prosecuted for impeachable offenses, or even shooting someone in the face... hello Dictatorship, with help from A. Melber, B. Baldwin (UNC!), and legal analyst Kim Wehle, plus lots of M. Fiore, the Interceptor brings us Captain Kangaroo Court, Colbert interviews Giuliani (Lithgow), and Tom Brokaw shreds Trump supporters with a "fixation" on white-supremacy.

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

We present Vijay Prashad's broad-ranging analytical speech titled "Palestine's Intifada, the Process of Liberation is Irresistible," given in Washington DC just before the 2016 US presidential election. Regarding that election, he reads from "Quotations from Chairman Trump" (Rosetta Books, 2015). Before all this, we present a recent Mondoweiss article by Layla Kaiksow and Reema Abu Shaheenon on the outrageous commercial roadblocks erected by Israel to hamper Palestinian West Bank businesses, even those whose products are made for and purchased by Israelis.