Archive for the ‘Presidential election’ Category
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
Our January 2021 episode is now available for download (Archive.org link here). Following up on a reflection on the lessons to be taken by Irish observers from the attempted coup in the US, we interview Dr Caitlin Miles, a US-based media scholar about the rhetorical and material impact of the ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2020
The first episode of our new series is on air, on Flirt FM, this Wednesday 25th November at 2pm. Tune in, in the Galway region, on 101.3FM, or online at FlirtFM.ie.
The show includes:
An interview with Bob Naiman of Just Foreign Policy on the prospects for diplomacy and global peace under ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
So, the hiatus was generally online, as I fell behind in editing and uploading episodes. I'm back now - prompted by the fact that today's show was recorded using Skype (a first for us) so the editing had to be done anyhow. So, here's how this show turned out:
We started ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
This week the focus of our show was the DNC, with Bob reporting live from Denver. However, we managed to fit in reports from Gaza and a world news bulletin, before connecting up with Bob.
With Bob, we started by talking about how the DNC compared to other protest events, then ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
This week we focus almost exclusively on US energy policy - the show's now available on Radio4All, Audioport, and Indymedia Radio. Bob recently blogged about the topic on Huffington Post, where he framed his piece as a critique of Paris Hilton's energy policy - or rather the idea propagated in ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
The show is now on Radio4All and Audioport. This week we cover more geography than usual:
We start, as usual, with the Panos Institute news bulletin.
Ecuador is in the process of putting in place a ban on foreign military bases
Chevron using the US Trade Representative to put pressure on Ecuador and resist ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Today we started with the Interworld Radio headlines, as usual, and then played some actuality from yesterday's vigil at the veterans' memorial in Urbana, marking 5 years of war in Iraq. Following some short discussion of the vigil, and an aborted start to an excerpt from the Winter Soldier event, ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
I've now uploaded yesterday's show to Radio4All. Those of you with Audioport accounts can also find it there. The first half hour includes InterWorldRadio headlines, a commentary from Matt Rothschild of the Progressive, two feature pieces from InterWorldRadio, and some story headlines from EU Observer. The second half of the show involved ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Yesterday's edition of A Critical Ear is now online. It features a discussion of Bush's signing statements (particularly the recent one attempting to override the ban on permanent bases in Iraq) and then a fairly unique 30 minutes, where we simulcasted a live phone interview that Bob was doing with Radio Islam in ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Full show audioContents: Interworld Radio news headlines (3-4 min) Interworld Radio feature about healthcare services in Zambia (6 min) Discussion of Iran and US foreign policy regarding Iran (30-40 min) Gaza - recent developments and context Jose Padilla (5-10 min) Economic developments in the US - recession or not, policy reactions (interest rates, economic stimulus packages) ...
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