Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category

Hiatus over, new show now available

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 ...

Live from the DNC

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 ...

A roundup of South America and the Middle-East: this week’s show now available

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 ...

Catching up with the uploads

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

While travelling the past few weeks I fell somewhat behind on uploads of the program to the Indymedia Radio site (though I was generally successful with getting them to Audioport on time). I've now uploaded the following to that site: 8 May, 15 May, 22 May, 29 May, 12 June.

US increases tensions with Iran, Israel agrees truce with Hamas

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Those are among the most significant developments we discuss in our latest show (for June 19, 2008). Also available on Audioport. We've fallen a little behind in posting shows to the site (I've concentrated on getting them onto Audioport during some recent travels). I plan to clear the backlog and get ...

ACE 2008-04-17 now online

Friday, April 18th, 2008

You can listen to our latest show online here or here. Yesterday's show included discussion of Carter's visit to Palestine as well as an interview with Allison Hantschel about Douglas Feith (the focus of her book, Special Plans). Note that we're now sharing our content on Audioport, radio.indymedia.org and from the WRFU site. If you're interested ...

Critiquing Petraeus – latest show online

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Yesterday's edition of the show included an extended discussion of  the Petraeus testimony, an update on the Colombian trade agreement, a brief discussion of events in Ecuador, and of former President Carter's visit to Palestine. Available for download from WRFU or on Pacifica's Audioport. Starting, of course, with the Interworld Radio news ...

A Critical Ear online

Friday, April 4th, 2008

You can listen to yesterday's edition on the WRFU site. It's also available, of course, on Audioport.This week we talked about Iran and Iraq (and interplay between the two), Afghanistan and the IMF, and trade deals in South America. A good show all around, if I say so myself. 

ACE 2008-03-20 programming notes

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, ...

Yesterday’s show now online

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 ...