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Everything Is Broken playlist for 11/11/2014

Tuesday, November 11; 1:00PM we will explore many issues ranging from capitalism's globalization to one-party rule (The Corporate Party). we will also go into the belly of the beast and listen to rightwingnuts call for an "American Jihad" against muslims. we will also chat with our Senior Florida Correspondent, Steven Wiehe, on a variety of topics. Join us!

Everything Is Broken playlist for 11/04/2014

Our program TUESDAY 11-4-14; 1:00PM EST will be classic WUSB “free form” radio!! No featured interview; listen call-ins; plenty to chew on. Join us!
www.facebook.com/broken90.1

Everything Is Broken playlist for 10/28/2014

Our program TUESDAY will center on “Iraq: The Sequel” … We will also take a look at the economics of our permanent war empire.

Our featured guest is Ivan Eland. Ivan is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute in Washington, DC. Eland is the author of Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq, Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty, The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed and Putting “Defense”_ Back into U.S. Defense Policy, as well as The Efficacy of Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool. He is a contributor to numerous volumes and the author of 45 in-depth studies on national security issues.
http://www.independent.org/

Everything Is Broken playlist for 10/21/2014

Our program TUESDAY, 1:00PM will take a long hard look at the permanent war environment that the USA empire doggedly pursues.

Our featured guest is Cynthia Enloe. Cynthia is a Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her career has included Fulbright’s in Malaysia and Guyana and guest professorships in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

her full bio:

Cynthia Enloe
BA: Connecticut College
PhD: University of California, Berkeley
E-mail: cenloe@clarku.edu
Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Cynthia Enloe’s career has included Fulbrights in Malaysia and Guyana, guest professorships in Japan, Britain, Canada, and lectures in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Germany, Vietnam, Korea, Turkey and at universities around the U.S. Her writings have been translated into Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Icelandic and German. She has published in Ms. Magazine, and appeared on National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, C-Span and the BBC.

Everything Is Broken playlist for 10/14/2014

Our program TUESDAY will take a big leap into the Ebola issue. Time to face up to a very dire situation that could make all our wars for resources pale in comparison.

Our featured guest is Meryl Nass, MD. Meryl is an Internal Medicine physician who identified the first modern use of anthrax as a biological weapon, during the Rhodesian civil war in 1978-80. She researched the anthrax vaccine and found it contributed to Gulf War Syndrome and chronic illnesses in soldiers. She gave 7 Congressional testimonies on bioterrorism, anthrax and Gulf War Syndrome. Meryl also showed that there was no direct evidence that Bruce Ivins was the anthrax letters perpetrator. The FBI was not able to show scientifically that the anthrax letters spores were even derived from Ivins' anthrax supply. She has
subsequently worked on issues of vaccine safety and effectiveness.
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com

Everything Is Broken playlist for 10/07/2014

Our program tomorrow, tuesday will be PART TWO of our look at corporate rule, from outsized CEO compensation to corporate welfare queens.

Our featured guest is Michael Faulkender. At the Univ. of Maryland, Mike teaches classes in the MBA programs at the Smith School. He also serves as the Director of the Master of Finance MBA program. Mike’s research focuses on empirical corporate finance in the areas of capital structure, risk management, corporate liquidity, and executive compensation. His work has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies and has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The New York Times. program. http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu

Everything Is Broken playlist for 09/30/2014

TOMORROW TUESDAY 1:00PM will focus on the newest chapter in the USA’s permanent war footing. We will look at Nobel Peace Prize winner/war president, Barack Obama, the Middle East and … the USA as a fading empire.

Our featured guest is John Grant. John is a writer/photographer/filmmaker living in Philadelphia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and has published both fiction and non-fiction. He shot and edited an 80-minute documentary film called "Second Time Around" about a seriously wounded Vietnam veteran who chose to live and work in Ho Chi Minh City 35 years after his first tour there. John has been to Iraq twice during the war, once as an observer critical of the war and once as a cameraman on a documentary film. He is a Viet Nam vet and an activist with Veterans For Peace. http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Everything Is Broken playlist for 09/23/2014

Our program TOMORROW TUESDAY september 23; 1:00PM will focus on corporate rule, from outsized CEO compensation to corporate welfare queens.

Our featured guest is Michael Faulkender. Mike’s research focuses on empirical corporate finance in the areas of capital structure, risk management, corporate liquidity, and executive compensation. His work has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies and has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The New York Times. He teaches classes in the Specialty Master's, EMBA, and the MBA programs at the Smith School. He also serves as the Director of the Master of Finance program. http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu

Everything Is Broken playlist for 09/16/2014

Our program TUESDAY 1:00PM will focus on ISIL; the islamic state. our featured guest is Ricardo Larémont. He is currently professor of political science and sociology at Binghamton University where he has served on the faculty since 1997. His work focuses on North Africa and the Sahel. He is a leading expert on political Islam, Islamic law, conflict resolution, democratization, and civil/military relations.

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org
http://www.binghamton.edu/political-science/faculty/ricardo-rene-laremon...

Everything Is Broken playlist for 09/02/2014

Our program TOMORROW, tuesday september 2; 1:00PM will focus on local politics and activists. We will look at the Long Island Media Task Force as they ramp up for the 2014 and 2016 elections.

Our featured guests are Janine Melillo and Tony Torres. Both guests have deep roots in the Democratic Party’s Move On activist group. Their backgrounds include a range of “day jobs” from aerospace to senior care (Tony), to key mainstream media positions both in Canada and the USA (Janine).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29H5VZo0cQE

Everything Is Broken playlist for 08/26/2014

Our program tuesday will be about how robots can infiltrate politics. We will also look at the questionable behavior of the Nevada coach in the Little League World Series.

Our featured guest is Robert Luebke. Bob is President/CEO of Solution Technology Associates, Inc., Lansing, MI. He is an expert on robotics and their application to political solutions. His company, since 1974, has a history of helping national and international organizations. His group of Business, Management and Information Technology Consultants have worked with global and domestic companies, government and non-government organizations as well as the military. As one of the three founders, Bob has worked on over 300 projects in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the US.
http://welegislate2020.wix.com/we-legislate
www.solutiontechnologyassociates.com

Some info on Telepresence Robots: http://telepresencerobots.com/
http://www.doublerobotics.com/

Everything Is Broken playlist for 08/19/2014

Our program TUESDAY, 8-19; 1:00PM EDT will focus on an update of ALEC and the Koch Brothers. With Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions by the Supremes, we can see clearly the trajectory of a massive influx of ideological poison in our electoral system and owned governance.

Our featured guest is Nick Surgey. Nick is Director of Research at The Progressive in Madison, WI. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and The Guardian. His research has also been cited in Mother Jones magazine, The Nation magazine, on MSNBC, and many other places including the Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Nick was previously Staff Counsel at Common Cause, where he led the research and legal work on their ALEC and Supreme Court Ethics projects. His passion for working towards social justice has found him previously working with the UK non-profit Refugee Council, at an immigration and asylum law firm, as a union officer, and as an activist/campaigner.
www.progressive.org

Everything Is Broken playlist for 08/12/2014

Our program TOMORROW Tuesday 8-12; 1:00PM will focus primarily on Gaza and the building movement of B/D/S/ (boycott/divestiture/sanction) internationally against Israel.

Our featured guest is Danny Muller. Danny focuses on coordinating emergency aid in the Middle East and Haiti. He was most recently in Gaza after Operation Cast Lead in 2009 and immediately before and after Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012. He will be returning in the coming weeks to advance psychosocial support for traumatized Palestinian children and report on the status of over 50 water treatment units the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) has installed at UNRWA schools in Gaza.
http://www.mecaforpeace.org

Everything Is Broken playlist for 08/05/2014

OUR PROGRAM tomorrow, tuesday; 1:00PM EDT will focus on US foreign policy and domestic surveillance. We will even weave in some hard science with a discussion of natural algorithms as computer scientists attempt to explain our natural world not just our physical one. We will also discuss disastrous blowback to USA foreign policy, including 9/11 and children at our border due to our support of the Honduran coup in 2009.

Our featured guest is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, Bernard Chazelle. Bernard has a great many professional publications and even dabbles in political writing from time to time. He can help us bridge science and politics. He also is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Studies.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/
http://www.sns.ias.edu

Everything Is Broken playlist for 07/29/2014

TODAY’S PROGRAM will focus on bought politicians; the norm. we will also attempt to bring us all up to date on the news from the Middle East, Eastern Europe and wherever our empire treads.

Our featured guest is Joshua Graham Lynn from Represent.us. His current campaign lays bare the “bought and payed for” Corporate Party (R- or D-branch). Josh Graham Lynn is a seasoned marketer and communications specialist. As a creative director, he had his work honored by the Rebrand 100 Awards, The Webby Awards, The American Package Design Awards and the Addys.
www.represent.us
www.honestgil.com

Everything Is Broken playlist for 07/22/2014

Tomorrow's program, TUESDAY 1:00PM on air and online will attempt to bring us up to date on all of the news from the Middle East, Eastern Europe and wherever our empire treads.

Our featured guest is Michael Schwartz. Mike is the Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University. He is an extremely popular professor and has a long list of academic publications. More information here: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociology/people/faculty/schwartz.html

AND … our Senior Florida Correspondent, one Steve Wiehe will opine on life in geezer gulch (and anything else he deems appropriate).

Everything Is Broken playlist for 07/15/2014

Tomorrow, TUESDAY, JULY 15; 1:00PM, we will follow up on last week’s look at occupation and apartheid in Palestine/Israel.

Our featured guest is Ramah Kudaimi. Ramah Kudaimi is the Membership and Outreach Coordinator at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and serves on the board of the Washington Peace Center. She has worked at several grassroots activist organizations including CODEPINK and the Arab American Action Network. She has a Master of Arts degree in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University.
http://www.endtheoccupation.org

AND … our Senior Texas Correspondent, one Michael Johnson, will opine on the joy of gun ownership.

Everything Is Broken playlist for 07/08/2014

TOMORROW, TUESDAY JULY 8; 1:00PM EDT live on air and online at . We will focus on Palestine/Israel, Zionism and proposed solutions.

Our featured guest is Phyllis Bennis. Phyllis is a Fellow at the Institute For Policy Studies where she directs the New Internationalism Project. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues for many years. In 2001 she helped found and remains on the advisory board of the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. She writes and speaks widely across the U.S. and around the world as part of the global peace movement. She continues to serve as an informal adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues.

For her blog and bio go to http://www.ips-dc.org/

Everything Is Broken playlist for 07/01/2014

OUR PROGRAM TUESDAY, 1:00PM, will focus on a variety of topics: from the Supremes' latest decisions, to the Common Core Curriculum which is reviled (for different reasons) by both the left and the right, to Iraq The Sequel, to Homeland Security, and finally to our local community arts scene.

Our featured guest is Dave Lindorff, author and journalist. Dave is the founder of ThisCantBeHappening.net, a consortium of progressive bloggers that now have the dubious distinction of recently being branded a “threat” by Homeland Security! Dave’s full bio can be found at:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/13

ALSO joining us will be Dominique Maciejka. She and I will discuss the local arts scene. Dominique is the owner of Paper Doll Vintage Boutique in Sayville, L.I., NY. Paper Doll has won first place for Long Island's Best Vintage Clothing Store in 2013 and 2014. By hosting art openings and shows at Paper Doll Vintage Boutique, she hopes to display and sell local artwork to the unique and eclectic clientele of the shop.
https://www.facebook.com/PaperDollVintageBoutique

Everything Is Broken playlist for 06/24/2014

TOMORROW TUESDAY JUNE 24; 1:00PM we will focus on the newest chapter in the USA’s permanent war footing. We will look at the Middle East and Africa.

Our featured guest is John Grant. John is a writer/photographer/filmmaker living in Philadelphia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and has published both fiction and non-fiction. He shot and edited an 80-minute documentary film called "Second Time Around" about a seriously wounded Vietnam veteran who chose to live and work in Ho Chi Minh City 35 years after his first tour there. John has been to Iraq twice during the war, once as an observer critical of the war and once as a cameraman on a documentary film. He is a Viet Nam vet and an activist with Veterans For Peace.
http://thiscantbehappening.net