Tell Somebody
312 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 8 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWeekly public affairs program on KKFI-FM 90.1, Kansas City community radio
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Tomas Young’s War – Mark Wilkerson
March 24, 2016 17:00 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBMark Wilkerson was my guest on the March 24, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody, just a couple of weeks ahead of the release of his new biography, Tomas Young’s War. Tomas Young was the Kansas City Iraq War veteran who died on the eve of Veterans Day, 2014, 10 ½ years after being paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet in Iraq. Tomas was featured in the must-see Ellen Spiro/Phil Donahue film Body of War which showed him dealing with his paralysis as he became an effective anti-war voice. Tomas Young’s War...
Jen Senko-Brainwashing My Dad
March 17, 2016 17:00 - 1 hour - 10.3 MBJen Senko was my guest on the March 17, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody. Just ahead of a special screening in Kansas City, Senko talked about her new documentary film, The Brainwashing of My Dad-The Truth Behind the Right-Wing Media Machine That Changed a Father and Divided a Nation. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subs...
Ray McGovern – Ukraine Policy on the Tell Somebody Countdown
March 10, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBThe March 10, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody featured former CIA analyst and frequent guest Ray McGovern on the phone for a live broadcast. McGovern, an admirer of Andrew Bacevich, begins by taking issue with some of his comments about Putin and Russia on Democracy Now! that morning. Ray talks about the U.S. supported coup in Ukraine and ends the show explaining why a US agreement to not move NATO one inch to the east was never put to paper. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filen...
David Barsamian-Just Back from Lebanon & on the Phone with Tell Somebody
March 03, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBAlternative Radio’s David Barsamian returned for the March 3, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody, on the phone for a live call-in show. Just returned from a trip to Lebanon, he talked about that and took questions from callers as the show entered its final month. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, fo...
Richard Tripp and Friends
February 11, 2016 16:00 - 1 hour - 10.8 MBThe February 11, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody was a conversation with homeless advocate Richard Tripp and some of his friends. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes Store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing t...
Robert McChesney on the Phone for the Last Pledge Drive with Tell Somebody
February 04, 2016 18:00 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBRobert McChesney returned to the show for the last pledge drive edition of Tell Somebody, on February 4, 2016. We started the show talking about how over two years ago Tell Somebody covered the Michigan emergency manager law, ignored in the corporate media, which led to the Flint water crisis. Then we talked about the new book coauthored by McChesney with John Nichols- People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy Click on the pod icon above, or the .m...
Elizabeth Murray - From CIA to Anti-Nuclear
January 21, 2016 18:00 - 59 minutes - 10.3 MBHow did Elizabeth Murray go from being a New Mexico newspaper reporter fresh out of college to a CIA analyst serving as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council to an anti-nuclear activist? Listen to the January 21, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody and find out. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your c...
Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World
January 14, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 10.5 MBOn the January 14, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody, Cecile Pineda returned to talk about her new book, Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World. Inspired, in part, by a case of mistaken identity, this book is a wide-ranging contemplation on why we are ruining the earth as a habitable home for ourselves and many of our co-inhabitants, prominently including a look at how human language influences attitudes and behavior. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the...
Mel Goodman on Robert White (and More)
January 07, 2016 18:00 - 58 minutes - 9.97 MBMelvin A. Goodman was my guest on the January 7, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy where he was a colleague of the late Robert White, former US ambassador to El Salvador, and was a CIA analyst and colleague of Ray McGovern. He is the author of National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism, and of the forthcoming book The Path to Dissent: A Whistleblower at the CIA. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below...
The Ambassador's Daughter-Remembering the Murders
December 31, 2015 18:00 - 59 minutes - 10.2 MBOn the December 24, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody we heard a report from Kansas Citians Alice Kitchen and Carol Coburn on the recent delegation to El Salvador marking the 35th anniversary of the murder of four church women there in 1980. One of the delegation participants was Claire White, daughter of Robert White, US ambassador to El Salvador 1980-1981, who was fired after refusing to cover up the guilt of the US-supported Salvadoran military in the murders. Alice Kitchen put me in touch wi...
Delegation to El Salvador
December 24, 2015 18:00 - 59 minutes - 10.3 MBA delegation of 120 people went to El Salvador November 26 - December 5, 2015, marking 35 years since 4 churchwomen were murdered by the US-supported Salvadoran military. Two Kansas Citians, Carol Coburn and Alice Kitchen, joined that delegation, and they report on it this week on Tell Somebody. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You...
Lindsay Wise Talks About “Irradiated”
December 17, 2015 18:00 - 1 hour - 12.2 MBThis week on Tell Somebody, Lindsay Wise, Washington reporter for the Kansas City Star, talks about Irradiated, the McClatchy print and multimedia online series about “the hidden legacy of 70 years of atomic weaponry” that left “at least 33,480 Americans dead.” Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, ...
Sister Helen's Kansas City Speech
November 12, 2015 18:00 - 1 hour - 10.4 MBThis week on Tell Somebody, the speech that Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean gave at Unity on the Plaza in Kansas City on the evening of October 30, 2015. Sister Helen Prejean was in Kansas City on October 30 2015 for speaking engagements thanks to Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and The Center for Global Studies and Social Justice at Avila University. On the previous edition of the show, I played the interview I recorded with Sister Helen after a talk she gave...
Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues in Missouri
November 05, 2015 18:00 - 53 minutes - 9.12 MBThis week on Tell Somebody. Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean, and Staci Pratt, state coordinator for Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP). If someone viciously and brutally murdered a loved one of yours – a child, a spouse, a parent - could you get past rage and grief to forgive? Or even just to accept? I'm not sure I could. Unless we've experienced such a loss, most of can't ever know for sure. I hope I never have to find out. But as citizens, don't we all h...
Rocky Flats Cold War Horse
October 29, 2015 17:00 - 59 minutes - 10.2 MBA bigger-than-size statue of a horse wearing a hazmat suit is the subject of the October 29, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody. Author and professor Kristen Iversen and artist Jeff Gipe joined us on the phone to talk about it. Rocky Flats, near Denver and Boulder, Colorado, was the site of a plant producing highly radioactive plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs since 1952. After major fires and other problems spread contamination over the site and the region, the plant was shut down and offici...
Ray McGovern on Obama, Putin & Syria
October 14, 2015 21:24 - 57 minutes - 9.87 MBFormer CIA analyst Ray McGovern returns for the October 15, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody. With Russian President Vladimir Putin having unleashed his version of Shock and Awe on Syria, possibly putting the tiny remaining handful of US CENTCOM's $500 million force of “Viable Indigenous Ground Forces” at risk and with what Ray McGovern calls the “Fawning Corporate Media” in full “demonize Putin” mode and Obama's critics urging him to stand tall against the Russian threat, I thought it a good ...
Economist Richard D. Wolff
September 24, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 12 MBProfessor Richard D. Wolff spoke in Kansas City, Missouri at the All Souls Forum on September 13, 2015, and at the University of Missouri – Kansas City on September 14.. Shortly after his forum appearance at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, he sat down for a conversation with Tell Somebody. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Pro...
Richard Rhodes on Nagasaki, 70 Years On
August 20, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 10.4 MBOn the August 20, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Richard Rhodes appeared for the second time in as many weeks. Rhodes had been on the phone for the July 30 edition of the show, ahead of an August 9, 2015 speaking engagement in Independence, that would mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Tell Somebody was in attendance at Community of Christ Church in Independence for Rhodes' speech, and was subsequently on hand to speak with him about an hour after the speech. Richard Rhod...
Joe McGovern- The Other Side Documentary
August 13, 2015 17:00 - 58 minutes - 10.1 MBFor the August13, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody,I got together with Joe McGovern to talk about his current project. According to his website, theothersidedocumentary.com, Joe is a progressive liberal democrat who has always been interested in politics, but who recently grew tired of the extreme political partisanship in America today. He got the idea for a documentary film he calls “The Other Side: a liberal democrat explores conservative America” to see if he could find another way – a bett...
Richard Rhodes - Remembering Kansas City - Remembering Nagasaki
July 30, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 10.6 MBOn the July 30 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, ahead of an August 9, 2015 speaking engagement in the area marking the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Richard Rhodes talked about his early life in the Kansas City area, how violent criminals get that way, and about nuclear weapons. Richard Rhodes was born in Kansas City, Kansas and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and Independence, Missouri. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1986 book, “The Making of the Atomic Bomb,” and has writ...
Maurice Copeland on Kansas City Plant Cleanup & Help for Sick Workers
July 16, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 11.6 MBOn the July16, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Maurice Copeland talks about the lack of progressj in getting Special Exposure Cohort status for Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant workers and about plans for cleanup of the old plant. Maurice is a former nuclear weapons worker at the Kansas City Plant and is active in helping workers with EEOICPA issues. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save li...
Unsubstantiated, Contradicted, or Non-Existent-Ray McGovern on Iraq Lies
May 28, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 11.1 MBOn the May 28, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) co-founder and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern reminds us that the “intelligence” used to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq was “fixed,” not “flawed,” and explains for whom the surge worked. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. Y...
CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou & Peace Activist Brian Terrell
May 21, 2015 17:00 - 58 minutes - 10.1 MBOn the May 21, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, whistle-blower and former CIA officer John Kiriakou, and peace activist Brian Terrell's remarks at a drone protest on May 17th at the gates of Whiteman AFB. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the HYPERLINK "https://itunes.apple.com/us/pod...
Good Jobs and $15 For All Rally and March
April 30, 2015 17:00 - 57 minutes - 9.81 MBOn April 15, 2015, fast food workers and others across the country and around the world struck and marched and spoke up for $15 and a union. On the April 30th edition we heard some of the sounds and voices of marchers and speakersat a rally and march in Kansas City Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podca...
Free Health Clinic in Kansas City
April 16, 2015 17:00 - 58 minutes - 9.96 MBOn the April 16, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, hear from National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC) CEO, Nicole Lamoureux and Kansas City CARE Clinic CEO, Sheri Wood about a free health clinic in KC On Saturday, April 18th. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTun...
Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
April 09, 2015 13:30 - 1 hour - 10.3 MBMichael Copps was a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2011, including a stint as acting FCC Chair in 2009. He is currently special advisor for Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative. Michael Copps returned to Tell Somebody to talk about the February, 2015 FCC vote for net neutrality and about media reform generally for the April 9, 2015 edition of the show. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or ri...
April 15 Good Jobs & $15 for All March, Tomas Young, The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont’d.
April 02, 2015 17:00 - 58 minutes - 10.1 MBFast food workers in 200 cities across the country are going on strike on April 15, 2015. We talk about that in the first segment of the April 2, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, including a conversation with fast food worker and Stand Up KC activist Melinda Robinson. This Saturday, April 4, will mark 11 years since a bullet severed Tomas Young’s spine leaving him paralyzed. Tomas is remembered with the re-airing of a conversation I had with him around the time Body of War, the film about hi...
Remembering Danny Schechter the News Dissector
March 26, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 10.3 MBInvestigative journalist, author, filmmaker, media critic and activist Danny Schechter died of pancreatic cancer on March 19, 2015. On the March 26, 2015 edition ofTell Somebody,two frequent guests of the show remember their friend. First, bestselling author Greg Palast explains how Schechter influenced him to abandon his career as an investigator to become an investigative journalist. Then former CIA analyst Ray McGovern shares his recollection of spending a couple of hours with his frie...
Anne Frank and Rachel Corrie Anniversaries, Ferguson, MO Stats, plus The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont’d.
March 19, 2015 17:00 - 58 minutes - 6.74 MBThe March 19, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody begins with some thoughts about the March anniversaries of the deaths, murders really, resulting from government policies in Germany and Israel, of Anne Frank, sometime in March, 1945, and of Rachel Corrie on March 16, 2003. Then we consider some of the less-discussed statistics about police policies in Ferguson, MO that were spelled out in a recently released Department of Justice report. The final segment of the show is a continuation of audio ...
Todd O’Boyle on Net Neutrality & Helen Caldicott on Nuclear Extinction
March 12, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 10.6 MBOn the March 12, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Todd O’Boyle, program director for Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative talks about the FCC's recent decisions on Network Neutrality and Community Broadband. In the second half of the show, Dr. Helen Caldicott opens a a symposium she organized on The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link ...
Relentless Reformer-Robyn Muncy’s Biography of Josephine Roche
March 05, 2015 14:00 - 1 hour - 10.5 MBOn the March 5, 2015 edition ofTell Somebody,American history professor Robyn Muncy talks about her new biography, Relentless Reformer: Joesephine Roche and Progressivism in America. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any c...
Israel - Palestine – If Americans Knew
February 26, 2015 18:00 - 1 hour - 10.5 MBOn the February 26, 2015 edition ofTell Somebody, the subject was the relationship of Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. Allison Weir is the founder of If Americans Knew, a national organization that provides information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and on U.S. foreign policy regarding the Middle East, that is often missing from U.S. press coverage. Ahead of appearances in Kansas City by Allison Weir sponsored by Citizens for Justice in the Middle Eastand AFSC-KC, we had a conversatio...
McChesney – Blowing the Roof Off the 21st Century
January 29, 2015 18:00 - 59 minutes - 10.1 MBRobert McChesney, Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, has a new book out, Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-first Century – Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy. McChesney talks about the book on the January 29, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio ...
Chris Mitchell on Community Broadband
January 22, 2015 18:00 - 1 hour - 10.6 MBPresident Obama gave a speech in Iowa on January 14, 2015, promoting Community Broadband. In Missouri, a proposed house bill would outlaw it. On the January 22 edition of Tell Somebody, Christopher Mitchell, Director, Community Broadband networks with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, talks to us about municipal broadband. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of t...
Stephanie Kelton takes US Senate Post, MLK Birthday, Climate Change Radio
January 15, 2015 18:00 - 56 minutes - 9.65 MBOn the day after Christmas, Stephanie Kelton, chair of the economics department at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and proponent of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), announced in a tweet that she had accepted a position as chief economist for the minority side of the U.S. Senate budget committee. This January 15, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody seemed a good time to repeat a conversation I had with her in July, 2013. Before getting to that, we heard about Henry Stoever’s then upcoming t...
A Look Back at 2014 on Tell Somebody
January 08, 2015 18:00 - 59 minutes - 10.2 MBOn the January 8, 2015 edition of the show, start a look back at 2014 on Tell Somebody, The portions are small but we’re serving up single payer health care, Kansas City nuclear weapons parts, community broadband, net neutrality, corporate personhood, food for the homeless and more, You’ll hear John Nichols, Ray McGovern, Vandana Shiva, Kathy Kelly and others, and we only made it through August. ...
Stephanie Kelton – New Minority Chief Economist for Senate Budget Committee on Angry Birds Approach to Understanding Money, Debt and Deficits
January 01, 2015 18:00 - 1 hour - 12.1 MBOn December 26, 2014, UMKC economics professor Stephanie Kelton tweeted “I've accepted a position as Chief Economist on the Senate Budget Committee,” reportedly hired by Senator Bernie Sanders who will be ranking member of that committee. Kelton has been associate professor and chair of the economics department at UMKC, started the blog site www.neweconomicperspectives.org and is a leading proponent of Modern Monetary Theory or MMT. According to at least one report, Kelton will return to UM...
Marjorie Cohn – Grand Jury Manipulation, Kelly & Walker on Killer Drones
December 25, 2014 18:00 - 1 hour - 11.4 MBMarjorie Cohn, author, criminal defense attorney and professor of criminal law and process at Thomas Jefferson University of Law returned to Tell Somebody for the December 25, 2014 edition of the show to talk about how the grand jury process was manipulated by St Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch in the case of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. On last week’s show we just had time for short clips of the comments of Georgia Walker and Kathy Kelly the night be...
Kathy Kelly’s Conviction & Ray McGovern’s Confrontation
December 18, 2014 18:00 - 59 minutes - 10.2 MBThree-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly and Kansas Citian Georgia Walker were convicted of criminal trespass for trying to offer loaves of bread to the commander at Whiteman AFB in Missouri and engage in conversation about drone warfare. Kelly was sentenced to 3 months in federal prison. She talked to Tell Somebody the night before her court appearance for the December 18, 2014 edition of the show. Then we hear again from former presidential daily briefer and CIA analyst Ray McGov...
Body of War-Phil Donahue & Ellen Spiro - $15 & a Union – The Good Germans
December 11, 2014 18:00 - 1 hour - 11 MBThe December 11, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody starts out with a short interview with a fast food worker who participated in the Stand Up KC strike on December 4. The main segment of the show is a re-airing of a February, 2008 with filmmakers Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue about their film Body of War, a documentary about Kansas City Iraq war veteran Tomas Young and the October, 2002 “debate” leading up to the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. The show ends with a commentary calle...
Drones! Marjorie Cohn & Georgia Walker
December 04, 2014 18:00 - 1 hour - 14.4 MBIn the first segment of the December 4, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, law professor Marjorie Cohn talks about the new book she edited, Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal Moral and Geopolitical Issues, an interdisciplinary collection of essays and articles by various experts. On the second segment of the show, Kansas City peace activist Georgia Walker talks about her May 31, 2014 arrest at the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, MO and her June 1 arrest at Whiteman Air Force base ne...
Terrance Wise on Fast Food Workers & Kathy Kelly on Military & Economic Warfare
November 27, 2014 18:00 - 1 hour - 10.5 MBOn the first segment of the Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody Burger King worker Terrance Wise talks about fast food worker actions coming on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 6am in Kansas City Kansas and at noon in Kansas City. More information at https://www.facebook.com/StandUpKc and www.standupkc.org In the second segment of the show, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly talks about the real effects of drone warfare, her upcoming December 9, 2014 appearance i...
Joe McGovern’s Travels with Charlie- Looking for the Other Side
November 07, 2014 18:00 - 1 hour - 11 MBJoe McGovern, just like John Steinbeck, only completely differently, is driving across America with his dog Charlie. Joe is in search of conservative Republicans to talk to and record for a documentary film he is calling The Other Side. Can progressives learn anything useful from those on the right? Listen to what Joe had to say about that Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to sav...
Maurice Copeland – Kansas City Plant Workers Compensation
October 29, 2014 17:00 - 1 hour - 10.5 MBAfter news of a serious incident at a Honeywell uranium processing plant in Illinois, the October 29, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody welcomed former Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant supervisor Maurice Copeland back to the show to talk about compensation and healthcare for former workers at the plant. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your compu...
Corporations are not People & Labeling Food is COOL
October 23, 2014 17:00 - 59 minutes - 10.2 MBJeffrey D. Clements, attorney and author of Corporations are not People was heard on the October 23, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody ahead of an October 29 appearance at the Central Branch, Kansas City Public Library. One of several issues affected by ‘corporate personhood’ that came up was trade policy generally, and specifically, a ruling just out from the WTO about COOL, or country of origin labeling for food. To learn about that in a little more detail, we heard from Ben Beachy, Resear...
David Barsamian in Kansas City and Ray McGovern Thinking of Kansas
October 16, 2014 17:00 - 1 hour - 10.3 MBDavid Barsamian, founder of Alternative Radio was in Kansas City on October 12, 2014 to speak on Media, Capitalism, and the Environment at the All Souls Forum. I was able to sit down and talk to him for a few minutes right before his presentation. That conversation starts the October 16 edition of Tell Somebody. Next up, former CIA analyst and presidential daily briefer Ray McGovern thinks that it would be a travesty to give Pat Roberts another 6 years in the U.S. Senate, and wants to shar...
The Blotch on Holder’s Legacy as Attorney General…& the Other Blotch…& the Other Blotch…&…
October 02, 2014 17:00 - 1 hour - 10.3 MBAttorney General Eric Holder recently announced his intention to resign as soon as a replacement can be nominated and confirmed. This sparked much comment on what the legacy of the first African-American AG will be. Assessments of Holder ranged from the looney-tune far right echo-chamber criticism, to fawning, uncritical praise from some middle-left arenas. The closest thing to consensus might be that he did not do nearly enough to bring top Wall Street wrong-doers to justice in the wake ...
The Economy - Does More Government Help or Hurt?
September 25, 2014 17:00 - 59 minutes - 10.2 MBOn September 16, 2014, the Kansas City Public Library hosted a discussion on the proper role of government in the economy between Stephanie Kelton, chair of the Department of Economics at UMKC, and University of Missouri economics professor Joseph Haslag. The event was moderated by KCPT-TV host Mike Shanin and co-sponsored by the Jobs Now! Coalition and the Show-Me Institute. With Q and A, the discussion went on over one hour and twenty minutes, too long for the show, but on this September 2...
Coleen Rowley in Kansas City and What’s Different About Independent Media
September 18, 2014 17:00 - 57 minutes - 9.95 MBFBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley spoke at the All Souls Forum in Kansas City on September 14, 2014, and about 15 minutes into September 18 edition of Tell Somebody you’ll hear a conversation I had with her just before she had to head back to Minneapolis, followed by an excerpt from her presentation at the forum. But first you’ll get to contrast and compare how independent media and mainstream corporate compromised media cover a topic. This time it’s the NFL handling of domestic violence,...
Coleen Rowley on Truth Telling-David Cobb on Senate Citizens United Amendment Vote-
September 11, 2014 17:00 - 59 minutes - 10.2 MBFBI whistleblower and 2002 Time co-person of the year Coleen Rowley talked about her upcoming Kansas City appearance on the September 11, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody. We had a short clip of Ray McGovern speaking in Moscow, and Move to Amend spokesman David Cobb talked about the September 8 vote in the U.S. Senate related to an amendment to the Constitution to overturn the Citizens United decision. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or righ...