4th Monday
10 PM: Radio Nothing: Rod Richardson
2 AM: The A List: Sam Hopkins
6 AM: Alternative Radio: David Barsamian
7 AM: Bensonian Radio: Michael Benson
9 AM: Del ‘In Transition’ (fill-in)
12 Noon: In Context War Report: Ken and Marchand MacDermotRoe and Del LaPietro
In Context War Report presents Part 2 of a two part series on the rise, fall and resurrection of Russia as a global power. What does Russia’s resurgence mean for U.S. national security? The program features In Context’s military affairs commentator Marchand MacDermotRoe and is pre-recorded.
1 PM: The Jazz Sound: Rick Petrone
4 PM: Kevin Gallagher
6:55 PM: WPKN Local News – from CT News Service, CTNewsJunkie.com, CTMirror.org, EastEndBeacon.com, RiverheadLocal.com and Long Island Patch sites
7 PM: Free Speech Radio News
7:30 PM This Way Out: The International Lesbian & Gay Radio Magazine
8 PM: Counterpoint: Scott Harris
Featured Guests:
- A representative of the group United for a Fair Economy assesses the importance of the data released in the recent U.S. census report on stagnating U.S. poverty as well as political attacks on the social safety net and public policy options to alleviate poverty and reverse growing income inequality.
- BORDC executive director Shahid Buttar discusses the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s recent release of an opinion authorizing the NSA’s blanket collection of American’s phone communication data, pending litigation challenging the operation and initiatives to reform government surveillance programs.
- Ladd Everitt, Director of Communications with the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence talks about his group’s reaction to the most recent mass shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. — and continuing nationwide efforts since last year’s Newtown, CT school massacre, to mandate universal background checks for all gun buyers and pass laws banning military assault rifles and high capacity ammunition magazines.
- Michael Zweig, professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, discusses the escalating sectarian violence in Iraq and the Iraqi labor leaders he’s supporting who are struggling to establish a democratic, non-sectarian society with internationally accepted labor rights.
10 PM: Writer’s Voice: Francesca Rheannon
When it comes to fracked fossil fuels, are we being sold a bunch of snake oil? Energy analyst Richard Heinberg talks about his riveting new book, Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future. And journalist Bill McKibben helped spark the global mass movement to save the climate. McKibben tells the story of how that movement has developed – and a parallel story of his neighbor in rural Vermont who just happens to be a foremost beekeeper. McKibben’s latest book is OIL AND HONEY: The Education of An Unlikely Activist.
11 PM Michael Dunham
2 AM (Tuesday): Luis Luna
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