Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (November 26) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
(NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version posted up there {26.7MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)
This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
From CHINA- The The Chinese government is giving subsidies to a quarter million citizens to help with the 10 percent rise in the cost of food in the past month. China and Russia signed many economic and trade agreements. China filed its annual report on climate change. Then 4 stories concerning North Korea, beginning with Sunday and the centrifuge report, then the military attacks which the North says the South began, and then the plans for more provocative US/South Korea joint naval drills this weekend.
From GERMANY- A European view of the skirmish on the Korean peninsula and speculation on the effect it will have. In Bucharest an exhibition showing the effect of garbage on the environment has been unveiled at a shopping mall.
From NETHERLANDS- Ireland has announced tough austerity measures while discussing bailouts with the EU and IMF. Portugal ground to a halt on Wednesday in a nationwide strike against their austerity measures.
From CUBA- Another day of protests in London over college fees. Wikileaks announced it will release more documents from Iraq, seven times bigger than the first. Secret talks in Afghanistan with Taliban collapsed when the main Taliban involved was revealed as a fake. NATO's top representative came under fire for claiming that Kabul was safer for children than London or New York. The Obama administration is pressuring Pakistan to allow for the wider use of drone attacks. Hugo Chavez signed the Anti-Imperialist Manifesto in Defense of Homeland.
From RUSSIA- Bolivian President Evo Morales accused the US of instigating a number of attempted coups in Latin America. German Chancellor Merkel expressed her grave concern over the fate of the Euro. There are reports that the uranium enrichment program in Iran has been suspended. Serious actions are being taken to prevent tigers from becoming extinct in the wild.
There is an article about the Shortwave Report by Cassandra Roos on line at-http://www.campusprogress.org/soundvision/780/big-stories-shortwaves
I was interviewed for an informative weekly radio show Mediageek, available at http://radio.mediageek.net
All that plus times and frequencies for listening at home. It's free to rebroadcast, please notify me if you're airing it and haven't notified me in the last month, please mention the website if you only air a portion. If you just want to listen and have a slow connection, try the streaming version- lower sound quality but good enough and way easier if you don't have a high-speed internet connection. If streaming is a problem because of your slow connection, download the smaller file- it takes 20 minutes or less, and will play swell in any mp3 player application (RealPlayer, Winamp, Quicktime, iTunes, etc) you have on your computer.
This program will be aired on Friday evening at 6:30pm (PST) on KZYX/Z Philo CA, you might be able to stream via
There are several other streams that work better- Freak Radio Santa Cruz now streams this program on Friday at 9:00am.(PDST)
The Shortwave Report may be downloaded as a podcast from or iTunes (search for "shortwave" in podcasts)
Check out the amazing streams at
And Radio For Peace International at
I hope you'll listen and air this if you're connected with a radio station. I am still wondering how to get financially compensated for the 25 hours I put into this program weekly- any ideas are appreciated. Any stations rebroadcasting this (or listeners) are welcome to donate for production costs. You can do so through the website. Many thanks to those that have donated! No Guilt! (maybe a little)
link for broadcast edition-
(13.3MB)
link for smaller file and streaming-
¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts
--"Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it."
-- Howard Zinn