Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (March 4) 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, The Voice of Russia, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Radio Havana Cuba.
From CHINA- China has a population of more than 1.3 billion people according to a recent census. China has evacuated 35,000 citizens from Libya. China is expected to loosen restrictions on overseas investments. New Zealand has confirmed the deaths of 160 in last weeks earthquake. South Korea and the US military have launched new war games after the South dropped leaflets on the North.
From RUSSIA- More on the US/ South Korea military exercises and the propaganda bombardment of North Korea, encouraging a Egyptian style revolt against Kim Jong-il. Julian Assange has lost his case in London and will be extradited to Sweden, pending an appeal.
From GERMANY- 22 additional charges, including aiding the enemy, have been brought against Pvt Bradley Manning who allegedly released military documents to Wikileaks. An analysis of the call for United Nations backed air strikes on foreign mercenaries in Libya, and the US call for a no-fly zone.
From CUBA- Ecuador and Venezuela are considering creating a diplomatic group to visit Libya and urged world powers to not launch a new war. 20 NATO warships have began military exercises off the coast of Spain. The Cuban representative to the UN reiterated the original concept and policies of peace-keeping operations formed at the United Nations. In Honduras, the Peoples National Resistance Front ratified former President Zelaya as their coordinator and will boycott upcoming elections. A Viewpoint on last weekend's demonstrations in Mexico City against the continuing violence created by a war on drugs being trafficked into the US.
There is an article about the Shortwave Report by Cassandra Roos on line -
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.(PST)
NEWLY CORRECTED!!! The Shortwave Report may be downloaded as a podcast from
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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)
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¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts
"I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers."
--Howard Zinn
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The past restoration - putting together the pieces
Anyone can call for the overthrow of any regime anywhere, but if another regime does so then it is a different situation. Whenever such a call originates from any kind of monopoly of power, it is not just an opinion but also a promise. When Iraq rose up against Saddam in 1991, the insurrection was betrayed by the governments who had promised to back it, and when some of these governments then promised to make good for their past fraud in 2003 it was betrayed again, and still is up to this very hour. Who guarantees the people of Korea that their cause is not lost as in the example mentioned? Actually they are not entirely uninformed but have quite a realistic perception of the reliability of capitalist guarantees or lack thereof, and any denial of that will depreciate any eventual truths supplied with it. The South must resist the temptation to imagine plausible skepticism was an unidirectional concern, or will remain condemned to be its own bogeyman.
A similar conclusion can be made regarding the South/Nord divide in the Americas. Drug prohibition is a type of torture aggressive regimes of Europe have been using to colonialise their own populations before they turned it against others elsewhere - up to the extent of making it the current rule of the day in international politics. That it is in fact torture can easily be seen from the selectiveness of it - when the colonialists failed to eliminate hemp they substituted it with tobacco, and with opium and alcohol there were attempts to employ them as weapons. In the case of Mexico, every gunshot fired in the drug market is preceded by a homegrown plant being pulled out of the Earth by corrupt mercenaries of an insane inquisition in Amiland, and everything in between in just the law of supply and demand. It's like Marx' observation on the correlation of the profit rate and the unscrupulousness of capital being turned into a rule of a sick game by an obsessed government. But for the plants this is not a zero-sum game, it is a matter of ending the torture. If people in the South cannot even see through the fraudulent promises the Northern regime implies to its own population, then how will they grasp their piece of the truth?