Playlist for Sunday

Equal Time for Free Thought, Show 414
Are there too many people? Has the "population bomb" exploded yet?

It seems counter-intuitive to argue that 7 billion humans in every corner of the planet isn’t a serious problem, but is overpopulation the actual cause for our ecological crises?  Is disease, poverty, water and food shortages, pollution, and climate change ultimately a result of what some cynics call a cancer on the face of the Earth… Us?  Or is something else going on here?

We will address these questions and concerns with special guest Ian Angus as we ask, are there too many people? Angus is editor of Climate and Capitalism, an online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. His previous books include The Global Fight for Climate Justice, and his new book is Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crises.

The Thomas Jefferson Hour, Show 955
President Jefferson is asked how poverty affects freedom in America.


Wings
An eloquent survivor tries to move the US Congress, then speaks candidly to Jean Parker about what it means to become abruptly disabled. A Nobel laureate describes the progress of the land mine treaty and the distance it has to go.

Greenpeace Radio

Political Analysis

Whistle-blower Hugh Kaufman, senior policy analyst at the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response

As the nation approaches the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and the massive oil spill that followed, Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest (www.solartimes.org) takes a closer look at the worldwide use of so-called “dispersants" by Big Oil to "clean up" the environmental damage caused by oil spills. SLV is joined in this pursuit by EPA whistle-blower and environmental defender Hugh Kaufman, a forty-year veteran of the EPA, who gained notoriety in the spring of 2010, after speaking out about the BP cover-up in the Gulf  -- and exposing the toxic and environmentally damaging nature of "Corexit," a dispersant used by BP after the disastrous 2010 "spill."

Voice of Palestine

Radio Ecoshock

Dr. James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warns it isn't enough to reduce our emissions. We must actually take carbon dioxide back out of the air, to avoid entering a new and dangerous age of greenhouse living.

We are currently at 392 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere, and rising rapidly. The target Hansen says is 350 parts per million. That is the level where the Polar ice, which regulates the climate humans have known for the past 10,000 years, will remain on planet Earth.

Chris Mooney, author of "The Republican War on Science," says scientists fail to communicate the danger of climate change, because they wrongly believe mere facts will convince the public.

Instead, Mooney outlines studies showing humans use facts to bolster pre-existing beliefs about the world. There are large differences in the basic personalities of those who gravitate toward the Right and Left of politics.

The F Word

Farrah Khan, a counsellor and advocate at a violence against women legal clinic, explains the spectrum of violence against women and the repercussions of the media coverage of the Shafia trial.

Between the Lines

Growing resistance to austerity measures in Greece and the economic Eurozon crisis; Campaign to overturn indefinite detention law; consumer groups demand thorough federal testing of genetically engineered salmon.

The Majority Report

CouterSpin

This week on CounterSpin: Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan provided a real-life example of something many corporate pundits say they've longed to see: A Palestinian activist pursuing non-violent resistance. And yet his 66 day hunger strike to protest Israel's policies of detaining Palestinains for months at a times without charge didn't draw much media attention. We'll talk to Yousef Munayyer of the Palestine Center about that. Also on CounterSpin today, US media are calling the fire that killed at least 360 people in an overcrowded Honduran prison a tragic accident. Our guest calls it "only the latest deadly outcome of the larger politically driven firestorm that is Honduras today," and that has everything to do with the U.S. We'll hear from history professor and author Dana Frank on that story.

David Pakman Show
 
Green News Report
 
Citizen Radio
 
The Jimmy Dore Show
 
Partisan Gridlock
 
Antiwar Radio
Interview with Dennis Kucinich
 
Antiwar Radio
Interview with Gareth Porter

Antiwar Radio
Interview with Robert Naiman