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Taxpayers will pay KBR $30 million in legal fees after lawsuit from poisoned vets

Airs at: Fri, 09/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
U.S. taxpayers will have to pay at least $30 million to cover attorney fees incurred by defense contractor K-B-R.  The company, a subcontractor of the infamous Halliburton corporation, was found guilty of wrongly exposing U.S. and British soldiers to toxic chemicals while s... Read more

Upside Downtrodden - episode 120

Airs at: Sat, 08/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Upside Downtrodden
EPISODE 120 TOPIC: STRESS EPISODE 120 SEGMENTS: JUSTWORTHY CAUSE - AMERICANFORESTS.ORG, WORDS TO LIVE BY EPISODE 120 GUEST: ARIEL JOSEPH TOWNE We live in a world of make-believe, ins... Read more

One Fish, Two Fish, Fetus Fetish

Airs at: Mon, 08/17/2015 at 12:00am
Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile about the controversy over Planned Parenthood clinics and the sale of fetal tissue and and what this controversy really is all about. Gentile is professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Gender Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Ju... Read more

Drought Prompts Action at All Levels of Government

Airs at: Thu, 08/13/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The town of Banks, Oregon, located in western Washington County northwest of Hillsboro, recently implemented water use restrictions on businesses, partly in response to drought conditions across the state. For more on Oregon’s driest year in decades and government responses ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 10, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/10/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Mole featuring segments on Bernie Sanders, Psychoanalysis and Politics on the Stanford Prison Experiment, The Donald, and Hiroshima, as well as election-related songs. Bill talks with political scientist Joseph Schwartz about the Sande... Read more

Psychoanalysis and Politics: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Airs at: Mon, 08/10/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan discuss Phillip Zimbardo’s famous Stanford Prison Experiment, in which participants played the roles of guards and prisoners. The inspiration for several films, the study is usually remembered as showing that normal people can quickly become sadis... Read more

Century Of Lies for July 19 2015

Airs at: Sun, 07/19/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week host Doug McVay speaks with Seattle attorney and NORML board member Jeff Steinborn about Washington's marijuana laws, plus President Obama speaks about sentencing reform at El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma. Read more

Refueling the Columbia Generating Station

Airs at: Thu, 06/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
An active nuclear power plant in Washington state is being refueled. Washington’s Columbia Generating Station, or C.G.S will be refueled using raw radioactive material. The Environmental Protection Agency says that radiation levels in the area will increase significantly, bu... Read more

Karin Lazarus Interview

Airs at: Thu, 06/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Coloradan Karin Lazarus had a brainstorm in 2009, start a bakery with pastries that are infused with marijuana.  In 2013, NY Magazine called her, "the Queen of the Munchies" and said she's "brought a pastry chef’s savvy to the world of pot brownies"  Her new cookbook, calle... Read more

Fixing Diesel Emissions in Oregon

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
With Oregon’s diesel emissions being the sixth highest in the nation, attempts to pass laws that might put the State’s limits on par with California’s have stalled in the legislature. Because State law limits diesel emissions very little, activists are concerned that Oregon... Read more