George interviews Gershon Baskin, an American Jew who emigrated to Israel in 1978, lived in an Arab village for two years, and founded the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information 25 years ago, to look for a practical resolution of the conflict. He speaks to the significance of the massive protests to the privatization of social services and lack of middle class jobs in Israel, the lack of will on the part of Israeli administrations, Netanyahu’s particularly, to resolve the conflict, and paints a picture of what life could be like there if peace were achieved.
What would peace in Israel/Palestine look like?
August 31st, 2011
Rising Up in Israel
August 30th, 2011George interviews Adam Keller, spokeperson for Gush Shalom, the Peace Bloc, or coalition, in Israel, about the significance of the demonstrations ongoing there, involving 300,000 people, and the depth of opposition in Israel to the neo-liberal policies that have preceded them.
Politicide
August 30th, 2011An interview with Nassir Arruri, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire, on the occasion of the Israeli attack on Gaza. Professor Arruri was born in Jerusalem, and was 14 in 1948. He served for a time as a member of the PLO national committee. He introduces the idea of politicide as an interpretation of the strategy of the Israeli state throughout the history of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, and argues that there has never been any real interest in a two state solution, or indeed any solution. He discusses the relation of Israel with the US and suggest that it is as a cop on the beat in the middle east for the US empire.
Raising Children Without Punishment
July 13th, 2011George and John interview Krenie Stowe, lawyer, doctor, educator on her work of de-institutionalizing childhood.
The Politics of Love
July 13th, 2011John and George discuss the possibility of a political life based on the recognition that we are all loving beings, no matter how we have been hurt or what we fear.
Ada Edwards:Family influences and corporal punishment of children
July 13th, 2011Deb Shafto and George interview Ada Edwards, activist and 6yr city council person on the influences in her life, and her raising of her own children.
Capitalism vs democracy: Towards a cooperative society
May 12th, 2011John and George discuss the contradictions between capitalism in its present imperial form here in the US and what we might mean by democracy, and some ideas about how to organize a cooperative economy using the need and satisfaction of being of service as a motivation.
Perspectives on the Middle East
April 20th, 2011George interviews Pam Geyer, local president of the National Coalition of Jewish Women, and past president of the national organization, and Michael Duke, reporter for the Jewish Daily Herald , about their perspectives on the continued occupation of Palestinian land and the Isreaeli treatment of the Palestinians and Arabs within Isreal’s borders.
Nuclear matters
April 14th, 2011In this special broadcast, George and John discuss what happened in Japan and other nuclear disasters, the feasibility of nuclear power as a source of energy that doesn’t emit greenhouse gases, alternative energy sources, including solar power from the moon, the politics of nuclear energy and the reasons for the confrontation with Iran.
Class war comes to higher education
April 7th, 2011John and George discuss the alternative to the budget cuts in Texas of raising taxes on the wealthiest 20% to half the level of the pporest 2o%, which would balance the budget, and the effects of proposed changes on higher education.
