Wednesday Night

Program Notes Something’s Happening 08-22-23




12 AM


Creative Frontline

What is environmental justice – Bradley Angell (1+33)





12:30 AM

Green Street News (29 min)

ENVIRONMENTAL WHISTLEBLOWER - WITH KYLA BENNETT

How PEER protects environmental whistleblowers

This week on GSN, Patti and Doug discuss PFAS in fracking, how Coke Influences science, and the plastic waste problem. Then Kyla Bennet of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) talks about her own career as a whistleblower at EPA and how PEER helps other whistleblowers like her.





1 AM


Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer (53 min)



August 17, 2023 Sohrab Ahmari, author of Tyranny, Inc., on the dictatorship of capital • Erin Reed, aka Erin in the Morning, on the state of trans politics





2 AM


Equal Rights & Justice with Mimi Rosenberg (58 min)

An Open Letter To The People Of Japan - No More Hiroshima, No More War –opposing the release of radioactive nuclear waste-water into the Pacific from Fukushima; Was The Killing Of Fernando Villavicencio, Ecuadorian Presidential, Anti-Corruption Candidate, State Sanctioned? Interview with Jake Johnston, co-author of Ecuador: A Decade of Progress Undone!





3 AM

Scholar’s Circle

Economic War (58 min)

The economic conflict between Russia and the West started before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. How has the war in Ukraine affected it?

How have the intense sanctions against Russia altered this economic war? Will the West remain unified in confronting Russia in this economic war?

We discuss a new book by Maximillan Hess, Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West.

Maximilian Hess is a Central Asia Fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the founder of the London-based political risk firm Enmetena Advisory.


https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/economic-war/





4 – 6 AM Final two hours of The Thom Hartmann Program which aired earlier on Monday 8/21/23.