Monday Night

Program Notes Something’s Happening 03-12-24



12:00 AM

Creative Frontline

Water and Power

Robert Lundahl interview biologist and botanist Pat Flanagan, following up on last week’s episode about Cadiz. Water and Power tackles 10 years of solar development in the desert and its ever-expanding water usage profile in addition to a comparison and contrast with the Cadiz Inc. operation, examples of encroachment and settler disruption of Indigenous cultural norms and practices. Produced by Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone.

Several springs in the Mojave Trails National Monument are connected to an underground aquifer being drawn upon for a water marketing scheme. Meanwhile, on the surface, lands graded for Utility Scale Solar, located on pristine desert require massive amounts of water to "tamp down" sand and dust that have buried homes in Daggett and other rural communities.

Springs are sacred to the Chemehuevi and Paiute peoples. Bighorn sheep and other protected species depend on these remote springs for life and habitation. Pat gives us the dirt on the development of these remote and beautiful natural ecological treasures. Individual rain fed springs exist in a water cycle of evaporative transpiration potentially disrupted by Cadiz Inc.'s "billion dollar" water for profit plan.

Water and power are "gold" in California

More info: https://CreativeFRONTLINE.com; https://Agence-RLA.com



12:30 AM

Between the Lines

Radio newsmagazine with Scott Harris

Ongoing Gaza Catastrophe Rouses Michigan Primary Voters to Send Biden a Message; The World and Americans Must Hold all Israeli Institutions Accountable for Occupation, Apartheid, and Genocide; Review of Trump's Total Immunity Claim, Effectively Delays Jan 6 Trial Until After Election.

Guests: James J. Zogby PhD, co-founder and president of the Arab American Institute; Ofer Neiman, a Jewish Israeli anti-apartheid activist living in Jerusalem; Thomas G. Moukawsher, a former Connecticut complex litigation judge.



1:00 AM

Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer

Historian Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, takes on some myths about the Black Panther Party. Then Saadia Toor and Rabia Mehmood discuss what’s happening in Pakistan, where Imran Khan’s party bested the military- and US-backed politicians. More information here: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871133/living-for-the-city/ and here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/saadia-toor, https://twitter.com/Rabail26



2:00 AM

Project Censored

On this week’s program, Mickey Huff talks with communications professor and filmmaker Roger Stahl about his most recent documentary, Theaters of War: How The Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood. They discuss how the military entertainment complex works, showcasing its vast propaganda influence on mass media.

Legal analyst and author Barbara McQuade joins the show to discuss her new book, Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America. McQuade gives an overview of the increasing challenges we face around information integrity and suggests what we need to do about it.

Speaking of solutions around fake news moral panics, media scholar Nolan Higdon returns to the show to highlight why we desperately need more critical media literacy education in the US and also critiques the reprise of Russia-gate type McCarthyism as the election season picks up pace.

Roger Stahl is Professor of Communication at the University of Georgia, an author, and a documentary filmmaker. His 2022 film, Theaters of War, is available from the Media Education Foundation. Barbara McQuade is a law professor at the University of Michigan, and a former U.S. Attorney. Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in Education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus, and a prolific author on media issues; his books include The Anatomy of Fake News and the forthcoming edited volume, Censorship, Digital Media, and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression.



3:00 AM

Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI

Two segments: a) Veterans Call for Criminal Investigation of Illegal Biden Weapons Transfer to Israel; and b) Protestors arrested for Taking On the Pro-Israel Lobby AIPAC and the Senators They Fund to Support Genocide.



4 – 6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

Final two hours from the non-commercial broadcast earlier on 3-11-24