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An original radio theatre show each week, with most sounds culled from the previous week, about a fictional, theatrical presidency. Contradictions tell the story, with songs, skits, and clips from political news shows and late-night comedy routines. The definition of "radio theatre" is stretched here, with an updated Dickie Goodman and/or Richard Foreman-meets-mashup style sometimes, and a more straightforward take other weeks. Currently airing on 30 or 40 stations around the world, the network has ordered another 10 episodes, but there are threats of impending cancellation. Anyone who would like to work on a production, or have their work air in this timeslot, should contact info@wgxc.org.

Phil asks Sahiounie about his recent article concerning the role of Russian military policy in Northeastern Syria. These Russian peace-keepers are posted along the Turkish border, conducting joint patrols with the Turks. Sahiounie says that the US is occupying North East Syria's oil and gas fields, not because they need the small amount of oil and gas generated on in that area. Instead, the U.S. intends to use the oil and gas wells as leverage versus the Syrian government on the details of the final settlement of the war in Syria, and who gets to be involved in Syrian reconstruction. Phil asks how relations stand between Syrian Kurds and the Syrian government. Sahiounie explains that when the USA betrayed their Kurdish allies (a US tradition), most of Syian-Kurdish parties switched their alegiance to Russia and Syria. In return, the Syrian and Russian governments have insisted that Kurdish forces leave the Turkish border area and integrate their armed forces into the SAA. The big winners in these developments are Syria and Russia. Russia's international prestige as an honest broker has risen. Syria has already recaptured key border towns, the largest oil field, and the largest electrical generating plant. Turkey has gained also in working with Russia to clean the border area of Kurdish militants. As for Western sanctions, they are really hurting poor people in Syria. Syria used to grow its own food and produce its own oil. Due to sanctions and occupations, it can't do that now. As for Idlib, Sahiounie estimated that most of the armed militants are foreigners. However, the Syrian government sent thousands of anti-government Syrians on the green buses to Idlib. Phil asks what will become of these militants. Sahiounie spectulates that Turkey will not re-admit them. Rather, these militants will either be liquidated or shipped to another country to carry on their dirty work for the U.S. empire.

Articles of Impeachment Must be Expanded beyond Ukraine Extortion Scheme; Supreme Court Allows Lawsuit Against Gun Maker in Sandy Hook Massacre to Proceed.

We wrap up our retro look at songs of the house of "i" with part two of "Sponsored by the Letter i" special...next week, we start a "Cheeze Pleeze Christmas 2019"...be warned or excited for that, your choice!

The weekend of November 16, was the fifth week of demonstrations around the country demanding The Trump-Pence Regime Must Go – NOW! The movement called on everyone who recognized the fascistic character of this regime to take to the streets until the Trump-Pence regime is driven out of power altogether. We will be hearing voices from some of the people who took part on the 16th.

Jem Bendell is a professor of sustainability leadership at the University of Cumbria, UK. He is founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum, an online monthly conversation about how to prepare for what Bendell considers as a very likely collapse of industrial civilization. Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology and a respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology. In the summer of 2018 Prof. Bendell completed the paper entitled Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy. It was rejected for publication by reviewers of an academic journal. Bendell refused to make changes to satisfy academia and published on the internet. There the paper has gone around the world. He has become an important voice among Extinction Rebellion, the School Strike movement, the Sunrise movement and individual thinkers who offer insight and support in the worsening climate crisis Joanna Macy is author and co-author of 13 books, among them Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy and Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects and translations of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. She joined the conversation from her home in Berkeley, CA. where she had just celebrated her 90th birthday See the 50 minute conversation on Youtube Joanna Macy's website is at

Jem Bendell is a professor of sustainability leadership at the University of Cumbria, UK. He is founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum, an online monthly conversation about how to prepare for what Bendell considers as a very likely collapse of industrial civilization. Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology and a respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology. In the summer of 2018 Prof. Bendell completed the paper entitled Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy. It was rejected for publication by reviewers of an academic journal. Bendell refused to make changes to satisfy academia and published on the internet. There the paper has gone around the world. He has become an important voice among Extinction Rebellion, the School Strike movement, the Sunrise movement and individual thinkers who offer insight and support in the worsening climate crisis Joanna Macy is author and co-author of 13 books, among them Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy and Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects and translations of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. She joined the conversation from her home in Berkeley, CA. where she had just celebrated her 90th birthday See the 50 minute conversation on Youtube Joanna Macy's website is at

Remember, Your two loveable stoners move live to Tuesdays for awhile! in Anthony's Weed Corner, Vitamin E additives determined to be the cause of vape illness, and no more Vape Apps for you! Joe dislikes idiot motorists Come find out what we mean and then laugh with or at us, tune in to our live show every Tuesday night at 8pm eastern at http://www.chiampa.org

Phil Taylor and Phil Conlon discuss various current issues, including the coup in Bolivia, and the latest on the White Helmets. You have to have a 'colonized mind' to believe the people of Aleppo were in need of outside help in order to learn civil defense.

some questions Was Epstein a paedophile? No, paedophiles are sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children, not under-age 12-18 year olds. Epstein was running a well-funded Mossad blackmail, honey-trap operation. Where is child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell? In Brazil, being protected by president Juan Guaido and his Israel-friendly fascist government. Was Epstein's New York mansion equipped with hidden video cameras which would have filmed Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre having sex if they did so? Yes. Why was Andrew walking in Central Park with Jeffrey Epstein? Because he wanted to ask Epstein, away from any possible surveillance, if Epstein had any compromising film or pictures of Andrew with his girls. So who is behind this sting against Prince Andrew, and why? Prince Charles and his Zionist colleagues want to blacken Andrew's name in the run-up to potential disputes over the royal succession to Prince Charles who is extremely unpopular in the UK. etc etc

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

If you ask most people what they think of blockchain applications or cryptocurrency, the response is usually a blank stare of utter bafflement. Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we are going to try to make some sense of this arcane concept as we re-visit our 2018 discussion with Paul Gambill, an entrepreneur who has devised a carbon dioxide removal marketplace which incorporates blockchain applications. Gambill explains how his startup, Nori, uses this cryptography-based technology, how it plans to ramp up into a vibrant marketplace of buyers and sellers, and why he believes this could actually help reverse the effects of climate change. Then, we speak to Jackie Francis, the executive director of the Keeling Curve Prize as she tells us about her organization’s mission and gives us a glimpse at some of the 2019 winners.

Back in the USSR focuses on the present struggle in Bolivia, where the people are rising up against the US-backed right-wing military coup that overthrew the democratically elected president Evo Morales, the first indigenous president anywhere in the Americas. Resistance to the coup is growing by the day, even in the face of horrendous violence from fascist forces driven by racism and colonial greed. As Thomas Sankara used to say, "When the people stand up imperialism trembles." Siegfried also makes his radio singing debut, performing the song "Victor Jara" by Christy Moore, in tribute to the great Chilean communist singer-songwriter.

West African highlife; salsa dura from the USA and Colombia; a Balkan brassive attack; four by the Garifuna Collective; a cool new female global-fusion duo from Berlin via Goa, India; and funana for all from Cabo Verde

(1.) Stickers - weird inside (2.) So It Begins - K, Le Maestro (3.) 1969 - Loop.holes (4.) Ferry Boats - Nicholas Craven (5.) If I Can't Make You Decide - PRGMAT (6.) New Memories - Pat Van Dyke (7.) NYC Rio - DJ Jazzy Jeff (8.) Memories - chromonicci (9.) Blossom - Laffey (10.) Tinseltown To Boogie Down - Ali Shaheed Muhammad (11.) Beavis Pt. 1 - Philanthrope (12.) Ocean - Gwop Sullivan (13.) whateva - Omaure (14.) Here 4 U - SIM (15.) U Think Of Me - KVNB (14.) Mellow Mood - Eyukaliptus (15.) Kings - jhfly (16.) Hypnosis - Evil Needle (17.) Calm Waves - Mujo

“Nurse Pimento” uncovers even more hidden Hollywood queerness; it takes more than a “Rainbow Minute” to review “Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales”; Uganda oppression escalates with a massive bar raid, riot police protect the Tbilisi premier of a Georgian-Swedish gay film, Hong Kong rallies with Pride despite a parade ban, gay Malaysian men are sentenced to canings for “attempted sex”, a drag reporter crashes Trump’s impeachment hearings, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

With caveats and apologies for poor sound quality, we bring you talks at Tree Of Life conferences by Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie, and author Mark Braverman. As most people know, in 2003 Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to defend a Palestinian home slated for demolition. Her mother and father have taken up her cause, working for Palestinian Rights. This brought them to the Tree of Life Conference in Harwich, MA, where they both spoke. Mark Braverman is an American psychologist who is active on behalf of Palestinian rights and against the Israeli occupation. Although Jewish, he is a leader of Kairos USA, a pro-Palestinian group for American Christians. His books include: A Wall in Jerusalem: Hope, Healing, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine; Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land; and with other co-authors, Prophetic Voices on Middle East Peace (Claremont Studies in Contemporary Issues Book 1). He spoke at the Tree of Life Conference in Hartford, CT.