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Since the millennium change John Zerzan has been expressing his anti-civilization views on his one hour live radio show, "AnarchyRadio." By audio streaming (KWVA 88.1 FM) you can listen to "AnarchyRadio" live each week on Tuesdays at 7pm PST and express your views by calling 541-346-0645 during the live broadcast.

Listed below are the archives of "AnarchyRadio."

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11-10-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Voice of Amazonia woman, Nemonti Nenquimo, (10.12 Guardian) much more profound than Crimethinc.'s "Anarchist Program." NYTM for 11-8 features Joseph Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies, albeit with weak,wishful thinking conclusion. Metropolis by Ben Wilson surveys urban history, with weak, wishful thinking ending. Pratt's "Output" performance: dances with robot. Distance 'learning' a failure - and a means of surveillance, like 'smart' TV.Antarctic iceberg the size of Delaware on collision with island. Woman hunting large animals in Peru 9,000 years ago challenges gender stereotypes. Murder hornets, Godzilla wasps. Action news.

11-03-2020

[audio] Covid cases soar, weather ever more extreme. Heart attacks up 67% within two days of presidential elections. UK Minister of Defense: mindfulness, breathing techniques for better killing efficiency. Plastics, staple of modernity,fed via baby bottles. Genetic engineering (Crispr) destroys chromosomes. "There's Still Time to Fix the Internet"(The Verge 10/30)(?) Warming: less arctic ice, more methane released. Geo-engineering schemes gain ground,Tidal Basin in DC submerging. Resistance news.

10-27-2020

[audio] I am a bad voter. Pandemic, opioid death counts rising. "Conspiracy Theories Are Threatening America" (NYT 10/23). Colorado burning, Siberia melting. 'Smart' cities are wastelands. Another enviro time bomb: abandoned oil tanker off Venezuela. Seabirds leaving Falkland Islands. Nature Matrix by Robert Michael Pyle: idiotic liberal blindness. Stefania Milan on "technosolutionism": excellent. Oak Journal #2!! "It Is Google's World. We Just Live in It." (WSJ 10/21). Resistance news.

10-20-2020

[audio] Psychology of conspiracy 'theory' addicts. Giraffes down to 69,000; freshwater mussel die-off in U.S. Mt. Kilimanjaro burning. Heat gap pushing global inequality.Ad of the Week: IBM Watson, 'AI Sees All.' Phoniness of Sustainable Investing. Chinese high-rise "hotels" for pigs: extreme of domestication in face of epidemics. Movies, TV series about tech taking over everything. Recommended: "Alaska Subsistence: Spirit of the Ancestors" on YouTube, "100 Days Wild" on Dis- covery channel. Action news.

10-13-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts.Extreme weather getting more extreme, electoral politics more beside the point. "It is no exaggeration to say that what the next president does - or doesn't do - on climate change will affect the world for millennia" (The New Yorker) (!!!) Scores more communications satellites, service worsens ("The Trash Nebula"). Social media ruins mental health. Barbara Ehrenreich on cave art. Dental school training robots. Action briefs.

10-06-2020

[audio] How do we cope? How do I cope? The catastrophe is upon us.But whales sing in cruise ship-free waters, greyhound racing is ending. Tech failures abound.Deepfakes threaten history, reality. Work Mate Marry Love: Machines Shape Our Human Destiny by Debora Spar. Brain-eating amoeba kill in Houston, toxic giant hogweed ravages central Russia. 40% of plant species face extinction. Matthew Cobb's The Idea of the Brain (always a tech model). Dishonesty of robo-pets. Resistance briefs.

09-29-2020

[audio] JZ books in Catalan. Bruno Latour's Down to Earth on the massive failureof modernity. Liberals retreat to Resilience Coordinating Councils, having caved utterly on the collapsing environment. More shootings, including cops. Ocean heat waves. California, a heavily manufactured place, more subject to the crises. Six times more plastic by 2030. All rivers in England polluted.Indigenous anarchism e.g. K'e infoshop in Window Rock AZ. Resistance news.

09-22-2020

[audio] Warming seas - melting polar ice, severer weather. Skilled butchery of horse 480,000 years ago. Rumor-mongering abounds. Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen: debilitated millennials. If Then by Jill Lepore: tech is all about prediction (control). 5G: claims and arson-minded opponents. WIRED:"Is the Internet Conscious? How Would We Know?" "Imagine What You Could Do If Technology Pulled Out All the Stops" (Citrix ad of the week). Jason Gay: "Hi. It's Venus. Please Leave Us Alone." New anti-civ zine - Black Moon, from Sweden. Action briefs.

09-15-2020

[audio] The West burns, worst air quality on earth. 'Gotta vote, it's a matter of life or death!' No, it's a matter or death or death. "Once and Future Humans" by JZ. Worse pandemics ahead, as with wildfires. Ad of the Week: GE: "Building a Better World." "When there is decadence, it is the experience of late modernity," Ross Douthat.Suicide rate among the young soars since 2007. Answer? Lithium in the water supply; drug the population for "community mental health." Climate crisis threatens "entire financial system." Wild-life in "catastrophic decline." Resistance reports.

09-08-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Vagaries of conspiracy theory "thinking." David Graeber: progressive, NOT anarchist. Industrial disaster of the week: livestock ship sinks near Japan,6,000 cows. "Augmented reality" depletes reality and the senses; age of cyborgs is here. Portland and other cities carry the fight: courage and perseverance. Mass shootings, opioid deaths spike in North America. Rising prevalence of dementia a "global emergency." Algorithms removing human agency.Action news.

09-01-2020

[audio] Pandemic realities (e.g. domestication, density). Hurricane Laura lessons (e.g. coastline being financially abandoned). "Sapient paradox" - why so very recent appearance of symbolic culture? Industrial disaster of the week.Mind-machine obscenities. Poverty of art today. Coastal cities of the world subsiding. Action briefs."

08-25-2020

[audio] Election mire. Facebook ad: "Every Vote is a Voice Heard." Responses to pandemic. A plot to increase govt. power, says Darren Allen."Uncertain Times" by Flack and Mitchell: "an unprecedented opportunity" for tech systems to open a "better future." Alexa can discipline kids. California inferno. Primal Roots music video: "Send in the Clowns." Light pollution reaches ocean depths. "Grading by Algorithms Results in UK Debacle." Resistance news.

08-18-2020

[audio] HOT! World burns but it's OK because we can be virtual! Dependency on grid grows. Industrial disaster of the week: Mauritius tanker. Facebook abandons sea floor equipment, chemicals. On Time and Water: Climate crisis is slow motion disaster but moving faster than many think. How Everything Can Collapse by Servigne and Stevens. Contradictionsof "Fairytales of Growth." The Right To Be Greedy. Air pollution pushes covid deaths. Major flames of resistance.

08-11-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Techno-world meets real world of disaster and resistance. Mars mission is "gloriously enthralling" (NYT editorial 8/4)!! Ad of week: "Learn to be CEO of Mars Inc." (Quantic). Alloparenting by robotics; Robots to develop kids' "social skills"; Robot to star in $70 million-dollar sci-fi movie. Hurricane season to boom. Homeless in LA hanging themselves at alarming rate. Touch the Sky film on Ferguson 2014 riots. Action news.

08-04-2020

[audio] Society is contagion. Extreme weather meets pandemic. Let's not pollute Mars! ("Tread Softly," The Economist, 7/25.) "The City is a Lie" by Sam Grinsell. Virtual fans. Stock market on a 4-month high as economy craters. Online zombie? Go to SelfControl app! Teen caused massive Twitter outage, Cloud computing costs spiral. "How Do You Know a Human Wrote This?"--new GPT-3 software. Dying for an iPhone by Jenny Chan et al. 325 #12 new anti-tech collection, indigenous Nasa in Colombia are the Liberation of Mother South, more resistance news.

07-28-2020

[audio] Portland does NOT knuckle under to federal pigs. Aspects of the pandemic. Remote working, like online learning, not a success.Gates and Dr. Fauci push our species becoming GMOs as answer to pandemics. Jibo is robotic response to lack of emotional connecting. Google providing emoji replies to messages. Next financial crisis likely due tech/cloud breakdown. Maine lawns turn black. Soon: more plastic than fish in seas. No More Cities zine new from Vancouver. Joscha Bach, Layla Abdel-Rahim, action news.

07-21-2020

[audio] Brave New World streaming: dull because it's already happened. Fed police state tactics in Portland. Major social media hacks and failures. Record heat, floodings. 1.4 million year-old finely crafted bone hand ax found in East Africa. "If Life Feels Bleak, It's Because Civilization Is Beginning to Collapse" by Umair Haque. Ai Weiwei: "When science and reason someday give us the key to everything, that may be the moment we lose everything." Recommended books, good news from Belgrade, resistance news.

07-14-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts, in sorrow and anger. Coronavirus and the separation that is the technosphere. Almost 50 consecutive nights of BLM courage in downtown Portland. Alien civs die upon reaching the tech levels required to communicate with us; sounds familiar. Bicycles take over Euro cities; Civante e-bike from Yamaha - "fitness-focused" (!) Together Mode from Microsoft: unlike Zoom all are in the same VR space. Koalas, right whales face extinction, pink snow in Alps. When will anarchism turn definitively against mass society? Action briefs.

07-07-2020

[audio] On the 4th of July fewer than 1/4 of non-whites feel "proud to be American." Virus infections surge in U.S. as new H1N1 epidemic grows in China. BLM movement energy not going away. Insanely warm Arctic and fast-warming Antarctica. Flesh-eating bacteria + worms on 3 conti- nents. Global e-waste sets record, video gaming pushed as Olympic "sport." "Finger on the App" contest called after 70 hours. Mindfulness - Find the Right App. "Utopia of Free Software" (!) Raymond Tallis rips neuroscience hubris. Elephants mysteriously dying in Botswana. Hegel, Ainriail zine, action briefs.

06-30-2020

[audio] Victor Cirone + JZ on Youtube. Apocalyptic weather + "Global Warming Is Melting Our Sense of Time" by David Wallace-Wells. Saharan dust storm hits U.S.; mega-lightning bolts. Goodbye, Segway. Ad of the week: "Science Will Bring Us Back to Normal" (Pharma). "Racism and the Symbolic" by JZ. Gates pushes global surveillance and Biomilq projects. Resistance news, reviews.

06-23-2020

[audio] Destruction of racist, genocidist statuary goes forward. So does the cancer of development e.g. in Australia, Israel, Kansas to cite horrible instances. Sharp drop in Antarctica sea ice. Americans unhappiest in 50 years. "Actual Nihilism" by JZ. Deepak Chopra goes techno, Replika chatbot provides "companionship." Chomsky urges: Vote Biden! Microsoft ad: "Now our customers can unlock ever more critical data insights on the way to digital transformation." GM mosquitos approved for U.S. Resistance news and ILWU phoniness.

06-16-2020

[audio] Seattle's Capitol Hill autonomous Zone in Seattle and other advances - as killings go on. Profile of pig violence in LA. "Worries That the U.S. Is Facing Problems an Election Can't Fix" (NYT, 6/13). By a broken window in Memphis : "Artist Unknown. Civilization Unrest 2020." "Life as Civ Begins to Crumble" by JZ. Robot waiter in the Netherlands. "Reality Check: Artificial Intelligence and its Limits" (The Economist, 6/13). Action briefs

06-09-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Glories of the anti-racism groundswell. Militarization, scapegoating of anarchists nothing new. Spontaneous, leaderless explosion. Protestors may be moving past voting (NYT, June 7). Warmest May in history, highest CO2 levels in history. Massive diesel spill in Arctic Russia, national emergency. Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' grows. Mass killing sprees. Failure of remote learning, more against 5G. Resistance briefs.

06-02-2020

[audio] Racist pig murder of George Floyd sparks nation-wide fury; liberals counsel 'obey the rules'. 80 degrees in Arctic Siberia. November global climate summit in Glasgow put off (O no!). Locust plague now hitting India, a la east Africa. Blood business booming: high prices. "Lockdown Weighs on Poultry Production" - chickens as products. "Why Does Zoom Exhaust You?" The Internet of Medical Everything will bring "brighter, more promising future." Action briefs.

05-26-2020

[audio] Jared Diamond on epidemics; Rx?: 'more of the same'(!) Wonderful Werner Herzog interview. "Death and the Zeitgeist" by JZ. Weather extremes & predictions. Shootings resume. Artificial eye, robot sheepdog. Online child abuse surges, email medical reminders 100% ineffective. Action reports (e.g. cell phone towers ablaze).

05-19-2020

[audio] Industrial-scale density = pandemic toll. "Covid-19 Could Reverse Decades of Global Progress' (!) "The New Secret to Success? No expectations," Jason Gay. 18-ton space junk falls. Sea air full of microplastics not just sea. 5G, pushed for more than 3 decades, subject to more attacks/arsons, say feds. Desire for more tools, candle-making, etc. "I think our soul craves a simpler life." Online education failing, how about life skills. "Hunter-gatherers cannot domesticate anything, it's against their world view, which is based on equality and trust. Once that ideology changes, the entire structure of so- ciety is transformed and a new world is born." A new world of death is born.

05-12-2020

[audio] Zoom fatigue; social media detox needed. MORE liberal whining over Planet of the Humans. Climate change pushing pandemics. Greater CO2 rise despite pandemic shutdowns. Elon Musk's son named X AE A-12: hello cyborg techno-fascism. Extremes of global temperatures arriving sooner than expected. Robotic graduation ceremony in Tokyo. End of Black Mirror: "Life is the Black Mirror," says show's creator. 5G tower attacks not abating. Google drops Toronto high-tech neighborhood plan. Action briefs (e.g. wild elk destroy "Danger: Wild Elk" sign.).

05-05-2020

[audio] Is the pandemic "fake" (at base about social control)? More on 5G. Ad of the week: "Are We Doing Our Best for Future Generations?" (UBS). VR still doesn't deliver. More on Planet of Humans vs. green liberals skewered and angry. "Ancestor Dreams" by David Yearsley, Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones, Little Eyes by Samantha Schweblin. "Alexa, Help Me Meditate." Hackable humans; Party Royale game "a true social space." (Yes, a GAME). Politics and action briefs.

04-28-2020

[audio] Penguins on Cape Town streets. Turkish anarchists + Collapse Chronicles turn to primitivism. Oak #1 - get it! Wildfires so soon and April's 1st ever tropical depression. Rising carbon dioxide levels make us stupider. Mass shootings spread from US. You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South (digital toll on women). Terra Nullius by aboriginal woman Claire G. Coleman. Planet of the Humans by Jeff Gibbs. Arctic ice, global insects lose out. Virtual babysitting. Action news.

04-21-2020

[audio] Mutual aid projects flourishing, wildlife re-emerging. "Wild Ideas" (NYTM 4/19): animals point to a better world, which we are desperate to see..Only 9% of Britons want return to "normal" life; want the cleaner air, sense of community, etc. to continue. 5G is not safe, cellphone tower arsons spreading across Europe. Global drought worst sine 1200. Sudden collapse of ecosystems likely. Fantasy video games, magic feed denial. But revival of human voice (phone calls). Industrial disas- ters, excesses go on. Samsung adds hand-washing app to smartwatches for those too dumb to know how to wash hands. Resistance news.

04-14-2020

[audio] Don't shake hands ever again," Dr. Fauci. More on anti-5G arsons - will censorship follow? Edward Snowden: Coronavirus surveillance sets up "the architecture of oppression." Great Barrier Reef battered, mega-plague of locusts in E. Africa. Beyond the Dark Horizon, another new anti-civ zine. Dying virus patient: "Alexa, Help me." AI claims, promises. "Our trashed and overheated world is a slower pandemic," Timothy Egan. Facebook offers "Tuned" - an app for couples to talk to each other

04-07-2020

[audio] Aspects of the pandemic, aspects of denial. Continuities with pre-pandemic life. WIRED: we will triumph "through brilliant science and research, and through social cohesion." (!!!) "The land is the biggest health-care system." Wildlife, clean air re- turn for now, not emotional health as suicide hotlines are busy. Online 'life' is weak, thin. Ad of the week: Samsung - " television that will change your life." "Out with the New" by JZ. Action reports e.g. UK cell phone towers torched in anti-5G attacks.

03-31-2020

[audio] Is it Time to Postpone the 2020 Climate Summit?" (!!!) Warmest winter. Motorized leg exoskeleton--no unpleasant running effort! Anti-plastics efforts in Indonesia: cups, bags, etc. from seaweed, cassava, sugar cane fiber. Dr. Thomas Cowan: modern epidemics set off by tech developments (e.g. 5G). Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul." "Withdrawal--and Re-Entry?" by JZ in new Fifth Estate. Ad of the week: the Veil-intelligent toilet from Kohler.

03-24-2020

[audio] Who couldn't see the pandemic coming? Time for a REAL anti-globalization movement. Online 'life' advance gravely while "A Wave of Viral Anxiety Washes Over the Internet" (NYT 3/21). '. "Machine Psychology" by JZ. 'Plague dread' meets terror of climate apocalypse. Will this even greater separation, isolation remain the norm? Action reports.

03-17-2020

[audio] Conference call with Malik Rahim, Jamie, Kathan on the coronavirus pandemic and what it it telling us. Plus shootings, ad of the week (Lexus: hi-tech steering wheel for your soul), "AI is an Ideology, not a Technology (WIRED), "4 Reasons Civ. Won't Decline: It Will Collapse" (CounterPunch). Resistance news.

03-10-2020

[audio] "Primitivism" seminar at U of O today. "Unabomber: In His Own Words" now available. Coronavirus - more tech distancing. "Also A Spiritual Movement"by JZ. "Dying of Despair in America." Apocalypse Chic fashions. Robot hand can "sweat." Ad of the Week: Huawei - Connectivity Makes Modern Life Possible." Action news.

03-03-2020

[audio] Global air pollution pandemic worse than coronavirus. Election follies. Fires, already? Children, scientists find eco-grief. "Video Days" - chilling NYT story of e-emptiness. Action news. Lo-Tek: Design of Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson: indigenous approaches for living. 4 horses dead at Santa Anita in one day.

02-25-2020

[audio] One call. Goin' strong in Canada! + other resistance news. Latest civilization epidemic. Kate Eichorn's The End of Forgetting. Colin Koopman's How We Be- came Data punks out. Seas reclaim steadily more, "Solar Farms Are Taking Over the World." Social network with no people. "Don't Want Siri to Listen?" - Get the "bracelet of silence." Robots promised to "feel" before long.

02-18-2020

[audio] Kathan co-hosted. Even more erratic weather. IRL vs. cyber"life." Stampedes and pile-ups - mass society. Brian Babbs wrongful death trial (vs. Eugene Pig Dept.). Death of Aragorn! Ads of the week (ARAMCO, Lexus). In 50 years 1/3 of all plant and animal species extinct. Resistance briefs, 3 calls.

02-11-2020

[audio] Mad weather, mass shootings spread globally. Pop music reflects the misery. Facial recognition on the move. "The Civilizing Sermon," by Peter Harrison. Climate change predictions suddenly switch to catastrophic. Antarctica warmer than San Diego Feb. 6. Tons more satellites, much more light pollution. "The Age of Decadence." Pan-Canada pro-indigenous resistance! Oak Journal. Action briefs, one call.

02-04-2020

[audio] Iowa caucus tech fiasco. Superb Owl as Miami sinks. Mass bus shooting, mass video arcade shooting join school shootings, workplace shootings etc etc. "One Nation, Tracked" You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy. Boffo ending to Civilization Heresies by Mark Seely. Seven S. on 'We know too much to go back' - what we know is slight, useless when Civ ends. Tech dependance ever greater. Action briefs.

01-28-2020

[audio] Epidemic coronavirus, ODs, mass shootings. "Darkness Where the Future Should Be," "How We Lost Faith in Everything." Student homelessness up 70% 2008-2016. "Divided Life" by JZ. Rewilding conference with Peter Bauer. Action reports, two calls.

01-14-2020

[audio] "Joker" and Houellebecq novels resonate. Why? Australian cataclysm, again. "My Problem with Adorno" by JZ. Peak Water. Shootings, again. Boeing/ car recalls fiasco. Ads of the week. Hideous new high tech wonders: Neon's "artificial human"; "living" robot made from frog stem cells. Compostable smartphone case! Action news, one call.

01-07-2020

[audio] War scare. Oz still ablaze. "Can't Go Back' by JZ. Virtual physical education, e-rosary. The Longing for Less by Kyle Chayka. "Man Bytes Dog" by James Gorman. Why Nihilism? (Warzone Distro). "How Our Phones Became Our Whole Lives in Just 10 Years."

12-31-2019

[audio] Elijah co-hosts. Tim Ream/ Tom Hayden: partners in pacification. Decade of Distrust, Decade of Disillusion. Home in America: On Loss and Retrieval by Thomas Dumm. "It's Not Capitalism that's Driving Ecocide; it's Civilization" by Kollibri Terre Sonnenblume at CounterPunch(!) No more birds, more on suicide. Synthesizin

12-24-2019

[audio] Elijah co-hosts. Way crazy ads-of-the-week (Xfinity, Hyundai, Michelob). "This Decade of Disillusion," new heights of obesity in the technosphere. Always climbing homelessness. Phantom Phone Syndrome. Say It Ain't So Dept: Greta Thunberg pushes "Fourth Industrial Revolution" madness. Action news. "Would You Let a Robot Take Care of Your Mom?" Ocean floor mining to push industrialism to the max.

12-17-2019

[audio] Drop-out communities threaten democracy(?), "The Hottest August" review. Climate summit absurdities. Mediterranean Sea Is Dying. Civ as epidemic: "a gradually accelerating self-annihilation." The contemptible dishonesty of Chris Hedges and Sherry Turkle. Jane Austen fans as the "avant-garde of digital culture."(!) Resistance news. Coding Campouts for kids.

12-10-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. On the rising tide of shootings. Extreme weather and global food crisis. Coyote with rat in mouth on SF street. Hunter-Gatherers: What We Can Learn from Them by Alan Barnard. Bhopal disaster 35 years ago: still happening in this industrial world. Arabs are losing faith in religion and religious parties. Action news.

12-03-2019

[audio] Americans are dying much sooner. K-pop moronism and death. Discussion of Joker with rotn. Air pollution horrors, new Fifth Estate. The Imperiled Oceans by Laura Trethewey. Madrid climate summit farce. Action news, one call. Last 10 minutes cut off by sports broadcast.

11-26-2019

[audio] Exposing the scumbag Tim Ream. Word of the Year, Oxford Dictionary: "climate emergency." Steven S's Paths from Modernity. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice. Call about the Agta hunter-gatherers in The Phlilippines, tech madness in China. "Gone to Croatan" by JZ. New anti-civ annual, Blackbird. One call, resistance briefs.

11-19-2019

[audio] Rash of shootings. "How to Talk to Kids of Shootings." Steve on Oak Journal. Serotonin by Michel Houllebecq, Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams. Comic book movies: "self imposed state of emotional arrest." "The End of Babies...Has Modern Life Become an Obstacle to Reproduction?" Superbugs: more of a threat than thought. Global resistance briefs, one call.

11-05-2019

[audio] New Delhi air: "apocalyptic." Gulf of Oman dead zone, the size of Florida. CA wildfire analysis. "Resilience work" - not resistance. New low points for Chomsky, Jensen. "World's First Poop Database Needs your Help." More eat alone. "Cali- fornia Is Becoming Unlivable." Global protests, action briefs.

11-12-2019

[audio] Crazed global weather. "Burning in Dystopian Civilization" - California is our future. "Please Touch Me." Intimacy down, suicides up. Insane tech answer to racehorse deaths. "Self-partnered" to replace "single"? A la' marry yourself? Techno "health" care. "Smart" cities - more and more surveillance. Two (Canadian) calls. Kathan co-hosts.

11-05-2019

[audio] New Delhi air: "apocalyptic." Gulf of Oman dead zone, the size of Florida. CA wildfire analysis. "Resilience work" - not resistance. New low points for Chomsky, Jensen. "World's First Poop Database Needs your Help." More eat alone. "Cali- fornia Is Becoming Unlivable." Global protests, action briefs.

10-29-2019

[audio] California inferno. Oak Journal in process. "Ritual" by JZ. Air pollution worsens. 2/3 of world's industrial emissions from 90 companies. 51% of American diet is ultra-processed food. Russian soldier shoots ten. Data-fy your baby: learn nothing. Internet 50 today...new emojis - how far we've come! Action news, including deer kills deer hunter. One call.

10-22-2019

[audio] Seattle Anarchist Book Fair comin' up. The News Shall Keep Us stupid. "Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore" - work. Religiosity on the wane but not suicide rates. Pope's first wearable is a $110 rosary. Over-heating Qatar now uses ac outdoors. Neanderthals in the Aegean 200,000 years ago. Ads of the week (Samsung and Splunk). Global resistance!

10-15-2019

[audio] War on the Kurdish experiment. Mega-typhoon hits Japan. Pigs now kill blacks in their own homes. Oil spills, high-rise collapses. California fires? Shut down the grid. New books: Mark Boyle, Christopher Ryan, Andrew McAfee. 420,000 years ago humans preserved bone marrow for future use. Machine learning, driverless cars? Not happening. "Leviathan Alive" by Jason Rodgers.

10-08-2019

[audio] D. Jensen/L. Keith hate speech in Denver - denied! Resistance (everywhere) news. Ads of the week: astounding tech lies e.g. "Innovation Has Changed the World, Moving Us All Forward." "Are We Living in a Post-Happiness World?" (NYT), "Electricity Doesn't Light Up the Soul" (WSJ), "Why Everything Is Getting Louder" (Atlantic). Iceberg the size of Oahu from Antarctica. Two calls.

10-01-2019

[audio] Napoleon Chagnon, civ defender, dead at 81. V. extreme weather events. What to do about wildfires(?) "What Will Happen after the Last Fish in the Ocean Dies?" WeWork.com debacle: no magic pill to cure work after all. Most bizarre ads. Suicides up among cops, military. "Just What Does AI Think of YOU?" 27,000 kids under 10 arrested since 2013. Action news.

09-24-2019

[audio] Global Climate 'Strike'. "Lost World" confusion. Back to school 'gear'. 2.9 billion fewer birds since 1970. Snowden's Permanent Record memoir. Ads of the week (all about DATA). 7 million displaced by extreme weather this year. The Economist: return to commons(!) Two calls, action briefs.

09-17-2019

[audio] What is Anarchy Radio? Dino Giagtzoglou's anti-tech essay, The Government of No One by Ruth Kinna. Extreme weather, more brain-eating amoeba deaths, recalls at insane levels. Precision tools 500.000 years ago. LA street fair features e-sports. Texting rules, No Tech Backlash? Action news, one call. Indigenous strug- gles in Amazonia, Steve Cutts' radical graphics. Delicious 2nd Green Scare Anarchist Bookfair statement.

09-10-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. More heat and fire, shootings. More on waning legitimacy of the reigning disaster. Death rates up, "The Age of American Despair." Ads of the week (Verizon, Inovalon), recall of the week (FiatChrysler). Tech is failing schools, robot Buddhism, UK cows online, orbiting space hotel, 3D "world-building," and more tech madness. One call, action news.

09-03-2019

[audio] Dorian: as Atlantic heats up, much more to come. "The Mad Rush to Bulletproof American Schools." "Do Something!" Savage Gods by Paul Kingsnorth: appalling narcissistic garbage. "Abandon the Death Ship" by JZ. Plastic snow in Arctic, lip-reading surveillance cams, recalls, sex robots may injure. One call; indigenous, anarchist resistance.

08-27-2019

[audio] Eve of hurricane season, of global recession, of Burning Man. Amazonia catastrophe. Heat, plastics, bad air, e-scooters. Real villain is not tech companies but tech qua tech. Siri, Alexa listening, recording you. Brain-computer interface: no privacy even for thought. But Google's DeepMind not paying off. One call, action news.

08-20-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Stunted nature of cyberspace 'discourse.' More sedentism: football, golf, and now fishing, on the decline. Robotic shorts, A Short Hike (video game!). More dead cops. Anthropology corner. Contamination follies. Frailty of online/offline grids. More horrors of modern childhood. Resistance news, 4 calls.

08-13-2019

[audio] Heat, water, food crises. Denial re mass killings, cop shootings, etc. Ag big and small destroys biodiversity. "Chernobyl" on HBO. Media then and now. "Data spills are like oil spills." Excerpt from Kevin Tucker's "Suffocating Void." Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution," by Beth Gardiner. One call, action news.

08-06-2019

[audio] SHOOTINGS - ever-worsening bloodbaths, bullet-proof backpacks. "Deaths of despair." I saw a young boy begging. Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz. Tech destroys nature, steals its names (e.g. cloud, apple, stream). Amazon "Deathwatch," fires next. What are we doing? Boars invade Barcelona, Rome, etc. Antifa culture - pro soccer fandom? Resistance briefs, one call.

07-30-2019

[audio] Summer cancelled: Heat, Shootings. Bizarre current stuff from Lovelock, Kingsnorth (and Lyotard). Plastics everywhere, species not so much. Tech and its "vast digital underclass." S. Korean "You Tube Dad" when human connection has gone. "From Red Anarchism to Green Anarchy" by JZ. Action news, one call.

07-23-2019

[audio] "Art City" evening. Moon shot perspectives. Steven Pinker/Jeffery Epstein? "O Lost...?" by JZ. Mass killings, mass homelessness. Back to sailing, no shoes & other non- or anti-tech developments. "Was the Automotive Era A Terrible Mistake?" No to facial recognition, emojis. Anarcho-primitivism makes the TLS. "The earth is running a fever that won't break." Resistance news, two calls.

07-16-2019

[audio] Oregon Country Fair - hippies uber alles. Moon shot's 50th anniversary. "Re-Enchantment" - new Fifth Estate. Wild restoration. Cow cuddling, "Please Touch Me," as intimacy wanes. Anti-work grows: disconnect/ discontent threat. Happy Meal toys are killing the planet (Or is it plastic straws?) Will Van Spronsen - our John Brown. Action news, two calls.

07-09-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Visitors. Call centers as therapy sites. Disaster of the week. Toxic waters rising. Heat kills. Disease everywhere. Digitized images of a digitized world, plus robotics. Brain supplements craze in a stupefied world. Facial recognition: tech always more invasive. (Samsung iPhone) ad of the week: "One Giant Step for Reality." Resistance highlights, two calls.

07-02-2019

[audio] Protests everywhere. 2015 Eugene police shooting of Brian Babb going to trial. "The Last Black Man in SF." Latest contaminations, extinctions, sicknesses, extreme weather. "Experience" by JZ. Grid is shaky, malware take-overs abound. "Chat benches" in UK. Monopoly game gets computerized. Resistance briefs, one call.

06-25-2019

[audio] The case of Paul Kingsnorth. Refugees, melting, heart disease deaths up. "Years and Years" TV series - dystopian reality. Industrial explosion of the week. "Fully Automated Luxury Communism." Cities can solve climate crisis? Crab shells to fix plastics plague! Horns due to being glued to the iPhones. Action news. Buncha fine calls - and maybe a troll or two?

06-18-2019

[audio] Some dates/anniversaries of note (e.g. 6-18-99 anarchist eruption in Eugene). Heat waves, permafrost going fast. Rhinos, seals, insects, etc. also going fast. Brain-eating amoebas in New Jersey. Shooting of the week, (Lion Share Fund) ad of the week. Grid ever more vulnerable, undependable. Time for healing? Resistance news. Virtual celebrity, health slippages. Tech companies to lose trillions soon to cool off servers. One call.

06-11-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Bye to repulsive anarchistnews.org. Agency, Laura Drake. Plant extinctions, heat threats. On shootings/stabbings. Plastics, methane, Gulf of Mexico dead zones. Civilization ends by 2050. Recalls, new plagues. Office luddites, (IBM) ad of the week. Action news, one call.

06-04-2019

[audio] Mass shooting of the week, "America, A Nation of Trauma." The malignancy of mass society. Mass flooding, mass near-extinctions (e.g. gray whales, puffins, curlews), mass psychic immiseration, mass homelessness. Conver- sation with anti-tech partisan Laura Drake. Kids' bike riding declining big-time. Experience Industry's latest: Star Wars World, resistance briefs.

05-28-2019

[audio] MOVE prisoners released after 40 years - and a Phila. caller. "When We Were Human" by JZ. Endless disease outbreaks, contaminations, breakdowns - health of all species bludgeoned globally. Army worms, African swine flu in China. Ebola, leprosy, measles, etc. Mass stabbing in Tokyo. "Will Robots Ever Be Better Caretakers than Humans?" Laura Drake blasts tech. Tech regulation, privacy: fantasies. Major mergers. Books, not e-books, on the rise. Action reports.

05-21-2019

[audio] No more Game of Thrones! Zoltan boosts microchip implants "so long as it doesn't harm anybody else."(!) Comcast wants to track your bathroom habits. Disney World could build a nuclear reactor. 1st organism with a fully synthetic DNA code. Gene that fixes depression NOT. Millions of birds killed by industrial vacuum olive harvests. Seas rise even faster. Local landfill fires due to lithium batteries. Action briefs, one call.

05-14-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. More on "Done in from Within." Industrial excrescence of the week. E. Africa trashed by e-waste. Air Buds a recent e-crime. Ferlinghetti's Little Boy memoir. "Depression is a Disease of Civ," by Stephen Ilardi. Resilience, new phony buzzword. No military solution to mass shootings, latest suicides upsurge: teen girls. Social media as addiction and enemy of thought. Action briefs.

05-07-2019

[audio] Devastating UN report on extinctions. Greenhouse Distro. Age of cruelty, no empathy? Academics discover anti-civ. A report on Us, Relative: Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World by Nurit Bird-David. "Done in From Within" by JZ. Cocaine in UK rivers. Connection now a commodity. Action news, four calls.

04-30-2019

[audio] What is the spirit - or dispirit - of the times? Fear, anxiety, grief...dominant zeitgeist vibe? Fredy Perlman on racism and nationalism. Eco-disaster of the week, suicide watch. Getting dumber in the techno-world. Ableism discussion. Modern Madness by Ed Lord. Birds, measles. Action news. Zuckerberg: "The future is private." One call.

04-23-2019

[audio] Due to a screw-up at the station the recording is mostly that of a U of O softball game. But at about 15 minutes in there's 20 minutes of the show

04-16-2019

[audio] We were "modern" much earlier than thought, before symbolic culture(!) "Intentional Mass Casualty Events." New books. "A Note on Freedom" by JZ. Global energy consumption rocketing upward. City Lab touts Technopolis as 100 Resilient Cities ends. "Machine learning" writes the scripts but cursive in schools makes a comeback. "Woman at War" film, resistance briefs. (Go to channel 2 at kwvaradio website for 4/23 show.)

04-09-2019

[audio] "Filling the Void" - Bruce Alexander on addiction as response to the void of the culture. More cities submerging. Synthetic biology on the march vs. health failures all over the world. Reality too "depressing"? Instagram, Snapchat ruining memories; Google's Smart Compose: bots take over writing/thinking. Cognitive tech lined up to read our thoughts. Barry Lopez's Horizon: no resistance, no alternative paradigm. Resistance briefs, one call.

04-02-2019

[audio] "Regulate" global social media technology? Weather, species, industrial calamities sampler. How to better deal with racism from an anti-civ perspective; general approach or grounded? White by Bret Easton Ellis. Use, role of fire on Homo species. Shootings, always. "This Friend- ship Hs Been Digitized." Depressed? More video games to the rescue. Garfield phones pollute French beaches. Resistance reports, two calls.

03-19-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Rupture by Manuel Castells: the global crisis of democracy. Mass shootings: Brazil, New Zealand, Netherlands. An answer to racism within Civ? Mass cynicism, mass corruption. Whale woes, industrial mayhem. Why domestication? 6-day Venezuelan black-out: "No authority." Two calls, resistance news.

03-12-2019

[audio] Latest urban disasters/growth of cities. New jetliners crash, pilots helpless re: tech. Oil spills, extinction news. Rise of conspiracy 'theories.' Homo hunted rabbits 400,000 years ago. I read my "Value and its Enemies." E-sports replacing sports, anti-depressants don't work, organized intimacy(?) Social Media Is Ruining our Memories. Those Stars in the Skies by Deba Ranjan. Action shorts.

03-05-2019

[audio] Snowed in last week - no broadcast. Crises of the seas, ever-stranger weather. Control: essence, inner logic of civilization. Ardi hominins walked like us four million years ago. 131-car pileup (perfect metaphor). Longest oil spill. Sadder lives in a pathological world that breeds despair. Debora Spar's The Virgin and the Plow: technology, paternity, patriarchy. Two calls. Raptors take out mining co. drones. New anarchist zines, action news

02-19-2019

[audio] Valentine's Day...and self-love(?) Weave: the Social Fabric Project. Pig shootings, mass shooting of the week. Mega-polluted city of the week: Bangkok. Eco-disaster tid-bits. Online instructional videos do not impart skills. Depression impacts, resistance. Email, iPhones misery. Online and failing, anxious. Nihilism not ideological? Actions shorts from here and there.

02-12-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Strikes then & now. Chomsky on "Moral Depravity." More on ASMR. "Becoming Animal." Rentafriend.com. Despair the basis of school shootings. "See Something, Say Something." Latest fashion is post-apocalypse-wear. Surprising allergies rise. "Fauxtography." Resistance briefs, one (nihilist) call.

02-05-2019

[audio] Breakdown of a friend. Biggest mass shooting: "no motive." ASMR craze. Bye, bye, ocean blue. Colonization genocide caused 'little ice age' c. 1600. Half of US adults have heart disease; obesity- related cancers on rise among young. UK schools turn to meditation re: anxiety, depression. Kids: online but not lovin' it. Air conditioning alone will be overheating tipping point. Media sources, resistance briefs. And so much more.

01-29-2019

[audio] LONELINESS - There's a pill for that! Sleepless in Society; Public Health crisis. Shootings; massive Australian drought, temps. Musk madness, Tokyo man weds robot. Super report from Rewild weekend in Portland. Conspiracy 'theories' thrive in post-truth/postmodern world. Resistance briefs, one call.

01-22-2019

[audio] Whiteaker Tales event: most of the hour's 6 calls were about issues raised there e.g. snitch culture. Mary Oliver, eco lowlights of the week. Greenland and Asia's glaciers melting fast. Bighorn sheep going under, global insect collapse. Ad of the week: Aspiration credit card. BAGR (now Wild Resistance) #6; #7 will be decolonization themed.

01-15-2019

[audio] Events reminders, enviro marker of the week. Snitch culture. "Post-Left" foibles... e.g. strikes/unions and "How fascists Approach the Post-Left Anarchist Movements" by Dimitris Plastiras. "Whopping" American weight gains. Wichi hunter-gatherers in Argentina. Desalination hoax. Problem Solving Deficit Disorder. One call, action briefs.

01-08-2019

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. French uprising resumes, deepens. Outreach discussion; anti-civ needs to break out of current anarchist bubble. Cascadia Alive! TV shows 1996-2005 at U of Oregon archives. Monarch butterfly almost extinct. Industrial disaster of the week, mass shooting of the week. Whiteaker Tales event Jan. 19. Action news, 3 calls.

01-01-2019

[audio] Report from NZ Deep Green Bush School. 50th anniversary of Apollo 8 "earthrise" photo - what ruin required for that shot? Dave Eggers on Digital Human Rights(?) Arizonans' luddite fury against driver- less cars. Electrocution threat to wildlife, vowels Go Walking. Native students abused still. Resistance news, one call.

12-25-2018

[audio] Holiday weirdness (e.g 10PM Xmas eve is heart attack time), "climate grief." New face of social movements 2019? Read "Techno Madness." Contamination, extinction news. "Civilization Is Like a Jetliner." Ads of the week (odes to super- passive consumerism), failure of 'green' agriculture in Italy. Face-to-face world fading. Resistance briefs and recommendations.

12-18-2018

Due to tech failure this broadcast was not recorded. End of the year, end of the world. The concept of holiday. Discussion re: openness/communication among anti-civ folks. Homelessness, isolation. New tools + networks 32,000 years ago, 1st plague 4,900 years ago. Online religion; Boy Scouts, 4H on the wane. Autism factors. Resistance news, 2 calls.

12-11-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. French uprising going strong, Polish climate summit even more of a bad joke than usual. Cambridge word of the year: nomophobia, fear of being away from phone. Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee drying up. No amount of drugs can cure depression. Grimes' disgusting ode to the Machine. Carbon emissions spike globally. Resistance briefs, two calls.

12-04-2018

[audio] France on verge of open revolt; "yellow vests" eruption is uprising not protest, spreading. "It is Time We Civilised the Sentinelese," by Brendon O'Neill. Suicide, ODs, nihilism: life expectancy declining for first time. Gene-spliced humans are among us. Fortnite addiction as connection, intimacy fall off. As eco-disaster moves along, violence among caged humans increases. Resistance news. One call.

11-27-2018

[audio] Deana Dartt last week: priceless. "Natural" disasters? "Earth is in a Death Spiral," George Monbiot. Oxford Word of the Year: toxic. I read my "Art and Meaning." "Ralph Breaks the Internet," the horror of online "life." Fewer in favor of social media all the time. Arm-A-Dine is a robot arm aid to gluttony. Resistance news, four calls.

11-20-2018

[audio] An hour with pro-rewilding Chumash scholar and activist, Deana Dartt. Insights on decolonization, native renewal, health, being a guest on the land and much more. Two calls.

11-13-2018

[audio] Mass shootings at crisis point, California ablaze at an unprecedented level. Surviving hunter-gatherers under siege. Basic irrelevance of the electoral sand box. "Google is helping relieve the drudgery of email - by revealing how inhuman it was in the first place. Japanese resistance to robotics. Action news, 3 calls.

11-06-2018

[audio] Election night! Yawn. Gary Hart, luddite. Collapse of ecosystems: another very dark report. Contamination of air, soil march on. Perfectionism in complex society: a curse. Screen time makes kids dumb + fat. Bitcoin, smartphones shipments down. Isolation bad for heart, nerve cells. Telemedicine: "Take Two and Skype Me in the Morning." Ads of the week (tech propa- ganda). Anarchist Film Archive: irrelevant, inaccurate, leftist. Action news, one call.

10-30-2018

[audio] Nihilism not an ism? Horror show of this week's news. Americans spend more than 90% of their lives indoors. 3 million plastic bottles and bags produced globally - per minute.The Ringtone Dialectic by Sumanth Gopinath. The Language of depression and anxiety rules the internet. BIG recent push by Silicon Valley parents to keep kids away from all e-outlets at all times. Action news. Electric grids not only spread wildfires but caused them in CA. UK surgery students lack all dexterity skills. Google now completes your messages.

10-23-2018

[audio] UK mobile phone network's campaign against growing anti-tech sentiment in society. ITS unmasked further. Liminal by Natasha Alvarez. 700,000 year-old rhino butchery found in Philippines. Oceans, health undermined. Microplastics in your stool. Art signed Algorhythm on sale at Christie's. Resistance briefs, two calls.

10-16-2018

[audio] Against Art and Culture, by Liam Dee. "Twilight of the Evening Lands" read by JZ. BAGR #6 underway. Insidious moves by alt-Right. Frightful weather: price of beer to double. Global insect crisis. Resistance news, two calls.

10-09-2018

[audio] Landmark UN study: Enviro catastrophe soon. Delusions of democracy. Robotics follies, academic journal hoaxes, orca collapse. Alarming health news - as Facebook pushes into remote Africa and 250+ die in pursuit of perfect selfie. Action briefs, 3 calls.

10-02-2018

[audio] Mark Harris, addiction counselor and local activist, for the hour. Dope, racism, psychology, health, anarchists, history. Three calls.

09-25-2018

[audio] Why so much talk of tech on Anarchy Radio? US heating, sea turtles fading after 65 million years. No end to the shootings, OD's, or worsening storms. "Amid the Cacophony of the Modern World, a Quest for Quiet." Microsoft: "Em- powering Us All," Audi: "Progress Is Never Satisfied." Alexa everywhere. Primal Anarchy the answer to the totalizing Disaster. Action news, one call.

09-18-2018

[audio] e-sex doll brothel in Toronto closed! Super storms, gunfire (pig and otherwise). Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, BASTARD conference: almost dead? Horrific impacts of air pollution, obesity. ITS supporters outed at 325nostate. Read from superb BAGR submission "Wolf Encounters." Black and Green podcast now at primalanarchy.org. Action briefs.

09-11-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Nike bets on radical message for profits. Cartoon of the week: "What I did online this summer." Hyperobjects, by Timothy Morton. More on loneliness epidemic. Can tech be reversed? Emoji shortcuts, Rio Grande almost dead. "The Unbearable Darkness of Young Adult Literature." Hospitals' insane War on Superbugs. Resistance news, two calls.

09-04-2018

[audio] Caller-host etiquette, the Mighty international reach of Anarchy Radio. JZ reads BAGR submissions on human nature and outreach. Resistance news (mostly ALF). Anti-Pinker "Rise of Organized Brutality' by Sinisa Malesevic. Birds on Prozac, thickest Arctic sea ice melting. Google moderates 2 billion, its Smart Reply thinks, replies for us. Kids conditioned by robots.

08-28-2018

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Early symbolism but Homo not defined by it. Lure of social media fading. North America's first high tech sex doll brothel. Apocalyptic forecast for California's environment, California student suicide string. Four calls.

08-21-2018

[audio] Shudu, world's first digital supermodel, Georgia pigs taser 87 year-old salad greens seeker. Things WERE better before modernity. JZ reads "Age of Grief," Adorno and redemption. More on bad effects of sitting, iPhone addiction possibly waning even as Pacific Crest Trail hiking experience devalued by phone use. Resistance briefs, two calls.

08-14-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. AR listeners swamp free Fifth Estate offer! Neo-Nazi rally in DC: miniscule. Fires and civilization, mass shootings spread. From the Pleistocene to the Plasticene but social media corporations slide. Anarchy in Portland OR. Accelerationism? Resistance briefs, five calls.

08-07-2018

[audio] Arcata weekend. FIRES. Schools now feel need of mass shooting insurance. Read my "The Puzzle of Symbolic Thought." In-depth report on CHAGS conference. Action briefs, two calls.

07-31-2018

[audio] An hour with Peter Werbe, long-time Fifth Estate editor.

07-24-2018

[audio] Corrosive Consciousness clarified.. Severe global temps, fires; heat boosting suicide rates. News from CHAGS, Faces of wage-slavery. "People Who Do Not Need People," "The Face as Technology," anti-mortality movements. "How Tech's Richest Plan to Save Themselves from the Apocalypse." Millennials skip travel that isn't Instagrammable.

07-17-2018

[audio] "Breath at the threshold" by Joan Kovatch. 2.1 million year-old tools, pre-domestication bread. Over-heating, drought, fires, 4 mile wide Greenland iceberg event. Time now measurable at 100 billionth of a second. Good discussion of basic questions. Action briefs, 4 calls.

07-10-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. World heat wave, ways to poison planet. "Strikingly humanlike" foot of 3.3 million year-old 3 year-old. Human No More book: anthropology in an increasingly place-less cyber world. High-tech Nagano, Japan, a ghost town. ES-100 from Tanita tells you if you smell, renders noses obsolete. Should children be polite to robot voices? Hyundai - "a new mobility is coming." Action briefs, three calls.

07-03-2018

[audio] Pixar movies very anti-tech future as tech engulfs reality. Mass shootings go global, planetary over-heating updates e.g. Arctic Ocean melts into Atlantic. Japanese island hermit forced back into civ. Timehop gives one self, memory. Robots and consciousness, manners. But mostly calls re: last week's phone-ins, five calls.

06-26-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. She reports on ICE occupation in Portland. "I Really Don't Care. Do U?" :What kind of statement /meaning? Suicide watch, near and far, what it is saying. Eco disaster of the week, Racist pig murder of the week. Two calls.

06-19-2018

[audio part 1] [audio part 2] More on suicide, depression, drugs. What is AR mostly trying to do? Drought vs. flooding. Venezuela. Anti-civ getting some notice at last. (Un-)health news. (Google) ad of the week. Some resistance news, discussion of The Brilliant, Anews podcast. 5(!) calls.

06-12-2018

[audio] Two offerings on "The Case Against Philosophy." Suicide news...a culture of suicide? Fires, drought, water woes, indoor pollution. Horror movies, comic book movies. Anti- work, anti-voting. Ever more isolation. The novel Break.Up. Swedish kid drowns while crowd takes photos, blocks rescue. Driverless cars to increase congestion as Hyundai proclaims advent of "a new era of mobility." Verizon: We Didn't Wait for the Future. We Build it. Enormity of tech, of distrust of it. One call.

06-05-2018

[audio] Tribe by Sebastian Junger, LA Book Review's "The New Primitives" by Ben Etherington. Indigenous video and panel at U of O Longhouse May 30. Weekly news of the Onslaught on the physical, social, personal worlds. Barbara Ehrenreich's Natural Causes. Domesticated fish going deaf. Eating alone, Lynq vs. lynx. Stone tools. Ads of the week, political and resistance reports. One call.

05-29-2018

[audio] "Space: The Final Socialist Frontier?" - In These Times (David Graeber's outlet). Black Seed #6: "ambiguity" its watchword(!) The Case Against Philosophy read by JZ. Almost incredible eco news briefs, ditto latest tech developments as civilization displays extremes of ever more anti-life aspects. (Suburu) ad of the week, resistance news. [Kathan co-hosted May 8 episode]

05-15-2018

[audio] A fun and stimulating hour with friend and vivid anarchist Rotn.

05-08-2018

[audio] Kentucky Derby and domestication. Oppositional energy on upswing internationally. Backwoods zine. 700,000 year-old sea voyaging to Philippines. Ad of the Week: Verizon: "We're Not Waiting for the Future, We're Building It." Disease epidemics now chronic, from e-coli to ebola. Massive pollution from international shipping. Geoengineering trashed; raves for Camila Power. Action news, one call.

05-01-2018

[audio] May announcements. Avengers(!) Varieties of violence. Japan's 'rent-a-relative' phenomenon. Water, birds disasters. Even more on loneliness. Ad of the week: Splunk (Data uber alles). Disaffection with technology? More costs of tech. Camila power, Jerome Lewis: superb radical anthropology videos. Action briefs, 3 calls.

04-24-2018

[audio] anti-civ.net, JZ on SPELLBOUND, OPB (May 2). Critique of Graeber and Wengrow essay. Ad of the Week: Dropbox (meaningful work"!), as Big Data means further deskilling among other things. People connected to nature take 90% fewer selfies, lower anxiety. Geoengineering madness possibly nearing, more on antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Extreme weather news, birds in serious decline, Atlantic circulation slows gravely, signatures disappearing. Action briefs, two calls.

04-17-2018

[audio] Elijah sits in. State of Global Air study: over 98% breathe unsafe air as civilization poisons the planet. The Disconnect - "Join us on Twitter"(!) Singer The Weekend: death and decay in society at Coachella. This Land of Strangers by Bob Hall: epidemic aloneness with mass migration to online "life." 5G iphones: a massive radiation upgrade. Action briefs.

04-10-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Apple's lie about its clean energy. Zero privacy, digital lives. "Generation Z Already Bored by the Internet." "Ardi Walked the Walk [like us] 4.4 Million Years Ago." 58,000 homeless in LA, imperialism of modern medicine, enormous oil spills. Journey Towards the Abyss #4, BAGR podcast #6. Action news, one call.

03-27-2018

[audio] Trump and Jensen Ban Transgender Troops. JZ reads "The Spectacular Growth and Failure of Cities." Earth Hour confronts climate change! World's largest cruise liner and other mass society disasters. Graeber, another disaster. Pacific plastics patch twice the size of Texas. Steph Clark, another black murdered by cops. Oxford prize paper: on genetic "disenhancement" of industrial animals. Consumer Reports: How to Quit Facebook." Action briefs, two calls.

03-20-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Stay away from Facebook! Teens, elderly anxious. "In Praise of ADHD"(!) Pop songs depict very dreary zeitgeist. SF Bay Area, Easter Island sub- siding. "How to Make AI Human-Friendly." Data is all. "Let's Put Smart To Work: IBM" "It's Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids (humanzees)." Two calls.

03-06-2018

[audio] GUNS! DGR at E-Law; Trans hater Jensen at Eugene Public Library. Failed academic and bad writer David Graeber fails with new effort. The usual eco-horrors of the week (e.g. extinction, pollution news). Digitally interact with the dead. UK kids increasingly unable to hold pens + pencils due to tech use. "Will 2018 Be the Year of the Neo-Luddites?" Action news.

02-27-2018

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. FRR's send-up of Anarchy Radio. "What's Up With Derrick Jensen?" Hunter-gatherer story-telling. 32* at the North Pole - 50 degrees above normal. "Tech Eyes the Ultimate Start-Up: An Entire City." Alexa everywhere, action briefs, crypto-currencies NOT de-centralized.

02-20-2018

[audio] Cliff and JZ on latest shooting massacre. CO2 is now 407 parts per million - hello, 350.org? ASMR: pseudo-intimacy. Orangutans face extinction, 13 year-old Gulf of Mexico oil leak, Bering Sea ice disappearing. More Dead Cops. Algorithms in law, health, etc. Jeff Bezos' 10,000 year clock, Elon Musk: we must merge with the Machine. Action briefs, two calls.

02-13-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Epidemic of loneliness, epidemic of despair. Life expectancy slipping. Pinker's new, nutso Enlightenment Now. Narcissism e.g. "The Bride May Now Kiss Herself." Few anarchists seem to notice what's happening in society at large. Missile proliferation - like the rest of technology. Open season on cops. Sea level rise accelerating, extinction crisis in Australia, enormous East China Sea oil spill. E-skin. What is resistance? Action news.

02-06-2018

[audio] Black and Green Review #5. Worsening media, recycling, mass transportation blues. My BDYHAX weekend in Austin. Childless futures, mercury from melting Arctic, species extinctions in Irish waters. Action news, three calls.

01-30-2018

[audio] Last Wed.: 50 Years of 1968 at Oregon State; next weekend: BDYHAX in Austin. Oceans strongly warming as well as rising, acidifying. Shootings point toward collapse in America. Bad coral reef, light pollution news. Mil- lennials increasingly withdrawn, stay-at-home. VR soon to include "human" touch. Devumi: fake accounts, fake users in a fake techno world. Action news.

01-23-2018

[audio] O'odham elder and activist Ofelia Rivas, by phone on increasing border militarization and surveillance. Crazed weather, (school) shooting of the week, cities in crisis globally, end of civ looming? Geo-engineering? Robot Holocaust survivor? Stores with no-one there, nature walks - by phone. Sex dolls the same as Facebook in terms of avoiding human contact? Minister for Loneliness in Britain. Wolves' comeback in Europe, action briefs, two calls.

01-16-2018

[audio] Rising level of militancy (e.g. Iran, Tunisia, Sudan, NYC fast-food workers, forest defenders)? JZ on the road, getting published - despite postmodern nay-sayer. Shooting (stabbing) of the week, E. Antarctica unstable, snow getting scarce, fresh- water acidifying. 8 million tons of plastics into oceans annually. Infoshop.org is back - back to 1800s? Latest ITS extinctionist pathology. Craft, by Alexander Langlands. Action news, calls from OH and FL. Ofelia Rivas next week.

01-09-2018

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Bizarro weather (113 in Sydney, snow in Sahara). Shooting of the week, biggest global oil tanker disaster since 1991, tech take-over of health industry (ads of the week). Indigenous as key to un- derstanding where you live. Domestication of kids, high fatality rates of US kids. Decline of anarchism in UK. Myopia epidemic in tech-heavy countries. Can't build a forest. Action news, one call.

01-02-2018

[audio] Iran erupts, eastern North America in deep freeze. Joey from Deep Green Bush School in New Zealand reports. Late 2017 rampant violence: mass shootings, pig violence. Latest urban horrors, reefs dying, air worsening.The "Brilliant" episodes 59- 63 on technology critique: Huh? Action news, one call.

12-26-2017

[audio] 2017 music: "Glummest." Urban reality ("The Mega-City, Unleashed'"), plastics in deepest oceans. Instagram a "facade," toys spy on you. "The Postmodern Now" by JZ. Junk food globalized, US life expectancy falls. Fred Moten: Black culture's mission is "to un-civilize, to de-civilize this country." Action news.

12-19-2017

[audio] Elijah sits in. Somnox, the world's first sleep robot. California still burning, AMRAK and other mass transport crashing. Swiss prepare for end of civili- zation. World's largest airport loses power. World's largest cruise ship: "Inde- pendence of the Seas" (geddit?) Artists on VR. E-waste piling up, 1/3 of all food grown is wasted. Progress. Action news, one call.

12-12-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Fires and homelessness. Bizarre urbanism, pig violence under-reported, starving polar bears. Wind power waning due to warming. iNaturalist as forests die. Toll of loneliness. This is the Age of Horror. Emptiness of popular terms. Action news.

11-28-2017

[audio] [first 5-10 minutes did not stream, but full hour recorded] Insidious Nazi in- filtration (a heads-up). The week's oil spills, epidemics, pollution news. Stress levels, student outbursts, girls' self-harm. Going fast, social media bad for health. Nintendo "reunites you with nature." New Hampshire dr. rejects "electronic medi- cine," loses license. Olympia blockade/occupation + mucho other action briefs, one call.

11-21-2017

[audio] Anti-civ, anti-fracking blockade in Olympia WA. 21,000 gallon Keystone Pipeline spill in South Dakota. Urban Scout and Kevin Tucker by phone: rewilding, our ancestral being. Anti-digital currents. Oldsters in UK lament machine check-outs when shopping: one less area of human contact. Climate change drove ISIS recruitment in Iraq. Coastal kelp forests disappearing globally, Pacific Islands to lose 80% of marine species. Bird flu spreads in Asian cities.

11-14-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. The decomposition of just about everything. Shootings ever more deadly. High blood pressure, Zany Tech Tricks, primitivist feminism. NSA hacked. Family Romance in Japan sells fake friends and family. Digital meds (has sensors to report on patient). Dis- illusion with tech? Action briefs, one call.

11-07-2017

[audio] Latest shooting massacre(s). "Lucky." Paucity of actual discourse in society. Homelessness crises, 8 million tons of plastics dumped in seas annually, climate refugees on tap big-time. "Bushman Banter," tech/media firms mer- ging, enormous recalls. Alt-Right failing, virtual treadmills: no movement necessary. Action news, two calls.

10-31-2017

[audio] JZ reads "The Prison of Symbols." Record CO2 surge in 2016, Gulf of Mexico awash in oil. "Climate change is much, much worse than we thought." Anarchists fiddle while Rome burns. Human caring in pre-history. New AI religion: Way of the Future. "Leave Someone Behind? Your Car May Soon Warn You." Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to Sophia the Humanoid. Taro card fad. Action news, two calls.

10-24-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Rewilding Conference in Portland. "Domestikator" sculpture scandal in Paris: domestication nailed. Insect die-off in Germany called "ecological Armageddon." Power lines sped northern California fires; southern California heat wave. Global pollution mounts, adult-onset ADHD. Hello antifa, goodbye post-Left. Action briefs.

10-17-2017

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Fires uncover pollution in every case. Language 1.8 million years ago?? CNN: millennials unbelievably unskilled. Severe anxiety #1 problem for adolescents. Global obesity, starving penguins. Who volunteers any more? No way to spot mass killers-to-be. Quantum computing: a new gold rush. Action news

10-10-2017

[audio] Neither the Las Vegas massacre or the dope OD epidemic (leading cause of death for Americans under 50) bring out questioning of this stage of social existence. Blade Runner 2049. Eve of "antibiotic apocalypse" re: global resistance to the drugs. Plague rages in Madagascar. Upcoming Rewilding Conference in Portland. Need for standardized emojis. Action news, one call.

10-03-2017

[audio] Puerto Rico, Las Vegas: mounting crises in both spheres of life. Does anarchism offer anything? Blade Runner 2049, etc: apocalyptic zeitgeist. Ad of the Week: IBM "Can Offer Customers What They Want Before They Want It." Homelessness, plas- tics, extinctions, emotional dis-eases on the rise. Reality is stark, solutions are ob- vious but disallowed. Wolves near Rome, Eagles rip Drones from the skies. One call, action briefs.

09-26-2017

[audio] (Last week's show pre-empted by unforeseen sports broadcast.) Kathan co-hosts. Puerto Rico devastation has silver lining: opens door to a more industrialized agriculture(!) Opioid scourge now lower- ing US life expectancy level. Lack of sleep, sitting kills. Oil spill of the week, mass shooting of the week. Deaths of desperation, death by distraction. Peak sand, chatbots for the dying. Chicago Tribune: "The New iPhone Proves the Unabomber Was Right." Action briefs, 2 calls.

09-12-2017

[audio] Extreme weather/mutual aid. End times in the air, mass shootings. Plants vs. pollutantss. Android entered in portrait competition, online trust? Ugly art. "The Case Against Civilization," by John Lanchester, "Tech People," by Nagib Aminy @ Thisissomenoise.com. Action news, two calls.

09-05-2017

[audio] Smoked out! The West is burning. Hurricane Harvey and the future of cities. "American Horror Story: Cult," Eden" TV series and what they tell us. Tech as the new religion - while civ reveals itself all the more fully. One call (about indis- criminate violence), action briefs.

08-29-2017

[audio] Hurricane Harvey - a "natural" disaster? Chomsky now a primitivist; The Chiseler strikes again! Global over-heating/extinctions/air pollution/recalls news. Forest Defenders R back. Cliff at Seattle Anarchist Book Fair. Stephen Pinker: Enlightenment Now(!) Action news, one call.

08-22-2017

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Cascadia Cave. Rising fascist threat ??(e.g. Boston, Durham) Coral, kelp dying out globally. Barcelona jihadists "normal"! Anews editorial #25: Subjectivism 101. David Byrne, Zizek(!) on technology. A vaccine for heroin. LED eyelashes, NurturePod by Stuart Candy. One call.

08-15-2017

[audio] Alice and John do the show. Charlottesville weekend; How big is the fascist threat? Scary civ news of the week. Our 8 days in New York. Modern humans in SE Asia 20,000 years earlier than thought. Google uber alles. Action news, one call.

08-08-2017

[audio] JZ back from NYC, Kathan co-hosts. Global HEAT. Gulf of Mexico dead zone growing. Air conditioning killing planet, isolation bigger cause of death than obesity. More dead cops. Black Seed#5. The insanity of mental health via smartphones. Artificial Intelligence not panning out. Action news, one call.

07-25-2017

[audio] Check out '80s movie "Cutters Way", Laura Dassow Walls' new Thoreau biography, Affluence and Abundance by James Suzman, and Layla at Revolutionary Left Radio(!). Major drought, disease reports. China goes for astrology. Nihilism expanded. True Companion: an AI robot one can buy and simulate rape. Action news, one call.

07-18-2017

[audio] Show's over, ITS. New England Journal of Medicine: "The current level of air pollution is toxic." Full Stop. Delaware-size iceberg breaks off Antarctica. Breaking the Spell by Chris Robe. Leftist take on Hamburg G20. Death of George Romero, birth of zombie culture. Robot drowns in fountain; listen to podcasts 4x as fast. Ad of the week: Qualcomm/ in love with phone. Action news, one call.

07-11-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Hamburg!!! ITS hits new low (31st communique). Trap of high tech medicine. The proximity of an iphone - on or off - makes you stupid. "Biological annihilation" (6th mass extinction well underway). Tennis star too "bored" to win at Wimbledon. Digital theme park in Thailand opening. Air on cruise ship decks gravely polluted. Lots of action news, three calls.

07-04-2017

[audio] Shooting sprees, environmentalism at point zero, daily op-eds on no confidence in govt. India choking, China becoming a desert, Siberian fires visible from space. Urban noise = bad health. The Brilliant with Bellamy (episode 50) and Abe Cabrera (episode 49): ITS losing its "luster," nihilists in retreat? Brain-eating amoebas in Louisiana. plague in New Mexico. Action news.

06-27-2017

[audio] Cops kill more blacks, dope epidemic rages, lethal heat waves e.g. in Southwest (street signs melt, jets can't lift off, AC fails, homeless die). My ten days in Italy. Lake Chad almost gone, democracy in death throes? Nihilism leads to ITS fetish? 2/3 of all traffic deaths due to road rage. Cars, homes are traps for toxic air. Completely baseless tech claims. Girl Scouts to become cyber cops. Binky: the app that does nothing. One call.

06-06-2017

[audio] Kathan, Cliff, and Ian host. Portland MAX attack as nihilism in action? R. M. Dunbar on friendship, indiscriminate violence and morality. Four calls.

05-30-2017

[audio] "Nihilist" attack on Portland light-rail, two dead. Ads of the week. Everything is online - and often failing, paralyzing major services. OD's under-reported, mass shootings con- tinue. Birds, sea life steadily poisoned. Second Livestock, latest GMO madness, robot- ics for babies. Paul Kingsnorth: "Most of us don't want to change much."(!) Kathan, Cliff, Ian next week (June 6). International action reports, two calls.

05-23-2017

[audio] ITS, ISIS claim responsibility for Manchester Arena bombing. No more Ringling Bros. Horkheimer on the circus and domestication. Ross Ice Shelf at risk, flooding threatens Global Seed Vault in Arctic. Anti-fa at It's Going Down: pro-union, leftist, inflating the 'global rise of fascism.' Tokyo 2020 Olympics - 'greenest games of all' - stadium built of wood from rainforest indigenous Penan, destroying their lifeway. VICE UK sees pos- sible anti-tech counterculture emerging as online losing its luster. Action news, one call.

05-16-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Global hack by wannacry: no place to hide. Telehealth: be a virtual patient. Accelerationism. Murder of a young woman - latest fascist path- ology from ITS. Invisible Committee gets it re: technology; Adbusters does NOT. Shootings, oceans awash with plastic, coffee shops drop wi-fi. Action briefs, 3 calls.

05-09-2017

[audio] The Great French election abstention. Further sickening ITS garbage: kill all hikers! Domestication is here to stay! Can't go back! Chronic misery of civilization, arctic melting faster, "alarming" Long Island water crisis, record heat in US SouthWest, opioid epidemic worsens. Indian anthro- pologist regrets his role in domesticating Andaman Islanders. Resistance news, Feral Futures in SW Colorado, June 17-25.

05-02-2017

[audio] May Day action! ITS #28 and Wandering Cannibals proclaim hate and death for all humans - except themselves. Humans in So. Cal. 130,000 years ago. "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning (Online)," "Pope Tells Tech Leaders to Nurture Ties With Others." More extinctions, power outages, shootings, anxiety "disorders." Head of AMA: tech HARMS patients. Resistance news, three calls.

04-25-2017

[audio] Anti-fa? Yes, but...Zombies of the week. Documenta 14/postmodernity/March for Science. No more play for kindergartners, groundwater going. Acid attacks on big rise in UK. More nightclubs are anti-cell phone. Website best way to con- nect with ill friend. Where's the post-left, anti-civ pulse of anarchy?? Latest from The Brilliant. "Panic Attack": "society is a stew of unease, fear, rage, grief, help- lessness and humiliation." Action briefs, three calls.

04-18-2017

[audio on KWVA archive: navigate calendar to 4/18/2017, click on the date, then click the 'play' icon next to Anarchy Radio. There are several minutes of music before the show starts.] Kathan co-hosts. KZ reflects on the 47th anniversary of her felony arrest and the course of her life. More on anti-fa as a weak, lowest-common-denominator liberal approach. More spills, shootings. Earth Day?? "France in the End of Days." "How Western Civilization Could Collapse" (BBC). The ever greater lies and swindle of technology, its ever greater colonization and reach. Resistance news, one call.

04-11-2017

[audio] Shootings on rise. Creeping fascism?? Abe Contreras attacks JZ for ITS. Friendship - has it gone? Munich's Blitz nightclub bans cell phones but tech is ever more totalitarian. Kevin Tucker's "Peak Civ" column at It's Going Down. Robots for old people provide a more "deep" communication than "human-to- human" interaction. UK toy company called Technology Will Save Us. Action news, three calls.

04-04-2017

Anarchy Radio...No recording due to failure at radio station.

03-28-2017

[audio] Orange County Anarchist Book Fair says. "Abandon divisions" - anarchist trend back to leftism? Springtime rise in shootings, polar ice at record lows. US white adult death rate up sharply. Climate change worsens massive China smog, Seattle pumping millions of gallons of raw sewage into Puget Sound. My ITS death threat, theme parks going virtual. "What would your 'model' society look like?" Action news, 3 calls (2 on-air).

03-21-2017

[audio] Marco Camenisch is finally out! World Happiness Day, US not so happy. Who is healthy? Maldives sinking. Latest insane tech developments. More on Harari's Homo Deus book of horrors. Sleep in America. Stem cell treat- ments blind 3, selfies kill more in 2015 that shark attacks School shooting in France. Is anarchy confronting reality? Resistance briefs.

03-14-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Portland's anarchist pothole brigade. Alexander Kerensky in 1917 and 1966. Ted K's new book: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How. James Oberhelm, Irish art provocateur. Who's voting anymore? London air worse than Beijing's. Alaska's Cook Inlet gas line leaking since December. The Void: "truly beyond VR." Action news, one call.

03-07-2017

[audio] Tabling at ELaw with Ian; good stuff. Read out "Death." Anarchy Radio is "gossip and NYT reprints"(?) YouTube: a billion hours a day. Bird flu is back, French towns "fade", zines not obsolete despite internet (see Black and Green Review!) Action news. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology" as social media produce more social isolation. Sleeplessness, spills, Colorado River declining, two calls.

02-28-2017

[audio] Local Girl Scout scandal: need for AUTHORITY. Facebook calls for "global community" (read integration into world Machine). Age of Disbelief, More Dead Cops, Peak Sand? Walden Pond "stillness" from a video game; Toxic online "discourse" - Rx is more tech- nology; sense of smell - AI's algorithms are better. Toys spying on families. Anti-authori- tarian resistance - not nihilist enough?

02-21-2017

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. How urbanism fails globally. How fixating on Trump fuels science and technology. Homo Deus, another hideous, tech-worshipping book. Scurvy makes a comeback in a disease-ridden world. Older Americans hooked on mind drugs. Elon Musk on human-machine interface: needed to keep up! Are egoists and nihilist anarchist? Resistance briefs, three calls.

02-14-2017

[audio] The Brilliant on Atassa/eco-nihilism. "Thoughts of the Week on Anarcho- transhumanism"? Zoltan's "Immortality Tour." Chemical pollution in extreme ocean depths, biodiversity expiring, addiction as a condition of society. Antarctic ice shelf nears end. Work of Layla AbdelRahim, Chellis Glen- denning, Zygmunt Bauman. Action news, seven calls (two off-air).

02-07-2017

[audio] Cliff co-hosts, Super Bowl ads of the week. Severe eco assaults in China, India. US attack in Yemen echoes Obama. Anarchist action in Berkeley tops the charts. Resources on online damage to kids. "Dark Night" details "numb, narcotic mood" across America. Internet source of global warming. Action briefs. Desire and hope ...and egoism.

01-31-2017

[audio] Trump, anti-Trump...any significant anti-authoritarian quotient? Will there be? "Our Dissolving Social Glue." Latest oil spills, primate extinctions. Chile on fire, Bay of Bengal's giant dead zone, superbugs winning against antibiotics. Dutch orangutan on Tinder. Ad of the week (hermes as nature). Action news, 3 calls.

01-24-2017

[audio] Alice co-hosts. Global over-heating is accelerating; "Experts Foresee Profound Threat to Civilization." Super-rich seek safe redoubts. Pipeline news, including repression and theft by Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council. We discuss our three weeks in Egypt. High-tech isolation mounts. Ads of the week, anarchist action briefs, two calls.

01-17-2017

[audio] What was anarchy in 2016? Shootings, extinction news, drought in French Alps, pollution in London worsens. New issue of Black and Green Review. Is the Invisible Committee "commie"? Latest Earth First! Journal. Massive global corporate corrup-tion - a new stage? Human-robot marriage by 2050. Three calls. Egypt with Alicenext week.

01-10-2017

[audio] Kathan and Ian discuss approaches to spirituality (e.g. animism)and technology. One call.

12-20-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Standing Rock comments. Disturbing China news. The Brilliant, IGD. Crazy Arctic warming, porpoise extinction. Spike in drug use, mental dis-ease. Mark Boyle goes anti-tech, digital "education." Ad of the week: $720 self-lacing shoes. Action briefs.

12-13-2016

[audio] Heretofore hidden politics of Standing Rock. Eugene Weekly and DGR organizer Sam Krop. More of "Fake News," spawn of postmodernism. Denver "Autonomous" Assembly vs. actual autonomy? Artforum's empty "Imagine a World" feature (Nov. issue). Extinction news, opioid epidemic. Ads of the week e.g. ask Google how to make your infant laugh. Why driverless cars. Action briefs, three calls.

11-29-2016

[audio] Read my "Night" and "Black Friday". Maddening high tech ads. A very violent week. SF's Millenium Tower sinking, tilting. "Fake News" - who can say(?) Third Stage en- vironmentalism after 30 years. India bans fireworks to reduce pollution(!) Chess vs. computers. roblosricos@wordpress.com. Anarchist (mostly) action news, two calls.

11-22-2016

[audio] Fifth Estate, Submedia-TV, even Leonard Cohen, come under scrutiny. More Dead Cops. North Pole last Thursday: 36 degrees above average. Post-election hate acts - what to do. Peak Oil?? Apps for doing good, for avoiding death-by-selfie. Philosophy Talk, Ad of the week. Action news, two calls.

11-15-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts and reports on awesome Portland resistance ($1 million damages Nov. 11). Ayahuasca: a consumer fad? Hydro power = mercury poisoning. The South is burning. Polluted Danube, need for our own resources health-wise, not techno "solutions." Artificial daylight. Bank of No Money touts autonomy, not leftoid organization fetish. Action news, one call.

11-08-2016

[audio] Voting is not the way out. Air pollution severe in Asia. Children made dumber, fatter by technology. Suicide rates, mass shootings, cops getting shot - all rising. New books. Again, "Will Standing Rock Give Anarchism a Soul?" Mono- polization increasing, Chomsky a self-described Bernie liberal. Action briefs, two calls.

11-01-2016

[audio] A tale of two occupations; inside Standing Rock. Earth First! review of BAGR#3. Low energy pop culture, labor unrest. "Will Standing Rock Give Anarchism a Soul?" Modern Madness by Ed lord, Feral Consciousness by Julian Langer. Every company a tech company. "Opioid Poisonings Surge Among Children." Tech ads of the week. The Rhino GX. Call- out for G8 Hamburg July 2017! Action reports, four calls.

10-25-2016

[audio] Local pro-cop media. Tom Hayden vs. Eugene anarchists (2000). Excerpt from Don DeLillo's fine Zero K novel. Desertification of China, mammal extinctions, shootings of the week. EZLN now firmly Left: politician land. Black Mirror, oil and chemical spills. "Disappearing Middle Eastern Neighborhoods Find New Homes Online", Toyota's new Kirobo Mini, a robot baby. Anti-authoritarian news,

10-18-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Trump=fascism? "Sully" movie is anti-tech. More clown hysteria. Resistance in Portland. The Moth Snowstorm celebrates nature and its continuing beacon. "The First Farmers" - domestication was imperialist. More cops shot. Children of the New World (They Delete Their Kids). Space travel and dementia. Latest v. diluted product from Derrick Jensen. Action news, one call.

10-11-2016

[audio] Nihilist jokes, "Someone Mailed Feces to Four Philosophers." Clown panics: jumpy people. Regresion #5: Saving the world is the "highest form of domesti- cation," in latest ITS-style lunacy. Worsening cities, air, as robotics marches forward. Cops killed in So. Cal, anarchist/anti-authoritarian resistance. Five calls.

10-04-2016

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Re: last week's call from rotn: nihilism and what's the point? Anarcho-primitivist Ria Montana on Which Side. Exploding batteries, cars, washing machines. Technology weakens us, displaces human interaction. iPal robot keeps kids quiet and surveilled ("companionship"). Stress overrides diet in terms of general health. People reading much less over past ten years. Anarchist resistance briefs.

09-27-2016

[audio] Tulsa, Charlotte - and next week? More rampage shootings. Dispossess #5: egoist vs. primitivo. Rotn calls in re: nihilism. Ben Rivers' "Two Years at Sea" film. Dodge Charger: "Domestic not Domesticated." "Machine learning" solves problems that need not exist. Resistance news in brief.

09-20-2016

[audio] Ode(s) to nihilism. Egoist-nihilist offering from Greece: Anti-Social Evolution (self-indulgent despair). 1 or 2 things about The Brilliant #32. Some of the week's violence, water woes, 1.5 billion birds gone. 3.66 million year-old footprints: walked just like us! LA man who walks people for a living, child suicides, resistance news.

09-13-2016

[audio] Vagaries of 9/11, including Ward Churchill's fate. Standing Rock update. Nicholas Carr's Utopia is Creepy: And Other Provocations e.g. "Technology promised to set us free. Instead it has trained us to withdraw from the world into distraction and dependency." Ayuhuasca craze. Yet more anti-anarchist ITS crapola. Violence, eco-disasters. Resistance news. "Multinaturalism." (Dell) ad of the week and other astounding tech developments. One call.

09-08-2016

[audio] Isaac Cronin on The Brilliant. Read my "Two European Thinkers to the Rescue!" No stopping motorists texting while forests, elephants, mussels, handwriting, health, coastlines disappear. Quakes, air pollution, loneliness on rise as Johan Norberg's Progress says things couldn't be better. Tech promising everything, solving nothing. Action news, two calls.

08-30-2016

[audio] Interchange and live music with Nazel Pickens! Green Anarchy and Black and Green Review. Elon Musk on "unborn" cars; elusive nihilism; "emotionally fragile" students." 13th ITS Communique: hydrochloric acid in the Coca-Cola. Online = "digital heroin." Resistance News - especially growing Standing Rock, 3 calls.

08-23-2016

[audio] "Lo and Behold," Herzog's fine critique of the high-tech pitch. Read my "Meaning in the Age of Nihilism." A-p reply to the ITS-type "The Calusa: A Savage Kingdom." "Dispossess" and the anti-primitivist anarchists who claim to be anti-civilization. "Hand Writing Just Doesn't Matter." (Samsung refrigerator) ad of the week.. Resistance news, one call.

08-16-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Role of Anarchy Radio. Tattered spectacle: Rio follies. Milwaukee uprising. July hottest ever, California ablaze, explosive rains seen globally. Yellow fever to follow Zika as scourge as tech marches forward. More violence in all directions. Anarchist responses in terms of projects e.g. architecturally? Artificial light weakens us. Action news, three calls.

08-09-2016

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Rio Olympics debacle. Eco-Nihilist critique of Black and Green Review. "Fifty States of Anxiety." Varieties of violence. Despite phone problems, 4 calls; 2 counseled more attention to affirmative projects. Brain-eating amoeba, complexity=breakdown. Resistance news.

08-02-2016

[audio] Who is "JZ"? Troll of the week. Debord: ideas should be used up in battle. Aragorn! on internet and anarchism. Flash flooding, heat waves. New Panama Canal not big enough for bloated globalization. Mass shootings 50 years old. Cannibal gulls, space travel bad for hearts. Action news, two calls (AR,MO). Good faith interaction with anarcho-primitivism: let's have some. Reminder: deadline looms for BAGR submissions.

07-26-2016

[audio] My "Concluding Anti-History Postscript." Istanbul anarchist on post-coup situation in Turkey. Cop shooting of the week. Water woes, "natural" disasters? Are we at the end of anarchism? Done in by technology and nihilism? "Binge TV Watching Can Kill You." Ads of the week. Merger mania. Wild birds help African foragers find honey. "Depression is a Disease of Civilization." by Sara Burrow. How to set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball.

07-19-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Vets shoot cops in Dallas, Baton Rouge. "terrorist" label too easy. Much discussion of nihilism in general and ITS-type nihilism in particular. More hiding in dis-abling, dis-connecting technology. Facebook aims at total planetary reach; drive to produce synthetic 'human' genome. Hello Kitty infantile consumer culture. More tech, even more epidemics. Anarcho-primitivism the target of those who preach giving up.

07-12-2016

[audio] Less Afghanistan troop removal, more to go to Iraq. 5 white cops killed in Dallas, dominant society goes crazy; 9 blacks killed Charleston church last year, not a crisis. Billboard of the week (China): "Civilization is the Most Beautiful Scenery!" Computer perception requires reality to change, not the machine. "What Americans Drawn to ISIS Have in Common." World's lakes, forests drying up, dying off. Action news, 3 calls. Recording failure: last 14 minutes lost.

07-05-2016

[audio] Fear of slaves, indigenous evident in Declaration of Independence. Adventures in podcasting; Hillary-booster Chomsky declines dialog with JZ. "No Going Back" - really? Rio Olympics "catastrophe". The answer to VR's fake world? More VR! New ITS interview: same no-hope-ism. Income inequality still growing. Florida Atlantic coast fouled, global air worsens, dam-building craze continues. Ad of the Week (afiniti). Fine report on Fireflies gathering. Action news, three calls.

06-28-2016

[audio] Brexit - phoney anti-globalization. The "anti-globalization" movement at its peak 15 years ago. Nihilism and its close cousin, post-modernism. Peak sand? Local fat cats cash in as poor lose health coverage. Eugene Anarchists for Torrey (2000). Europe's growing army of robots may become "electronic persons." Internet "Stirs grief...we're all more alone than ever," Virginia Heffernan. Man marries phone in Las Vegas. Ad of the week (Cylance), one call.

06-21-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts, at new KWVA digs. Cities sizzle, California burning. Orlando, etc: Why Does This Keep Happening??" asks Obama, but not anarchists(?) ITS/RS pro- claim dead-end nihilist meaninglessness. Hunting for alien life i.e. tech life(!) Have a "true African cultural experience": go on a safari to see hunter-gatherers in Tanzania (!) "Russian Robot Gets a Few Hours Freedom after Escaping a Lab(!) Shanghai Disney opens: truly "cross-cultural"(!) Action news, upcoming events. One call, two attempted calls.

06-14-2016

[audio] Orlando massacre, related enveloping violence. Fearful, anxious children. Failure of anarchy to face challenge, offer analysis. Internet of Everything not succeeding, not even arriving. "Hobbit" species seafaring 700,000 years ago. PTSD - even war preferable to dead civilian life. Center for Applied Rationality - think like a computer! "The End of Reflection" by Teddy Wayne. One call, resistance news.

06-07-2016

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Muhammed Ali - how out of fashion. Varieties of violence and heat. "Kill button" for robots? Already internal one for species? VR better than this "grey reality." Fabulous new products: LucidCatcher e-headband for dream control, Bedtime VR Stories for remote parenting. Action news, one call.

05-31-2016

[audio] Memorial Day and our FREEDOMS. Giant Fort McMurray fire unleashes contaminants. Trump=Fascism?? Transgressing species divides with Thos. Thwaites and Chas. Foster. The Four Dimensional Human by Laurence Scott. Last resort antibiotics failing, world's biggest dam slated for Congo. Great Barrier Reef dying - Australia tries to censor UN report. One call, resistance news, ads of the week.

05-24-2016

[audio] Most insane product of the week : smart shoes. Facebook follies - who does JZ's? (not JZ). Political dis-integration? Paiutes vs. liberal "defender"? Huel (like Soylent); Fast Food Aid in Tokyo (to junk food eaters). Horrors of pollution in India. Heat, emissions rising sharply. Ad of the week (Cisco), resistance briefs. Utter irrelevance of new issue of Anarchy magazine. Four calls.

05-17-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Movement in Brazil, zika virus globalizing. Rydra's statement at anews. RS-type arson in Helsinki: nihilism. Role of the spirit. World cities and air pollution. Anti-civ comics at gabbysplayhouse.org. Action news. Four calls.

05-10-2016

[audio] Canada burning, nihilism spreads (e.g. Rome bombed by RS-type group, suicide rate climbing). The usual eco disasters, weasel brings Large Hadron Collider to halt. VR sex suit unveiled in Japan, VR used to treat severe paranoia - one flight from reality replaced by another. Robots R Us, ISIS collapsing? Stabbing sprees in past two days. Inner peace options: Dalai Lama or smartphone app. BAGR#3 out this week. Resistance briefs.

04-26-2016

[audio] No broadcast next week (5/3) due to travel. Earth Day? There's an app for that. Shootings, recalls news. Suicide rate climbing, life expectancy slipping. Read my "Modernity Takes Over." DeLillo's "Zero K" novel questions tech's ultimate claims. Lies about urbanism courtesy of techno-ideology.

04-19-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Quakes in Japan and Ecuador: crushed by civilization. A nihilist talk in Portland. AK Press won't carry BAGR, Zerzan. "A New Dark Age Looms" as warming reaches ever new heights e.g. year-round fire season. Anti-civ perspective grows. Minecraft, chatbots, wacko high-tech ads. "Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Capitalism." Tasty action briefs, calls from Arkansas and Ohio.

04-12-2016

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Virtual Reality and other tech colonization, impoverishment. Digital sweatshops. Scary water news world-wide. Indigenous suicides in Canada spike. High-tech Ads of the Week. Social media hold-outs, drop-outs. Action reports. Superb spring issue of Earth First! Journal. Order Black and Green Review!

04-05-2016

[audio] Obesity reversing life expectancy, "Global Warming Making U.S. Sick." Fear is endemic, future seen more and more negatively. Emojis are "the new language of the heart," kids learn less due to technology. OD's spread, Zika heads north. more train accidents despite new tech, Great Barrier Reef dying, Antarctica ice melting faster. Resistance news, three calls.

03-29-2016

[audio] (The first two or three minutes of the broadcast did not get recorded.) Report on Rojava: Paul Z. Simons in studio. Radical developments in northern Syria discussed, also collapse, nihilism, what is at stake. 2.7% of American kids are healthy, 3/4 of UK kids are outside less than prison inmates. AI-produced novel almost wins Ja- panese literary prize. Eugene Morozov: tech firms now run things, not govts. Action news, two calls.

03-22-2016

[audio] Primitivist week at anarchistnew.org. Postmodern twins: Trump and Aragorn!. Self-lacing sneakers, wired homes that "listen," automatic brakes vs. Marshall Islanders who've navigated for thousands of years without instruments. Infectious diseases increase, traffic everywhere worsens. Huawei ad: Decades of patient investment for a moment of divine clarity." Resistance news.

03-15-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. My Arcata gig. Time to kick Trump ass? Ads of the week. The Age of Fact is Over: postmodernism and technology have erased the quest for truth. Pigs being offed, for a change. Increasing obesity, diabetes. UK is fragmenting, isolation on rise. Seas rising faster than thought, action news.

03-08-2016

[audio] Recent gigs: Tucson, E-Law (our BAGR panel, horrid DGR recruitment effort); on to Arcata 3/11. "The End of American Idealism", "Use of Heroin in Plain View." Killer germs, "Seeking a Zika Dividend." Robot art critic and other Stupid Tech Tricks. China most dire, South Korea's juvenile pop culture, Fiji sinking, lithium batteries exploding. Action news.

02-23-2016

[audio] A single Universal Time coming? Seattle trip (Left Bank Books evening). Interview with traditional O'odham resister, Ofelia Rivas; Upcoming Speakers Series in Tucson. Toxic blooms head north; seas rising, heating faster; selfies kill dolphin. Action news, Kesey Square fight (Eugene), three calls.

02-16-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Zika virus may be caused by anti-mosquito larvacide(!) Science/tech claims/projections so often fail. Scalia and "the Air We breathe." Records fall: wild tem-perature swings in US. Mekong Delta gravely imperiled. Rampage shootings - now in Saudi Arabia. GPS, etc. "erode our cognitive maps." Action news, one call.

02-09-2016

[audio] 82 degrees on Oregon coast February 8. The stink of big money everywhere. Adorno on freedom; Mandylas on nihilism. Recall mania, runaway pollution, suicide stories. Results of stress; the joke of voting. "Facebook friends almost entirely false." App of the week, re-sistance briefs.

02-02-2016

[audio] Zika scourge spreads. "The End of Food Has Arrived, Finally" (Soylent); "my" Facebook page; new ITS communique. Nihilism, decadence.. Google now #1 in the world; Coca-Cola Pushes into Africa. Bolivia's second-largest lake is gone; US urban homelessness rises. Microsoft wants to cool big servers in ocean - but it won't add to ocean warming! Action news.

01-26-2016

[audio] Cliff is back! (No stream/radio signal first 15 minutes.) Marvin Minsky: death of a techno-nazi. Killings in prehistory (E. Africa): hunter-gatherers or domesticators? GMO monkeys in China: how to confront autism(!) Mass recalls, Zika virus surges, plastics swamp oceans, record addiction levels. Anarchistnews suppresses Anarchy Radio. Action news, one call.

01-19-2016

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. More on Malheur occupation: govt. bows to white racist scumbags. 62 own as much as 3 billion others Massive gas leak in San Fernando Valley? Air as bad in rest of LA! Nightclubs fading out in Europe. Japanese addicted to cutesy mascots, retreat to tiny VR spaces. Tesla creates full-body VR: no unpleasant outside reality. Why journal? An app can do that. Scary health news. Action briefs, two calls.

01-12-2016

[audio] Read "Decadence and the Machine." Right-wing occupiers in e. Oregon, David Brooks predicts "giant cultural explosion" from millennials, new opera composers are dystopian. Whales beaching globally, record heat wave in S. Africa, friendlessness=ill health, etc. Action news, one call.

01-05-2016

[audio] Reactions to AR and JZ. anarchistnews.org - how to run? Gerald Vizenor in Black Seed!? McDonald's as China's new community; Raccoons Invade Brooklyn; School make kids standardized - and sick. An app to prevent deforestation. Supermines. Rush to exploit Antarctica. Adorno: "The freedom in philosophy is nothing but the capacity to lend a voice to its unfreedom." Key question - What does that unfreedom consist of? Resistance news.

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