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UG#678 - The New Pearl Harbor 2 (Amerithrax, The Pentagon and Shanksville)

Robin Upton | 29-03-2014 13:48 | History | Social Struggles | Terror War | Sheffield | World

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Before we continue our title piece, another 9-11 related piece from 2009. Author/film makers Bob Coen and Eric Nadler describe their researches into Amerithrax and the multi-billion dollar germ "defense" warfare industry. In our second hour, we continue with The New Pearl Harbor on the Pentagon and Shanksville events. We conclude with two 9/11 Commission members calling foul.

Earth First! Winter Moot 7-9 March 2014

EF! | 16-02-2014 19:30 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | Birmingham | Sheffield

A weekend gathering for people involved or want to know more about ecological direct action around the UK including fighting opencast coal, fracking, GM, nuclear power, new road building and quarries with discussions and campaign planning - emphasis on the tactics and strategies, community solidarity and sustainable activism.

UG#676 - What We're Not Being Told 2 (Plutopia,Kett's Rebellion,Bullingdon Club)

Robin Upton | 01-02-2014 16:43 | Anti-Nuclear | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Did you know that both Russia and USA have ongoing radioactive disaster sites which have each released four times more radiation into the environment than Chernobyl? In our first hour, a history lesson on the sacrifices made by both super powers in the race to create plutonium. In our second hour Tony Gosling draws on several centuries of hidden history to paint an even larger picture of massive abuses of power by those who wield it in secret.

UG#675 - What We're Not Being Told (BIS, CFR, TLC, Scientific Truth)

Robin Upton | 25-01-2014 15:01 | Anti-militarism | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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We continue our focus on the vast machine, looking this time not at the lies it tells but truths it leaves unspoken. First we hear Ellen Brown suggesting a BIS-Syria connection. Next for the first time on the show we hear professor and historian Anthony Sutton, who has a lot to say about the murky links between US big business and the development both of USSR and of Nazi Germany. We conclude with Chris Busby on scientific dishonesty in the area of radiation risk.

UG#674 - Sane Methods but Insane Purposes (Angles On The Crescendo Of Violence)

Robin Upton | 16-01-2014 11:56 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Our title, the self-diagnosis of the Captain Ahab, applies just as fittingly to the US led corporatocracy says Chris Hedges in his allegorical reading of Melville's Moby Dick. A variety of material, including an unread chapter of Charles Eisenstein's Ascent of Humanity and an interview with gift economy pioneers Vic Button and Frank Bowman point the way to a more optimistic end for humanity than that of the Ahab's doomed whaling voyage.

UG#673 - The Language of The Vast Machine (The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies)

Robin Upton | 27-12-2013 03:57 | Analysis | Other Press | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Similar in spirit to UG#670, we look at what Charles Eisenstein termed "The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies". We examine a range of lies spun by the vast machine as part of its efforts to perpetuate hopelessness, including a particularly obvious fraud from this August, a Nurse Nayirah style effort to drum up support for an attack on Syria. We focus loosely on war propaganda in Syria, but use a wide range of examples to illustrate the interwoven, interlocking nature of the matrix of lies while reflect on its implications for those determined to seek truth.

UG#672 - Mainstream or Extreme? (7-7, Islamophobia & CCM as Establishment Tools)

Robin Upton | 21-12-2013 09:03 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Terror War | Sheffield | World

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If asked to imagine a terrorist, do you see a mental picture of an Islamic suicide bomber? This episode we examine how the appearance - and quite possibly also the reality - of Islamic terrorism is cultivated by the UK political establishment. A wide variety of voices on this episode centered around the events of July 7th, 2005 explore David Miller's claim that the UK government uses the self-styled 'mainstream media' to promote Islamophobia through the security services.

#670 - Thinking Clearly About The Vast Machine (& The Hopelessness It Produces)

Robin Upton | 23-11-2013 07:01 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield | World

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This episode looks at one aspect of the machine referred to by Graeber in episode 624 - the propaganda that is churned out and which prevents people from clearly facing their dilemma. We begin with a 2009 speech by Sut Jhally on advertising, consumerism and what this has done to the US population. After contributions from Chris Hedges and Robert Jensen, we finish with an optimistic vision by Nafeez Ahmed.

UG#669 - The Restless Energy of The Hunted Mind (Information/Social Dysfunction)

Robin Upton | 11-11-2013 09:15 | Health | Social Struggles | Technology | Sheffield | World

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We look at the relationship between stress, technology and the modern worldview's apparent disconnection from reality. We have one new speaker, William Powers, author of Hamlet's Blackberry, and Heather Menzies speaks for a second time after her first appearance three years ago when we first looked explicitly at this area in UG#514.

UG#668 - Big Oil At Home And Abroad (How The 7 Sisters Took Us For A Ride)

Robin Upton | 28-10-2013 23:54 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week, a successor show to episode 664, using 3 documentary films to trace a bigger picture carefully avoided by commercially-controlled media. Firstly, "Secrets Of The 7 Sisters" which retells the recent history of the Middle East focusing on its oil reserves. Secondly, we hear "Taken For A Ride", a 1996 documentary on how the logic of capitalism dictated the destruction of cheap mass transit in the US, in favor of a more resource intensive method:- the automobile. We conclude with the end of The Hidden Life of Garbage on the effect of petrochemical waste on the environment.

UG#667 - Community Successes (Restoring Our Connection To The Land)

Robin Upton | 23-10-2013 09:29 | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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A cheerier show this week than last week's look at the issue of violence. A range of voices, old and new inform us of successful local initiatives to reconnect with the land and rebuild community in their neighborhood.

LaDIYfest Sheffield 2013 - Saturday 30th November

LaDIYfest Sheffield | 19-10-2013 19:37 | Culture | Gender | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Sheffield’s anti-capitalist, feminist festival LaDIYfest returns for its third Birthday this November, taking over the city for a day and evening of practical activities, discussion workshops and live music. All funds raised at the event will go to the National Ugly Mugs, a sex worker safety scheme.

UG#666 - The Cancer in Occupy (What is Violence?)

Robin Upton | 17-10-2013 01:38 | Occupy Everywhere | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield | World

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After the last show on Chris Hedges, this week we hear a discussion about his controversial 2012 Truthdig article in which referred to "Black Bloc anarchists" as "the cancer of the Occupy movement". He debates with Crimethinc on just how violent is it acceptable (or advisable) to be. Along the way we discuss the purpose of occupy and who defines what violence is anyway?

A4E and "Transforming Rehabilitation"

Emma Harrassment | 13-10-2013 22:14 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | Sheffield

Transforming Rehabilitation is an upcoming Government Contract. A4e are bidding for it as a prime contractor. The truth is that A4e does not have the employees to deliver. So, regardless of any feelings (or rational arguments) one way or another about A4e, there is a clear problem. A4e are seeking to be paid between £5bn and £20bn over the next ten years for doing nothing more than they do for the Unemployed.

UG#665 - Living In An Age Of Political Paralysis (The World According To Hedges)

Robin Upton | 05-10-2013 02:58 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield | World

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What to do amidst a vast apparatus designed, as Graeber wrote in episode 624, to "perpetuate hopelessness"? Chris Hedges recommends a path of courageous and unflinching non-violent resistance to the US plutocrats. We hear a 90 minute interview from earlier this week, interspersed with half of a classic Hedges speech, "War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning".

UG#664 -The Bloodstained Laundry Of Capitalism(&The Coming Revolt Of The Guards)

Robin Upton | 29-09-2013 07:36 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week, a trio of angles on capitalism which sharply contradict the idealized world so aggressively pushed by economists and the commercially-controlled media. After Geoff Bailey introduces the concept of "Accumulation by Dispossession", David Graeber summarizes some key points from the book we last year, Debt, The First 5000 Years and we conclude with the final chapter of Howard Zinn's People's History Of The United States.

UG#662 - Leaving The Cave of Media Shadows (Transcending The Paltry Ego...)

Robin Upton | 23-09-2013 02:22 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Sheffield

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A philosophical, reflective, show this week mixing analysis, poetry and eyewitness testimony. Author Morris Berman likens most of the US population to prisoners in Plato's Cave, nurse Cathy Breen describes her experience of traveling to Iraq just before the US started bombing in 2003, and Peter Dale Scott discusses and reads his poetry on a lifetime's struggle to resist war.

UG#660 - Countering Intelligence 3 (The Necrophilous Underbelly of Imperialism)

Robin Upton | 26-08-2013 00:33 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week, we continue our series of radio adaptations of the film, Counter Intelligence. Part 4, Necrophilous, includes a wide range of speakers who help us understand the murderous nature of US foreign policy. We conclude with a pointer to a classic Unwelcome Guests episode, episode 116, which questions the US government's story that Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack.

UG#659 - Countering Intelligence 2 (Gladio, The Strategy of Tension, False Flags

Robin Upton | 15-08-2013 09:35 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week we continue our look at the secret state with the help of Scott Noble's latest film, Counter Intelligence on the out of control apparatus of "national security services". The focus this week is on drug trafficking and False Flag operations. We supplement the adaptation with some classic Michael Ruppert on the narco-connection to US politics, Mark Crispin Miller on the phrase "conspiracy theory" and a speaker on the FSB and the Ryazan Apartment bombing of 1999.

UG#658 - Countering Intelligence 1

Robin Upton | 07-08-2013 15:33 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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The USA has 14 so-called "intelligence services". How "intelligent" are they, what "services" do they perform for whom? Who decides what they get up to? Who even knows? If killing is wrong, is it any less so if done for money behind pretenses of 'national secrecy'? What about helping pay for such acts, for example, by paying taxes? This week, a radio adaptation of Scott Noble's latest film uncovers more of the dark secrets of the security state, from the destabilization of the 1975 Australian government to the Nugan Hand Bank and the organization of global drug trafficking.

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