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UG616 - The Secret, Silent Poisoning (Nuclear Victims in Peace and War)

Robin Upton | 15-02-2013 05:13 | Analysis | Anti-Nuclear | Ocean Defence | Sheffield | World

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We hear how not only the Japanese but also the Marshall Islanders continue to suffer as a result of the US military's determination to assert its nuclear superiority, whatever the cost to human life. Complementing out main focus on Nuclear Weapons, we hear from Chris Busby that the safety of Nuclear Power may be overestimated by a factor of 400.

UG#614 - Granting Autonomy to The Logic of Money 1 (Capitalism, Debt & Banking)

Robin Upton | 13-02-2013 13:00 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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We left off our reading of David Graeber with the statement that "The logic of money was granted autonomy. Political and military power were then gradually reorganized around it". This week we look in more detail at what that meant, focusing mainly on the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. As well as reading more from Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear a few words from Ivan Illich and the first half of a radio adaptation of a video on the Banking Cartels and the US Federal Reserve.

UG#615 - Granting Autonomy to The Logic of Money 2 (Capitalism, Banking...)

Robin Upton | 13-02-2013 12:53 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week is a sequel to last week's episode, again combining some hidden history of the bankers in USA with our continued reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. We conclude with the audio of an introductory presentation on Altruistic Economics which Robin Upton gave at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin in December 2009.

UG#612 - From Conquistadors to Opium Wars (Debt & the Great Capitalist Empires)

Robin Upton | 07-02-2013 22:18 | Analysis | Globalisation | History | Sheffield | World

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This time we look at the grim consequences of the logic of imperialist exploitation for profit since the Middle Ages. As a specific example of the general principles we read about in Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear Frank Sanello on the Opium Wars between Britain and China.

UG#611 - Money as Powerlessness(Economic Parasitism,MMT,Debt in the Middle Ages)

Robin Upton | 28-01-2013 17:35 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Does money really empower people, or does it trap them in a zero-sum game in which >99% will come out as losers? A two-parter this time on money and debt. In our first hour, two speeches from the first conference on Modern Money Theory in Rimini, Italy. In the second, we continue reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

UG#610 - From Enclosure to Privatization (Luddism, Magna Carta & Debt)

Robin Upton | 16-01-2013 10:52 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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We start with Peter Linebaugh on Luddism and the multifaceted enclosure movement in UK. Then, a report on prison privatization in Canada. We conclude by starting chapter 10 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years on the decline of the Axial age empires and social systems in India and China.

UG#606 - Flight From Meaning 1 (The Superior Human, Debt in The Axial Age)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:21 | Analysis | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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The first of a two part series, we consider the bigger question of meaning in life. In our first hour we look at a prejudice shared by many people of differing backgrounds and inclinations - the notion that human beings are somehow innately superior to all other life forms - with a radio adaption of the 2012 film The Superior Human. We conclude our second hour by resuming reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years where we left off in episode 597.

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UG#607 - Flight From Meaning 2 (Money = Competition = Psychosis)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:17 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Although in the 'Flight From Meaning' series, a rather traditional show concludes my second year of making Unwelcome Guests. First, a regular speaker, Alfie Kohn, speaking on why he believes that any competition is too much. We conclude with the end of chapter 9 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, on the introduction of coinage in India, Greece and China.

UG#608 - Flight From Meaning 3 (Science, Chimpanzees and The Monongahela)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:12 | Analysis | Health | Sheffield | World

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I start my third year with an unusually open ended love-it-or-hate-it next episode in the 'Flight From Meaning' series, centered on an essay by philosopher Steve Talbott on how biologists contrive to study life itself as if it were merely a lifeless mechanism. We also hear from Jane Goodall about chimpanzee society and read some of Underground History of American Education on John Taylor Gatto's boyhood.

UG#609 - Flight From Meaning 4 (Crazy Like Us,Instructed Organism,Peace Pilgrim)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:07 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Three contrasting pieces for you which all hint at the inadequacy of limiting self as the skin-encapsulated ego. Firstly, Ethan Watters on socially defined aspects of madness, including how Glaxo Smith Kline aggressively globalized Western ideas of depression in Japan. Next, I summarize Steve Talbott's essay on problems of the 'man as machine' metaphor. Finally, an hour on Peace Pilgrim, whose 'retirement project' was to walk across USA for over 25 years without using money or asking for food or shelter.

UG#602 - Ancient Languages of The Future 1 (Piraha, Non-Violent Communication)

Robin Upton | 04-01-2013 21:31 | Analysis | Culture | Sheffield | World

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This show we take two very distinct looks at human communication. Firstly we hear half an hour from a recent talk from Professor Daniel Everett on Language, Culture and Being Human. Next psychologist and negotiator Marshall Rosenberg, describes NVC (Non-violent communication).

ug#603 - Ancient Languages of The Future 2 (Piraha, Non-Violent Communication)

Robin Upton | 04-01-2013 21:28 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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A sequel to last week's show on human communication. We hear the rest of the talk by Professor Daniel Everett on 'Language, Culture and Being Human', with some Q&A. We hear more on NVC from Marshall Rosenberg.

UG#604 - Occupy The Past (Gandhian Non-Violence and Direct Action Movements)

Robin Upton | 04-01-2013 21:26 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Another show made with the ongoing Occupy movement in mind. Our main feature is author and researcher James Douglass on his book Gandhi and the Unspeakable, and we hear thoughts from Chris Hedges and Barbara Epstien also from earlier this year.

UG#601 - The Psychopathology of Money (Nick Leeson, The Economics of Happiness)

Robin Upton | 27-12-2012 00:28 | Analysis | History | Sheffield | World

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We continue examining money with radio adaptations of 2 films. In our first hour, Adam Curtis' 25 Million Pounds narrates the rise and fall of financial fraudster, Nick Leeson. In our second hour, The Economics of Happiness which recommends relocalization as the urgent solution to economic globalization.

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UG#600 - Evolution Beyond Money (Giftivism, Reforming and Quitting Money)

UG#600 - Evolution Beyond Money (Giftivism, Reforming and Quitting Money) | 21-12-2012 15:51 | Analysis | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week, a follow up show to our last show on money. We begin with a talk by Nipun Mehta on 'Designing for Generosity'. Then, an interview with Suelo, now moneyless since 2000 and his biographer, Mark Sundeen. In our second hour, an audio adaptation of the 2011 money reform film, Money As Debt III.

UG#595 - An Antidote To Forgetfulness (The Great New Zealand Fire Sale)

Robin Upton | 07-12-2012 23:40 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield | World

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This week we review the wholesale privatization of New Zealand carried out in the 1980s and 90s. We hear a radio adaptation of Alister Barry's 1996 documentary, Someone Else's Country and conclude with a few words from Chapter 7 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

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UG#596 - Lifting The Lid on The NSA (Secret Rooms, Infiltration, Menwith Hill)

Robin Upton | 07-12-2012 23:38 | Analysis | Repression | Technology | Sheffield

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This week we learn more about NSA, which no longer limits its activities to mere intelligence gathering. Whistle-blower Mark Klein tells how he broke the NSA's unwarranted wiretapping scandal, Kevin Zeese speaks on a century of political infiltration of US political movements, and infiltration of Occupy movements and we conclude with researcher Steve Schofield on the NSA's largest base in Europe.

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UG#597 - The Psychology of Transition (Undoing Millennia of Social Control)

Robin Upton | 07-12-2012 23:36 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

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This week three speakers on the ongoing transition. Bruce Schneier begins by speaking about threats to the internet and social change, Robert Jensen speaks on the naturalization of violence against women, Rob Hopkins speaks on transition culture. We conclude by returning to Debt, The First 5000 Years.

UG#599 - What Economics Can't Tell You About Money (Alienation, Black Magic...)

Robin Upton | 07-12-2012 23:31 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

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This week, a set of sideways looks at money. We begin with an interview of David Hawkes on a range of ideas about the 'magic' of money, its ability to promote materialism and alienate humans from their work. Next an audio version of Robin Upton's 2011 presentation, "What Economics Can't Tell You About Money", followed by a radio adaptation of the film On Modern Servitude.

UG#593 - Let Your Life Be A Friction (To Stop The Machine)

Robin Upton | 25-11-2012 08:53 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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After a call to action to 'stop the machine', we hear a couple of voices of those whose lives have been a friction to slow it down. Angie Zelter tells of the plowshares destruction of nuclear weapons, and John Stewart on the prevention of airport expansion, while Gwen Schulman reports of how Canadian environmental NGOs are 'partnering' with big mining firms.

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