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12-29-2020

[audio] New Years resolutions detourned. Nashville detonation: apparently anti-tech. Shootings galore and not just in US. OD deaths far outpace covid-19 deaths in SF. A record 3 million Americans died in 2020, increase mainly due to pandemic. Tech failures. Dimitri Orlov on technosphere threat to everything. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta. Ad of the week: Powerlegs - "deep muscle tone without moving." Unions as police agents, action news.

12-22-2020

[audio] Dark days. "Facebook is a Doomsday Machine" by Adrienne La GFrance (typical cop-out ending). Joseph Tainter, who has shown how and why civilizations fail, is now into "sustainability"(!) Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy Woloson (how we become crappy?). 9 mile-long traffic jam in Japan. Sandal of nursing homes: "an era of institutional rot" - or is primary problem the institution (mass society)? Streaming in HD is 8x worse for environment. Major glitches re: videogame craze.Sunflower sea star nears extinction. Music of Harold Budd.

12-15-2020

[audio] Has the Singularity already arrived? IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in our Digital Lives by Chris Steadman; Is 'In Real Life' obsolete? U of O Knight Campus for Acceleration of Scientific Impact [e.g. bioengineering] unveiled. Great Barrier Reef receives most dire rating. 130,000 year-old stone tools found near San Diego. Unidentified illnesses on the rise. Doom-scrolling. California water now a commodity traded on Wall Street. Anti-gentrification autonomous zone in Portland, Beyond the Dark Horizon zine, other resistance news.

12-08-2020

[audio] Due to a technical SNAFU, the recording of the 11-08 show was unusable. Instead, KWVA rebroadcast the 11-10-2020 episode of Anarchy Radio with Kathan and John.

12-02-2020

[audio] Indigenous folks across U.S. fight to reclaim their traditional lands. From review of Cynan Jones' Stillicide novel:"...its theme of endurance in the face of loss hints at how the genre may evolve to reflect our own continuing catastrophe, for which the most dystopian fantasies may turn out to be nothing but a dry run." "Can Sending Fewer emails Really Save the Planet?" (No). Line between real and virtual worlds increasingly blurred as hypercomplex tech is increasingly vulnerable to failure and attack. New cockroach emoji - death of the human race anyone? MORE urbanization obviously the answer. Forthcoming: Wild Skills and Immediate Return books by Jessica Carew Kraft. Action news.

11-24-2020

[audio] Hunger, opioid deaths, homelessness crises, not to mention pandemic and ecocide"-Civ Is Crisis."Why Artsakh Still Matters to American Anarchists" by Nicky Reid: radical decentralization should be our destination. Ad of the Week: Medical Properties Trust: "unrivalled" investment opportunities in human misery! The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans by Eben Kirksey. Amazon, Google expand their reach. Action briefs.

11-17-2020

[audio] "World Past the Point of No Return for Climate Change" (Scientific Reports) as Covid-19 cases shoot up. China's glaciers disappearing. Art of Caroline Turner, possible Ish production on luddite perspectives. Global hunger pandemic, measles deaths soar. From cars to 'smart' video doorbells,batteries cause fires, recalls. Education serves Dataverse. Social media and depression. An anti-tech "California memory" (LAT 11-10). Indigenous Action of election. Action reports.

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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12-29-2015

[audio] Anarchist discourse--is there more than conversation? Animal Theory by Derek Ryan--how to ignore everything that counts. Urban air worsening everywhere. Weather getting more "freakish," murders by cops, murder-suicides this week. Data replaces reality, silent headphones, an app for break-ups. Coloring books for the stressed-out. Blocks beat e-toys for learning. Resistance briefs, two calls.

12-22-2015

[audio] Special guest Alice: our Czech outing (Brno Eko Film festival and four days in Prague). Jihad as community, "anti growth" lies, more China horrors, industrial breakdown in LA. "Handwritten" notes in the digital age, complete vulnerability of online energy grid. Re- sistance news. "How iPhones Ruin Your Posture and Your Mood."

12-15-2015

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. COP21 - the usual fraud. Shootings - NOT about guns. Free Radical Radio and East Bay Anarchist Book Fair. Jackson Hole, China. The friendless dance with food. Failures of tech health. Action medley, ads of the week.

12-01-2015

[audio] Ian and Jeriah filling in for JZ--- ISIS recruits find Western ideals to be empty, Planned Parenthood shooting and the antiabortion movement, Zuckerberg and tech titans band together to save the world(!), property rights and asteroids, nihilism and egoism.

11-24-2015

[audio] Soon to Brno and Prague; Ian and Jeriah next week. More on Houellebecq's Submission (the void in the West). 350.org psychosis, Bellamy's death drive diagnosis of anarchists. More: illiteracy, resistance to drug efficacy, recalls, whales beaching, mining dams disasters, VR nausea, nukes and cloning in China. Resistance news. One (off-air) call.

11-17-2015

[audio] Kathan here. Paris massacre: nihilism, Houllebecq and Islam, colonial history, everyday "terrorism" in US, the void of techno society. Tech is always the answer; as avoidance, as that which generates problems. Ads of the week, cartoon of the week, action briefs, one call.

11-10-2015

[audio] "Tribal Survival" film by Thomas Toivonen. Urban survey (e.g. toxic London fog returns), U. of Missouri protests, cop shootings, resistance news. Tecumseh on postmodern avoidance. Phoney XL Pipeline issue, "Despair, American Style." Three calls.

11-10-2015

[audio] "Tribal Survival" film by Thomas Toivonen. Urban survey (e.g. toxic London fog returns), U. of Missouri protests, cop shootings, resistance news. Tecumseh on postmodern avoidance. Phoney XL Pipeline issue, "Despair, American Style." Three calls.

11-03-2015

[audio] More on dying alone. Extreme weather on rise as oceans over-heat. Mexico City air pollution + Alzheimer's in children(!) Latest Reaccion Salvaje (RS) document - two discussions on violence, hope. Ideological language, misuses of. Illnesses mount; mortality among middle-class whites rises. Tech ads of the week, three calls.

10-27-2015

[audio] Kathan aboard. Ad of the week: IBM's "outthink" series. Horse Nations by Peter Mitchell. Edward Butynski's copper mines photos, implications. Action news. Zizek, shootings, recalls, sad techo end for old people, world pollution. New Sesame St. character is autistic. One call.

10-20-2015

[audio] Again, "To Change Everything?" Being Human, edited by Broglio + Young: an "animal turn" in philosophy? Alaska governor says drilling in protected Arctic "urgently" needed to to pay for climate change costs (!!) Dire water news from all over, urban homelessness emergencies. "The Lonely Death of George Bell", zero privacy or e-security. Ad of the week, action news.

10-13-2015

[audio] "To Change Everything" tour...everything? "Dedications" by Adrienne Rich. Technology is "the world telling its own story." 50 lane freeways in China, SE Asia burning. Turkle's phoney "Reclaiming Conversation" book. Resistance news.

10-06-2015

[audio] Three-way conversation among Urban Scout, Kevin Tucker and JZ about rewilding projects and outlooks, Two calls, two emails.

09-29-2015

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Utne's "Curtain Call" - more join the ranks of the no-hopesters. Popester visits US. Latest family slaughter: 6 dead in So. Dakota today. More, hotter droughts + fires means forests won't recover. The Age of Intelligent Cities - lunacy of the week. "Let's Not Move to Mars" a touch of sanity. Action news, two calls.

09-22-2015

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Utne's "Curtain Call" - more join the ranks of the no-hopesters. Popester visits US. Latest family slaughter: 6 dead in So. Dakota today. More, hotter droughts + fires means forests won't recover. The Age of Intelligent Cities - lunacy of the week. "Let's Not Move to Mars" a touch of sanity. Action news, two calls.

09-15-2015

[audio] California burning, Pinker at it again in his blind defense of civilization. Many amazingly insulting Ads of the Week. Homo naledi: buries its dead almost 3 million years ago, looks like us. 1 million UK oldsters haven't spoken to anyone in a month. Civ makes us stupid, isolated Action news.

09-08-2015

[audio] Anti-cop blow-back heightens. Future drought/fires aimed at oil/gas pipelines. Unprecedented sandstorm covers Middle East - not a "natural" disaster. "The End of the Tour" - David Foster Wallace story. Political/civic institutions flailing. Medicalization of alienation, denial of arriving catastrophe. Man kicks robot, action news. Two calls,

09-01-2015

[audio] Off the Pig (it's happening). Reviewed: Behold the Black Caiman, Rush Hour, Speak, Geek Heresy, Purity. New Orleans fantasy safeguard, only $14.5 billion. Next: mining the seabeds(!). Dating yourself: the answer to isolation. Action news.

08-25-2015

[audio] Rydra, of Free Radical Radio fame, co-hosts: history and theory of FRR, what's up with SF Bay Area anarchy, report on Seattle Anarchist Book Fair. Remove those unsightly sweat glands (Sweat Experts), this week's round of modern disasters, tech ads of the week, action briefs, two calls. anews.org. Tech failures abound, up with internet hold-outs and fiber optic saboteurs. Action briefs.

08-18-2015

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. China explodes, oceans worsening, glaciers disappearing. Amazon workers at breaking point. ISIS winning in meaningless modernity. Internet killing activity, says 'worker', leaving anews.org. Tech failures abound, up with internet hold-outs and fiber optic saboteurs. Action briefs.

08-11-2015

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. DGR, Jensen exhumed, exposed. Industrial disaster of the week, ad of the week, mass murders of the week. Escalators, cars fail, dementia in one's 40s grows likelier. Techno manipulation at ever deeper levels. Ec Machina discussion, one call.

08-04-2015

[audio] Western US ablaze; oceans weakening. Signs of ascendant anarcho-primitivism. The Wayfarers as classic cop-out. "Primitivism as the New Opium for the Masses: Reading Zerzan through Zizek." Kurds, too, prey of ISIS fundamentalism. Online panopticon, window to one's consumer soul. Sex, love with robots approaches as the virtual proceeds. Resistance briefs.

07-28-2015

[audio] In the Words of Elders excerpts. Fredy Perlman, d. 7/26/85. Whither the "Rojava Revolution"? Industrial devastation; warming, rising, acidifying oceans. National Parks pollution, salmon dying, mass shootings. Black & Green Review. Festival of Code vs. Forvilda (Rewilding) camp. Action news, two calls.

07-21-2015

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Horse Nations by Peter Mitchell. Cops have killed 634 this so far. Anarchist news.org and toxic posts, Earth First! Rendezvous and disruption. Kayaktivists paddle while Earth dies. Laruelle: Against the Digital by Alexander Galloway. Action briefs, one call.

07-14-2015

[audio] Collapse of leftist fakery in Greece, the 4-hour tech collapse last Wednesday. 'Terrorism' toll in perspective. Free Radical Radio interview with Bob Black. Re- call fever; water warming fever; decimation of birds, including fowl; Canada burning. Early humans cook with fire, Nicholas Carr's The Glass Cage. Action news.

07-07-2015

[audio] "When I Say Anti-Civilization," Wall St. Dead Heads. My latest archaeology piece. Google IDs blacks as gorillas, "Does Giving Control to Machines Make Us Freer?" Resistance briefs, two calls.

06-30-2015

[audio] Derrick Jensen's "Resistance[!] Radio," robots marry in Tokyo, "To Our Friends" again. "Face It, Your Brain Is a Computer," sitting causes anxiety, Museum of Boulders. Heat waves, "Golden Age of Pathogens," action news.

06-23-2015

[audio] "To Our Friends" - important tech critique. It's Goin' Down - alternative to anarchistnews. org? Anti-civ essays at Ritual. Appeal of ISIS. 60 million refugees, eco-crisis deepens. Resistance briefs, three calls.

06-16-2015

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Invisible Committee on technology, The Atlantic's "All the Happy Workers." Uncivilized Animals spears Graeber: "David Wants to Fly." Virtuality madness, techno-"health." Ads of the week, action news.

06-09-2015

[audio] Hacking, fracking, warming, polluting. "Ex Machina." Oxford Junior Dictionary loses nature words. Sandinistas push mega Canal, rightists applaud. Action reports. MERS hits S. Korea, daily cop ugliness, toxic artificial lawns. Fire Alarm!

06-02-2015

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Weather ever more severe; species, drugs, technology failing, 3-D printer for a new world? FIFA scandal, "The Robots Are Winning." Modernity exposed; an end can be seen, contra Zizek. Action news, announcements, two calls.

05-26-2015

[audio] Stone tools 3.3 million years ago: the start of human (non-symbolic) culture. Oil spills. Cops still killing; others going off, too. Read "Not So Close Encounters." "Agency" project, new AJODA. Action news, "health" briefs. One call.

05-19-2015

[audio] "Mad Max" or viva the end of civ? Gender equality among hunter-gatherers - new study. Phila. Train wreck, continuing failure of technology. Fracking rolls on, over voters. No rhinos left? Action news. Politics of book fairs. Kathan co-hosts!

05-12-2015

[audio] Pro sports and Collapse, Sea Levels Rising Faster, invisible obesity. Another Oil Train Goes Up in Flames, more trees dying globally. "If We Want Power Everywhere..." holo- gram protestors, younger and younger stroke victims. Action news briefs.

04-21-2015

[audio] Kathan on board! Rick Bartow art, a don't- miss. Conversation with Layla AbdelRahim about her Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation. Disease outbreaks, industrial breakdowns. Action news, three calls.

04-14-2015

[audio] Zoltan for President! Microsoft Cloud Turns Data into Excitement! Human satnav tells legs where to go, "Ex Machina": Embrace the Machine! Anxiety, teen suicides, Siberian methane on rise. Lots of resistance around the world.

04-07-2015

[audio] Cliff and a well-tanned JZ co-host. Nicholas Carr's The Glass Cage on automated life. Ads of the week, new industrial disasters, compounding the California drought. Nihilism=niceism? Action briefs, two calls.

03-31-2015

[audio] Guest host Dane. Review of BAGR, Fifth Estate, and anarchist media. Are infoshops/radical spaces important ? Eugene Infoshop. Upcoming anarchist bookfair. Synthetic pesticides=ecological destruction. Marxist/Capitalist Dalai Lama. "This Artificial Life" music project and Spanish-language songs too. No calls.

03-24-2015

[audio] Invisible Committee buffoonery. Action news briefs. Fierce Dreams on nihilism. Visitors by Godfrey Reggio. WIRED: Sex in the Digital Age. Drought crises, more shootings than ever. Lang Gore's Hunting Seasons novel, now as audio book. Three calls.

03-17-2015

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Civilized "health care" and ebola, trans-species health crisis. More on egoism e.g. 'grounding' is authoritarian?? No more circus elephants, bemoaned by domesticators. John Gray trashes S. Pinker's "Better Angels" nonsense. Endless list of pigs murdered by the pigs; 4 cops shot last week. Action news, one call.

03-10-2015

[audio] Bellamy from Free Radical Radio for the hour. Egoism, Jason McQuinn, nihilism dissected. "I'm surprised more anarchists have not adopted the term 'anti-left' to describe themselves," a South African listener. Godfrey Reggio interview on Sin- gularity website; anthropology corner.

03-03-2015

[audio] "Light" reading. Latest pig murders and rampage shootings. The hilarious Freedom Club at UNC. Free Radical Radio interview of Jason McQuinn and discussion. More dis-ease news, severe weather news, action news, calls from Ohio, California.

02-24-2015

[audio] Nihilist Arby's is the best. Homi Bhahba, postmodern zero, FC interviews IRL, anti-tech graffitist. Avalanche of health threats, "The Global Flight from the Family." Robotics, e-book failures, tech classrooms. Action news.

02-17-2015

[audio] Who is postmodern? Adbusters=incoherence+worship of technology. Severe weather, New Delhi choking, Sao Paolo thirsty. Madness of biofuels, geo-engineering. "Escaping the Void" by Steve Kirk. Terrorism spreads, modernity and democracy wanting. One call.

02-09-2015

[audio] Black and Green Review is at printer; excerpt from Kevin Tucker's "The Suffocating Void." Robotic news, urban crises. Govt. looking into geo-engineering! New anarchy media offerings, post-left is a dodge. Google Glass is an Edsel. Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Actions news.

02-02-2015

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. "Primitivism without the Anarcho-?" Black Mirror, sign of the times. Troubled sleep in the techno-scape. What is thinking, consciousness? Crazy health claims. Action briefs, two calls.

01-27-2015

[audio] Contemporary indigenous writing, new exhibit. Aushwitz. Autonomy, redemption. Ad of the week. Anti-civ = "deathist"! "green syndicalism"! Scary news, why so many threats, signs of collapse? It's a MYSTERY! we are told. Action news.

01-20-2015

[audio] Choctaw poet Jim Barnes. Spill, disease outbreak, shooting recall, torture chamber - of the week. Keystone XL is a decoy, George Monbiot's phoney "rewilding." Oceans dying, terrorism spreading, but action reports.

01-13-2015

[audio] Kathan on point. Paris hit. Terrorism or resistance. The emptiness of civilization, dire symptoms increase, Franz Fanon, M. Houellebecq, Pico Iyer, Ulrich Beck. Dodge commercial: "Driving is a holy endeavor." Action reports and new developments.

01-06-2015

[audio] Is Wagner's Parsifal opera anarcho-primitivist? 2014 hottest on record, Snowpiercer best movie of 2014. "Black Mirror" series critiques techno-future. Zuckerberg TIME's Man of the Year, year of selfies narcissism. Cops get a taste of the gunfire, mass society gets more unhealthy. Resistance news, including new ITS-type action groups (Chile, Argentina).

12-23-2014

[audio] Cyberwarfare with N. Korea - just the beginning. "Why Sit on Santa's Lap, When You Can Use an App?" Ads of the week. "Raising Beef is Good for the Planet." More eco-collapse, recalls, shootings. New EF! Journal. Action news, three calls.

12-16-2014

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Sydney hostages, Pakistan school massacre, US rampage shootings: it's all terrorism. Peace police and identity politics racket vs. Berkeley/Oakland resistance. Weather politics, anti-work, more disorders from technology. Action briefs, two calls.

12-09-2014

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. MAJOR resistance, especially in Berkeley. Suddenly a "New Age" of contestation? Tech ruins memory - so what? Humans didn't drive Mastodons to extinction. Nihilism no substitute for liberatory anti-politics. Let's play "Really??" Action briefs, two calls.

12-02-2014

[audio] Morales and nukes: indigenous opposition. Anti-misanthropy from Uncivilized Animals. Pluses and minuses of anarchy milieu as 2014 nears its end. Corrosive cynicism of anarchistnews.org; nihilism as retardant. Action news.

11-25-2014

[audio] Second half of Roman civ essay. Riflebird on Black Seed: "depressing hangover." Wild Reaction blows up telethon for disabled kids in Mexico - wtf? Farenheit 451 as anti-tech novel. Action reports.

11-18-2014

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Zoltan KO'd at Stanford! Much discussion on air re: Stanford event - and topics not discussed there e.g. trans-humanist fetish of immortality vs. dealing with death. Action news, two calls.

11-11-2014

[audio] Reading "Arrivederci Roma," some weekly news. Black Seed #2 on anthropology. Resistance to online "life"--and even to electricity. Action news.

11-06-2014

[audio] Autism and civ; Alzheimer's and isolation. Cars, rockets, Zizek, Kingsnorth fail big. Whither Girl Scouts? New films. France explodes, pro-ZAD-wise. Lots of other action news, one call.

10-28-2014

No show tonight. John is out sick.

10-14-2014

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Key role of Kurdish women fighters. Politics of AIDS/Ebola. Gaming discussion. Isolation, withdrawal in tech society. Siri as unhealthy response to autism epidemic. Action news, one call.

10-14-2014

[audio] NPR vetoes JZ interview. Ebola raging, Cindy whining. Eco news, suicides up. Illusions of green energy. Action news, our media news. Three calls.

10-07-2014

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. News of anarchists in Turkey in solidarity with Kurds, fighting to smash ISIS and Turkish state. Spark by John Twelve Hawks, The Human Age by Diane Ackermain (thumbs down on the latter). Lets play "Really??" Techno-follies, action news, one call.

09-30-2014

[audio] Kathan is co-host. Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso, "Swimming through Garbage" by Lewis Pugh. Half of earth's wildlife killed off since 1970. FBI: mass shootings on the rise, as are health crises, recalls and sites of resistance. Action news, four far-flung calls.

09-23-2014

[audio] Heat, emissions set new records: 300,000 in NYC demonstrate their impotence. And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran, Treblinka by Jean-Francois Steiner vs. nihilism/cynicism. Report from Whiteaker 'hood, Eugene. Planet of unhealth, new anti-industrial voices, one call.

09-16-2014

[audio] io9 interview responses (!) "Were We Happier in the Stone Age? (The Guardian 5 September). Civilization and violence, drive-through funeral parlor. Climate Summit farce. Add lithium to drinking water? Two calls.

09-09-2014

[audio] The Double Life of Paul de Man by Evelyn Barish, reply to Wolfi's "On Radical Moralism and Wildness." io9 interview questions, Ward Churchill interviewed on Fox News. Rampant disease, violence. No water? Paint your lawn green! Action news, ITS is now Wild Reaction.

09-02-2014

[audio] Cops beat Eugene bakery worker. Global industrial cancer toll, new climate projections. Narcissism reports. Why do hundreds from West go to join ISIS fanatics? The delirious techno-fantasies of Michio Kaku. Rise of films about solitude. Action news.

08-26-2014

[audio] Seattle and Philadelphia Anarchist Book Fairs last weekend. Nihilism and green anarchy. Fierce Dreams. "Sitting is the New Smoking", weather extremes, "climate swerve"? Action news, three substantial calls.

08-19-2014

[audio] Kathan here. Ferguson and resistance. Civilization as failing pacification. Mercury up, elephants down; the terrible toll in every sphere of an anti-life Machine. Action news, two calls.

08-12-2014

[audio] Grusha from Moscow for the hour. His impressions of U.S., primitivists in Russia, anarchists and nazis. Our position + tactics in age of police power, outlook for new upheavals. Self-importance decried as well as sacrificial orientation. Two calls.

08-05-2014

[audio] Toledo: don't drink the water! Liminal. Ebola, anti-trans creeps, "Nihilist Sect of Free Death"?? Peak Sand? Industrial disasters, action reports, three calls (two from Toledo).

07-29-2014

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Robotics vs. humanness (e.g. child sex robots, robot caregivers). "Ableism!" charge rebutted by Ian E. Smith. Horrors of the wacked week: shocking health news, Chinese river runs red, sense of dread, decline of golf! Action news. De Landa and origin of language.

07-22-2014

[audio] Enormity of loneliness, cuddle clubs. "The Tech Utopia Nobody Wants." New Bad Egg Books infoshop. "Wooden Ships" from Uncivilized Animals, critique of "Animals Dreams." Action news, child sex robots proposal, four calls.

07-15-2014

[audio] KZ co-hosts. Health scares, uber-surveillance, Gaza, recalls, collapse, shootings. "Forget about Changing the World" - give to charity. New tech outrages, resistance news, Abyss, Michel Serres, no calls.

07-08-2014

[audio] Michael Becker from Fresno co-hosts, reports on Earth First! Rendezvous. Action reports. Zoo madness. What do we call this zeitgeist? One call.

07-01-2014

[audio] With Jimmy at the helm. Dane here, reports on Resistance Ecology and Eugene event. Egoism defended (caller), general news, VICE interview, Facebook turns users into "lab rats." Two new anti-internet books, two calls.

06-24-2014

[audio] Response to "On Radical Moralism and Wildness." Over-warming news, dis-ease spreading among species, technology encroaching on humanness and human autonomy. Fine resistance items, one call (from UK).

06-17-2014

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Dis-integrating Iraq. More on (growing?) sense of futility, ego-orientation, our sense of responsibility to persevere and overcome. Domestic drones, Chris Hedges: plagiarist scumbag! Action news. One call.

06-10-2014

[audio] Planet pummeled and poisoned; entrapped by technology. Kinds of violence; water eclipsed. Kids turning away from "social media"? Resistance items, four v. substantial calls.

06-03-2014

[audio] Afghanistan. "Faster! The Age of Acceleration." Culture of loneliness, death. Few are voting, "living" online, more robo-life. More obesity, recalls, apps for the stupid."Eco-terrorism" movies, workers opposing union repression. Action reports.

05-27-2014

[audio] A bit more on Black Seed, Her. Isla Vista shooting rampage and other shootings. Recalls, sick planet news, anonymity question, Marcos changes name for the media. Action news, three calls.

05-20-2014

[audio] Kathan co-hosts, More discussion of Black Seed. What is rewilding? Why is Aragorn such a postmodern urban hipster? General disaster news, sterling action news. Grave new tech developments.

05-13-2014

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. Most dire climate change studies yet, culture reflects end-game ethos. Calls: Kevin on Black Seed, Leopold on hope vs. critique. May 13 Telegraph on next Unabombers. Action news items.

05-06-2014

[audio] More on Transcendence movie (e.g. from Stephen Hawking) and Paul Kingsnorth. Industrial/pollution news, creepy techno-developments. Action reports, two calls (re: Black Seed tour; dreary, plodding leftism).

04-29-2014

[audio] Adbusters, Sydney Anarchist Book Fair honchos really suck. Paul Kingsnorth surrenders for New York Times limelight. Artificial leaves, voices, expressions. Action news, two calls about veganism.

04-22-2014

[audio] Dane, surprise guest. Transcendence movie (see it!), Obsidian Point (new ITS-like group in Mexico), Liminal novella (buy it!). Nihilist hope? General disaster news, action news, three calls.

04-15-2014

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Discussion of the place of the positive, moral thinking. 'Anxiety' piece in new issue of Anarchy. Shootings spike. Resistance news, three calls.

04-08-2014

[audio] Dialog and lack of it in our political culture. Read my 'health' piece. Sinking land, failing global health, mammoth recalls, spring shootings, industrial disasters. Action news, no calls.

04-01-2014

[audio] Malaysian jetliner + oceans of trash; WA killer mudslide + industrial logging. Alienation and Acceleration book: modernity careens on, faster and faster. Megafauna extinctions, swordfish attacks BP, one call.

03-25-2014

[audio] Cricket on board. Al-Jazeera on anarchism. Will the Left always predominate? Endless spills, leaks, mega-dams, pollution. Wild farming, simple solutions, new anti-social apps. Action reports, one call.

03-18-2014

[audio] Kathan here. Language explored. Final thoughts on Portland Biennial 2014, BASTARD conference criticized. NASA predicts the end as industrialism trashes all. No more dancin, is choice of tech-addicted kids in NY. Two calls.

03-11-2014

[audio] Cliff is here. New SAT test (technology makes you stupid). Enviro scourges; industrialism no longer able to successfully make cars, planes; tech crazinesses, including Michio Kaku's. Action news, one call.

03-04-2014

[audio] Fort Lewis College visit last week, Portland Biennial 2014. News of the void, health/dis-ease news. Resistance reports, two calls.

02-18-2014

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Donald Fagen: luddite! Barbie defends S.I. Swimsuit Issue. WSJ Spring Fashion lifelessness, global industrial blight. Resistance news, one call.

02-11-2014

[audio] How to explain Keith and Jensen?? Books on Derrida, Adorno. Spills, heroin, pop culture at its zenith. 800,000-year-old footprints, e-diapers, action highlights, 3 calls.

02-04-2014

[audio] Shootings spread to Russia, Sochi mess. Weather and water crises. Lierre Keith-at-E-law upcoming scandal. Union realities. Action news. Two calls (largely about "Her").

01-28-2014

[audio] Read "Animal Dreams" (half of broadcast). General weekly news, resistance news. Two calls: Lierre Keith at E-Law alert; two poems.

01-21-2014

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Sandy Hook killer's call to Anarchy Radio/ media antics in "Age of School Shootings." Message from Serbia. Action news, calls about chicken lobotomies, despair. Domestication uber alles.

01-14-2014

[audio] Earliest cities destroy environment (Jan. Smithsonian). Gillis' "Post-Primitivist Theses" and Badiou's "Philosophy for Militants" - equally nauseating. Mass sur- veillance, mass insomnia, mass contamination. Sterling acts of resistance, three calls.

01-07-2014

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. "Health care" reality, weather now dangerous, water running out. "Human nature?" How can we diverge from this catastrophic course? Action news. More on tech developments, two calls.

12-31-2013

[audio] What is a hospital? Nietzsche, Agamben, insurrectos. "Baka Pygmies Caught in the Maze of Modernity." News of the week, resistance news, techno news. Two calls.

12-24-2013

[audio] More on the movie "Her"; Sochi Games jinx; food production and terrorism; erased memories; shoplifting, depression up with Holiday Season. Hunter-gatherer ethos of humility. Action items, two calls.

12-17-2013

[audio] Ann from Portland co-hosts. Drones, robots, mass surveillance, Fukushima cancers, no more bananas? Reactive Foraging and traditional knowledge. Action news, two calls.

12-10-2013

[audio] 400,000-year-old humans. Mandela, spying gone wild, whales dying. Action news. Signs of disaffection with techno-life. Three calls.

12-03-2013

[audio] Thanksgiving--indigenous say no thanks. Failures of modernity. China watch, waning of trust. Action news, four calls.

11-26-2013

[audio] A Fire at the Mountain event in Flagstaff: momentous. Pope is anti-tech. Toys 'R' Us says nature is boring. Spying, droning, polluting. Action news, two calls.

11-19-2013

[audio] Kathan and Ann host. MEND movement for emancipation of Niger Delta. Prisons, Queen Nanny, Igbo Women’s War, one call (on hope), on-line surveillance.

11-12-2013

[audio] Mega-typhoon Haiyan: just the beginning. World round-up: China all-out, walking bad for environment (!), dolphins dying. Action news, one (crank) call. A Fire at the Mountain: anti-colonial and anarchy event in Flagstaff.

11-05-2013

[audio] "How Forests Think." Global spying, global technology vs. "Deserting the Digital Utopia." Global violence, e.g. ever-increasing shooting sprees in U.S. Action news, one call.

10-29-2013

[audio] Mr. Cliff on hand. Successful Layla AbdelRahim talk in Portland. Nostalgia. Ritual/myth needs (?). Report from Australia. Action news, four calls.

10-22-2013

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. One more school shooting. Industrial/energy toll everywhere, more erratic weather, globalized contamination, vast Pacific dead zone: civilization triumphant. Japanese trade intimacy for technology. Resistance reports, two calls.

10-15-2013

[audio] Privacy, technology, Dave Eggers’ “The Circle” Creeping awareness of civilization as the problem. Global health worsening. Action news, two calls.

10-08-2013

[audio] Jonathan Crary, Howard Stirner. Vehicular carnage, violence (DC and everywhere), wilder weather. Ups and downs of techno-world, opposition. Action items, three calls.

10-01-2013

[audio] Domestication wars. Climate, weather, shootings, eco-disasters, urban plight globally. Resistance news. Meaning of the all-enveloping techno onslaught. Three calls.

09-24-2013

[audio] Kathan on tap. Crimethinc. podcast #10. Shootings expose empty pieties. Landslides, Pacific acidification. American cities in decline. Action news, four calls.

09-17-2013

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[audio] Latest shootings: "security"? NSA, Syria, worst China excesses, American worker vs. medieval peasant (who works MUCH more?). South Korea offers permanent smile, etc. Lots of Action News, including major anarchist arsons in 3 countries. Three calls.

08-27-2013

[audio] Cliff here. General resource crisis behind Egypt’s fissures, "Why Hope?" Techno-madness (e.g. sex robot Roxxy), failures of everyday mass world. Action news. Three calls (one from Australia).

08-20-2013

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. More on Ziggy Zeitgeist's "Disquiet"—or wired in the Brave New World. Shootings, suicides, Fukushima, extinctions. Action news, three calls.

08-13-2013

[audio] Anti-measurement, society is now a Nothing Zone: "The Disquiet of Ziggy Zeitgeist" by Henry Allen: Reality itself is dwindling. News, action news. Nancy Richardson’s "Time Hog." Four calls.

08-06-2013

[audio] A word on egoism, rest of "Numb and Number" reading. Extinctions, viruses, contaminations, shootings, fracking goes off-shore. Sports scandals, stem cell burger. Action news.

07-30-2013

[audio] More on Monbiot, origins of war. Read part of "Numb and Number." Workout pill, smartphones read emotions better than humans. "Where are the canoe people?" Lots of actions. One call: why you hate egoism?

07-16-2013

[audio] Kathan on show. Brazilian anti-civ "Horde" steps up! Global survey of industrial toll. George Monbiot cops out, Chris Hedges: absurd liberal. Techno stupefaction, action news. One call: DGR alert. Please note: John will not be doing the show next week (July 23)

07-09-2013

[audio] Signs of collapse mount on a daily basis. Turkish "anarchists" interviewed, Chomsky sees the light (?). Walter Bond on technology. Resistance shorts. Calls from North Carolina, Australia.

07-02-2013

[audio] Even more spying, severe heat, fires. UK anarchist journals fail re: originality, technology. Digital dementia, Eco-poetry, global action news. Call from China.

06-25-2013

[audio] Kathan here. No secrets safe for government or individuals. News, e.g. increasingly crazy weather, fires, urbanization. Last Train from Zona Verde, The East. Action news. One call.

06-18-2013

[audio] Cliff here. End of privacy, environment, non-urban world, normaal weather, etc. Viva Turks and Brazilians rising up. Jared Diamond dissected. Three calls (one from China).

06-11-2013

[audio] Taksim Square battle. Avalanche of government spying as technology marches on. Some general news, one call, plus Fifth Estate editor Peter Werbe on phone for last half hour.

06-04-2013

[audio] Turkey rocks out! Report from Resistance Ecology Conference in Portland. Soylent, MOOC, burger-holders, drugs not working! Resistance news, two calls.

05-28-2013

[audio] Language discussion: how best to employ. Food's value warning, Martin Amis, "The East", outlandish ads. End of privacy. Action news

05-14-2013

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. DGR self-destructs. Oklahoma super-tornado, other weather/climate crises globa lly. Suicides, loneliness theme, anthropology news. Action reports. One on-air call.

05-14-2013

[audio] Dalai Lama here. Massive science and tech mean massive problems, not solutions. Deep Green disgrace in Portland. Guest poet, action news, two calls.

05-07-2013

[audio] Wylden and Sumac on the show. May Day action = post-Left? Suicides increase, drugs fail. New tech madness. Life off the grid discussion. Four calls.

04-30-2013

[audio] More heat on Pacific Northwest anarchists, Layla’s anti-civ economics. News (disasters) round-up, high tech survey, action news. Many calls!

04-23-2013

[audio] Olympia Anarchist Convergence. (Another) week of nihilistic violence--its varieties. China, water crises, rape epidemics. What is the anarchist alternative? Action news, new books, upcoming events. A record-tying 7 calls!

04-16-2013

[audio] Kathan on show. Boston Marathon bombing--and everyday shootings, terrorism. Robot bees, patented genes. 'Fragile' planet--why? Action news, five calls.

04-09-2013

[audio] Cliff! Serbia and Houston: “meaningless” violence erupts today. Human nature—or civilization? Action reports, Green Panther Party (?). Human No More: anthropology in cyberspace. Two calls.

04-02-2013

[audio] Brazil anarchist conference. No more bees? More on China, Lake Erie. Action news, app of the week. Three calls.

04-02-2013

[audio] Brazil anarchist conference. No more bees? More on China, Lake Erie. Action news, app of the week. Three calls.

03-26-2013

[audio] Jimmy the kid—with daughters Saleh and Nico—discuss communication (clarity, real connection, etc.).

03-19-2013

[audio] Kathan returns. Species extinctions, no pope extinction. Drones everywhere, Iraq 10 years later, technology driving us faster. Civilization and its growing, roaring madness. Resistance news.

03-12-2013

[audio] News roundup: scarier and scarier. One (Midwest) call, about anarchist dialog. Action news from various countries. Ever more bizarre techno choices, how technology and capital feed each other.

03-05-2013

[audio] Cricket returns! Global news: eco-destruction, police state direction, etc. Discussion of Barcelona and ITS communiqués, including moral dimensions, choices. Action news roundup, three superb calls.

02-26-2013

[audio] Cliff at the ready. All sorts of news, the culture of dis-ease, disconnection, desperate diversion. Discussion of the claims of technology and bizarre facets of the apps-world. Lots of action news around the world.

02-19-2013

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Chagnon’s Noble Savages, 7th Individualists Tending toward the Wild communiqué. Obama’s Brain Activity Map and other news, selected anarchist action news. Fine New Orleans call.

02-12-2013

[audio] "Even cops hate cops"- the Chris Dorner story. Goodbye, moose and caribou. Cruise ship fiasco, corruption news, collapse forecast. Action reports, one (very informative) call.

02-05-2013

[audio] US: killer state, Israel ugliness, corruption of mass sports. Dissection of Adbusters. Lots of Resistance. App 'life,' DNA as data storage. Dung beetle guided by Milky Way!

01-29-2013

[audio] Me and Karl. Black Bloc in Egypt! My 8 days in Arizona, global follies, action jackson, techno-bizarro, ads of the week.

01-22-2013

[audio] Jimmy's excellent musico-political odyssey. (He does a mostly punk KWVA show called 'Songs of Love Song' Monday evenings at 10.)

01-15-2013

[audio] Kathan here. Alice pinch hits for John. Collapse on all fronts, mounting techno-idiocy. Unschooling. Can intimate communities still be foundâyes! Action news provides some examples. Two calls.

01-08-2013

[audio] Disaster news, including techno 'advances.' Action news. 30 minutes with FIFTH ESTATE editor Peter Werbe by phone.

01-01-2013

[audio] More on shootings, general madness news. Syndrome E, action reports. Tiqqun's Theory of the Young Girl. Great (insane) ads. One call.

12-18-2012

[audio] Kathan here. Newtown CT...what are the shooting rampages telling us? (most of the hour) Plus background news and 5 excellent calls from around the country.

12-11-2012

[audio] Doha climate summit, more shootings, 'right to work' in Michigan, cyber snooping, other signs of the times. Action news, 'Two Cheers for Anarchism.' Revealing ads, three calls.

12-04-2012

[audio] Cliff here. Civilization on the wane, taking Earth with it in so many ways. The Shallows discussion. Shootings, Ad of the Week. Action news. 3 calls.

11-27-2012

[audio] Read 'Losing Consciousness.' News: e.g. Egypt, Bangladesh, Mexico, Dubai, TB, industrialism. Action roundup, one call.

11-20-2012

[audio] Kathan live. Gaza, U.S. military woes, Gulf pathologies, Sandy blow back. Action news, Occupy views, two calls.

11-13-2012

[audio] Sandy, Part III. Veterans' Day: sex scandals, etc., in the Land of Denial. Action items. "Civilization is Like a Jetliner." Two calls.

11-06-2012

[audio] Leah Plant, Leah Kelly. Cloud Atlas (!). More on Sandy. Industrial and techno realities. Action news, two calls, poem by Ant.

10-30-2012

[audio] Mega-storm Sandy and global warming, nukes, India, China. How to live forever. Evil Media book, action reports. One call. Health and tech news.

10-23-2012

[audio] Cordage, Rowan, Bison in the studio with Karl and me. Rewilding conversation. News of the week e.g. major shootings data. Call form so. Oregon, action news. Lively broadcast.

10-16-2012

[audio] Kathan here. Election zaniness, Afghan disasters, doping and cheating, NPR. Portland call about consciousness/resistance. Much action news, Free Leah-Lynn Plante!

10-09-2012

[audio] Meningitis spreads, surveillance, drugging the kids, GMOs, ads of the week. Facebook, oil sheen in Gulf, stress & depression impacts. Action news. App for sorting socks.

10-02-2012

[audio] Education or naked capitalism? General news: drones, goodbye Great Barrier Reef, technology vs. food, etc. Anti-modern Brits. Action news, crazed techno-developments. Great call from Soda Mt. Wilderness.

09-25-2012

[audio] Cliff at the ready. Smoke Farm Symposium weekend. iPhone frenzy, high tech energy drain. Dis-ease reports. Call about crimethinc orientation. Shock Lobster! Action news.

09-18-2012

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. B. Traven/Hedges debate. Muslim world eruptsâmany facets; more news. "Revolution" TV, ospreys fight cell towers, action reports. Berlin anarchists burn books! Check out anarchos.info. 3 calls.

09-11-2012

[audio] Violence on the mall. Rest of "The Sea," more on Individualists Tending toward the Wild. Tech ads of the week, action news, 3 calls, poem by Ant.

09-04-2012

[audio] Conventions, droughts, drones, shootings, organics. Individualists Tending to the Wild collection. Call from Massachusetts. "The Sea" reading, poem by Ant.

08-28-2012

[audio] Conventions and unreality. Neil Armstrong--adventurer? "Another Day, Another Workplace Shooting." Bison calls: excellent front-line report. Action news, techno-ads of the week.

08-21-2012

[audio] Kathan's back! Her report from Rome. All-over news: army suicides record, U.S. anxiety levels, the corpse of unionism, worsening weather, etc. The specter of anarcho-primitivism, action news.

08-14-2012

[audio] Alice and JZ discuss England trip (e.g. Raven Row Gallery event and outlook, London aspects). Dark Mountain: has it thrown in the towel, like Desert? World news.

08-07-2012

[audio] Jacob and The Bird take the reins. Message from Syrian anarchist. Grand Jury doings in the Northwest, update on Species Traitor #5 (call from Kevin Tucker). Tech and environmental news/comments.

07-31-2012

[audio] JZ absent, Wylden Freeborne at the wheel. Calls for most of the hour, discussion of anxiety and its negative effects on our ability to live free. Report from Australian caller on Wild Roots, Feral Futures

07-24-2012

[audio] Cliff at the ready. Aurora CO massacre-any learning curve? Call from Kansas City. Global capers. Ads of the week, action news.

07-17-2012

[audio] Managing the dominant order. Eco-disasters roll out, so do the shootings: two sides of the same coin. 'God particle' or function of massive technology? Call from Texas. Resistance news.

07-10-2012

[audio] With media prof Chris Robe. Weekly news. Industrial weather, industrial 'health' (isolation, drug epidemics, shootings). Anarchy in Florida, two calls. Resistance news. Mickey Mouse in North Korea.

07-03-2012

[audio] Hedges, Jensen's new low, Occupy vs. De-Occupy, Asian Spring? Extreme weather. Report from Feral Roots, 2 other calls, MEEBOs. Action news.

06-26-2012

[audio] Postmodern complicity, Jensen complicity. End of Arab Spring, end of Occupy? Drones, debris, droughts, digital deadness. Action news, tech saves us!

06-19-2012

[audio] Bye, bye, Occupy (my date with Occupy). Rio + 20, solar industry, loneliness. Ads, books. Desert, Chomsky (desert of Enlightenment). Action news, MEEBOs, 2 calls.

06-12-2012

[audio] Guest: Occupy Eugene's David Sierralupe. Indiana law: OK to shoot cops. Suicides/rampages, Ray Bradbury R.I.P., happiness levels, big fires. Anarchy and Occupy. Action news.

06-05-2012

[audio] Me and Karl. Shootings, fracking, over-heating, advertising - 'new highs.' Announcements. God Save the Queen. Resistance is spreading, leftism is dying. More Ads of the Week. One call, MEEBOs.

05-29-2012

[audio] Memorial Day fascism, continuing/spreading malignancy. Cliff here: Critchley, Zizek, Jensen; also Bristol robotics dystopia. Action news, tasty MEEBOs.

05-22-2012

[audio] Kathan with us, pre-Rome. Seas still rising but not Facebook; ads of the week. Much discussion of anarchist upsurge and Occupy. Resistance news. Michael Becker call, many MEEBOs

05-15-2012

[audio] Me and Karl. News: beaches bye-bye, binges, bullies, bozo ads. Occupy and anarchy, actions here and there, techno-follies. Many MEEBOs; sorry, insufficient time to get to all of them.

05-08-2012

[audio] With Kathan. Perverse news. May Day news and opinion, Black Bloc victories. Action round-up. New films, blogs, events. MEEBOs.

05-01-2012

[audio] May Day! Drone/empire/police state/hunger/enviro news. New books, action bits, (De-) Occupy, techno-reality. Good MEEBOs.

04-24-2012

[audio] Kathan here. Wisconsin gigs, Amazing News. Loneliness of cyberspace. Action news, two calls, MEEBOs.

04-10-2012

[audio] Chris Hedges spews again, is exposed. General Strike fantasy for Occupy. Umatilla rewilding project. Anxiety, isolation, industrial earthquakes, Google glasses insanity. Computer culture as terminal undermining of thought and poetry (George Steiner). One call, several MEEBOs.

04-03-2012

[audio] Cliff on show. Calamity news. Progress vs. uncontacted people. Next Nature, entropy and complexity, the new Matrix (surveillance machines). Neurosis explained. Action news. MEEBOs.

03-27-2012

[audio] Political science conference in Portland. "Tragic news," lots of high-tech/social network developments. Excellent Michael Becker tune, action news. Two calls, MEEBOs.

03-20-2012

[audio] Kathan present. Even more shootings, extreme weather, major industrial assaults, drug technology frauds. Occupy. Action reports! AGAINST ECOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY by Mick Smith. Debilitating immersion in technology. Wiring problem prevented calls. "Arrowhead Laser Pointer"!

03-13-2012

[audio] 45-minute broadcast due to sports coverage run-over. Afghan shooting massacre--and domestic ones. Challenge to Jensen: open discussion in Madison. New novels, action news. Four calls from several states; MEEBOs, too.

03-06-2012

[audio] News, the Lorax, K-pop. More on India, Occupy. My anti Hedges/Jensen "Vagaries of the Left." Action reports. Lotsa MEEBO.

02-28-2012

[audio] News bits. INDIA trip. Occupy. Action reports, announcements. Parting shot at Chris Hedges/Derrick Jensen. Many MEEBOs, one call (Florida).

02-14-2012

[audio] JZ still in India, Wylden Freeborne and Will Feral filling in. Some calls, some meebos and a lot of ranting on the mind control of domestication, killer cops, federal raids for "computer crimes" in Portland.

02-07-2012

[audio] JZ in India, Wylden Freeborne filling in. More progressive garbage from Hedges and Jensen discussed. Critical response from caller. Layla Abdel-Rahim (http://layla.miltsov.org) guest caller from Montreal, Quebec, discusses the myths of civ, the lie of civ safe space and the wildness of Black Bloc. Update on Wild Roots Feral Futures, 2012 www.feralfutures.blogspot.com. Music by Di Nigunim and Hayduke Lives!

01-31-2012

[audio] Revealing news from all over. Occupy Eugene: its promise and internal enemies. Viva Tango Down and the Vagilutionaries! Action clips, ads of the week, life coaches. MEEBOs and call from New Hampshire.

01-24-2012

[audio] Kathan at the ready. News observations, Occupy viewpoints and other politics (e.g. ABCs, Weinberg, Jensen). "Unfettered technological development [anonymous]," action news, MEEBOs.

01-17-2012

[audio] Whirled news. Methodistss, industrial tourism, shootings, Occupy, Arundhati Roy. Action news, various Ads of the Week, MEEBOs.

01-10-2012

[audio] News round-up. Conversation with Jamil, Occupy Eugene. Wired developments, action news.

01-03-2012

[audio] News scan. 5th Estate, Sovereign Self, Insurgent. Action reports. Digital culture, Jensen culture, Occupy Eugene. Let's go 2012!

12-27-2011

[audio] Cliff here. Selected disaster news. D. Jensen's ultimate Fan Fundraiser. David Owen's Green Metropolis, Agamben's coming community. Action news and ads of the week.

12-20-2011

[audio] Kathan here. My excellent Arizona trip (viz. O'odham benefit event). Facebook, end of privacy, digital imperialism. Fine Travis the Chimp story, Occupy updates, action news.

12-13-2011

The 12/13 broadcast, with Shane and Brian, was not recorded. Alas!

12-06-2011

[audio] Insane news of the week. Let's pretend: the liberal as 'anarchist.' Technoworld survey. Dan reports on Black Bloc and Indigenous at anti-ALEC in AZ. Other action news.

12-06-2011

[audio] Insane news of the week. Let's pretend: the liberal as 'anarchist.' Technoworld survey. Dan reports on Black Bloc and Indigenous at anti-ALEC in AZ. Other action news.

11-22-2011

[audio] Weekly potpourri, Occupy stuff (e.g. report from Portland). Ads of the week. Action news, periodicals. More Pinker critique. Two calls, many MEEBOs.

11-15-2011

[audio] Kathan on board (stoked about Occupy Portland). Penn State, China, mega-mammoth energy projects globally. Action reports. But mostly perspectives on Occupy. Good calls, MEEBOs.

11-08-2011

[audio] Chase at the board. Desert revisited. Extreme weather, warming spikes. Ads of the week, tasty actions globally. Lots on Occupy. Developments that Couldn't Possibly Go Wrong. Lots of Meebo and Facebook chat.

11-01-2011

[audio] "A Ballad of Modern Progress," Greece, Pinker on how non-violent civilization is (!!!). More on the Occupy movement. Action reports, ads of the week. One call, MEEBOs.

10-25-2011

[audio] Cricket returns. News of the weird week. 'Occupy' analysis, ads of the week, action news. Good calls (e.g. from O'otham land in Arizona) and MEEBOs.

10-18-2011

[audio] Cliff co-hosts. News, Steve Jobs and JZ¹s anti-Jobs interview (see johnzerzan.net). "Occupy" stuff, action reports, Jensen watch, plus calls and MEEBOs.

10-11-2011

[audio] Kathan present! Pretty much the whole hour about the Occupy movement. Several MEEBOs and calls.

10-04-2011

[audio] Occupy ______ phenomenon. Hawaii trip. Omar Khayyam, solar and wind zaniness. Killer cantaloupes, drugs for everything (horrendous side effects). MEEBOs.

09-20-2011

[audio] Ads of the crazy world. Health, Arctic ice, anxiety, technosphere developments/madness. No hiding from a totalizing reality. Some fine action news. Two calls, two MEEBOs. Blackout folks on deck next week!

09-13-2011

[audio] Iraq, 9/11, ads of the week. Victoria anarchist book fair. New book: DESERT, a document of surrender. Other, better new books. Action news! Two calls; MEEBO not connected.

09-06-2011

[audio] Shootings, weather, Labor Day. Poop burger a fraud! Green pollution, action news. More on Jensen disgrace. Christian anarchists' get-together. 1 call, MEEBOs.

08-30-2011

[audio] The world at large (e.g. Irene, tar sands pipeline, oceans warming). Derrick Jensen goes to FBI. Action reports. Meebo, calls.

08-23-2011

[audio] Next Nature. Libya, East Coast earthquake. Anarchist--and not so anarchist--ideas. Obese mice on SRT-1720 are JUST FINE. Mini-dinosaur chickens. Action news. One call.

08-16-2011

[audio] Cliff with me and Karl. Somalia, Syria, North Sea oil spill, Iraq, shootings, "Life" on screens. Exxon: "smart gasoline, clean emissions!" Lots of action news, including Mexican "Unabomber(s)". Several calls.

08-09-2011

[audio] Afghanistan, domestic family slaughters multiplying. England blazing! 'Social' networks, crazed ads, more action. Several calls. Poems with edge.

08-02-2011

[audio] Debt 'crisis' extravaganza and Graeber's poverty of thought ('Debt'). Portland anarchists' counter-charges. Video games advance as some demand more of life. Ads of the week, major action news. Soli's 'Facebook' poem.

07-26-2011

[audio] The rest of "Origins and the Trickster," JZ's busy weekend (in Portland and Corvallis), PC craziness at anarchist book fair (a call), Norway, and everyday carnage. Drought realities, action news.

07-19-2011

[audio] rot'n co-hosts, friend and former Green Anarchy editor. Lively show, including call from another G.A. editor and friend. High-tech madness, e.g. virtual touch (!) and Shadow Cities game in which the actual world goes virtual. Wide-ranging discussion, action news.

07-12-2011

[audio] "Origins and the Trickster" part one. The Pale King and modern tedium. Action news. Obesity, autism, weather, massacre shootings worsen and more people see through the lies. One stellar call (about the lie of technology).

07-05-2011

[audio] The loss of our friend Jamie Owsley (see 5.4.2010 and 12.1.2009 shows). Ups and downs of the week. Art news. Technoplague threatens planet. Action reports, especially Val Susa, Italy! Four excellent calls.

06-28-2011

[audio] Get a cyber hug from Sense-Droid! If A Tree Falls movie. Nuke plants under threat of fire, floods. Jensen's new low. New and continuing resistance, action news, upcoming events.

06-21-2011

[audio] Kathan on the show. Ocean life collapsing. DGR debate, part 4. Vancouver hockey riot. Food from poop! Shootings, ads of the week, action news. One call.

06-14-2011

[audio] (Only a 30-minute broadcast because of a KWVA scheduling foul-up.) Anarchy Finland! Police State USA! Japan! Another DGR critique and a good call about this phenomenon. Action news!

06-07-2011

[audio] There's an app for that. E.coli and super bacterial strains. Mega-dams everywhere. The Kalapuya in Oregon. Deep Green Resistance and actual resistance. Calls and MEEBOs.

05-31-2011

[audio] Carcinogenic cell phones. E. Coli outbreaks getting more severe. Indigenous news from C.B. in Victoria, B.C. Critiques of Deep Green Resistance. Actual resistance spreading, action news. Jonathan Franzen: technology vs. love. Two calls, MEEBOs.

05-24-2011

[audio] Cliff present. More crazed weather. Kevin Kelly defends tech desolation. Deep Green Resistance follies. Action news. Caroline Wickham-Jones, Amondawa language has no use for time. 2 calls plus MEEBOs.

05-17-2011

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Drowning Cajuns, exploding Chinese watermelons, French kissing via Internet. Action news. Herzog's Chauvet Cave film. Faster and faster goes the techno-immersion. Many MEEBOs (too many to cover).

05-10-2011

[audio] My Arizona trip. Freedom blazes recent and current, in various countries. All-out development, asthma, autism. Invisible Committee Frenchies spotted in California. One call, lotsa MEEBO.

05-03-2011

[audio] Disfigured celebrations (e.g. upon Bin Laden's assassination, royal wedding). Takes on resistance: good, bad, and moronic. Tech news, May Day, cave art. ACTION reports. MEEBO interaction!

04-26-2011

[audio] Chernobyl, Columbine and other wonderful April anniversaries. The techno-totality and the techno-leash. Chomsky, ads of the week. Dominant system losing focus, legitimacy. Action reports. Fine call and MEEBO action.

04-19-2011

[audio] Sweeney Todd. Bizarre weather. Latest zines, action reports and communiqués. Chomsky coming to campus and other lefty dunderheads. Two calls and MEEBOs.

04-12-2011

[audio] Filmmaker Philippe Borrel on board. Trickster tales. Global follies, action reports, new zines. MEEBO action, a few questions for Philippe.

04-05-2011

[audio] Albuquerque symposium. Rising sense of crisis, unreality of techno promises. Action news. "Happiness" reading. One call and some MEEBO messages.

03-29-2011

[audio] News of a crazy world. Action reports, ads of the week. Chomsky is a Trotskyist. Jensen watch. High-tech culture: ever more unhealthy.

03-15-2011

[audio]Kathan co-hosts. The Arab spring, ongoing Japan disaster, the direction of the anti-civ dialogue, high tech media. Six calls! Not enough time!

03-15-2011

[audio] Cliff on the show. Wisconsin. Japan: one more disaster. High tech dis-ease. "Deep Green Resistance" vs. approach of ELF in Mexico. Three calls.

03-08-2011

[audio] World news, memory, therapy, techno-developments, and, mostly, Lierre Keith's very authoritarian "Deep Green Resistance" approach (3 calls about it).

03-01-2011

[audio] Uprising fever! The disaster of Afghanistan and other Obama gifts. Rampant eco-cide. Action reports. Ad of the week, latest techno news. Call/report from Madison.

02-22-2011

[audio] Libya, 'sustainable' development, local Food Justice Conference, Wisconsin anti-union effort. END:CIV review, action reports. Technology devices and deceits. One call.

02-15-2011

[audio] Kathan on deck. Egypt, et al.! Abstract Expressionism, urban pathologies, drilling/pipeline disasters. Fine action news, "Why I Don't Call Myself a Primitivist" discussion.

02-08-2011

[audio] My Vancouver/Victoria trip last week. Global food crisis; its connection to eco-crisis. Resistance news. Postmodern philosophy and the high tech ethos.

02-01-2011

[audio] Taco Bell, Egypt, seas and factories rising. Car pools, gyms? Not isolating enough. Great ads, action reports, a wacky poem. One call.

01-25-2011

[audio] Cairo uprising. Many US cop casualties; Alone Together, new Sherry Turkle book. Anthropology corner. Action news. four calls (including a friendly prank one).

01-18-2011

[audio] Kathan here. Tunisian insurrection. Shootings, crazy weather. "What is Insurrectionary Anarchism?" (anon.), Michael Becker's 'Anarcho-Primitivism.' Quotes/ads of the week. Action reports, two calls.

01-11-2011

[audio] Arizona shootings, mounting global ecocide. Ads of the week (Dupont, Panasonic), action news. Michael Becker (from Fresno State and Sierra Nevada Earth First! Radio) interview, second half of the show.

01-04-2011

[audio] Steffi and Aragorn here from South Africa on their anarchist documentary odyssey. Deepening insanity at every level. Resistance reports, two calls.

12-21-2010

[audio] Kathan here. Drinking water & cancer, other industrial results; shootings. We discuss Merrifield's The Coming Insurrection-as-marxism, Rowan's weak demo/kettling/tactics offering, and Severino's fine critique of Morales regime and its deadly program. Action news, one call.

12-14-2010

[audio] Cliff here. Fan mail, crazier weather, goodbye Antarctica. Ecology without Nature vs. reintegrating into nature. Ads of the week, wonderful action news. Four calls.

12-07-2010

[audio] Beethoven, worker editorial, Derrick's 'no voluntary change is possible' mantra, Wikileaks, Cancun climate summit, and some usual themes of disaster and resistance, ads of the week, two calls (IRC and Atlanta).

11-30-2010

[audio] Empire & Wikileaks. Child soldiers in Africa A-OK with Obama. Earth First! at 30. Amazing technonews and declining health. Action reports. Psionic Plastic Joy zine, its anti-tech orientation. How stable is society?

11-23-2010

[audio] Kathan here. Lethal stampedes: Cambodia to Black Friday. Technology uber alles. Ad of the week. Action review, Derrick watch. More on Anvil Review #1.

11-16-2010

[audio] JZ and Karl. Pennsylvania talks. Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants. Derrick Jensen on Democracy Now. Action news. Invasive globalization, invasive species, Anvil Review #1.

11-09-2010

[audio] Mara, Jacob and Mark take over the show. Lots of action news, a call-in from Simon in Olympia. Brief forays into insurrectionary theory.

11-02-2010

[audio] Three Holy! Holy! Holy! guys on the show, on tour. Deteriorating Iraq, voting charade in U.S. ($4 billion). Most unbelievable ad: Metlife's "Today the World is Waking up to a More Secure Tomorrow." Action news. Cliff calls re Kevin Kelly, tech worshipper, in Portland.

10-26-2010

[audio] Mara, Jacob and Simon with John. Iraq, crazy weather, loneliness, high-tech/robotics re-doing of life. Action reports, especially Khimki forest struggle, France. Some theory, need for explicitly ant-civ perspectives to avoid repeating same old, limited militancy. Only off-air calls.

10-19-2010

[audio] 2010 NOT the end of world! More miners die: cornerstone of industrial life. Biodiversity falling, severer droughts on the way, anxiety disorders on rise. Action news e.g. FRANCE, Mapuche. Critique of gatekeeper Left. Pentagon fired on today. One call.

10-12-2010

[audio] Kathan here. Red Sludge (all is in the open now as disasters multiply). right-wing Obama. More on encouraging meaning of Italy tour. Facebook follies & high tech immersion. Two calls.

10-05-2010

[audio] Alice and I discuss Italy: 8 events in 8 cities in 8 days. Che un successo! Ads of the week, toxic sludge, Facebook rescues schools. Two calls.

09-21-2010

[audio] Just me and Karl. Texting swallows all, Video Game College next. Bizarro ads, action news, William Gibson knows little. More shootings, calls from Calgary, Portland.

09-14-2010

[audio] Kathan here. Bringing it all down before all is lost! Biofuels vs. food, global water crisis. Resistance news. Zizek, and Gungadin Lohar last week--what a contrast in approaches!

09-07-2010

[audio] Gungadin Luhar from India: Coalition Against Work and Civilization. Wonderful interview/conversation. The CAWC perspectives and efforts in the Indian context. Extremely informative; GL an excellent individual!

08-31-2010

[audio] Cliff co-host. Iraq, 9-day Chinese traffic jam, industrial-strength bedbugs. Warming, poisoning, resistance news. Assaults on the concept of nature, illusions about technology. Call from Chicago.

08-17-2010

[audio] Kathan here. A bit more on Christian primitivist dialogue. International action news. Fakebook, disaster spreads, This is Your Brain on cyberspace. How an anti-civ narrative connects with the present. No show August 24; Cliff on deck in two weeks.

08-10-2010

[audio] Extreme weather getting more extreme as mass society devours world...But mainly a conversation with christian primitivists, following the weekend's Roots of Resistance gathering in Portland. Three excellent calls.

08-03-2010

[audio] Major shootings, oil everywhere. Extreme weather. Middle East, China, India. Development--high tech and otherwise--ain't it grand? Action news and views, but still no phone connection.

07-27-2010

[audio] Afghanistan-Pakistan, Empire and its police state. Oil spills everywhere and earth's temperature setting new records. Action news. Islands going under, and so is faith in institutions. Bleak scene but system is now a hollow shell. Avanti!

07-20-2010

[audio] Collapsing faith in technology as we are yet held hostage. Anthropology news. Paleolithic vs. depression. Ways to hide from reality. Action reports. Still no phone connection.

07-13-2010

[audio] Civilization means gassing the geese, âlifeâ coaches, robots, nutritionless food, cyber cheating. Action news, assorted books. Viva Kathan!

07-06-2010

[audio] Just me and Karl, no phone lines. Ireland trip. Considerable resistance news (e.g. G20 in Toronto). Crazy ads, the usual carnage. Anarchy according to Trotskyists. Zizek, Fukuoka.)

06-22-2010

[audio] Still no phone connection; just JZ. Government in disarray, BP and the rest of the picture. Technology leads to pathology, much on the subject. Would anarchy necessarily be non-industrial? (No 6/29 broadcast.)

06-15-2010

[audio] KZ on deck. International action news. Ecology Without Nature madness. Books great (Pandora's Seeds: The Inforeseen Consequences of Civilzation) and awful (Learning Native Wisdom). How do we move forward as prevailing system shows us one disaster after another? Still no phone connection, sorry.

06-08-2010

[audio] Just JZ, still no phone-in connection. More on the Gulf oil apocalypse and the overall death-trip nature of techno-industrial existence. Resurgence of Peak Oil thinking and preparedness, increasing awareness of emptiness/degraded nature of the immersion in digital mediations. More shootings, suicide -- is there no response?

06-01-2010

[audio] Cliff here, addressing Zizek (confusion‹commie), artificial life. Industrialized desert, industrialized world. Action reports, the need to attack basics of collapsing system. Gaza flotilla murders, Gulf disaster, suicide plague. Phone still not functioning. Tim's birthday!

05-18-2010

[video] [audio] Alice here. Gulf oil spill disaster, more Chinese schoolchildren stabbed to death. Our Sweden-Norway trip. Action news medly, further technoculture madness. New books (e.g. For Wildness and Anarchy, Born to Run). Phone not working. PictureEugene segment: forest defender Becky White sings about Geronimo's sisters.

05-04-2010

[video] Jamie hosts this week while John spreads the anti-civilization message across Sweden. Jamie plays a variety of music through out the show and speaks about the importance of being positive, addiction and the effects of these attitudes on water crystals. A phone call on the anarchist in Ohio who refuses to leave his home after getting an eviction notice. PictureEugene segment: "The Patrician", the fight of a retired community to save their trailer park from development.

04-27-2010

[video] [audio] My fine Oly weekend at the NW Anarchist Conference. Gulf oil spill disaster, homeless man dies on NY street among passers-by. Tales of alienation in mass society; news of uprisings. Bizarre life in the technoculture, new books. Four calls. PictureEugene segment: Tasered: What a Drag, Man (Van Ornum pesticide rally)

04-20-2010

[video] [audio] Cliff co-hosts, brings tunes, discusses limits of Zizek, mirage of Paleolithic diet. Iceland volcano occasions globalization vs. degrowth/localism awareness. Action reports. 11 years since Columbine shootings. PictureEugene video segment: young woman featured in AlienGardener, Running with the Pack.

04-13-2010

[video] [audio] Return of Peak Oil (?) as supply falls. Lots of action news, environment updates. New books re: theory, technoculture. Calls about Portland, Sade. Division of labor: Marx and Adorno. PictureEugene video: "Mother's Day Special" (mother and son tell all at local tavern).

04-06-2010

[video] [audio] Stream working(!) and now, thanks to Karl, our own server for when it isn't. More on excellent Portland black bloc moves. The shame of popes, presidents, industrial reality, the Left. Action news and publishing developments. New books: the biofuel delusion, and a non-approach to globalization. Calls from Portland, Pennsylvania, Montana, Eugene. A forest dweller's rant on the police state is the PictureEugene segment.

03-30-2010

[video] [audio] Solo show, no stream, two callers. Societal meltdown, anarchists failing to notice? Action news, strong black bloc in Portland. Russian TV journalist says anarchism is the solution there (!). iPad as all-enveloping "ecosystem" vs. need to reconnect with natural/unbuilt world. M. Dumont: un marxiste? PictureEugene video segment: ¡Tchkung! show in Eugene 1999.

03-23-2010

[video] [audio] School stabbings in China, suicides at Cornell, massive Hong Kong pollution. Global action news, including anti-cop anarchist riot in Portland, announcements, new publications, bizarro leftist perspectives (e.g. marxist "analysis" from Anarchist Studies duo). Latest techno and eco-collapse findings. No stream, but "blind" call from Atlanta, plus local callers. PictureEugene video segment: kids on hiking trail near Eugene.

03-16-2010

[audio] With Kathan Z. SF Anarchist Book Fair and B.A.S.T.A.R.D. conference last weekend. Local call-ins plus calls from Kansas, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Subversive art news. More on Black bloc and indigenous.

03-09-2010

[video] [audio] Politics as usual, latest shootings, eco-deterioration. International action news. Calls about Vancouver anti-Olympics marches, industrial collapse. ChatRoulette and related techno-estrangement. PictureEugene video segment: Eugene Copwatch captures cop harassment.

03-02-2010

[video] [audio] Chile: industrial death; U.S.: unrestricted profits, bonuses, pollution: the age of arrogance (including pro-nukes, pro-Patriot Act Obama). Action reports. Five call-ins from near and far, e.g. gatherer-hunter gender relations, Melville¹s anti-civ Typee. Avatar. Leftist attacks on exemplary recent black bloc activity, excellent reply by Vancouver¹s Harsha Wella. Stream functioning again. PictureEugene video segment: 90s forest defense in Oregon.

02-23-2010

[video] [audio] Micah Griffin guest re: recent closing of the 540 Fillmore Warehouse in Eugene by the City. Several supportive call-ins opposing this seemingly selective suppression of a wonderful creative space. Action news. Cowardly opposition to black bloc militancy. Toyota recall. Picture Eugene segment on the Warehouse. There was no stream, unfortunately

02-16-2010

[audio] Kathan Zerzan co-host. No stream but two local call-ins. Resistance to Winter Olympics and other action news. Vortex rock festival, Oregon 1970. Widespread depression and nature of love songs today. U of Alabama rampage shooting. Postmodern corner: Castoriadis, Eco, Lanier. Audio only

02-09-2010

[video] [audio] JZ back from a week in Arizona, discusses impressive developments there, e.g. indigenous-anarchist connection/alliance. Several calls, including two from Phoenix. Action news, announcements. Upcoming SF Anarchist Book Fair. PictureEugene video segment: child on a springtime swing -- pre-videogames.

02-02-2010

[video] [audio] Cliff hosts this weeks show while John is on a speaking tour down in Arizona. More AVATAR, native peoples losing their language, Bill Gates on how he's going to save the world with modern medicine and re-educating our children, the importance of silence and how we're losing it. PictureEugene video segment; Matthew Mcdaniel pays a visit to a university of Oregon administrator on why they should take away Paul Lewis' PHD for sterilizing Akha women. (www.akha.org)

01-26-2010

[video] [audio] New Eugene infoshop! Absurd stuff from Supreme Court, Obama, Osama, Mike Roselle. Call-in from Layla in Montreal about AVATAR. Technology swallows all, estrangement rising. Cries of nature rising, time to create Pandora here and now.

01-19-2010

[audio] Kathan Z is co-host. Further discussion of AVATAR and a call from Nekeisha in Memphis on that subject. Report from JZ about Madrid and Brighton visits; comments on Haiti, Pacifica Forum protests. Action news.

01-12-2010

[video] Action news round-up. Latest techno madness. Four calls from near and far: pro-Avatar; back pain as symptom of contemporary stress-world; questions re: critique of symbolic culture; recommended readings. Mental health deteriorating, end of civilization the prescription! PictureEugene video segment: "A view from above," massive clearcuts in our national forests from above.

01-05-2010

[video] [audio] More on Avatar, Yemen. More Obama outrages. My January travels: Spain/England, Arizona. Some direct action news vs. continuing devastation of species and habitat. Anthropology corner: Upper Paleolithic dyed textiles, alcohol use as response to domestication. Derrick Jensen in latest ORION: "Do something, anything." Anything?? Caller cites early diet shifts re: violence in culture. PictureEugene video segment: heated debate about a neighborhood tavern.

12-29-2009

[video] [audio] Yemen: US war, US torture prisons in Lithuania. Avatar: Anarcho-primitivist blockbuster? Report on wonderful 12-27 BURN live radio show; A Portland benefit for Franklin Lopez' ENDCIV film project. World roundup of industrial ruination, anthropology corner, two call-ins. Video of David Rovics singing "Burn it down" during BURN benefit.

12-22-2009

[video] [audio] The debacle of the Copenhagen climate change summit. Is it time to get serious yet? Action news and announcements, e.g. Jeff Luers is out of prison and doin' well! Two calls, in large part about Derrick Jensen: his move to the Left, is he pro-cop? Updates on eco-disasters and massive alienation.

12-15-2009

[video] Guest: Alice Parman. Back from our three week tour we talked about India: highlights/impressions/friendships/movement of anarcho-primitivist ideas there. Such an encouraging memorable trip! Also action news round-up. Off air calls about India. Video segment from the movie Slumdog Millionaire.

12-08-2009

[audio]Cliff and Kathan host as John works his way back to Eugene. Topics include: Copenhagen conference, anarcho-communism and Zizek, apocalypse theory, and Dubai financial collapse.

12-01-2009

[video] John Zerzan is still on a speaking tour in India and Jamie is guest host on this week's show. Jamie takes us back in time when Eugene had more of a radical reputation; Icky's teahouse, June 18th anarchist riot, the Vortex, Cascadia Free Radio, etc...PictureEugene video segment; "The Vortex" when a bunch of peace loving hippies run the Eugene cops out of a city park.

11-24-2009

[audio] John Zerzan is on a lecture tour in India for the next 3 weeks and Danielle and Madrone are guest hosts for this show. Subjects included Jeffrey "Free" Luers, relationships between elders and youth and trying to create community thru the use of the machine.

11-17-2009

[audio] Anarchy Radio 11-17-2009, audio only. Kathan on deck for a wide-ranging show. General emotional state of society, more on christian primitivism, action news, crisis news (e.g. re: indigenous groups). More Left bashing, ads of the week. Excellent call from Minnesota.

11-10-2009

[video] Lots of calls, including Andy and Jessica with (some what differing) christian primitivist perspectives. Fort Hood massacre, acts of resistance around the world, latest local pig misbehavior. Call-ins concerning Fort Hood, war, cops. Many voices! PictureEugene video segment; Ward Churchill part 2, "Origins of Globalization."

11-03-2009

[video] Calls from Reggie, Kevin critiquing concepts of christian primitivism. News of social decomposition and action news internationally. Findings on climate, health, pseudo opposition. Julia call pondering reasons for minimal radical moves in the U.S. Anthropology corner: earliest humanity: new insights and sources.

10-27-2009

[audio] [video] A multitude of international anti-authoritarian actions. Four call-ins: Are you for real about property damage as a tactic? Syndicalism as the path to primitive future? How about LSD as aid to liberation? Excellent report of christian primitivist gathering of 150 in Philadelphia 10 days ago, and some key critical challenges to the basics of christian primitivism from Kevin Tucker. A lively, packed hour!

10-20-2009

[audio] [video] Guest: Kathan Zerzan. Anxiety, genocidal wars, rising suicide rates: civilization and its fruition. Action news and the energy afoot; culture of resistance? What is our practice when riots and sabotage do not seem generally available? KZ finding art-oriented folks more creative and potentially radical than leftists. Caller explored relationship between secessionists, militia types and primitivism.

10-13-2009

[audio] [video] Adorno letter on friendship. Loony official news (Obama nobel peace prize, NASA blasts moon, Columbus day) vs. inspiring action news. Ads of the week, anthropology corner. Anti-climate news, Hadron Collider as civilization par excellence. Call from Pennsylvania. PictureEugene video segment, part two of "Ain't on Your Leash."

10-06-2009

[audio] [video] Olympics, Afghanistan, resistance news. Eco-crisis impact on animals around the world; disease and emptiness in the technoworld. Column of the week, ads of the week. Role of criticism in our milieu. (Online radio stream is back but no calls, unlike last week.)

09-29-2009

[audio] [video] General news and analysis (e.g. extreme weather, Afghanistan), action news (e.g. G20 resistance, luxury cars torched in Mexico), new films. Ad of the week: ceramics company touting titanium dioxide tile as the best thing for infants. "Zerzan on Chomsky and Jensen" and related exhanges. Aspects of non-health in the technoculture.

09-22-2009

[audio] September 22 (audio only): Seth Martin, Portland christian primitivist, was my guest; performed three songs. Show was mainly an interview with him; fascinating discussion. Also action news, Ad of the Week, 1.7 million year old case of human caring, for an infirm fellow early Homo erectus individual...

09-15-2009

[video] September 15: Guest: Kathan Zerzan. International resistance news. ecoNvergence conference discusssion - Chomsky, Jensen speakers, related politics of event, apparent disinvitation of John Z. Ads of the week. Various approaches to liberation. (Online stream not functioning, no call-ins.)

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