KSER News

A special year-end look behind the headlines of the mainstream news. On this program, we’ll take a look back at some of the stories covered by the corporate media in 2007, but not always covered so well.

As usual CounterSpin tried to bring you guests—activists, researchers and journalists—that had an angle on events that we thought worth hearing and, more often than not, one you weren't hearing many other places. Our guests responded to media coverage of U.S. foreign policy from Iraq to Darfur, as well as press attention or inattention to domestic issues that also affect all of our lives.

A monthly look at people who are waging peace in large and small ways. They may work together as a formal group, it may be an ad hoc coming together, or it may be only the work of one person, but the common goal is “peace on earth.”

America's Disappeared: A monthly look at what some now call the criminal punishment system in America. America's Disappeared looks at the problems faced by prisoners, the community, society and the justice system and offers suggestions on how it could be made fairer and more just.

Produced for KSER by Gary Idleburg

The New Abolitionists: Millennial Promise & Faithful Purpose in the Movement to Eradicate Poverty

Global poverty has moved from the margins to the center of concern for constituencies ranging from rock stars like Bono to evangelical Christian groups to the United Nations Millennium Campaign and, in the process, has drawn together progressives and conservatives, religionists and secularists, wealthy and poor nations. Join us to find out if differences can be put aside to meet the world's needs.

Guests:
Wahu Kaara, Marina Ponti, Ron Sider, Christopher Sinankwa, Peter Vander Meulen

Corporate Watchdog Radio: On this, the last-ever episode of Corporate Watchdog Radio, we take a stroll down memory lane to revisit the best moments in CWR's history. The exchanges that had us on the edge of our seats, straining into our headphones to hear every syllable.

We hear from a crotchety Barney Frank, a reflective Frances Moore Lappe, a tentative but ultimately optimistic Bill McKibben, a hopeful George Monbiot, and an eloquent Paul Hawken.

Starting in 2009, CWR is changing its name to Sea Change Radio to cover the shift to social, environmental, and economic sustainability.