Finance Ministers Applaud Greece Debt Deal that Provides Aid and Continues Austerity European Finance Ministers endorse a new Greece debt agreement that provides financing in exchange for maintaining austerity policies and economic reforms....
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:28PM
The Shortwave Report 06/22/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK Japan, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:52PM
The Shortwave Report 06/15/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Spanish National Radio....
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 4:28PM
At Kim-Trump photo-op, corporate media repeats Imperial narrative The entire world is rightfully focused on the US-DPRK Summit in Singapore that may signal a possible end to the 7-decade long US hostility toward North Korea. US President--aka Agent Orange or Petulant Twitter-in-chief--used the photo-op to promote another "Alternative Narrative" that his punitive sanctions prompted Pyongyang to come to the peace table. T-rump completely dismissed the persistent & pivotal efforts by South Korean President Moon, President Xi of China, plus countless thousa...
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 6:23PM
The Shortwave Report 06/08/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, NHK Japan, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Jun 7, 2018 4:16PM
G7 Hurricane Debt Relief Caribbean/Small Islands “This is the first time that Finance and Development Ministers are meeting jointly at the G7 and they can promote solutions for when financial crises and humanitarian crises collide” notes Eric LeCompte, Jubilee USA Network Executive Director....
Posted: Fri Jun 1, 2018 10:41AM
RimPac War Games--Imperial Hypocrisy on Steroids! Last week the Pentagon announced it had "uninvited" China from the upcoming RimPac 2018 military exercises(the US had invited 24 other foreign nations to join in bombing and otherwise desecrating the environment) off the waters of Hawai'i. It cited the reason for the revocation is that China is "militarizing" in the waters of the South China Sea....
Posted: Thu May 31, 2018 9:20PM
The Shortwave Report 06/01/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu May 31, 2018 4:30PM
The Shortwave Report 05/25/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 4:14PM
Vatican Urges Transparency to Address Inequality and Prevent Financial Crisis The Vatican released an official assessment on global economics entitled, "‘Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones" or "Considerations for an ethical discernment regarding some aspects of the present economic-financial system." The document calls for improvements in global finance policies on debt resolution, taxation, financial crisis prevention and transparency. ...
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 5:35PM
The Shortwave Report 05/18/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and NHK Japan....
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:36PM
Coming back to life in Iraq's Sinjar Almost four years ago, tens of thousands of Yazidi people were forced to flee Sinjar, in north west Iraq, after being subjected to appalling violence. Returning takes courage, and determination....
Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 3:59AM
The Shortwave Report 05/11/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Sputnik Radio, NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Spanish National Radio....
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 4:08PM
The Shortwave Report 05/04/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu May 3, 2018 5:00PM
Detente Policy and Media Hysteria Antje Vollmer is a Green politician who was vice-president of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2005. She urges a robust public debate over the new hardline German foreign policy that forgets the war and Russian help in German reunification. What has the politics of regime change brought? Sanctions are always at the expense of the population. Detente policy is supported more by the population than by politicians and journalists....
Posted: Tue May 1, 2018 4:29AM
Democracy Now’s “Alt Media” Platform for Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria Amy Goodman and Democracy are doing damage control for US imperialism according to reports....
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 2:57PM
Ultimatums instead of Diplomacy In what phase is NATO's confrontation with Russia? Contrary to a promise to Gorbachev, NATO expanded eastward from 16 to 28 states. A missile system is built along the Russian border in former eastern bloc states newly accepted in NATO. Military maneuvers with 10,000 soldiers are staged at Russia's border. Imagine Russia carrying out such a maneuver at the Mexican border to the US!...
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 4:49AM
The Shortwave Report 04/27/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK Japan, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:06PM
UN Forum Wrestles with Economic Policies 10 Years After Financial Crisis Islands Call for Officials from governments, the IMF, World Bank, the private sector and NGOs meet this week at the United Nations for the Financing for Development (FFD) Forum....
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:32PM