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Tomas Young’s War – Mark Wilkerson 03/24/2016

Tomas Young’s War – Mark Wilkerson Mark Wilkerson was my guest on the March 24, 2016 edition of , just a couple of weeks ahead of the release of his new biography, . Tomas Young was the Kansas City Iraq War veteran who died on the eve of Veterans Day, 2014, 10 ½ years after being paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet in Iraq. Tomas was featured in the must-see which showed him dealing with his paralysis as he became an effective anti-war voice. covers his entire life, but, perhaps most importantly, tells the story of the struggles he had between the period covered in the film and his death. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4248920

Jen Senko-Brainwashing My Dad 03/17/2016

Jen Senko-Brainwashing My Dad Jen Senko was my guest on the March 17, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody. Just ahead of a special screening in Kansas City, Senko talked about her new documentary film, The Brainwashing of My Dad-The Truth Behind the Right-Wing Media Machine That Changed a Father and Divided a Nation. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4233950

Ray McGovern – Ukraine Policy on the Tell Somebody Countdown 03/10/2016

Ray McGovern – Ukraine Policy on the Tell Somebody Countdown The March 10, 2016 edition of featured former CIA analyst and frequent guest on the phone for a live broadcast. McGovern, an admirer of Andrew Bacevich, begins by taking issue with some of his comments about Putin and Russia on . Ray talks about the U.S. supported coup in Ukraine and ends the show explaining why a US agreement to not move NATO one inch to the east was never put to paper. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4303555

David Barsamian-Just Back from Lebanon & on the Phone with Tell Somebody 03/03/2016

David Barsamian-Just Back from Lebanon & on the Phone with Tell Somebody returned for the March 3, 2016 edition of , on the phone for a live call-in show. Just returned from a trip to Lebanon, he talked about that and took questions from callers as the show entered its final month. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4316872

Richard Tripp and Friends 02/11/2016

Richard Tripp and Friends The February 11, 2016 edition of was a conversation with homeless advocate Richard Tripp and some of his friends. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4143392

Robert McChesney on the Phone for the Last Pledge Drive with Tell Somebody 02/04/2016

Robert McChesney on the Phone for the Last Pledge Drive with Tell Somebody Robert /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4325764

Elizabeth Murray - From CIA to Anti-Nuclear 01/21/2016

Elizabeth Murray - From CIA to Anti-Nuclear How did Elizabeth Murray go from being a New Mexico newspaper reporter fresh out of college to a CIA analyst serving as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council to an anti-nuclear activist? Listen to the January 21, 2016 edition of and find out. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4097220

Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World 01/14/2016

Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World On the January 14, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody, returned to talk about her new book, . Inspired, in part, by a case of mistaken identity, this book is a wide-ranging contemplation on why we are ruining the earth as a habitable home for ourselves and many of our co-inhabitants, prominently including a look at how human language influences attitudes and behavior. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4089793

Mel Goodman on Robert White (and More) 01/07/2016

Mel Goodman on Robert White (and More) was my guest on the January 7, 2016 edition of . Goodman is a senior fellow at the where he was a colleague of the late , former US ambassador to El Salvador, and was a CIA analyst and colleague of . He is the author of, and of the forthcoming book The Path to Dissent: A Whistleblower at the CIA. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4061783

The Ambassador's Daughter-Remembering the Murders 12/31/2015

The Ambassador's Daughter-Remembering the Murders On the December 24, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody we heard a report from Kansas Citians Alice Kitchen and Carol Coburn on the recent delegation to El Salvador marking the 35th anniversary of the murder of four church women there in 1980. One of the delegation participants was Claire White, daughter of Robert White, US ambassador to El Salvador 1980-1981, who was fired after refusing to cover up the guilt of the US-supported Salvadoran military in the murders. Alice Kitchen put me in touch with Claire White, and I reached her on the phone and recorded a conversation for the December 31, 2015 edition of . /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4048799

Delegation to El Salvador 12/24/2015

Delegation to El Salvador of 120 people went to El Salvador November 26 - December 5, 2015, marking 35 years since 4 churchwomen were murdered by the US-supported Salvadoran military. Two Kansas Citians, Carol Coburn and Alice Kitchen, joined that delegation, and they report on it this week on . /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4039026

Lindsay Wise Talks About “Irradiated” 12/17/2015

Lindsay Wise Talks About “Irradiated” This week on , Lindsay Wise, Washington reporter for the Kansas City Star, talks about , the print and multimedia online series about “the hidden legacy of 70 years of atomic weaponry” that left “at least 33,480 Americans dead.” /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/4038394

Sister Helen's Kansas City Speech 11/12/2015

Sister Helen's Kansas City Speech This week on , the speech that Dead Man Walking author gave at Unity on the Plaza in Kansas City on the evening of October 30, 2015. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3971755

Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues in Missouri 11/05/2015

Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues in Missouri This week on . Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean, and Staci Pratt, state coordinator for Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP). /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3931961

Rocky Flats Cold War Horse 10/29/2015

Rocky Flats Cold War Horse A bigger-than-size statue of a horse wearing a hazmat suit is the subject of the October 29, 2015 edition of . Author and professor Kristen Iversen and artist Jeff Gipe joined us on the phone to talk about it. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3898822

Ray McGovern on Obama, Putin & Syria 10/14/2015

Ray McGovern on Obama, Putin & Syria Former CIA analyst returns for the October 15, 2015 edition of /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3863473

Economist Richard D. Wolff 09/24/2015

Economist Richard D. Wolff Professor Richard D. Wolff spoke in Kansas City, Missouri at the All Souls Forum on September 13, 2015, and at the University of Missouri – Kansas City on September 14.. Shortly after his forum appearance at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, he sat down for a conversation with . /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3837904

Richard Rhodes on Nagasaki, 70 Years On 08/20/2015

Richard Rhodes on Nagasaki, 70 Years On On the August 20, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Richard Rhodes appeared for the second time in as many weeks. Rhodes had been on the phone for the July 30 edition of the show, ahead of an August 9, 2015 speaking engagement in Independence, that would mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Tell Somebody was in attendance at Community of Christ Church in Independence for Rhodes' speech, and was subsequently on hand to speak with him about an hour after the speech. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3782883

Joe McGovern- The Other Side Documentary 08/13/2015

Joe McGovern- The Other Side Documentary For the August13, 2015 edition of ,I got together with Joe McGovern to talk about his current project. According to his website, , Joe is a progressive liberal democrat who has always been interested in politics, but who recently grew tired of the extreme political partisanship in America today. He got the idea for a documentary film he calls “The Other Side: a liberal democrat explores conservative America” to see if he could find another way – a better way – to talk to those he disagrees with. 20,000 miles, 5 months, 35 states and 82 interviews later, Joe and his team are editing the footage of his journey into a 75 minute documentary. Joe and Charlie were passing through the area again on August 8, 2015, and I caught up with him in Independence, MO for breakfast and a conversation about his film. Give a listen. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3742218

Richard Rhodes - Remembering Kansas City - Remembering Nagasaki 07/30/2015

Richard Rhodes - Remembering Kansas City - Remembering Nagasaki On the July 30 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, ahead of an August 9, 2015 speaking engagement in the area marking the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Richard Rhodes talked about his early life in the Kansas City area, how violent criminals get that way, and about nuclear weapons. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3711308

Maurice Copeland on Kansas City Plant Cleanup & Help for Sick Workers 07/16/2015

Maurice Copeland on Kansas City Plant Cleanup & Help for Sick Workers On the July16, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Maurice Copeland talks about the lack of progressj in getting Special Exposure Cohort status for Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant workers and about plans for cleanup of the old plant. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3708863

Unsubstantiated, Contradicted, or Non-Existent-Ray McGovern on Iraq Lies 05/28/2015

Unsubstantiated, Contradicted, or Non-Existent-Ray McGovern on Iraq Lies On the May 28, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) co-founder and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern reminds us that the “intelligence” used to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq was “fixed,” not “flawed,” and explains for whom the surge worked. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3586362

CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou & Peace Activist Brian Terrell 05/21/2015

CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou & Peace Activist Brian Terrell On the May 21, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, whistle-blower and former CIA officer John Kiriakou, and peace activist Brian Terrell's remarks at a drone protest on May 17th at the gates of Whiteman AFB. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3572671

Good Jobs and $15 For All Rally and March 04/30/2015

Good Jobs and $15 For All Rally and March On April 15, 2015, fast food workers and others across the country and around the world struck and marched and spoke up for $15 and a union. On the April 30th edition we heard some of the sounds and voices of marchers and speakersat a rally and march in Kansas City /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3534256

Free Health Clinic in Kansas City 04/16/2015

Free Health Clinic in Kansas City On the April 16, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, hear from (NAFC) CEO, Nicole Lamoureux and Kansas City CARE Clinic CEO, Sheri Wood about a free health clinic in KC On Saturday, April 18th. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3496898

Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps 04/09/2015

Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps Michael Copps was a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2011, including a stint as acting FCC Chair in 2009. He is currently special advisor for . Michael Copps returned to to talk about the February, 2015 FCC vote for net neutrality and about media reform generally for the April 9, 2015 edition of the show. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3481445

April 15 Good Jobs & $15 for All March, Tomas Young, The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont’d. 04/02/2015

April 15 Good Jobs & $15 for All March, Tomas Young, The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont’d. Fast food workers in 200 cities across the country are going on strike on April 15, 2015. We talk about that in the first segment of the April 2, 2015 edition of , including a conversation with fast food worker and activist Melinda Robinson. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3468691

Remembering Danny Schechter the News Dissector 03/26/2015

Remembering Danny Schechter the News Dissector Investigative journalist, author, filmmaker, media critic and activist Danny Schechter died of pancreatic cancer on March 19, 2015. On the March 26, 2015 edition of,two frequent guests of the show remember their friend. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3452710

Anne Frank and Rachel Corrie Anniversaries, Ferguson, MO Stats, plus The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont’d. 03/19/2015

Anne Frank and Rachel Corrie Anniversaries, Ferguson, MO Stats, plus The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont’d. The March 19, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody begins with some thoughts about the March anniversaries of the deaths, murders really, resulting from government policies in Germany and Israel, of Anne Frank, sometime in March, 1945, and of Rachel Corrie on March 16, 2003. /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3453505

Todd O’Boyle on Net Neutrality & Helen Caldicott on Nuclear Extinction 03/12/2015

Todd O’Boyle on Net Neutrality & Helen Caldicott on Nuclear Extinction On the March 12, 2015 edition of , Todd O’Boyle, program director for Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative talks about the FCC's recent decisions on Network Neutrality and Community Broadband. In the second half of the show, Dr. Helen Caldicott opens a a symposium she organized on The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction /episode/index/show/tellsomebody/id/3422182

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