We discuss the sad state of Mexico under Enrique Peña Nieto; we reflect on the lives of Jack London and Dalton Trumbo and do some California dreaming; and, in a two-parter, we look at Iraq, Syria, and the U.S. role in creating ISIS.
Philip Russell with The Rag Blog‘s Alice Embree on Rag Radio Jan. 8, 2016. Photo by Roger Baker / The Rag Blog.
The following podcasts are from recent Rag Radio shows. The syndicated Rag Radio program, produced in the studios of Austin’s cooperatively-run KOOP-FM, has an international audience and has become an influential platform for interviews with leading figures in politics, current events, literature, and cutting-edge culture.
♦ Author & Historian Philip Russell on Mexico’s National Crisis Under Peña Nieto
Read the show description and download the podcast of our January 8, 2015 Rag Radio interview with Philip Russell, here — or listen to it here:
♦ Jonah Raskin on Dalton Trumbo, Jack London, and the California Drought
Read the show description and download the podcast of our December 18, 2015 Rag Radio interview with Jonah Raskin here — or listen to it here:
♦ Roy Casagranda: How U.S. Actions in Iraq Set the Table for ISIL
Read the show description and download the podcast of our December 11, 2015 Rag Radio show with Roy Casagranda here — or listen to it here:
♦ Roy Casagranda: ISIL and the Origins of the Syrian Crisis
Read the show description and download the podcast of our December 4, 2015 Rag Radio interview with Roy Casagranda here — or listen to it here:
COMING ON RAG RADIO:
- Friday, Jan. 15, 2016: Aldon D. Morris, Author of The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology.
- Friday, Jan. 22, 2015: Social Documentary Photographer, Ken Light, Author of What’s Going On: America 1969-1974.
- Friday, Jan. 29, 2016: Retiring Progressive Texas State Rep. Elliot Naishtat reflects on the legislature and Texas politics.
Rag Radio, a weekly hour-long syndicated radio program that has aired more than 300 original shows since September 2009, is produced and hosted by Rag Blog editor Thorne Dreyer. Tracey Schulz is engineer and co-producer.
Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, a cooperatively-run all-volunteer community radio station in Austin, Texas, and is first broadcast live on KOOP every Friday from 2-3 p.m. (CDT) and streamed live on the web. All Rag Radio shows are posted as podcasts at the Internet Archive.
Rag Radio can also be heard on WFTE, 90.3-FM in Mt. Cobb, PA, and 105.7-FM in Scranton, PA., on KPFT-HD3 90.1, Pacifica radio in Houston, on KKRN 88.5-FM in Round Mountain, CA, and as a featured podcast at Veterans Today. Find details here.
After broadcast, all Rag Radio shows are posted as podcasts at the Internet Archive.
Rag Radio is produced in association with The Rag Blog, a progressive Internet newsmagazine, and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.
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[Thorne Dreyer is an Austin-based writer, editor, broadcaster, and activist. A pioneering alternative journalist, Dreyer was a founding editor of the original Rag in 1966 Austin and Space City! in Houston, and managed KPFT-FM, Houston’s Pacifica radio station. Dreyer now edits The Rag Blog, hosts Rag Radio, and is a director of the New Journalism Project. Contact Dreyer at editor@theragblog.com.]
