Antiwar Radio’s Pacifica Debut

Angela Keaton, November 18, 2009

Antiwar Radio took to the California airwaves last night on Pacifica Network’s KPFK — 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara. Former Iraq arms inspector Scott Ritter, Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and author James Bamford joined host Scott Horton for an hour of incisive perspective from the most important minds in foreign policy, civil liberties and security technology.

The show opened to jubilant applause in Hollywood thanks to the End the Fed activists who hosted the listening party. You can play the show here or download here.

Update: The pilot show will air again on Thanksgiving at 5 pm, 90.7 in L.A., 98.7 in Santa Barbara.

Update 2: If you liked what you heard, why not shoot an email  over to comments@kpfk.org?



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11 Responses to “Antiwar Radio’s Pacifica Debut”

  1. Jane Doe
    November 19th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    Antiwar Radio — Make sure that Pacifica doesn't marginalize you during fund drive time when it becomes the Democracy Now Channel all the time, replete with the money raised going to Democracy/ Hypocrisy Now and a fraction to other shows.

    Trust me on this one, I've been through it with Democracy/ Hypocrisy Now hoarding and taking down other independent TV & radio news shows. Perhaps not deliberately, but it sure seemed that way.

    And I would also check-out the Democracy Now agenda, because there is a pattern and it's not antiwar.com pattern in many respects, which is good, we need healthy debate and different POVs, but they don't reveal their other funders, especially from foundations, and therein lies a lot of their agenda.

    Free speech my ass…

  2. svend
    November 19th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    Is this going to be released via the podcast feed?

  3. VPC
    November 19th, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    Jane – Everyone's got an agenda. Democracy Now is lefty and DN tends to approach foreign policy issues from a pacifist/collectivist POV. Anti-War Radio has tended to push an agenda of noninterventionst foreign policy.

    Scott Horton has done a great job of honestly explaining his POV and trying to show that noninterventionism and pacifism are not incompatable as foreign policy drivers.

    Scott has also taken great pains to note that there are significant differences between his philosophy and the philosophies of his leftist anti-war guests, but that each side would probably be satisfied if the US were ever to adopt the other side's foreign policy.

    I'm not belittling your point about the need to identify those who fund DN and examine their agendas, but it can't be anything other than good news for the anti-war right and left to share infrastructure and attempt to introduce their respective audiences to one another in furtherance of the anti-war agenda.

  4. Jane Doe
    November 19th, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    Just wait till Antiwar Radio gets cast asunder by the Democracy/ Hypocrisy Now juggernaut.

    You have no idea.

    KPFK, the Pacifica station running Antiwar radio, is horribly run, and Democracy/ Hypocrisy Now rules the entire Pacifica network and will eventually eat Antiwar Radio, especially if it airs anything near a Libertarian viewpoint.

    Trust me on this one, I know.

    Or just do a web search of Democracy Now and Ron Paul.

  5. muzz
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:50 am

    - "Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?"

    - "Fuck off! We're the People's Front of Judea"

  6. Jane Doe
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:24 am

    Democracy Now has no interest in sharing an agenda with the antiwar right or Libertarians. I know this better than I know the back of my hand.

    Democracy Now has killed off, and again maybe not on purpose, but by the deals it cuts with its broadcasters, some of the best independent US news shows on both TV and radio, all of which were antiwar.

    You're swimming with sharks, Antiwar Radio, disguised as doves.

  7. muzz
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:50 am

    - "Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?"

    - "Fuck off! We're the People's Front of Judea"

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  9. Shaun
    November 24th, 2009 at 9:54 am

    Does Democracy Now own the Pacifica Network or something? Scott Horton doesn't need Pacifica to survive since he has Antiwar.com, in the worst case scenario I think he and Antiwar Radio would be alright.

    Nonetheless I'd be interested to hear what your theory about DN is and why you seem to hate them so much.

  10. Sheila Dean
    January 6th, 2010 at 10:02 pm

    AntiWar.com has consistently delivered the non-aggression prinicple. They have the ability to rise above the partisan distraction mill which has made conventional media notorious for not reporting the news. Pacifica's ability to absorb more perspectives will help balance the scales of social justice. WE NEED THE ANTI WAR JUICE!!

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