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World Hunger and Starvation Have Reached a Crisis Level

Starvation is a particularly cruel and horrible way to die. Beginning with intense hunger and pain and followed by exhaustion and mental…

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Dr. Bob and Dan-o seek shelter from the storm on Everybody Knows

Dr. Bob and Dan-o Dougan spin stormy weather tunes and Dan sings one original song - Eye of the Storm.

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Many still in the dark on what City Council will do regarding Our City Our Say - ‘9 and 4’ or ‘9 and 2’?

Columbus City Council is voting on Monday, August 24 to place a competing charter amendment on November’s ballot against Our City Our Say’s charter amendment, but what exactly council will be…

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"What Radicalized You?"

“What radicalized you?”

I dunno man maybe it was all the wars based on lies or the corporate ecocide or the live-streamed genocide or the people sleeping on sidewalks while billionaires…

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Arborfest at Whetstone Park

Saturday, August 22, 2026 - 12:00-5:00pm
Whetstone Park, 3923 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43214

Family-friendly community event with music, food vendors, guided nature walks, Whetstone Prairie tours, bird-spotting walks, and a live tree pruning demonstration. educational presentations on bats, ecopoetry, native tree care, and the "Fighting for the Urban Forest" panel, a native plant sale with local nurseries, a pop-up market, river critter searching, kid-friendly story time, and sustainable crafts, live performances by local bands like Six Feet Apart and Roscommon…

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Protecting 2026, Tracking The Money, The 20% Solution, Shutting The Nukes

We start GREEP #277 with ALISON GREENE and her work on “ghost voting” and the theft of upcoming elections.

From MIKE HERSH we get a deeper dive on the need to have reliable voter rolls.

Producer MYLA RESON asks about the need for a “…

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No Coming Back from Genocide: Israel's Global Counter-Offensive Has Begun

Colombia's decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. 

By becoming only the second country in the world - after the United States - to endorse…

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The Armed Righteous

I am in awe
of the deadeye imperturbability
of the armed righteous,
who look upon the world’s suffering
and see targets. . . .

This is a fragment of a poem (“Vigil”) I wrote 25 years ago, in response to the “vigil” some gun-…

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