KANSAS COFFEE BAR

Program Summary: Nov. 17, 2014

1st Hour: Free Speech Radio News, an ear to the ground, local voices, global stories..

Segment Notes:

U.S. House votes on the Keystone XL pipeline; Senate to do same next week
U.S. & China announce carbon emissions deal;  the non-binding agreement is sparse on specifics
Mexican president leaves country as news of apparent massacre deepens political crisis
Suicide attacker poses as student in northeast Nigeria; nearly 50 students killed
Visual storytelling emerges as a medium to decode Holy Land conflict
Protestors challenge ban on sharing food in public in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Tomas Young: 1979 – 2014

Counterspin from Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (fair.org) the weekly audio version of EXTRA magazine.

Segment Notes: This week on CounterSpin: Bipartisanship and free trade are two of corporate media's favorite things, so when the Washington Post editorial expressed the post-midterm media consensus, "Now that Republicans have gained control of Congress, no policy area is riper for bipartisan action than trade," you can believe they were happy to do it. But should we be happy? And is it even true? We'll hear from Lori Wallach of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch.

2nd Hour: Former Rep. Bill Otto of the Kansas state legislature, lifelong public school teacher and administrator, will discuss tax codes with attorney-at-law Bob Brookens..