https://www.divarin.net/krab/krabfeed.xml Use this RSS URL in your podcast app or other RSS application to subscribe.This is an attempt to help preserve some of the audio content from KRAB-FM radio in Seattle which was archived originally by Chuck Reinsch, who worked for the station most of the station's lifetime.
Mr. Reinsch's archive was at www.krabarchive.com, however that site is now offline as of early this year (2026). However the Internet Archive's wayback machine has taken multiple snapshots of it, the most recent is here.
This RSS feed will include any content from that archived site which I find particularly interesting and worth trying to pull out of the obscure and (mostly) un-discoverable depths of the wayback machine and to provide it in a manner which is easily consumed by podcast apps and other RSS applications which support MP3 audio.
https://www.divarin.net/krab/krabfeed.xml Use this RSS URL in your podcast app or other RSS application to subscribe.
Soviet Press and Periodicals with William Mandel
Soviet Press and Periodicals with William Mandel - KRAB 1964 to 1974 At the beginning of 1958 William Mandel started producing a program on KPFA called "Russian Weeklies". Within a month it was renamed "Soviet Press and Periodicals", and stayed as such until the Pacifica-KPFA Troubles of 1995, when its run ended abruptly. KRAB started airing Soviet P&P in 1964, and it continued until Nov of 1974, when KRAB could no longer afford Pacifica's modest charge.
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The Paranoid's Notebook with Tom Allen - The History of Plant Patenting up to 1980 - KRAB Mar 19, 1980 Discover your paranoid quotient (p.q.) with Tom Allen as he checks out the survivalists. Are you ready for the end? Or is it the beginning?
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Two differing opinions about the assassination of President John F Kennedy
The Case Against the Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald - Rec KPFA Feb 1964 "New York attorney Mark Lane delivered this speech in San Francisco in early February at a meeting sponsored by the National Guardian and moderated by S. F. attorney Vincent Hallinan. A question-answer session follows his talk."
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Beating the Game - Timothy Leary speaking in Ellensburg - Rec Apr 26, 1963; KRAB Jun 17, 1963 Timothy Leary speaking at the 2nd Annual Symposium on American Values at Central Washington State College, Ellensburg. His subject is the "Individual In The College Community - His Commitments and His Work". This was recorded just before Leary was fired from Harvard, and well before his Mexican misadventure. The slightly edited speech was later published in The Politics of Ecstasy, where it was retitled American Education as an Addictive Process and Its Cure.
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A Philosophical Basis For Environmental Activism
A Philosophical Basis For Environmental Activism - A Talk by S P R Charter - Rec May 3, 1976; KRAB Jun 15, 1976 Dr. Charter is a professor of human ecology and has written a number of books, including The Planning Myth, Man on Earth, and Man the Myth, Man the Actuality. He is concerned especially with developing a philosophical, rather than utilitarian, basis for environmental preservation.
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Role Of Alternative Media In Seattle
The Role of Alternative Media in Seattle - KRAB Jun, 10, 1975 From the June 1975 Marathon poster: Who are the alternative media? Whom do they hope to serve? To what goals do they aspire? A live, in-studio panel discussion, to which you listeners are invited to phone in questions and comments at 325-5110. Participants include David Brewster (Editor, the Weekly); Alec Fisken (publisher, the Sun); Ann-Marie Mitroff (from the women's newspaper, Pandora); Walt Crowley (of the defunct underground newspaper, the Helix); Raymond Mungo (founder, Liberation News Service); and Michele Celarier (of the Northwest Passage). Moderated by Robert Weppner.
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Robert Theobald - Democracy in an Age of Scarcity
Democracy in an Age of Scarcity - Can We Avoid 1984? Robert Theobald Speaks - KRAB Dec 12, 1975 A speech by economist Robert Theobald, a Cambridge-trained scholar who challenges the assumption that continued material economic growth is both possible and desirable in the developed nations of the world. He is author of a number of books concerned with national economics and was instrumental in preparing the "Triple Revolution" report presented to President Johnson in 1964. His latest publication is An Alternative Future for America's Third Century.
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