The Bonnie Simmons Show – April 18, 2024
Bonnie Simmons presents a unique mix of singer/songwriter folk, rock, soul, country, and R&B.
Featured Episode
As April is both Dalit History Month and Poetry Month, we bring you a fantastic spotlight of a brand new exhibition that just opened up right here in Oakland called Dalit Dreamlands. We speak to curator Manu Kaur and artist-activist-future doctor Anika Nawar Ullah, of Bangladeshi Adivasi ancestry. We also get talk to Vamsi … Continued
Flashpoints – April 18, 2024
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Background Briefing – April 18, 2024
A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene We begin with Speaker Johnson promising the Ukraine aid bill will be on the House floor on Saturday, as the far-right Republican pro-Putin caucus intensifies their threats against him. We go to Ukraine to … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – Biomimicry (Replay)
“Biomimicry,” as sine qua non for life on planet… Again we are drawn to replay this most fantabulous show from the archives with Janine Benyus. Benyus describes herself as “Scientist, animist, poet,” founder of Biomimicry Institute. “Let’s learn democracy from bees! Before our arrogance destroys the bees, who truly know how to vote.” “Range … Continued
Don Winslow discusses his latest novel, third in a trilogy, and final novel of his career, “City in Ruins.” In an interview from 2016, Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his novel, “The Sympathizer,” now adapted into a television miniseries. Also: Review of “Tiger Style!” at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley through April 28th. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Yanis Varoufakis on being banned in Germany, and on the new post-capitalist world of technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis talks about being banned in Germany for supporting the Palestinian cause, and then about the transformation he analyzes in his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – April 18, 2024
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
Guest: Angela C. Sutton is an Assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University, where she has taught Seapower in History, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Comparative Slavery. She is the author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution.