Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Peace talks with Iran canceled after US seizes Iranian cargo ship; State Attorney General Bonta sues Amazon, claiming illegal price fixing; SF activists push “Overpaid CEO Tax” ballot measure to avoid city health cuts; UN Office for … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: We feature an in-depth discussion about the Middle East and the state of the anti-war movement with Richard Becker of the Answer Coalition. Then we spend the second half of the show discussing US/Latin American relations with international civil and human rights attorney Dan Kovalik. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, … Continued
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with two longtime educators and community thinkers to unpack the forces shaping Black life, education, and public policy. His guests were Dr. David Stovall, professor of Black Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Hodari Bayano Davis, Chief Innovation Officer … Continued
On today’s briefing: Uncertainty Over Talks to End the War on Iran Before the Ceasefire Deadline Expires We begin with the uncertainty of talks in Pakistan to negotiate an exit for a war Trump started and appears desperate to end before a ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran expires on Wednesday. With growing doubt … Continued
In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, and beaver is … Continued
Natural light has amazing power to support a healthy body, but the wrong kind of light can actually undermine it. This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the administration’s efforts to reclassify burning plastic as “manufacturing,” and how a new breed of mechanical “trash traps” are helping communities reduce plastic pollution. Then … Continued
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Jews and the left have been closely associated with each other for well over a century, both in Europe where the Nazis genocidally linked one with the other, and in the United States. Scholar Benjamin Balthaser considers the history of American Jews and the left, including in opposition to Jewish nationalism, arguing that the recent … Continued
Ralph welcomes journalist and author Megan Greenwell to discuss her book “Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.” Then, Ralph speaks to James Zogby (co-founder and president of the Arab American Institute) about the recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Megan Greenwell is a journalist who has written or edited for publications including … Continued
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