Talkies – November 15, 2024
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
In California — a state whose progressive environmental policies have been the special focus of Trump’s ire — policymakers and environmentalists are bracing for the impacts of a second Trump administration where Republicans have full control of both houses. Lawmakers are gearing up to use state and local government powers to safeguard the environment and … Continued
On this week’s episode: Professor Wolff discusses the repression of student protesters by U.S. universities and politicians, the continued global demands of indigenous people for liberation from colonialism’s legacies, and Harvard’s corporate administration sacrificing its students’ and faculty’s freedom of expression to pander to some of its donors. Finally, Professor Wolff interviews Professor Jerome N. … Continued
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
COP29 – False Solutions On today’s show, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Conference Of Parties 29 started this week. I’ll speak to Souparna Lahiri, Senior Climate and Biodiversity Policy Advisor for Global Forest Coalition about the false solutions being presented. From the Global Forest Coalition Press Release: “At UNFCCC COP29 in Baku, the … Continued
00:08 — Astra Taylor is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. Her latest book is The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart.
On today’s show: “He Will Make America Sick”: Trump Picks Vaccine Skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Department of Health & Human Services A New Crusade? Trump Taps Christian Nationalists Pete Hegseth and Mike Huckabee to Top Posts Historian Enzo Traverso: Israel Is Using the Memory of the Holocaust to Justify Genocide in Gaza … Continued
Trump’s Choice to Head the DOJ is an Unqualified and Incompetent Ideologue Who Has Been Investigated for Sex Trafficking an Underaged Girl Across State Lines
Trump’s Choice of a Fox Propagandist, Grifter, and Supporter of For-Profit Colleges That Rip off Veterans to be Secretary of Defense
Trump Wants a Member of a Fringe Hindu Cult and Fan of the Syrian and Russian Dictators to be the Next Head of Our Intelligence Agencies
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues.