Flashpoints – February 9, 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.
Featured Episode
Savoring Ancient Wisdom – A Reading and Reflection Session of the Tao Te Ching
Host and Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer Timothy Regan, and Kara Stella, Personal Internal Family Systems and Nonviolent Communication Coach, take you on a road trip to read and reflect on the Tao Te Ching. We apply a Christian Mysical approach called Lectio Divina to reveal the life-giving gems in this ancient Chinese book of how … Continued
Pushing Limits – February 9, 2024
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on even weeks Friday 2:30pm.
Tulsa’s Black History Saturday School
When Oklahoma passed a law limiting discussion of race in classrooms, Tulsa activist Kristi Williams rallied the community to create Black History Saturdays. Now, she says entire families are learning who they are by knowing where they come from. GUESTS: Kristi Williams – Tulsa activist and Founder of Black History Saturdays Bracken Klar – Co-Executive … Continued
Who regulates whom? / What’s behind the U.S. attacks on Yemen?
In the opening segment, we learn about a case study in “regulatory capture.” Mickey’s guests explain how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declined to enforce its own concentration-of-ownership rules and thereby permitted Sinclair Broadcasting to control more TV stations than the rules allow. These guests also recount the years they spent in litigation to force … Continued
Talkies – February 9, 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.
When it comes to hazardous waste, California has some of the strictest rules in the country. Specifically, the state has set lower bar than most for what exactly it considers hazardous, triggering greater precautions around in-state disposal. But that doesn’t mean California is always disposing of toxic materials more carefully than its neighbors. That’s because … Continued
The U.S. Economy as an Apartheid System
In this week’s episode, Professor Richard Wolff discusses the continuing decline of U.S. manufacturing; a 29,000 person strike at California State University; the Houthis disruption of Red Sea shipping in move against Israel; and Texas’s refusal to obey U.S. federal government’s rules in a struggle over immigration and white supremacy. Then we present a special … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – February 9, 2024
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).
Profile: Haki Nawiri Africa’s Leonida Odongo
On today’s show, a profile of Kenyan climate activist, feminist and educator Leonida Odongo and her organization Haki Nawiri Afrika.