Flashpoints – August 22, 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.
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Hard Knock Radio – August 22, 2024
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
Casey Michel / Jacob Heilbrunn / David Klion
The FBI Cracks Down on American Kremlin Propagandists as Russian Election Influence Operations Ramp Up
Last Night’s Star Turns at the DNC From Tim Walz and Kenan Thompson to Project 2025
Trump’s Anti-Semitic Attacks on Governor Josh Shapiro
The Visionary Activist Show – Healing the Land, Envisioning Autonomy
Healing the Land! By Holding Myriad stories simultaneously! astro*mytho enthusiasm for Democracy…the much good magic of the Democratic Convention With the sine qua non: from the Cauldron of cruel carnage, we conjure Palestinian safe supported autonomy…full global support (and enforcement)…. Caroline welcomes the return of Jerome McGeorge, fellow anarcho*astro*animist*enviro-farmer-wizard, co-founder of Organic Valley; Honoring … Continued
Erik Larson, best selling author of “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded at Book Passage Bookstre on May 31, 2024.
A progressive China policy, and Petro’s record in Colombia
Jake Werner on a progressive China policy (paper here) • Gabriel Hetland, author of this article, on the record of Colombian president Gustavo Petro, a leftist trying to govern a deeply conservative country
Special Programming: Call-in Show
Today’s episode of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa is preempted by a special, live call-in show discussing the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the presidential election, and Gaza. Mitch Jeserich from Letters & Politics hosts.
Democracy Now, 9am (rebroadcast, 2-hour special)
This hour rebroadcasts the 5:00 am hour of today’s 2-hour Democracy Now special, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. For information about today’s show and audio for the second hour, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Protests highlight CA prison conditions in sweltering heat, demand justice for heat deaths; plus how anti-LGBTQ+ bias in US courts can be a death sentence
Last Sunday, on the eve of the National Democratic Convention, #NotAnotherBomb protests took place across the country – including New York, Atlanta, Albuquerque, Boston, Los Angeles, and Oakland, California—the hometown of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee demanding an end to U.S. arms shipments to Israel. Protesters rallied at Lake Merritt in Oakland, … Continued
Noura Erakat on Palestine and the Presidential Election; Plus, Harris, Walz and the Rust Belt
0:08 — Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University in the Department of Africana Studies, and author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. 0:33 — Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner. She formerly served as Editor-in-chief of The Progressive Magazine where she … Continued