Flashpoints – June 13, 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
Exploring Hip Hop and Legacy: ‘Pac & Biggie Are Dead’ by Lower Bottom Playaz and The Trauma of Caste
**The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition** On Hard Knock Radio, host Anita Johnson spoke with Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan about her The Trauma of Caste. Caste—one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world—is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 … Continued
Background Briefing – June 13, 2024
The Senate Launches a Probe Into Jared Kushner’s $2 billion Payoff From Saudi Arabia’s MbS We begin with the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee asking Jared Kushner for more details about the $2 billion investment in his new company from Saudi Arabia’s MbS, at a time when there is much focus on Hunter Biden’s … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – Listening to the Ocean
Dissolving the hubris of humans into nutrient for participatory animism….To dispel bad ideas disguised as “energy transition,” Caroline welcomes, long-time-ally, marine acoustician, Michael Stocker…(who is as though the Ocean adopted a human guise to be its voice…) What is the Ocean saying say to us now?! Michael has served as the electronic and musical engineer … Continued
Best-selling novelist and playwright Colm Tóibín discusses his latest novel, “Long Island,” and goes into detail about his creative process. Oakland poet laureate Ayodele Nzinga discusses her work as director of “Pac and Biggie are Dead,” a play by Biko Eisen-Martin, running at BAM House through June 30th. Also, a review of the touring production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company,” now at BroadwaySF Orpheum Theatre. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Mexican elections and radicals on the run
Sociologist Edwin Ackerman on the Mexican elections, and the reasons for AMLO’s immense popularity (Sidecar piece here) • Joel Whitney, author of Flights, on radical and revolutionaries’ battles with the CIA
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – June 13, 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: John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) writes the widely acclaimed Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack. He is the author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – June 13, 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).
Ancestral Healing from Syria to the Sinai; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Ashley Smiley
We’re joined on today’s show by the author of a brand new book that ties cultural survival to earth-based knowledge. In The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of … Continued