Flashpoints – October 27, 2023
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
In Conversation with Conscious Lee about the Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Davey D speaks with George “Conscious” Lee about the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. 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.
Willie Brown Jr.’s Little Radio Book on How To Get Along and Make Healthy Decisions Together
Host Timothy Regan sits down with the one and only elder statesman and two-term San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr. to explore principles and stories on how to get along and make healthy decisions for the good of all. Enjoy a warm conversation and some deep wisdom from someone who has served and led in … Continued
Modern Parenting …The Latino Way
How do you decide what kind of parent you want to be? Our friends at Pulso Podcast, Maribel Quezada Smith and Liz Alarcón, discuss ways they maintain their children’s cultural identity as Latinos while living in the U.S. They also touch on what they have changed from how their immigrant parents raised them. In the … Continued
A Look At Assange From Inside the CIA, State Department & US Military
You may have heard of Julian Assange, but chances are that you haven’t heard about him from inside the CIA, State Department and US military. In this special episode, Eleanor first talks with former CIA counterterrorism officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou about what Assange would face if extradited to the United States, as Kiriakou himself … Continued
Talkies – October 27, 2023
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.
How US Capitalism Uses Nationalism
From 1945 to 1990 we were told a great struggle pitted capitalism against socialism/communism (chiefly the USSR and China). Yet still today, US leaders demonize Russia and China despite the end of communism in the USSR and a huge growth of capitalist enterprises in China. The explanation lies in US capitalism’s long history of using … Continued
Democracy Now 9am – October 27, 2023
On Today’s Show: “Gaza Is Being Strangled”: UNRWA Calls for Immediate Ceasefire as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens Gaza Poet Who Inspired Nonviolent Protests Is Injured in Israeli Airstrike; 5 Relatives Killed “The Day After Tomorrow”: Israeli Hostage Negotiator on Freeing Captives & Building Lasting Peace The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: Censorship, Harassment Intensifies on Campus Amid Gaza … Continued
On today’s show, I’ll speak to Jeff St. John of Canary Media the use of “blue hydrogen” and Global Forest Coalition’s Kwami Kpondzo on their new 16 page report on the human rights implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
On Wars with Michael Mann
0:08 — Michael Mann is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Honorary Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the award-winning book series The Sources of Social Power. His latest book is “On Wars.”