Flashpoints – October 2, 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
Dr. Cornel West – Fund Drive Special
Noted author and activist Dr. Cornel West speaking at the Guild Theater in Sacramento California on September 1, 2023. West’s talk steeped in a Southern Black Christian oratorical style and delivered provocative religious, philosophical and political insights, occasionally challenging the audience intentionally, with keen observations about racial bias in America, white supremacy represented by the … Continued
Background Briefing – October 2, 2023
Apart From Helping Putin, Why is Cutting Aid to Ukraine the Top Priority of Trump and a Handful of Republicans in Congress? We begin with Putin telling Trump to cut aid to Ukraine, then Trump telling Marjorie Taylor Greene to cut the aid, then Margorie Taylor Greene telling Speaker McCarthy to cut Ukraine aid out … Continued
Special Fund Drive Programming – About Health – October 2, 2023
A program designed to give listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts in the fields of both traditional and non-traditional health, with Dr. Lenoir and Rona Renner, RN.
Womens Magazine – October 2, 2023
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Fund Drive Special: Drugs and American Capitalism
Americans as a population have an usually large appetite for psychoactive drugs, whether legal or illegal. And American history has been marked by periodic moral panics over drug use and normalization or legalization, as we’re experiencing right now. What is it about US society that makes drug use simultaneously so appealing and reviled? Writer and … Continued
Proxy Wars/ America Run Amok – The Ralph Nader Radio Hour – October 2, 2023
Ralph welcomes award-winning foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer to discuss America’s bloody history of proxy wars. They’ll also discuss the mainstream media’s “shameful” coverage of the war in Ukraine, the warhawks on Capitol Hill, and the catastrophic trickle-down effects of American military meddling. Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries … Continued
Democracy Now 9am – October 2, 2023
On Today’s Show: Far-Right Republicans Look to Oust Speaker McCarthy After He Averts Government Shutdown Gavin Newsom Taps Laphonza Butler to Fill Sen. Feinstein’s Seat, Rejecting Calls to Pick Barbara Lee Survived & Punished: Meet Tracy McCarter, a Nurse Jailed, Then Cleared, for Stabbing Abusive Husband Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news … Continued
The Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care & Safety – Fall Fund Drive Special
We’ve spoken many times on Law & Disorder about the importance of Healing Justice. On today’s show, we speak with co-editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland about their new book, anti-capitalist, Black feminist, and abolitionist book, Healing Justice Lineages. The book is a profound and urgent call to embrace community and survivor-led care strategies as models that push beyond commodified self-care, the … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health