Bebop, Cubop and The Musical Truth – September 30, 2025
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Exploring a variety of textures with a cross pollination of jazz, world, and Latin influences, hosted by Avotcja.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Trump proposes using us cities as military training grounds in speech to top brass Looming shutdown could impact vulnerable Americans. Palestinians opinion split on US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan promising aid but barring Hamas from … Continued
Flashpoints – September 30, 2025
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.
Fund Drive Special: Leonard Peltier Speaks
Leonard Peltier joins Hard Knock Radio from house arrest on Turtle Mountain, grateful to be home yet blunt about the political moment. He warns of rising fascism, culture-war censorship, and the real danger of global conflict, arguing that only broad, cross-racial unity can blunt the slide. While skeptical of both parties, he urges strategic voting … Continued
How Trump Turns Crisis Into Power: The Shutdown, the Military, and the War on Truth
As a potential government shutdown looms, economist Robert Kuttner joins the program to unpack how Donald Trump is exploiting the crisis—using racist deepfakes and disinformation to shift blame and consolidate power. Later, historian Stuart Schrader discusses Trump’s alarming rhetoric to military leaders and the rise of “enemy within” narratives, while climate scientist Michael Mann exposes … Continued
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This week is part two of the Roots for Resistance series. Join host Sam Roberts in exploring how medicinal roots can support our physical bodies as we engage in political resistance and liberatory work. This is a fund drive episode. We at Planting Medicine feel strongly that listener-sponsored radio is vital, especially as media becomes … Continued
Jessica Mitford was a muckracking journalist and memoirist, radical activist and wit. Born to an English aristocratic family, she became a Communist and eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew to fight in the Spanish Civil war. Two of her sisters were infamous fascists and friends with Hitler. Jessica, known as Decca, moved to the United States, … Continued
Israel wiped entire Palestinian cities off the map. Writer, poet, and journalist Ahmed Abu Artema joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss what he saw and experienced during the genocide and how he was evacuated to the Netherlands last month. He explains that: “they are claiming that [they] are fighting Hamas. They murdered … Continued