Flashpoints – August 7, 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
Hip Hop 50 @ OMCA and La_shashe: An Art Exhibition Featuring Sha-she Capra – Hard Knock Radio – August 7, 2023
We speak with mister Jahi about the celebration of Hip Hop 50 at the Oakland Museum of California. Later we speak with Abba Yahudah about La_shashe: An Art Exhibition Featuring Recent Works by Sha-she Capra. https://museumca.org/events/#upcoming https://www.instagram.com/la_shashe/?hl=en
Background Briefing – August 7, 2023
Ukraine Tries to Woo the BRICS Nations to Get Aboard Their Peace Plan We begin with the peace talks underway in Saudi Arabia at which 40 nations have sent senior officials to discuss Ukraine’s 10-point peace plan. With Russia not invited it is clear there is an attempt underway to appeal to the BRICS nations, … Continued
7/7/23 How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Healthcare
Most likely you’ve heard of ChatGPT. But, you may not know that AI is also being applied in significant ways to healthcare: from smartphone apps, to systems that might eventually be able to offer us healthcare advice without waiting to talk to a doctor, to research applications like drug development. In this episode, we talk … Continued
Revolutionaries in one country can inform and inspire rebels in another. Kevin A. Young examines the impact of Vietnamese and Chinese revolutionary strategies on El Salvador’s guerrillas in the tumultuous 1970s and ’80s. Among other things, he describes how conceptions of “prolonged popular war” were adopted and adapted by the FPL, the FMLN’s largest faction. … Continued
Ralph welcomes Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and an expert on culture and therapy, mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics to talk about our addictions to screens and how to break out of them. Plus, our resident constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, opens the program with everything … Continued
Democracy Now 9am – August 7, 2023
On Today’s Show: Freedom vs. Compelled Birth: Dorothy Roberts on Abortion Fights in Texas, Ohio & Across the U.S. “It’s a Way of Reparations”: Why Henrietta Lacks Settlement Matters for Bioethics & Racial Justice Pregnant Woman’s False Arrest in Detroit Shows “Racism Gets Embedded” in Facial Recognition Technology #SayHerName: Kimberlé Crenshaw on Black Women Killed … Continued
FBI Sued by ACLU for Overreach in 2020 Protests; Plus, Resistance in Residence Artist Donald Lacy
The ACLU has sued the City of Colorado Springs, members of the Colorado Springs Police Department, and the FBI, for aggressive overreach and repression during the Colorado Springs 2020 protest movement. We’re joined this morning by the primary plaintiff in the lawsuit, Jacqueline Armendariz Unzueta, along with Tim Macdonald, the Legal Director of the ACLU … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; 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.