Flashpoints – July 3, 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
NBUF CONFERENCE 2023 – Hard Knock Radio – July 3, 2023
We speak with Kofi Tarhaka about the upcoming NBUF conference.. We also talk to him about recent supreme court rulings
Background Briefing – July 3, 2023
We begin with a series of unpopular rulings by the Supreme Court that ended affirmative action in college admissions, stopped President Biden from cancelling student debt and sanctified bigotry by a lying web designer who was not even in business when she said a gay couple wanted her to work for them, claiming it was … Continued
7/3/23 The Why of Public Health
Everyone knows what physicians do. We go to them when we’re sick, they examine us and prescribe a treatment. In this case, we’re the patient. But what happens when the patient isn’t a single individual, but a community, a society, a nation, or perhaps even the world? What happens when the healing that most needs … Continued
Perhaps best known for his advocacy of “propaganda by the deed,” Johann Most (1846-1906) was a committed socialist before turning toward anarchism. What spurred that shift? Why did Most advocate violence – and later abandon that position? Tom Goyens is writing a biography of the fiery orator and influential editor who immigrated to the U.S. … Continued
The Ralph Nader Radio Hour – July 3, 2023
Ralph Nader talks about what’s happening in America, what’s happening around the world, and most importantly what’s happening underneath it all.
Guest: David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of several books on Slavery and Abolition including, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
Democracy Now 9am – July 3, 2023
On Today’s Show: RIP Daniel Ellsberg: “Most Dangerous Man in America” on Leaking Pentagon Papers, Exposing Gov’t Lies Months Before Death, Daniel Ellsberg Warned Crisis over Ukraine & Taiwan Could Lead to Nuclear War “The Doomsday Machine”: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg’s Dying Wish: Free Julian Assange, Encourage Whistleblowers & Reveal … Continued
The Political Role of Black Folk Music w/ Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick; Plus, Resistance in Residence Artist Bicasso
On today’s show, we prepare ourselves for the 4th of July holiday by spending time with archival recordings from Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, who was a musician, civil rights activist, and minister from Haynesville, Louisiana. In late 1964 he became a co-founder of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed black self-defense group, in the … Continued