Flashpoints – September 11, 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.
Featured Episode
Samora Pinderhughes on Craft, Abolition, and the Soundtrack of Now
Host Davey D opens with “Am I Human?” and frames Samora Pinderhughes as a Bay-raised, Juilliard-trained composer/pianist/vocalist who blends jazz, R&B, and movement work. Samora embraces that lineage—crediting his parents’ community praxis—and talks frankly about maintaining integrity in an industry that rewards spectacle and “Black dysfunction.” The antidote, for him, is purpose and craft. On abolition, Samora widens the lens: prisons, … Continued
Trump Will Use the Assassination of Charlie Kirk to Further His Dictatorial Takeover of the United States–Can We Trust Anything Coming From Patel’s FBI?–South Korea’s President Warns That Companies Will be “Very Hesitant” to Invest in the US After the Massive ICE Raid on a Hyundai Plant in Georgia
Trump Will Use the Assassination of Charlie Kirk to Further His Dictatorial Takeover of the United States We begin with the heated rhetoric coming from Trump and his MAGA influencers following the assassination of the very successful right wing activist Charlie Kirk with calls for civil war, this is WAR and fight or die. We … Continued
The Visionary Activist Show – September 11, 2025
Anniversary of September 11th Inaugurating a Better Guiding Story with Caroline Casey, solo show Dedicated to “anything we need to know to have a democracy”: Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, Applied Divination, Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity. Video: Mars escapes the Kennedy Center
Robert Jay Lifton, who died on September 4, 2025 at the age of 99., was a psychiatrist and author who studied the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence. In this interview recorded in 1999, he talks about cults, in partricular Aum Shinrikyo, the group that loosed sarin gas into the Tokyo subway system, snd about the nature of war and trauma. He was interviewed by Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky. This interview was digitized, remastered and edited in September 2025 by Richard Wolinsky and is heard in its entirety for the first time. Also: An excerpt from an early interview with the late horror and fantasy author Chelsea Quiin Yarbro (194202925) who died on August 31, 2025 at the age of 82, discussing her vampire hero, Count Saint-Germain, and a review of ‘Eureka Day” at Marin Theatre through Sept. 28, 2025. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Tech transhumanism, fiscal politics of NYC
Émile Torres on the tech moguls’ dream of transcending the merely human (article written with Timnit Gebru here) • Daniel Wortel-London, author of The Menace of Prosperity, on the fiscal history of NYC, and how we could do better than subsidizing the rich
The late historian Allan Bérubé documented in Coming Out Under Fire (1990) how queer soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines have always been a vital part of military readiness. He revealed in a 1983 talk that the first queer news source in the United States was published at an airfield in the deep South more than 80 years ago (produced by David Hunt).
No surprise: curiosity changes over the lifespan. Yes surprise: not in the way you might imagine! There are some advantages to aging Mary Whatley, PhD, studies motivated memory, aging and curiosity. She joins me to explore trait versus state curiosity; her recent research on increasing state curiosity as we age; the role of motivation and … Continued
Guest: Natalie Lawrence, author of Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meaning.
Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast) – September 11, 2025
On Today’s Show: “Moment of Great Peril”: Jeff Sharlet on Killing of Charlie Kirk & Rising Political Violence in U.S. Trump’s Personal Army? Exec. Order to Create “Quick Reaction Force” Raises Alarm Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Keep Sailing to Gaza; Israeli Drones Accused of Striking Two Boats Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning … Continued