Africa Today – August 18, 2025
A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner.
Featured Episode
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Trump peace summit with Zelensky, Euros ends with no cease-fire, vague commitment on security guarantees for Ukraine; CA, 20 other states sue Trump administration for linking crime victims aid to sanctuary policies; “Stop Billionaires Summer” movement blocks … Continued
Today on the show: Two new damning human rights reports on the expanding slaughter in Gaza as the program of forced hunger and starvation continues: special correspondent, Jennifer Lowenstein reports. Also Richard Becker of Answer Coalition reflects on the pro-trump groveling in D.C. as a parade of presidents from Europe, join Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in … Continued
Silencing Solidarity: California’s Battle Over AB 715
On today’s show, we turn our attention to Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis has reached catastrophic levels. The United Nations has declared a stage 5 famine, and leading human rights organizations, along with genocide scholars, have nearly unanimously recognized Israel’s assault on Palestinians as genocide. Here in California, state lawmakers are advancing AB 715 — … Continued
Charles Kupchan/Richard Hasen/Jeff Hauser
Damage Control at the White House to Prevent Trump’s Sellout of Ukraine to Putin We begin with the damage control underway at the White House today as European leaders and President Zelensky try to prevent the total sellout of Ukraine following Trump’s craven gift of caving in and siding with the murderous Make Russia Great … Continued
The Blue Economy: Too Good Not to Be True
In this second of a two-part program, we plunge into the mind-bending proposition that we get a second chance to remake our broken food economy. Bren Smith, co-founder and co-Executive Director of GreenWave, has created a revolutionary polycultural farming model that has low upfront costs, is easily scalable, and can help mitigate climate change. It’s … Continued
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about PFAS (forever chemicals) on artificial turf fields, Texas’s new court system for business cases backed by big oil, and the dramatic increase in the number of of plastic particles accumulating in your brain. Then Dr. Tom Zoeller, one of the nation’s leading experts on endocrine … Continued
Womens Magazine – August 18, 2025
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
The Making of an Antiracist and Anticapitalist
White working class people are frequently dismissed by liberals as intractably racist — the purported bedrock of reaction in this country. While the support of working class whites has never been sufficient to explain the rise of Donald Trump, it’s still worth asking what does it take to shift the politics of white workers brought … Continued
The Ralph Nader Radio Hour – August 18, 2025
Ralph Nader talks about what’s happening in America, what’s happening around the world, and most importantly what’s happening underneath it all.