Talkies – December 5, 2025
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
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Across the U.S., there are well over a million contaminated brownfields and superfund sites such as abandoned factories, industrial facilities, and former gas stations where toxic materials have accumulated in the soil. Many of these sites sit polluted for decades because cleanup is expensive and still relies on excavating the soil, hauling it away, and … Continued
Economic Update: Christianity Split – Love vs. Hate [December 4th, 2025]
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the nationwide Starbucks strikes, the results of Trump’s tariffs: facts and fakery. The second part of the show features an interview with journalist and podcast host John Fugelsang about his new book: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the … Continued
Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast) – December 5, 2025
On today’s show: Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage 5,000 Arrests? ICE Descends on Louisiana to Carry Out Raids in World’s “Incarceration Capital” Trump Calls Somali Community “Garbage”: Minnesota Responds to Racist Rant and Immigration Sweeps “Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike … Continued
Tareq Baconi on Fire in Every Direction
00:08 Tareq Baconi is a writer and scholar, president of Al-Shabaka: the Palestinian Policy Network; author of the 2018 book Hamas Contained, and just out with the memoir Fire in Every Direction
Democracy Now! – December 5, 2025
On today’s show: Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage 5,000 Arrests? ICE Descends on Louisiana to Carry Out Raids in World’s “Incarceration Capital” Trump Calls Somali Community “Garbage”: Minnesota Responds to Racist Rant and Immigration Sweeps “Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike … Continued
Background Briefing (5am) – December 5, 2025
France’s Fifth Government in Three Years Collapses as the Far Right in Europe Rises We begin the collapse of France’s fifth government in three years fueling the rise of the far right National Rally party while Germany’s nativist AfD party grows in strength and the UK’s ruling Labor Party blows its mandate losing voters as … Continued
Puzzling Evidence – December 5, 2025
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Over the Edge – December 5, 2025
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues.
Calling All Seekers – December 4, 2025
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Hosted by Anthony Bonet, “Calling All Seekers” is a journey through sound and memory. This week we say goodbye to Steve Cropper (October 21, 1941 – December 3, 2025) — one of the architects of the “Stax Sound”, he was one of the most subtle and yet influential guitarists of all time. While you … Continued