Flashpoints – July 23, 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
On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with lawyer, journalist, and author Malaika Jabali to unpack her new book It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism. Drawing on her legal background and years of political reporting, Jabali challenges the myths surrounding capitalism and reframes our relationship to money, struggle, and systemic inequality. Jabali explains that the idea for the book … Continued
Background Briefing – July 23, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Special Fund Drive Programming
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Fund Drive Special: Fighting for the Redwoods
How was it that in less than two centuries the world’s tallest trees, the majestic redwoods, were almost logged off the face of the earth? And this despite the efforts over many generations, starting in the late 19th century, to preserve them. Greg King, writer and forest activist, argues that one of the world’s first … Continued
Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block talk about their book, “Strike While The Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Workers Revolt” (Common Notions, 2025), labor, history, music and culture in struggle
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – July 23, 2025
On Today’s Show: Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest Israel Waging “Fastest Starvation Campaign” in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food “Big Fat Bribe”: Stephen Colbert’s Show Canceled After He Slams Trump & Paramount/Skydance Merger Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, … Continued
Starvation in Gaza w/ Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch from Middle East Children’s Alliance – Summer Fund Drive
As the starvation and genocide in Gaza reaches an apex, we speak with Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch, the executive director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance. He is also a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee camp in the West Bank. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: [email protected] Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/
Greg Grandin on What the United States Learned from its Latin American Neighbors
00:08 — Greg Grandin, Professor of History at Yale University. His latest book is, “America, América: A New History of the New World”
Democracy Now 6am – July 23, 2025
On Today’s Show: Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest Israel Waging “Fastest Starvation Campaign” in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food “Big Fat Bribe”: Stephen Colbert’s Show Canceled After He Slams Trump & Paramount/Skydance Merger Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted … Continued