Trump Frees Alice Johnson; What About Thousands Still Serving Life for Nonviolent Drug Offenses? Students Push to Oust Nicaraguan President Ortega as Death Toll Rises Amid Bloody Police Crackdown; The Country Is Crying: Nicaraguan Mother Demands Justice After Police Kill Her Son at Protest; Mexican Court Orders Truth Commission to Oversee New Investigation of 43 … Continued


7:34 David Schmerler is a Research Associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) at Monterey (@DaveSchmerler) 8:08 Paul Reeberg is a sustainability researcher and author of “Planning for a Liveable City” 8:34 Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of Coepink and Global Exchange, just out with a new book called … Continued


The Hear and Now – Thursday, June 7: Singer-songwriter-guitarist Maurice Tani performs live, plus an interview with filmmaker Bob Sarles

Maurice Tani calls his original West Coast country sound “Supercalifornigraphic.” The native San Franciscan is a storytelling singer-songwriter who happens to tear up the stage with his guitar playing. Previewing his Friday, June 8, concert at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, Tani performs live in the KPFA performance studio with Henry Salvia on piano … Continued


A first Wednesday means another edition of THE NINA-JACK-JACK-NINA SHOW, another compendium of radio hijinks (and lowjinks too) featuring Nina Serrano and Jack Foley with his partner, Sangye Land.  What can be done with this amazing mass medium Nina, Jack and Sangye will attempt to do. Irrelevant irradiance! Have you heard their singing? Today’s show will feature the usual potpourri of razzmatazz, hullabaloo, and serious if sometimes doubtful cunning concatenations.


Mitch Jeserich speaks to John Nichols of the Nation Magazine about last night’s primaries, this year’s midterms and the state of the Republic. Then, marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Mitch Jeserich speaks to journalist and historian Ellen Meacham, author of the book Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi. … Continued


Donald Trump has claimed the “absolute right” to pardon himself and also claimed he can pardon anyone he likes, in his on-going defensive posture toward Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The wild claims come at the same time that Mueller has accused Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort with witness tampering, which will likely lead … Continued


In 2009, the mainstream, but democratically-elected government of Honduras was overthrown in a coup that was backed by the United States.  Probably no surprise there: the US has a long history of supporting repressive regimes in that country.  But what was surprising, medical anthropologist Adrienne Pine argues, was the response of the until-then fairly quiescent … Continued