Today we listen to a speech given by Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges at First Presbyterian Church in Berkeley on May 25 about the “dying empire”, Trump, and the urgency of reviving revolution. Hedges is a journalist, Princeton professor, and minister. Hosts Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Cat Brooks are offering the following items as thank-yous for donations: CD: KPFA-FM … Continued


Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University, is the author of On Tyranny. We need to an active relationship to history and an active relationship to our government institutions to avoid the tyrannies of the past. Practical advice from History for dealing with the present. He is the author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black … Continued


He was a trailblazing critic of imperialism, but chances are you’ve never heard his name.  The radical Japanese journalist Kotoku Shusui, who moved from socialism to anarchism, wrote a seminal critique of imperialism — before Hobson and Lenin — and led the movement against empire in Japan.  Robert Tierney discusses Kotoku, his classic work Imperialism, … Continued


“A Forgotten Crisis”: Yemen’s Aid Workers Speak Out About the World’s Worst Humanitarian Disaster; Minneapolis Police Chief Resigns over the Cop Shooting of Unarmed Woman. Will the Mayor Be Next? Criminologist Phil Stinson: Police Kill Three People Every Single Day in the United States; “Incoherent Policy”: U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iran Even as Trump Admits … Continued