Today on Flashpoints: Armed white racist-ranchers in Southern Oregon continue to trample over native Indian burial sites that go back fifteen thousand years, and longer, with out arrest or prosecution. Also violence in Haiti in the wake of tainted elections and massive protests. We’ll take another look at the health care debate: Did Hillary pillory … Continued
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Sunday morning in San Francisco, California, members of the Anti-Police Terror Project and Asians4BlackLives, a Bay Area group of Asian community organizers, held a community intervention in front of Ed Lee’s home to demand that he fire Police Chief Suhr and all officers involved in the murders of Mario Woods, Amilcar Lopez, and Alex Nieto. … Continued
With Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University and author of several books including The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. And Tom Turner. Turner has worked at the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, and Earthjustice. He is the author of the biography David Brower: The Making of … Continued
How cheap oil changes world politics: we talk to Michael Klare about elections, wars, and climate change. Then another side effect of plunging prices: the demise of this country’s newest news network, Al Jazeera America. Guests: Michael Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, author of many books on on the … Continued
The Kochs & the Nazis: Book Reveals Billionaires’ Father Built Key Oil Refinery for the Third Reich; Dark Money: Jane Mayer on How the Koch Bros. & Billionaire Allies Funded the Rise of the Far Right; How the Kochs Tried (and Failed) to Discredit Reporter Jane Mayer After She Exposed their Empire.
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Tonight’s program features: an interview on the Salvadoran Literacy campaign that reveals the state of affairs in the country; a discussion with Paul Flores about his play, “Placas, The Most Dangerous Tatoo;” a tribute to poet activists Mamacoatl and Francisco X. Alarcon; and musica and a calendar of upcoming events.
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On today’s program we speak with Alicia one of the protesters from the Bay Area Bridge shut down. And later we hear from organizers gathered at the homes of Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf, Police Chief Sean Whent and San Francisco’s Police Chief Greg Suhr to protest the accelerated expulsion of Black and Brown people from … Continued
The science of the aging process, with guest: Dr. Jay Olshansky. Hosted by Michio Kaku.
Jeffry Fawcett PhD and Layna Berman review the American Cancer Society’s new guidelines for mammograms and critique them using several review articles and editorials pointing to increased mortality from overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
When, in response to police violence, Black Lives Matter and other protesters get unruly or violent, they are condemned for not following the lead of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Juliet Hooker considers whether it’s fair to expect Blacks, who she says have been perpetual losers in U.S. democracy, to peacefully acquiesce, to behave like … Continued
