Talkies – July 4, 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.
Featured Episode
Berkeley is home to a number of innovative recycling and zero-waste programs that aim to divert waste from landfills. The city’s Recycling Team works with residents, restaurants, schools, hospitals and more, to provide education and support businesses to comply with local, state, and national mandates. Host and producer Fiona McLeod speaks with two members of … Continued
How Deep Fascist Parallels Run
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff, responding to requests, explores the parallels between what led to the rise of Hitler and fascism in Germany after World War I and what has brought the US to Trump and his current policies. Many key basic parallels are presented alongside some remaining differences that help explain why … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – July 4, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
On today’s show, a bailout for California oil refineries? I’ll speak to Consumer Watchdog’s founder and executive director Jaime Court about the pushback from 50 plus environmental and public interest groups. We’ll switch gears and commemorate 10 years of U.S. Right To Know with co-founder and managing editor Stacy Malkan. In lieu of news headlines, … Continued
Vincent Bevins on why uprisings fail, lately (rebroadcast)
00:08 Vincent Bevins, formerly Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles times, and Southeast Asia correspondent for the Washington Post, both of which jobs gave him a front-row seat to recent social upheavals. His new book is If We Burn: the mass protest decade and the missing revolution. (this is a rebroadcast of an interview originally … Continued
Democracy Now 6am – July 4, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Edward McCaffery/Gregory Treverton/Raed Jarrar
The Republican’s Cynical Ploy to Give Billionaires Tax Breaks Immediately While Delaying Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance Until After the Midterms We begin with Republican cynicism as they try to push through Trump’s megabill without even their own members having time to read it so they can give tax breaks to billionaires immediately but … Continued
Puzzling Evidence – July 4, 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 – July 4, 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.