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


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