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On today’s show we’ll examine the upcoming French Presidential elections and the rise of the leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mlenchon. My guest Jean Bricmont will join us from Paris to explain the significance of Mlenchon’s candidacy. And, Robert Weissman of Public Citizen will explain what his organization has found about Donald Trump’s meetings with corporate CEOs … Continued
On today’s show we speak about Berkeley being a battlefield last Saturday, we have Frances Dinkelspiel, Editor and Co-founder of the online newspaper Berkeleyside and Natalie Orenstein, Reporter with Berkeleyside to give us an account of the events. A Lethal Injection Room Source Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SQ_Lethal_Injection_Room.jpg Then, we talk about the Arkansas executions with Jessica Brand legal director at Harvard … Continued
First Roger Ailes, Now Bill O’Reilly: Sexual Harassment Scandal Ousts Top Men at Fox News; Kleptocracy?: How Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Personally Profit from Their Roles in the White House; “Biggest Humanitarian Catastrophe Since 2003 Invasion”: Journalist Anand Gopal on Battle for Mosul.
Clarinet Thing and the Stray Horns play the Music of Duke Ellington, live on The Hear and Now, Thursday, April 20, 10 p.m.
Derk Richardson hosts a Duke Ellington mini-festival, with Clarinet Thing and the Stray Horns performing live in the KPFA studio– a preview of the “Celebrating Duke’s Birthday” concerts coming up on April 22 and April 29 at Musically Minded Academy in Oakland. (These will the last events in Jim Bennett’s In the Moment Concert Series … Continued
More on Malthus; Militant Artists
Part Two of the interview with Fred Block about Malthusianism old and new (the first part is here), plus Nicolas Lampert discusses the intersection of art and social movement activism in the U.S. Fred Block and Margaret Somers, The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique Harvard University Press, 2016 Nicolas Lampert, A People’s Art … Continued
On today’s show we speak of the special congressional campaign with John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation magazine. French Republic Logo Then we talk about the nearing French presidential elections. Next Sunday, April the 23rd, the French people will vote for the first round of its election. Guest Arthur Goldhammer, who has a website … Continued
More than a thousand Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike while being held in Israeli prisons under brutal conditions. On today’s show we’ll speak with our correspondent, the long-time Palestinian rights activist Huwaida Arraf about it. And, California Governor Jerry Brown has just pardoned 3 deported US military veterans. Among them is my guest Hector … Continued
On today’s show we talk with John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation magazine, about the special congressional election. Source Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress Then, we talk about violence prevention in Oakland with Lynnette Gibson McElhaney member of the Oakland City Council for District 3 and Greg Hodge Oakland activist.
Was a Police Report Altered to Convict a Man for Murder? Inside a Woman’s Quest to Free Her Brother; Massachusetts to Throw Out 21,000 Drug Convictions After State Chemist Tampers Evidence for 9 Years; Meet Timothy Taylor, Convicted on Drug Evidence Handled by a State Chemist Who Falsified Tests; White Nationalists, Neo-Nazis & Right-Wing Militia … Continued