Fund Drive Special: Greg Palast
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1 @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
Featured Episode
With Gerald Russell, former British and United Nations diplomat, who spent 14 years representing Britain in the Middle East. His book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East is featured as part of the Letters and Politics Religion Pack Interviews offered on the current KPFA fund drive. Other interviews featured on … Continued
Oliver Stone & Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Making New Film “Snowden,” Humanizing World’s Most Wanted Man
Oliver Stone & Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Making New Film “Snowden,” Humanizing World’s Most Wanted Man; “Pardon Snowden” Campaign Launches, Led by ACLU, Amnesty & Human Rights Watch; Obama’s War on Whistleblowers Forced Edward Snowden to Release Documents, Says Wikileaks Editor; Is Hillary Clinton’s Criticism of Edward Snowden a Distraction from Real Issue of Surveillance?
Listen to excerpts of the Veterans for Peace Event; and The Untold History of The United States.
Today on Flashpoints: More arrests in North Dakota in defense of mother Earth. We’ll speak with Tom Goldtooth, a Native American environmental activist. And we air excerpts of the documentary film by Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
James W. Loewen is an acclaimed historian and best-selling author whose mission is to overturn myths and misinformation that too often pass for U.S. history. A highly sought-after speaker and author, he engages audiences with intelligence and humor, honing in on a range of topics encompassing U.S. history, multicultural education, civil rights, race relations, voting … Continued
Heist: Who Stole The American Dream
With Arlie Russell Hochschild author of the book Strangers in Their Own Land Anger and Mourning on the American Right. About the book: In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country—a stronghold of the conservative … Continued
“Everything Was Cut Immediately”: LIU Faculty and Students Protest Lockout & Class Cancellations; Rep. Barbara Lee on Hillary Clinton’s Health: Transparency is Important, But We Need to Move Forward; Rep. Barbara Lee: Repeal 9/11 Authorization for Use of Force to Cancel Blank Check for Endless War; Lawyer for Imprisoned Whistleblower Chelsea Manning: Ongoing Pattern of … Continued
We check in with George Farah, who reveals the “Secrets of the Tomb,” otherwise known as the Commission on Presidential Debates. And the Mathbabe, Cathy O’Neil, drops in to discuss how numbers can crunch us with her book Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.