In the first hour The Great Debate with Robert Scheer, editor of truthdig.com, author of “They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy”. In the second hour Kristina Rizga author of “Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made … Continued
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Featuring music from Los Angeles 4-piece group Talk In Tongues who just recently dropped their debut album on Fairfax. Oakland, California’s Sugar Candy Mountain with their lovely psychedelic and harmonious sound. Brooklyn’s quintet Walking Shapes signed to No Shame, also a trio based out of Toronto, Ontario who call themselves Tearjerker. Musical project out of … Continued
This weekend marks the anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. We talk with Tia Oso, who interrupted NetRoots Nation to remind that black lives matter. It’s the Berkeley Barb’s 50th anniversary–we’ll talk about journalism, then and now. PLUS: David Casarett, Md and professor of medicine, makes the case for the medical … Continued
Since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise disturbing connections to the past. On this week’s show, we’ll hear about hard fought battles for voting rights and the implications of new laws. Featuring: Reverend Tyrone Edwards, civil rights historian in Plaquemines Parish … Continued
Lead the Way Out of the Interrogation Room: Will American Psychological Assoc. End Role in Torture? James Risen: In Sharp Break from Past, APA Set to Vote on Barring Psychologists from Interrogations; Gitmo is a “Rights-Free Zone”: Dissident Psychologists Speak Out on APA Role in CIA-Pentagon Torture; First Republican Debate of 2016 Presidential Race Kicks … Continued
Lead the Way Out of the Interrogation Room: Will American Psychological Assoc. End Role in Torture? James Risen: In Sharp Break from Past, APA Set to Vote on Barring Psychologists from Interrogations; Gitmo is a “Rights-Free Zone”: Dissident Psychologists Speak Out on APA Role in CIA-Pentagon Torture; First Republican Debate of 2016 Presidential Race Kicks … Continued
Tonight, we mark the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. We bring you interviews and sound from a demonstration that took place at the gates of the Livermore nuclear weapons lab, one of the world’s primary design labs for nuclear weapons, where the U.S. is presently spending billions … Continued
We speak with Jamala Rogers the author of the new book Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion. Also Poor News Network brings us insight to the plight of the economically challenged in America. http://fergusonamerica.com/ Jamala currently resides in St. Louis, MO where she has devoted all of her adult life to creating a child-centered, family-oriented … Continued
Seventy years ago, the United States became the first and only country to use a nuclear weapon in warfare. We’ll chronicle the mobilization of scientists, money, and industry that made the bomb possible; how that created a political juggernaut that secured more and more money for military research, even in peacetime—and how it all started … Continued
Japanese Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe on 70th Anniv. of US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; On Hiroshima Anniv. Peacemakers March on Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab, Birthplace of Atomic Bomb.
