The Bonnie Simmons Show – December 11, 2025
Bonnie Simmons presents a unique mix of singer/songwriter folk, rock, soul, country, and R&B.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Indiana senate votes down GOP redistricting plan that could have eliminated 2 democratic house seats; Senate votes down Dem, GOP health bills, Affordable Care Act health costs to skyrocket; Homeland Security Secretary Noem defends immigration crackdown at … Continued
Flashpoints – December 11, 2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
On Hard Knock Radio, I sat down with Jelani Cobb—dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, and a thinker rooted in Hip Hop’s habit of connecting dots across time. We talked about his new book, Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here (2012–2025). I called it “a book … Continued
Background Briefing – December 11, 2025
Trump Targets Venezuela’s Oil, Intensifying Pressure on Maduro We begin with escalating pressure on Venezuela with a “shadow fleet” supertanker carrying oil to Cuba and Iran seized by the U.S. further driving up the cost of exporting Venezuelan oil that is discounted to compete with sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil. Joining us is David Smilde, … Continued
Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 11, 2025
Bookwaves/Artwaves presents in-depth interviews with authors of fiction and narrative non-fiction, delving deeply into political and social issues, literary technique, and the life of the author, along with interviews devoted to theatre and film, and archive interviews from Bookwaves and Probabilities. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Fundraising special: Trump’s natsec strategy, the US gov as private equity firm
Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy • Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)
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What life is like in the newsrooms and on the beat for LGBTQ+ reporters in a time when there’s too much news to and fewer jobs, according to Los Angeles chapter co-presidents Hansen Bursic and Katie Karl of NLGJA: the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists (in a roundtable with This Way Out’s Lucia Chappelle, interviewed by Brian DeShazor).
Plus the reign of a lesbian queen, two music halls, human rights milestones, Southern Hemisphere civil unions and more in The Rainbow Rewind (produced by Brian DeShazor and Sheri Lunn).
Special Fund Drive Programming – Mitch Reads Animal Farm
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