Talkies – April 11, 2025
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Featured Episode
In March, a North Dakota jury found against Greenpeace in a highly watched trial, ordering the environmental group to pay pipeline company Energy Transfer more than $660 million in damages. The case stems from the Standing Rock protests in 2016 and 2017, an Indigenous led movement to stop construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. Energy … Continued
Unlearning Market Idolatry
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff explores the last 150 years of largely uncritical celebrations of “the market” as if it were a perfect institution that must be protected from the intrusion of other institutions such as the government, labor unions, and popular organizations. We compare a historical example and the present to criticize … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – April 11, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
On today’s show, I’ll speak to Stacy Malkan, US Right To Know co-founder and managing editor, about Bayer/Monsanto’s latest scheme to get out paying billions in compensation for all the cancer it has knowlingly caused. We’ll switch gears and speak to Ecology Center’s executive director Martin Bourque about the possible federal cuts to SNAP/EBT. Stacy … Continued
James Galbraith on what a trade war with China means
00:08 James K. Galbraith is professor of Economics and Social Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1993 to 1997 he served as chief technical adviser for Macroeconomic Reform to the State Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China. His latest book, co-authored with Jing Chen, is Entropy Economics: The Living Basis … Continued
Democracy Now 6am – April 11, 2025
On today’s show: Supreme Court Orders U.S. to “Facilitate” Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador Michigan Lawyer Detained at Detroit Airport, Phone Seized; He Represents Pro-Palestine Protester Microsoft Worker Fired for Israel Protest: “Cloud and AI Are the Bombs and Bullets of the 21st Century” “The Teacher”: Director Farah Nabulsi and Actor Saleh … Continued
Joseph Stiglitz / Barry Eichengreen / Christopher Meissner
Trump’s MAGA Economy Driven by Greed, Stupidity, and Cowardice
Will Trump’s Weakening of the Dollar Lead to a New Global Reserve Currency?
The Hollow Nature of Trump’s Promise of Gain After the Pain
Puzzling Evidence – April 11, 2025
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Over the Edge – April 11, 2025
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues.