Background Briefing – May 18, 2026
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
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Mother Nature is the ultimate designer. After all, since life first emerged on Earth, she’s had 3.8 billion years of evolutionary R&D to get it right. Biomimicry is the art and science of learning from this ineffable genius: tapping into the patterns of nature to live harmoniously with life’s principles. We meet Janine Benyus, known … Continued
Could the air inside your car contain chemicals known to cause cancer? This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about Denmark’s amazing energy island and Al Gore’s thoughts about addressing the power demands of AI. Then biophysical chemist Dr. Arlene Blum, founder of the Green Science Policy Institute, talks about her lifetime of … Continued
Womens Magazine – May 18, 2026
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
It’s been called a new gold rush, but not of our external environment, which continues to be plundered, but of our internal environment — of our psyches. Historian of science D. Graham Burnett, one of the Friends of Attention, lays out what’s at stake — and how they’re organizing a movement to reclaim our attention. … Continued
The Ralph Nader Radio Hour – Varieties of Democracy
Ralph speaks to Dr. Marina Nord of the V-Dem Institute about this year’s V-Dem Democracy Report and how the Trump Administration is dismantling democracy in the US. Then, Ralph welcomes Dr. Ralph Estes to discuss corporations’ shady accounting practices. Dr. Marina Nord is a postdoctoral research fellow at the V-Dem Institute. She is co-author of … Continued
UpFront (Replay) – May 18, 2026
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast) – May 18, 2026
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Phyllis Bennis about the latest developments and analysis of the US/Israel war on Iran, Palestine and Lebanon. Phyllis Bennis. is the co-director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), her work focuses on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and the US-United Nations relations. She … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.