Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Trump takes over DC police, sends National Guard in move Dems blast as authoritarian power grab; Israeli attack kills 5 reporters, 4 from Al Jazeera, UN calls it breach of international humanitarian law; Netanyahu plans takeover of … Continued
Today on the show: Israel using starvation and mass murder of journalists in their US armed and supported genocide in Gaza. We’ll be joined by Ziad Abbas from the Middle-east children’s alliance and Hani Almadhoun Senior Director at UNRWA USA
Fighting Back Against Censorship On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with Emerson Sykes, senior staff attorney at the ACLU, to unpack the growing wave of book bans and attacks on free speech sweeping across the U.S. The conversation spotlights the federal governments removal of nearly 600 books”includingCant Stop Wont … Continued
We take a deep dive into regenerative ocean farming, an extraordinarily productive and low-impact way of producing vast quantities of food for a growing population. It has the potential to re-make agriculture from the bottom up, while regenerating oceans, farmlands, farmer livelihoods, and the climate. With Bren Smith, Co-Executive Director and Co-founder of GreenWave and … Continued
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the health hazards of wildfire smoke and how to stay safe, the effort by the United States to undermine a global plastics treaty ahead of the UN conference in Geneva, and the new report showing that Americans are getting a majority of their calories from … Continued
Today Lisa Dettmer will talk to Maureen Gosling about her new film “The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane” that is playing the El Cerrito Rialto cinema on august 14th at 7pm. But first I will talk to Judith Raiskin and Courtney Hermann about their new film “Outliers and Outlaws” on the lesbians of the 70’s … Continued
The climate crisis no longer looms in the future, but has arrived in the form of deadly heat waves, enormous floods and wildfires, hurricanes, and droughts. It’s clear that, along with fighting to slow climate change, we also need to protect ourselves and the most vulnerable around us from the devastating effects of global warming … Continued
Ralph Nader talks about what’s happening in America, what’s happening around the world, and most importantly what’s happening underneath it all.
Guest: Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. She writes for publications including The Atlantic and leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series. She is the author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
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).
