Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. US announces program to guide ships through Strait of Hormuz, as attacks on ships continue; Israel readies new attacks, buffer zone in Gaza, Palestinians fear new war and genocide as attacks continue; US Justice Department investigating beef … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: We devote the entire hour to Haiti. We’ll speak with our clandestine correspondent on the ground in Port au Prince about the situation facing 1.5 million people internally displaced in makeshift camps. Then we pivot to a discussion of the harrowing situation facing hundreds of thousands of Haitians who will be deported … Continued
Hard Knock Radio: Voting Rights Under Attack and the Fight Ahead (HKR-05-04-26) On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D brings together two powerful voices, Rukia Lumumba of the Movement for Black Lives and Dr. James Taylor, political scientist, to unpack the far-reaching impact of the Supreme Court’s decision weakening the Voting Rights … Continued
On today’s briefing: Leaks From European Intel Say Putin is Increasingly Paranoid and Afraid of His Own Military We begin with leaks to CNN from European Intelligence Services suggesting Putin is increasingly paranoid and hunkered down in a bunker in Kraznodar in Southern Russia apparently afraid of his own military while taking extreme measures to … Continued
By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radical spike in hate crimes. In times of massive disruption and economic stress, what Carl Jung called the “shadow side of the psyche” comes into play: the pronounced psychological tendency in the collective psyche … Continued
Wireless radiation – the kind emitted bay every cell phone, cell tower, tablet, laptop and wireless baby monitor – can interfere with the normal fetal development. This week on Green Street, after the news of the week, Patti talks about the emerging science linking exposure to wireless radiation to abnormal brain development, and the simple … Continued
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Recessions, trade wars, labor unrest — in moments of societal crisis in the United States, Asian-Americans have been perennially targeted, from the destruction of Chinatowns by white mobs, to the mass internment of Japanese-Americans during WW2, to attacks against Asians during Covid. Historian Scott Kurashige reflects on more than 175 years of anti-Asian violence and … Continued
Ralph welcomes six authors to discuss their books: “Beyond Nuclear” founder Linda Gunter; trial lawyer Sean Simpson; law professor Elizabeth Burch; naturalist David Schmidt; industrial hygienist Marc Axelrod; and educator and advocate Jonathan Kozol. Linda Gunter is the founder of the US-based non-profit Beyond Nuclear and serves as its international specialist. Previously, she was a journalist … Continued
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