Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The international community reacts to the toppling of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad, the Biden Administration offers cautious encouragement. Police arrest a suspect in Pennsylvania linked to the shooting death of a health insurance executive in New York. … Continued
Today on show: As Assad falls, Israel Invades Syria. Richard Silverstein reports on how Israel played a pivotal role in the chain of events leading to Assad’s overthrow: And Greg Palast is back to tell us How to put Welfare Queen Elon Musk out of Business, and why that might be important.
On a recent episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace about the escalating tensions in the Middle East, particularly focusing on Israel’s recent air strikes across Syria. They discussed the broader geopolitical implications of these strikes, the involvement of international powers like the U.S. … Continued
How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics
How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump’s “America First” Unilateralism and Biden’s “America is Back” Nostalgia
Green Street is preempted today by a one-hour special with Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, on the collapse of the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Israel’s post-collapse bombings, incursions in Syria, and what comes next. Bennis’s forthcoming book, Understanding Palestine and Israel, is available as a thank-you gift … Continued
This Monday December 9th at 1pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer talks to scholar Dr. Katie Gaddini who is an expert on young conservative evangelical women in the U.S. and the UK in order to try and find out why so many young conservative christian women supported Trump, what gender politics have to … Continued
Christopher Bache, a professor emeritus of philosophy and religious studies, discusses his twenty-year psychedelic journey, which is described and interpreted in his book “LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven.”
Ralph welcomes international human rights lawyer and activist, and former senior United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber to discuss Israel and Gaza — asking whether Israel should be thrown out of the UN, how Trump’s positions will compare to Biden’s, and whether we’re starting to see cracks in Israel’s wall of impunity. Craig Mokhiber … Continued
Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age and her latest, Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God.
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