Flashpoints – May 23, 2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
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Hard Knock Radio – May 23, 2025
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
Today’s episode of Talk-It-Out Radio is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. C.S. Soong speaks with Emersonian scholar and teacher Mark Matousek about his book Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life. To support our mission and receive the book Emerson, the Stoics, and Me as a thank-you … Continued
Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Sasha Lilley speaks with Greg King, an award-winning journalist and activist credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable … Continued
Today’s episode of Project Censored is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Brian Edwards-Tiekert speaks with author and political commentator Malcolm Harris about his latest book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. To support our mission and receive the Malcolm Harris’s book What’s Left as a thank-you gift, please donate … Continued
Talkies – May 23, 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.
The Corporatization of Universities and Trump’s Attacks
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff begins by presenting updates on the death of libertarianism and the rise of U.S. economic nationalism, then on U.S. universities becoming big businesses, governed by money concerns. In the episode’s second half, Professor Wolff interviews Professor Geert Dhondt, the Chair of the Economics Department and Economics Professor at … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – May 23, 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).
Today’s episode of A Rude Awakening is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Brian Edwards-Tiekert speaks with photographer and author Josh Jackson, an advocate for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Through his Forgotten Lands Project, he employs storytelling and visual narratives to inspire engagement with California’s … Continued
UpFront – May 23, 2025
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.