Flashpoints – May 22, 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.
Featured Episode
Hard Knock Radio – May 22, 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.
Robert Johnson / Joan Williams
What Will the Senate Do With Trump’s Robin-Hood-In-Reverse “Big, Beautiful Bill”?
Why the Democratic Party’s “Brahmin Left” Lost America’s Working Men and Women, and How to Win Them Back
The Visionary Activist Show – Radio Magic for the Forests
Radio Magic for the Forests, Caroline welcomes the return of Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Who says Radio holds the ear, and fires the imagination… So we light our collaborative kinship fires, to quell the fires… Weaving Nature to resolve human cruelty…. Speaker for the Trees, Botanist, medical biochemist and author Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger possesses a unique combination … Continued
Today’s episode of Bookwaves/Artwaves is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from the classic writings The Way of Chuang Tzu, translated by Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang … Continued
Fundraising special: two views of Israel–Palestine
Meron Rapoport, co-author of this article, on Israel’s strategy of destruction in Gaza • Mouin Rabbani on Israeli politics, the fate of the Palestinians, and Trump’s scheming
Today’s episodes of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa and This Way Out are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Liam O’Donoghue speaks with renown geographer and author Richard Walker about his view of cities as living organisms and the role industry plays in development and ongoing health of cities. … Continued
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts of the Iliad by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson. Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – May 22, 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).
Palestine Post: A Genocide Foretold w/ Chris Hedges – Spring Fund Drive Special
On today’s show, we’re in conversation with Chris Hedges about his latest book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive Chris Hedges new book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. In it, the Pulitzer Prize–winning former Middle East Bureau Chief … Continued