Noam Chomsky: Trump Administration Is Aiming to Decimate All Programs to Help Working People; Chomsky: With U.S. History of Overthrowing Govts, Outrage over Russian Hacking Claims is Laughable; When Scapegoating Immigrants No Longer Works, Would Trump Stage an Attack to Maintain Power? Extraordinarily Dangerous: Chomsky on How Trump’s Threats Toward N. Korea Could Backfire; Chomsky: … Continued


Noam Chomsky: Trump Administration Is Aiming to Decimate All Programs to Help Working People; Chomsky: With U.S. History of Overthrowing Govts, Outrage over Russian Hacking Claims is Laughable; When Scapegoating Immigrants No Longer Works, Would Trump Stage an Attack to Maintain Power? Extraordinarily Dangerous: Chomsky on How Trump’s Threats Toward N. Korea Could Backfire; Chomsky: … Continued


After Trump and Pussy Hats, With Chris Hedges.  Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter & Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution produced an event, AFTER TRUMP AND PUSSY HATS, A discussion of next steps With Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and leading Vancouver feminist Suzanne Jay. Hedges is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, New York Times best … Continued


Today’s show features speeches from the Anti Inauguration Event, hosted January the 20th by Verso Books, Haymarket Books and the Jacobin Magazine. The first speech is by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of the book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and assistant professor at African American studies at Princeton University. The second speech is given by the Guardian newspaper journalist, … Continued


Michael Eric Dyson is one of America’s premier public intellectuals. He is the University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, has been an ordained minister for 35 years, is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, A contributing editor for The New Republic and ESPN’s The Undefeated.  Ebony Magazine named him one of … Continued


Against the Grain

The Southern Strategy, Racism, and the Republican Party

The overtly racist politics of Donald Trump has been called unprecedented — a break from the Republican Party’s past rules of engagement.  But a look backward, particularly at the GOP’s Southern Strategy to woo white voters based on segregationist or racist appeals, indicates how inaccurate that assumption is. Edward H. Miller discusses the origins of … Continued