Talkies – January 24, 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.
Featured Episode
California is facing a growing crisis as wildfires become more frequent, intense, and devastating. In the face of the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles this month, youth climate activists there are sounding the alarm. Local activists from the Sunrise Movement’s LA chapter made headlines last week by staging a takeover of the Phillips 66 refinery, … Continued
Persistent Homelessness: Capitalism’s Housing Failures
In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses updates on deep political corruption: the Illinois example; the final statistics on the 2024 presidential election results, which did NOT give Trump any mandate; the Canadian government forcing 55,000 striking postal workers back to work, despite massive worker opposition. Finally, we have an interview with … Continued
Songs to Obsess Over & Over… January 2025 Edition
Songs to Obsess Over & Over… January 2025 Edition Sault – I Look For You (Forever Living) The mysterious UK outfit known as Sault has been dropping some of the most incredible music of this decade with 10 albums in only 6 years. We had 2 drop in 2019, 2 in 2020, 5 in 2022 … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – January 24, 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).
When Jews organize against Zionism
00:08 Rabbi Alissa Wise is currently the Lead Organizer and Co-founder of Rabbis for Ceasefire, Rebecca Vilkomerson is former Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace and now Co-Director of the Funding Freedom project. They’ve co-authored the book Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing.
Democracy Now 6am – January 24, 2025
On today’s show: “Shock and Awe”: Immigration Raids Begin as Judge Halts Unconstitutional Birthright Citizenship Order Justin Hansford: Marcus Garvey’s Pardon Is Part of Undoing “Harms of the Past,” Honoring Black History Journalist Peter Greste, Once Jailed in Egypt, Joins Hunger Strike for Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s Freedom
Gil Duran / George Beebe / William Hartung
A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump’s Firehose of Reactionary Initiatives
Trump Threatens to Sanction Putin and Calls on OPEC to Lower Oil Prices to Force Russia to End Its War On Ukraine
The Tech-Industrial Complex’s Plans to Capture the Defense Budget
Puzzling Evidence – January 24, 2025
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Over the Edge – January 24, 2025
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues.