Flashpoints – September 2, 2024
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
Voter Suppression
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In this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with John Reimann, a union organizer from Oakland Socialist, to dissect pressing issues concerning voter suppression and controversial legislative bills in California. Their conversation deeply explores the implications of these legislative actions on democratic rights and educational content in schools. Davey D sets … Continued
James Risen / Rabbi Steven Jacobs / Jennifer McCoy
The Media’s Horse-race Coverage of the Election as CNN’s Pathetic Harris/Walz Interview Asks Trump/Vance Attack Lines to Avoid the “Liberal Media” Label
Give a Post-Gaza Israeli/Palestinian Peace a Chance
The Domestic Threat to Democracy Posed by Trump and Project 2025
9/2/24 Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening
Nurse Rona interviews bestselling novelist, poet, and essayist, Elizabeth Rosner about her new book…Third Ear…Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening. This book is about many things, including our well being as individuals, family members, and humans living in a world that needs us to pay deep attention.
Womens Magazine – September 2, 2024
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
What does the expansion and intensification of nighttime labor say about the workings of capitalism, and what did Marx say about wage labor done in the wee hours? Paul Apostolidis draws from the working-day chapter in Marx’s Capital an emphasis on social reproduction, which he believes should be a key focus of contemporary worker struggles. (Encore presentation.) Paul Apostolidis, The Fight … Continued
Covid Update from Dr. Michael Osterholm
Ralph welcomes back Dr. Michael Osterholm for a COVID check-up. They’ll discuss the latest vaccines, what we know about long-haul COVID, updated testing guidelines, and some of the key lessons we can take from COVID and apply to future outbreaks. Dr. Michael Osterholm is a professor and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research … Continued
Guest: Daniela Cammack is Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching focus on the history of democracy and constitutionalism. She is currently working on a book on ancient Greek democracy.
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – September 2, 2024
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).
Environmental Warfare in Gaza w/ Shourideh Molavi; plus Resistance in Residence artist Ayodele Nzinga
On today’s show – a timely and powerful conversation with author and activist Shourideh Molavi about her new book Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance which chronicles the legacy of land control, degradation and theft as part of the Zionist war chest. We talk perimeters, environmental warfare and crop control … Continued