Today on the Show: More arrests around the country, and around the world, in the growing global resistance to the expanding Genocide in Palestine. Also we continue our special Drum Beat Coverage of Haiti 20 years after the US coup: Flashpoints senior producer, Kevin Pina and country expert, Journalist Jeb Sprague, report on the violent … Continued
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We speak with Chilean artists Ana Tijoux about her new album and upcoming Bay Area appearance. 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.
Have Israel’s Right Wing Supporters and the AIPAC Lobby Lost the Narrative on Israel in Popular Culture? We begin with last night’s Academy Awards at which Jonathan Glazer, the winning international film director of The Zone of Interest, a movie about the banality of evil, portraying the family of the Commandant of Auschwitz living ordinary lives … Continued
According to a survey conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, one in 10 Americans report experiencing anxiety because of global warming. Join Nurse Rona and her guests, Anya Kamenetz and Matt Renner, to discuss why we need to talk about Climate and Mental … Continued
Today Women’s Magazine host Lisa Dettmer talks to guests who celebrate and remember the groundbreaking anthology, Chicana Lesbians: The Girls our Mothers Warned us About. Published in 1991, the anthology is the first critical and creative book to specifically address the complex lives and challenges of Chicana lesbians. Described by Amazon as “the most important book … Continued
Medicines – we’re told by the pharmaceuticals industry – are expensive by necessity owing to the high costs of research and development. Yet, as with the vaccines for Covid, much research is publicly-funded, and much comes out of universities. And, as Nick Dearden argues, only 3% of new drugs even represent actual breakthroughs. Instead most … Continued
Ralph Nader speaks to law professor Barbara McQuade, who specializes in national security issues and has written a book that outlines a very real threat to American democracy: Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America. Then, Lawrence Wilkerson sums up Israeli goals in its war on the Palestinians with three words: eradication, elimination, and … Continued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_zSUlv0K0 Guest: Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Bartov is a historian of the Holocaust and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on genocide. He is the author of numerous books, including Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Israel-Palestine: Lands and … Continued
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Is the U.S. culpable of the war crimes being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people? Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies says, “If the U.S. actually said, ‘We’re going to stop the flow of weapons to Israel,’ that is the one thing that I think could lead … Continued
