Journalist James Risen: CIA Torture Methods Caused Long-Term Psychological Harm to Former Prisoners; The White Helmets: As Syria Death Toll Mounts, Meet the Rescue Workers Saving Thousands of Lives; Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize For Literature: Listen to Rare Interviews and Songs from Pacifica Radio Archives; Surviving Torture in a CIA Secret Prison: Khaled al-Sharif … Continued
Since its inception, one of the main preoccupations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been black rebellion. From the early days of the Harlem Renaissance until at least J. Edgar Hoover’s death in 1972, the FBI has had a fascinated fear of African American literature. William J. Maxwell discusses how the FBI extensively surveilled … Continued
With Karen J. Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law and author of several books including The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days, The Torture Debate in America, Al Qaeda Now: Understanding Today’s Terrorists. Her latest is Rouge Justice: The Making of the Security State.
In this episode host Cat Brooks talks Trump with Jennifer Merolla, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside and co-author of the new book Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy. About the book: While undocumented immigration is controversial, the general public is largely unfamiliar with the particulars of immigration policy. … Continued
Leaked Hillary Clinton Emails: Could Bernie Sanders Have Won Primary If Leak Occurred Earlier? Climate Direct Action: Activists Halt Flow of Tar Sands Oil by Shutting Off Valves of Five Pipelines; Will Racist, Anti-Immigrant Trump Supporter Sheriff Joe Arpaio Be Jailed for Contempt of Court? Women’s Boat to Gaza: 13 Activists Detained by Israel, Weeks … Continued
In this interview Salima Hamirani speaks with Dr. Richard Wolff, a renowned American Marxist economist, about the state of politics in the US and his ideas for rewriting the economic script in the country. His latest book is Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.
Michael Shermer, debunking the paranormal. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss what climate change is doing to our very near future and how to come together to make that future livable. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
Akhil Gupta sees a growing tendency to view global poverty as a threat not to the acutely poor but to elites in the global North. Unchecked migration, terrorism, and disease vectors are seen as manifestations of that threat, against which elites now seek to protect themselves. This, according to Gupta, makes meaningful action to alleviate … Continued
With Attorney Chad Peace, legal counsel to the Independent Voter Project, Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR, a media watchdog group, and Roots Action, a public interest advocacy group, and Attorney Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer whose lawsuit challenging the Commission of Presidential Debates‘ process under anti-trust laws was recently turned down by the courts and … Continued
