National • News & Public Affairs
A weekly one-hour public affairs radio program that provides analyses and views that are ignored or distorted in most media. Guests have included Dar Jamail, Michael Pollan, Noam Chomsky, Antonia Jusef, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Jeff Cohen, David Zirin, Bill Moyers and Howard Zinn.
A weekly one-hour public affairs radio program that provides analyses and views that are ignored or distorted in most media. Guests have included Dar Jamail, Michael Pollan, Noam Chomsky, Antonia Jusef, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Jeff Cohen, David Zirin, Bill Moyers and Howard Zinn.
Upcoming Episodes
April 23, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Houshamadyan: Armenian Memory Books with Khatchig Mouradian
April 24th marks the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Houshamadyan are precious memory books of “yergeer”, the country Khatchig Mouradian’s ancestors were forced to abandon, a millennial-old Armenian civilization virtually lost but not forgotten.
Read MoreApril 9, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Israel, the U.S. & Palestine with Richard Forer
The U.S. has given Israel hundreds of billions in aid over the years. In addition, Washington provides crucial diplomatic, political and military support. So, is Israel committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Richard Forer discusses that and the role of the United States in these matters!
ListenApril 2, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Environmental Justice with Maria López-Nuñez
Nationally, where are polluters located? Overwhelmingly in poor communities of color like the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ, where activists are organizing and fighting back to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community. Maria López-Nuñez discusses.
Read MoreMarch 26, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Anti-Semitism, Anti-Black Racism & Misogyny with Doris Bergen
Bergen discusses the bigotry, hatred, fear and loathing that are on the rise and the vulnerable groups are being targeted. Are there new Hitlers loose in America today, both in high and low places?
Read MoreMarch 19, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
History, Trauma & the Lack of Empathy with Gabor Maté
Empathy is the ability to take on another person’s perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. Victims need our empathy, our compassion but not according to the world’s richest man. Elon Musk has said, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” Wow. Gabor Maté discusses this issue
Read MoreMarch 12, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Workers! Fight Back! With Kshama Sawant & Chris Hedges
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, is led by Elon Musk. It operates in virtual secrecy and its tactics have resulted in thousands of government workers losing their jobs, sometimes with little or no notice. Budgets are being hollowed out to pay for massive tax breaks for the oligarchs. Activist, organizer, politician Kshama Sawant believes there’s only one thing that will stop the Trump-Musk juggernaut. Collective citizen action. Workers! Fight Back!
Read MoreMarch 5, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
You Have to Fight Back with Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali thinks that what the United States needs today is opposition to Trump, Elon Musk and the “gazillionaires”. We need activists which fight back politically, intellectually, and culturally with arguments, and, when necessary, they should come out on the streets to defend democracy, a grassroots uprising.
Read MoreFebruary 26, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Israel’s Goal in Gaza with Norman Finkelstein
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes the conditions for Palestinians in Gaza are appalling and apocalyptic. According to some prominent Israeli scholars, Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide. Israel’s goal in Gaza has been made explicitly clear by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: eliminate the Palestinians. Finkelstein discusses!
Read MoreFebruary 19, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
A People’s History of the United States (part 2) with Howard Zinn
Most analyses of the history of the United States is top-down looking at history from the standpoint of great men like presidents, generals, and other leaders. Zinn looks at history in an unorthodox bottom-up approach presenting the past from the standpoint of average people and stripped of its myths and propaganda. This is Part 2 of his discussion.
Read MoreFebruary 12, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
A People’s History of the United States (part 1) with Howard Zinn
Most analyses of the history of the United States is top-down looking at history from the standpoint of great men like presidents, generals, and other leaders. Zinn looks at history in an unorthodox bottom-up approach presenting the past from the standpoint of average people and stripped of its myths and propaganda.
Read MoreFebruary 5, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
The Legacy of Paul Robeson with Prof. Cornel West
Paul Robeson, an enduring and multitalented figure, broke color barriers in sports, music, film and theater. His singular life is a model of courage and steadfastness in the face of racial and political prejudice. Nevertheless, he died impoverished and in obscurity. Prof. Cornel West discusses.
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