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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.
December 4, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Taking Control of Our Lives with Noam Chomsky
Chomsky says that the right of sovereignty is fundamental to the task of taking control of our lives. He describes what citizens are up against as “an array of mega-corporations often linked to one another.”
ListenNovember 27, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Algorithms, Digital Technologies & Warfare with Koohan Paik-Mander
Algorithms are a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by computer. But, algorithms can make mistakes due to biases, poor design, coding errors, or flawed assumptions. Koohan Paik-Mander discusses those dangers.
Read MoreNovember 20, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
“Anatomy of a Genocide: Gaza” with Francesca Albanese
Gaza is now a wasteland of rubble, garbage and human remains. And it may be worse than that. Has Israel engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions? Francesca Albanese discusses the crisis in Gaza.
Read MoreNovember 13, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
What Are We Going to Do? Naomi Klein Asks
Following the election on Nov. 5, are we in dark times? Does America stand on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year-old history? Klein discusses the question and what we are to do.
Read MoreNovember 6, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Gagging Democracy India-Style with P. Sainath
India, the world’s most populous country, is ruled by Narendra Modi who is allied with India’s billionaire class who control the country’s major media and function as cheerleaders for a regime that gags democracy, free speech, and dissent. Sainath is a journalist who he says covers the people who live at the bottom end of the spectrum.
Read MoreOctober 30, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
The Wrong People at the Top – Discussion with Brian Klaas
Today, more and more power is concentrated in the hands of the few, thus weakening democracy. Who wields it? How is it allocated? What are effective ways to ensure power is not abused and serves the societal greater good? How can we organize and protect ourselves from those seeking personal power and profit? How can we get the right people on top? Brian Klaas discusses.
Read MoreOctober 23, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
War & the Media with Norman Solomon
In this episode, Solomon examines the role that corporate media plays in shaping public opinion at times of war. Digging into the underlying causes and provide context and history rarely occurs because it would undermine the dominant propaganda. Many corporate news anchors don’t question the embedded assumptions and simply mimic, with few exceptions, the dominant official line.
Read MoreOctober 16, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
A Brief History of Zionism Zachary Lockman
Zion is the name of a hill in ancient Jerusalem. The Jewish nationalist movement coined the term Zionism in the 1890s. Zionism got the big power backing it was looking for when Britain issued the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917, which favored the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. But, there were complications which Lockman discusses.
Read MoreOctober 9, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Welcome to the Reservation with Russell Means
From the earliest days of colonial settlement, a theme of eliminating Indians in the name of expansion and settler opportunity became embedded into the U.S. political system and culture. The violence unleashed on the largely defenseless Indian nations had few parallels in history. Treaties and policies involving Indigenous peoples have consistently been designed to disadvantage them, locking them into suppressed social status and codifying their dependence on the U.S. government. Means discussed this prior to his death in 2012.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2024 National, News & Public Affairs
Blaming the Victim: Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Richard Forer
Who are the victims in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Are the victims at fault and did they have the results of conflict coming to them? How do the “crimes” of the Europeans play into this conflict? Forer discusses.
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