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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.
November 12, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Media Framing of Cultural Destruction: Artsakh & Gaza with Mischa Geracoulis
Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, is a historic Armenian area located in the Caucasus Mountains. In 2023, Azerbaijan invaded and ethnically cleansed the millennial-old Armenian population. The so-called civilized West looked the other way. Looking away has been harder to do in Gaza because of the enormity of the Israeli attack and the sheer scale of death and destruction.
ListenNovember 5, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
The War on Education with Jesse Hagopian
The radical right wants to control what is being taught. They want to turn the educational system into an indoctrination machine. Jesse Hagopian says what’s at stake is the freedom to expose injustice and to tell the truth.
ListenOctober 29, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
The Right Turn Discussed By Noam Chomsky
The right turn accelerates under Reagan and continues today. Its salient features are a massive transfer of resources from the poor to the rich, an increase in state power and an aggressive interventionist foreign policy enabled by a huge military apparatus with bases all over the world.
Read MoreOctober 22, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
The Clean Energy Revolution With Bill McKibben
2024 was the hottest year ever recorded. 2025 will probably be even worse. Our planet is heating up. If present trends continue, a UN panel of scientists says it would be “disastrous for humankind.” Fossil fuels, including coal, are major contributors to global warming. But, energy from the sun and wind is cheaper, more reliable, and better for the climate.
Read MoreOctober 15, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Gaza, Israel & the United States with Nader Hashemi
Official U.S. policy in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of being the great enabler for Israel. There’s one set of rules for the U.S. and its allies, in this case, Israel, and another for everyone else. The Israeli genocidal assault on Gaza has turned it into a slaughterhouse. The likelihood of a viable Palestinian state seems distant.
Read MoreOctober 8, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
The Future of Humanity with David Korten
We are at a dangerous moment in human history. Philosopher and thinker David Korten says, “We stand at a crossroads between two possible futures.” Korten discusses those possible futures.
Read MoreOctober 1, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Israel’s Genocide in Gaza: The UN Report
In mid-September, the United Nations issued a report stating that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel vehemently denies the charge. Genocide is the crime of crimes. Three persons connected with the UN discuss this report.
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Dinosaurs, Extinctions & Nuclear War with Brian Toon
Toon discusses the dangers of a war with just a few of the world’s thousands of nuclear weapons targeted on densely populated cities that could plunge Earth into the same types of conditions that the dinosaurs experienced when millions of years ago, a huge asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Colonialism, Capitalism & Fascism with Robin D. G. Kelley
The era of traditional colonialism, with a few exceptions, is over. It is important to recognize that the consolidation of the modern colonial state and the rise of the fascist state occurred pretty much at the same time. The modern colonial state and the fascist state are both particular forms of capitalist states.
Read MoreSeptember 10, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
Algorithms, Digital Technologies & Warfare with Koohan Paik-Mander
Algorithms are processes or sets of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by computer. Sounds innocuous enough. But hang on. It has a dark side. Algorithms can make mistakes due to biases, poor design, coding errors, or flawed assumptions. They can collect and process large amounts of personal data which can put people’s privacy rights at risk. Koohan Paik-Mander warns that there are lethal dangers.
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