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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).
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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
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Bay Area theatre reviews with KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky, plus interviews with local Artistic Directors, actors and directors. Older posts include interviews witth former associate KPFA theatre critic C.S. Soong. Dates when reviews airs can be found at http://bookwaves.homestead.com/Theatre_Reviews.html
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A podcast posted every Sunday featuring extended interviews and discussions from Bookwaves, Art-Waves, and Bookwaves Artwaves Hour programs on KPFA, and newly digitized and edited archive interviews from the pre-digital Probabilities series dating back to 1977. Literature, theater, film, the visual arts: in-depth interviews from a progressive and artistic viewpoint, with long-time KPFA/Pacifica host Richard Wolinsky.
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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
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A Rude Awakening is an award-winning climate crisis and environmental justice radio show with interviews and commentary – hosted and produced by Sabrina Jacobs. Tune In! Every Friday @ 8am Follow A Rude Awakening on Facebook, Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram
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The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.
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Dedicated to “anything we need to know to have a democracy”: Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, Applied Divination, Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity. Hosted by Caroline Casey. Her guests are allies contributing to a culture of reverent ingenuity. Critique and Solution.
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Terra Verde delivers news and views about the most critical environmental issues across California and globally. From agriculture and wildlife to energy and climate change, industrial pollution to design solutions, Terra Verde brings you stories of struggle and triumph that will determine the future of our planet.
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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. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.
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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at [email protected]. Theme Music: Turn It Up by Digital Primitives, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.
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A weekly update on new research and developments concerning COVID-19 (and occasionally other infectious diseases that hit the news). We take questions via call-in during the live broadcast, Mondays at 7:33am Pacific, streaming via kpfa.org. Podcasts with show notes go up later the same day. Between live shows, we take questions via email at [email protected] . Our guest most weeks is Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Heal ...
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The Pacifica Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM. KPFA News broadcasts news headlines throughout the day at 5:55, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and 4:00. Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
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Planting Medicine enhances the community’s knowledge of herbal medicine by sharing voices of traditional, holistic healers and healing practices. Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. Find archived episodes of The Herbal Highway here.
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Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. The first week of every month is a combined one-hour program featuring Jack Foley & Nina Serrano. The archive can be found at Cover to Cover with Jack Foley. The second week is hosted by Nina Serrano, Poet 2 Poet. The third week is hosted by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro. The fourth week is hosted by Reyna Cowan, Frame to Frame. And the fifth week (if there is one) is hosted again by Jovelyn Rich ...
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Voices of the Middle East and North Africa is a weekly program hosted by Malihe Razazan and Mira Nabulsi. It explores the richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa through a complex web of class, gender, ethnic, religious and regional differences. Voices of the Middle East and North Africa airs on KPFA radio, 94.1 FM, in Berkeley, CA. Online on kpfa.org or on Apple Podcasts.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. United Nations ready to ramp up aid to Gaza following new ceasefire between Israel and Hamas; Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for defending democracy in Venezuela; Mass firings begin on Day 10 of government shutdown, Tr…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Gazans hoping for beginning of recovery after 2 years of devastation; Gaza ceasefire agreement opens door for aid surge, UN calls for seizing moment to replace occupation with 2-state solution; Democrats introduce Voter Purge Protecti…
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Caroline Welcomes Graham St. John, author of “Strange Attractor – The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna,” Celtic Word crafting, Scorpionic detective, pattern tracker, entheo*enthusiast, erudite in cultural Hermetic esoterica, brewing all into being an outward expression of inner collective conversing (like the Beatles) – who hands the baton to …
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Jeet Heer, author of this review, on the slick but odious William F. Buckley Jr. • Jake Werner on Trump’s creeping softness on China, and how that country sees its role in the world The post Fundraising special: Bill Buckley revisited; China, the US, and the world appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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00:08 — Andrew Hartman is Professor of History at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses in U.S. intellectual, cultural, and political history, as well as courses in the philosophy of history, historiography, and pedagogy. His latest book is “Karl Marx in America.” The post Karl Marx in America – Fund Drive Special appeared first on KP…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Federal shutdown continues amid impasse over health insurance subsidies; Supreme Court hears challenge to Illinois vote-by-mail law; Newsom signs bill supporters call landmark antisemitism protection, opponents call it pro-Israel cens…
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Jessica Mitford was a muckracking journalist and memoirist, radical activist and wit. Born to an English aristocratic family, she became a Communist and eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew to fight in the Spanish Civil war. Two of her sisters were infamous fascists and friends with Hitler. Jessica, known as Decca, moved to the United States, bec…
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Thomas Perry (1947-2025) who died on September 15, 2025 at the age of 78, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded on June 21, 2006 in the KPFA studios while promoting Nightlife in hardover and Pursuit and Dead Aim in trade paperback. In the career of Thomas Perry, which began in 1982 with the novel The Butcher’s Boy, which won the Edgar Awa…
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In the first hour, “War, What Is it Good For?” with Joel Beinin, In the second hour, “No Progress on the Eastern Front” with Anthony D’Agostino, The post Sunday Show – October 5, 2025 War, What Is it Good For? and No Progress on the Eastern Front appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Little Women,” adapted by Lauren Gunderson, at TheatreWorks Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts through October 12, 2025. Little Women Review The classic pre-twentieth century books never die, on stage or on film. A Christmas Carol keeps coming back in December, year after year after year. Mayb…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Government shutdown continues as Republicans link Dems to Marxism, Dems see attack on health care; Federal government shutdown affecting bay area with shuttered parks, long TSA lines, and housing cuts; Arguments begin in lawsuit to bl…
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Today on the Show: We feature a front-line interview with Nane Alejandrez, the celebrated founder of Barrios Unidos: Nane is on the frontline holding the line against the extreme right wing that has taken control in Washington D.C.: And Trump appears to declare war on Venezuela The post Flashpoints – October 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…
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On this Hard Knock Radio episode, Davey D opens with “Ancestors” by guest Miko Marks, framing her long road to wider recognition as audiences rediscover Southern Soul, Americana, and country through mainstream moments—from Beyoncé’s country pivot to Ryan Coogler’s recent work. Marks traces her journey from a 2005 traditional country debut to an exp…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Federal government shutdown continues as Dems blast health cuts, Repubs oppose aid for “illegals”; Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza intercepted by Israeli navy, activists to be deported to Europe; Second “Conscience” flotilla on way to G…
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Today on Hard Knock Radio, we’re reflecting on that legacy and the new book The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity. This collection is not just history — it’s a blueprint, urgent and relevant in today’s political climate. And to help us bring this story to life, we’re joine…
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Revelation Fest – Act IV tragedy yearns for Redemption Act V – Let the Dead speak….. Welcoming Peter Janney, author and psychologist, known for his book Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace. The book makes the case that ex-CIA wife (and John F. Kennedy mistress) Mary Pinch…
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Erin Thompson on the politics of public monuments as Trump talks of restoring Confederate statues • Mouin Rabbani returns for a look at Trump’s ludicrous Gaza peace scheme The post Fundraising special: politics of public monuments revisited, Trump’s Gaza “peace plan” appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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00:08 — Niccolo Barca is a photographer, journalist and musician based in Rome. His latest piece for the Nation is “How Italy’s Workers Shut Their Country Down for Gaza.” 00:33 — Amanda McAllister Wallner is the Executive Director of Health Access California. The post Italian Workers Strike for Gaza Solidarity While Italian Government Retrieves Shi…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Federal government shutdown begins amid dispute over health insurance subsidies; Trump administration reviewing abortion pill access based on dodgy study; Immigration activists planning “stop the hate stop the raids” protests Saturday…
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Today on the show: We speak with Andrea Carmen, the Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council: We talk about Alcatraz we head toward Indigenous Peoples Day. And we get an update about the Border Wall being built in an area that sees almost no human migrants. This wall threatens the Jaguar and the Ocelot. The post Andrea Carmen o…
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Jeff Chang joins Hard Knock Radio to break down his new book, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. We start with a truth many of us in Black and Hip-Hop communities feel instinctively: Bruce isn’t just “an Asian hero,” he’s a global underdog icon—postered up next to Ali and Marley, sampled and name-checked in rap, and embra…
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