I was just listening to Dennis Bernstein’s Flashpoints, a news and analysis interview program airing every weekday from 5 to 6 PM on Pacifica Radio’s KPFA. Dennis’ guests were three political analysts and academics talking about the Korea summit, including the politics and history of US-Korea relations. South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s political background came up. Tim Beal remarked, “[It’s] as if Dennis Kucinich had become president of the United States.” K. J.
The Resistance is steering so much of the left into a hard-right turn — including even Pacifica’s KPFA Radio-Berkeley.
On July 22 this year, nearly two years after Trump’s election and the rise of “The Resistance,” I tuned in to KPFA-Berkeley’s Sunday Show and heard host Philip Maldari speaking to The Nation’s national affairs correspondent John Nichols:
Guns and Butter | August 16, 2018 Dear Guns and Butter Supporters and Listeners, Guns and Butter has been taken off the KPFA airwaves by the General Manager of the station. I received on Wednesday, August 8th, before Guns and Butter would have aired on KPFA, the following email from the General Manager: Bonnie, KPFA […]
Losing clearances, torture conditions and major contenders + this day in history w/Yellowstone's Black Saturday and our song of the day by Mudhoney on your Morning Monarchy for August 20, 2018.
On Monday I was interviewed by Bonnie Faulkner for her show “Guns and Butter”. The official show page is here: http://gunsandbutter.org/blog/2018/04/22/superpower-confrontation-in-sy… Direct SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/guns-and-butter-1/superpower-confrontation-in-sy… You can also listen to
By Daniel Borgström | Dissident Voice | October 5, 2017 When people ask me why I joined the Marine Corps (at age 18, back in 1959), I tell them, “Because where I grew up there was no KPFA or Pacifica Radio affiliate.” There was just the constant corporate drumbeat of anti-Communism which took many forms, […]
By Daniel Borgstrom | CounterPunch | December 30, 2016 Pacifica’s radio station in Berkeley, KPFA 94.1 fm, has been airing a pitch to listeners which contains the line: “There’s a lot of fake news, propaganda and misinformation emanating from phony media outlets.” The reader of this pitch is the station’s General Manager, Quincy McCoy, who […]
By John V. Walsh | Dissident Voice | July 15, 2016 Norman Solomon betwixt the political sheets with Robert Kagan? How could that be? Has our political world turned upside down? Driving south to Mountain View in my new home state of California, I tuned into KPFA, the Pacifica outlet in the Bay Area. Norman […]
By John V. Walsh | Dissident Voice | February 21, 2016 The New York Times vendetta against Donald Trump continues with its latest theme that The Donald is “vulgar.” This highly newsworthy charge recently made it to the front page with the headline, “With a Slur for Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Further Splits Voters.” The […]
