“State of the Free Press 2025”  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)  “First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.” – Maria Ressa Every year, Project Censored highlights the vital stories that corporate media underreported, exposes rampant news abuse, and tracks emerging threats against the press […]

Who Owns Democracy? The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT) “Severe problems of democracy are much in the news, but actually go way back to the beginning of the country. We now want to look at how both the […]

“Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 9, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT) “Wishing that things worked one way or another is not the same as knowing how things work. It’s when we all know how things work that we can impact things, from democracy itself to a local development project in your neighborhood.” – Fred Keeley, the […]

The Choice Between Two Americas with Bette Dangerous “Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 3, 2024 “A vote for Trump is a vote for fascism and a betrayal of American democracy and for everything it stands.”  – Judge J. Michael Luttig (R), Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, retired Listen to this fast-paced interview that covers Congress, […]

What Happened to the American Dream? with Thom Hartmann The Demise of the Middle Class and How to Restore Our Future  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT) (Pledge Drive Sunday!) What does each political party mean by “The American Dream” when they invoke this touchstone of American success? Our comprehending the […]

“Burn Scars”  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT) “Fire is ‘aaw.’ For the Kumeyaay, a greeting starts with ‘haawka,’ from the fire within. Fire is both spiritual and physical. Fire destroys but also purifies; it kills but brings rebirth. Kumeyaay, as with most of the peoples from this place now called […]

“California Against the Sea: Visions for our Vanishing Coastline”    “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)   “As climate chaos threatens the places we love so fiercely, we will finally grasp our collective capacity for change?” – Rosanna Xia Along California’s 1,200-mile coastline, the overheated Pacific Ocean is rising and pressing […]

The Most Dangerous Document Ever Written: Project 2025, The Dismantling of Our Freedoms (Please share this show so as many people may hear it before the Presidential election)   “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 8, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)  “When somebody has taken the time to draw up a playbook, they are going to use […]

“How California Works: Building Democracy in the Golden State”  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 25, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT) PART 1 Covers the following: Editor’s Note: Why “Citizen” is a Verb Foreword: Truth vs. Cynicism (written by Fred Keeley, Mayor of Santa Cruz) Introduction: Welcome to California, the Most American State Prologue: Explanatory Journalism, Explained […]

“Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of Trump”   “Be Bold America!” Sunday, July 28, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT) In the new century, we’re all winging it now. – Stephen Nachmanovitch, The new book “Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of Trump (Spring Publications) brings a breadth of knowledge and […]