Large swathes of the American agricultural industry are running in the red – the only exception being the beef sector.

Meanwhile, everyday Americans are also struggling to afford their grocery bills.

Pete Hardin and Bert Zipperer outline the major pain points, in this edition of “The Milkweed.”

Image courtesy: Oregon Department of Agriculture via Flickr.

Forecast from Monday, 1-19-26 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 18, 1963. King spoke at the funeral of four young girls killed by a bomb planted by a group associated with the Ku Klux Klan.

New Minneapolis 911 logs and police and fire department documents shed new light on the shooting of Renee Nicole by I.C.E. Officer Jonathan Ross. We’ll talk with investigative journalist Matt Ehling, President of the Twin-Cities-based Forum for Constitutional Rights and Government Accountability.

After the drunken mayhem of the New Year, many folks are giving up alcohol for “Dry January.” Stanford University public health scientist Robert Kaplan tells us why he’s not giving up booze entirely this month.

The next installment of the Arts and Literature Laboratory’s Project Projection microcinema will land this week, with a new crop of experimental short films. Curator Jim Kruel and filmmakers Blake Barit and our very own Nicholas Wootton join us with more.

Norman Stockwell, Publisher of The Progressive Magazine, recorded this interview with the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Nader Hashemi.

Professor Hashemi is an academic, a researcher, author of books and articles and frequent and authoritative speaker on the situation in the various countries in the Near East.

They spoke about what has been happening in Iran in the past few weeks and put that in historical context. They also spoke about external influences as well as the home grown secular democratic efforts that are not widely reported on in our mainstream media.

Nader Hashemi posts on X: @naderalihashemi

Nader Hashemi bio: http://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/003Hp00002i4KsnIAE/nader-hashemi

Image by Pavellllllll from Pixabay

This week on Mel & Floyd: Pants returns from his trip to ... Stoughton?; A visit from “She who must be obeyed”; WORT needs new fund raising director; How to buy a Nobel Prize; All about Vidkun Quisling; A review of “Heated Rivalry”; Red hat stealing crows are murdering it; And other random topics; Notice something missing? For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast! Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time.

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On today’s show, host Esty Dinur is joined by Alfred W. McCoy to talk about his latest book, Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage, available from Haymarket Books. His book offers an intimate portrait of both covert operatives and antiwar activists, thus humanizing a history often told in impersonal terms of nuclear arsenals or diplomatic ententes.

Featured image of the cover of Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage, available from Haymarket Books.

Reverend David Couper discusses protest, democracy, and civic responsibility on the Friday Eight O’Clock Buzz.