United for Independent Radio - The NeoLiberal Plan to Destroy KPFA and Pacifica Radio The gloves are off and the neoliberal move to defang and destroy the only non-corporate media network in the country is out in the open. A new proposed "bylaws amendment" from United for Independent Radio exposes the plan. Vote Rescue Pacifica while you still can....
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:22PM
Indybay Pushes Back Against “Diamond Slavery” DMCA Takedown DMCA memory hole threatens to swallow article published on Indybay in 2003 about working conditions in Romanian diamond factory....
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:47PM
KPFA is Trolling for Funds…Again KPFA has embarked on another fund drive. Although they call this one their "Summer Fund Drive", it should really be called the "make-up fund drive due to the public's failure to let us loot their pocketbooks sufficiently during the Spring Fund Drive."...
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:36PM
Pacifica Chair Aaron Leaks Name Of New iED – Pacifica Splices Audiofile In Failed Coverup Grace Aaron, Chair of the Pacifica Board & two months later Executive Director, leaked to the public the name of her successor. It’s John Farneal (spelling). Then Pacifica attempted a coverup – but it failed: the unadulterated audiofile is published here. Pacifica's secrecy culture at the top remains entrenched and pervasive. Who can trust the current 'leadership'?...
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:42PM
Audio: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed She was an anti-communist and anti-Soviet after born as a Jew in St. Petersberg before the 1917 revolution....
Posted: Thu Jun 6, 2019 10:53AM
Berkeley's KPFA is a Private Radio Club KPFA used to operate like a true community radio station, but now it has devolved into little more than a private radio club for the same handful of paid program hosts who have occupied the airwaves for decades....
Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 3:45PM
Assange Has Been Arrested for US Extradition Extradited for journalism. In a blur, everything that Assange and WikiLeaks have been warning about for years has been proven correct, contrary to mountains of claims to the contrary by establishment loyalists everywhere. The same government which tortured Chelsea Manning is in the process of extraditing her publisher so that they can silence him forever....
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 1:05AM
The Big Obstacle for Bernie Isn’t DNC “Rigging” — It’s Media Trashing Some people are attached to the idea that the Democratic National Committee will “rig” the presidential nomination against Bernie Sanders. The meme encourages the belief that the Bernie 2020 campaign is futile because of powerful corporate Democrats. But such fatalism should be discarded....
Posted: Mon Mar 4, 2019 11:37AM
Corporate Media Abets U.S. Intervention in Venezuela After more than a year of hyping the so-called Russian meddling in U.S. politics(including dozens of articles screaming with sensational headlines followed by little more than mere allegations by US spy agencies), the mainstream corporate media has hypocritically switched to cheerleading the brazenly Imperialist bullying of Venezuela by Washington and its coalition of sycophantic Latin American regimes....
Posted: Fri Feb 1, 2019 3:52AM
New Presidential Press Conference Revealed Sarah Sanders' amazing attempts to put lipstick on the most deplorable pig in US history revealed in new press conference....
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 1:19PM
KPFA GM McCoy & KPFA IPM Cartwright Put Bensky Back On The Air Corporate managers Quincy McCoy & Kevin Cartwright at KPFA put Larry Bensky back on the air...
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:23AM
Trust in Our Institutions If you can't trust your government to deliver clean drinkable water, what does that say about your trust in other government institutions....
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 7:48AM
Radio in Petaluma: The “End” of Radio Our group's findings while investigating Radio listener rates in Petaluma....
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:47PM
Radio in the Age of the Internet Is there hope for the radio industry in today's connected world?...
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:08PM
Oprah's Animal Rights Consciousness Needs Improvement Please ask Oprah Winfrey to stop advertising meat and dairy....
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:06AM
Statement from Cat Brooks for Oakland Mayor Campaign: Every Vote Matters We are thankful for the thousands of Oaklanders for their faith in the People’s Campaign. Today we learned that there are still approximately 209,943 Vote By Mail (VBM) ballots outstanding county-wide along with 43,090 provisional and 1,827 conditional ballots....
Posted: Thu Nov 8, 2018 11:56AM
Death by Facebook Brazil has elected Jair Bolsonaro President, a man who praises torture, says he'll end all activism and threatens to kill 30,000 leftists. How could this insanity happen?!?!
Facebook....
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:07AM
Be wary of large-scale disinformation campaign regarding Nicaragua Various programs on KPFA and also regime-change minded liberals in the once-alternative media are amplifying the voices of self-anointed spokespersons for astro-turf protesters in Nicaragua who advocate for a violent coup. It's a scam with potentially massive death and other devastating consequences....
Posted: Sat Sep 1, 2018 10:35AM
First Amendment Rights Under Attack Popular platforms, websites, and a radio show were arbitrarily removed from the internet and airwaves in August of 2018 – an attack on the First Amendment rights of us all. If only “approved-of” content will be allowed to remain online or spoken over the airwaves, what sort of society are we becoming?...
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:12AM