KNSJ ON THE MOVE
THE NO KING’S DAY RALLY AT WATERFRONT PARK SAT JUNE 14
THE THOM HARTMANN SHOW LIVE M-F 9am-noon
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Coming Up Today Monday, June 16, 2025
News:
Trump’s war on blue cities
Will Trump drag America into war with Iran?
Foreign journalists are being refused to enter US due to views
Trump’s humiliating parade and peaceful protesters and 60,000 peaceful protesters are commended…by the police.
The Choice Before Tyranny: Will We Let Oligarchs Rule or Take Back America?
Blue politicians were warned months before MN attacks – yet disgusting right-wing politicians were and ARE! amping up personal attacks…
Who are we? We should all be stunned by treatment of Marine’s immigrant wife.
All Kennedy’s people’s lies: Reporting on the false claims and conspiracy theories that shape our world is more essential than ever.
About Thom Hartmann: Thom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host whose shows are available in over a half-billion homes worldwide. He’s the New York Times bestselling, 4-times Project Censored Award-winning author of 24 books in print in 17 languages on five continents. Leonardo DiCaprio was inspired by Thom’s book “The Last Hours of Ancient
THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with SUSAN TAYLOR Mon 8am
From our Archives is a Replay of Susan’s Conversation with Poet
KADE HARPOLE
About Kade: My name is Kade Harpole and my pronouns are they/them. I’m originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin but moved out to San Diego with my cat, Buttons several years ago to escape the brutally cold midwest winters. Road tripping across the country with a cat was an adventure, to say the least, but we are both happy to be here. I’m currently attending classes at San Diego Mesa College and received my acceptance letter for San Diego State University. This upcoming fall I will be an SDSU third year transfer student. I plan to major in psychology, as I have both personal and professional interests in mental health awareness and clinical psychology. I hope to get involved with the creative writing club on campus and start performing at open mic nights in the community. In terms of writing, my dream is to be a published poet and I also have an interest in publishing other forms of writing including nonfiction, and most recently, fiction. In my free time I enjoy playing guitar and writing songs, hanging out with my three cats, Miso, Sushi, and of course Buttons (Buttons needed friends), exploring the outdoors, and spending time with my partner, friends, and family.
SAN DIEGO SCREENWRITERS STUDIO with GAIL STEWART, Fri 4pm
Today the San Diego Screenwriters Studio presents
PATRICIA K. MEYER–a guru of screenwriting structure!
She’s written eight fabulous feature adaptions for Fox, Martin Scorsese, Robert de Niro’s Tribeca. Patricia also has written several mini-series at CBS and NBC and produced the emmy nominated ABC mini-series “The Women of Brewster Place” which starred Oprah, Robin Givens, and Cicely Tyson. She was the graduate director of screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University School of Film and TV and has taught screenwriting for 26 years!
Host Gail Stewart, former KFMB Radio/Television Investigative reporter and recovering Sacramento Public Safety Lobbyist, is your Producer/Host. Gail provides tips, big-wig interviews, and her never ending, first-hand adventures on entering Script Competitions, her myriad of on-line Screenwriting Classes, Writers’ Retreats, and everything else she is doing daily to break into Hollywood. Her glass is ALWAYS half full!
WOMEN’S RADIO HOUR with PATRICIA LAW Wed 5pm, Sat Noon, Sun 6pm
Guest Dr. Jonathan Graubart
Weaponization of Antisemitism
Jonathan Graubart is a professor and chairperson of the political science department at San Diego State. He specializes in the areas of international relations, international law, Israel-Palestine, Zionism and Jewish dissent. Graubart received his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 and his JD from UC Berkeley Law School in 1989.
Graubart’s recent book is Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs (Temple University Press 2023). He has two forthcoming academic publications: Resisting Dual Oppression: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons for Contemporary American Jewish Pariahs (for an edited volume on Hannah Arend) and It is Deadly and Oppressive but Is It One State? Assessing the New One-State Reality Paradigm (for Palestine/Israel Review). His two present projects deal, respectively, with the problems of blue ribbon university task forces on antisemitism and the International Criminal Court’s startling request for arrest warrants of Israel’s Prime Minister and Defense Minister.
Graubart occasionally writes op-eds for such forums as Truth Out, Common Dreams, and Academe (an academic freedom blog) and serves on the academic advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. For Inside Higher Ed, he penned The Unrecognized Antisemitism: The Erasure of Jewish Dissent.
https://tupress.temple.edu/books/jewish-self-determination-beyond-zionism?ref=vashtimedia.com
TALK OF THE TOWN with MIKE AGUIRRE Wed 1-2 pm
USAIDS is in the news again. Today Talk of the Town is a replay of an earlier recording.
REPORT ON USAID, THE CRISIS, CONSEQUENCES OF ACTIONS BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRTION – THE LIVES OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE NOW IN JEOPARDY
GUEST WARREN PARKER, PHD. PUBLIC HEALTH & COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST
Dr. Parker has worked on the HIV response for more than 30 years with a focus on the sociology of health and related communication. I lived in South Africa through to 2016, before moving to the US.
He led the national Beyond Awareness HIV campaign in South Africa in the 1990s as part of the post-apartheid government. In the 2000s, He established and led a South African non-governmental research organization called the Center for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) that focused on AIDS response in African countries.
In 2009 Dr. Parker moved on to international consulting. Since 2000, he’s worked in more than 25 countries, mostly in Africa, on health and development. His focus has been on applying participatory research approaches to bring community insights into disease responses, and issues such as maternal health, nutrition, education and gender-based violence prevention (more than 50 research projects). I’ve also supported the work of UNAIDS with a focus on the global AIDS response.
Nearly all of the work describe above (post-2000) involved projects and activities funded by USAID.
Following the foreign aid cuts in March this year, his work contracts came to a halt. This included work for UNAIDS linked to achieving global AIDS targets and goals, and sustaining the HIV response around the world. Work he was involved in for another international organization on pandemic preparedness (funded by USAID) was also ended.
His insights into the current situation include a strong grounding in African perspectives on HIV, health and development.
The paper he recently wrote with his colleague, Alan Whiteside, an internationally recognized health economist, looks at the implications of the US foreign aid cuts on HIV and AIDS. The key points made are:
1. The dismantling of USAID, including most of the projects funded under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR – which was established by President Bush in 2003), is unprecedented and catastrophic.
2. The withdrawal of this aid has placed the lives of tens of millions of people in jeopardy. For example, in 2024, 20 million people living with HIV, mostly in Africa, were supported by PEPFAR through life sustaining medications (enabling them to be healthy and productive). HIV transmission to millions of infants was prevented through PEPFAR support for programs giving medications to pregnant women living with HIV. Millions of new HIV infections were prevented through PEPFAR support for prevention programs.
2.1 Despite claims that life-saving funding, including for HIV, would continue, this was not the case in the vast majority of instances. Dismantling USAID by dismissing nearly all domestic and international staff, effectively disrupted payment systems and removed management systems crucial for keeping funding online.
3. The immediate withdrawal of aid resulted in thousands of PEPFAR-funded health facilities and organizations reducing or ending their services, and well over 300 000 health workers immediately losing their jobs. Without continued access to medication, people living with HIV face deteriorating health and increased likelihood of dying. HIV treatment reduces the likelihood of HIV transmission to sexual partners, so without treatment, new infections are likely to increase.
3.1 Many African countries were highly dependent on funding for their health and HIV funding, and are not in a position to immediately support the gaps created by the US funding withdrawal. There are no funders able to fill these gaps at any sustainable level, and the immediate harms are also going to be long-term harms.
4. It is accepted in the foreign aid system that funding will change from time to time, including being reduced and many countries do so. This is done in a measured way over time, to give countries receiving aid an opportunity to adapt and develop new strategies. The way this was done now, though, exerts the most severe possible harm, and places lives in jeopardy – whereas it could have been done more rationally in a measured way over time. The cost is not only in human lives. The US has breached and lost trust of other countries, and removed the advantage of decades of good will – in short the US is now an unreliable partner.
5. President Trump and Elon Musk refuse to acknowledge that people are dying as a result of these actions, yet the results are worse than war.
6. In other parts of the paper, we highlight the global aids goal of ending AIDS by 2030 – which was set in motion by a political agreement by all countries within the UN – including the US. Achieving this goal depended on sustained funding at current levels over the next 5 years. This goal is now unattainable.
7. They also highlight that the way HIV was funded by PEPFAR, and other funding entities, resulted in HIV being treated in a siloed way – differently from other diseases, often with higher and more exclusive funding. Health responses are more efficient if all diseases are integrated into the health system, and when this is done, health delivery is also more sustainable.
8. They recommend that countries and foreign aid support focuses more on building resilient and sustainable approaches to health to avoid eventualities such as imposed by the current US administration.
9. There are some moves to reorganize and continue US support for health, including HIV, but the focus on a very much reduced number of countries, and largely exclude support for the most vulnerable populations affected by HIV (linked to ideological rationale for not supporting DEI). Whatever shape this reorganization takes, it will be slow to implement.
Fellow: Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada https://www.balsillieschool.ca/warren-parker/
Honorary Research Fellow: Centre for Communication, Media and Society. School of Applied Human Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban South Africa
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Warren Parker, PhD. Public Health & Communication Specialist
San Diego, California, USA | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Fellow: Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada https://www.balsillieschool.ca/warren-parker/
Honorary Research Fellow: Centre for Communication, Media and Society. School of Applied Human Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban South Africa. E-mail: parkerw@ukzn.ac.za
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warren-parker-4989495/
SOLITUDE CITY WITH CARSON YOUNG
Tonight marks the 200th episode of Solitude City! Tonight’s set features favorites from Bobby Hutcherson, M’BOOM, Sonny Sharrock and more. SUPPORT COMMUNITY RADIO
SOLITUDE CITY IS PART OF OUR WONDERFUL AND ECLECTIC MUSIC BLOCK, SHOWS HOSTED BY LOCAL DJS, EVERY NIGHT FROM 8PM-6AM.
STOP & TALK with GRANT OLIPHANT and CRYSTAL PAGE Fri 8am
Thoughtful conversations and a good way to start the day! STOP & TALK dives deep into the themes of purpose and opportunity, guided by the insights of leaders in the arts and culture, health, philanthropy, finance, and innovation fields. Together, we celebrated local achievements and envisioned what’s possible in San Diego County.
LETTERS AND POLITICS Tues-Thurs 7-8pm
Tonight’s show, “Women in Ancient History,” features Emily Hauser, a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter. She is the author of “Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It.”
DEMOCRACY NOW! WITH AMY GOODMAN Mon-Fri 6-7pm
Today on Democracy Now!:
Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: It’s My Moral Obligation
Palantir: Peter Thiel’s Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil, Track Immigrants
“Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump’s War Against Universities & Students
Panic, Terror, Chaos, Trauma”: SCOTUS Ruling Lets Trump Strip Protections for 500K+ Immigrants