FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Wed 7pm, Sat 2 pm
Tune in to Friendly Fire a Voice for Veterans tonight at 7pm PDT and Saturday at 2pm to hear an interview with two Veterans For Peace, one from Minneapolis and the other from San Diego. They will update us on the latest developments after the ICE shooting of activist Renee Good last week.
The Women’s Radio Hour with Patricia Law Wed pm
EXCLUSIVE–INTERVIEW WITH GREG PALAST–INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
VENEZUELA
Greg Palast is known for his investigative reports for The Guardian, BBC Television, Rolling Stone and his string of New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits.
His latest film, “Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman” is narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen.
“Doggedly independent, undaunted by power. [Palast’s] stories bite, they’re so relevant they threaten to alter history.” – Chicago Tribune
Palast and his hat have been seen on over 2000 media appearances. Pacifica Radio Network broadcasts his weekly Election Crimes Bulletin.
Palast is known for complex undercover investigations, spanning five continents, from the Arctic to the Amazon, from the Congo to California, using the skills he learned over two decades as an investigator of corporate fraud on behalf of the US Dept of Justice, 20 attorneys general and governments from England to Brazil.
Palast, who earned his degree in finance at the University of Chicago studying under Milton Friedman, has led investigations of multi-billion-dollar frauds in the oil, nuclear, power and finance industries for governments on three continents, has an academic side: he is the author of Democracy and Regulation, a seminal treatise on energy corporations and government control, commissioned by the United Nations and based on his lectures at Cambridge University and the University of Sao Paulo.
Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde. His writings have won him the Financial Times David Thomas Prize.
Palast won the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for his BBC documentary, Bush Family Fortunes. He has received the “Global Editors Award for Data Journalism” and “International Reporter of the Year” from the Association of Mexican Reporters.
His bestsellers have been translated into two dozen languages and films broadcast worldwide.
“The most important investigative reporter or our time, up there with Woodward and Bernstein” – The Guardian
“Greg Palast is one of those inconveniently stubborn journalists who gets his teeth into a story and shakes it bloody right there in the middle of the parlor. Palast [has] dropped a bomb into the elections that has left credibility shrapnel all over the democratic process, if anyone cares to look for it.” — Esquire
“An American hero,” says Martin Luther King III
“A cult fave.” — Village Voice
“A cross between Seymour Hersh and Jack Kerouac.
With Mike Aguirre and Co-host Arthur Aguirre Sat 11am
LIVE–Call the studio with your questions or comments 619-790-KNSJ (5675)
PROPAGANGA–EXACTLY WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE IT?
An in-depth conversation with Professor Stephen Goggin, San Diego State University
Stephen Goggin received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. His interests center on partisan polarization in modern American politics, particularly its role in shaping voters’ ability to hold politicians accountable. He focuses on how information in media and electoral campaigns can distort public perceptions of politicians and the institutions themselves, and, in turn, affect the strategic behavior of those inhabiting those institutions.
His research and teaching interests include political psychology, political communication, campaigns & elections, research design, statistical methods, American democratic institutions, and election administration. His research has been supported by grants, including from the National Science Foundation, and has appeared in journals such as The Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, and Election Law Journal.
THE WOMEN’S RADIO HOUR with PATRICIA LAW Wed 5pm
“LIFIN’ AND LOVIN’ with Starla Lewis
Starla Lewis is a Global Educator of Self Love. For 40+ years she has taught people to see themselves, love themselves and use love to heal. As a Professor Emeritus, transformational speaker and founder of C.E.L.L. (Celebration of Everlasting Life & Love), she lectures and facilitates trainings on life mastery, diversity, racism, sexism, and women’s empowerment. She is author/illustrator of “Sunkisses”, and Co-Author of “I Am: My Own Self-Validation”. She is Co-Founder of Woman’s Worth: Multigenerational Women’s Empowerment. Starla is a seven-time recipient of the Mesa College “Teacher of the Year” award, a “Women’s Hall of Fame” inductee, and a KPBS “Local Hero”. In 2019 San Diego’s City Council proclaimed December 20th, “Professor Starla Lewis Day”. In 2021 LEAD San Diego honored Starla for embodying and epitomizing excellence in community leadership. Starla Lewis is a community servant, life-long learner and believer in Black excellence. She lives by the motto: “All people are: Brilliant, Powerful, Limitless, Love!”
THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Mon 8am Wed 3pm, Sat 7pm
CARL HALLBERG
Poet, Essayist, Musician, Puppeteer
Carl Hallberg was born in the watershed of the St Croix River of eastern Minnesota surrounded by lakes, eagles, and redwing blackbirds in the summer. Growing up around catholic workers and organic farmers exposed Carl to practices of mutual aid and reciprocal love for the land that formed the basis of his political and social understandings, which fomented in the 2020 uprising after the murder of George Floyd, and the indigenous led movement to oppose Line 3 of the following year. After graduating high school in 2020, Carl moved to New York City and got a degree in acting from the Juilliard School while also falling in with Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping and the Bread and Puppet Theater. Since graduating in 2024, Carl has toured internationally and nationally with both groups, and premiered a solo show of stories, songs, and puppet shows called A Performed Lecture on Gardening, Neighborliness, and John Brown in April 2025
_______A Statement on Influences and Hopes:
I write songs and make theater, often including original poems and prose. Recently I’ve been making simple, narrative based theater works in the vein of Spalding Grey, with inspiration from the Bread and Puppet Theater and the Rude Mechs of Austin Texas. Across disciplines, I’m inspired by Michael Hurley, gesturing toward decolonial futures, and the why cheap art manifesto by the bread and puppet theater, which says ‘Art has to be cheap and available to everybody because it is the inside of the world. Art is like good bread, art is like green trees, art is like blue sky.’ I’m drawn especially to the work of Michael Hurly, who sings very direct, catchy songs that capture the mystery of ordinary life, and the thrilling beauty of the natural world. By connecting to this beauty we can touch the fierce joy of life that, when united with our friends and neighbors, can beat fascists and topple governments. As the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures collective reminds us, there is profound physio-psychological work to be done to hospice the colonial psyche. I aim, through my work, to inspire this fierce joy in the spirit of this greater work, in all of its ordinary daily applications.
I want those who interact with my work to feel their hearts soften and stretch out toward the world, so that they can feel the pain and intensity of the current moment and remain open, connected to their neighbors and to the land around them.
STOP & TALK with Grant Oliphant and co-host Crystal Page Fri 8am, and Wed
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.
THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Sat 1pm
The Encampments with Mahmoud Khalil and Michael Workman
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has become a litmus test of institutional integrity. When a university denies the reality of Israel’s brutality, it reveals complicity with the genocidal regime’s actions. To then misrepresent campus dissent over institutional investment in the Zionist entity as illegitimate — or even “antisemitic” — makes it clear that that these institutions are invested in the existence of Israeli apartheid and genocide.
These contradictions were brought to a head during the Gaza solidarity encampment movement in 2024, where hundreds of college campuses around the world protested against their universities’ affiliations and investments in anything related to Israel. The media and Zionists inside these universities cried wolf about widespread bigotry and hatred, and many believed them.
Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker documented through their film, “The Encampments,” that these protests were not only peaceful and nonviolent but that the violence described in the media almost always came from the Zionist counter protestors.
Workman and Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student who was a negotiator for the encampment movement and was made famous after being kidnapped by ICE agents, join host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. They share their experiences seen in the film as well as updates to Khalil’s case as he faces potential deportation by the Trump administration. The film — as well as their accounts — document a clear narrative that demonstrates the failure of our institutions to abide by any moral standards, and their active role in descending Western society into fascist authoritarianism.
FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Sat 2-3pm, Wed 7-8pm
A SHOW FOR AND ABOUT VETERANS
USAF Veteran and Whistleblower Reality Winner
This week Don brings you a broadcast from August 2018 featuring a live call-in from USAF veteran and whistleblower Reality Winner. Reality was awaiting transfer from a county jail in Georgia to a federal prison in Texas after
she was sentenced to 63 months for pleading guilty to violating the 1917 Espionage Act. Reality released one classified document to the media which documented Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential campaign. Also featured is Reality’s mom, Billie Winner Davis, USAF veteran and whistleblower Lisa Ling and activist and author Kevin Gosztola.
THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Mon 8am
GUEST AUTHOR GREGG BRANDALISE
Susan and Gregg are in conversation about his historical novel THE DEATH OF US ALL Inspired by the life of Sister Dorothy Stang, research in writing an historical novel, the critical environmental situation in the Amazon and more.
FIRST TIME AUTHOR PENS BOOK ON NUN ASSASSINATED IN THE AMAZON
Sister Dorothy Stang dedicated 40 years of her life striving to save the Amazon rainforest and stop the atrocities inflicted upon Brazil’s indigenous peoples. These efforts ultimately cost Dorothy her life when she was brutally murdered by contract killers at age 73. Already being hailed as a masterwork in storytelling, Gregg Brandalise’s first book – The Death of Us All – follows Sister Dorothy’s narrative from early childhood when she knew her life would be dedicated to the service of God. Embracing her purpose, she spent decades working tirelessly to combat corruption, subjugation, and deforestation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR______
With almost 50 years in the entertainment industry, as a musician and recording artist, Gregg Brandalise has won many awards, including Emmy, Wildscreen Panda Award (Green Oscar), and Telly, for his music compositions, songwriting, and sound design. He has recorded the likes of Louise Hay, Tony Robbins, Matthew McConaughey and many other well-known personalities.
Born and raised in Southern California, Gregg received a BA from San Diego State University majoring in Creative Writing and Music. An Adventure Scientist, Eagle Scout, and environmentalist, he maintains local hiking trails, volunteers for the La Jolla Playhouse Partners, and has provided music programs for the local elementary school.
Gregg currently resides in Poway, CA, where he and his wife, Christie, enjoy the bliss of retirement and being grandparents.
NATIVE AMERICA CALLING M-F 12-1pm
| WEDNESDAY NEWS: The Menu: Troubling wild rice trend, heirloom Cherokee apples, and a prize-winning New Mexico burger |
| An unassuming café on Isleta Pueblo just won one of the most sought-after culinary recognitions in New Mexico. Isleta Grill is this year’s Green Chile Cheeseburger Challenge Champion for their frybread version of a regional delicacy. In northern Wisconsin, this year’s wild rice yields are low. The state Department of Natural Resources blames wind damage and heavy rainfall from a series of strong storms. It’s part of a pattern of diminished wild rice harvests in recent years. Cherokees cross-bred and cultivated apple varieties when they lived in the southeast U.S., but when the federal government forced a majority of Cherokees to move to Indian Territory (Oklahoma), they left their orchards behind. Now one cultural group is reviving those lost varieties of apples along with the history that goes with it. These are among the topics we’ll hear about on The Menu, a special feature of Native America Calling on Indigenous food sovereignty and stories with Andi Murphy. GUESTS Leticia Romero (Isleta Pueblo), owner of the Isleta Grill Esiban Parent (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe and Purépecha descent), Manoomin Wiidookaage for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission Amber Allen (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), project coordinator at the Noquisi Initiative Elaine Eisenbraun, executive director of the Noquisi Initiative |