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As we approach the end of another year, one thing is abundantly clear: we are living in perilous times. News and stories on corporate media are being manipulated or simply not even reported! KNSJ knows it is important to you to hear news reports from the streets (that corporate media is desperately trying to keep from you) because you want to know what is really going on!

This is why KNSJ matters

Democracy, free speech and civil rights are under threat. Media monopolies, MAGA mouthpieces, and oligarchs wield massive influence on government policy while the gap between the ultra-wealthy and poor continues to widen. The climate crisis reaches catastrophic levels as those in power capitulate to the fossil fuel industry and rescind green energy projects.

The world’s seven richest billionaires are now media barons. Their overwhelming buy-up of our means of communication gives them extraordinary control over our media and public square, allowing them to set agendas and suppress forms of speech they do not approve of.

This is why KNSJ matters

Since taking to the airwaves 12 years ago, KNSJ has been a voice for social justice, civil rights, labor rights, climate action and democracy. Our station has featured live debates between candidates for City Council and the Mayor’s office, live broadcasts from climate, labor, civil rights, and peace rallies, as well as countless interviews with people representing a multitude of diverse voices and disenfranchised communities.

Our public-affairs programming schedule features critical locally- and nationally produced programs speaking to issues that are too often ignored by corporate media platforms, including shows like Democracy Now! streaming Live from Palestine awakening our conscience, Thom Hartmann talking to our representatives and to you as you tell America what really is—or isn’t-–happening in your neighborhoods and cities.

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In 2026 we plan to release the KNSJ app, strengthen our terrestrial signal, continue to expand our locally-produced programming, do more remote broadcasts from our neighborhoods (maybe we’ll be in yours) and feature more of our creative arts community, organizing more debates and more lectures by authors mainstream media isn’t allowed to talk about, as we strengthen our ties to the community.

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Outrage After Footage of Israeli Soldiers Executing Two Palestinians in Jenin Goes Viral

 December 1, 2025

By Qassam Muaddi / Mondoweiss

The killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin has provoked international outrage after video footage of the incident went viral on Friday. Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows two young Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli soldiers and lying on the ground in front of a garage under soldiers’ instructions. They then appear to be directed by the soldiers to go back inside the garage, where one of the troops is seen aiming and shooting at him as he lies on the ground.

Link to video (Warning: Graphic): https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1994099203212034430?s=20

The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the victims as Muntaser Billah Abdallah, 26, and Yousef Asaasah, 37. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the killing in a statement, calling it “a war crime” and a case of “extrajudicial killing.”

The Israeli army and border police said in a joint statement on Friday that Israeli troops “operated to apprehend wanted individuals” allegedly affiliated with a resistance network in the Jenin area, and that after they exited, “fire was directed toward the suspects.”

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, under whose jurisdiction the border police operates, voiced his “total support” for the Israeli soldiers in question, asserting that they “acted exactly as expected of them: terrorists must die.”

The footage has drawn widespread condemnation from rights groups, with Israeli human rights group B’Tselem stating that “the execution documented today is the result of an accelerated dehumanization process of Palestinians” and calling on the international community to “put an end to Israel’s impunity.”

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the killings, saying in a statement that “killings of Palestinians by Israeli security forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank have been surging, without accountability, even in the rare cases where investigations are announced.”

A pattern of extrajudicial execution

While the latest killing in Jenin was caught on video, Palestinians have remarked that it is not an isolated incident. In 2022, the Palestinian Human Rights Association documented 38 cases of the arbitrary killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces between August 1 and November 4. Yet the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank has sharply risen since October 2023, with at least 1,030 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the past two years in the West Bank.

The killing of the two Palestinians in Jenin comes two days after the Israeli army announced the launch of a new wide-scale military operation in the northern West Bank, which began with a large raid into Tubas. The operation comes almost a year after Israel’s previous “Iron Wall” offensive in the northern West Bank, during which Israeli forces displaced over 40,000 Palestinians from their homes in refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem.

Jenin city and its adjacent refugee camp have been at the center of Israeli military raids since late 2021, as it became the center of Palestinian armed resistance groups such as the Jenin Brigade. After October 2023, Israel launched a protracted military campaign to dismantle them.

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THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Sat 7pm

Poetry ^o Prose ^o Spoken Word ^o Writing

Often described as our truth-tellers, Susan and her guest writers present verse and storytelling every week, delving into the art of writing, observations and how their art reflects our universe and empowers us.

_____About Susan

A poet, writer and educator herself, Susan interviews fellow poets and novelists, songwriters and journalists, all philosophers in their genre.  Hear calls to social justice and well-crafted words from local and international poets on The Electric Picnic, only on KNSJ.

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with David Barsamian Sat 4pm

ALTERNATIVE RADIO, established in 1986, is an award-winning weekly one-hour public affairs program.  AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in corporate media. Barsamian started the show to serve as a forum for controversy and debate.

_________About David Barsamian

One of America’s most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio program, Alternative Radio—40 years and running— and his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His recent books are Culture and Resistance, Retargeting Iran, Chronicles of Dissent and Notes on Resistance. His latest book is with Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire. David lectures on world affairs, imperialism, capitalism, propaganda, the media and global rebellions.

Radical Desi in Vancouver and the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center in Boulder presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. He has collaborated with the world-renowned Kronos Quartet in events in New York, London, Vienna, Boulder and San Francisco. He is the winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes.

CODE PINK with Co-hosts MARCY WINOGRAD and MEDEA BENJAMIN

Co-hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin explore Venezuela’s peaceful overture to Trump, question UN approval of the Gaza occupation plan and discuss Epstein’s relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Barak. On the second half of CODEPINK Radio, Marcy speaks with Delaney Nolan, an independent journalist and author of The Nation magazine article, AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.

FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Sat 2pm

A Voice For Veterans

Don is in conversation with two air traffic controllers who speak out about how the 43 day government shutdown affected them, the traveling public and the air traffic system.

THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Sat 1pm

HOW PALESTINIAN HISTORY IS SYSTEMICALLY FORGOTTEN with MICAELA SAHHAR

Micaela Sahhar reframes monumental events in Palestinian history through an intimate lens of her own family’s displacement during the 20th century.

“How do we understand now if we don’t understand 1948 or 1917 or all the things that happened during the British Mandate?”

This is a central question Micaela Sahhar, author and educator, asks while dissecting her book, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate. Sahhar reframes these monumental events in Palestinian history through an intimate, granular lens of her own family’s displacement during the 20th century.

Sahhar joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, sharing more personal narratives, revealing how her family lived through the pivotal moments that shaped modern Palestine.

“To grow up as a diaspora Palestinian,” Sahhar explains, “ is to be equipped with a particular kind of superpower, which is to understand the enormous rift between a dominant culture and what you know to be true from the people you love and trust.”

TALK OF THE TOWN with MIKE and ARTHUR AGUIRRE LIVE Sat 11am-Noon

With Brandon Wu, Director of Policy and Campaigns at ActionAid USA

Brandon just returned from the COP30 Conference

Call in with your questions and comments at 619-790-KNSJ (5675)

Brandon Wu is dedicated to overseeing ActionAid USA’s research, advocacy, coalition building and campaigning work on issues such as politics & economics, land rights, biofuels and more. He personally leads ActionAid USA’s work on climate justice, approaching the problem of climate change from the perspective of sustainable development and rights of impacted people. His work in this capacity has focused on climate finance for developing countries, fairness and equity in the global climate regime, and energy democracy in the Global South.

Brandon has served on the Board of Directors of Climate Action Network-International, a network of over 900 NGOs in 100 countries, and recently completed a two-year term as the first elected developed country civil society representative on the governing Board of the Green Climate Fund, a multilateral institution dedicated to funding adaptation and mitigation projects.

Brandon’s voice is frequently heard in major media outlets, including the Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, PBS NewsHour, and Telesur. He has previously worked for Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG (now Environment America).

Brandon holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, where he played a lead role in an effort to unionize 4,500 graduate employees. He also holds a B.A. in sociology from Yale University.

A major focus of Brandon’s work has been how to quantify fairness in the global climate regime, and he was a founder (in 2015) of the Civil Society Equity Review project that produces annual reports on this question here: https://www.equityreview.org/

Most recently, at COP30 Brandon had an op-ed published that spoke to one of the major issues that came up in the second week of the conference – the idea of a “roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels” and why certain countries were – justifiably – not entirely enthusiastic about it. https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/21/just-transition-finance-and-equity-thats-how-we-get-cop30-to-act-on-fossil-fuels/

______About ActionAid

ActionAid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice.

We know this can only be done by shifting power – towards communities and away from elites – and aid as traditionally practiced does not accomplish this. That’s why we take action in partnership with people on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. Together, we tackle the symptoms of unequal power – poverty, hunger, gender-based violence, climate change, conflict, and disaster – and challenge the ideologies, legal systems, and social norms that lie underneath.

ActionAid embraces feminist leadership as necessary to moving our mission forward. We define feminist leadership as the positive and inclusive use of power to build an organization capable of changing the world. Feminist leadership informs and guides our core values, theory of change, and objectives.

ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which works in more than 70 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. We influence U.S. policy and international institutions like the United Nations and elevate marginalized voices in the halls of power.

Our Vision

A just, equitable and sustainable world in which every person enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from poverty and all forms of oppression.

Our Mission

To achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication by working with people living in poverty and exclusion, their communities, people’s organizations, activists, social movements and supporters.

https://www.actionaidusa.org

THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Sat 1pm

The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology with Antony Loewenstein

Filmmaker, author and journalist Antony Loewenstein documents how Israel has used Gaza as a weapons showcase. Spyware, killer drones, robot dogs and other weapons are debuted in Gaza and field-tested on the civilian population, demonstrating their effectiveness to regimes around the world that await their chance to purchase them.

Loewenstein joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to chronicle what he has learned from writing The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World and producing The Palestine Laboratory, a documentary based on the book.

“I think the whole idea of what Israel…has been showing the world, I say two things. One, what weapons you can use to murder, kill, target Palestinians but also how to get away with it. I think Israel sells that concept,” Loewenstein explains.

As spyware companies like Pegasus and Paragon and arms companies like Elbit and Rafael see business boom, Loewenstein argues countries have a moral imperative to end trading with Israel. These same technologies perpetuating the genocide in Gaza, Loewenstein explains, will come back to haunt the citizenry of purchasing countries.

“All these governments around the world, whether they’re so-called democratic or repressive, are obsessed with these tools. They can’t give them up. They’re desperate to listen to their opponents, to the journalists, to activists,” Loewenstein remarks.

“It’s very hard for these regimes to give them up because there’s no regulation. There’s just none. It just doesn’t exist.”

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.