THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Mon 4pm

Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa’s harrowing experiences treating patients in Gaza undoubtedly show that Israel’s “war” on Gaza is not a conflict with Hamas—but a full throated attack on the civilian population.

If anyone can witness the genocide in Gaza with utmost clarity, it would be medical professionals working there. Their accounts continue to be as harrowing as those of journalists and Gazans themselves, stripped of rhetoric and left with only raw truth. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a general, trauma and critical care surgeon in California, has been to Gaza twice and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report.

“There is no serious health system in Gaza anymore,” Sidhwa tells Hedges. Instead, what’s left of hospitals are mere buildings filled with medical professionals stripped of the equipment vital to saving lives, refugees seeking anything more than tents and endless streams of people barely surviving the constant onslaught of bombs. Sidhwa explains the gut wrenching details of treating people mangled by bombs, children shot in the head and the inability to save people because of the lack of basic equipment. While describing the treatment of a six-year-old boy with severe shrapnel injuries, Sidhwa explains, “In the flagship hospital of any third world country, this kid could have survived. But at Nasser [Medical Complex], we don’t have the right types of pressures, the right types of critical care medications and even just simple things like a pediatric ventilator, which just wasn’t available. So he died 12 hours later.”

The situation in Gaza, as Sidhwa details, is morbidly bleak:

“I don’t know how women who need C-sections will get them. I don’t know how people who even just have regular role general surgery problems will be able to get them. I don’t know how a kid that has asthma will be able to get albuterol. I don’t know how somebody with heart disease will be able to get their medications. Just leaving aside the trauma. And then on top of that…the whole population is being starved. Literally no food has gone into Gaza for six weeks.”

LOCATION CHANGE–CHRIS WILL APPEAR AT COLUMBUS HALL, 4425 Home Ave, SD 92105 bit.ly/KNSJ2025

A REMINDER: Chris Hedges will be in San Diego this Friday, May 30, 5pm on a fundraiser for KNSJ with his latest book A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. Order your tickets now. http://bit.ly/KNSJ2025. Tell your friends and colleagues. Another dynamic book showing Hedge’s astute observations and critical eye, his first-hand experiences and his eloquent writing style. Tickets can be purchased at bit.ly/KNSJ025

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author.

RADIO CURIOUS Mon 3:30pm

Bottom Trawling Fishing; Global Warming

Killing Important Organisms and Habitat for Fish we Eat and that Other Sea Animals Eat, Affecting the Sea Food Chain, and More.

– Bottom trawling kills vast numbers of organisms in the sea bed.

– The conversation continues to the climate crisis and sea level catastrophes.

– Host and producer Barry Vogel, Esq. began interviewing people as a child and has been curious ever since. Creating mental images from radio voices, Barry Vogel interviews on a curiously wide array of topics including politics, religion, environment, law, culture, travel, self-identity, genetics psychiatry/psychology, food, humor, music.

BUILDING BRIDGES Mon 3pm

The Root of Haiti’s Misery, Reparations

The Root of Haiti’s Misery, Reparations

– Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report is the longest running and best known labor & community affairs radio program in the New York Metropolitan area.

– As the show name implies, it provides a mix of labor and community based programming, tackling the issues of the working class, where they work and where they live. Building Bridges believes that by broadcasting the voices of those who seek social justice, it heightens public awareness, and facilitate unity between groups that fight for change.

FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball

A Show For and About Veterans

LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, FOUNDER BEYOND NUCLEAR

Beyond Nuclear is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) membership organization. Beyond Nuclear is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. Specifically, the organization aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic. The organization works with diverse partners and allies to provide its members, the public, government officials, and the media with the critical information necessary to move humanity toward a world beyond nuclear.

Linda Pentz Gunter founded Beyond Nuclear in 2007 and serves as its international specialist. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets.

While focusing her writing on the Beyond Nuclear International site, Linda continues to write for Truthout, Counterpunch, Capitol Hill Citizen and others. She also makes appearances on television and radio programs and is a sought-after speaker for conferences and webinars.

Originally from the UK, Linda has a BA Honours degree in English and Italian Literature from Warwick University. Linda can be reached at linda@beyondnuclear.org.

https://beyondnuclear.org/

THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Sat 1pm

Guest CATHERIE LIU

Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism

– The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on both sides of the political aisle. While Republicans and right-wingers address some of these needs head on, they do so by luring people through empty rhetoric and culture war distractions. On the other side, Democrats and liberals police and enforce a cancel-culture paradigm built by elites that also distracts and divides the proletariat from ever engaging in meaningful connection and change.

– Catherine Liu, a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss her new book, “Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.”

__ REMINDER ORDER YOUR TICKETS NOW___

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* Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist, NY Times best selling author Chris Hedes will be in San Diego for KNSJ Commuity Radio *

Chris Hedges will be speaking at a Fundraiser for KNSJ Friday May 30. Location: St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2728 6th Avenue, San Diego, ENTRANCE on 5th Ave, The event begins with a reception at 5pm. At 7pm Chris will talk about his new book “A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.“ Order your tickets now at bit.ly/KNSJ2025.

TALK OF THE TOWN with Mike Aguirre Sat 11am

GUEST: Alistair Running Bear Mulholland, Writer with Indian Voices

MIKE COVERS UP-TO-DATE NEWS. HE IS STARTING WITH THE SHOOTING IN FRONT OF THE EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND THEN WILL GO TO HIS GUEST ALISTAIR WITH INDIAN VOICES.

_______ About Indian Voices ________

MISSION STATEMENT

– To advance and promote a supportive system of information sharing grounded in Native Indigenous values and traditions while developing pioneering efforts to build bridges with emerging grassroots coalitions of labor and community groups in order to create a sustainable economic environment

– Indian Voices Media project is the culmination of efforts on the part of community members intent on assisting with the development of an entrepreneurial journalistic endeavor. Dedicated to bringing the voices of the marginalized and the indigenous members of our society into the national discours. To not only influence policy makers, but to enhance the pool of educational material to inform the mainstream about the important role of indigenous people, whose enduring presence in the development of our history and society assures its future.

– Particular emphasis is given to exploring and revealing the historically strong connection that exists between Black / Indian cultures.

– This loose affiliation of volunteers and change agents contribute to the production of a monthly print newspaper and a developing cutting edge website offering academics and social critics a platform for expression.

– This ongoing project has been under guidance and supervision of Rose Davis. A long time advocate of a sustainable and healthy, balanced living environment and whose work toward this end is her raison d’etre. – –

https://www.indianvoices.net/

WOMEN’S RADIO HOUR with PATRICIA LAW Wed 5pm

CITIZEN’S CLIMATE LOBBY

Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a climate change organization that exists to create the political will for a livable world by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power.

Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy climate change organization focused on national policies to address the national and global climate crisis.

Our Approach

Our consistently respectful, nonpartisan approach to climate education is designed to create a broad, sustainable foundation to drive climate action across all geographic regions and political inclinations. By building upon shared values rather than partisan divides, and empowering our supporters to work in keeping with the concerns of their local communities, we work towards the adoption of fair, effective, and sustainable climate change solutions. – We train and support volunteers to build relationships with elected officials, the media and their local community.

Our Volunteers

Our volunteers include everyone from high school students to concerned grandparents, engineers in the natural gas industry, house painters, farmers, and everyone in between. Some are PhDs who have spent careers researching the intricacies of climate change; others are concerned citizens who just want to know how to help. Whatever our  backgrounds, we’re all united by a commitment to making our voices heard as we call for a healthy climate movement and future.

CCL volunteers are organized into hundreds of local chapters across the US and internationally. These chapters build political support for climate action with a variety of tools, which they use in keeping with their local culture and politics. By focusing on shared values rather than partisan divides, we build relationships with community leaders and with federal elected officials and with Congress, always starting from a place of respect, gratitude, and appreciation.

You can learn more at https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

https://www.facebook.com/CCLSanDiego

LAW and DISORDER RADIO Sat 6pm

Law and Disorder provides timely legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and practices of torture exercised by the US government and private corporations.

Today’s conversations include:

A New Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement Amid Tension. Guest – Richard Becker is the Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER—Act Now to Stop War and End Racism—Coalition, and the author of Palestine, Israel the U.S. Empire and of the book The Myth of Democracy and the Rule of the Banks.

Entrenching Authoritarianism: Expanding the Terrorism Framework and the Infrastructure of Surveillance to Repress Expression and Stifle Dissent. Guest – Attorney Nadia Ben-Youssef, the Advocacy Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights is quoted saying “Our hope is that the report sounds the alarm for the international community to act with greater urgency to challenge this administration and its belligerent efforts to dismantle constitutional protections and international law.” She directs all advocacy around issues related to the promotion of civil and human rights. Together with the legal, advocacy, and communication teams, Nadia identifies opportunities for the Center for Constitutional Rights to make strategic cultural and political interventions that shift public narrative and policy on our issues.

THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with SUSAN TAYLOR Sat 7pm

Guest Poet Andy Palasciano

Andy Palasciano is a poet who lives in Old Town San Diego. He formerly co-hosted Broken Anchor Poetry along with Ying Wu and Michael Klam. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from San Diego State in English Literature. He has helped run several Kids San Diego Poetry Annual Events. He has two books published by San Diego Poetry Annual publisher Bill Harding through Garden Oak Press or Lymer and Hart. One is his memoir “The Warrior: The Tales of a Substitute Teacher and Job Coach,” which covers his whole life including his rough career as a substitute teacher where he “survived” and his current job as a job coach where he mentors disabled adults at their places of employment. Lymer and Hart and Bill Harding also published his latest book “Revolutions: Night and Day,” which is a collection of allegory and art that mirrors the rotation of the Earth.

WRITER’S VOICE with FRANCESCA RHEANNON Sat 6pm

Compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform

Writer’s Voice features author interviews and readings, as well as news, commentary and tips related to writing and publishing.  Francesca also talks with editors, agents, publicists and others about issues of interest to writers.  Francesca Rheannon is the producer and host of Writer’s Voice.  She is a writer, an independent radio producer and a broadcast journalist.