"Be Bold America!"

Produced by KSQD90.7FM At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. —Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address, 1838 Thom Hartmann , the most popular progress...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM “Like someone dying of thirst in the desert, conservatives drank heavily from the Fox waters.” - Bruce Bartlett, 2015 There is a difference between news and propaganda. We have hauntingly witnessed the rot in American politics with the angry insurrection on democracy’s Capital.  Fox News has played an intentional role in creating mass anger in America because, simply,...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM The day after the domestic terrorist attack on our nation's Capitol Building KSQD's program director, Howard Feldstein , coordinated a discussion  with leading experts: Steven Zunes , Univeristy of San Francisco politics professor and Jill Cody , political scientists and author of America Abandoned: The Secret Velvet Coup That Cost Us Our Democracy (and KSQD's "Be Bold...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM When the seat of democracy was being assaulted by domestic terrorists on January 6, 2021 , KSQD's program director, Howard Feldstein , raced to gather experts to discuss what was happening that very moment in our country. Guests are:   Jill Cody , Political Scientist and author of America Abandoned: The Velvet Coup That Cost Us Our Democracy (and KSQD's "Be Bold Americ...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM Listener Testimonial: Oh WOW Jill, Jeremy Lent's on your show?  Even without its being Lent, the "Five Conspiracies" program sounds, like all your shows, illuminating and provocative. But Lent -- oh my! I'm a big fan of his The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning (2017) is epic in scope. he world is awash in a deluge of dangerous con...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM (Program note: Many of us have wondered why so many women support Donald Trump? Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the answer!) Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an international, award-winning, scholar on authoritarianism and fascism who told Don Lemon on CNN Tonight, during the October 2019 impeachment process that, “once authoritarians get into office, it’s very difficult to get them out.”...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 5:00p Many have been talking about a "coup" and "civil insurrection" in the streets, no matter how the election turns out? Have you ever wondered how and why countries fall into civil war?  Or why we think the United States is immune to this process?  Hear why the U.S. is neither unique nor the first country in the wor...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday October 25, 2020 at 5:00pm October is the 15th Anniversary of LGBT History Month. The LGBT community is the only community worldwide that is not taught its history at home, in public schools or in religious institutions. LGBT History Month provides role models, builds community and makes the civil rights statement about thei...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM (edited to delete pledge drive pitches) What is The Election Whisperer’s forecast for the 2020 Presidential Election? The Electoral College? Will Trump win? Will Biden win? Will democracy live or die? Donald Trump has one formidable asset that could impact his reelection prospects: political polarization and hyper-partisanship, which even in the face of a recession and...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM The presidential election is bearing down upon us. When considering their choices, voters must consider accountability for an elected official’s personal and professional actions first rather than ideology or political party. In a democracy, it is up to the citizens to hold the politicians’ feet to the fire. They chose to run for office. Was their choice based on service or...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM "Has Trump Created the Largest Cult in America?" with cult and mind control expert Steve Hassan Since his election in 2016, Donald Trump’s behavior has become increasingly erratic and alarming. He rallies his followers with chants of “fake news” and “build the wall”, and continues to spread the us-versus-them mentality that is dividing friends, families, and our nation. And...

A Democrat and Republican Talk #2: The Polarization Industry and Our Lens to the World  Produced by KSQD 90.7FM Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 5:00pm “You can observe a lot by watching” – Yogi Berra What you believe becomes reality. But, is that reality, real? Our minds pick up what’s familiar and comfortable but maybe not what’s true. In fact, we observe the world b...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM   “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 16, 2020 at 5:00pm Starting to feel nervous or overwhelmed?  Let’s fix that.  Forget duty and patriotism for a moment. Ignore those who have used harsh words such as apathetic , ignorant , lazy or who have accused you of shirking yourpatriotic duty .  Take a cleansing breath, put your hand on your heart and listen – Th...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM "A National Reckoning on Racism" Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 5:00pm The former governor of Alabama has a few things to say about racism. Gov. Don Siegelman, author of Stealing Our Democracy now a “hot” top five book listed on “The National Book Review”, is uniquely positioned to speak on this subject as a life-long Alabama resident and as the only...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 5:00pm “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln Are we destroying ourselves? Our democratic republic is not sustainable when one American is demonized against another. There are powerful political, religious, corporate, and...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM “Crushing Democracy: From the Pandemic to the Protests” “Be Bold America!” Sunday, July 5, 2020 at 5:00pm Democracy stands at a critical crossroads. Is the Trump presidency taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic and protests for racial justice, to increase executive branch power? Is the November presidential election in peril given the skirmish over mail-in ballots, t...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 21, 2020 at 5:00pm What we have been seeing on our streets as protesters or on our television screens, have shown us a dystopian America. We have seen for ourselves a society that is undesirable and frightening. In the past weeks, we have watched the actualization of a world where the state of our society produces great injustice and sufferin...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM “Suing Fox News - The case: WASHLITE v. Fox Corporation No. 20-2-07428-4, King County, California” The Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics (WASHLITE) claims that Fox News and other defendants “willfully and maliciously engaged in a campaign of deception and omission regarding the danger of the international proliferation of the novel Coronavirus.” The co...

“Stealing Our Democracy with Gov. Don Siegelman ” “Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 5:00pm Produced by KSQD 90.7FM “The biggest political threat of all for the Bush White House and the Karl Rove prosecution machine was in Alabama.” – Scott Horton, human rights attorney and journalist Governor Siegelman's case was the subject of a CBS 60 Minutes report and a full-length documentary, "Attic...

“The Pandemic and Democracy” Produced at KSQD 90.7FM Democracy is being challenged by a pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic challenges not only physicians, public health agencies, scientists and ordinary people, but also democracy.  Never before has the US had to confront a virus that generated government behavioral edicts and required elected officials to have to interpret the unknown behavior o...

Produced at KSQD 90.7FM Mainstream news media outlets have been slow to recognize and report on the climate and other ecological systems collapse. Is it out of ignorance, arrogance or both? In the vacuum, disinformation campaigns have filled the void, “fueled” by right wing media and oil industry money. More than 90% of radio hosts are conservative. This is a big part of the denialism in our count...

Produced at KSQD 90.7FM For all of human evolution, we’ve been rewarded by Nature for maximizing our growth.  That reward - the very brain chemistry that has programmed us - is now propelling us towards calamity. Climate change, political fascism, pandemics, exponential increases in denialism, fake news and lies of all kinds…. Are these symptoms of an evolutionary mistake? As we hit the finit...

Produced at KSQD 90.7FM The Constitution is being strenuously tested. How is our Constitution being adhered to or challenged today? Or, is it just a quaint piece of paper as former AG Roberto Gonzales once stated? What are the impacts of the hostility between the president and a few Supreme Court judges who, like himself, are supposed to function as impartial judges and enforcers of the Constituti...

Produced at KSQD 90.7FM How will the Electoral College be made irrelevant? The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It already has been enacted into law in 16 jurisdictions with 196 votes. The bill will go into effect when enacted by states with an additional 74 electoral vo...

Produced at KSQD 90.7FM “The rise of conservative talk radio has changed American politics and American life, and Brian Rosenwald tells a careful and comprehensive story of its rise and its mushrooming influence. From Rush Limbaugh’s humble beginnings to the election of Donald Trump, Talk Radio’s America shows through careful research and subtle argument how talk radio moved well beyond entertainm...