"Be Bold America!"

Produced by KSQD 89.5, 89.7 & 90.7FM "Be Bold America!" Live Interview Aired / June 19, 2026 The Global Crackdown on Free Expression in Honor of Project Censored's 50th Anniversary In this interview, on the global crackdown of free expression, Dr. Steve Macek from North Central College in Illinois will discuss his work to combat the growing attacks on free speech and academic freedom in the U...

Produced by KSQD 89.5, 89.7 & 90.7FM "Sexism is something that exists because it has existed, does exist, and therefore feels inevitable that it will exist. Certain treatments of women and girls are rooted in inequity simply because those bodies are female . Sexism over time and across institutions sends repeated messages about who women are and where they belong, and constructs a palatable ve...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM "Be Bold America! ~ Aired May 15, 2026 With the 2026 midterm elections looming and democracy on the line , progressive attorney, activist, and author , Gary Lucks , presents in his new book We Are The People fiercely practical, street-level directions for Americans who want to engage beyond posting, protesting, or donating, to actually helping flip the Hous...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM The American Dream at its best is an ethical ideal and a moral compass. If respected and sustained, it can guide the United States through Trump 2.0. Anchored in the US Constitution,  Saving the American Dream  features meditations for dark times. Meditations are intentional acts of focused attention. They seek insight—a clear and deep understanding—about criti...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!”   Aired April 17, 2026  at  5:00pm (PT) Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston stated in his bestselling book,  The Making of Donald Trump , when Donald Trump rode down the Trump Tower lobby escalator live on national television in June 2015 to announce his campaign for president, nearly every journalist treated hi...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM "Why the Climate Fight is Failing. Radical Activism is Needed!" “Be Bold America!”   Aired April 3 2026 at 5:00pm (PT) The climate rallying cries to “Save the Planet” no longer work in our hyper-partisan world, nor do images of polar bears on melting glaciers. The problem isn't scientific, fact-based, or even technological.  The problem is political, emotional,...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”     – President Dwight D. Eisenhower from a 1956 speech) Defy Like De Niro. From the mean streets to the halls of power, Robert De Niro has always stood up to bul...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM  “Be Bold America!” Aired March 6, 2026  at  5:00pm (PT) “America presents an egregious paradox – it has both the most expensive healthcare and the shortest life expectancy in the West."  - Robert Sapolsky Living in the United States today means surviving in a society where the social fabric has been ravaged.  How healthy you are is dependent on where you live....

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM The Last American President: A Broken Man, A Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink February 6, 2026  at  5:00pm (PT) Democracy is dying. And we handed the killer the weapon . The countdown has begun. As fascism spreads globally and climate catastrophe accelerates, Thom Hartmann exposes the terrifying endgame: a second Trump presidency that doesn’t just end Am...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7 FM American Kompromat -  Kompromat : noun, Russian for “Compromising Information” January 2, 2026  at  5:00pm (PT) American Kompromat   is  "the counterintelligence that was promised by the Mueller Report but which failed to materialize"  - Journal of Cyber Policy Craig Unger's  bestseller,  American Kompromat,  shows that something much more sinister has been ta...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 15, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) “First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.”  – Maria Ressa Every year,  Project Censored  highlights the vital stories  that corporate media underreported,  exposes rampant news abuse , and  tracks emerging threats against the press  from financial and political pow...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 1, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) “Severe problems of democracy are much in the news, but actually go way back to the beginning of the country. We now want to look at how both the deep state and American fascist forces played a key role from the very beginning of the United States.” –  Charles Derber, Professor of Sociology at Boston...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 17, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) “Wishing that things worked one way or another is not the same as knowing how things work. It’s when we all know how things work that we can impact things, from democracy itself to a local development project in your neighborhood.” – Fred Keeley, the Mayor of Santa Cruz, California How does the  5th ...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM "Be Bold America!" Sunday, November 3, 2024 “A vote for Trump is a vote for fascism and a betrayal of American democracy and for everything it stands.”    - Judge J. Michael Luttig (R), Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, retired Listen to this fast-paced interview that covers Congress, Fox News, the Media, Mass Deportation, the Climate Crisis, Voting,  and Oligar...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM What does each political party mean by  “The American Dream”  when they invoke this touchstone of American success?  Our comprehending the difference between the Democratic and Republican definitions of  “The American Dream”   provides us a clear understanding of each political party’s motivations and the future they would design for America and whether or not ...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 6, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) How do historic documents show that fire suppression was driven by explicit racist and colonial beliefs ? Is there nothing in American history that isn’t based in racism in some way? Well, fire suppress in California is and learn how in this "BurnScars", KSQD podcast during interviews with Dr. Char Mil...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT) “The coast is never saved. It’s always being saved”  - Rosanna Xia Along California’s  1,200-mile coastline , the  overheated Pacific Ocean  is rising and pressing in,  imperiling both wildlife and the maritime towns  and cities that 27 million people call home.  What are the impacts  of engineered lands...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 895. & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 8, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT)   “When somebody has taken the time to draw up a playbook, they are going to use it.”  - Tim Walz, 2024 DNC Vice-Presidential Acceptance Speech (re: Project 2025) Call it what you want. The Republican Party is nakedly zealous about turning America from a democratic republic into a kingdom  and the ri...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 25, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) PART 1 Covers the following: Editor's Note: Why "Citizen” is a Verb Foreword: Truth vs. Cynicism (written by Fred Keeley, Mayor of Santa Cruz) Introduction: Welcome to California, the Most American State Prologue: Explanatory Journalism, Explained Wishing that things worked one way or another is not t...

Produced by KQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM In the new book, “ Winging It: Improv’s Power and Peril in the Time of Trump ” , the author explores popular cultural and public affairs, ranging deftly from the unmediated experience in Fred Astaire’s tap dancing, Frans Hal’s brush strokes, hook-up culture, psychedelic trips, social media, and  Hamilton’s  hip-hop to, last, though not least, the performative an...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.7 & 89.5FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, July 14, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) America has fatal flaws in its economic paradigm. Neoclassical Economics  has ruled the United States for most of the past century. Valid  economics cannot be separated from values , and  what it means to be human. Any notion of “Utility” must honor and  encourage the best within us .  At this,  Neoclass...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 16, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) Throughout Reagan’s eight years  in the oval office, the “Great Communicator” was largely successful in  shaping the soul of America  to reflect his durable mantra that  “government is the problem.” That same American soul later embraced Donald Trump—a president who, arguably would have appalled Reagan....

Produced by KSQD 907, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 2, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) John F. Rothmann is a renowned radio talk show host, popular lecturer and political and foreign policy consultant.    John will discuss Donald Trump’s 34 convictions, Justice Alito’s  upside-down flags , Project 25 , and the  pivotal upcoming election .  And, what the future might hold if we do or don’t ge...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7 FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 19, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) “First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.”  – Maria Ressa   Project Censored , in their latest book, takes the pulse of the media , highlights the most underreported stories of the past year, and exposes corporate manipulation of the news.   State of the Free Press 202...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 5, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) Back in 1929 when the market crashed and the Great Depression began, Uber, TaskRabbit, and the  gig economy were almost a century in the future.  So why are the laws we use to protect the workers who power those businesses  unchanged from 100 years ago? As we  learned with startling clarity  during the unp...