TUC Radio
Thursday, 3:00pm to 3:30pm
Maria Gilardin learned radio in the KPFA news department in 1980 and was one of the founders of the women's department. She co-wrote the GATT Guide for the Earth Summit in Rio, was founding producer of the national weekly public-affairs show Making Contact, and is a member of the International Forum on Globalization. Since 1993, Maria has written and produced radio on global trade and great ideas of local resistance to globalization.
As the San FRancisco Bay Guardian wrote in 1996, "Gilardin's TUC Radio continues to report on the untold story: the impact of the big corporations on society. And despite the massive and growing barriers preventing her type of public-affairs programming from getting on the air, TUC is reaching thousands of listeners around the world. Many of those listeners catch TUC Radio on KZYX, Wednesdays at 3:00pm.
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Hans Joachim Schellnhuber recorded in Paris and at the Vatican in 2015 (Archival TUC Radio program from 2015) At 3am today, April 21, 2025, news services in California announced the death of Pope Francis. Among the many memories of his extraordinary life, his Encyclical on Climate Change, Laudato Si, on the urgently needed care of our common home, came to my mind. Only nine days ago Pope Francis had announced the celebration, in September 2025, of the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si. Now we need to create the conditions for peace to prevent the destruction of our home without his help. But Laudato Si has dual roots. Maybe for the first time in the history of papal encyclicals, Pope Francis invited scientists to [ . . . ] Read More
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Judge Andrew Napolitano brings you the sources of Chaos from Ukraine to Iran to Gaza to Tariffs to the first deep splits inside the Trump Administration This interview of Alastair Crooke was streamed live on April 14, 2025. Before he retired Crooke was a ranking figure in both British Intelligence with MI6 and European Union diplomacy. He is founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum. They promote engagement between political Islam and the West. Judge Andrew Napolitano served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge from 1987 to 1995. Two years after retiring the Judge became a legal and political analyst for Fox News. He now runs a very popular podcast channel under the title “Judging Freedom” This conversation was streamed Live [ . . . ] Read More
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The former Greek Finance Minister in conversation with Novara Media’s Michael Walker They spoke on April 8, 2025, when Donald Trump’s tariff’s had just collapsed the global stock markets and governments around the world were searching for a response. Yanis Varoufakis is a university teacher, author in economics and technology, and engaged in European politics. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of DiEM25, that’s Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 a left-wing pan-European political party that he co-founded in 2016. Varoufakis is being interviewed by Michael Walker, contributing editor at Novara Media. That’s an independent, non-profit media organization based in the United Kingdom. Walker brings up questions not raised by many analysts in this extraordinary crisis in April 2025 – and Varoufakis answers are [ . . . ] Read More
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Mohammad Marandi from the University of Teheran gives a close-up portrait of the countries surrounding Israel/Palestine Marandi was interviewed by Nima on the podcast channel Dialogue Works. They spoke on Monday, March 24, 2025. The bombing of Yemen, that the U.S. Trump administration had launched, was continuing as they spoke. Analysts describe it as one of the largest bombing attacks on Yemen in years. There also have been ongoing demonstrations in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators show support for the city’s jailed mayor. He is seen as the main rival of President Erdogan in the upcoming elections. Nima’s guest, Mohammad Marandi, is an Iranian-American academic and political analyst. He is currently a professor of English Literature and [ . . . ] Read More
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Reaction to the breach of the cease fire on March 18 Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. She was in London, England, when Israel broke the Cease Fire in Gaza on March 18, 2022, and killed more than 400 people in that first night. She was being interviewed on Channel4News on the topic of genocide. And I’m presenting this half hour with minimal edits to show how many challenges an interviewer needs to build into the exchange in order to avoid the accusation of antisemitism. The interview is dated March 18 and, just a week later, had over a quarter million views. This program has minimal edits to show how many challenges an interviewer needs [ . . . ] Read More
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How western capitalist states cooperated with Fascism as bulwark against communism The overwhelming response from those who heard this program was disbelief – how can an analysis of Fascism made in 1995 be so relevant for 2025! This talk was recorded before a standing room audience of 1,200 in Berkeley, CA, on September 23, 1995. Fascism, as Mussolini allegedly said, should be more properly called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.” And history, as told by Michael Parenti, shows that in all fascist societies, be it Italy, Germany, Japan, Spain, and into the present, corporate power increased. When the power of capital is untrammeled, Parenti says, all of us are at risk. The environment, the sacred [ . . . ] Read More
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A People’s History of Ancient Rome with Lessons for Today Who was Julius Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author, speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing. This rebroadcast is part of the very popular and ever expanding series on what Parenti called Real History, a different and intriguing reading of a surprisingly large number all too familiar stories. Parenti spoke about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a people’s history of ancient Rome. He [ . . . ] Read More
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Freeman speaks from 30 years of experience in diplomacy for the U.S. in China, the Middle East, and Europe Just one day after the world famous fight between Presidents Trump and Zelensky in the oval office on February 28, the podcaster Jyotishman Mudiar asked Ambassador Chas Freeman the following questions: Why doesn’t Zelensky want a ceasefire? What is the reason for US-Russia normalization and why are there divisions within Europe regarding Russia and NATO. Will the US Deep State survive and are we watching a U.S. Coup d’Etat?? Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired American diplomat and writer. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service, and the State and Defense Departments over the course of thirty years. Most notably, he worked as the [ . . . ] Read More
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On February 19, 2025, in the middle of an uproar over President Trump’s start of peace negotiations for Ukraine with Russia’s President Putin, Professor Jeffrey Sachs gave a 100 minute long information session to members of the European Parliament about the Geopolitics of Peace. His candid and personal account made a deep impression. In only 24 minutes Prof. Sachs covered many important flashpoints in the region, among them: The Nato expansion beginning in 1999 – with the US claiming the right to place missile systems into the new Nato members – including later Ukraine. To the US decision, in September 2001, that it would launch seven wars in 5 years (according to General Wesley Clark) – beginning with Iraq – and only Iran [ . . . ] Read More
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On the most powerful tool for crime ever invented: The personal computer David Moscrop invited Cory Doctorow and Yanis Varoufakis to a conversation. They discuss how the concentration of wealth and power and surveillance is made possible by the internet where someone like Elon Musk uses digital power to determine the outcome of an election, and then proceeds to dismantle democratic institutions. Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, science fiction author and activist. Doctorow had just announced that his most recent book: Picks And Shovels was going into distribution. Picks & Shovels is the origin story of the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer. Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, former Finance Minister of Greece and author [ . . . ] Read More