THURSDAY 01.01.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday January 1, 2026
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Climate change could cost businesses big time (00:01:30)
The total climate-related financial risks top $6 trillion at 4,000 of the world’s large companies.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Lost the climate gamble! Now what? (00:58:00)
With record extreme cold and heat – in December! – leading scientists finally admit: “The world lost the climate gamble”. What comes after failure? Hear the latest in a full-length talk by Professor James Dyke from the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. First, the best estimates of what to expect this year and next in the climate casino.
LABOR HISTORY IN 2:00 – On This Day in Labor History
https://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-in-200
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Why Are Republicans Calling Control Over Women a Family Value? (00:58:01)
Michelle Goldberg warns that the modern Republican Party is slipping into open, unapologetic misogyny, and even Republican congresswomen are starting to say the quiet part out loud. Theyre learning theres a brutal difference between being useful to powerful men and being respected as an equal.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – Rising Up With Sonali – 2025-12-30 – EVERGREEN (00:58:30)
THIS IS A REBROADCAST – This week, well tackle the problem of plastic use and pollution with Judith Enck, the president and founder of Beyond Plastics, whose new book is The Problem With Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late. Shell explain if it’s possible to have a plastic-free holiday season. Then, Norman Solomon joins us to discuss how corporate Democrats paved the road to Donald Trump’s victories in 2016 and 2024, and how defeating Trump means ousting figures like Chuck Schumer and other unpopular liberals from power.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell Ch.2, pt. 2 (00:20:59)
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell’s cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think that a better life is “not for the likes of them”. Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as “philanthropists” who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. The hero of the book, Frank Owen, is a socialist who believes that the capitalist system is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him. In vain he tries to convince his fellow workers of his world view, but finds that their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their “betters”. Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell’s own experiences.(Summary by Tadhg)
https://archive.org/details/ragged_trousered_philantropists_th_librivox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists
ALAN WATTS: It Will Give You Goosebumps – The Eternal Now (00:09:43)
An inspirational and profound speech on the eternal now by Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts Limits of Language-2″ “Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….” – Alan Watts. (1915 – 1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4oI0Q62RkE&t=116s
WINGS # #38-25 Beyond Power, Part 2 of 2 (00:28:53)
Marilyn French’s 1985 nonfiction work, Beyond Power: Women, Men and Morals, is the basis for her major address at the First World Summit on Women and the Many Dimensions of Power in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in June 1990. In it she describes the rise of patriarchy that prioritizes power-over, and excoriates it for wrecking the viability of life on earth.
THE BRADCAST: 12/31/2025 Encore: Trump Is Losing One Battle After Another (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 12-11-2025. On today’s ‘BradCast’: A grand jury again rejected the corrupt Trump Justice Department’s revenge indictment of NY Attorney General Letitia James. Indiana Senate Republicans reject new gerrymandered congressional maps in defiance of Donald Trump’s demands. A federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released from ICE custody ‘immediately.’ DHS Sec. Kristi Noem and a top FBI official embarrassed themselves at a U.S. House hearing on the Trump administration’s immigration and domestic terrorism policies. U.S. Senate Republicans rejected a Democratic bill to extend premium subsidies, ensuring health care costs will spike for millions of Americans. Washington State pummeled by relentless, ‘catastrophic’ rains and flooding. Real estate app Zillow removed a feature informing home buyers of individual properties’ exposure to climate risks. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675