Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders is a best-selling author and broadcaster who hosts the The Laura Flanders Show, where she interviews forward thinking people about the key questions of our time. The LF Show airs weekly on KCET/LinkTV, FreeSpeech TV, and in English & Spanish in teleSUR. Flanders is also a contributing writer to The Nation and Yes! Magazine (“Commonomics”) and a regular guest on MSNBC. She is the author of six books, including The New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press, 2007). The Laura Flanders Show first aired on Air America Radio 2004-2008. You can find all her archives and more at Lauraflanders.com or via Twitter @GRITlaura
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Views Sunday, September 15, 2019 From Voice of America to NPR: New CEO Lansing's Glass House I don’t know about you, but I take a teeny weeny bit of offense when a guy in a glass house lobs a great big stone and expects me not to notice the sound of shattering. Which brings me to National Public Radio. When the ubiquitous news and public affairs network announced the appointment of a new... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 02, 2019 Love and Rights: Contingent or Unconditional? Kali Akuno asks an important question: where would we be as a world today if people of the left had been as organized in 2008 when the financial crash hit as they’d been in 1980 before thirty years of neoliberalism? Akuno, a co-founder and co-coordinator of Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi, asked... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 17, 2019 In Barcelona, Being a Fearless City Mayor Means Letting the People Decide Losing Barcelona. That was the headline on the story in Jacobin this week. A local vote in a far-off city; had I not just returned from Barcelona, I might have left it at that. possibilitiy The truth is, US media give us so little coverage of goings-on elsewhere, and so little context as to why... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 31, 2019 Reporter in Spain Eighty years ago this April, Spain fell under a thirty-year dictatorship after Right beat Left in a brutal civil war. That history feels acutely alive to me today, and not just because, for the first time in my life, I’m in Spain. General Franco’s rebels, backed by Mussolini and Hitler and the... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 20, 2019 Can It Happen Here? Can it happen here? Absolutely it can. Even in a liberal bastion. A few weeks ago, a handful of white supremacists marched into a bookstore in Washington D.C., temporarily disrupting a talk by Jonathan Metzl, the author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 29, 2019 Collusion in Plain Sight A collusion crisis. That’s what the money media are facing since the Attorney General released his summary of the Special Prosecutor’s report. Barr says Mueller says he found no proof of a Russia/Trump campaign conspiracy to subvert US democracy. Oh no! How are cable companies going to keep their... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 09, 2019 Making American Journalism Great and Different A great divide is shaping up in the newspaper business between those who want to make American Journalism “great again” and those who believe it has never been great but could be. It’ll come as no surprise to anyone where I fall. Local papers have taken a hit. There’s no debate about that. The same... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 25, 2019 Time For Socialist History Month? It’s that time of year again—when we’re encouraged to celebrate Black history, and soon it will be Women’s History Month—the time when people like me ask, “What about the rest of the year?” This season, Black History Month coincides with the start of the presidential primary campaigns. On the... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 15, 2019 On Valentine's Day, An End to Amazon's Two-Bit Romance With New York The Amazon corporation walked out in a huff. On Valentine’s Day, the retailer announced that its romance with New York is off. Faced with stiffer-than-anticipated resistance, the company announced February 14th that it is pulling out of its previously reported plan to build a gleaming corporate... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 07, 2018 HUD Official to Move Into Public Housing? The federal housing official responsible for the New York City region says she plans to move into public housing to spotlight inhumane conditions, but if she really wanted to spotlight inhumanity in housing, she’d move big money out of precious city housing stock. Longtime Trump aid Lynne Patton... Read more |