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Category: Voice of America (VOA)

Blowing Smoke. At the Vatican and White House: ‘BradCast’ 5/8/2025

We have a new Pope; Trump's pretend deals; Rightwing propaganda set to replace Voice of America?; And other disasters of the moment...

  • , 5/08/2025 - 
  • 6:10 pm PT
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Trump Losing Streak Continues Without Pause into SECOND Hundred Days: ‘BradCast’ 5/1/2025

National Security Adviser tossed; More big court losses via Republican-appointed judges; Also: 2028 Dems rising?..

  • , 5/01/2025 - 
  • 6:51 pm PT
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Nation’s Largest Broadcaster Mandates News Outlets Hoax Viewers to Help Gut FCC Rules: ‘BradCast’ 4/23/2025

Guest: Media activist Sue Wilson; Also: Judge orders VOA restored; '60 Minutes' chief quits over Trump-pressured corporate meddling...

  • , 4/23/2025 - 
  • 7:00 pm PT
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Bad Court and Election News for Trump is Good News for America: ‘BradCast’ 3/31/2025

Federal judges keep ruling against Admin; LA voters reject GOP Guv's amendments; Musk scrambles to buy WI, FL elections for Repubs; Also: U.S. nowhere to be found after Myanmar quake; Callers ring in...

  • , 3/31/2025 - 
  • 6:25 pm PT
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Head of Largest U.S. Postal Workers Union Vows USPS ‘Belongs to the People, Not the Billionaires’: ‘BradCast’ 3/24/2025

Guest: Mark Dimondstein, President of American Postal Workers Union; Also: Journalists file suit to restore Voice of America after Trump closure...

  • , 3/24/2025 - 
  • 6:37 pm PT
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We’re ALL Voice of America Now: ‘BradCast’ 3/20/2025

Happy Finland, sad U.S.; Israel's breaks Gaza ceasefire; Trump knowingly parrots Putin's Ukraine propaganda; VOA still silenced, still needed...

  • , 3/20/2025 - 
  • 6:45 pm PT
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Voice of America’s Chief Nat’l Correspondent on Trump Silencing VOA for First Time Since 1942: ‘BradCast’ 3/17/2025

Guest: Steve Herman laments shutdown of 'beacon that burned bright during darkest hours' as 'a national tragedy' and gift to U.S. adversaries...

  • , 3/17/2025 - 
  • 4:40 pm PT
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Inside the White House Press Corps During COVID in the Age of Trump: ‘BradCast’ 6/17/2024

Guest: Steve Herman, Voice of America's former WH Bureau Chief, now Chief Nat'l Correspondent, on pulling back 'The White House Curtain'; Also: Wildfires explode in CA; Israeli war cabinet falls apart...

  • , 6/17/2024 - 
  • 6:36 pm PT
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All State-Funded Media is Not Created Equally: ‘BradCast’ 12/5/2022

Guest: Voice of America's former WH House Bureau Chief, Steve Herman, live in studio; Also: New flu, COVID surge; Russia's latest offensive in Ukraine; Trump calls for 'termination' of U.S. Constitution...

  • , 12/05/2022 - 
  • 7:11 pm PT
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Back in the USSR? ‘Shortwaves for Freedom!’: ‘BradCast’ 3/11/2022

Guests: Kate Neiswender and Kim Andrew Elliott on a U.S. crowd-funded grassroots effort reviving Cold War tech to counter propaganda inside Putin's new Iron Curtain; And, yes, Russians love their children too...

  • , 3/11/2022 - 
  • 6:18 pm PT
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