Bringing Light Into Darkness - News & Analysis

This episode examines how Purdue Pharma's aggressive marketing of OxyContin downplayed addiction risks, contributing to the opioid crisis, and details the legal consequences that saw executives avoid jail time.

Pedro Gatos and Penny Jo Polis open a Juneteenth-focused edition of Bringing Light Into Darkness on 91.7 KOOP, with the broadcast dated June 13, 2023 and set to rebroadcast on Juneteenth, June 19, 2023.

Pedro Gatos introduces Scott Ritter on 91.7 KOOP Community Radio in Austin, Texas, and frames the conversation around Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine.

The episode returns to war-spending oversight.

This Bringing Light Into Darkness episode pairs trade policy with wealth taxation, using the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ALBA to contrast corporate rules with fairer economic models.

Pedro Gatos and Bob Daly connect Stonewall, June 28, 1969, to a longer history of LGBTQ rights and the legal punishment of gay people in the United States.

David Swanson argues that NATO is not a rules-based institution because, in his view, it contradicts the UN charter, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and other treaties that treat war as illegal.

Pedro Gatos opens the broadcast from KOOP in Austin and sets a sober, explanatory frame for what follows.

Bringing Light Into Darkness continues its Juneteenth discussion with Roscoe Overton, who explains how he traced a Nashville group west into Texas using census records, names, ages, and genders.

The show returns to an interview with Dave DeComp from Antiwar.com and stays focused on the human costs of U.S.

Pedro Gatos opens with a formal introduction, a reminder that the show is archived, and a promise of documented dialogue before settling into a hard-edged discussion of Russia, Ukraine, and U.S.

The episode returns to Bakhmut through Scott Ritter's casualty accounting and uses that battle to frame a larger argument about how the war in Ukraine was set in motion.

The show returns to the politics of workplace heat.

The episode moves between criticism of U.S.

Bringing Light Into Darkness returns to Gonzalo Lira's case with a sharp political frame.

Pedro Gatos opens in a grave register.

Pedro Gatos opens from KOOP community radio in Austin and frames the broadcast as a May 30, 2023 conversation that will be rebroadcast on June 5.

Pedro Gatos opens from 91.7 KOOP community radio in Austin with a carefully documented news-and-analysis broadcast.

Bob Daly describes a former scholarship-house student who died by suicide after hiding that he was gay, then connects that loss to the larger damage of silence and family culture.

Interview-driven documentary examining the appointment of Elliott Abrams—convicted perjurer and alleged war criminal—to Biden's Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.

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Pedro Gatos opens by framing the July 15, 2024 KOOP replay around NATO, U.S.

The episode from Bringing Light Into Darkness focuses on offender education methods, including using humor, music, and plain-language teaching to help clients retain information.

Memorial Day is treated as political ground.

Pedro Gatos uses this KOOP “Bringing Light Into Darkness” episode to explain how Travis County’s DWI education system works, including the 12-hour, 15-hour, and 32-hour programs tied to Texas driver’s-license penalties.