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Oct 23, 2025 • 26min
How is the Bay Area Preparing for the Deployment of Federal Troops and What Can We Learn from Chicago
00:08 — Jim Daley is investigations editor at South Side Weekly.
00:18 — Kimi Lee Organizer with Bay Resistance, one of the local organizations that’s been doing training and organizing in anticipation of a federal crackdown here.
00:33 — Deborah Lee co-executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, currently at the Sanctuary Faith Vigil underway in Oakland, across from Coast Guard Island, at Dennison and Embarcadero.
00:40 — Tim Redmond is founder of 48hills. Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years.
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Oct 22, 2025 • 26sec
Government Shutdown Hits Third Week; Plus, Report Shows Emissions plateau, but atmospheric Carbon Keeps Rising
00:08 — John Nichols is the executive editor of The Nation.
00:33 —Eugene Cordero is professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University.
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Oct 21, 2025 • 9min
Israel Continues to Ignore Terms of Ceasefire, Dropsite News Investigates Network of Canary Mission Connections; Plus, the Tech Companies Benefiting from an Inflated Defense Budget
00:08 — Muhannad Ayyash is Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary and Policy Analyst at Al-Shabaka.
00:33 — Jacqueline Sweet is an investigative journalist. Her work has been published in the likes of The Intercept, The Guardian, POLITICO and Mother Jones.
00:45 — Freddy Brewster is a reporter for the Lever.
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Oct 20, 2025 • 4min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.
00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
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Oct 17, 2025 • 3min
Mariah Blake on Life in the Age of Forever Chemicals
00:08 – Mariah Blake, investigative journalist just out with the book They Poisoned the World: Life and death in the age of forever chemicals
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Oct 16, 2025 • 50min
UpFront – October 16, 2025
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
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Oct 15, 2025 • 60min
Gaza Ceasefire Violations & Hostage Releases; Plus, China’s Rare Earth Minerals Export Restriction
00:08 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
00:33 — David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. His most recent book is Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (2020).
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Oct 14, 2025 • 7min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.
00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
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Oct 10, 2025 • 60min
UpFront – October 10, 2025
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
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Oct 9, 2025 • 60min
Karl Marx in America – Fund Drive Special
00:08 — Andrew Hartman is Professor of History at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses in U.S. intellectual, cultural, and political history, as well as courses in the philosophy of history, historiography, and pedagogy. His latest book is “Karl Marx in America.”
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