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Feb 7, 2025 • 60min
War in the DRC; ICE in the USA
00:08 Rwanda at war in the DRC: the fall of Goma
Zachariah Mampilly is the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the CUNY Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, where he is also the Co-Founder of the Program on African Social Research.
00:36 Immigration raids and your rights
Jehan Laner is Senior Staff Attorney at Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
Resources mentioned during this interview:
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice list of rapid response network phone numbers (this list at this link is continually updated as new hotlines become operational)
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Feb 6, 2025 • 3h 60min
Trump Wants the United States to Takeover Gaza; Plus, What a Trump Adminsitration Means for Decarbonizing the Economy
00:08 — Ahmad Abuznaid is Executive Director of the US Campaign for Palestinian rights.
00:33 — Jeff St. John is the director of news and special projects at Canary Media, a nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis.
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Feb 5, 2025 • 60min
Mexico Responds to Trump’s Tariff Threat; Plus, Elon Musk’s Takeover of the Treasury’s Payment System
00:08 — Laura Carlsen is the director of the Mexico-City based international relations think tank Mira: Feminisms y Democracies.
00:33 — Nathan Tankus is the Research Director of the Modern Money Network. He also writes the newsletter Notes on the Crises.
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Feb 4, 2025 • 60min
Trump Administration’s Emerging Policy Toward the Middle East
00:08 — Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist writing for the Electronic Intifada. His latest book is Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.
00:33 — Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance.
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Feb 3, 2025 • 60min
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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Jan 31, 2025 • 60min
DNC Picks a New Chair this Weekend; Plus, After the LA Fires
00:08 — Steve Phillips is Founder of Democracy in Color. His latest book is How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good.
00:33 — Alexei Koseff covers state politics for Calmatters. Ben Christopher is a reporter for CalMatters covering housing policy.
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Jan 28, 2025 • 60min
Unpacking Tariff Implications and the Future of Public Health Under the Trump Administration
00:08 — Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
00:33 — Gregg Gonsalves is Associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership.
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Jan 27, 2025 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Senate Confirmation Hearings Continue for Trump’s Cabinet Picks
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus and Global Just Transition at the Institute for Policy Studies.
00:33 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.
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Jan 24, 2025 • 60min
When Jews organize against Zionism
00:08 Rabbi Alissa Wise is currently the Lead Organizer and Co-founder of Rabbis for Ceasefire, Rebecca Vilkomerson is former Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace and now Co-Director of the Funding Freedom project. They’ve co-authored the book Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing.
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Jan 23, 2025 • 14min
Israeli Raids in the West Bank Intensify After Gaza Ceasefire; Plus, Trump Freezes Funds from the Inflation Reduction Act; And, Sheng Thao Indictment
00:08 — Mouin Rabbani is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, previously principal political affairs officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria.
00:33 — Camille Pannu, is the Founder and Director of the Environmental and Climate Justice Clinic at Columbia Law School.
00:45 — Natalie Orenstein is a senior reporter covering City Hall, housing and homelessness for The Oaklandside.
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