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Jul 11, 2024 • 60min
What Has the Kenya-led Police Mission in Haiti Done So Far? Plus, Will Biden Answer the Calls to Drop Out of the Race?
0:08 — Brian Concannon is a Human rights lawyer and the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH)
0:33 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation
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Jul 10, 2024 • 60min
What Pezeshkian’s Win Means for Iran and it’s Counterparts; Plus, A Historical Analysis of Joe Biden’s Run for a Second Term
0:08 — Trita Parsi is the co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
0:33 — Rick Perlstein is a Historian and Columnist for the American prospect. He is the author of a four-volume series on the history of American politics and the rise of conservatism.
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Jul 9, 2024 • 60min
More Anti-government Protests in Israel as the World Awaits a Gaza Ceasefire Deal; Plus, What We Know ( and Don’t) About the FBI Raid on Mayor Sheng Thao’s Home
0:08 — Joel Beinin a Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
0:33 — Darwin BondGraham is the news editor at the nonprofit newsroom The Oaklandside.
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Jul 8, 2024 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies.
0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
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Jul 5, 2024 • 60min
Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism
00:08 Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, author, and former finance minister of Greece. His latest book is Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.
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Jul 4, 2024 • 60min
Vincent Bevins on why The Revolution didn’t happen
00:08 Vincent Bevins, formerly Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and southeast Asia correspondent for the Washington Post, both of which jobs gave him a front-row seat to recent social upheavals. His new book is If We Burn: the mass protest decade and the missing revolution.
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Jul 3, 2024 • 60min
Iran Elections Following Raisi’s Death; Plus, Detained Immigrant Relaunch Labor Strike at ICE Detention Centers; And, How Heatwaves Impact Pregnant People & Workers
0:08 — Negar Mortazavi is a journalist, political commentator, and host of the Iran Podcast. She joins us from Washington D.C.
0:20 — Juan Carlos, an immigrant and US Veteran currently detained by ICE at Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield, CA. Priya Arvind Patel, Supervising Attorney with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice.
0:33 — Dr. Blair J. Wylie, is Founding Director of The Collaborative for Women’s Environmental Health and a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University. She discusses why pregnant people are most at risk during a heatwave.
0:45 — Anna Ortega, is an Amazon San Bernardino air hub worker organizing with Inland Empire Amazon Workers United. Keith Brower Brown is Labor-Climate Organizer at Labor Notes.
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Jul 2, 2024 • 60min
UN Expert Calls for Ending the Global War on Drugs; Plus the Battle Over Rent Control in San Francisco
0:08 — Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng is a Physician and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.
0:33 — Maritza Perez Medina is the Director of Federal Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance.
0:45 — Tim Redmond, founder of 48hills. Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years.
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Jul 1, 2024 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus
0:33 — Dr. Peter Chin-Hong is a professor of medicine and infectious disease physician at UCSF Medical Center.
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Jun 28, 2024 • 1h 12min
Brian Merchant on Luddites and Luddism [repeat]
Brian Merchant, founder of the speculative fiction outlet Terraform, recently laid-off technology columnist for the LA Times, and author most recently of Blood in the Machine: the origins of the rebellion against big tech. [This is a repeat of an interview originally recorded in December 2023]
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