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Aug 21, 2025 • 60min
Crypto Money Funding SFPD Surveillance Unit; Plus, Texas House Passes New Congressional Maps While California Prepares Its Response
00:08 — Tim Redmond, founder of 48hills.
00:33 — Sam Levine is Voting Rights Reporter at Guardian.
00:45 — Bob Mulholland is Campaign Advisor to the California Democratic Party.
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Aug 20, 2025 • 60min
Hurricane Erin and Climate Change Impact on Marginalized Communities; Plus, Investigating Constitutional Violations by Private Prison Health Companies
00:08 — Adam Mahoney, climate and environment reporter at Capital B.
00:33 — Hannah Harris Green is an independent journalist and radio producer based in Chicago. She covers science, healthcare and the war on drugs.
The post Hurricane Erin and Climate Change Impact on Marginalized Communities; Plus, Investigating Constitutional Violations by Private Prison Health Companies appeared first on KPFA.

Aug 19, 2025 • 60min
Israel Partners with Microsoft’s Azure to Store Surveillance Data on Palestinians; Plus, Former SF Supervisor Authors Report on AI Use in Local Government
00:08 — Harry Davies is an Investigations correspondent for the Guardian.
00:33 — Hillary Ronen, is an author of the report and a former San Francisco District 9 Supervisor and Local Progress member. The report was a collaboration between Local Progress Impact Lab and AI Now Institute.
The post Israel Partners with Microsoft’s Azure to Store Surveillance Data on Palestinians; Plus, Former SF Supervisor Authors Report on AI Use in Local Government appeared first on KPFA.

Aug 18, 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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Aug 15, 2025 • 53min
Jacob Silverman on Silicon Valley’s Right Turn
00:08 Jacob Silverman is an independent journalist covering tech politics, corruption and illicit finance. Two years ago he published a book on the cryptocurrency industry – and the politics of those characters led him to his forthcoming title: Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley,” due out this October.
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Aug 14, 2025 • 60min
Why Israel Might Start Another War With Iran; Plus, “Big Beautiful Bill” Might Expand Federal Funding for Affordable Housing in California
00:08 — Trita Parsi is the co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
00:33 — Chione Flegal is the Executive Director of Housing California.
00:45 — Liz Ryan Murray is Director of Strategic Campaigns at Public Advocates.
The post Why Israel Might Start Another War With Iran; Plus, “Big Beautiful Bill” Might Expand Federal Funding for Affordable Housing in California appeared first on KPFA.

Aug 13, 2025 • 60min
What Does Federal Takeover of Washington DC Mean for its Houseless Community and Will Support Rise for DC Statehood? Plus, El Salvador’s Future After Nayib Bukele’s New Constitutional Reforms
00:08 — William Roberts is the senior vice president for Rights and Justice at Center for American Progress.\
00:20 — Donald H. Whitehead is Executive Director of National Coalition for the Homeless
00:33 — Tim Muth is a US trained lawyer who runs the blog “El Salvador Perspective”
The post What Does Federal Takeover of Washington DC Mean for its Houseless Community and Will Support Rise for DC Statehood? Plus, El Salvador’s Future After Nayib Bukele’s New Constitutional Reforms appeared first on KPFA.

Aug 12, 2025 • 60min
Egyptian Senate Elections; Plus, Trump’s Conservative BLS Nominee and Possibility of a US Dual State?
00:08 — Hesham Sallam is Associate Director of the Program on Arab Reform and Development at Stanford University. He is also co-editor of Jadaliyya
00:20 — Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research
00:33 — Aziz Huq is a Professor of US and comparative constitutional law at the University of Chicago School of Law. He wrote an article for The Atlantic entitled “America is watching the rise of a Dual State”
The post Egyptian Senate Elections; Plus, Trump’s Conservative BLS Nominee and Possibility of a US Dual State? appeared first on KPFA.

Aug 11, 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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Aug 8, 2025 • 60min
Robert Reich on Robert Reich
00:08 Robert Reich, political economist who worked in the administrations of three presidents (most prominently as Secretary of Labor for Bill Clinton) now emeritus Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. His new book is Coming Up Short: a memoir of my America
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