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Jun 3, 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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May 31, 2024 • 60min
Guilty on all counts. What’s next?
00:08 John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation
Steve Phillips is founder of Democracy in Color, and author of How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good (just re-released in a revised second edition)
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May 30, 2024 • 60min
Trump’s Trial: It’s all over but the verdict. And the sentencing. And the appeals.
00:09 Donald Trump’s first criminal prosecution is now in a jury’s hands/
Jeremy Stahl is Jurisprudence editor at Slate.
Shirin Ali is an associate writer for Slate.
00:27 UAW Strike over UC’s response to Pro-Palestinian protests spreads to UCLA, UC Davis
Aya Konishi, Graduate Student in UCLA Department of Sociology and Recording Secretary for UAW Local 4811’s UCLA Unit
00:35 California’s legislature prepares its response to Governor Newsom’s proposed budget cuts
Chris Hoene is executive director of the California Budget and Policy Center
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May 29, 2024 • 60min
Historian Ilan Pappé Israel’s Continued Invasion of Rafah; Plus, What Comes Next in Iran After President Ebrahim Raisi’s Death?
0:08 — Ilan Pappe is the Director of the European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. His books include Ten Myths About Israel and A History of Modern Palestine.
0:33 — Naysan Rafati is Crisis Group’s Iran Senior Analyst. His research is focused on the Iran nuclear deal and Iran’s regional policies.
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May 28, 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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May 27, 2024 • 60min
Michael Mann On Wars [rebroadcast]
00:08 Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology Emeritus at UCLA; Honorary Professor at the University of Cambridge; author most recently of On Wars [this is a re-broadcast of an interview originally recorded in September 2023]
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May 24, 2024 • 60min
International Court of Justice Ruling Orders Israel to Cease Rafah Offensive
0:08 — Kenneth Roth is a Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs, previously executive director of Human Rights Watch.
0:20 — Louis Charbonneau is the United Nations director at Human Rights Watch.
0:33 — George Bisharat, Professor Emeritus at University of California College of Law, San Francisco. His research and writing focus on international legal aspects of Palestine/Israel and on U.S. policies toward the Middle East.
0:45 — Barry Trachtenberg, is Professor and Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on modern European and American Jewry and the Nazi Holocaust.
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May 23, 2024 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Marni Fylling
0:08 — Marni Fylling is a science illustrator, writer, and educator. Her latest books are Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools and Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood.
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May 22, 2024 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Yanis Varoufakis
0:08 — Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece. His latest book is “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.”
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May 21, 2024 • 60min
ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders; Plus, UAW 4811 Strike Begins in UC Santa Cruz; Academics Supporting Palestine Face Repression, Doxxing
0:08 — George Bisharat, Professor Emeritus at University of California College of Law, San Francisco. His research and writing focus on international legal aspects of Palestine/Israel and on U.S. policies toward the Middle East.
0:20 — Rebecca Gross is a PhD student in Literature at UC Santa Cruz and the UCSC Unit Chair for UAW 4811.
0:33 — Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept and associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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