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Jun 26, 2025 • 60min
US, Israel, Iran and the War They All Claim Victory Over; Plus, Trump Administration’s Refugee Resettlement Ban and Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Third Country Deportations; Plus, Children’s Hospital Oakland Strike Over Union Contract
00:08 — Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.
00:33 — Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International.
00:50 — Griselda Chavez, is an Infant Development Specialist at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and has worked there for fourteen years.
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Jun 25, 2025 • 60min
Brett Christophers on why markets don’t fix climate change (rebroadcast)
00:08 Brett Christophers is an economic geographer at Upsalla University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research. His new book is The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet [originally recorded June 2024]
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Jun 24, 2025 • 60min
Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian on Teaching Palestine
00:08 Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian, co-editors of the magazine Rethinking Schools, and co-editors with Samia Shoman, Suzanna Kassouf, and Bill Bigelow, of the new book Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices
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Jun 23, 2025 • 60min
Israel and Trump’s War in Iran; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — Negar Mortazavi is a journalist, political commentator, and host of the Iran Podcast.
00:33 — Art Reingold is the Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
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Jun 20, 2025 • 60min
Greg Grandin on America, América
00:08 Greg Grandin, Peter V and C. Vann Woodward Professor at Yale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; just out with America América: a new history of the new world
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Jun 19, 2025 • 39min
Robin DG Kelley on Freedom Dreams [rebroadcast]
[0:08] Robin D. G. Kelley. Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. [rebroadcast]
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Jun 18, 2025 • 56min
Israel’s War in Iran; Plus, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing on Trump use of National Guard
00:08 — Jamal Abdi is President of the National Iranian American Council in Washington D.C.
00:33 — Kian Sharifi is a feature writer about Iranian affairs at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Central Newsroom in Prague. He was previously an editor at the Financial Tribune newspaper in Tehran.
00:45 — Tony Ghiotto, Teaching Professor/Director of Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism/Director of Trial Advocacy at the University of Illinois College of Law Urbana-Champaign
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Jun 17, 2025 • 60min
How Israelis View a War with Iran; Plus, the Role of Off-Year Elections in Resisting Trumpism
00:08 — Joel Beinin is Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
00:33 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.
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Jun 16, 2025 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer, Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.
00:33 — Paul Offit, Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he’s an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
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Jun 13, 2025 • 60min
Policing Tactics Used at Anti-ICE Protests; California Takes Trump Admin to Court over Troop Deployment
0:08 — Alex Vitale, professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College
0:33 — Tony Ghiotto, Teaching Professor/Director of Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism/Director of Trial Advocacy at the University of Illinois College of Law Urbana-Champaign
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