On today’s Palestine Post, we review news headlines from Israel’s assault on Gaza with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. Also joining is Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director of the Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). … Continued
Frederik Pohl (1918-2013) was a Hugo winning novelist and short story writer, along with being a pulp magazine editor and agent who was one of the leaders of the left-wing Futurian group of fans and writers in the 1930s. He discusses his career in this interview recorded at the Octocon Science Fiction Convention, October 15-16, 1978. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson, for KPFA’s Probabilities radio program. Digitized, remastered and re-edited February, 2021 by Richard Wolinsky.
We speak with Alice Hu, Executive Director of Planet Over Profit and a core organizer of the Stop Billionaires Summer campaign against the Palantir corporation. The company provides data analytics technology used by government agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to conduct surveillance and facilitate deportations. The group says its tools contribute to … Continued
Black August is a month of remembrance and resistance observed each August to honor Black freedom fighters, political prisoners, and the ongoing struggle against racial oppression. It began in the 1970s among incarcerated people in California’s prisons.The month pays tribute to those who have resisted slavery, colonialism, and mass incarceration, while also serving as a … Continued
On this episode, we speak with Dara Baldwin, activist, scholar, and author with over twenty years of experience in policy and social justice work. Since President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the District of Columbia, new attention falls onto the Free D.C. movement. D.C. residents lack full voting representation in Congress and their local laws … Continued
In the aftermath of Syria’s civil war, families have endured a desperate, over-decade-long search for loved ones forcibly separated by the Assad regime. We speak with investigative reporter Shane Bauer who reported in the New York Times that thousands of children were taken from their parents—often detained—and placed into orphanages under murky, undocumented circumstances. Shane … Continued
Investigative journalist Greg Palast joins Dennis Bernstein on Flashpoints to sound the alarm on Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle FEMA — and the deadly consequences already unfolding. From Hurricane Katrina to flash floods in Texas, Palast lays out how gutting emergency response leaves communities defenseless in the face of floods, fires, toxic spills, and hurricanes. … Continued
On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Samer Araabi, member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: [email protected] Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/
On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. He is the author of many books including Age … Continued
Ursula K. Le Guin, who broke the artificial wall between science fiction and literature, died on January 22nd, 2018 at the age of 88. An essayist and poet along with being a fiction writer, she transcended all genres with the quality of her prose and the allegorical nature of her work. This podcast is taken from an interview recorded in 2000 hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, along with excerpts from a 1983 interview with Richard A. Lupoff.
