Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Israel approves a hostage release and four-day cease-fire with Hamas, but both sides vow to continue the war. United Nations warns sanitation and health crisis in war torn Gaza strip puts children’s health at risk. South Africa … Continued


Flashpoints

Executive Director of International Indian Treaty Council, Reports on the Fight for Indigenous Rights.

Today on the Show: Andrea Carmen, Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council, reports on the fight for Indigenous Rights and the Global Rights of Indigenous Children around the world: Andrea will be in San Francisco to celebrate Un-Thanksgiving and the yearly liberation of Alcatraz: And Khurram Parvez, Kashmir and the India/Israel connection.


What role have historians, and the discipline of history itself, played in how historical events unfold? Priya Satia contends that historians were key architects of British imperialism, that history enabled empire in fundamental ways. She also contests the notion that history unfolds in a linear and progressive fashion, and discusses the work and impact of … Continued