Today we talk about the genocide and occupation in Gaza by Israel and the censorship that has exploded in talking about these situation along with the rise in anti semitism with four Ashkenazi Jewish feminist activists about the challenges and importance for jewish voices to speak up at this time We are joined by … Continued
Why is the aging of populations framed as a crisis? What settler-colonial and capitalist logics are at work, and how are older people viewed and treated as a result? Sandy Grande delineates and critiques mainstream frameworks; she also advances a decolonial perspective that draws on indigenous attitudes toward elders and toward old age-associated conditions like dementia. … Continued
Ralph welcomes back public interest advocate Donald Cohen to discuss the long history of corporate propaganda covering for corporate greed, and his new book Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America. Then Ralph is joined by founder of the Free Law Project, Michael Lissner, to talk about … Continued
Guest: Angela C. Sutton is an Assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University, where she has taught Seapower in History, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Comparative Slavery. She is the author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution.
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As we do each Monday since October 7th, we spend today’s show on the ongoing violence Israel is waging against Palestinians. Today we’re in conversation with Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American activist, author, and community organizer. She is the author of her memoir We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders. We’re also joined … Continued
0:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
On today’s show: Gaza Hospitals Fail Under Israeli Bombardment; Doctors Without Borders Describes Horrific Conditions “Beacon of Light”: Fellow Doctors Recall Dr. Hammam Alloh, Gaza Doctor Killed by Israeli Airstrike “We’re Being Exterminated”: Hear One of Dr. Hammam Alloh’s Last Interviews from Gaza Before His Death
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Senate Republicans Protect the Powerful From the Public We begin with the shameless display of Republican fealty to billionaires with Senator Lindsey Graham and Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee blocking efforts to have Harland Crow and Leonard Leo testify about lavish and unreported gifts to justices Thomas and Alito. Joining us is Lisa Graves, the … Continued
