Ben Fountain discusses his latest novel, “Devil Makes Three,” set in Haiti during the coup that overthrew Aristide in 1992. Ben Fountain is the author of the award winning novel “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” and a book of reportage on the 2016 election, “Beautiful Country, Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion and Revolution.”
Amjad Iraqi on what it’s like to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and when what the Israeli state has in mind for Gaza • Georgi Derluguian (author of this article) on how the expulsion of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh is an example of the latest iteration of the new world disorder
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Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power. His latest piece in American Prospect is The Agonizing Drift Toward Cease-Fire.
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On today’s show, we’ll start with our weekly Thursday segment, the State Terror Roundup. Then, to San Francisco, where the Sheriff’s department is re-opening a jail facility that it closed in 2010 after a top-down systemic drug scandal. The sheriffs department wants to reopen because the city is locking up dramatically increasing numbers of people. … Continued
0:08 — Mamyrah Prosper is an activist and assistant professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine whose work focuses on Haitian social movements. 0:33 — Shanti Singh, is Communications and Legislative Director at Tenants Together.
On today’s show: “This Is Your Money”: Palestinian Father Pleads with Americans to Stop Funding Israeli Assault on Gaza Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks Out Against Israel’s “Segregationist Apartheid Regime” After West Bank Visit Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
MAGA Mike Johnson’s Top Priority to Cut Taxes on the Rich by Gutting the IRS’s Ability to Collect Revenues From Wealthy Tax Cheats We begin with the top priority of MAGA Mike Johnson, the new House Speaker, which is to serve his benefactors by cutting taxes on the rich. Johnson’s first act is to gut … Continued
