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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – August 7, 2023Supporters and opponents of expanding driverless taxis in SF make cases to state regulators. Trump lawyers ask judge to allow federal election conspiracy case facts to go public.

Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. photo courtesy Wikimedia commons. President Biden heads west to tout his environmental record. Trump lawyers ask judge to allow federal election conspiracy case facts to go public. Trucking Company Yellow files for bankruptcy and ceases operations. Supporters … Continued


Revolutionaries in one country can inform and inspire rebels in another. Kevin A. Young examines the impact of Vietnamese and Chinese revolutionary strategies on El Salvador’s guerrillas in the tumultuous 1970s and ’80s. Among other things, he describes how conceptions of “prolonged popular war” were adopted and adapted by the FPL, the FMLN’s largest faction. … Continued


Ralph welcomes Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and an expert on culture and therapy, mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics to talk about our addictions to screens and how to break out of them. Plus, our resident constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, opens the program with everything … Continued